Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Well, last night's new method of curling was okay  ...when I unwrapped the bundles in the morning I had two scrumptious fat sausage-spirals,  , but they sort of quickly morphed into waves.  Maybe it was the heat and humidity?  ???  I know my hair can do better than that...

All right, tonight I will try sock (rag) curling where you roll your hair up on a sock or rag and tie.  I hope it stays in as good as last night's experiment...no muss or fuss, and it was in perfect place when I woke up.

It's my turn to cook tonight...pork loin. I can maybe take a nap until 4 o'clock, which is when I need to start cooking, or I can write that long-promised letter to Grandma...

Hmmm...maybe I can write that letter this evening?  I can't mail it till tomorrow anyway!  Better go take a rest...my hair and I could really use it!

Thursday night (almost Friday) August 18, 2005

Okay, so it's almost midnight, and I'm heading off to shower in a few moments.  Just wanted to take a therapeutic journaling hit, though!  

I was absolutely, positively with the way my curls turned out this morning, after twin braiding them and curling the ends, and instead of clipping them, using the "Easy N Quick Method for Curling Long Hair" tecnique of inserting coiled ends into socks and securing with looped rubber bands.  AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And they stayed in ALLLL NIGHT!!!  Which wasn't that long of a night, because I was BAD BAD BAD and stayed up WAYYYYYYYY so late past a normal bedtime.    Now I have a stye on my eyelid, which I think is a result of being tired and not sleeping right for weeks on end. Something has GOT to give here.

If nothing changes, NOTHING changes.

Well, that would be me of course.  So off I go.  I think I still have a few minutes before.......

MIDNIGHT!!!

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

(Okay, so it's ALMOST midnight and Wednesday, but...just as I was about to get in the shower at 10:30, dear brother beat me to it.  So I just got online here accidentally--yes, I hit the My Documents button to look at the novel I was working on, and instead my internet connection window came up!  A definite sign from God!!!  8) )

Well, a great new curling method is being used my me every night.  I don't know if this would work for anyone but me, since I have such fine, thin hair, but...it's awesome!  I get real "Irish" curls by putting hair in twin braids and braiding about down to my chin, and then wrapping/twisting the rest of the length around a large, long perm roller.  OH OH OH the results are FABULOUS!!! Thank You Jesus, this SO works and it SO works WELL!!! 

And my new style...again I am recording this only for my own delight, since I don't think it could be replicated by anyone else.  Flip head upside down.  Place inverted clinch (aka banana) clip at very top of head.  Clasp.  Twist horizontally to  the left.  Insert the large comb/clippy-thingy (it came unnamed even on the package) in the center of the hanging curtain of hair.  Voila, a very easy and classy looking updo that behaves as a downdo if your hair is long enough...the curls hang down my back and around my neck.  Perfect... hair doesn't get in the way and still appears long and "down".  Again, thanks God, I appreciate the inspiration and the hair help!!!  Now I'd better get to the shower...and in bed!!!

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Thanks to you, hair journal, I see that I last trimmed my bangs on June 9.  I must have trimmed them pretty short...   They still have short layers on them!  What's up with that?  Yet I know they are still growing because my dark roots are QUITE grown out--I still can't believe I actually peroxided them, but...all is well now, all is well. 

My hair is actually looking longer.  Thank You Jesus,  I appreciate it SOOOOOOO much.  I've waited so long for this!!!  And the new method of curling is working SOOOO well.  The curls last all day.  I'm glad Mom didn't throw away those old perm rods.  They work wonders for my hair--two side braids half braided, half coiled around a perm rod. 

The front of my hair is looking better now, too, since I discovered that fluffing out the hairs at my temples to frame my face really works.  The top is always worn pulled up in a poof with a bit of bangs hanging down over one eye.  Can it be for once in my life my hair is consistently behaving and I am satisfied with it???   

I wore 2nd day hair to Mass this morning, after having sprayed and massaged my scalp with 1/4 cup vinegar--1/4 cup water mixed in a spray bottle, last night.  I will have to experiment with other scalp cleansing options.  My length is so delicate and fragile that I would like to JUST wash my scalp sometimes, if I can.

I think I can get in a quick nap before supper...or maybe I can make some of my new homemade smoothies?  No, I'll wait until AFTER supper for that,when everybody is together--that way anyone who wants to taste them freshly-made can do so.   

Monday, September 19, 2005

Hi Khrome!

In my smoothies, I put a container of yogurt, whatever fresh fruit I can find laying around that will reasonably go with the yogurt flavor, and half a yogurt container of juice--grape, orange, apple, etc. 

I just started making these recently and needless to say I'm ADDICTED!!!!!!!  I just sort of made this recipe up so if you put something different in yours, I'd be most interested to glean new ideas. 


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Oh, my hair...well I didn't wash it last night--that would be day three---but instead saturated/massaged scalp thoroughly with vinegar-water.  In the morning, I felt like a giant greaseball and was really regretting that I hadn't washed it.  I was fixing my hair to get ready to go to the noon daily Mass at the basilica and I just kept thinking about what people's reaction would be to my oily roots--especially the folks sitting near me or standing behind me in the Communion line:  "Doesn't that girl ever wash her hair?.....  Maybe it's too long for her to wash it? ....... Maybe she's too lazy?.......  Oooooh yuck...what gross hair..." 

Okay, so maybe I'm a little too lazy.  Having long hair means accepting willingly the price to pay for its care. I would NEVER give it up and I DO want it to look good, so....I'd better just give myself some extra time in the evenings to oil and detangle and scalp wash and condition and dry etc.......

Thanks be to God for this great gift of long hair!!  I need to show that I really AM grateful and not try to skimp by on experimental "vinegar sprays" to keep my roots looking good.     But I'm glad I tried it.  And after Mass I came home and looked in the mirror, and it wasn't as bad as I'd thought--I think the vinegar did do something, but very LITTLE something.  That's to be expected.  I know for a fact that I have oily skin, and my scalp needs the shampoo treatment often.  Fine!!!  A small "burden" to bear, really.  Am I complaining?  No.  Just recounting what I've learned. 

Gotta run...it's 3pm, nap time, and do I ever need it...I feel like I'm catching a cold but hopefully it's just allergies.   And now, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Mmm that smoothie sounds good.  I'll have to give it a try with yogurt.  I usually get the frozen mixed fruits that come in a bag, in different combos.  (Not as nice as fresh fruits, but it stays nice and chilly!)  Then I put Minute Maid Pinapple, Orange, Banana juice, and a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream. 

I use an ACV rinse when my hair gets dull.  It makes it shinier because it causes the cuticles to lie flat.  Have you noticed any extra shine?  I'm not sure if it's different for a leave-in though. 

Cynde

Tuesday (1 a.m.) October 18, 2005

It's been almost a month since I posted anything!  I've been SOOOOOOOOOOO busy--thanks be to God.  For life and health and everything, everything, everything,



I trimmed my bangs after a hiatus of months.  What's up with that???  They didn't seem to grow as fast as usual!  I used to have to trim every month!  Actually, I KNOW my hair is growing...about the lack of apparent bang growth, my theory is that when I peroxided my bangs in June, I damaged them...and now they are paying me back by being fragile-ended and breaking off at the tips. Hence the appearance of not growing.

(If it wasn't for this handy hair journal, I would never have remembered when my last trim was.   )

However...it is waaaaaaaaaay past time to sign off here. I just finished doing a total hairwash and I am online as I wait for my locks to dry a bit--but it's past one in the morning now!  Baaaaaaaaaaad Christiana--BADBADBAD!!!  I really need to be in bed by twelve.  It's great to have faults and failings, though...they keep me humble.    

Early Tuesday morning October 25, 2005

Hi Greek Lady!!!  Oh, believe me, I would really like to post some pics of those things, but I don't have a digital camera (or any other camera, for that matter)...I will have to see if I can borrow one from my Dad.  And figure out how to work it.  And load the pics.  And transfer them from his computer to mine.  I will let you know if I am successful!!!

--Christiana

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Well, here I am up again at half-past midnight, after my shower and scalp-wash.  I just went upstairs to look out on the deck and see if the ENORMOUS RACCOON was feeding there, but alas, he has not stopped by yet to eat his macaroni-and-cheese, apple, and ham bone that I set out for him.  Feeding/observing coons is my new hobby.  Trouble is, they can come around any time from 8pm to the early hours of the next morning.  Tomorrow, I am going to install a small windchime in the mulberry tree so that when he climbs up in it, near the deck, I will be alerted to his (or their---how many visit, I don't know) presence.

I would like to have a coonskin hat.  Their hair looks so soft and furrrrrrrry.  Maybe if this enormous coon has a natural death, I can arrange that???  Just kidding.


I have a major (okay, for my fine, fragile hair, it is major) hair-conversion issue to report:  I have started combing.  Just my ends, and only after they are lathered with coconut oil PROFUSELY.  And only at the end of the day, when  I am finger-detangling my length before getting ready for the shower.  A few loose hairs come out, but I figure it is better to comb them out rather than have them just build up and fall out on my sweater, coat, floor, food, etc, which is what they used to do.  For years.  Now that my hair is getting longer bit by bit, I am getting more tangles, and combing the long ends seems to help keep the length smooth and orderly.  There is no need to comb or brush my scap or length--my fingers do an excellent job by themselves.

It's nearing one a.m....ughhhhhhhhhhhh, it's my own fault and I know it.  If I hadn't stayed up waiting for that coon so long, I could've been in bed long ago.  I'm going to slip upstairs again though, one last time, and see if he's there....so, gotta go!!!!!!!!!!