I just detangled and boy are my arms tired

Good lawd,

normally when I let my hair prepoo for 24-48 hours it's just silky moisturized and dripping as I hop into the shower.  This was no different except when I finished the wash and conditioning my hair was really tangled up.  I put in my product and that did little to nothing this go round instead of loosing things up enough to make the detangling process around thirty minutes.  Nearly an hour after I started combing it through it was ready to roll my hair.  Then that pissed me off because one side was refusing to roll up easily.  It's done and I'm tired as all get out.  The satin cap is over it and we'll be sleeping in rollers cause there's no way in creation I'm getting under the dryer tonight.  I'm hot too, need to turn on the fan until the AC kicks back in. Oh and thank heavens to whoever invented Mike's Pink Hard Lemonade.  So good, so pink.  At least dinner was good, I made pizza the last two nights cause we were lazy and didn't feel like whipping up anything major.  Last night I used the mild Italian sausage I got from the butcher.  It was good, tasted kinda sweet with the pizza sauce.  Tonight I made the recipe below which I got from Aaron McCargo Jr.'s old show Big Daddy's House which unfortunately is not on the air anymore.  He made mini pizzas and grilled them.  I make the sausage and use the large crusts from the store.  Either way, got tasty pizza to eat for dinner and snack on tomorrow. 

More randomly randomness

Hey folks,

I've gotten all off track with the wash routine because I've been super lazy the last week or so.  I went to work yesterday and that was good.  It's nice to feel busy even though learning new paperwork is always frustrating.  My Folica order shipped within about 12 hours of the order so that rocks.  My unnecessarily delayed Maroon 5 cds just shipped from Top Spin.  It just reminded me why I hate preordering things.  Same thing happened with my Prince set an eon ago.  It took almost two months after release date to fulfill all the preorders.  Yeah we go an extra cd and ended up with something else free, a t-shirt maybe, but it was such a pain to see everyone with their four cd set with nice cover art and you got bubkiss to deal with on your end of things.  And then one of my sorority sisters showed me a site that I shouldn't know exists because it combines good deals with my cheapness without all the hassle of paying for bids or hoping the deal goes through.  I so love that lol.  Anyway nomorerack is like the best site ever.  I got 1600 thread count sheets for 29 bucks and a headset with microphone jack for 9.  Ahhh cheap girl love.  And you get 10 free bucks for signing up.  I picked up a few ice cream books at the library after work and really didn't find anything that must be tried.  A variation on the white chocolate ice cream that could be good and that led me to searching the net for a version of the limited batch Ben & Jerry's Gingersnap Ice Cream that was so good and is now buried in the vault.  That led to What's Cooking Chicago.  Food lust at it's finest.  Please check it out.  After today's running around I'll deep condition my hair and wash it in the morning.  I may take photos again so I can see the difference between my wet length and whatever style I come up with.  Back to bad daytime tv and cartoons ohh and frozen yogurt lol.  Still working on the crunchy toffee batch, so yummy.

Free Samples, New Hair Stuff, Awkward Phone Interview Oh My

Hey people,

I think I've completed the last bit of tinkering to the site I'll do for a while now that I've added the signature.  I may make it a little bit bigger so people can see the rollers more clearly but it's cutesy and I like it.  First things first, a huge thanks to the ladies at Ebony's Garden for mentioning my blog.  I was overwhelmingly surprised and it made me smile.  And as I was roaming there I saw that Miss Jessie's hair care line is giving away FREE SAMPLES of up to three products and shipping is free too.  Check it out soon before your favorite product is gone or something you just want to try out.  Last night as I was checking out blogs to add to the Hair Diva section I came across a post on Relaxed Hair Health mentioning purchasing more expensive tools or products to take care of your hair.  Now it wasn't saying only buy pricey items but that sometimes the front end expense is worth the better care your hair might receive.  So I quit hemming and hawing about it and finally purchased the Denman brushes I had been eying on Folica.  I added two oil infused wide tooth combs and with the promotion that was running everything came up to a reasonable price considering I had four items heading this way.  I know the Mason Pearson brushes are top of the line but I gotta baby step up to those if I ever get them lol.  Right now I'd backhand myself for dropping that much on a brush but who knows it may not seem that big of a deal in six months or so.

Just a Quickie

I was tinkering around watching tennis.  Woot go Serena congrats on getting your FIFTH Wimbledon title today.  And since I couldn't remember exactly when my hair journey started but knew it wasn't time to get a perm for at least six more weeks that I'd miss whatever the exact date was (I'm thinking it was August 3rd since that's when the first picture was taken).  But I wanted to see what progress looked like visually since last August and created the photo I'm about to share using pixlr.com because they are the absolute coolest site lol and I have found a place to vintage up shots without struggling to get things right in Photoshop.  Really LOVE pixlr.  Well the men's doubles is about to wrap up so I'm going to tuck in the photo and get back to watching Wimbledon because Venus and Serena are trying to get their 5th ladies doubles championship.  If they win they will share 15 Wimbledon titles, 5 singles a piece.  Ok scratch that about to wrap up, two sets all going into what is sure to be a tight 5th set.  Here's the photo anyway lol.

The Long Awaited Header Woo Hoo!

Okay if you've visited before you'll know the plain gold header, while lovely, is now defunct.  The bespectacled young woman to your left was created by Jessica Weible as part of her custom character designs.  I stumbled on the background image on Fotolia.  You aren't seeing all of it but it's because the image got slight distorted when I tried to make it fit EXACTLY.  I'd put it up here for you to see but I don't want anyone stealing it from the lovely person that created it.  But here's the exact name and name of the creator in case you were wanting to see it in all its glory: Vintage silhouette of girl on tapestry background. © pugovica_88 #35212902.  It is really adorable and since she was gesturing with her hand just in opposite of the custom character it actually warmed my nerdy little heart.  I was going to add a few food and hair items to the header but that just felt busy so I kept it simple.  I may edit it later but if I do it will probably be a total revamp. 

Happy Sadness

You know how you see things and totally forget about them later on.  I did that with an adorable blog that two parents created to make the most of their very sick daughter's life.  She has a, had a genetic disorder Spinal Muscular Atrophy, that did not have the best prognosis.  They created a bucket list for her which seemed horribly tragic and wonderfully amazing all at the same time.  They are much stronger humans than I am I can admit.  I hadn't checked the blog in a few months because I've been caught up in my own stuff but and when I checked it today I found out that Avery lost her fight with SMA at the end of April.  But here's the truly amazing thing.  Her parents have kept up the blog and their awareness efforts.  It's no less endearing knowing that she's not here anymore.  For those in the area of the fundraising efforts please attend.  Please share the blog with others and keep Avery's memory alive as well as her fight.  I may be back later but had to do this now before I got caught up in my own stuff again.  Avery's Bucket List

My hair is PISSED but the brisket was good

I need to take my hair down and moisturize and seal again.  It's mostly been wrapped for the last two days save a short trip to Wal-mart to get supplies for today.  But as I went to wrap it a few days ago there was shedding and when I took it down there was more shedding.  Not so much that I'd start crying but more than I would like considering the amount of shedding I had on wash day.  But it seemed to appreciate the m&s better this week so maybe I've just been neglecting that more than I should.  Other than that it's being nice and just doing the normal yes I'm growing and yes I'm gray.  It actually looks white right now since my hair is so dark and not burgundy.  I'll tend to the hair in a few minutes.  I really only contributed brisket to the hot part of the meal today. Yeah I grabbed buns and other things to make sure we could eat how we wanted but I was tired.  Been feeling off the last week or so--could be lack of work.  I am so not a person that could work from home unless it was active work cause I swear it's painful.  Anyhoo back to the brisket.  I woke up much earlier than I wanted and since I was up I mixed two dry rubs that we had in the cabinet with some brown sugar and heavily coated it before letting it cook @ 250 degrees.  Probably a little too long but it was good and I didn't have to hear it's undercooked.  Mom is a seriously cook it till it's desert dry kind of human.  I may start working on another round of frozen yogurt.  I am trying to stay off the Golden Oreos as I prepare to get healthy again.  Okay enough witty banter now.  Trying to plan out how to do a good deed.  See ya.

Sleeping in Just Ain't Happening

Hey people,

the blog is almost done with it's makeover.  Waiting on some graphics to finish the header and then it will be all done.  Today is wash day, usually one day over the weekend is, and I used my Red Pimento Oil treatment on my scalp along with some coconut oil as an overnight prepoo.  It definitely helped me detangle my hair easier before the wash--very little hair loss/shedding then.  I switched up the order of my conditioners today and put on the deep conditioner last.  Not sure why I hadn't been before other than the timeline made sense (3 minutes dc, 2 minutes reconstructor, 1 minute KPAK).  My hair is always in need of moisture so not putting that last seemed silly all of a sudden.   I'm air drying as we speak.  Not on the flexi rods this week because I've been lazy the last two weeks and it showed when I detangled my hair.  Way more hair loss than I would ever want.  It's on rollers now and hopefully by bedtime I can take it down and wrap my hair after I moisturize my scalp.  Then hopefully I'm cute for training in the morning for the new job.  I'm looking forward to it but I'll have to admit I'm still not feeling settled for some reason.  I'm not feeling sad or upset about whatever is coming but just like things are set just yet.