Pink Moon
May 12th, 2008
So this is awesome: The Terro ant traps you all recommended? Dude, TOTALLY WORKING. I’m finding piles of ant carcasses strewn carelessly around the sunroom, which was their lair. Yes, yes, I have to vacuum daily, but who cares? DEAD BODIES ABOUND. Aaand, sadly, I was reminded by my grim fascination with these little buggers when I downloaded photos off my camera this evening and discovered at least (oh my God) twenty photos I took one night while watching them with a glass of wine. Yes, you thought I made that up. I totally didn’t, and did, in fact, spend an entire Saturday night in front of ants. Behold:
Oh don’t worry. There are more where this came from. From different ANGLES, even. And solo shots of ants! CLOSE-UPS OF INDIVIDUAL ANTS USING THE MACRO SETTING. Yes. My God. I … well. It’s clear I need to get out more, is all I have to say about that.
Also, because two people asked and apparently that’s all it takes, Sunny is still alive and well, and actively begging for ham, as you can see:
She’s only two and yet she’s going grey like an old lady. Very sad. And now I ask you: Does this look like the kind of dog who shoots anal juice all over her parents on a regular basis? And does this LOOK like the face of a dog who went all Holy Shit Alpha on the neighbor’s itty bitty shih-tzu, to the point of snarling, screaming and teeth-baring? Over a BUFFALO BONE? I … I’ve never seen anything like it. In our house, I am her alpha, and she is a pansy — an abject PUSSY, if you will. She isn’t perfect, but she NEVER gets aggressive with me and is quite the opposite, prostrating herself for kibble and affection on a daily basis.
I’ve never seen her get aggressive with another dog — ever. In fact, in most cases, she is Pussy Dog who goes belly up and has never been alpha before — and she’s been around literally hundreds. But with this poor little dog, she was something else, and even growled at ME in the throes of madness (seriously, she looked possessed). And they’re FRIENDS. But, we discovered: no food or bones when they’re together. Nah no. Jesus. She … well, she thinks she’s Ms. Thang over the shih-tzu, and it was scary. I mean, as scary as this face can get.
And finally, I bring you Strawberry Milkshake hair:
The new hairdresser is ah, NOT SO MUCH. I know! It doesn’t look that pink! And I agree, it doesn’t here. It really doesn’t. In fact, it looks red, as the bottle surely intended, except that it FAILED. Because what you cannot see is that it is essentially fuchsia laid on top of platinum blond, which is (ho ho HO!) pale candy pink. And lots of it. Three people (THREE) in various stages of my day today remarked, “Wow, uh … that’s some HAIR!” One person asked if I did it myself with Manic Panic.
Manic Panic. Yes. That should give you an idea.
Adam said he truly hopes that my punk band makes it some day. He’s pulling for us. I, on the other hand, have apparently taken to sucking on lemons.
Happy Tuesday!
*Nick Drake
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29 Comments Add your own
1. Raven | May 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I am presently attempting to recover from ORANGE roots and BLACK hair, so I totally FEEL YOUR PAIN!
2. Angella | May 12th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I, personally, THINK YOU ARE ADORABLE.
Amen.
3. the new girl | May 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I also think you are cute as can be, pink hair or no. You look very much younger than I pictured.
What are you going to DO about the hair, anything?
4. kirida | May 13th, 2008 at 2:40 am
I love your hair. I can’t have anything lighter than sable or else it’ll eventually turn a shade of “hooker orange.”
5. jonniker | May 13th, 2008 at 4:38 am
TNG: I … well, it’ll fade after a month or so. That’s what happened the last time I went pink. And thank you! But yes, I look twelve. I have always looked wicked young. Unless of course, you were picturing an old crone-type? Heh. I’m 32, if I haven’t mentioned it in a while.
It also didn’t occur to me that there are people who don’t know what I look like. I don’t post pictures often, but I have in the past.
6. TwoBusy | May 13th, 2008 at 5:11 am
You look like a manga character.
7. claire | May 13th, 2008 at 5:19 am
DUDE. It’s hard to see in the picture what color it is – it could either be pink or orange. But, WOW. That is totally something.
Wait for it to fade, and it’ll probably be just fine. But i guess your concerns with finding a new hairdresser weren’t completely unfounded…. What a pain.
8. Shelly | May 13th, 2008 at 5:45 am
You are a doll!! I’d seen photos of you, but never any real face shots…some with a camera up to your eye,etc…..
Sunny—I’ve been meaning to tell you we had a dog named Sunny–she was about 18 when she finally had to be put to sleep. She was very old, and very sick, and just was skin and bones….She was our first dog. Our Sunny didn’t like me–only my husband. She hated everyone and everything else. I still miss her. YOUR Sunny, on the other hand is the epitome of CUTE, CUTE, CUTE. Anal juice or not. The snarling? Maybe it’s 2 female dogs? Maybe the excitement of a BUFFALO bone (huh?) was just too much. I live with a snappy dog….he’s adorable and would NEVER snap at YOU, for instance, but he thinks he’s alpha over me. He may be right.
Terro—the cure for ants. Hence, the cure for alot of woe.
9. Jess | May 13th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Okay, the hair is a little bit special, but the photo? Is priceless and amazing and you look fantastic. Seriously.
10. She Likes Purple | May 13th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Molly is almost five but she’s been graying since she was two. I keep telling her it’s the breed! It’s not her parents fault for causing her all that stress!
11. Sadie | May 13th, 2008 at 7:03 am
You look like Strawberry Shortcake. If she had a better cut, that is.
That happened to me once, the day before my stylist left for 2 weeks in Amsterdam. Sweet.
I also have a dog who is a big sally – the least alpha dog I know; he cowers and runs every time I snap a new trash bag open to line the wastebasket with, and his default position with new people is “on back like dead bug.” But the other day he totally mortified me when he met my friend’s puppy. He was growling! snapping! barking in her tiny puppy face like a bully! I was so embarrassed, and even more embarrassed by my involuntary reaction to his outbursts, which was to slap him in the muzzle and yell “why are you doing this??!” as if he would then stop, and explain. I am going to be a shitty, shitty mother.
12. jonniker | May 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Sadie: I called Sunny a “little shit” and then asked her why she was being an asshole. And then I ferried her off angrily asking her precisely who she thought she was. Am so best dog mother ever.
But yes, I was MORTIFIED. She was GROWLY and snappy and all sorts of teeth-baring. Over a buffalo bone and then a treat. Jesus.
13. Shelly | May 13th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Oh my God, you are so cute! The hair does not look bad at all. A bit much, perhaps, and not a color found in nature, but at least it goes with the short haircut. Still, you are adorable.
14. Jen | May 13th, 2008 at 8:27 am
If anyone can work hair that color, you can. Seriously, your snuzzled up face is just plain cute. As is your dog, snarly anal glands and all of it.
15. Jennifer | May 13th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I’m convinced that most dogs are completely unpredictable in public no matter how docile they are at home. Our dog goes absolutely apeshit if another dog should dare sniff her behind. Um? I thought that was the highest compliment that could be paid to a fellow canine.
I love your hair as you are pulling off two things that I could never in my life hope to: short hair and a color other than brown.
16. amber | May 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Maybe this is the wrong thing to say? But you’ve made me feel exceptionally better about MY hair snafu, so thanks! Also: CUTEST DOG EVER. Oh my god I don’t care that she shoots anal juice, I want to cuddle her.
17. jonniker | May 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Amber: Totally not the wrong thing to say. I revel in being a cautionary tale. I went out today and was so self-conscious about my head, because it was SCREAMING PINK.
Also, I’m getting self-conscious of all the cries that I am cute. Not that I am not flattered — I totally am, thank you — but because I harbor a secret hatred for the whole “Look at me! I’m SO CUTE!” blog photos. You know, when people do that ONE POSE over and over again, so you wonder what they actually look like? The Red Carpet Face, if you will?
Yes, I’m trying not to do that here. This is not my red carpet face I’m trying to foist upon you rudely so that you may compliment me. It’s important to me that you know that, I don’t know why. But truly, I thank you nonetheless.
18. Kristin H | May 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
You have not posted many pictures of yourself on this blog so the pink doesn’t look all that much different to me. Of course, color doesn’t translate all that well online so it may scream PINK to you, but to me it’s the Jonna we know and love! I mean this in a good way. Question: do you think your hair makes you more noticeable in VT, where you’re in such a small community, than it did in FL, where there were more people but on the whole they were too old to see well? Just wondering. It seems to me (like I have any idea what I’m talking about) that in VT the crowd is generally open minded enough to take pink hair in stride. And maybe even there are other brightly hued heads around.
Also: Sunny. V. Cute.
19. Shelly | May 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
See–I am self consious about putting photos of me out ‘there’ too. I posted my eybrow fiasco for all to see, but you can only see my upper nose and eyes. I got a comment or two and an email or two about ‘cute’ and not looking ’42′..(My bff even said ‘exotic’)…..and as sweet and uplifting as it was…..it makes me DREAD putting real ME shots out there. I mean, there’s one—showing the chemical burns, but ya know what? It goes to the self deprecating worry of “will they still like me if they know what I look like?” ARRRGGHHH. I like me and I think I’m actually amusing at times….but I’m telling you, there’s a prejudice……everyone has them, whether it be pink hair or weight…..I don’t want to lose ‘friends’ by showing the real me…….
I think you are brave—-as well as GORGEOUS (is that better than cute?)………you always seem self-assured and rest easy with YOU…..I rest easy w/ me INSIDE, but on the surface, I worry alot.
My insecurities about the outer me are my biggest hangup……
So thanks for letting me use your blog as my confessional, and I think your pink hair and squishy expression are WONDERFUL. Whether it be your red carpet look or your just out of bed look.
20. Swistle | May 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Sorry, you are cute, END OF STORY. Also, I like the hair. However, you are talking me RIGHT OUT of dogs.
21. jonniker | May 13th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Kristin: Oddly, I’m more conspicuous in Vermont. NO ONE colors their hair here. It’s traditional feminist country, where grays and hairy armpits abound more than tattoos and crazy hair.
22. Shana | May 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
That face you’re making = shades of Jennifer Garner (who I think is adorable).
Now. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH ROLY POLY PUPPY! Haaaa. She is the cutest. Exxxxcellent. Thank you!
My older dog was like that — would submit to a grasshopper. Ultimate omega dog, so much so that we worried about what would happen when we got a puppy. Would we have a ridiculous old dog prostrating herself in front of a tiny little furball? Fourteen months later, Omega Dog pushes Baby Dog around for fun, and I sweartagawd that I’m not anthropomorphizing. There’s a wolf even in the weeniest of dogs — it’s so funny to see what brings it out.
Your hair — were you going for strawberry blonde, I assume? I’d seen your pinkness before, in the archives, but nothing that ever looked like fuchsia-over-platinum. You pull it off, though — I mean, there are like four people who’ve looked good with pinky tresses. I’m not so adventurous, which is why I grouse about my growing crop of grays instead of actually doing anything about them. That, and am v. lazy.
23. Kristi | May 13th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Dude, you are too hard on yourself. You are so cute! I love pink hair and will probably do it myself when my kids are in high school – on purpose!
Strawberry Milkshake is a kickass name for a punk band.
24. JDog | May 14th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Tag!
http://snappygarden.blogspot.com/2008/05/long-overdue-response.html
(feel free to ignore it, I wont be offended) hehe
25. Christine | May 14th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Your hair looks so pink here, but I’m sure in real life it looks adorable.
Also, not to be creepy but in the throes of this cold (aka the Plague) I had a Nyquil induced dream that included you and Lawyerish and I’m pretty sure I got drunk and sick at your house during a house party. Other than being mortified I don’t remember much.
And Sunny, whoa. I guess she had to assert herself somewhere and it was with the one creature who wouldn’t be able to take her on.
26. Jamie | May 14th, 2008 at 8:44 am
It’s the bone, dude. Doc is the same way.
27. Jennifer | May 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Sweet Sunny photo. I’ve started embarrassing myself lately when I see people out walking their pugs. I always stop them and ask if I can have a pet. But they love it and the pugs sure love it (as they wiggle and snorfle around for the attention).
My Siamese cats (with the same dark-pointed coloring) also started getting miscellaneous gray hairs at a young age, but they’re 17 now and still going strong… prematurely gray might just be a “dark points” thing.
Very glad you’re finding a solution to your ant infestation – that would creep me out too! Especially in my wine, ohhh no. We are drawing the line RIGHT THERE you ant mo-fos!
p.s. just saw your comment over on Sundry… JUST SAY NO to the T word!!!
28. winterwheat | May 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am
The hair is so FUN! Only an adorable girl can rock pink hair, and you, my friend, are rocking it.
Apropos of nothing: I hate my DivaCup. I’ve gone back to tampons, and can’t believe how convenient and easy they are, and CLEAN, especially during the changing process. I’m sorry to be a defector, but that friggin’ cup was just too unreliable. Put it in *slightly* wrong, and you’ve got an accident your hands, 20 minutes later when there’s no backup protection in sight. I gave it the old college try, truly I did.
29. Jakki | May 16th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I came over because of R @ youknowwhatelse…I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE FREAKING ANTS!!!! EVERYWHERE in my basement..on my desk, ON MY OUTLETS…everywhere. Thanks for the idea….
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