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Ten-Word Tuesday. Satan Lives In Extra Curricular Activities

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Just who is the Nazi who invented this hairstyle?

Granted, Bossy holds a grudge against any hairdo that isn’t falling out of bed and tah-dah! Bossy has never been good at hair, maybe because she is actually a man.

In whatever case, Bossy’s daughter is taking ballet lessons for the first time this year, an activity she will engage in twice a week after school — not that Bossy’s readers wouldn’t have found out in their own time, as Bossy’s vile curses project over all the land while she tries to wrestle the alligator that is Bossy’s daughter’s hair.

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Come along with Bossy as she attempts to create a ballet bun for her daughter. Note: this is a simulation. Bossy’s daughter knows better than to place Bossy in charge of her ballet hair without many days of practice.

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The first problem: Bossy had no hair gel to waste use in this bun experiment. Creating a slight breach of etiquette, Bossy moved directly to the rubber band step:

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Next it was time for Bossy to begin with the twisting and the pinning and the oyveying:

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There was no other recourse than to call in the Delightful One who has been taking ballet a few days shy of forever. The intent was a hands-on tutorial in bunning. She began by twisting:

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And then she poked, tucked, stabbed, secured, smoothed, jabbed, and pinned:

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It was all over in seconds and then the family stood back and marveled at the plethora of firmly held hair:

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Later today Bossy will attempt to recreate this bun, and about that, Bossy can sum up her fear of hair pins in this way: Why couldn’t Bossy’s daughter like soccer? No Nazi hairstyles there.

Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy about an extra curricular activity you did as a kid and the accompanying garb or equipment you needed, not to mention the changes you put your parents through?

And be sure to check back later today for the extra-ist of all internet curriculars.

Finally, if you missed last week’s Challenge, click here to read what Bossy’s council did on their summer vacations, cleverly summarized in ten words, of course.

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  3. Bless my parents’ hearts, I rode horses. Hunters and jumpers. The outfits, the horse shows, the $$$. Plus, since I had no license, the driving back and forth to the barn that my mother had to do… for years! But, but but, some of my best memories are wrapped up in those days.

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  37. Softball, volleyball, track, violin, viola, cello, choir, mock trial, Operetta…

    (And that was just junior high and high school- luckily I got a car when I was 16, probably because my parents were tired of being my personal taxi. Did you know that violin strings are spendy?)

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  43. Library Card = Free. I was a cheap teen.

    OTOH, my daughter had the piano lessons (books & teacher fees), the Ballet, Tap, Jazz, “Modern” and Pointe shoes….,

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  68. I would shoot myself in the head if my girl child ever did anything requiring a PhD in hairstyling. She can’t walk across the room w/o her hair becoming disheveled. Instead she runs cross country, where the 8th grade girls set her straight at the very first meet: “First of all, don’t worry about your hair when you run cross country. Second of all, everyone’s hair looks stupid when they run.” God bless the sporty-girl mentors.

    Ten word Tuesday: Library card. Reading was my world.

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  69. I picked the dance studio my girls go to because: 1) they don’t require buns for anything, not even recitals; 2) the recitals are an hour long; 3) the costumes do not cost more than my entire clothing budget for the year.

    It’s a bigger pain to get them ready for soccer than dance.

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  81. BWAH HA HA HA HA

    Ballet Bun: Take 2.

    Setting: Chez WRH.

    And…ACTION.

    fyi. in the event that anyone thinks that Bossy has fabricated that list of instructions, and it would be a reasonable idea, not that Bossy is known for fabrication ahem but because it is so preposterous, I have the exact same list and I used many more bad words when negotiating the HAIR pins NOT bobby pins.

    love,
    wrh who is also apparently a man

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  83. Played Little Women’s “Laurie”. Cherub-cheeked bowler-clad in boy drag.

    (I’m sure Mom had to assemble the costume but didn’t have words left to say so.)

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  84. Not that it matters to all and sundry, but my 10th word was ditched the previous post:

    Played Little Women’s “Laurie”. Cherub-cheeked bowler-clad girl in boy drag.

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  100. Just wait until the pointe shoes … and the mole skin and those weird elastics you tie around your waist (under the bodysuit in the front) to make the leg holes go higher and look sexier

    oh, and the blue eyeshadow and red lipstick

    I have a phobia of buns now. My non-English speaking hairdresser did my hair in a bun for my wedding in Portugal (going completely against the messy up-do I’d asked her to do). My mom made her take it all out and boy was she pissed.

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  102. No 10 words just sympathy as I feel your pain as a mother who survived the ballet phase. I came to HATE dance days as doing their FREAKING hair was such a stressful event.

    Me thinks teachers (of expensive a fore said lessons) should teach the STUDENTS how to be responsible for the FREAKING perfect bun.

    Thanks, that is all. I feel better.

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  105. Library card, all that was needed to make me happy.

    Oh, and Bossy, daughter was right, you were doing it wrong. The rubber band didn’t match her hair. I hate the buns! (Unless of course they are the cinnamon kind.) Luckily, I only have to do it twice a year for my darling one – dress rehearsal and recital!

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  106. two of my girls took ballet for years at this very place.. and did ballet performances there where the nazi bun is even more scrutinized… took me a while but I finally mastered the bun.. even the ‘hair pins not showing thing”. let me know if you need help.. and start stocking up on hair gel!

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