Long Hair, Don't Care

"Oh, are you not feeling well today?"

Isn't that just the worst question in the world? Translated, it means, "Wow, you look like shit."

Which ultimately means that I probably made the conscious decision not to wear make up today. I look more tired because I am tired and didn't have the time to conceal the ever-growing dark circles under my eyes.

Furthermore, I didn't brush my hair this morning. Now, I realize that to many this is just being lazy... but that means you probably have straight hair/thin hair or more free time to tame your hair. My hair is almost down to my behind, thick as hell and answers to no one but itself. It's wildly wavy with a mind of its own. Some mornings I wake up and it looks amazing, natural and I see the envy in other womens' eyes... Other mornings I look like a lion who just touched one of those electric balls at a children's museum.

Ya just never know.

Mornin!

But what I do know is that I think making myself a delicious, healthy breakfast (egg whites, a piece of whole wheat toast and the most important part of the most important meal of the day: coffee) is more important to me than doing my hair OR my makeup.

And call me crazy, but I'm really not willing to wake up at 5:00 in the morning just so I can curl my hair and do my make up. To me, that is a solid waste of perfectly good sleep time. But the issue is I show up to work looking like this:

Coffee... I need... coffee...

Unfortunately, I work with my Mom who ever so kindly slips a, "Um, did you brush your hair today?" into the conversation.

Nope. Nope, I didn't, Ma.

As women, we are expected to look professional at all times and that I don't have a problem with.

Here is my issue: I need sleep.

No amount of coffee in the world will help me if I haven't had a full eight hours of sleep.

I have trouble focusing, I'm much slower and generally disoriented when I don't sleep well. I do not accomplish as much work as I should and it certainly isn't up to the caliber I'd like it to be.

So I pose this question:

Would you rather I dress in nice clothes but wear no makeup, have frizzy hair AND accomplish things or show up looking good but slacking hard?

Now, I understand there are more than enough women who wake up and make up and show up looking like a million bucks to work.

I am not one of them.

And frankly, I don't really feel that I need to be.

All I ask is that people stop asking me if I don't feel well.

I feel fine. I'm just pale because apparently it's still winter and I don't go tanning because I hear skin cancer is, like, a total bummer. I have bags under my eyes because I'm a human and I try to do too much in too little time.

And I'm not wearing make up because I just don't feel like it.