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Angel Spun Ex Member	Re: Joeydog's trials to grow hair when sick Reply #60 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 10:59pm We're all here for the common cause, Jdog. Thank you for being here with us. You rock, sistah!
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Re: Joeydog's trials to grow hair when sick
Reply #61 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 10:30am

J-dog,
I was out of town for the weekend, and off the site. Now I just caught up on your journal. I'm jealous that I don't have cowboys riding horses at my grocery store. LOL. I also love riding and horses, but have never owned one, so I know what you mean about wishing you could run errands on a horse.
As for having you on the site, I love reading your journals and hearing about your success! It encourages me too and I've got a least two years of growing to get to any real length. Also, I have really bad eczema and other skin issues, so I enjoy these all natural suggestions and recipes on the site too.

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Reply #62 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 4:25pm

Thank you ladies for your kind words. I should warn you, the typing might not go well here, I have a dog helping me. LOL. She is kinda cute.

I forgot to mention last night that I have FINALLY finished the mudding and sanding of my garage dry wall. I had a lot to do today, such as cut my grass, etc so no work in the garage today. Tomorrow it will be 32 C which is too hot to be in there, plus I am going out for lunch with my work tomorrow which will take up 4 hours smack in the middle of the day. Weds I will prime it, Thursday I will reprime it and hopefully on Friday I will paint it. I am painting some shelves black to go up in the garage. I hope to have them done by Friday so that on Sat I can finally put my garage together. My husband is going to seal the floor and put up rubber 'baseboard' next month so the garage can be hosed out without damaging the drywall. LOL, he told me that we should eat dinner on the garage floor then and take a pic because then everyone will know that my garage is finally sparkling clean. Um, I should mention, I am a bit of a clean freak.

I had a terrible shock this morning though. During the night one of my cats knocked a glass of OJ off my bedroom window ledge (I never keep it on the night stand since that always results in the animals knocking it over). My bedroom is carpeted and I did not notice when I first got up (dogs rushing to go out and 5 animals wanting food tends to give me tunnel vision until that is done). When I came into the bedroom to make the bed I saw the spill AND about 30 tiny ants cleaning it up for me. Gasp!!! I have an ant nest somewhere in my bedroom.

Of course my first thought was to vacuum up the ants and clean the mess up...but then common sense prevailed. I have to kill the queen to do this (and I am not expecting her to stop and pay me a visit for tea) so I need those little worker ants to work for me. Having 5 animals in the house, pesticides are not a plan. So, i mixed a 50/50 mix of icing sugar and baking soda and placed it over the juice. The ants will take this mix back to the queen to eat and she will literally blow up because most bugs cannot expell gas. Then the colony will die. So, now as I look over at the patch I did this with, I have about 100 little ants busy collecting it. Ugh. Hopefully this will not take more than a couple of days...I dunno. I have never had to do this before.

As for the stain, well, I was planning on steam cleaning my carpets next week before I go back to work and after all this reno stuff I have been doing.

BTW, my neighbour tells me she has been infested by these little ants this summer too. We think that maybe they have come in on the dogs coats. I suspect this because (while I am not 100% sure where the nest is) I do know it is close to the dog beds. Why else would they be in the bedroom and not the kitchen or closer to it?

I hope everyone is having a great day. Take care all.

JD

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Reply #64 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 11:17am

j-dog, wow, that is quite and anti-ant plan! i've never heard of having them blow up from too much sugar and icing, but i hope it works. i've had a lot of ants this summer so far, which is odd, since i'm on the second floor of a city apartment. but we've had our seventeen year cicadas surfacing this summer, so the ants are fleeing to higher ground to avoid being food for them. i found an ant in my bed the other day, oddly enough, not anywhere near the kitchen. i don't use pesticide either in the house, as my fluffy cat eats ants. she actually finds little trails of them and walks behind them licking them off the floor! and i do feed her enough cat food, so i think it's just a hobby of hers to keep her busy in between her other important cat duties: sleeping, cleaning her fur, eating, getting pet and playing with her toy mouse. and now i haven't seen any ants, except right by my front window and our balcony. since this is an old building, i think they come in through the space between the floor and baseboard.

and btw, you should post more hair pix!

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Reply #65 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 4:00pm

Roomtogrow,

I am sure you feed your cat enough!! It is just a fun little game for the little guy/gal.

It is not the sugar that does it, it is the baking soda, but ants will not take the baking soda unless you make it sweet. That is why you do a 50/50 mix with icing sugar. Actually last night as I watched them, I couldn't decide if they were taking my little recipe or the stain, so I clean it all up including the oj. I then found the attraction was not so great. Sooooo, I mixed the baking soda with liquid honey (which I would have done in the first place had I realized I had honey). Well, I put out abut 2 tsp of this mix and it was gone by morning. Today I found the place they are coming from (floor boards as you mentioned) made another batch and put it right outside the hole they come up. Lord there are hundreds of the things....and I did give in and vacuum a bunch of them up. I also dropped this tasty little treat in the kitchen to see what would happen. None in the kitchen it seems...just in my darned bedroom...so tomorrow I am going to very seriously inspect my window but I may have to think about keeping something on it to kill entering ants as I can't imagine finding a hole that small (these guys are only about 3 mm long and 1 mm thick). Hopefully my theory that the queen came in on a dog is right and once I get this little infestation done...it will be over....Pls God, pls.

JD

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roomtogrow Emerald Offline Posts: 379 Gender:	Re: Joeydog's trials to grow hair when sick Reply #66 - Jun 20^th, 2007 at 4:04pm be gone ants! hope your ant problem is gone soon. well, i'm off to get some coffee and read a book after a frustrating start to the day, which i'll probably compain about in my journal later.
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Reply #67 - Jun 25^th, 2007 at 7:23am

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Wow, Joeydog.

I really wish there were a way to make certain people unable to obtain pets, like the way there are screenings for adoptions, because some people just shouldn't have them.

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LD, here is a story for you. We will have to go a long way to make laws about pets...they are considered possessions. But you talk about adoption. My husband is infertile. We started the whole process for artificial inseminition ( well I had to do all the test including a 22 inch catheter put in my uterus....sorry guys, don't mean to offend anyone). Oneof the other tests was a psych profile on both of us. I am eligible to do this procedure for 12 months...despit the fact that my husband and I split. We love each other ...but he feels entitled and I believe we work for what we get in life....LOL we are the same social class and all...just cannot agree on work or home ethics...

Anyway...I refuse to go ahead because I believe that a child should have both parents...at least to start...since we can not gaurentee (sp?) that the parents will stay together. It is my life dream to have a child...but I cannot do it morally without a father there.

I am turning 39 in the next couple of months...and I cannot imagine getting involved with a man, finding him to be right and marrying him before my time for having children is up. I mean, I cannot see dating for a year since hubby and I have split, and then I would not want to except a marriage proposal until I had dated for at least 2 years...and then the time for the wedding...so I would be at least 43!! I know women do it...and if I can...I will....but than is if a guy I like shows up in the next year!!!

Now, don't get me wrong...I believe I will find the right man....but here is where I am going...if I meet him when I am 45 and cannot have kids...even if he agreed an adoption agency would refuse me. Oh I can meet the rooming thing ( one room per kid), in my mortgaged house, I can pull up enough salary for them...and as you will know you do not have to be married to adopt...but I have a disease they do not like....

I have a kitty named Yoda. He came to me at 5 days of age (eyes and ears still closed) to be euthed. I convinced the owner to sign him over to me instead. I fed this little persian EVERY 2 hours ( they don't cry for it like a baby and you just go when then cry), 24 hours a day. Everyone said he would die. He has been with me 8 years now. I worked 16 hours a day when I took him in (in a clinic so he could come with me...lol, in my pocket). He got his name because when I fed him his baby bottle his ears waggled like Yoda from Starwars. Tell me I would not look after child...but the adoption agency would say no. Is that fair?

But just anyone can adopt an animal.

JD

JD

Yeah, you're right about having a long way to go with the animal adoption process. It's just way too easy to adopt an animal and they're too easy to obtain and unfortunately, disgard because people don't spay and neuter the way they should. Sad

And I don't get the whole animals are possession thing. Just like if you fly with an animal they stick them under the plane with the luggage. Animals can die down there. And if something does happen, you have no recourse because they're just animals or possesions. It's absolutely crazy.

When I got custody of my mothers cat after she passed, it was a very difficult road because I already had two cats and they didn't take too kindly to my moms cat at all. It was very frustrating for us all and I didn't think I'd be able to keep the new cat. After my mothers friends and my sister who don't have any animals declined to take him, I called my local shelter for assistance. I asked if they could help me place him in a good home and they said they would evaluate him and if he didn't prove to be adoptable, (because they said it's easier to place kittens and he was 6 at the time) they would euthanize him. Shocked

I then asked if they could go ahead with the evaluation and if he didn't prove adoptable, to call me so I could pick him up but they said no. They said once I signed him over that I no longer had any rights to him and that I couldn't even call to see if he was okay. I couldn't even bear that thought so I kept him. I'm glad I did because even though he and my one cat still don't get along and she's still at times stressed by the situation, we have made a good home for him here. But, I still can't understand why they would be so quick to euthanize if I agreed to take him back if they couldn't place him. One would think that they would do everything possible to save a life.

Now tell me this, why can't a 45 year old woman adopt? I can't imagine what the reasoning for this could be. No one tells a 45 year old man that he can't procreate.

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Reply #68 - Jun 25^th, 2007 at 9:28am

Sorry to be so slow in replying joeydog (from Kiraela's forum) but thanks for your very thoughtful and detailed reply to my question what it must take to succeed as a vet? I just know I could never do it, the more so now.

I've no idea if animals are considered property here in the UK or not but I did rather suspect something along the overall lines you described, though not about vets unable to cope and sadly taking such an awful final step. So I take your point about better the vet dealing with the final sad solution rather than the owner. And in a way I can now understand a possible need or motive for some or many (?) vets to want to concentrate on the income sides as it must help to take their mind off things ?

Overall I guess anaesthetizing the mind seems the best answer to the emotional/ clarity of mind mix for animal lovers whether owners or vets. Certainly the pub in modest doses can help too…

Oh I'm a guy btw lol no wonder your reaction ! Grin

Cadie

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Reply #69 - Jun 25^th, 2007 at 8:17pm

Oops, so sorry Cadie, I wondered if you were male when you said you were 6'4. Embarrassed

I am glad I could answer some questions for you thought.

LD, I agree with you entirely.

I am too tired to say too much tonight. I wanted to come on to say that tomorrow I have to go to the dreaded hairdresser....although mine seems pretty good. I will be interested to see if she sees a difference in my hair since I have not seen her since joining LL. I want her to trim the 0.5 inches of uneven hair...but I don't see any split ends so I am hoping that is all she will need to take. I color my hair so tomorrow my roots will be done so I am doing a store bought deep conditioner tonight to make sure that it takes well and that it does not do too much damage to my hair. My hair dresser does a 15 minute deep condition after the color and before the cut so that helps too.

I have been really busy...and will be until Monday. I will give you all a run down then but I am tired and want to look what other people are doing right now rather than writing about me. Take care all.

JD

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Godyssey Stardust Offline Posts: 2375 Georgia Gender:	Re: Joeydog's trials to grow hair when sick Reply #70 - Jun 26^th, 2007 at 8:27am Good luck at the hairdresser. Have you ever considered coloring with henna?
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roomtogrow Emerald Offline Posts: 379 Gender:	Re: Joeydog's trials to grow hair when sick Reply #71 - Jun 26^th, 2007 at 3:33pm jd-how did the hair dresser go?
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joeydog 1992

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Reply #72 - Jun 26^th, 2007 at 3:36pm

LD, I know NOTHING about henna. Maybe I need someone to give me a crash course. I thought henna was to make hair dark...I am going from grey to blonde and I worry too about how I get henna to the right shade of blonde...too blonde washes me out...too brown does the same...I can really only move within 2 shades. If I could I would have brown hair!!!

Anyway, if anyone out there wants to give me a crash course on henna...I could sure use a cheaper and healthier way of doing it.

JD

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joeydog 1992

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Reply #73 - Jun 26^th, 2007 at 3:52pm

Hey, thanx for asking Roomtogrow. I am out to lunch on a decision about my hair appt. She did the roots really nicely. That looks good. She fixed my bangs (I need bangs...my forehead is quite high) .She evened out the end since my Mum told me that I had some straggly bits that were about 0.5 inches longer than the main hair growth and she trimmed a little to take care of any split ends. I told her not to dry and style it for me... She even used my wood comb from Ric the Combmaker to save breakage when she had to comb it out to cut it. And she told me it is very healthy and I am doing all the right things.

Last night I did a deep condition overnight and I am trying to decide what conditioning would do it the best tonight.

Why I say I am out to lunch on my decision about my hair is that it seems frizzy and shorter now. That said, there is actually a humidity warning out today where I live so the humidity could be the cause for the frizzy thing and my hair curls more when it is humid so that might explain why it is feeling shorter.

Actually, a question came up for me at the dresser today which I would love an answer too. I usually do let her dry and style my hair and not doing so is fine right now in the hot summer. Winter will come though and in the depths of winter my hair will freeze within 2 minutes of walking out of the dresser...which cannot be good for my hair and I know is not good for me. What do other people in really cold climates do? Do you let the stylist blow dry it, wrap it all up in a ski hat? What do you do?

JD

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Reply #74 - Jun 26^th, 2007 at 9:06pm

Joeydog, I found this excerpt on the henna for hair site...

I wanted to post this here as I don't think this is a well-known fact. I first read about this over on the long hair community forum and I told my sister about it since she is a blonde and getting some early gray hair. She is now successfully covering her grays with this mix.

Here's the recipe:

One tablespoon of Catherine's henna

One tablespoon of Catherine's indigo

Mix them both with a light conditioner and let set thirty minutes. Apply to hair and leave on for 45 minutes. Wash out.

Her grays turned a very light blonde and just look like lighter highlights in her hair. She's been doing this for several months now and loves it. She does this about once a month.

My only advice is don't even think of doing this with anything less than Catherine's henna as who knows what you would end up with.

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