one of my problems as an occasional blogger is that i find myself "writing" a post at any given time. for example in the shower today i started "writing" about why I was showering again after work here's how it went...
i came home today late from work as usual but had to take a shower. badly. there was crap on me. well in my hair at least. i was doing a filling and a chunk of the lady's old filling flung out of her mouth and into my hair. worst part is that my hair which has not been cut in over six months is curly as heck so something like a small piece of a filling could get lost...ew...i know. so anyway im showering and shampooing and then i realized that, damn, my shampoo is watery. i guess water leaked in somehow? annoying. as i stared at my shampoo bottle it occurred to me that it might be considered really weird that i am using baby shampoo. yeah, that's right its johnson and johnson no tears baby shampoo. i wondered what people would think if they knew. (i guess i'll find out soon enough) maybe i should be embarassed? the thing is i started using it because i just cant imagine how using other shampoos that have like 25 ingredients (mostly random chemicals) could be good for my head or my hair. so then as i stood there amused at my choice of shampoo i decided to count the ingredients of "no tears." 10, i think. not counting colors. i knew it was very few ingredients but i needed a number for the integrity of my blog. why the hell do other shampoos have so much crap in them anyway?!? in my case, if i have a full head of hair that is thick and clean then why change anything? nonetheless, part of me was still insecure so i went to my next thought...
maybe i should be using a manly shampoo and soap? well i tried to be manly after a conversation with someone else who claimed to use nothing but a bar of soap. for everything. hair, head, and body. i tried that "man" shower recently. my skin was destroyed. my hair was tangled. it was hard to blink cuz my face got all dry. so obviously a bar shower is a bad idea. at the same time i dont wanna be a guy that uses poopoo stuff. no need for extra moisturization. my skin is already strong and healthy. like leather. (that doesnt sound like a good thing). but still, i got no complaints about my skin. its human. however, i do love those old spice commercials about using man soap to smell like jet fighters and punches and not perfume and baby powder. (dont know how i can agree given my choice in shampoo) but thats what i use myself...well either old spice or gillette body wash...for men. so baby crap on my hair. man stuff everywhere else. (im excluding facial stuff since i never thought about it in the shower)
okay so then it got me thinking about a patient who recently said i groomed myself very well. what the hell did that even mean? is she mocking me cuz she senses baby crap on me or appreciative of my use of body wash, with a poofy sponge? oh yeah... i use one of those plastic puffy things. but i swear i buy manly colors. black or blue mostly. how can i resist the lather?!? so good and so effective. why should women enjoy all the benefits of exfoliation? i figure my use of man body wash negates the sponge factor. at the very least i break even.
all said and done my hair was clean. ( and now that ive admitted using baby shampoo and a loofa, my conscience is also clean) good timing too cuz the water was starting to run a lil cool.
The loofah is far more criminal than th shampoo.
ReplyDeletebut i had to lead you through my thought process. i realize ppl might catch that one as a bigger problem.
ReplyDeleteIt's not even the loofah use, really. Okay you use the loofah because you figure it makes you cleaner or something, but to say it's because you want to "exfoliate"?
ReplyDeletei sometimes forget you have a blog. so right now i am catching up on your blog posts. and cracking up. i'm so tempted to leak out some of your real "poopoo stuff"! - Apa
ReplyDeletep.s.- i think shannon deserves a blog post.