Quarantine Hair & Migraines & Writing

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Matt asked a few weeks ago if I would give him some blue hair during this lockdown, since it's likely the only time he'd be able to have some and get away with it based on his job since we're working remotely. Everything came in the mail finally at the end of the week, so Saturday while I was still feeling pretty good we bleached and dyed Matt's hair. Of course the smells got to me pretty quick so by the end I had to escape the bathroom to sit in the breeze and sit with my eyes closed. I couldn't outrun the migraine which hit hard when it did hit unfortunately so I spent my night kind of in the dark, watching bits of television as I could manage. That's when we watched Underwater as I talked about in my last post and I finished the last bits of Ginger Snaps.

I gave Matt instructions on finishing up his hair once the dye was on so he came out eventually with an evenly dyed head of dark blue hair. Despite the bleach not being quite even (my issues in bleaching as my migraine settled in, and his impatience to wash it out), once the dye settled on it and it all dried and was styled, it looked perfect. It's dark and from a distance you can barely tell unless the light hits it just right. It took him about a day to really adjust to it, to see it at the angles where he can appreciate the blue and sort of silvery highlights and not just see that he started with dark hair and ended with dark hair. But everyone that has seen the pictures says it looks good on him, so I think we did good. I only wish it hadn't immediately knocked me on my ass for a day and a half.

I spent most of Saturday night and Sunday morning binging the new Amazon Prime show, "Upload". Which is this cross concept of the Black Mirror episode of "San Junipero" and once again I was reminded of a part of the video game SOMA where tech like this is mentioned. Basically, in this world, when you die, you can be uploaded into the "heaven" of your choice. A young man, played by Robbie Amell, is uploaded at a young age by his girlfriend after a fatal car accident. The heaven he's in has Angels, which are customer service/tech service reps for the company running the service. There's 10 episodes out so far, they're about 45 minutes each and they're lovely. I'm totally adding this to my Yuletide bucket at the end of the year because there's SO MUCH potential year. And I can't wait for what comes next.

April was pretty much a blur for me, I had to admit pretty early on in the month that Camp Nano, as much as I wanted it to happen just wasn't going to. I needed to keep myself focused on just keeping the status quo, at home and with work as much as possible and that didn't leave a lot of time for much else. It did mean getting a little behind on my GYWO goal for this month, but I think in the scheme of things that's okay. I should be able to easily catch those up, and depending on how things are looking soon I might try camp out again next time. I've been poking away at an idea document for a different story for a Camp, give myself a little fresh brain space and a little more time away from my Nano story while I still process what all needs to go into the rewrite on that. I'm considering taking that back to November and making it my Nano project again for a full rewrite once I have my finger on the full concept of what's wrong with it. Still pondering.

I did do my sign up for intoabar and am planning to do justmarriedexchange for the summer too. Both of those were a lot of fun last year. Noms are open now for Just Married, so I need to figure mine out sometime this week.