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I love the sound of harps and they can be so relaxing and calming they almost put me to sleep (but then so does heavy metal music but not in the same way)

Jerry

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Okay, the lizard invasion has officially gone too far. The toilet I can handle. The ironing board was an acceptable loss. The window sills and doorjams... isn't that where every invasion starts? But now... the bloody beasties have struck at the very capitol of the Kingdom itself. I present to you: Bedlizard.





Bedlizard was shortly thereafter carried off by my black-clad enforcer, Captain Voodou, probably to be tortured for information(and/or amusement, this being a cat). This war... it has gone too far.

I think the lizard is cute.   I'd much prefer the lizard to field mice and brown mice that choose to invade my house.  (Not to mention the occasional neighbor's dog!).

Mice is one problem we don't have, LOL. Both cats are avid huntresses. There aren't that many roaming dogs around here, given the fact that we live on a fairly busy state highway. Any dog that's loose has a life expectancy of maybe 6 months, if that. An outdoor cat's is even worse, since around here, people will swerve to HIT a cat. 'swhy emma and V. are indoors only, even though V. would desperately love to go outside and kill things.

Hmm. It certainly has been a while.

I've been working on my music again... and since I'm finally sort of getting serious about it, I basically set up the bedroom as an admittedly rather crappy recording area. What was once my personal computer is now pretty much a graphics and music butt-kicking machine. I've pretty much arranged all our sound stuff in one corner, surrounding the computer as best as possible.

I'm currently working on a sort of gothic christmas song. It's frustrating, though, since there's traffic noises in the background. :/ I suppose it gives it a bit of urban depressing winter feel, though. It was odd, the other day I was walking from the shop to the house and thought to myself, ' hey, it's finally starting to feel like early october!'... then I realized it was less than a week to christmas. stupid Louisiana with it's defective arse seasons.

Anyway, I think for the new year I'm getting my hair professionally dyed, so that the bleached area matches the natural color as best as possible. The quality will never be the same, but the color at least, can be. Paul has a friend who's one of those... I can't think of the word.. 'hair lady' for rich people? one of those. He's going to see if he can negotiate the price of dye-ing. She used to take care of Paul's ex-wife's hair, so she knows long hair needs, and I might be able to trust her to do trims that aren't secretly chops. (BTW, I've seen pictures of most of his former females... he's apparently always had a thing for long locked lasses)

Random thought. My mother doesn't understand why I am going for such long hair, I think. I mean,she understands the love of long hair, don't get me wrong. It's mostly because when hers was classic length, back in the 70s, it gave her headaches, and she fears that mine will do the same when I get there. We've got similar thickness, although hers is somewhat coarser than mine, so I don't know. Will it? I hope not. If so... They've got medications for headaches. Grow through the pain? maybe I will, thanks.

Current routine that's been working well.
* comb hair out before shower.
* brush again to get all the loose hairs.
* comb again.
* Shampoo from ears up.
* Separate my hair into two sections and pull over my shoulders, apply conditioner, comb through gently.
* comb hair back over shoulders and then bun it, still conditionery.
* leave up while I go about the rest of my showery stuff, which given that I'm practically part fish, can take almost an hour.
*rinse out condit.
*condit again, just the ends this time, comb through again, rinse.
*turn off hot water and stand far out of the spray, leaning back so that my hair is under the freezing stream.

fin.


I've been using way less shampoo that I did in years past, and going through as much if not more conditioner. I'm pretty well sticking with Pantene Ice Shine S&C.

I don't comb the hair while it's wet, pretty much I either keep it in a low ponytail or just down.

I've also noticed that as winter(or a pale facsimile thereof) has arrived, my hair's gotten straighter. It used to air dry into a 2b before combing... now it's almost 1c. I'm not sure if I like this, or not.

Honestly, that's pretty much what I figure. I'm going to have her keep the dye off the natural area as much as possible (She's anti dye for the most part, so that isn't a problem)... and I mean.. This hair has been screwwed up so many times with dyes, bleach, bad management... Nothing can save it, so it might as well live out the rest of its pitiful life looking good, right? It's either that or I go for the Chop. and it would be a BIG chop indeed. And since I don't want hair above my shoulders again... this is the only possible route for now.