Leather and Midnight

Lotta up and down today… and I have noticed more of my hair has broken, from the bleaching. What does that add up to? To paraphrase a meme I may have once saved but cannot now find, “When life gets tough, it’s time to do some weird $h!t to your hair.”

Not weird-weird. Likely it will all be one color. And while it won’t be natural to me, I don’t think I’ll go with shades of violet, burgundy, or blue. Pretty as they may be, in the pictures. But listen to how SEXY the color names sound!!!

• Black Leather
• Midnight Violet
• Cosmic Azure
• Orchid Glow
• Violet Eclipse

I'm thinkin' black, to match the car, and because I had recently looked over some pics of me with my rully dark hair, with no small amount of longing. If I don't say anything to anyone at work, it'll be fun to go in with a WAY different look. But I may not be able to keep my mouth shut about it. It's exciting. Fresh hair! WOO! Not to mention all the fun of posting new hair pics online. 

"Leather and Midnight" lyrics, bonus content from Wishful Sinful

Leather and midnight,
sky black and moon white.
Like an old movie, your
arms around me, kiss
on the big screen.
Film noir love dream,
shadows and cut scene.

Leather and midnight,
the scent on your skin,
this moment my birthright,
as I breathe you in.

Leather and midnight
unfolding around us.
bare before my sight,
you lie still in blind trust.

Leather and midnight,
you gift me your body.
We tangle 'til first light,
the sun a poor copy
of the silvery moonlight
that like opiate poppies
brought such wild delight.
Drunk on kisses all night
until morning stopped me.

Languorous, we sleep
tangled in one another,
in soft hotel bed sheets.
More than my lover,
my secrets, yours to keep.

Midnight and leather
brought us together,
salty and sweet,
caresses soft-feathered,
tentative and discrete,
but ever remember
this feeling, complete.
May never we sever.

(Realized that last rhyme was also in my latest version of “Havensong,” so I changed that one… since the one above is already out).

Perhaps more playful than sexy given the fact that I was wearing a child’s bat costume along with my “pleather” jacket… the headband was supposed to be the ears, and I had wings on my back, which were small enough that they don’t show here… but… just for fun, here’s a pic of me with black hair, in a much-beloved jacket that did not stand the test of time, but still looked hella cool for being fake, while it lasted.

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That was at one of the Zoo Boo’s we attended. I always dressed up along with kiddo, for those. Often in a bonus costume that wasn’t even my official Halloween look for that year.

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So… Black Leather? Are we feelin’ it?

I think I am.

Next thing you know, I’ll be browsing for gothier clothing, in earnest.

I was gonna do that anyway for Halloween. Goth Rogue. But maybe we’ll do more than one look, if the first one seems to fit okay.

Maybe it’s not such a bad thing that my latest swimsuit find wasn’t available in the bright pink, in my size. I may still get a colorful cover-up to go with the black top and matching swim-skirt. We will see.

If I didn’t have so many other things to save up for, and pressing bills, etc., I would even pose the idea of a new tattoo. Haven’t done that in probably at least a literal decade.

Closin’ up shop here a lot earlier into the evening than usual. But I suppose I can retreat to my room and read. Damn, though, after the way the day unfolded, it would be nice not to be here alone. Kiddo is either asleep or about to be, and various other conversations have dried up, for the time being.

Huzzah! Scratch that. I did get a message back from someone who I just started talking to, today.

Anyway.

One last pic for the road. This one struck me as especially badass.

G’nite.

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