Congrats on your engagement and i like your longsticks collection. Goodluck!

Hair: Typical 1st day hair: soft and beautiful, but not very cooperative. I'm wearing a bun with Glittering Seas Glitterstix pair.

Health: Finding a promising house continues to stir this week's schedules...so, eating 100% on Plan isn't in sight. But, I'm glad that I'm at least able to meet my exercise goal for the week. I'm not expecting any real success on weight loss front this week, but I keep telling myself that as long as I follow the Plan as well as possible in these circumstances, it's easier to get back 100% when I am able to eat more regularly again (next week, I hope).

Snowy's Deep Moisture Treatment (SMT) is a very popular homemade deep treatment.

Here's how I do it:

Recipe: 1 part favorite conditioner (moisturizing, preferably no cones) I use XZ Deep Conditioner.
            1/4 part clear aloe vera gel
            1/4 part honey

Mix all ingredients in a cup and put into microwave for 5-10 seconds- just until it's nice and warm and easy to mix. Wash your hair as usually, blot dry. Apply the treatment. I usually let it sit under shower cap or heat cap for a couple of hours. Then rinse well. Enjoy wonderful hair. 

Here's link to relevant thread on Longhair Community:
http://www.forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=14635

Life: Life's getting exciting! We are seriously considering making an offer for the house in Vihti. We took T's parents and brother who studies construction to see it yesterday, and they all agreed that it seems to be in good condition with no apparent big flaws. T is contacting the bank later today- I'm keeping my hands, toes and elbows crossed. The house is so expensive that we are not certain whether we can afford it. If we can, we'll have to make up our mind during the weekend. If the financial burden isn't too much for us, this house seems just great. It would save us the trouble of constructing, and though very large, it is a very nice house. The location is also good, and the garden is nice and big.

Hair: The weather is not hot anymore- just nice and warm. Buns with hairsticks are back: Sapphire Hearts pair is getting a lot of wear now! Right now I'm wearing Pretty Pastels pair though. Nice, happy designs.

Health: Had this week's gym exercise #3 today. I'm not sure about whether I'll have time for gym in the weekend- new developments of house situation have rearranged my schedule pretty effectively. If I can't make it to the gym, I'm hoping to be able to do some other exercise instead.

Phew! That was one busy weekend! The House was nice, but in the end we figured that we couldn't afford it when we counted all the "little" repairs that would have come with it. Oh well, better figure it out now than after making an offer! In any case, we have already another one in sight...I wish so much that this house hunt would be OVER, but finding a suitable one seems to be incredibly difficult.

Hair: My hair was dirty on Friday evening, and as we didn't have time for sauna on Saturday, I washed it. I guess I'll wash it tomorrow and then try to endure until Saturday evening. I guess I should do a deep treatment some time...
     Interesting observation: most ladies in the birthday party we attended on Saturday, were a couple of years younger than me. I noticed that everyone except one had their hair between just brushing shoulders to BS. I guess that in general, ladies' hair has grown a bit- now that I think of it, shorter hair is more rare in 20-30's age group than it was even a few years ago. Neverthless, I was just a little pleased to see that I had the longest hair in the party. Not by much, but who cares! I wore my hair down with just a side part, so I'm sure. Not only is my hair the longest it has ever been, but it's also slowly but certainly making its way to the land of "uncommonly long"!
   I wonder though, whether everyone still has longish hair the next time I see them: in Finland, it's quite common to grow out hair for wedding and then chop it off, and more than one of the ladies is in the process of making wedding plans. We'll see...
Health: I managed to exercise 4 times last week, but besides house hunting, weekend's most prominent character was eating too much: T took me to a 3-course dinner on Friday, on Saturday we went to a birthday party and on Sunday we went to have lunch at T's mother. So I have some dieting to do even to balance it out.
    Though I have worn my hair down twice lately (once just because T likes it so much and for the bday party), it's still far from my favorite styles. Looks great, but I hate the hair flying on my face and the way it just seems to have a life of its own. Probably it's just good as I think that my hair couldn't remain healthy for long  if I wore it down every day. In general, right now I have basically two favorite styles: knot bun and segmented braid, and 90% of the time I wear one or the other. I suppose that in the end, I'm very lazy...
...though isn't that just one more good reason to have long hair?

Health: Hard work ahead on dieting front! Birthday party, a 3-course fine dinner in restaurant and a lunch at T's mother on Sunday total to a calorie count I don't even dare to contemplate any closer. For me, it's just enough to know that I need to do some serious dieting this week just to balance it. I think that I can do it if I focus hard.
     My diet has turned out to be such a struggle lately- no progress and there's no reason to wonder why. But I believe that if only I won't give up, sooner or later I will have success. Today a new week, with new chances of success, is beginning. 

Hair: When the evening came yesterday, my hair was hideously greasy. Just unbelieveable. Plus, I shed a chinchilla. I always shed more when my hair is dirtier than normal. OTOH, I've shed very little today, so maybe it balances some... Anyway, I washed my hair as usually with Summer Sunshine shampoo + ACV rinse. Then I proceeded to do a Snowy's Deep Moisture treatment. Not only did it help me relax after a day of doing chores, but it also gave me a great hair today.       I'm wearing it now in a sleek, beautiful low bun with Spring Daisy hairsticks.
       Today's news: A great hair sighting at Helsinki Downtown! When I was standing in traffic lights, I saw this older lady who had beautiful flaxen & silver hair that was up in a neat little roll, secured with what looked a high-quality claw clip. Incredibly elegant- that's what I want to look like in 30 years!
       Checked Helsinki's hairtoy selections. In my favorite Dept store, new Taiwan clips had arrived. They are now available in smaller size (for some reason the smaller clips are almost €2 more expensive than large ones  ???). After a long pondering and comparing the clips, I concluded that the small clips would probably be too small from me. Apparently, I'd need a medium size  . So, I got out of the store with just a few interesting looking elastics/hairties.
         I also completed yet another LL hairstick order. I always think that I have already so many pairs that I can't possibly need more...and always Rapunzel posts something I just can't resist.

Health: Going strong on Plan today . I went Nordic walking this morning. Only one "compulsory" exercise left this week!

It's a sunny and warm, lovely day today. I managed to get up quite early and head to a nice Nordic walk- so, I have just two more "compulsory" exercises to go. This week is going to be a bit busy though as I'm attending to the Evil conference on Friday and Saturday.

Hair is a bit dirty already. I hope it doesn't mean I must wash it tomorrow as I'd love to be able to stick with my normal weekly routine.
  Started the day with a Dutch braid, and since it was still neat when I came home from the walk, I just coiled the "tail" part into a braided bun and secured it with Amish pins. Very cool style.

It's late, so just a quick update (I hope to be able to browse the boards more soon ).

This week ended up being even more busy than I had thought- but I'm still alive. I spent today in the conference. I have to say it was a little disappointing, as there were only two presentations I really enjoyed. I'm not sure if I will go there tomorrow...it's not like I didn't have anything else to do...

We are going to see Da Vinci Code tomorrow, so we changed sauna day to today. I was too tired to do anything but the basic wash with Summer Sunshine+ ACV. All in all, I haven't had much time to think of hair today. I just put it up in a Ficcare bun (with 3 tone Lavender clip) and forgot about it until sauna time. It was easy as the style held like a glue and was very comfortable for the whole day. I can't wait to get the new clips (now how many times have I said that? ).