Hair. I haven't washed it since Thursday night, so I'm technically on 7th day hair right now. I discovered recently that sometimes my hair just looks greasier if it's not combed.... (duh)..  but combing with a medium-tooth makes it look much better than I ever expect. I never cease to be surprised when I comb.
I have not measured for ages. I have not trimmed for ages. I have not used shampoo either. Maybe it's about time to do one of the three. I'm almost at tailbone - just about 1/2-3/4 inch more until the "top of the line"...

Other stuff. Back pain and wrist pain has been completely gone lately.

K stuff. And I mailed K my "final letter" yesterday. After I got the book back (sans conversation because he had to leave), I called to yell at him a bit. Then I called back a couple times after that day hoping we could end it peacefully. but it's not going to happen. My letter details everything I didn't like about our relationship and why he and I should not remain as friends. The gist of it:
(1) I can't be friends with someone I don't admire
(2) People who have "compounded problems" are people who don't have the time, effort, or capacity for our friendship.
(3) That I feel no pain because he hasn't been a friend.

It's good closure and I know it will help me affirm my own decision. I felt horrible calling again because it felt like a compulsive addiction.  NO MORE! I miss snuggling with him though. Pillows and blankets are not the same.

Thanks Bikerbraid (((HUG))))

February 2 2006 hair update (again, nothing has changed very much)

Wash routine: CCC with Pure-A-Teas Lotus and Suave Citrus Smoothie,
ACV rinse and scalp scritch with comb
Suave CS on length, Kirkland on ends.
Wet comb, apply Giovanni Direct Leave-in, sock curl. Make a Bubbatail the next morning to straighten the length but leave the ends curly.
Hairwash every Thursday with exceptions
Oils: none at the moment
Tools: RS#42 for shower use, RS#42 for wet combing, socks for curling, hardwood combs for everyday detangling, HH horn combs for detangling away from home, and LML oxhorn comb for occasional scritching.
Hair toys used often: scrunchies, Mamacat sticks, Blondie fork
Styles: infinity bun, single braid, Bubba sleep tail (a lot), cinnabun low ponytail
Misc: I’m starting to think twice about this fairy-tale ends thing. Granted I think fairy-tale ends are extremely beautiful, but they are also looking extremely thin to me right now because of how I wear my hair lately: straight length with crescent-moon ends. I’ll have to sit down for a good S&D and a 1/4 inch trim soon. The goal is to get a furry U shape, not fairy-tale ends but not exactly a u shape either. A good compromise I guess..

Beautiful pics!  Your hair is growing soooo fast.  You will be at tailbone in no time at all. 

Gosh, I wish my hair grew that fast!

I like the new avatar, Anais. 

Thanks ladies.

Thanks Aphrodite, nice to meet you A bubbatail is a segmented ponytail, or what Princess Jasmine wears... if you go to Google and search under "images" for Princess Jasmine, it can show you a lot better than I can explain.
Fairy tale ends are like in storybooks when princesses don't cut their hair, and it grows in a natural tapered V shape. Hope this helps

Anais

Absolutely gorgeous, to die for hair. 

News briefs:

Found my other best friend from 1st-2nd grade. ... Now an amazing woman, a hippie, a vegetarian, a natural sexual liberation femme. Her lifestyle is just like mine. I'm so happy! WOW when we were little, we used to put on oversized t-shirts, showered together, took naps, ate latkes, walked around outside and gathered pine needles, played Royalty (pretended to French kiss like grownups), and was teased by her big sister who was in the 4th grade.

The wizard scarves arrived - very accurate, very warm, and very very chic. I wore my Ravenclaw scarf today to work.

mailed the CV order with an MO on Monday, so I expect my order will have been shipped already ::excited::

Hair. Did a hairwash today using Villainess' Ginger Snapped soap, Suave CS, and KLG. So far so good - and my hair is drying super fast. I think my hair likes natural soap. I'm waiting on my friend G to ok our double-order for Mountain Rose Herbs. We're going to double-order to save on shipping. I'm still looking to get some marshmallow root and possibly some clays, and that beautiful glass teapot that they have - hopefully it can be shipped via USPS.

UPS stuff Someone sent me something from UPS but it's in UPS limbo right now. I can't take UPS because nobody is ever available to answer the door (and I don't get home until late evening). The stuff goes to the holding facility, and then we have to go pick up our packages, except... nobody is available to go pick them up until after the facility closes. I really hope it's not something from online swaps or exchanges. hrm. ::happy shipping thoughts::

Something I wrote today:

The most beautiful thing about philosopher Gabriel Marcel is the concept of the Other: experiences can only be validated through a form of mediation. It is where a person cannot say "This is a tree" or "I am conscious of this tree" or "This tree exists" unless there is the Other. (Without being a participant in the Whole, which includes the Other, reality cannot be experienced) The Other, whether it is another person, the environment, the laws of physics, or a frog, validates the I's view. The tree is only a "tree" and is only important if it has meaning for myself and someone else. Most significantly, Marcellian experience of reality can also be applied to language: a word only has value when it is a word that has meaning for both persons, and a word can only exist with the existence of other words. Without all, one is nothing.

This is such a radically different sense of "I". Other concepts of Being have presented the I and the Other in a completely different relationship. Others have defined "I" with a sense of solitude, that the Other is something indifferent to the I, that the I would exist regardless of the Other. In other cases, "I" is a void that goes in search of the Other, only to be lost when the Other is finally consumed. Marcel's concept is very different because I and Other are under a constant relationship of negotiation (Gallagher, 5-6) to discover the boundary of where I ends and Other begins. There is constant redefinition of content and form.

There is an old Xhosa and Zulu saying umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu or roughly translated, "a person is a person through other persons"... the basis of Ubuntu, a concept that has been known for at least a few centuries before Gabriel Marcel was born.

Amazing how these concepts get around!

Anais, happy and anxious