A dream is a wish your heart makes...

In this case, I sure hope that the title of this post is completely untrue.  Sparked by my ever shaggier hair and the season two finale of How I Met Your Mother (where Marshall and Lilly get married) I had my first crazy hair nightmare!

The dream: I decided to go and get my first hair trim since I've started growing my hair out.  I was very excited, but I was not at all sure what was the best cut to go with.  Additionally, I figured that if I was just getting a trim that it would be safe to go somewhere cheaper to get my hair done than where I usually go for my styles (which I did in real life the last time I grew my hair out)...  MISTAKE!!!

As odd as it may sound, I was completely calm through this next portion of dream.  A mullet-ed hairdresser talked calmly to me about her suggestions for someone about to grow their hair out.  For some reason she sounded perfectly reasonable and I OK-ed her plan and let her set to work. The actual haircut was a bit of a blurr in my mind until I took a peek in the mirror toward the very end.  At that point, I slowly came to the realization that she had grown the back of my hair out to my shoulders and trimmed the top of my head.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mullet&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=EQsAUbGtM_SA2AXr5IGYCA&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1680&bih=901

Then, I lost my cool.  She had provided me with a mullet to match the one she had!  I was absolutely horrified.  I couldn't believe that she could do that to me, but she didn't seem malicious in any way, so I decided to pay her all the same thinking it was some sort of honest mistake... Then I immediately went to my regular hairdresser to see what she could do to fix my style. 

When I arrived at my normal salon, my stylist was forced to chop my hair back into the pixie I had been dillegently trying to grow out.  She basically demanded that I request my money back from the other salon, which I did.  After that... I woke up!

I immediately ran my fingers through my hair to be sure that my shaggy pixie was still intact and that the whole situation had been a horrible nightmare (it had, phew!).  I'm not sure that many people have growing-your-hair-out anxiety, but aparently I am one of them.  It sounds like I need to do a little bit of between-hairstyles research for how to approach my next haircut. If anyone has any suggestions or photos, I'd appreciate it. I don't think I could stand many more mullet dreams!

Just another hurdle to get past on my quest for longer locks.