Remember how I’m bald? (Well, mostly bald, I have a few sprouts here and there but nothing to write home (or here) about.) (hey I just did parentheses within parentheses) You do? Good. Anyway. Remember how I wear a wig? You do? Awesome! I won’t have to go into detail and you won’t be bored by my long explanations. Woo!

For the longest time I have been wishing I had a lace wig. They’re way more expensive, yeah, but they also look much much more realistic. You can style them however you like– even wearing them in a ponytail! (this is a big deal), and they just look like your own hair. You can swim with them on. It’s awesome.

Back in June, I was on eBay browsing, and decided to punch in “lace wig”. And I hit the jackpot. There was a seller from Canada, who said they had been making wigs for 20 years now. I can hear you now. “eBay? OH NO!”. Well, I’ve had great luck with buying from eBay — remember that I got my custom-made-for-me wedding dress from eBay, and I loved it– and I’ve been eBaying since 1998; after nearly 10 years I thought I knew what I was doing. I made sure to email the seller, asking every question I could, and she answered right away. She encouraged me to ask more questions– and I did, to the point that I thought she would be tired of me. But she always answered my questions within 24 hours and was very informative. She took me through every step of how my wig would be made, how I’d attach it, what materials were the best to order, how to care for it, all the way down to how to measure my head so that the thing would fit me perfectly.

So finally Rob and I bit the bullet and bid. Several hundred dollars later (and to some people, that’s not a ton. For us, well it is. And I felt incredibly guilty but this was my birthday gift! so it’s okay!) we received word that we’d won the auction. Rob paid on June 12th… and we heard nothing from the seller for a week.

After a few neurotic emails on my part, I finally got a response. The seller’s grandfather had been ill and she’d had to go out of town. She asked the last few questions to get the information she needed to know before starting to make my wig. Alright… I answered them, and asked a few questions of my own. Again, no response for like, a week. When she did get back to me, this time it was because she’d had family in town and hadn’t been able to get to the computer– but was going to place a “rush” on my wig to thank me for my patience. That was nearly three weeks ago. I’ve sent several emails to her, trying to find out what was going on, and I’ve heard nothing back. I’ve been checking her feedback, and today I see that she is “no longer a registered user” and has several negative feedback strikes within the past couple of days.

Luckily, we paid through PayPal, so we should be getting a refund. I’m still just very disappointed, though. I realize that these wigs take a few weeks to make… I’d been hoping to start the new school year with it. I’d also been hoping to have it so that Rob and I could get some photos taken this summer. That’s all out the window now. I’m actually kind of depressed about the whole thing. Usually I don’t care about my baldness and such but I had allowed myself to get excited about this, and hope that I would actually have pretty hair for once! And now it’s not happening, and I feel like a big ugly fool.

WAAAH I’M A BIG BABY I KNOW IT!