interesting...i tried writing down one of my dreams recently and i got all confused. as soon as i tried to remember specific elements of it, they faded from my memory, but when i didn't try to focus on specifics and just thought of the general mood of the dream i could kind of remember it. dreams are so interesting.

i remember as a little kid i'd try to "program" my dreams. if i wanted to dream about horses, i would sit up at night thinking about horses and looking at my horse books until i fell asleep. sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.  i'm sure my subconscious mind was just sifting through whatever i'd been thinking about that day.

i haven't had a hair dream recently, but they tend to come more often when i'm frustrated with the growing-out process and right now i'm being patient with it, so maybe i don't have additional hair thoughts that i'm mulling over.

oh, i almost forgot to mention this...when i was in france (two weeks ago, as i mentioned on an amazing trip) we of course went to the Louvre. i am a complete art nut about classical Greco-Roman sculpture, and about Renaissance paintings. so we walked around for five and a half hours, sitting down on the floor for small breaks so my brain would not overload from the sheer volume of gorgeous sensory input . it was really interesting to see how many subjects of paintings had long hair, both male and female. i kept finding myself drawn to those paintings and sculptures. there was one sculpture of summer embodied, and she had long wavy hair down to her waist with flowers and branches woven into it. the marble was so luminous, she really looked alive. i'll see if we have a photo of her...just beautiful. hubby joked that if it weren't so many security guards standing around everywhere, he knew i would try to unpack my little back pack and secretly live in that museum quite happily for the rest of my life, sneaking out occasionally to restock on baguettes and coffee.

yep-he's a good sport about that-fortunately. 

well it's a wash day for me so i'll do that later...it's been three days and usually my head would be more oily by now, but it this case i think it needed the extra oil not to frizz out in the super hot weather we've had. so my hair actually looks pretty good today but i'm going to wash anyway.

yes-it would be expensive to keep up with. which is why we only went once . a little renaissance goes a long way.

still here-busy summer but getting better with french braids!

i hate contacts! i wore them last night to dress up, instead of wearing my usual glasses. then when i got home i got a phone call late at night and ended up getting very distracted. i talked until i went to bed, and forgot to take out the contacts. now i'm searching for them on my eyeball, under my lids, and while i can't see them, my eyes are definitely dried out and uncomfortable. the contacts may have fallen out over night, but arrgghhh. this is why i switched to glasses. because you just take them off and can clearly tell if you have remembered to take them off or not.

my hair is doing well. i need to deep condition it today, maybe when i sit down to do some reading later-which will hopefully happen. i've been trying more braids, although a regular three strand braid (starting at the base of my neck) still highlights how relatively short my hair is, while a french braid makes it look longer since it starts at the top of my head. i say "relatively" short simply because my hair is still much longer than it has been in any recent years-so i'm proud of that-but it is still too short for some of the longer ornate braids i'd like to do.