Thursday: Did a heavy EVOO treatment overnight under a sleep cap. I always load it on without worrying about it because it comes out in one washing the next morning.
    Also went for a power walk out of sheer boredom, and consequently decided to do so every night for a week. I'm down to about 116-117.

Friday: WTC with Full & Thick Shampoo, Pantene Nourishing Mask, then Full & Thick conditioner. Finished with Silkening crème, air drying, then finally combing and braiding.
    Finally discovered a suitable use for the Dove Cream Oil bodywash that had been sitting in my armoire. The first time I used it, I came out of the shower feeling like a wax figurine.    Thusly, I decided that my car could benefit more from a wax coating than I ever would...so she basically got the most luxurious bath of her life. Nice to know that all of that lucious cream oil didn't go completely to waste. 
    Missed my power walk because my exercise clothes were in the wash. But resumed yet another junk food strike, which I'll be sticking to for a week.

Saturday: CWC late in the day. The usual Full & Thick/DMR combo. The more I think about Breakage Defense, the more I miss it. The fragrance alone is sooo worth it!
    Also realized that my Dial bodywash is at least partially responsible for the strange smell about my arms. The base fragrance in all of Dial's antibacterial soaps is the same, and I guess my arms just retain that fragrance better than the rest of me. So I'm not buying it anymore...it reminds me too much of how my arms smelled after I fried them with Nair. 
    Today, I've stayed indoors doing laundry and watching movies, getting things clean while avoiding the ungodly SoCal summer heat.    Man, I am really looking forward to fall!
    Day #2 of the junk food strike has been successful. I may go to Subway in a few hours and pick up a turkey sandwich for dinner.

Other: This weekend, I have the house to myself as my sister is in Maui and my parents are in Long Beach, celebrating their 33rd year of marriage.
    Things have improved on the romance front. Yesterday, I found a faint glimmer of hope when the boy told me that he would fix things permanently. I'm hoping, but also staying realistic.

Anyway, that's about it for now. I'm going off to start an S&D mission. Peace!

Me too, sweetie.  Mine is due to extreme heat.  Even though I'm in air conditioning 99% of the time, it's as if my body can sense the high temperatures and that simply wears me out.  So the whole month of August is pretty much a waste for me!     Hope both of our energy levels return soon.  *hugs*

Trisha: Yup, summer sux for the vampire types. Though I never really considered that the heat might be part of the problem. For me, I think it might be a combination of things. But August is pretty much going to be a waste for me as well. And I hope our energy returns soon. *hugs*

RTG: I have about 5 lbs. to lose still before I'm finally comfortable. 10 would be great, but I don't know if that will ever happen.
   And I do at least a CWC every day. I only wash all of my hair about twice a week, though I'd like to bring it up to 3. The top half of my hair gets washed every single day.

Hair: The usual CWC morning shift routine.    Full & Thick conditioner, Full & Thick shampoo, Daily Moisture Renewal conditioner. Then Silkening crème.
   Yesterday, I managed to do S&D on a small strand on the right side of my head. I'm afraid that most of the damage will have to be grown out and cut off, so I guess I'll be getting trims every 6 months. That will leave me with about a 1½" gain each year, but I'd rather it be terrifically healthy than teriffically long.

Other: The Who on the local alternative station? That certainly doesn't happen every day.
   My skin is in dreadful shape lately. I'm not liking many of the things that I've been using on it. This year, I've rejected at least 3 foundations and it would be pretty ironic if I ended up going back to the one that I started with.  
   Nails are in dire need of a manicure once again. I'm thinking very dark purple when I get to it.
   The long distance thing...meh. If we survive, great. If not, whatever. I'll have what's meant to be in the end. I've been thinking a lot about karma and how decisions in my last relationship are affecting me now. So I've decided to change something in hopes that it will affect my current situation. A long-haired lady here once advised me: Be the kind of person you want to be with and you'll attract the right person. So that's exactly what I'm doing. Whether with this current guy or someone new, I hope that things will work out.
   So the rebirth continues...renewing, regenerating, restoring.
    Oh yes, and Blaqk Audio's album drops today. Stoke!

Well it's alright
Even when push comes to shove
Well it's alright
If you've got someone to love
Well it's alright
Everything will work out fine
Well it's alright
We're goin' to the end of the line
                        -The Traveling Wilburys, End Of The Line

RTG: I know what you mean on both counts. The right person is someone who proves that they are. Whether I've found that person yet, well...I have hope, but really, I guess only time will tell for sure.
    Foundation, omg...I must be on my 4th or 5th one for the year.    I've thought about mineral foundation, but it's bloody expensive and I'm not sure that they make one light enough for me. *shrug* Such is life.
    For washing, I usually do a CWC - you start by wetting your entire hair (cold water all the way through works best). Then apply a light conditioner (the cheap ones like Suave, VO5 and White Rain are best) from the ears down. Then take your favourite shampoo (you only need a little, since you'll only be washing the scalp) and wash just the scalp with the light conditioner still on the bottom part of your hair. It's ok if your head feels like it's kind of melting off. haha Anyway, then you rinse the shampoo and light conditioner off all at once - light conditioners can "clean" your hair more gently than shampoo. Follow with your favourite conditioner from the ears down. I usually leave mine in under a shower cap while I finish the rest of my "shower duties" before rinsing it out. Anyway, finish with a cold rinse and you're done. This method saves the ends of the hair (which are the oldest and driest) from having to be shampooed every day.

Hair: Clarifying wash this morning. Then air dried, combed and braided as usual.
    I seem to have misplaced my last seamless hairtie, so now I'm down to the Goody Ouchless kind with glue holding the ends together rather than a metal bar. These are much thinner than the hairties that I'd been using previously and I can wrap them around my hair more times. They're also more discreet, so I like them better. Not big on the little piece of glue that holds them together, but oh well.

Love: Things are improving...or are they?

Life: I'll be spending all of this Saturday with my 3 cousins as their parents will be out of town. So I'll be babysitting and chauffeuring from 7 am - 9 pm    but fortunately getting paid for it.
    Sunday, I'll resume another 2 week power walking streak and junk food strike. I'll need something to help take my mind off of certain situations that have been stressing me out...    >_< *ahem* Plus, I'll get to reap the personal benefit of weighing less, looking better, feeling better and just being healthier in general.

So yeah, right now I'm pretty swamped at work, so I'd better quit typing. 

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lol @ "exorcising skin monsters." Well put, RTG. 

So tomorrow is the big day. Actually, it's going to be a lot more relaxed than originally planned. The only driving that I need to do will be to take my eldest cousin to the beach midday - someone else is driving her home. And of course wherever I take the other 2 after that. We'll probably go to the movies. That would be cool. 

Today was the usual Friday hair routine. Washed all of my hair with Pantene Full & Thick shampoo, then towel dried and left the Moisturizing rinse in for an hour, then rinsed and followed with Daily Moisture Renewal conditioner. Silkening crème and air drying as usual.

I decided to try something different and bring a pair of scissors to work with me so I can do S&D during my break. Seems rather silly, since we have scissors at the office, but whatever. Didn't consider that at the time and my home scissors are newer and better anyway. 

And now some very serious news. After 2 positive tests, my sister has undergone preventative treatment for early cervical cancer.    In 2 weeks, she will be tested again and then we will know for sure whether she has it or not. God, when it rains, it pours. I am sick with worry. As if I didn't have enough anxiety from the drama of my would-be long-distance relationship, someone decided to smack me with this.
    I can only imagine how she must feel.

So again, I'll ask whomever may read this to please draw upon whatever faith you may follow and pray for my little sis. For those of you who do not follow a particular faith, I'll humbly request that you hope for the best and send whatever energies that you can summon her way. I myself will be doing both.