Mrs. Brady, where ARE you?!?

I'm getting a haircut this weekend, and I've been wanting to do something different. I've had many awesome 'dos over the years. Here's me in Kindergarden, ca. 1985:Told you I was awesome. Apparently I had a thing for Danny Elfman. (That's what you call an Ogilvie home perm. Thanks, Mom.)
When I was in high school my hair was so long I could tuck it in my pants. Seriously. I was kind of a punk in high school, so I went throught a phase where my hair was bright blue. Then I colored it with red Kool-Aid (obviously before sugar is added). But I got pretty sick of just being known as "the chick with the long-ass hair". Not to be confused with "the chick with the long ass-hair". I kept it this rediculous length just long enough to get my senior pics taken. Then I went over to my best friend's house, and took care of it... I don't know what the kids these days are doing to be rebelious, but if you grew up in the '90s, remember that awful "style" where the top half of the head had normal hair, but if it was up in a ponytail, you could see the bottom half was shaved? Yeah, I did that. Actually my friend did it, and she was all too happy to do it, too. She was so sick of strangers coming up to me to comment on my hair, and frankly so was I. I wanted a 'do that said, "Fuck off." So she shaved my head from the nape of my neck to about the top of my ears. I kept the top waist-length for a while, and usually put it in tiny little braids. Like 50 of them. Ah, youth. I miss that style. I worked at Subway in a truck stop, and people didn't mess with me with that hair. It was awesome. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of this period. :-(

Then I grew up. Booooo. I could do that now, but I've mellowed. I don't get 30 year-olds (wait, I'm still 29) with lingering teenage angst. There is still plenty for me to rebel against (the goverment, the meat industry, religion, etc.), but I don't feel a punk-ass hair style will really accomplish much. Plus I don't want to scare the other mommies at the library story time.

About a year after my daughter was born, I hadn't had a hair-cut in like 3 years, and I looked like this:

I liked the way I looked, but that hair was soooo HOT. And not as in, Meow. As in, SOMEBODY TURN THE AIR CONDITIONER ON! I had grown my hair out a few times and cut it off to give to Locks of Love. If you have long hair and are thinking of cutting it, look into it. The make wigs for kids with conditions such as alopecia, and can't grow hair. So I knew I was ready to do it again, and I was ready to take it ALL off. So I scoured the world wide web for cute pics, and once I found this I knew I was ready to chop:

18 inches of hair were gone and I looked like this:

Not exactly the same, but it was close and I loved it. It was the shortest it had been since my Danny Elfman phase and I felt so free! But then I started seeing other girls and their cute ponytails, and felt kind of sad. But I know I looked awesome, so in my head I told those girls with pretty, feminine, flowing locks to suck it.

I've had some trims here and there since that first chop, but it's grown out to a very messy, unkempt shoulder-length bob with bangs. I haven't colored in in years, and years... and years. I think the last color I got was highlights for my wedding... almost 10 years ago. But think I'm going to hold of on any color till I start to grey. Or maybe I'll just rock the grey hair, too. I digress... I was watching "The Brady Bunch" with VegGirl a couple weeks ago, and it was a very early one. You know, before Peter became a delicious heart-throb, and was just a little cutie-pie. I think it was the second season. I noticed Carol had a super adorable little '60s not-quite-a-pixie, not-quite-a-shag 'do and I thought it was FREAKING AWESOME. I called the hubs in and said, "What do you think of that?!?" He smirked at me and said something about being married to Mrs. Brady. I told him if he weren't nice I'd give him a Mike Brady perm in his sleep.
But he actually agreed it was a cute hair do, and gave me the thumbs up. I think. I don't care. I've always wanted to be a member of the Brady Bunch, and if I stole her look, I could pretend I was Mrs. Brady and exchage thinly veiled inuendos with my husband before bed then totally make out with him while our 6 darling kids get into harmless mischief.

The only thing is, I can't find a good pic of the good hair anywhere. When you Google "Carol Brady" or "Florence Hederson" the only thing that comes up is this monstrosity:
Totally NOT what I'm going for. I'm looking for girly, polyester dress wearing young mom, before the bell bottoms and paisley devoured our poor Carol and refused to spit her out. I'm still debating whether to do this 'do now or wait for summer, but if you happen to run across any pics of the cute style I'm looking for, please send them my way. You know, while you randomly Google Brady Bunch images for your personal collection.