Priorities

Here I am, in the few hours alloted to me by the magic that is preschool, processing the last few (I think for real this time) apples that we collected from the trees on the yard, instead of writing way-overdue thank you notes for the gifts Rhys got at his birthday party.

I guess it's obvious that I'm feeling closer to the apple trees than to the mothers of toddlers around here.

A bit of advice from my hairdyeing friends?

There's a tiny little wisp of strangeness drifting through me now, and among other things, I seem to want to do something interesting to my hair. Not noticeable from a mile away, but definitely something out of the ordinary.

Therefore, two questions to you who might know:
1)If you do something like a manic panic or special effects dye on unbleached, brown hair, what do you get? Lovely purple(or whatever) highlights? Nothing at all? A muddy purple brown color that looks hideous?

2)Does anyone know of a dye out there that comes out as a raven black with noticeable blue or purple highlights? (Bleaching okay, it's not that I want to avoid bleaching, I just want a more subtle effect than bright purple).

3)If you use a black permanent dye and then use a manic panic or something on top of that once it is done, what do you get?

On a possibly related note, we saw a gang of those retired ladies with the red hats and the purple shirts at the Katonah Museum. I know, I know, it's a social club. But if they're all going to dress alike in their wacky (and very well-composed, despite the color clash) uniforms, meeting perfectly reasonable expectations of what older women do (like go to museums), don't you think they are missing the original point of the poem entirely? I want to see them having a spitting contest in the mall. *Then* I'll be impressed.