Day Fifty Four - Off with the hair

"For the LORD of hosts has planned, 

and who can frustrate it? 

And as for His stretched-out hand, 

who can turn it back?"    

Isaiah 14:27 

My hair was really really bothering me, what little I had of it, so I called Zac and asked him to bring over his hair clipping set and get rid of the hair.  He and Caleb came over in the morning, and after just a little bit of hesitation we left with Corey and we went up to the bathroom.  Zac was so sweet about it all.  It was pretty embarrassing to let someone see my mostly bald head. The hairs that had remained were indeed the white ones. Then I quickly put my scarf back on, but it slipped around a lot. I knew I was going to have to solve that somehow.



Soon after I think we all went out to lunch at Nicholas's. It was me and Zac and Caleb and Annie and Corey. Zac and Caleb and I shared a mezza. I was quite surprised at how much I ate, but we didn't eat it all, and Zac let me take home the left-overs. We all had a lovely time, but then it seemed obvious that it was time for Caleb and I to go home and take a nap, which we did. Part of the reason that Zac and Caleb were over at our house was that Sarah was working on a research project down down.

Eventually Sarah showed up, and then Riley showed up, and we all decided to go to dinner at County Cork. Zac had really wanted to have corned beef and cabbage, but they were out. I had chowder, but I couldn't eat it, and I was really glad that I had eaten such a big lunch. It so seems like life is about eating, drinking water, sleeping, and trying to get in a little exercise. Oh, and trying to make sure my scarf is on okay. All during dinner I kept fussing with my scarf, because it was slipping around so much on my bald head.

When we got home, we watch some baseball and then went to bed. Up stairs I again wondered what I would wear on my head for sleeping. I put on the little hat that Tiah made for me, and it was just right. I had just enough short hairs on my head to keep it in place. I still didn't yet show Riley my bald head. I look like a mannequin without its wig.  Now if I could just look as lovely as this mannequin.  Interestingly, this mannequin is called Mollie Bald.  She looks like a real person.  But the skin color is even all over, and when you shave your head, the head part is much lighter.

Job 1:20-21

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.   He said,


           "Naked I came from my mother's womb,


             And naked I shall return there 


            The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.


            Blessed be the name of the LORD."