Sunday, April 26, 2009

Oh Where is my Hairbrush!!!

For some of you the title of this post will immediately make you start bobbing up and down as you sing one of the all time greatest Veggie Tales songs - The hairbrush song. (Just as an aside - if you have never heard Audio Adrenaline sing it your life simply isn't complete, you just don't know it yet. come see me I'll play it for you) However, I have never really internalized The hairbrush song the way that I did on my Daddy vacation last week.

First, you need to know that the Hairbrush in question was PERFECT. Really! I mean worthy of it's own blog just about how wonderfully the bristles moved just enough but not to much, and none of the little ends came off, and it wasn't too big and ... - Perhaps you should "talk amongst yourselves" for a moment.

Sorry

Second, I have been searching for a duplicate hairbrush for as long as I've had it, especially once Tim started using it. All the while knowing that my time with the perfect hairbrush was limited due to my own nature. To no avail I have searched the world over. I think it may have been promotional or something another one does not exist - Even on EBay. (It was a white clinique hairbrush that came in one of those 'get free with purchase' kits. If you have one, name your price.)

Third, I have had it for SIXTEEN YEARS! No joke. I can't keep anything for that long without breaking it or locking it up so that it never comes in contact with me. I know it has been 16 yrs because we came together at a bitter time for me. It was a gift from some well meaning stupid person. I remember thinking "ooo this is an interesting brush, I have never had a brush like this one, I'd like to try it out" but alas ...

"No Hair for my hairbrush, no hair for my hairbrush, no hair no hair no where no hair no fair no hair no where back there NO HAIR..... for my hairbrush"

(enough about that. just refrain from giving a cancer patient a hair brush until after treatments, it will mean more then).

Finally, and this is the Kicker, before leaving the house on my Daddy vacation, I remember thinking "you shouldn't take the hairbrush, you'll lose it." Tuesday morning: . . .

"having just finished his [her] morning bath and having searched for his [her] hairbrush
Larry [Emily] cries out
'oh where is my hairbrush, oh where is my hairbrush, oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where is my hairbrush'
having heard his [her] cry Pa Grape [Daddy] enters the scene, shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of Larry [Emily] in a towel Pa [Daddy] regains his composure and reports 'I think I saw your hairbrush back there [in the car]'
'Back there is my hairbrush, back there is my hairbrush, back there back there oh where back there oh where oh where back there back there back there is my hairbrush'"

(no Daddy didn't see me in a towel; otherwise it was just like that...spooky huh)

Hope! I searched the room, Daddy searched the car. It was time to go so we delayed our searching and I used Daddy's "Fonzie" comb and we got on with the day. No worries really seeing as how a Hairbrush can't just get up and walk off. Can it?

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