Used the Honey Beer and Egg shampoo bar last night and it worked great!  My hair is soft and full.  I was a bit afraid of the egg, since my hair doesn't like protein, but it's a hit.

Added a hibiscus/rosehip teabag to the herbal rinse, since I bought a tin of them and they taste awful    They work ok in my hair, though. 

The front of my hair looks really good today which I mention only because to my recollection it's the first time it's looked good since 1988.  The back looks kind of crappy but hey, I don't have to look at it.

After I washed my hair last night I left it down to dry a bit and Rumpole went crazy, wallowing all over it.  He really misses me wearing my hair down all the time.  It nice to be appreciated so overtly, even though I do have to comb his fur out of my hair afterward. 

My hair is behaving today; amazing.  Used the HB&E shampoo bar again and it seems to be working.  I'm giving my mom a piece for her to try.  She has short hair, and I"ve heard that it works for short hair.  Poor Mom; I keep interfering with her haircare.   I'm trying to talk her into doing a weekly vinegar rinse to clarify.  Her hair's really quite healthy, but it doesn't hurt to pamper it a bit.  She doesn't peruse the boards and thinks vinegar on the hair is weird.  8)  When I told her I oil my ends, she wondered if I was turning into a salad.    I suppose it does sound a little weird if you aren't used to it.  Before I came here I never would have put aloe vera, catnip, or oil on my hair; I'd have thought it was pretty strange myself!

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The "soft shoe" with the song was great!

Now you MUST show us a picture of the sticks in your hair!

Sorry you're worried about Agatha.  Perhaps she decided to mend her hardcore ways during her recovery indoors.  Did she spend a lot of time with you then?  Maybe she likes you better than being outside.  Whatever it is, I hope she'll be OK.

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(Rant ahead, with a healthy dose of self-pity.  You have been warned.)

Am sick, sick, sick of my hair today.  It's too straight, too brown, too grey, too slick, too oily, just too much.  Bleh.  I'm going to restrain myself this time though.  Usually I'd color my hair or hack off a few inches with my kitchen shears. but I"m not going to do that today.  Maybe I'll just cover it with a scarf until I forget how BROWN, STRAIGHT, GREY AND BORING it is.  Sigh.  Maybe I could pretend like it's made of chocolate.  I'd like the color then.  I'm sick of braids and sick of updos.  I"m not sick of hairsticks though (my precioussss.....es). 

Now, Bogie is a grey tabby; he has grey and black and brown hair and he works it well.  I'm jealous.    HIS hair (fur) is also really soft and he cleans it with water only---awfully short terminal length, though. 

I'll get over this.  I always do.  This time, however, I'll make it to the other side without damage.

Speaking of damage, I was in Big Lots the other day and bought some Scunci bar-rettes.  They're a short, slightly curved bar with a small claw clip on either end.  You wrap your hair around the bar and clip it in place.  They looked interesting so I bought a couple.  I put them in, it looked ok.  Then I tried to take them out......AAARRRGGGHHH!!!  They tangled in my hair and it took a good 20 minutes to get the bloody things free .  For a dark minute I was afraid I'd have to get the scissors.  Ever since I've been having tangles on the sides of my hair where the stupid bar things were.   

Hairwash night.  I need to make cold cream too.  I'm also sick of hairwashing AND cold cream. 

I think I need a vacation.  8)

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Watched "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" last night.  For those of you with good taste, it's about killer clowns who encase people in pink cotton candy cocoons and suck out their blood with crazy straws.  It's more fun than it sounds.  Anyway, this morning when I was heading off for work I noticed a piece of pink cottony stuff stuck in my windshield wipers!!!  AAHHH!  THE CLOWNS!! THE CLOWNS ARE...oh wait, it's just a piece of insulation.  

I put Agatha P. out and she pouted around the porch and wouldn't eat so I carried her back upstairs and she did the "No!  Put me down horrible naked pink biped thing!" full-body spasm.  I shut her back up in the kitty suite and she's not coming out until she obtains a tiny kitty pardon from the govenor or spells "Let Me Out" with her kibble.

I feel better because my brother is visiting today!  That's not the really good part--he's interviewing for 2 jobs and is definately getting one of them.  That's not the really, really good part---either job will bring him and his family to within 3 hours of my house!!!  YAY!!  I haven't seen my nephew or SIL since Christmas and I haven't seen my brother since Feb. which doesn't really count since it was a funeral.

Rosemary Lavender Aloe is working better since I let it dry out.  It lathers more and it's not sticky on my hair.  Hair feels good today. (we won't mention the boring straight brown-greyness, although someone at work told me today that I was much too young to have so much grey.  I guess it's a compliment.  My mom did the same thing at my age so it's her fault.  On the other hand Mom is 60 and still has wonderfully thick hair.  If she didn't pass that gene on to me I'm gonna be ticked.)

Wearing a plain bun today.  I found if I don't twist my hair too tightly the bun isn't as painful and it stays together as well.  I'm wearing a pair of Blondiesturn hairsticks today for the first time and they've held till noon.  They're crescent-shaped and carved out of cocobolo wood and they're quite lovely.  No sparkles though.  

I rubbed some aloe/jojoba mixture on my hair where it's been tangling from the evil bar-rettes and it decreased the tangling without making my hair too oily.  I love aloe.

Thanks for the hug, Bikerbraid.  I really needed one yesterday.  

Wearing my Spiralstix today--can't remember the name but the stick is purple and they have gorgeous turquoise-colored crystals on top.  Jewels something I think; all of the pamphlets are at home so I can't check.  Anyway, they go wonderfully with this outfit and this outfit only.   I have 2 pairs of LL hairsticks that go perfectly with one shirt and one shirt only.    (I wear both pairs at the same time.  It looks like I have a little crown around my bun.)  I've been told my late grandma would do this--buy an outfit and spend 3x as much on accessories.  It's genetic, I can't help myself! 

I don't really like orange.  I only own 2 shirts that are orange and one is more of a red than orange and the other just has a couple of orange flowers on it.  So why oh why do I love all of the LL sticks in orange?  I own 3 pairs that are orange and thank heavens someone reserved the Foiled Fire sticks or I might have bought them too and I don't have anything that really goes with them except for brown and if I wear too much brown I look like a big old clod of dirt.  Well, a big old clod of dirt with sparkly orange hairsticks on top.

My hair was very tangly last night after wearing it down yesterday.  Since it wasn't hairwash night I didn't want to use too much oil so I used my aloe/jojoba hair gloss mixture and it worked really well.  It smoothed out a lot of the tangles but didn't over-oil my length.   I'm still using the aloe/tea tree to moisturize my face in the pm.  It seems to be working ok, but the acid test will be in a couple of weeks when the PMS kicks in.

I've been using oil only to clean my face for the past 2 months or so, using a salicylic acid acne wash/scrub as a adjunct depending on my cycle .  Lately it's been drying my skin out, especially right after my period, so last night I used the Chagrin Valley Shea Rose Clay soap and it worked very nicely.  I used my liquid cold cream to remove my makeup (it's the best thing I've ever found--gets every speck of makeup off my face) and the soap afterwards to remove the oil.  Yesterday I had flaking on my nose and cheeks, but none today.  I'm still using the aloe/tea tree oil for a pm moisturizer without ill effects and it seems to work at least as well as the salicylic acid moisturizer I used before.

I must have balanced my bun wrong yesterday; by 6pm my scalp just ached.  I wore 2 buns today and put my tri-colored rose pic through them both, but my scalps still a bit tender.  I'll probably wear a french braid tomorrow and give it a rest.