CWC today with ACV rinse.  I trimmed my hair the other day, Mon or Tues, can't remember, except I know it was one of those days.  Took off maybe 1/2 inch.

Worked again last night!  I'm getting the hang of it.  Thumper, at work (she's the assistant manager, very bouncy and cute) says I'm doing well at register.  Sneezy is another of my co-workers, she's new but very friendly and nice, and Bashful is another; she doesn't say much but she's great at stocking.

Got another job!  More retail, more hours.  The holidays are coming on and I will be busy busy busy.  Better to spend it that way, IMO.  It's stress anyway, and if yr busy, it goes by faster, and then you can sigh in relief in January and spend the rest of the winter hibernating.

CWC yesterday with the new condish.  Suave green apple.  That's about it!

My hair likes the new condish.  Tomorrow is wash day and my hair is much less heavy and gross.  Still, it's sticking out all over so I think I'm going to do a WO and jojoba oil before I go to work tonight, at the job that's more fun.  I am encouraged to play with little kids there.    I've met Doc, now, another assistant manager.  He's very knowledgable.

I've had a couple days off.  My back has been hurting when I work, lower down. I try to do stretches, and it helps a little.  Sun Salutations.  I want to take a yoga class, because books and videos just don't get it all across, but, you know, funds.

Pikachu's nickname doesn't suit her.  She's Braids, now.  She's a cool kitten.  They're all pretty nice, actually, once one gives them a chance.  And Aloof isn't so bad either; I think she just likes to get to work and not chat, which I can understand.  I go both ways.  I know I have to get my work done, but I like to talk, too.  The department manager seriously needs a sammich, I say.  I see her eating donuts and cinnamin rolls frequently; maybe she just has one of those constitutions.

I had a halloween party for DD and her little friends.  It was craaazy.  We played pin-the-tail-on-the-gargoyle and rotten pumpkin (like hot potato, but with a little pumpkin).  We had cyclops snacks and eyeball punch.  I made pumpkin pie (my raison d'etre, I tell you.  Pumpkin pie makes up for everything), and the girls only ate a quarter of one, and we ate the rest of two pies.  Mmmm....  I also have six more batches of pumpkin tucked away in my freezer (a fresh pumpkin, cut up, cooked and frozen.  A big one makes 14 pies.  It makes such a difference over canned.)

I love pumpkin pie so much that when I was a little girl and my school went to the pumpkin patch, I didn't pick out a pumpkin for shape, thinking of a jack-o-lantern, oh, no.  I chose the very largest one I could lift, so as to end up with more pie.  Hmm...I have all the ingredients to make more...but I only bought one pumpkin.  If I make two pies a week (that's one batch) I'll have enough to last until the end of January...although, I am supposed to make pie for thanksgiving and christmas, and I usually make a few special for family members.  I may have to get another pumpkin.

Well, first I take the biggest pumpkin I can find and I attack it with a cleaver.  

I scoop out the insides, and save the seeds to roast later.  DH loves them!

Then I fit as much as I can into a big pot with about an inch of water, let it boil, then turn it down, cover and simmer it for an hour, or until a dropped fork easily pierces the skin.  Then I drain it, let it cool, skin it and put it into tupperware for the freezer.  My recipe (which makes 2 pies) takes 3 cups of pumpkin, so I use 3 cup capacity disposable gladware tubs, so I can just grab one from the freezer when I want pie.  Then you can use it in watever recipe that calls for canned.  I'm not sure how many cups a can of pumpkin has in it...  Oh, and a large pumpkin will probably be two big pots full of pumpkin, or even more.

My recipe was actually handed down from my grandmother, and then my mother changed it to add modern conveniences.  Grandmother used a potato masher to mix the pumpkin up with the other ingredients, my mom found that a blender works ever so much better.

WO today with jojoba oil after.  Something's going on with my hair, it's just sticking out however it wants.  There are shorter pieces that curl around my ears (either breakage -hope not- or just shorter growth) and usually they lay down flat with the rest of my hair, but lately--since before I started with the green apple conditioner, they haven't wanted to lay down.  They stick out, giving me this yucky fringe.

Maybe it's the weather.  It's been windier and rainy.  I'm going to try a hot oil treatment, see if that does anything.

I couldn't help but chuckle as I read this.  Eggs and vinegar make mayonaise which some people also use as a deep conditioning treatment!

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