Well, my hair seems to have gone a little spastic again.  I'm not sure what it was, and I'm kind of sad-it was behaving so nicely!  But I figured with my hair it probably wouldn't last, so I'm not that surprised.

The only thing I have done differently was that I blended some of my other conditioners in with my Pantene one to try and use them up and still get better results on my hair.  The first time it worked fine, but then I added another one in and my hair didn't like it.  The back is acting courser again like it used too.  So either it was an ingredient in the second condish it didn't like, or it's the eternal hot weather making trouble.  The only other thing it might have been was that I used my old shea butter the other day instead of my usual oil.

In the rest of my life, school is hectic.  I had a big presentation in my Government class today and quizzes in my math and chem h classes on thursday.  Luckily they weren't that difficult.

I went out to lunch today with my friends because it was a minimum day.  We went to an all-you-can-eat pizza place and it was really good!  I was surprised because there usually isn't anything I can eat at those places but they had veggie pizza.  Afterwards I went to a park with my friends where they taught me one of their cancan dances (I'm joining the school cancan troupe since it is currently mostly people who don't really dance, except for my friends) and we did some lifts and fun acrobatic stuff.  They then worked on their choir skit and we laughed our heads off at some of their ideas.  All in all, a good day.

Tomorrow however I have to go to two dance classes.   Normally I would be happy about this but it's supposed to be hot again and the studio isn't air conditioned.

Hair is french braided today-- I didn't feel like dealing with it.  However, I am happy because I braided it when it was damper than I usually do, so even though I didn't use any aloe or gel, it's smoother than it's ever been.

I'm definitely happier about my hair now than I have been for a while.  With the exception of Friday (where I'm pretty sure the annoying weather just dried it out) it's better behaved and the curls are being individual little spirals instead of twisting around themselves into these strange sausage things like they used too.

I still wish it were longer, but I think maybe I was so obsessed with that for a while because I wasn't happy with how it was behaving.  It wasn't so much that it wasn't ever behaving, just that some days it would be nice and the next go nuts.  It's not doing that so much anymore.

I was on the web reading the advice on another long hair site this afternoon.  The person who wrote it basically said that you have to always wear long hair up otherwise it will break, and if you leave your hair down on a regular basis it would never get long.

This made me feel guilty because I've been wearing my hair down alot (though I haven't seen very many splits at all- I think my near-constant oiling is helping).

Then I realized that if I wear my hair up I don't feel as happy about myself.  So maybe wearing her hair up all the time helped this person, but it makes me less happy about my hair, and therefore less enthusiastic in general.  My hair doesn't break that easily, and I am going to keep wearing it down.  I don't do anything else damaging to it, and it makes me happy.  If that means my hair only gets to tailbone instead of classic, then fine.

Besides, I wore my hair down everyday for years and ignored it, and it was fine.  So I'm going to keep myself happy.

Hair is now covered in an epic amount of conditioner mixed with oil for overnight.  I'll see how it turns out tomorrow-- hopefully hair will be soft!

Hair was braided at school today but is now drying.  I found a bottle of L'Occitane (sp probably but I don't feel like going and looking it up) perfume that my aunt got me a while back that I never used.  My dad doesn't like perfume (I's surprised that he hasn't objected to my hair oil, but after all that isn't very smelly) so I usually don't use it.  But I've had it for a while and I figure I should use it up.  So I started spraying some of it in my hair to make it smell nice.  I like it! 

Besides, I don't think my dad will be able to object.  It's a very light scent (a soft rose with an undertone that reminds me of fruit) and doesn't give me a headache so I don't think it'll bug him.

Well, I am badly in need of an ACV rinse.  However, I didn't do one this morning because I had first period math and my teacher is a nutcase who always has the AC on.  And I didn't want to freeze.  However, I'm going to do one tomorrow morning when I have innocuous first period English.

Unfortunately my dad doesn't like doctors so I still don't know what I did to my foot.  At least it's getting better.  However, I have to run the mile on Friday because my dad's note expires today and I don't have a doctor's note.  That should be fun....

My mom is back, without kanzashi sadly,  , but she got me a kimono and obi, which I wasn't expecting.  She also took over 700 photos.  I haven't been able to see any yet though.

I don't use degunkifying (sp) shampoo, mostly because I don't want to ask my parents to let me buy more products .  I just use ACV, and it works fine. 

I think if I put more stuff in my hair I might want to use a degunkifying shampoo, but I'm one of the few people with curly hair who don't use gel, so I don't get build-up very fast. 

I know Angel Spun uses both, so she'd probably know more about this than me.

The ACV made my hair happy.  The arrival of my first pair of LL hairsticks made me even happier!