I'm so happy!  My lessons went really well.  I'm always worried that I'll get yelled at for whatever (childhood stuff) and at the same time I have a strange fear of becoming really good and then I'll be asked to perform when I'm not ready.

When I was a kid, I had some piano lessons and after my teacher hurt her back I continued to teach myself songs.  Every year for 5 years we had the whole family (on my mom's side) over for Christmas celebration.  I was always asked to play for everybody.  Playing piano was a very private and personal thing for me at that time.  I felt I was expressing my soul when I played and felt way too vulnerable to play w/o preperation.  Obviously I'm still wrestling w/that.

However, today I got patted on the back and that felt really good.

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  I know the feeling 

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Pan, thanks!  I happen to have a hood dryer and some clips so I think I'll give plopping a try.  I couldn't see some of the pictures on the link you sent, so I don't know how it turned out.  It is a PIA that my waves don't naturally start at the top and I can't scrunch them small enough to make them with my hands. 
Any chance you'd post a pic of your plopped hair for me??

Wish me luck!!!

I'm so enjoying wearing my hair wavy.  I finally feel like there's nothing wrong with my hair, that its just the way it was meant to be.  I like to think about all of the wonderful paintings by the masters that feature wavy haired beauties.

It was really cold here today (OK, OK, cold for Arizona) and I wore my hair down w/a thin plastic headband to keep my hair out of my face.  It felt really good on my shoulders when I took my sweater off. 

I'm currently using the Ouidad Quench shampoo and conditioner and Jessicurl's rockin' ringlets and confident coils.  I bought gallon sized bottles of RR & CC so I better get to using them up!!!

My baby Jupiter is laying on the desk next to me with his paw on my arm.  He's so cute, and smells so yummy I could just eat him up!

Here's that pic I was talking about previously...

Thanks again, Greek_Lady I really love this pin.  I wish the pic was a bit sharper to do its beauty justice!!

Thanks, 13bodies!

Today I tried "plopping".  Where on earth did that name come from for that technique?  It was for the most part successful, but I need longer duckbill pins.  My hair was also very wet so I had to use the hood dryer before going outside.  I airdried it as long as I could so it was a relatively short amount of time under the dryer on low setting.

Only 3 more days of this edition of my journal.  Funny, I started my journal Jan 23, 2005, two days before my 35th birthday and there are 35 pages in this journal.  It takes so long to load I'm following Anais' and Galadriel's lead and starting a new journal for the next year.

Last entry:

Greek_Lady!  I'm so glad you're liking your intro to Jessicurl.

Aye, it is true I had layers cut in.  She did a very good job.  As soon as I get a good pic of my hair "plopped" I'll post it in my new journal.  I think you'll see the layers more clearly then.

To all who have participated in my first year at LongLocks,



and stay tuned to read year 2, The Wave~what a lovely way to be...