Hair Removal from laptop!

Juggling work and life took on an extra dimension today when I found myself needing to explain why my keyboard was "slightly" full of hair cuttings.....

About a week ago I found myself in a lift with a Senior Manager who commented "blimey, you're going grey!, i didn't think you were that old!" Something of a double edged compliment I think!

Right, thinks me... having advised the exec that I was obviously too busy working to worry about such things... what's the soonest I can get my hair done!!! The answer.. was today... lunchtime... a Tuesday! nothing before, and heaven help us next week is half term so no appointments then (hairdresser also juggles work life balance) and by this time I was so aware of my roots I was starting to feel like a badger!

So today finds me rushing into work, rushing around, and rushing out like a mad thing at 12pm so I can work from home (and use my lunch break to get my hair done). The problem is that "getting your hair done" for most women, takes significantly longer than an hour, in this case 2 hours!

Now I'm also not one for sitting down and reading Hello or Ok, so I figured I'd just work on my laptop. My Hairdresser (the very brilliant Julia who just made me look 15 years younger) works from home so sitting there with a laptop open while your head is being plastered with "gunk" is less embarrassing than in a salon, but just as unpractical in some respects.

Take for instance having to dodge flying gloop from hitting the screen and avoiding taking calls as your blackberry ends up a "purplebrownberry" (and probably stops working!)

But, with internet and email access and a couple of cups of tea, I was set... until it came to the cutting part. It doesn't seem to matter that the computer is placed on the very edge of your knees, or even balanced on the worktop.. hair travels.... it travels quickly and it travels in groups! I am sure IT will lend me some keyboard cleaning kit but in the meantime a quick upturn and blast with the hairdryer seems to have done the trick.

And... I now have "proper" hair again, its amazing what that does for your confidence, although Hubby is going to be sleeping in the shed as he completely failed to notice!

ttfn!