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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #195 - Jun 17^th, 2008 at 4:20pm

hair

well my hair is really soft today and will hardly stay pinned back in the bobby pins. that's ok, i'm just bumming around today and its kind of breezy outside so i dont' mind if it does its own thing.

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i dreamed last night that i'd bobbed my hair for my upcoming trip. in the dream my hair was also lighter than it is now and everyone complemented me on my more "sophisticated" style but i was frustrated with it. when i woke up i was very relieved to find it not bobbed. sigh. this was strange as most of my hair dreams tend to be of me reaching my goal length and having very long hair that i can braid easily. meanwhile my patience comes and goes with this growing out project. it really does take a long time. i think it will seem faster when it's BSL as i should be able to braid it better then so i'll have more options of how to wear it. i hate this medium length...arrrggghhh. i know its an inevitable and necessary stage in the process.

freaking amazing trip

as for the afore- mentioned trip...we leave in a few days for our trip to europe. as i mentioned before, we do not generally have the money to gallivant around the world but an amazing person gave us plane tickets!!! i'm very excited for the trip and am planning out what i want to see during our time there, as well as what i'm going to pack and wear. i'm trying to pack relatively light so i don't have a lot to lug around. thanks to the good influence of long locks i don't use (or even own) a hair dryer or rollers or any of that stuff that some folks insist on trucking around in their suitcase. really all i need for my hair is my comb, some pins, a tiny bottle of shampoo and conditioner and my rosemary oil (which i'm not sure how to pack so it won't explode in my bag.) i can also pack a couple of versatile outfits. the only thing i'm not sure about is shoes. i have some very comfy shoes and then some very pretty shoes. i know i may want to dress up there but when we go out to a show or dinner, it will probably be at the end of a long day of walking so i may want to have one pair of comfy and dressy. i am very happy for this great opportunity and honestly it feels kind of surreal it probably won't feel real until i'm actually on the plane. obviously i will be off the boards for a while but will update when i get back. Grin

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Angel Spun Ex Member	Re: The prodigal hair grower Reply #196 - Jun 17^th, 2008 at 4:33pm Have fun in Europe, RTG!
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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #198 - Jun 18^th, 2008 at 10:46am

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i dreamed last night that i'd bobbed my hair for my upcoming trip

Ah yes, those pesky hair dreams! Tongue

I've had a couple of those, particularly last year, right around the time my hair was what I consider to be mid-length. Maybe it's that "in between" phase of the growing that triggers a flight-or-fright response in our brains. You know, cut it now and be done with it, or keep on keepin' on.

Your trip sounds wonderful; hope you have a great time!

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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #199 - Jun 19^th, 2008 at 1:14pm

thanks everyone! we leave tomorrow....yeah!

trisha, don't worry i'm not going to cut it and i'm just ignoring those hair dreams unless they are the good ones of reaching my goal length. i know that patience is the virtue that i need to work on when it comes to hair.

so i'll keep waiting for it to grow and just keep good hair habits.

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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #200 - Jul 7^th, 2008 at 8:18am

hey everyone
we are back from an amazing trip to france...i'm still a little jet lagged but at least i'm waking up and getting things done early in the morning. here is my hair loosely french braided in front of chartres cathedral, a gothic cathedral outside of paris....a beautiful place! you may not be able to see my hair very well-i couldn't insert the link directly into a post so i just made it my profile picture. i'll try it again here:

let me know if you can't see it.

[Edited by Bikerbraid to display the picture]

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roomtogrow Emerald Offline Posts: 379 Gender:	Re: The prodigal hair grower Reply #201 - Jul 7^th, 2008 at 8:19am as you can see...i still need a lot of practice with the braiding thing. i also need a bit more length.
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Angel Spun Ex Member	Re: The prodigal hair grower Reply #202 - Jul 7^th, 2008 at 1:41pm Ahh, Chartres Cathedral, so lovely! And your hair color looks fab. Is it natural?
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roomtogrow Emerald Offline Posts: 379 Gender:	Re: The prodigal hair grower Reply #203 - Jul 7^th, 2008 at 3:05pm yep! and thanks!
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Reply #204 - Jul 9^th, 2008 at 4:44pm

it's hot here...and i like it hot. the sun is bright during the day and the nights are breezy and beautiful. i'm doing most of my work at home, which while it's nice to not be commuting, i end up getting very distracted by projects at home (like, why is that book shelf so full? i should reorganize it. or, maybe i should scrub the kitchen floor.) while i try to keep my house pretty clean, i'm not one that particularly enjoys cleaning so these thoughts are just proof that i'm getting distracted from my work. Tongue

i've been noticing that my leg hair has been growing super fast since it has gotten hot. i've had to shave more often. Angry

hopefully this means my hair is also growing faster in this weather. i can't really tell and didn't measure last month so i won't really be sure how its going this month. i've been doing mostly pony tails in the hot weather-kind of boring-but my french braids aren't really presentable yet. i am working on them, but the problem seems to be that the sides are still not quite as long as they should be for a proper braid. besides that, i just haven't had much practice. i'm trying to now practice when i'm watching tv (which isn't too often) so that it becomes more natural for me. the one that works best is when i do one french braid on each side of my head and then pull them together at the bottom, but that one still needs work as well.

yesterday i did an evoo and lavender conditioning treatment. i put it up in a rag and let it soak in the 85 degree weather. i had to really lather my shampoo later to get the oil out, but my hair was very fluffy when it dried.

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Reply #205 - Jul 12^th, 2008 at 9:07am

we had thunderstorms all night last night. Grin

it started before i went to bed and seemed fairly mild, but i woke up a few hours later because my cats were running through the house making weird sounds and pouncing on the curtains, which were whipping in the wind because the windows were open. my cats get so hyper during storms. the lightning was just beautiful, streaking down and lighting up the dark tree limbs outside our window. i sat up for a while in bed just watching it but hubby slept through it. he missed a good show. only thing was, i should have thought about closing the spare room's windows first...the floor and some of my stuff got soaked Tongue

only thing i'm worried about is an antique hat box that is now drying-hopefully it won't fall apart.
i love how everything smells after rain, so fresh and vibrant. even in the city. i'm in a neighborhood where we still have trees and they love this rain.

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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #206 - Jul 14^th, 2008 at 6:21pm

i got a great hair compliment today! a friend told me my hair is really beautiful as it getting longer, and that it seems very shiny and healthy! i mentioned LL to him, mostly because this site helped me figure out natural hair care and how to be nice to my hair. it's strange to think that the good hair care practices that now seem basic to me (because i'm used to being gentle with my hair now, using natural products and no heat etc) were once new information to me.

anyway-i've needed to wash more often this summer-it's been hot and my hair gets oily faster. instead of shampooing i've been doing light conditioner and a good rinse on days when i don't want to wash it but still need to do something.

i also figured out a new and easy hairstyle-just pulling the top into a half pony tail and twisting and looping it through itself so it looks like a french twist on both sides. very easy and cute. Roll Eyes

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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #207 - Jul 14^th, 2008 at 11:55pm

I'm glad that you enjoyed your trip! That picture (and your hair) look very nice!

About your hair dreams...has your hair ever been at you current goal length before?

I'm just asking, because when I dream about my hair, it's ususally falling out (which it's done in the past) or it's in a short swingy bob, another style from my past. I've never had a dream of myself with waist length hair and I'm figuring that it may be because I've never seen myself with hair that long, so my subconscience can't place that image into a dream. Huh

Although, I'd love to have dreams like that, but then again... I'd probably just wake up depressed that my hair really isn't that long yet. At least when I have short hair dreams, I wake up relieved. Tongue

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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #208 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 10:59am

very interesting question, la diosa. i only had my goal length hair in my initial dreams that caused me to first start growing out my hair. now my hair in my dreams is either at its current length or i've cut it short again and i wake up worried and then am relieved that it is not cut.
maybe i haven't fully envisioned it either. i know i'm also not appreciating my hair's current length fully because i'm focused on getting it to BSL and then longer. occasionally i need to stop and appreciate that right now it is healthy and pretty and longer than it has been in a while, even if i'm a long way from my goal length.

i also dream a lot, and very vividly. in fact this morning, i woke up hubby by asking a question loudly in my sleep...it made sense in my dream, just not spoken out loud. he is used to my vivid dreaming though. Wink

so when i have good dreams, they are very intense and i remember them when i wake up. same for bad dreams, but they are far less common.

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Re: The prodigal hair grower
Reply #209 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 12:25pm

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i know i'm also not appreciating my hair's current length fully because i'm focused on getting it to BSL and then longer. occasionally i need to stop and appreciate that right now it is healthy and pretty and longer than it has been in a while, even if i'm a long way from my goal length.

It's really easy to be like that sometimes just because hair takes soooo long to grow (well, at least mine). I've gotten to the point where I'm like "okay, I'm grateful that it's longer than it was before... but let's get growing already!" Grin

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so when i have good dreams, they are very intense and i remember them when i wake up. same for bad dreams, but they are far less common.

My dreams can be vivid as well. A few months ago I even bought a dream journal. It's a really cute spiral bound hard covered journal with lined pages and beautiful illustrations on the front and back covers. I keep it on the nightstand next to my bed. When I have really good or interesting dreams I write them down in my journal. It makes for some interesting reading. I love re reading my dreams though because I love the abstracts which occur so often in dreams and just the pure fantasy of them.

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