Wish I had a real garden. I'd be out there every day. Living in an apartment swells your desire for a real outdoor garden, as opposed to Potted Plant City and a ginormous wooden box on the patio. Nevertheless, life with plants... so far so good. Larry is sitting on the windowsill, with a fresh new nametag that says, "Larry Flynt, the hustler ivy". The original tag said "medium light" so he's relatively happy on the northeast windowsill. He'll be having his fill of sunlight during the day, and I'll be moving him back to the far end of the room for bedtime.
This summer I plan to rearrange the room, both to accommodate feng shui and to free the windowsill from a futon-bunk. If all goes well, it will serve the horticultural feng shui well by opening up the sunny area for plants (as opposed to furniture).

Paid a visit to the ortho. Got a new wire on the top and bottom, the bottom being a VERY strong wire with lots of powerchain. The top has a new wire running all the way through plus tooth-colored lacing. Lateral incisor (upper right) has moved outwards just like it was supposed to. So far so good With one big wire going all the way through the top teeth, it actually looks braces-like. Brought home rubber bands to connect the uppers and lowers (lower molar on the band to upper canine with sapph bracket). Elastics are to be renewed at lunchtime and before bed, and to be worn in combination with headgear.

I met a lovely neighbor today. She's such a lovely silver lady with a gingerbread voice.

Hair. It's the 5th day after a wash, so it's 6th day hair in my book. So far so good. The scalp itched today from walking to the ortho in sunshine without a hat. Recently I've decided to assign a name to my hair: June, as in Henry's wife June. I've been braiding her lately, and did a perfectly symmetrical and even braid today without looking in the mirror. She's so pretty today. I love my June.

Red-beaked!

I'm so happy for your anticipation!  What color is you corset?
What style??

I'm working w/Romantasy corsets on figuring out what I need.  Thanks for all your great advice!  I hope you'll post lots of pics!
How are you wearing your hair?? What accessories??

Glad your hair is happy.

Hair is happy. Last night I did the aforementioned milk thistle aloe tea rinse. It went really really well. Today I've had no itchies, and my hair looks terrific. I can't wait to see how it looks when I take the braid out. I slept in a damp braid with a sock curl on the end. This is the first time I've ever tried doing my hair this way for bed. Here's a braid segment.



It worked really nicely. I knew of this idea for a long time because BB mentioned it as part of a sock curling - braiding combo... but never thought to actually try it until now. The results are so nice. They are uneven, but nice. I took out the braid and socked-up end (SUE) this afternoon to see how dry it was, then took it out again at around 10 pm. It was still very damp the first time, but the waves were defined and terrific. The second time I unraveled, it was completely dry and well-defined. Kind of wet-shiny and overconditioned but with combing, that should go away.

All I need to do is hold out, without washing, until At least Saturday. That will make it 2 weeks between washes.


"Children, this is what happens if you don't eat your vegetables!"

Thanks BB

Caved in last night and did a complete hairwash (on 12th day hair). When I read about Uzi saying she was on day 12, I never thought I could do it. but I did. I realize that I shouldn't have used the L'Oreal Curl Vive when doing the milk thistle rinse. The MTA rinse was perfectly fine by itself.
For the hairwash I did put in one cubic centimeter of SLES shampoo just for good measure. Then added a usual dose of Lotus and COW'd, then did the ACV/S-M&H/KLG sequence as usual. Hair and scalp are feeling pretty good right now. The RS#42 comb was great for scritching off scalp gunk. 

I have a love-hate relationship with my cable modem. It's not really a modem, and it's not like DSL. It's cable modem, whatever the Hades that means. I had to edit and upload some files to a remote server because.. well.. that's my job.. and the deadline hour was coming up, everybody else needed the files, and Mr. Modem was being such a mild expletive. Here's the argument I had with Mr. Cable Modem, whose personality I would expect to be like Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

me: I love you Modem. You know that's genuine.
Mr. Modem: You always say that when you need a good solid uplink.
me: Well, this time I mean it.
Mr. Modem: You tend to take me for granted.
me: I know. but this time I need you to do me a small favor.
Mr. Modem: Hah. I work harder than you do. I need a smoke break. Take five! [flashing lights] [signal dies]
me: Arrghh. Suurrrre you do. You get to sit down. I've been working all day and it's 2 am.
Mr. Modem: Well, you put me near the back door. I'm cold. Clothe me. Hug me. Remember that story from your childhood that taught wizards and witches to keep their spellbooks warm?
me: You're dusty and you're sitting in a moldy bookcase. And you're a moody [mild expletive]. 
Mr. Modem: Ooooh, now we're gettin' dirty.
me: Come on, sweetie, give me 10 minutes.
Mr. Modem: I can't hear you! I can't hear you! Dananananananana!

Anyway, it finally went through. Now that I'm done loading those files I needed to load, internet has been working smoothly SINCE I finished the work I had to do.

That figures

(agreed... they are very crazy )

It is Summer Solstice. Blessings be upon you and your garden.



An 8-day gypsy journey begins today. I hope to visit between now and the end.

Anais