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You obviously had a positive aura about you that the clerk trusted you.  Good for you. 

Steal away the severe allergice reaction stunt!!   I'm sure both you and hubby can pull that off!

Oh yeah!  I finally called my hairdresser, and I'm schedule for (yet another) trim this saturday afternoon.  I'm bummed, but it needs to be done. 

Awww!  My grandmother (while she was inhabiting this earth) used to give me a random assortment of things every time we visited... I know I could always count on seasoned oyster crackers and "mint leaves" the little sugar-coated mint jellies and some other treasure or two... a piece of her old costume jewelry, a newspaper article of her or my mom in their high school days, an old dolly that had been stuck in a trunk and long forgotten...

I still have many of those treasures.. and I do mean treasures....

but, like my grandma, I have a love for "mint leaves" and ate all those post-haste. 

Well, I've got my trim scheduled for 2:30 this afternoon, I don't know if I should go for a full inch, or just half an inch.  Maybe I'll tell her half, just in case she gets a little scissor happy, then I won't be destroyed if it turns out to be a little more....yeah, that's the plan...half an inch & I'm stickin' to it. 

Last night I took my pup out for a nice long walk, it was sooo nice out once the sun started to go down so I couldn't resist.  Besides, we could both have a few pounds to spare and calories to burn, if the rain (more rain!) clears up, we'll go again tonight, too.  Our road is so perfect for walking, I head out the driveway and turn right, which leads us down hill to a cul-de-sac (pee spot #1...for the dog, not me!), we then head back up hill which is a nice, steep incline for about 1/3 of a mile.  That really gets yours legs & butt burnin' and the heart pumping, and just when we think we're going to die, it levels off just long enough for us to catch our breath (pee spot #'s 2&3 along the way) before there is another slight incline.  We walk that to the next level area & turn back around, and the decline is a nice cool down until we get back home.  By then I'm feeling good and energized, and the dog's all emptied out  , we guzzle some water and chill out.  8)  The whole walk averages about a mile or so, and with all the woods around us it's soooo peaceful, aaahhh!

After that I showered off to refresh myself, I was all sweaty...eeeew!  I wasn't going to wash my hair, or even wet it, I had it all pulled up to keep it dry...then I got a thought in my little head, I wondered what would happen if I used my new rosemary and sage soap (the one I got at the farmer's market) to wash my hair??  Hmmmmm.  Curiosity got the best of me, so I undid my hair and gave it a shot, I figured that if it was disasterous I would just be re-washing it in the morning anyways, so no big deal.  It lather nicely in my hair, and rinsed out completely, it felt so silky and slippy that I didn't even use any conditioner.  Then came the real test...can I comb thru it?  The comb slipped right thru, no tangles, not knots, nothing!  Test #2 passed.  Test #3 would be how does it look after it's dried, will it be nice and shiny, or dull and yucky, to my surprise it was beautifully shiny and silky, and can't believe it!  In fact, it still looked so nice when I woke up (at 5:30  ) this morning that I skipped the shower and just styled my hair.  Looked really nice until I got rained on, but it's not greasy looking which is what counts.  Besides, my hairdresser will be washing my hair this afternoon.  I can't wait to give the soap another shot, see if it wasn't just a fluke.

Speaking of my hairdresser, I need to find a way to politely tell her that after she cuts my hair, to be kind to it and not kill it with the blow dryer and round brush.  I don't know exactly how to word it without sounding rude or like I don't like the way she styles, because I do, but she's too rough.  It's like she re-doing all the damage I'm trying to undo  .  In fact, I think I'll post this in another thread to see if I can get some good advice.

Oh, BTW, Nana came back later in the day yesterday with some more goodies  :
  * a pint of orange / pineapple tapioca
  * a personal sized cheese calzone
  * a lamp shape
  * and a cup of hazlenut coffee 
Man does that lady ever take care of me, I love her so much!  I promised her that I'd go over to her house one day soon to have "picture day", to look through all her photo albums so she could show me more pics of our family in Slovakia, and I want to see pictures of her in her younger days.  She's such a beautiful woman, people never believe that she's 82!  She was talking to one woman a while back in my shop and she said to my nana, "wait till you get to be my age!", so she asked how old she was & she replied that she was 65.  Nana looked at me with that sly look, then looked back at her and told her that she was 82, the look on the woman's face was priceless!  Nana kicks arse!

Hokay, that's it for today...more next time!

Good thinking!  Good for the hair and the wallet...

Oyyy, you have a/c, you lucky duck!!! Live it up for me, won't you? 

Sorry that your Alterna stuff isn't working out anymore. I hate when that happens! If it makes you feel any better, I'm not totally happy with anything I've been using lately! Be it Suave, Pantene or what have you. Sometimes hair just hates everything you do to it, I guess. 

Hope your parents have fun on their trip - they deserve it! And say hey to your nana for me. 

Angel:  Oddly enough, we haven't turned on the a/c at home yet, don't know why! ???  We just have the fans cranking, I'm kind of enjoying the heat...a little, but at the shop I have to have the a/c blasting, heat and flowers just don't mix!  I wouldn't exactly say that I'm livin' it up though...

Novus:  Thanks, my headache's gone today, in fact I was able to shake it by nearly the end of the work day yesterday thanks to a couple of advil and a few bottles of water.  I'm pretty sure the idea of a swap board was brought up in a thread a while ago, by Leia maybe, and there was a reason that it couldn't be done, I don't remember it though!  I'll have to search to see if I could find the thread, bikerbraid would probably know.  Would be a good idea, I'm sure that we've all got the "closet" that the sub-par hair products get retired to, and we use 'em up just because we have to!

Hair:  Here was the routine this morning- did a nice, big ACV rinse, followed by a scalp wash with Pantene Purity, and finished up with Pantene Classic Care conditioner on nearly all of my hair.  Didn't oil today, but used the aloe gel for the roots and the bangs, waited for hair to mostly dry and then coiled into a bun, secured with 2 bobby pins.  Amen.

I definitely feel a difference from doing the acv rinse, it's been quite a while since I've done one, and my hair feels much lighter and more full of life than it did yesterday after using Alterna.  I know I keep saying it, but I just can't figure out why it stopped working for me, I don't get it!  I think I can get one more use out of the Classic Care stuff and then that's empty, so that means that I get to buy something new, yeah!    It's strange how exciting that is to me, and maybe a little sad...  

Udder Schtuff:
SIL called me this morning to chat a bit, she said that she's starting to feel some fluttering movements in her belly now, she said it feels like she swallowed a goldfish.  She says that she is still feeling good but minding the heat, I'm so glad that this one is going well for her.  I just found out that another friend of mine who lives out of state is expected to deliver twins anyday!  I'm so happy for her too, she also miscarried on her first pregnancy, at 8 months, she was devastated having been so far along.  My heart sank for her, but now she's having twins, that's fantastic!  

My mother asked me when am I going to have a kid before my "egg laying" days are up, she was being more joking and inquisitive than pushy, but it's still a question I hate to answer.  In fact, it really kind of depressed me and reminded me that my years are numbered, but what can you do when the person you married doesn't want what you want?  It takes two!  And that's just what I told her, so.....oh well.  Yup, oh well.

Well, I've got to get ready to meet with a potential bride coming to meet with me at 4:00, so I've got to get going.  Later!

ETA:  I measured my hair this morning & came in at 24", which means she cut off 1 & 1/4 inches!  I only asked for a half inch!!  I'm upset over losing the length, but in reality I think that much needed to come off to get all the splitz.  So again, oh well!