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It's been 11 years since I had a similar experience in another part of the country so I'd like to believe it's uncommon.  Others might have different experiences.  In my younger years I was often faced with stupid questions or some very embarrassing situations.  They still happen from time to time but they're usually not intentional on the other person's part.  I can be as guilty as the next person of putting my foot in my mouth so usually I don't become upset when my "exotic" appearance leads to an embarrassing situation based on someone's assumptions about me.

In my younger years when I was larger and I only felt drawn towards romantic gothic and ethno gothic styles (which I still do but I also feel drawn to so many other styles and more colors) there was one lady at the kindergarten my boys have all attended who asked me on a daily basis how I could stand to wear all that black in the summer.  I can't recall what I answered but it was just variations of the same answer.  You'd think she'd eventually get the message.  I recall my answer involved my hair color and how many people around the world in warm countries have the same hair color and live just fine with it.

I'm not into long answers anymore when people insist on being ignorant.  I give them a thought pause and a short answer or let their comments stand for themselves.  

The point of relating the second story was to illustrate the last sentence.

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The honest truth is that I don't posess great self control so the less I say and the less I do and preferrably saying nothing is usually the safest option for me.

Hair - It's reacting really positively to Gliss' yellow Oil Nutrive series.  I haven't sprayed leave-in conditioner on all last week.  

Clothes - I've ordered four skirts and two dresses all in 50s retro style.  I really tried to introduce colors.  I'm comfortable with more colors now but I always choose  black if it's one of the options.  The skirts are black, black/white plaid, turquoise blue, white/navy.  I think the dresses are black and a blue one.  I've got a white/black shirt, a white shirt, a purple shirt, and a purple/patterned shirt to go with the skirts.  I guess I'll be using black and white t-shirts with the navy/white skirt or one of two twin sets in red and white I got from my MIL.  I love home knits.  

I ordered black canvas flats to go with the dresses and skirts but I still want new shoes that aren't designed for hiking alone.  I'm trying to get away from hiking footwear.  If I recall correctly I've also ordered some small scarves to tie around ponytails.  I don't know how often I'll be wearing the seemed stockings I ordered last winter but haven't worn yet.  I've got white ankle socks but that's so cliche´ so I'll probably be looking for knee highs or even ankle in bright colors.  Failing that, black will do.

Early in the winter I ordered summer knits that were on sale in white, fuschia and coral.  Those colors suit me really well so I might try to make them stables so that everything isn't some shade of grey or wine if it isn't black.  Nothing wrong with grey, wine or black though.  I'm also very attracted to "toxic" shades of green!

I'm happy to put away all the blacks, greys, and wines from winter.  I've always preferred my winter wardrobe and putting it away used to feel sad.  I threw a lot of clothes away from the past two summers.  After losing weight and having to replace my entire wardrobe I've made many mistakes that looked good but just didn't feel like me.  Most modern styles and anything that wasn't dark enough, white enough, deep or clear enough, went out!  Much of what doesn't work with a late 40s- 50s retro style went out too.  I prefer the 1920s-50s but I'm trying to narrow my day style down to little more than one decade.  I like lots of historical styles but I need something that works daily because I'm not of a very sociable nature.

Make-up - I'm wearing less black, grey, wine, and brown eye make-up now and trying to find ways to use pink, purple, green, coral, and red.  I'm not seeing any affordable deep blue shades.  I've got an olive green liquid liner.  I'm out of black, turquoise and pink liquid liner.  I'm out of blue and black nailpolish and I need to use my red and pink nail polishes up before they end up being a waste of money.  I can't find green nail polish but Tiger which is sort of a $1 shop might have it.  I don't recall the quality of their nail polishes being that good.  L'oreal and MF had some good deep blue nailpolishes a few years back...maybe that's many years now?  I want higher pigmented make-up so that it's more visible.

Gosh will definitely have both blue and green nail polish!  I'm determined to get a good deep blue and a dark green lipstick.  I just need to use a few of the lipsticks I already have up, to clear my conscience.

Easter Activities - Walked, played outdoors, baked, watched TV, the boys played computer games and then they played some more computer games for the first three days while we waited for hub to get off work.

We visited a chalk mine on Thursday.  The boys bought bats in the souvenir shop.  Some very kind German goths let my boys choose bats first.  The big boys chose standard, black, plastic bats but the youngest one fell in love with a small, stuffed, neon green bat with silver spots and red ears.  

On Easter Sunday we ended up on a two hours killer hike.  That wasn't the plan, we simply lost our way and couldn't find the car.  The map wasn't to scale and some trails weren't even recognizable in shape.    The boys didn't complain once!  We got home in time for me to prepare the traditional Easter lamb.  

Today - Am I the only one who's happy to get all the Easter decorations down?  Anyway, I've got to get out.  Doc. took a blood test and all the things I was tested for were fine except D-vitamin.  So I need to get out.

Music - Dion Dimucci, Frankie Avalon, all the "Bobbies" - Darin, Rydell, and Vinton, Everly Brothers, The Awakening, Nox Arcana, Spleen United,  Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Roy Orbison, and Gary Numan these days.   I can't find my DCD box set.   I haven't listened to DM for a few months now and I've not even missed them.

Haven't heard of it.  Thanks for posting it.  I sent you a pm with more or less related links. 

There are also some reproduction shop but I can't remember what they're called.  I know they advice costumers on shapewear/foundation garments so perhaps they can advice on shoes too.

They sometimes have shoes and I forgot to include them in the links I sent you:

http://www.tangerineboutique.com/

My hair - Wash, condition, let it nearly air dry.  Got it into a ponytail with no use of styling products!  I've got an alice band over the top to keep the shorter hairs from flying into my face but I'm so happy I'm able to get it all out of my face without the use of styling products.  

The only good thing about products was that I was able to manipulate the bottom of my ponytail into a long curl without the use of heat or rollers or pin curls.  God knows I hate doing pin curls!  My hair isn't suited for it.  Did it twice.  Not worth the two hours, kinks from the bobby pins and frizz.  I can't find aligator clips in shops here.  I haven't found setting lotion either.

Purchases - 4 floral hair clips - 3 small in fuschia, deep turquoise, orange - 1 large soft pink rose, 3 scarves in blue, fuschia, and coral with some different patterns on each scarf.  It'll all arrive within the next 4 weeks from Denmark's H&M online shop.   I'll use the flowers either to decorate the sides of ponytails/buns or to just hold the front back.  I'm hoping they can be used for retro faux styles to create the illusions of rolls.  I'll use the scarves around my hair as bands or around ponytails and buns.

Now they have some other large roses I like better than the one I ordered but they don't have them in stock until June so I'll have to wait but I think I'll definitely buy a couple of those.

I'm treating myself to 1-5 hair toys nearly every time I go to the grocery store to motivate myself to do something with my hair.  I bought 2 barette clips and 2 slim alice bands.  My ponytail looks tidier and classier for those days I'll want to look more elegant than playful and the alice bands don't even hurt my head.  It's faster and easier than loading on products and trying to force everything to "glue" into place.  It looks more polished and natural too.

Life (and hair in general) - Hub was at the ham radio club last evening.  He goes there every Thursday.  That's nice for me because that means I can use the pc in the evening.  The boys are quite independent now and will help each other find pajamas, get the bathtub filled, find towells, brush teeth, take asthma medicine, etc.  I only have to help the youngest one reach his Pjs and take his medicine.  So it's not as hard and stressful as it was just a year ago with the youngest and a few years ago with the oldest.  

So I sat and crutinized images of vintage hairstyles which I know I won't ever wear because I know about the haircuts required (variations on the middy), the perms you need to get a good curl set because the natural perm look wasn't in so you still set your hair but the perm aids curl to hold and look nicer, brushing, teasing, setting and loading on of products, but I still appreciate the styles in their historical context and from an artistic perspective.  

ForeverFay wrote on Apr 17^th, 2009 at 8:43am:


Thanks, but I'd rather use rollers from now on.  I didn't count the bobby pins but all of them were ruined afterwards.  Not worth it to me.

Erh...no.  But the bleeding's stopped and I'm feeling okay.  Excuse the reckless way I'm handling my life.

Good luck with the baking!  Happy Birthday to your son!

Saturday Hair - applied mousse to damp hair, rolled up on velcro rollers.  Waited 2 hours, blow dried for 15 mins.  got desperate.  Took velcro rollers out.  Blow dried hair, rolled hair up again, blow dried again.  Waited for hair to cool off, took rollers out, sprayed hair, waited for hairspray to dry, brushed top over, finger combed the rest and it still looked wavish-flat for all of my efforts.    A slim alice band to hold the top back behind my ears and the top smooth kept me from looking completely rediculous.  

Sunday - Wash, vinegar rinse, deep condition 5 mins. while scrubbing face, body and cutting nails, rinse hair and air dry as usual before brushing.  Very well behaved hair.  Only found one hair that may have looked like it was close to splitting so I cut the tip off.  Nothing else looks damaged.  Hairs keep getting caught in my glasses side bars and broken off that way.

Music - My dad's getting me DM's new Sounds of The Universe' off amazon.  I'm excited.  Other fans are saying I won't be disappointed the way many of us were with the majority of tracks on their last two albums; Exciter from 01' and PTA 05'.  I actually quite liked PTA but I wasn't impressed with all of the tracks which si very seldom I feel that way with any one album.

Some Hits albums with Roy Orbison, Bobby (Ridarelli) Rydell, Bobby Darin, and Dion Dimucci are the only ones I can think of right now where I feel good about all the tracks for lack of better wording.

Dad's also promised to look for some Jerry Lee Lewis and Dion's 'Heros'.  Believe it or not, but I don't own anything by Jerry Lee Lewis!  Strangely, I've got Frankie Avalon, Bobby Vee, (Stanley jr) Bobby Vinton, and other stuff most people wouldn't admit to owning even less listening to.   There are other similar performers from the same period I don't feel I'm missing.

House stuff - No where near to throwing away stuff, re-shuffling furniture or changing decor on the scale I want to.  I doubt we'll paint as long as the boys are small.  Then we'd have to stock different colors.  Right now it's only one shade of "fashion" white we have  to stock.  "Fashion" white...

I usually hate yellow for reasons I can't explain but right now I feel I need to be surrounded by the color in moderation so I found an old yellow/orange/red table cloth, some yellow candles, yellow bread basket liner and yellow cloth napkins.  I think that's all the yellow I can handle though and I like that it's concentrated in one area of the living room so it doesn't overpower my senses.  Sometimes yellow can make me very angry, aggressive or just irritable.

Council - They're not answering their phone and they'e not answered my e-mail.

Hair - Wash, Condition, air dry, flip head over and spray through top but not directly at scalp with salt water spray, wait for it to dry while finger shaking hair, flip head back over and apply walnut sized amount of Pantene Whipped Wax For Layered Hair through top and lenghts, wait for it to dry while finger shaking hair, brush when dry.  At least this gives me the appearance of natural movement and body without too much lost shine and it's not greasy or coarse feeling.

Friday - Day off for everyone.  Big prayer day.  Erh...well the boys have given their prayers some serious thought.  I can't say the same for their mother.

Only Danish.  Hub speaks German as well and I obviously speak English but the boys will have to learn those languages in school.  I hope my oldest son will at least be able to read something by that age.  I have faith in the middle son's ability to learn to read up to level within the next couple of years.  I suspect he's a slow reader like many boys. 

Hair - Wash, condition, air dry, wax mousse through entire hair, air dry, tiny dab of shine wax for long hair smoothed over six strands of hair.  Feels and looks really nice.

Connection update? - It looks different, seems to work just fine but there's something that's different.  Even this page looks different.

Hair - Forgot vinegar rinse yesterday and I don't have time on week days for my rinse/deep conditioning routine.  Wash, condition, bun and go!  I'm praying for lovely waves before hub gets home.

Weekend - Lazy weekend.  Busy sorting through youngest son's stuff today and making his room more age appropriate.  He's 5½ and he may be retarded but he's not a baby anymore though you wouldn't know better if you'd looked in there this morning.   Bad mom!
H&M - They no longer live up to my expectations.  Two dresses and three skirts were too thin and too short.  Too this or that is of course a matter of opinion but I like a hemline below my knees because a) I'm no longer 20 and b) I'm not a Hollywood star and I don't look like one.  So I'm only keeping three summer shirts, two fabric flower clips/brooches and three scarves for tying around buns and ponytails, and a skirt which is of an acceptable quality and has a below knee hemline.  So I had to trek down to the post office and I'm no wise than to wear wedge sandals with hosiery.   I don't know what I looked like wobbling down hill with a huge package.  

I still want longer full skirts and shirtwaist dresses if I can find any retro styles that aren't too obviously retro.  I can't afford to prioritize crinoline petticoats now and quite frankly, in my small rural town it might look rediculous which is why I'm also foregoing hat and gloves.  I love vintage/retro styles from the late 1940s-early 1960s that mature women wore but I'm not a reinactor.  I'm too selfconscious for that and would have to live in a more anonymous metropolitan place to feel confident enough to go all the way out.  I don't care if strangers stare or glare but I'd hate for every nosy villager/townie to stop and ask me nosy questions on ever street corner whenever I'm out.  I'm very private and like to keep to myself. 

Last time I curled my hair I got the loveliest bends and volume but nothing that really resembled curls or waves.  I just don't know how to get the rollers in vertically.  I think it's too long for that or my arms are too short.

Hi, Drear!  I have these : http://www.amazon.com/Wrap-Snap-Go-Hair-Rollers/dp/B000UJ246Y
and I use perm papers to keeps the ends smooth.  Patience is required and be sure not to take too much hair in a section.  HTH

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Hair - Can anyone honestly say that their hair looks good hanging loose when it's hot and humid?  My hair acts up these humid warm days no matter how little or how much I do.  Dosing the conditioner is a very tricky one.  Not conditioning isn't an option!  I've bought a huge bottle of vinegar btw.  My scalp itches horribly.  Low pony, sharp parting, alice band.  

Vacuum - When the good old Philips broke down we bought a cheap supermarket vacuum cleaner that was supposed to be smart because you can either use a vacuum bag or if your budget's tight, use the included vacuum box with filter.  Now they've discontinued the bags in the size I need so now there's really no option.  For the past few months I've had to clean the box weekly *yuck!*.  At least we don't lose all the boys little Lego parts.  

Cosmetics - I'm not using anything on my face.  It's going to take some getting used to but my skin seems to appreciate it.  Still can't bear to leave my eyes, lips, and nails natural.  I'm experimenting with colors, shades and finishes I'll usually pass by like deeper "nudes", bronze and gold, and frosty pastels.  They actually look fine on me I just need to get used to them.  Bought Gosh eye quattro in Q23 Goldfinger and a few x-mas' back I got Chanel Les 4 Ombres in 79 Spices.  I like the bottom left color next to the gold in the Goldfinger and the burgundy in the Chanel Spices.  I own a pastel pink nail polish for the first time.  Eerie looking if I must say something positive.

Hair - My poor hair deserves a better owner.  It's another pony day after washing, deep conditioning, then I looked out of the window and saw the rain and wind.  So up in a ponytail, smooth over with some shine, none stiffening wax for long hair.  I'm not sure how I'm supposed to use it and I regret buying two pots of it last year because I've hardly used any of it but I think a few fingers dabbed into it and just run through the hair is enough of this stuff.  It's that Poly brand.  It's hard with a liquid surface, yellow with gold flecks in it.  I think I'm going to have to let go of my pride and let go of these styling products.  Aside from the waxes and the mousse wax, everything else has alcohol denat in it.  Strands of my hair is a bit lighter now than it was last year.  

Sun bleached?  Product damage?  I don't know if that's from the few days we've had sun where I've not even been out for an hour at a time or if it's the use of styling products I've never been addicted to?  I'm not a fan of sun streaks in my hair.  I'm not passing general judgement on sun streaks, I just don't want them in my hair.  The "sun streaks" are very dark brown but next to the rest of my natural "black" or black/brown hair if you insist on being pedantic, it's quite visibly lighter than the rest in some light.  

Part of me is tempted to jump in the deep end and have my hair chopped off right below my shoulders and grow it all back to one length in September or whenever I can afford to pay for a chop.  Last October that was the length of the bottom of my hair so it'll be June 2010 before it's 20" again.  I need to give this some serious thought.  Maybe I should just stick to my original plan of losing an inch or so of the bottom every 3 months.  The progress will be slower but it won't be so drastic a change.  Recently I thought of going only every 6 months and having all layers trimmed.

Hair - Another wash, condition and leave it alone! day.  I rolled my hair up on velcro rollers last evening for practice.  It gets easier but I have no real desire to set my hair anymore.  The foam rollers aren't working for me.  My hair slips off them, the frames fall off and they're hell to get out.  I break too much hair when I use the foam rollers.  The curls from foam rollers turn out super frizzy too regardless of whether I set wet, dry with or without styling products.  I like the waves created by buns.

Holiday - Today is constitution day and to be completely honest, I don't have a clue what our consitution says.  It's not an easy reader like the American constitution which was interesting to learn about in high school and later on again at comm. coll.  I forgot to check where and when there would be speeches today.  Everyone's got their garden flags up around here and at least we're able to join in because we finally have a flag pole.    We usually have the long, slim one up for which there are no laws that say you have to take it down.  That one's allowed to stay up at all times. 

Our neighbor has actually experienced that people in the neighborhood have called them late in the evening or night to complain that their flag was still up.   I know it's because the law says you're not allowed to flag for Satan.  Flag laws - I should make it a point to read them.   Seriously, flagging is a responsiblity I'll leave to hub.

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Exactly my reaction.  I deleted the next three paragraphs I'd written on my thoughts regarding that law and a few other laws.

Hair - I'm nearly out of Gliss shampoo and conditioner so I decided to give Nivea a chance because it's the same amount in each bottle but at a slightly cheaper price.  Nivea has long been a favorite skin care brand of mine so I hope the hair care line won't disappoint me.  I bought the diamond Gloss shampoo and conditioner.  I forgot to buy deep conditioner.  Back in the 80s L'oreal appeared to be the most sold hair care brand in our supermarkets. I'll be okay as long as they re-stock all Gliss lines in case Nivea's hair care lines disappoint.  I haven't tried Pantene in a long time.

Saturday - Sudden extreme rain and hail here.  My scalp doesn't like it when it gets partially wet.  Then it gets itchy the same way as when I sweat.  Did extreme supermarket shopping and ordered three new bikes for the boys.  Standard, sturdy ones with just three gears.  Nothing fancy here.  We've bought bicycles at our local supermarket which is part of a Nordic supermarket chain called COOP.  The quality of the bikes is fair for what you pay and certainly meet our needs for occassional leisurely rides on weekends or the rare school bicycle trip.  The way I see the kids throwing and pushing each other's bikes outside of the school I don't want to pay so much we'll be sorry.

I'm on hub's laptop so I don't have access to my favorites and I have to type everything in and log onto all forums.  His ham radio also zaps the online connection so I'm lying on our bed which isn't very comfortable.  I hate using different keyboards than the I'm used to so that's all for today.  I'm just going to browse for the rest of the day.  

Maybe this is irrelevant to anything but the text is slightly off on the top posted threads.

Hair - My hair's so fantastically shiny and well behaved after I've dumped everything I don't strictly need for cleansing and conditioning my hair and I've gone up to VR twice a week where it was once a week before.  The olive oil deep conditioning once a week seems to help too.  

Sadly, I had to put my hair up today because it's windy as hell.  I have a school pot luck to go to in the late afternoon-early evening and we're supposed to sit outside and eat.  The weather has better change its mind or I'll do my best to encourage a move inside!

School party preparations - I'm making meat balls of minced chicken.  I'm making them relatively large because I'm lazy and I'm preparing them in the oven.  Hey, other parents just order pizzas and bring them in their cardboard boxes.  They don't even pretend to have baked the pizzas themselves.  

Other activities - My middle one comes home from having spent the night in a scout cabin with his classmates.  They're 1st grade so this is a test to see how they'll cope and what adjustments need to be made.  I suppose it's also a test of the parents packing skills.  I forgot both flashlight, teddy bear and a bed sheet but I packed towell and a foam matress which wasn't mentioned.  He's thrown his rain pants (two piece set) away.  Oh well, tough luck!  He already had a cold on Monday.  

The youngest one gets a ride home from having spent the day at another scout cabin.  They're just spending a couple of days there but coming home every afternoon.  

I hope I can find a few minutes to watch some youtube videos on paranormal documentaries.  I like the Haunted Britain, Strange But True?, Paranormal State and some random ones.  Ghost Hunters on occassion though I find the series a bit boring.  I watch make-up tutorials and listen to music as well.  

I'm going to prioritize my own interests more even if it means I have to fit it into the hours I'm home alone during the day.  There's no time for me from the late afternoon, until I hit my pillow, the mornings and any time anyone wakes up at night aren't mine either so I don't feel terribly guilty for relaxing while others are working.  Not much anyway.

Isabelle wrote on Jun 10^th, 2009 at 12:28pm:


PRS aka Paranormal State appeals to me because they seem genuine and passionate about what they do and will try to help the people who have to live with these hauntings if that's what they want.  I would've never heard of the program or any of my favorite British ones if it hadn't been for youtube.

Panacea is one of my favorites too.  I've begun to watch some of the Asian ones too because they address some issues that Lauren (Panacea, Lauren Luke) can't address.  One Asian lady has copied some of Lauren's looks which helps me to get a better idea of what the look could look like on me seeing as I don't have big, beautiful, green eyes with perfectly separated large amount of lid above my eyes.   A few of them also have a complexion that resembles mine though some of them are much fairer.   I'll check Mentalshiver.

Hair - Wash, condition, half up-do just to keep my hair off my face in the wind and rain.  Been thundering a lot too.  Carefully used a french clip.  I don't use them very often and I place them over a scrunchy the way I always used to.  I don't know why I forgot that detail when I began to use french clips again.  It's an attempt to safely and comfortably put my hair up but have it looking slightly nicer than a bulky scrunchy.

Boys - Middle one's in school.  They've not called.  He's the one who had chicken pox.  Then yesterday on the way to the dermatologist, the oldest one's school called to say he was sick and throwing up so hub left me in the parking lot and raced over to the school to pick him up.  He brought the boys back to the parking lot right as I'd finished at the dermatologist.  The youngest one is fine and is in kindergarten.  I'm keeping the oldest one home just because I know the school won't believe he's not sick.  

Danish law says that if your child has too many sick days (which isn't defined in the law) then the school is obligated to report you to social services even if you've been a good parent and not abused sick days and kept them notified each time your child has been sick.  So parents will try to send their children to school anyway to avoid being reported to social services.

Other stuff - The dermatologist doesn't think my "spots" look suspicious but wants to see me again in 4 months because I'm a darker person with a lot of spots and my skin isn't sun used the way it would've been had I lived in a sunnier climate so I still need to take the same precautions as fairer people and wear at least spf30 in the summer and some spf the rest of the year.  Health care (except for dentist) is free here so they're not after my money at the clinic.  I'm having my tonsils removed in September so it'll be October 22nd before I see the dermatologist again.  The dermatologist was model "perfect", with a smoth complexion.  It sure didn't make me feel very attractive to have my skin scrutinized by Barbie in person!

Thanks Sakina.  I should adopt your life outlook.  It would probably be the best thing to happen to me.

Hair - Forgot vinegar rinse.  Used Garnier's Olive and lemon deep conditioner and now I remember why I never became a fan.  It doesn't do this or that for my hair.  So I'll just quickly use this one up as a daily conditioner and deep condition with regular olive oil even though that takes a little longer.  

Shopping -  Bought two new summer dresses and a new night "gown" because I just can't visit my mom for a week and sleep in my holed nighties.  I don't care at home but it seems tacky to bring holed nighties to stay at mom's even if she is just mom.  When it's too hot and humid for capris with short sleeved shirts or polos I prefer to wear shorts with chemises or simple no fuss dresses in soft, thin polyester.  Style goes out of the window when my scalp suffers due to humidity.  It's not been very warm or indeed anything that resembles summer but we've had some unbearably humid evenings.  

Hope both of your boys are feeling better!

Hair - It was too warm and humid to sleep so some time after midnight I S/D but only found ends that looked suspiciously like they might split or have recently been part of split ends.  VR this morning.  Deep condition.  Leave-in condition.  Still not satisfied so I used a tiny dab of the Garnier olive/lemon deep conditioner as a leave-in and that did the trick so I think I'll continue to use the deep conditioner as a daily leave-in the rest of the summer or until it's used up.  I need to stick to the heavier cream products.  Sadly, we don't have that Pantene balm everyone in the U.S. is recommending that I try.  Someone suggested that I use regular sun screen in my hair and braid it but my hair isn't long enough to braid and I don't know if there are harmful ingredients in the body sun screens that might hurt my hair.

Boys - It's like the oldest and youngest are having a second wave of pox because Friday I thought they weren't having any new spots but last night I saw new spots on both of them so I still can't send the youngest one back to kindergarten.  That means we get to sleep in tomorrow.

Thank God for small favors!  Having brotherly calm is so important when other factors come into play!

I'm happy you can get your Gliss again!

Drear, the word you're looking for is scab, not scap.  Ouch!  Right on the lip!  If you have long fingernails, you can wrap your fingertips in a tissue to be more gentle to the skin.  Also, I think you could take cotton swabs and use the tips to press the skin.  I guess keeping the skin clean and moisturized will help with healing faster.  I hope it heals quickly!!!

Poor Drear!  Sounds like you could use a vacation!!!  Indonesian is my husbands first language, so I am often correcting him and it has become a habit.

Hi Drear, I sympathize with you on the pimple.  I never had acne as a teenager, but as an adult I do get the occasional breakout.  Last month we had the worst "June Gloom" every day and the humidity gave me the worst breakout I think I've ever had!  I bought a tea tree oil blemish stick by Burt's Bees and gave it a try.  It seemed to work on certain types of pimples but not all of them. 
Pimples on the edge of the lip are the worst!  They hurt so bad when you try to squeeze them.

Also, there is no age limit for acne. It's not just a random product of your teenage years that disappears as soon as they do. It is a chemical reaction that can happen at any time for a myriad of reasons. So yeah, no need to be embarrassed about using products that work for you...I'm 29 and still using Clearasil. 

42 here and still getting zitty! I use Clean & Clear gel.

This weekend - It's still hot and humid so I'm not motivated to do anything.  Hub's away for a 24 hrs. ham radio contest but it's nearby. 

Hair - Was and condition with the Gliss rose oil UV shampoo and daily conditioner.  Feels different than when I used the oil nutrive Gliss series which I expected even though they're both Gliss series, it just takes some getting used to so it's too early to say whether I like it or not but my hair looks fine, feels okay and as long as the UV protection really works then I'm happy because it's a cheap brand. 

Update - Been grocery shopping.  For a combination of reasons I forgot that I had moved my purse from one handbag to another because I have three fabric ones my dad bought in a Fair Trade shop I like to use in the summer and they all meet different needs.  So we ran back and forth like mad with three boys in tow but they were just glad to be out and about...until those "thunder flies" decided to swarm in over our town.  They're small, black, and they "pinch".  Saw a father drive around with his obviously new "toy" car with two sons on the front seat.   The police never come out to our rural area.  You won't dream of the stuff I see!  WE had ice creams for lunch and the boys are havin hotdogs for dinner.  They had oatmeal for breakfast.  We do cook them real food most of the time.   I'll settle for steamed cod and salad. 

The neighbors just gave us a photo of her youngest daughter at her communion.  It's at 13-14 here.  I really liked her outfit.  There have been a few years where I thought the communion styles were too sexy and inappropriate for church. 

Their youngest daughter wore white leggings with a short, simple white empire dress and a blue alice band with a blue flower on the side, a cute "Victorian" inspired necklace, and white ballerinas.  Just enough to add personal detailing and add some interest to all the white stuff.  All white is lovely too.  Her hair was simple and if she was wearing any make-up it was very natural looking. 

Our middle one is style conscious and interested in apparel and jewelry designs so I wonder what he'll choose to wear for his communion...I hope he understands that it's not supposed to be a fashion show but that he can slightly change his suit/outfit when he gets home for the family party.  We'l take that one when it becomes relevant.

melusine wrote on Jul 4^th, 2009 at 5:10pm:


I just thought of checking the ingredients and seeing if I can get something like that around here if the stuff I'm using isn't similar.  I'd have to buy it from an EU based site or extra VAT/tax is placed on the package if it's from outside an EU country.   So far, I'm pretty happy with the stuff I'm using. 

Hair - Wash, condition, leave with hair in a wet mess.  For some reason, when I'm rushed, the shampoo and conditioner seems extra stubborn but doesn't work as well as usual.

Morning - I take the reward for bad mother!  I woke up at 8:30am when the youngest one is supposed to be in kindergarten.  The boys were already up, dressed, fed themselves and ready to go.  I just can't bear to leave before I've had a shower and I had to pack his lunch and rush around and find rain overalls that weren't fleece lined.  We only have one pair of rain boots that fit him and apparently they're fleece lined too.  We get a lot of free clothes and footwear for our youngest one because their son who's younger than ours, grows faster.  Sometimes, my oldest ones inherit shoes from their boy too even though our older boys are 5-7 years older than their "little" giant.

The pics are great!! 
Here's hoping your hairdresser listens to what you're saying!!

MichelleR wrote on Jul 8^th, 2009 at 8:22am:


The bottom back layer is APL.  I don't have a new pic and I doubt I'll be in a mood to have my picture taken tomorrow.

Hair - Wash, deep conditioned but forgot to VR.  Looks and feels just fine.  I like not having to consider where the parting goes any more. 

Stuff - House is a mess, laundry's piling up, thankfully the boys can fix their own breakfast and dress themselves, my sleeping pattern's messed up and I wake up thinking about coffee and I get a migraine if I don't drink at least 3 cups a day now.  I need to get back to normal and at least go to bed at a reasonable time as if I had someone to get out of the door and someone to walk to kindergarten.

Hair - Last night I washed and just sprayed some leave-in conditioner in my hair before going to bed.  It had been another miserable day weather wise but this is supposed to be the last one of warm, humid miserable days and it's supposed to end in a big bang this afternoon.  We've had a lot of thunder and lightening so I've not been out much but due to the sweat I still need to wash my hair twice a day.  Wash and conditioned this morning.  I'm using a very deluted amount of shampoo because of the frequent washing.  

Week 30 - Actually, starting tomorrow we'll be in that holiday home we've rented a few hours away.  We'll try to time it so we don't have to drive in the worst rain and lightening.  The car isn't a bad place to be in during lightening, that's not my concern but I am concerned about the roads and visibility during the heavy rains we're supposed to get tomorrow.  After three weeks at home with the boys, the boys and I are feeling cabin fever so it'll be nice to shift to another cabin.  We haven't decided if we'll drive directly over to my mother in week 31 or if we'll do a short laundry and re-stock stop at home first.  I don't know if we can find an internet connection at or near the holiday home and it's not very important to me.  

The hair routine is going to have to rest for a few weeks and I'm only bringing my regular shampoo and conditioner.  For now that's the rose oil series from Gliss with UV filter.  

Back - Home for the weekend.  Loads of laundry even though I did quite a bit during the week and we'll spend tomorrow re-packing before driving to my mom's on Monday.  Nice to be back and have my own stuff.  Know what TV channels we have and where they are.  Really missed being online.  Creature of habit...Can pack much of the same stuff again.  Thankfully we don't have to bring towels, bedding and cleansing stuff this time.  Boys seem to enjoy being back home with their toys.

Thyholm - Was fine.  The holiday home was from 1992 and for a luxury creature like me, a holiday home from after 2000 is really more my thing but everything was okay considering the price and the fact that we only used the house as a base to sleep, eat dinner, do laundry, shower and relax in the evening.  It was near the ocean but hidden behind trees.  There were swings, a sandbox and a playhouse.  There were two showers, a spa bath, a sauna, washer, dryer, dishwasher, a poorly equipped kitchen.  Mainly stuff for baking, not much for cooking and what was, was so well hidden that I only found them last evening.   I'm a little too tired to go into details.  The water was too salty to drink so we had to buy everything we drank.  We went on lots of daytrips.  We visited a bunker museum, medieval fortress and happened to walk into a medieval fair, they always advertise these in town centers where they always disappoint but this one was really good though small.

We spent half a day at a flower- and amusement park where we watched a 4D film on dinosaurs, The film was recommended for children over 7 y.o. but our youngest (aged 5½, mental age 3) found it hysterically funny anyway.  Entertainment overload!

Did a spot of shopping on the only rainy day.  I bought jewelry making stuff for my collection of semi-precious beads, two fabric covered notebooks which is the kind of useless stuff I'm a sucker for and a mini trekking "backpack" with just enough room for car keys and coins.  Cute though.

Yesterday we visited the ancestral area of my father in-law's family, there are large farms and a street named after the family, nothing spectacular and they were always poor but it was quite an emotional visit anyway.  We stopped by a watch tower (erh...one of those things so ships don't hit ground) museum and drove to a harbor town for fish, fries, antique window shopping but no buying.  Hub was boring and had a chicken salad that looked much better than my fish and fries but I'm sure my fish and fries were better!

A Light House is what the watch tower is called.  Your fish & chips sound yummy to me!!!

I'm so sorry you forgot your cleanser!  I've had that happen, and really was miserable!!!  I hope your skin turns around right quick!!!!!

Hair - Wash, condition, this is going to be a miserable day for my scalp because it's supposed to be hot and humid before the thunder arrives. 

Ree Safari Park - (copied from a mail to my dad and only slightly edited) It's hub's birthday today but the weather forecast was better yesterday so we moved the celebration to Friday instead of Saturday.  So today we're just staying home and I'll prepare something special for dinner.  Yesterday we went to Ree Park Zoo with his parents.  It was really spectacular and I was positively surprised.  I didn't know what to expect.  It's a really big place and we didn't feel crowded at any time.  I'll upload photos when the boys are back in school from all three weeks hub, boys and I spent together.

Here's a link to the park's homepage which sadly doesn't do justice to the park:  http://www.reepark.dk/ ; It's divided up in animals according to continents.  North America was impressive with the all the wood.  We walked across a long wooden hanging bridge and I recognized the scent of that new red toned wood (don't know if it really was red wood) and some of it had already greyed which I always thought lent it a rustic charm.  We saw a hawk show too (I doubt the boys remember seeing a similar show five years ago in nord Jylland).  The youngest asked if we'd let him in with the leopards in Africa; "No!".  I saw black swans for the first time ever.  It helped that the weather was fantastic.

Hair - VR, wash, deep condition.  Forgot to comb my hair today.  It's hot and sticky and just about to change.  brushed my hair in the afternoon.  Looks okay, not sure about the feel.  I'm using this Garnier olive and lemon deep conditioner until I've used it up.  Then I won't buy it again.  I'll go back to Gliss Rose Oil deep conditioner from the same line I use daily.  My hair photographs awfully.  It's a stupid length and coarse hair can look bad in photos when it's a medium length.  Well, my hair has always looked awful in photos when it's medium length. 

OOH that does sound scary!  Glad to hear it was nothing serious.  You're probably right about the stomach cramps.  If you don't eat very much red meat, it can definitely give you some trouble.

Hair - Wash, deep condition.  My hair's looking so good I completely passed up on the make-up.  On days when my hair looks its best I don't care about the rest.

Cold - I'm treating it with every known household remidy.  Good Danish honey, green tea, taking my vitamins, eating healthily, sleeping well and sweating it out.  Dressing like it's already Fall.  I'm so annoyed because I can't have a throat infection from two weeks before I'm supposed to have my tonsils removed and the surgery is scheduled in three weeks and I have an examination on the 25th of this month.   I've been keeping my hans off railings, being fantatically hygienic; carried disinfectant with me every where and washed my hands at every opportunity.  The weather's acting like it's Fall.

So if in the end they won't remove my tonsils and my itchy spots end up covering my whole body, at least I'll have great looking hair!

Trisha wrote on Aug 13^th, 2009 at 11:01am:


 Cold appears to be over, skin's somewhat better, I'm taking none-prescriptive antihistamines and using a prescription cream, but my hair feels like fish line nylon.  So now I'm trying to distract from my hair with a colorful, frilly, busy, retro inspired style a'la that Melinda Gordon character.  My make-up's much more colorful than that character though.  Glittery greens, purples, and a blue-pink-purplish eyeshadow with shimmery green and plum eyeliner plus three layers of mascara.  All topped off with an old MAC Vivacious pink lipstick.  As soon as my hair's dry, I'll grab a scarf and tie it into a low ponytail.  That'll be a very colorful scarf too!  Proportions and balance aren't in my vocabulary!  We all have our ways of dealing with our insecurities.

Sounds to me like you had a soul nourishing day.  Good for you!

I'm glad your cold is gone.  I'm afraid that I'm going to get sick now that I'm home. 

Do you do deep treatments on your hair?  If so, how are you doing them and what are you using?

Hair - My scalp suffered miserably yesterday when it was hot and humid.  Relief didn't even come after thunder and lightening that was like nothing we usually have around here and it had to start in the evening when I was home alone with the boys.  Thankfully two of them slept through it.  Today was just wash and condition.  It feels like my hair is growing very fast these days but I won't wave from my decision not to measure until Jan.2010.  I'll need 1-2 trims before that.

Skin - It's a itchy hell with urticaria.  Got Locoid cream and Telfast.  However, every three days it acts up miserably and I can't resist from itching myself into a bloody mess.  If I don't do it while I'm awake and conscious I'll do it in my sleep.  Had the same experience between x-mas and NY 07. Except the rashes were in a different place but the itching at night if I'd actually been able to resist itching during the day, was the same back then.  For months after I had huge blotches of beet red "scars".  It's actually gone away.  Couldn't get a dermatologist appt. until 21st of Oct.  I've got the surgery before that.  This is just hell!  

Saw the doctor on Wednesday and all she could do was to perscribe these Telfast anti-histhamines a new perscription of Locoid hormone cream and write a referal to a dermatologist.  

I'm keeping a diary of what I've eaten and what ever else I've encountered or used on days when it's really bad and generally writing down my suspicions.  I don't search the net much.  Every time I look up symptoms for one or other ailment, it always leads to results saying it looks like the symptoms of this or that type of cancer.  If that is the case then I want a doctor to diagnose it pronto but I don't want to morph into a cyberchondriac.

I guess you could say I had a confused 1950s and 70s thing going on the other day  while vacuuming and 90% of my clothes either being in one of three stages of laundry so I was in a short sleeved knit top, knit slip-over, and pin striped pants, straight loose legs with crease (not flared bellbottoms). I think some women wore that style of pants in the 70s. My hair was straight and center parted the way I prefer it until it's grown longer. Then the doorbell rang and a man I'd never seen asked:

"Are your parents home?" I was smiling from ear to ear.

My reply: "I am the parent at home!". I hope I didn't sound offended. He apologized profusely three times; Right on the spot, when he later spoke to my husband after he came home from work and again before he left our house. I kept repeating that he'd caused no offense and that I was very flattered.

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Hair - Wash, 1 min. deep conditioning treatment.  A little more than regular conditioner, a little less effective than a real deep conditioner.  Fine mid week. 

Life - I'm so busy, stressed and pre-occupied with my health that I just don't have the energy to write much.  If I rant, at least I'm coping.  I go silent when I don't think I can cope, at least not for much longer.

Well, in 1½ hr. I'll be sitting in the doctor's consultation or probably still in the waiting room.   It's a start...Thanks Sakina.

Hair - Oh, and my hair's fine despite all the changes but I'm going to use up the more synthetic, paraben and fragrance including ones before I shift.   Of course, if I begin to suffer bad reactions from the short times they touch my hands, they're going too.  Too bad about the money then.

Hair - Looking decent for the first time in a week.  Couldn't really wash it properly when I felt like beat meat. 

The uninteresting stuff:

Tonsils - Had them out last week.  I for one am grateful to be among the first four patients to be given a shot of cortizone.  Seems to aid healing and make recovery less painful. 

Tuesday 8 - Came in at 12:50pm, surgery at 01:00pm.  Came around and was only drooling a bit of blood around 2:30pm in the clinic.  Shortly before I woke up in recovery I dreamt that I'd slept over and missed the surgery.  No pain but that was probably the drugs.  Refused to try to talk.  Home in bed by 03:30pm.  Later that evening I had ice water and loli ice.  Felt guilty about money spent on prescription painrelief so decided to try some.  That made me nauseus and the ice cubes worked fine as painkillers.

Wednesday 9 - Woke up feeling generally sore.  More ice water and ice cream.  Felt I should try the other prescription drug.  This one lodged itself in my throat.  Really unpleasant to say the least so aside from two regular none prescription painkillers for a headache, I didn't take any pills.  Still living on ice lolis and ice water.  Great diet.   Still in bed.

Thursday 10 - Had some "breakfast" of soft, cold foods I sampled to find out which would lodge itself to the shortest and least painful time in my throat.  Yoghurt burnt so that wasn't an option.  Stayed in bed.  Mom came around in the evening with a colleague and a bunch of clients waiting in a car outside so she just popped in to check on me and drop off some bottles of wine.  Erh...thanks.  I'm not sure how that was supposed to help me.

Friday 11 - Lay on the couch most of the day.  Still not really saying anything.  Same "diet".  Same ice water and ice lolis.  I've never watched so much day time crap!   Couldn't concentrate to read.  Had a general feeling of soreness sort of going out to my ears and that nasty taste and smell of metal that still won't go away. 

Saturday 12 - My memory's quickly getting blurry because the days were pretty much repeats of the day before with some improvements.  Talked a bit.  Hard, didn't sound myself, and hurt like hell just like swallowing, sneezing and couching does.  Other than that, it's just been overall discomfort and soreness.  Worse was and is actually my lower lip which the surgeon some how busted. 

I didn't have the swollen tongue some people have described so I assume they had something clamped on my lip because the left side hurt like hell and was swollen badly, then the inside cracked after a few days.  *Ouch!*

Sunday 13 - On the couch again, this time watching a lot of Disney DX premier with the boys and watching the repeats again the afternoon.  Talkied too much and even had to attempt to shout at the boys once while their dad was taking a nap. He's been fantastic for me.  Tolerated more stuff beign stuck in my throat until some higher power took mercy on me and let me swallow it.  Soup burns a bit too even when it's cooled off.  Was burnt out at 8pm.  Then my dad called at 9pm and I just let him do all the talking and sort of nodded off to sleep with the phone next to my ear.

Monday - Hauled into the clinic at 12pm for check up.  Was told everything looked just fine and that it will be yet another few weeks until the scabs, soreness and smell goes away.  Have read others blogs and know that for some adults it takes a month to recover completely.  Still don't sound myself and don't care to talk to much but when hub broke some glass in the kitchen I some how found the voice to shout at the boys to stay in their rooms.  Hurt like hell!  Didn't say a word after that.

Tuesday - Went to doc to have blood tests re-taken after the last technical error with a note saying: "I had my tonsils out a week ago so I can't talk too much".  Home now.  Dead tired.  Long walk.  Gonna rest until I have to pick the youngest up from kindergarten.





 

(((hugs)))  I know it totaly sucks having your tonsils out.  I had them out when I was 8 years old and I still remember how much it hurt.  I found Jello to be a very soothing thing to eat.