Sloppy Joes and Jamba Juice
June 26th, 2007 by Charla
Amanda cut my hair the other day at
Carefree Haircutting on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore. You can hardly tell. That’s why I go to her. And I like her personality. I’m not a salon girl. My salon history has been one of serial monogamy. I tend to stick with a person and place for a stretch, then never having made the ultimate commitment to that person and place, and disliking the whole premise of our relationship — sitting in a chair & looking at yourself in an unforgiving mirror — I eventually leave my hairdresser, and move on to the next.
But I like Amanda. She knows her way around my head, and she has me in and out in 15 minutes.
She’s a curly-haired redhead in her mid-twenties from a family of farmers and truck drivers in Buffalo, New York. She just got her first solo apartment in Long Beach, and she’s really enjoying the privacy and autonomy that affords her. She said she’s not going out so compulsively. In fact, she loves to stay home now and cook dinner and luxuriate in her singlehood. Her favorite meal is sloppy joes. Kind of a throwback to Buffalo. She makes them regularly. She met a really nice guy recently, a Spaniard. They’ve gone out a couple of times, but she’s taking it slow. For the first time, she’s able to communicate her feelings with a guy, she told me. Apparently, this guy from Spain has tapped into something in her that eluded the farmers and truck drivers she grew up with. He showed up at the salon while Amanda was cutting my hair. Surprised her with a large Jamba Juice. Very nice gesture. Maybe he’ll teach her a thing or two about nutrition! In any case, it was sweet to observe. Young courtship and romance. Anything is possible…Looking forward to next haircut and a progress report on this budding relationship.
Can’t wait ’til July. My daughter and her fiance will be wedded and enjoying a long honeymoon. My son will be turning thirty. His long-time love will be on a fellowship in China. And I’ll be back blogging and generating flirtysomething energy full steam.
Until then, be cool. Be real. Be nice.
