Life is NEVER dull with cats, is it?!  We have 11; 9 full-timers and 2 part-timers (those 2 stop by for food every now and then, along with a few pats on the back, and then they're off again to who knows where).  Of the 9 full-timers, 3 are strictly outside cats, leaving us with 6 who dance like little children between indoors and out!  Oy...BUT!  We wouldn't take a million dollars for any of them.   

Went to an LHC meet on Sunday.  Such fun!  Everyone had such gorgeous hair.  My scraggly ends writhed in shame. 

I wish we could have an LL meet but I think it would be a bit difficult.   

I figured out a new bun--I make a basic chopstick twist, then take the left-over tail and twist it tight-tight-tight and make a little cinnamon bun.  Then I take the second chopstick and, with the tip pointing toward the ceiling, insert it through the bottom of the bun; I carefully flip the stick till the tip is now pointing toward the floor and stick it through.  The resulting style looks a bit like a heart.  I'll try to get a pic.

Good news!  My brother is getting high speed internet soon, so I can take my notebook down there and post pics FINALLY!  He'll help me, too.  He has to; I'm giving my nephew my iMac.  Heh heh heh.   8)

I'm loving my iPod.  I wish I'd gotten the 60 GB instead of the 30.  I want to put some Bugs Bunny cartoons on it, but with the 3 seasons of The Tick and 3 seasons of Batman the Animated Series plus all of the songs there just isn't room.  I should have gone with the 60--my brother always says that no one is ever sorry they have more memory.  He's right. 

Gorey can't stand it when Bogie sleeps on my lap desk at night.  He'll stare at the Bog, who ignores him, then he does his whiny meow sound, then he crawls on my chest.  Bogie then leaves in a huff and I'm stuck with a furry lump under my chin in the middle of summer.  Remind me why I don't have fish again?   

I think I've figured out my amigurumi books.  The diagrams are a bit of a pain, but next to them there's a columm of row numbers and stitches/row.  I'm making a round little parrot now.  According to one of the sellers, the 6 pages of really cool amigurumi without patterns in each book is "a gallery to inspire you."  I still think they're just jerking me around.   8)

BPAL:  Cobra Lily.  Love the lily....

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Ah.  So that's why. 

Maybe I could get some pictures of fish.

Last week was a bit chaotic; the older I get the longer it takes me to recover from a major schedule change. 

That’s my excuse, anyway.

Last Saturday I was thirsty and in the fridge, along with the Diet Coke and Crystal Light and the mysterious refilled root beer bottle of doom (is it water?  Or kool-aid?  Or empty?  It’s brown glass, so you’ll never know!  Mwa-ha-ha!) was a Rubbermaid liter bottle full of brown liquid.  It looked like tea, and I remembered thinking that I’d like to make some tea, even though I didn’t remember putting the bottle in there in the first place.  I took a tiny sip and it was tea—though a bit strong.  It also needed some serious sweetening.  I grabbed a Coke and wandered off.

Sunday I was thirsty again and since I”d drunk a case of Diet Coke over the past week, I added 5 packs of Splenda to the tea and settled down in front of the TV.  I took a drink.  Huh.  Kinda odd…I don’t think this is tea.  Then the lavender came through.

It was my hair rinse!  Ewwwwwww!  I’m drinking my hair rinse!  Ickickickick.  Now I remember—I made extra the Sunday before we saw Cars because I knew it was going to be a long week.   Ptui! 

It didn’t kill me.  My stomach cramped up a bit but I really doubt that one drink would make me sick.  It was probably all in my head.  I still prefer my rinse poured on top of my head rather than taking internally.  Yuck.

On the plus side, using the Splenda-spiked mix seems to have made my hair extra soft this week.  I may try adding a little sugar to the rinse when I make it again on Sunday.  There’s no way I’m using my expensive Splenda on my hair when the sugar will likely work; plus, it’s much better for me on my hair rather than in my body.  I like the convenience of having the mix ready-made during the week, though I hate pouring the chilled mix on my head.  I’m labeling the @#$^#% container this time, though. 

It’s a good day because I have bought my SIL’s birthday present.  Woohoo!  Now I can relax until September when it’s time to worry about her Christmas present.  Sigh.  It’s not that we have opposite tastes—that’d be easy.  I’d just have to buy something I hate and there you go.  No, we have parallel tastes; never the twain shall meet.  I’m incapable of finding anything she likes short of a gift certificate, and I can always tell which bits of my presents she selected.  They aren’t horrible but they’re not me.  I admit freely that I’m weird and it’s totally not her fault, but the yearly August B-day and Christmas mini freak outs exhaust me.

Gorey is still Velcro kitty and Bogie tried to eat my half-finished amigurumi parrot.  Rumpole got himself locked in the basement for 2 hours last night and is now not speaking to me.   

BPAL:  Cordelia (lilac, lemon, green tea, wisteria, osmanthus, white cedar, and Chinese musk )  I love every note in this perfume (well, I’m fairly indifferent to wisteria but I don’t hate it or anything) which is why I bought a bottle unsniffed.  I’ve worn it 3 times because I can’t admit it doesn’t quite work.  It should work, darnit!  The lemon smells like lemon Kool-aid powder and the florals are muddied.  By the 3rd wearing it was a bit better, but come on!  How could it miss?  Grrrrr.

LOL @ drinking your hair rinse! Hahahaha wow...

I'm still waiting for my boyfriend to pick up one of my 1L water bottles filled with vinegar rinse & just start chugging...   lol

It stopped storming by the time I went home last night and as I stepped out into the parking lot I saw--a rainbow!  And not just any rainbow--it was a huge, bright perfect double rainbow!     I can't remember ever seeing anything like that in real life; we get bits and pieces of rainbows around here all the time but wow!  It looked like I could just jump over the trees and scoop up the pot of gold, no problem.  Sadly I didn't have my camera with me and by the time I got home the rainbow was gone.     I"ll never forget it, though.

When I first saw it I walked slowly through the parking lot, gaping at the sky and ignoring the raindrops that fell on my glasses.  A voice came from behind me:  "Beautiful, isn't it?"  It was a man sitting in his truck, also watching the sky.  I nearly peed myself; I didn't even see the truck, let alone the man inside it.  So much for my teeny store of street smarts.   

Clamp bun today.  It held till just a couple of minutes ago, went one of the ends popped free. 

I made some new hair spritz for my canopy--5 oz water, 1 oz aloe gel, few drops jojoba oil with lavender and rosemary eo, and a healthy squirt of GR conditioner.  The conditioner is an addition for my summer-dried canopy.  It seems to be working nicely and it smells deliciously of Wicked.

I'm still using my old roots spritz--water infused with black walnut hull powder mixed with aloe, since my roots and scalp do not need any extra oil.  It was working to cut the greasies, but now that it's hot out the spritz isn't working as well as I'd like.  I may add a bit of ACV.

Speaking of ACV, I bought a copy of The Little House Cookbook, which gives the recipes of the foods Laura Ingalls Wilder mentions in her books.  I'm a big fan of the Little House books, not to mention of food, and I really enjoyed the book.  It has a recipe for homemade ACV.  I've been toying with the idea of making some and this has convinced me to take the plunge.  They recommend a plastic milk jug with a hole cut in the bottom (to put in the ingredients) so you can use the spout to decant the vinegar, but Mom and Dad have 3 big stoneware crocks with a spigot at the bottom sitting at home not earning their keep so I'm claiming one.  I'll need to eat lots and lots of apples, however.  Shame the cats don't like them.  Now if I were making tuna water and chicken plank vinegar, I could get enough raw materials in a week.   

BPAL: Two, Five, and Seven (A huge bouquet of squished rose petals: Bulgarian rose, Somalian rose, Turkish rose, Damascus rose, red and white rose, tea rose, wine rose, shrub roses, rose, rose, rose…and just an itty bitty bit of green grass.) Another rose blend that smells winey on me.  There's just a little rose peeping through the wine, but this is another fruity, winey summery scent like Blood Rose, but lighter.

Dingleberry....   

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ooooo!  when you add the coconut oil to the shea does it stay in liquid form, i guess?