Charlize-ing It

Wednesday, June 5th

I went out with friends the other day to celebrate the beginning of summer.  I decided (kind of last minute) that I didn’t want to wear my head scarf.  I just wanted to have fun with my friends and I wanted to leave cancer behind.  I wanted to have a day out when no one looked at me as a cancer patient.  Instead of people looking at me like “oh my, she has cancer” they looked at me like “oh my, what did she do to her hair?”  I didn’t mind though.  I pretended to be confident in my decision and Charlize Theron-ed it for the day.

At least that is what I wanted to look like!

I got a ton of compliments about my hair from all my friends and I think they were all sincere.  I love my friends!  I definitely got some looks from strangers but I am used to that now.  I’m not sure if they saw me as a cancer patient whose hair is growing back, or as a very brave woman trying out a very tricky hairstyle, or who knows what. 

At one point I am sitting with my friend K at the bar when an extremely handsome 25 year old (okay, he was really a decent looking fifty year old) comes over to me and tells me that I’m beautiful, he loves my hair, and I look just like Charlize Theron (okay, he actually just told me that he really likes my hair and he mentions that he has been trying to convince his wife to cut her hair like mine, but she won’t do it.)  How sweet is that?  I totally wasn’t expecting it.  I have gone for so long without any hair that it never occurred to me a stranger who doesn’t know my situation would complement me.  I thanked him and didn’t mention that the only reason I am sporting this look is because I lost all my hair to cancer.  It turns out there are men who like short hair.  Lucky for me, my husband is one of them! 

Looking on the Bright Side…Coen saw the picture of Charlize Theron and told me “she looks just like you mommy!”  How precious is that?  Then he said that she looks like a boy.