Daily it says!  I've missed some days. 

DD's hair wasn't as tangly as it looked on Sun, I managed to get the comb thru without any breaks or conditioner.  Mon Sept 1 was a no wash day, and I stayed home and puttered most of the day.  Tuesday was a wash day, CWC, with my pantene classic clean.  I'm going to try biotin.  I'll pick some up on Sat when I go food shopping.  Or maybe I'll wait 'til next week, and go to walmart with my mom...

yesterday and today are no wash days.  I got help measuring this morning and my hair's at 22 1/2 inches.  I'm really am going to wait until my trim to measure again!  Yesterday my hair was up and down all day, it felt all heavy and limp.  I might do a vinegar rinse tomorrow.  I was going to wait one more wash, but I think my hair might need it now.

Other stuff: nothing's been happening on any of those other fronts, unfortunately, except that I have been stuffing my face.  It's that time of the month, and I crave rich sweets.    I'm stressed looking for work, and I have no willpower.  I think I will focus just on not gaining weight until I have a job and have settled in.  I found an ad in the paper today I'm going to respond to, but I need to jazz up my resume a bit first and go down to kinko's to fax it.

And I burnt my %&! thumb!  When I do the dishes, I turn the hot water on as high as it will go and wear gloves.  I realized yesterday that I have a tiny hole in the thumb of the right glove, and that super hot burning sensation I was feeling was my thumb being scalded.  The skin's peeled off. 

Thanks, l&lx3.  I hope so too!

So. Today I did the vinegar rinse, like I indicated yesterday, and I put conditioner all the way up.  I'm still a little frizzy, but it's not as bad.  Maybe it's because the shorter hairs are floating a bit with some of the build-up gone.  All of my hair feels better, though, it's got more body and feels lighter.  I was thinking of experimenting with a leave-in, something fairly light; maybe that could help with the frizzies.

This isn't exactly a new problem.  For me it has always seemed like a choice between smooth and sleek, but limp, or flowing with frizzies.

Everything else is about the same.  I have an interview next week, retail. Better than nothing.  I've quit eating so much garbage, but mostly that's because I've ran out of sweets.  I'm down to graham crackers, and the light yogurts I bought to combat just this problem.  In fact, I think I'll go eat one. 

I'm not even going to go into my absence, except to say:  Blarg.

My hair is doing well, I think.  I have gotten used to washing less.  Yesterday I tried out a water only wash, and the results were ok.  CWC today.  I decided to try the pantene beautiful lengths conditioner, since I was almost out of the classic care, and so far I'm liking what it's doing for me.  I've used it twice in a CWC, using the classic as the first conditioner and the BL as the second.  I still have half a big bottle of the classic shampoo, but I'm considering trying the ice shine.  I can still use the classic on my daughter.
I was going to do CWC's all the time, but a couple of times in a row I forgot.    My hair felt all dry and squeaky.  I'm also thinking of trying out a leave-in, but I want to research a good one.

My sister isn't going to make it down from Washington this month, or anytime soon.   She got a new job and her employer won't let her take a vacation for > a year.    I miss my H, she's so silly!  (My sisters are J, H and L, btw, and my brothers are S and B.  I have a big family.  I'm the second youngest, and L is 9 years younger, so for a while I was the baby. )

I won't go to a hairmesser for my trim.  I used Feye's method today and cut off about 1/2 inch.  At least that's what it looked like while I was cutting it; I don't really see much difference in length.  Probably what happened is that what I cut off was mostly the V shape my hair was growing into; I think it looks more even.  I like the straight across cut.

I think what I'll do, since my sister isn't coming, is trim 1/4 inch every month until I'm satisfied with the health of my ends, and then I'll scale it back to 1/4 inch every two months to see if it still looks good.  If it works it'll be less traumatic than cutting off 2 1/2 inches all at once.

I still miss my sister though.

I've a couple other things to add for today.  I had never done a S&D, so I decided to try, and it seemed like every fourth hair had a split, and those that didn't all had that little white dot at the end that shows breakage.  So now I'm reconsidering getting a professional trim.  I dunno.

The weather has vaaastly improved.  Late 70's, early 80's, with a fine breeze and occasional clouds.  A few days there it was cloudy all morning.  My favorite days are sunny, windy days with puffy clouds bopping along, any temp below 85.  I must admit, though, that living where I have all my life, I've probably never experienced temps lower than late 20's F.  My second favorite days are rainy days.

This is kind of odd.  I went an extra day without a wash last week, pushing it, I guess.  I used to break out on my scalp at the base of my skull if I went too long without a wash, so maybe I was daring my scalp to do it.  Well, that extra day did it, and I got an enormous blemish on my scalp, on the right side, right at the base of my skull.  Then I started thinking...hm.  That's where I always break out, when this happens.  So I had my husband take a look at it for me, and it turns out, I had a defective folicle there, with three curly hairs sticking out of it.  Huh.  He performed surgery, and it felt better immediately.

Point is, maybe I wasn't breaking out, really, but the defective folicle was getting infected.  I wonder if it's gone for good, now, or if it'll grow back the same way? Time will tell.

Thanks for the sympathy, Angel!  Much appreciated.

Skyfire, my hubby gets infected ingrown hairs in the same area.  I gotta tell you, he was using cheap shampoo and now that he's using my left over stuff he hasn't has an ingrown hair in months.  He was getting them and he shampoos every day!  He has super oily scalp though.

Good Luck!  I hope that's one problem solved!

No wash day yesterday.  I'll do a CWC today, and probably an ACV rinse next time I wash.

I've got birthday dinner for DH at inlaws today.  Should be nice; his stepfather makes a wicked spaghetti.

He loves the video game I got him, and so do I and so does DD!

More later possibly.