Or maybe a conundrum. Or a hodgepodge. (My husband gets credit for reminding me of this commercial, of course, now he has also compared me to a platypus.)

It crossed my mind last night, as I was getting ready for bed, that my hair falls somewhere between wavy and curly.

It has too much curl to be wavy, but the weight of my hair tends to straighten the curls somewhat, so that it’s not really curly either. It just gets frizzy/fluffy if I don’t use the right products!

And then there’s the color. A friend once described me as a “rotten strawberry blond.” That’s probably the best way to put it! I’m too dark to be strawberry blond, not red enough to be a redhead. I’d like it to be redder, but I won’t dye it*. I love that it’s natural.

So we’ve got sort of curly reddish-blondish-brownish hair.

Adding to the mix, I am also a tall petite. At 5’3″, I’m still pretty short. The “petite” category is supposed to be for people 5’4″ and under so I should be fine. However, I have a terrible time finding pants with the right length.

Most of the time, petite pants are too short. They are usually the perfect length, if I were to go barefoot. That rules out even the smallest heel most of the time. Non-petite pants tend to be longer than my highest heels.

I’m not a good enough sewer to hem nice pants (I’ll only hem pajamas or running pants!), and I’m not going to have all of my clothes tailored, so I’ll just keep trying on dozens of pants, waiting for the ones that have a slightly longer (or shorter) inseam!

So, I’m kind of short, with sort of curly reddish-blondish-brownish hair. And blueish-greenish-grayish eyes.

No complaints there. They change color to match my outfits!

*Not that my hair has never been dyed … in college, it was deeper red, dark brown, reddish-pink, and purple. It’s all mine now — no dye has touched my head since 1996!