Whooooaaaa, there.  Been far too long since I posted in here.  Well, between getting geared up for another semester at school, my mom coming to visit, and all the whirlywind things that go along with those two, I just haven't had time to do anything really special with my hair.  Just W&C with Burt's Bees Grapefruit and Sugarbeet S&C.

Awesome stuff.  I highly recommend it.

At any rate, I don't plan on doing much hair stuff in the meantime, either.  I'm having my wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow morning, so I think I'll end up sleeping most of the weekend.   But hey, the end result will be no more extra pain in my jaw (because my teeth are actually growing into the muscle where my jaw hinges) and a great reduction in my TMJ problems.  Here's fingers crossed!

Good to have you back, novusfemina. Many of us can relate to hectic schedules and time away from LL. 

Eeeeeek @ the surgery. That's something I need to have done soon as well. Best of luck, hon. Get lots of beauty rest...and have fun with the liquid diet afterwards. 

Sorry you have to have surgery, at least they can do something to relieve your discomfort.  I'll keep you in my thoughts-hope your recovery is speedy.

Will do, NF. Though, I suspect it will be awhile. *phew!*

Glad to hear that your surgery was a success. I wish to God that I had the freedom to do deep conditioning treatments whenever the heck I wanted.    Do an extra long one for me, ok?

The part I'm really dreading about the surgery is whether they will unhinge my jaw. I really hope they don't!! That's my concern as a singer...that they won't hook it up right afterwards. 
    I'm also just a teensy bit worried about being put out. I've heard horror stories about people who never wake up... 

Glad the surgery went well and you are recovering in good spirits.

I've had my jaw wired (I don't remember them giving me ANYTHING when they did it - boy did that hurt!); I've had all 4 wisdom teeth removed at once - only had novacaine, but mine were not impacted or otherwise involved, so they just popped out; and I've had several surgeries requiring general anesthesia.  I'd recommend the general anesthesia for significant oral surgery.  You don't tense up when they are working on you, and as a result, you are not as sore afterwards.  Not to mention, it is much more pleasant to not hear or see what they are doing to you. 

Take care of yourself!

OUCH!  I can feel your pain from here!  Yes, my broken jaw was an "accident", more like a stupid move.  I was 8 at the time.  Some friends and I were horsing around doing fake falls forward.  I did one, but misjudged the concrete floor and landed on my chin, breaking my jaw.  At least in my case, the rest of my body was fine!

Take advantage of the long weekend and pamper yourself!

(Moved this port from Unusual Woman, Unusual Mane because Juri pointed out that I still had my journal, even though I thought it had been deleted.  Oh Lord.  There it was on the third page, just like she said.  I need new glasses.  Good gravy!)


Well, let's see... I had made it down to classic length and then cut it back to waist about 6 months ago to get rid of some of the damage and to make my hair a bit lighter... my roots were flatter than flat no matter what I tried.  Waist length was doing me good for a while, but the heat of summer and the desire for a bit of a change when we moved to Atlanta, I cut my hair back to a little more than BSL.  I like it here, somewhere between BSL and waist length, though it's quickly growing back to waist length if it isn't there already.

As for hair care routine, I'm using the old shampoo and condition method.  Was using Burt's Bees sugarbeet and something for volumizing, really liked that, left my hair feeling good.  Part of the fun and interesting thing of moving to a metro area, though, is finding new products that smaller cities don't carry.  At the local grocery store they have a whole organic section     Yes, yes.. very happy about that!

I found Avalon Organics, Jason's, and Nature's Gate... and had to spend a good thirty minutes trying to decide what I wanted to try... (my sweetheart was understanding... he kinda rolled my eyes at me, said "Oh Lord" and went to look for some groceries.. hehehehehe!  Bless the man!)  I finally decided on Avalon Organics Lavendar poo and condish, and a bottle of Nature's Gate herbal condish, because it was on sale.

I'm a sucker for sales, if you haven't already guessed.   

I also bought the Avalon lavendar face wash, because I was out of face wash and the store didn't have my usual brand.  I really like the face wash, btw.

I do like the lavendar condish, it's just slippery enough and soaks right into my hair.  The shampoo smells great (the condish doesn't have the same smell even though it's lavendar too..   ) but I've notcied that my scalp gets greasier more quickly... not sure if it's the shampoo or something else, though... any ideas out there ladies?   

Haven't tried the Nature's Gate condish yet, though it smells loverly.  My sweetheart bought me a bar of sandalwood soap, so between the sandalwood and the lavendar, I'm one nice smelling gal... lol.

Hurray for Fall! It has finally arrived!

Last night R and I were sitting out on the back patio and it was actually chilly!  We're definitely looking forward to having a fire in the fireplace (R and I have only lived in one other place together that had a fireplace and we only lived there during the summer...) and snuggling down in the living room with a game or a good book.  Or just snuggling, which would be my preference.  Hehe! 

One of the things we're looking forward to having moved to an area that sees a little more winter other than a Louisiana cold rain.  I had to put on a sweater on this morning!  Usually I'm still wearing shorts until the end of October.  This is definitely nice.

I made a Turkish lamb stew yesterday in celebration of the on-coming of fall, an awesome recipe that I will try again, it was so easy!  I had to substitute potato for the eggplant called for in the recipe because R is afraid of that particular purple vegetable, but it was still delish and spiced just right.  There's still some leftover, I think I might have that for lunch today.  Lord knows I'll need something here soon, I've been up since 5:30    R woke me up when he left for work this morning at 4, then I couldn't get back to sleep for another half hour.  Then he started calling at 5:30.  Arg!  I couldn't be too upset, he sounded sad when he said, "you went back to sleep?" but at this point I couldn't go back to sleep anymore, so I gave up and went ahead and started my day.  Still, I hate being pestered awake. 

I felt better after I went and picked up a giant cup of Community Coffee.  I have to go over to the gas station to pick it up.  Community Coffee is a Louisiana brand that I've really gotten used to and haven't been able to find in the markets around here, other than the world farmer's market way on the other side of town that sells primarily Indian foodstuffs.   Thankfully, if I happen to be out of C. coffee (which I am, although the Turkish coffee I picked up is nice) the local gas station is owned by an Indian man and he shares my love of C. coffee and brews it every morning.  Ahh, nectar of life!

I think I'm going to have another look at the wedding dress in "Tristan and Isolde" today.  I watched the movie for the first time yesterday (thank you, netflix) and I have to say it was refreshing to see a movie in which the Irish were not the beaten up poor country for once.  Granted, they were technically the bad guy, but hey, Britain's not so hot for subjugating the Scots later in the middle ages, hmm?  Anyway, I was a bit disenchanted by the ending; although I knew Tristan was going to have some sort of hero's death, I thought it was little weak on the part of the directors to have Isolde just disappear forever, tra la.  I was happy that there wasn't the fairy tale happy ending the big movie moguls tend to rely on, but they could have done something just a little bit more realistic with Isolde.. send her back to the English king or show her having grown old, tending to Tristan's grave.  Disappearing forever?  Pfft!   

Hair News:

Still no sign of LL sticks in the mail.  Fudge!  The mail seems so slow around here.. or maybe it's just me an my impatience.  Still... arg!

Third day out from washing and my hair still seems very good, wearing it down as it's still too slippery to hold much.  I'm thinking that the Avalon Organics shampoo was causing the stickiness/early greasies, so once the bottle's gone, I'll switch back over to Burt's Bee's.  Need to go to the grocery store today, so I think I'll pick up some coconut milk to give it a try as recommended by Curlgirl, and also some honey so I can whip up some more Snowy's deep treatment which I haven't done in ages.