Minor errands, major frustrations

I’m upset today, and nothing is going right.  I decided to ditch my $70-a-pop hairdresser and try to find one who was good, cheap, and local.  I asked my Pilates instructor where she had her haircut – it looked really good.  The guy next door to the gym, she said.  Result:  I look like a palm tree! 

I told the guy I liked my old haircut, with a few minor changes.  Somehow he must have heard that as "take the scissors and go wild.  I want to look like some freak from the 80s".  The back and sides are almost shorn, and it’s long on the top.  It’s so boxy I barely even look female.  Add that to my existing body image issues since the medicine I’m on has made me put on 3kg, almost exclusively on the thighs, and you’ll see why I don’t feel like going out for a few months.  Oh yeah, and he charged me $50 for the haircut too.  A price I could have got from my old hairdresser by taking a morning appointment anyway.

On top of that, I’m trying to buy some baby clothes for Tlalit & Alexander’s baby, and nothing’s going right there either.  You’re supposed to give them that stuff while the mother’s still in the hospital.  It’s two weeks now and counting.  When I finally got the clothes, I found out they’re too cool for the weather there now.  So I ran around all today finding the right size for next summer, since there’s no winter clothes on the shelves.  Then when I finally got the last piece, the shop assistant told me that that brand’s sizes are unusually small, and I’ll need the next size up.  I don’t think there’s any left in that size.  And I’ve just run out of emotional reserves.  And it’s still going to take a while to post it all overseas anyway. 

This is the crazy thing with babies.  The clothes you buy them have to fit the size and the season, because by next season they’re into a different size.  So if you buy, say, size 00 clothes for summer, and the baby is actually size 00 in winter, they’re all wasted, they’ve grown out of it by summer.  Shopping in a place with opposite seasons doesn’t help matters either.