Loc Loops, Weight Stalkers and other Joys of Life

Okay initially I thought I would post every Sunday, but I missed this Sunday. Also I have so much great stuff to talk about during the week so when I post one day a week it is hard to keep my posts from becoming novels during an interesting week. I naturally talk a lot ( so much so that my boyfriend seems to be constantly having to do "important" military business whenever I start a story...yeah right) so I am going to post on Sundays definitely and then if something great happens I will add an extra day.

Let me update on my hair...I finally have pictures of my hair after using the loc loops.I loved the curls that they produced, but is it just me or do these curls look a little gericurlesque (new word) They looked just like the pencil curls to me. Maybe it is just my own paranoia. Anyway I received many compliments. I think I have found a good easy hair style. I would like the curls to be looser. I think I am going to have to buy the caruso steam rollers. I am going to go broke behind my sisterlocks!




Okay so I have been trying to lose weight for the 100th time. I am a career dieter. I know that you are supposed to eat healthy and not diet, but eating healthy feels like a diet to me. My grandmother ( who constantly has some home cooked goodness or sweets at her house to torture me) laughs every time I tell her I am eating healthy. She told me that I start a new diet every Monday. Well I am determined to change that. I am going to start on Tuesday from now on :)

So anyway on the first day of school ( I am teacher) when I get to know the children, I always talk about something personal so the kids don't feel so intimidated. This time I told all 110 of my students that it is important to eat healthy, blah blah. You know all the stuff a responsible adult should say to students. I casually mentioned that I was going to eat healthy so I could live longer and then I joked that if they saw me around the school with a chocolate bar they should remind me to eat healthy. Yeah...about that....I love all of my students ( the kids are the reason why teaching is the GREATEST profession in the world), but these kids are like diet drill sergeants (or stalkers). If they see me anywhere, including the grocery store outside of school they are like "Ms. _______ I thought you said you were eating healthy? Is that on your diet?" I even had a child scream noooooooooooo!!! and run across the grass to stop me from eating a chocolate bar that the evil cheerleading sponsor sold to me (and she is supposed to be helping me lose weight). To add to it, I have found that they are tracking my progres Sunday I was grading papers at school (yes you can get rid of this unbelievable notion that teachers work 8 to 4 mon-fri) and I discovered this. I don't know if you can read it, but it is a student's silent version of a high five. It says you lost some weight. Funny! Initially it made me laugh like crazy ( It is true by the way 10 pounds, Whoo Hoo!). Contrary to the other teachers belief( yes I showed it to them...we all need good laughs) he did not put that to get a better grade( they are haters). I did not realize that my one comment a month ago would become my students obsession, it is a little strange. I have just decided to embrace it and accept that my students love me as I do them and they want me to live forever. Anyway, it provided a great laugh and I will probably tell this story for years.

Finally, I was informed by boyfriend (still have not thought of cool code name for him) that I am a lazy blogger. He called all the way from Iraq to read my mistakes ( i.e. using where when I meant wear) . I informed him that I typed that at 11 00 p.m. and I was tired and my grammar is horrible anyway (I teach history not english). He quickly let me know that he was not buying that and that he knew it was pure laziness ( he is right I STRONGLY DISLIKE editing anything). Anyway, he says it must come to a stop ( at this point I offered him the editor position, he declined) and he is right. I sometimes go on the web and read my blog and cringe at the mistakes. So I will stop...I think....unless I am really tired and need to post.....Okay, Okay I will stop. Now if you see mistakes we will chalk it up to the fact that I am not a good editor :) Also, I am shopping for a camera!! I hate it so far. I keep telling people I need clear pictures, and a low price. Apparently there are more things that I should consider. Soon I will have something other than the headshots I have been taking with my phone...stay tuned. So anyway God bless as always please drop a note and let me know what you think!

Bad Hair Day, What is that?

Whoo Hoo Five Weeks down and a lifetime to go. Okay let me apologize for the pictures ahead of time, I desperately need to get a new digital camera. My ancient camera finally bit the dust in an unfortunate incident involving a bottle of water and the bottom of my purse. Therefore all pictures will come from my phone until further notice.

I took this picture at the end of the day to see how these curls had held up. I was very pleased with it. I hated it that morning. I tried rolling my hair with a pencil the night before (something I read in a blog...I know, I know I said I would stop trying everything I read). Anyway, you basically roll your hair around a pencil and then slide the pencil out and secure it with a bobby pen, when you wake up then you have these great curls. The only problem is that they were way too tight. Like geri curl tight(Thankfully can not remember how to spell this horrible hairstyle). So maybe that is a good way to wear longer, more mature locks. However, I will not try it again because I don't favor the geri curl sisterlocks look. On a happier note I received these beautiful flowers from my boo (will have to think of a great name like breadbasket for my man, you will only understand this if you are a brunsli blog reader) after a questionable work week. I have never loved flowers, but these totally made my day. This picture was after I had them for four days, they were beautiful.

So I ordered some loc loops and they came in. I have curled my hair with them twice and I love the curls that I get with them (pics later) but the curls are gone by the end of the day. I am so frustrated, does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep my curls in.

Also I finally completed my first wash! I was so scared, because of the bootleg locks in the front. I thought they would all come out. They did not, but it made my scalp extremely dry. I found this out the next day when a male colleague asked me why I had a grey spot in the front of my head with a strange look on his face (as if he did not know). So I am oiling and drinking lots of water to combat this lovely problem. Finally, let the revolution begin, one of my friends on the creamy crack ( I love that term, it never fails to make me laugh) is telling people how great sisterlocks are. I am like girl you need to jump on the train too. I will have to keep praying for her :) As always I still love, love my locs. Oh and I apologize in advance to all of the grammar phobes that read this blog. God Bless!

DON'T DO IT!!!!!

I DID IT! I have finally locked my hair. I am so excited, I love it more than I thought I would. This first entry should be me talking about how I went to a really great consultant (I did) and sat down in a chair and 16 hours later my hair was done (not exactly). Okay my friends know that I am the queen of cheap. If I can't afford to do something I will make my own way. Sooooo....I attempted to start my own sisterlocks, BAD IDEA (let me say again) BAD IDEA. I would not have done it if I could have afforded it, but it would have taken me like three years to afford it and I can take impatience to a whole nother level. From now on I will only bootleg movies, because this was one of the worst things I put myself through. Let me just add, I think it is great to start any other kind of locks yourself. However, sisterlocks should definitely be started professionally. So let me tell my story so that no one else does what I did (hope that makes sense), Here I am right before I began...so excited
(okay this is the first and LAST time ya'll will see bad pics of me, but they continue throughout this post) then I started my bootleg sisterlocking ( Dr. Cornwell I apologize). I could tell you the entire horrible story from start to finish..but I am going to just cut to the chase and tell you that I finished all of the front here is the first part of the left side that was completed. I was so excited..thinking I had done such a great job. Then I started on the right side
You can see me just a grinning thinking life is sooo great. I finished the entire front and as you can see I am still happy. Then I started on the back and everything went wrong. I started combining locks and making parts too big...I was going on to the FOURTH day of sitting in front of a mirror twisting my hair. I reached in the back to do a twist and it got tangled with another ( it was happening everytime at this point) and then I tried to cut the hair in between and cut out a whole patch of my hair!!! Okay I am not a crier, but after four days of this craziness I definitly started crying seeing my hair fall. I had complained so much that my friends started trying to set up a savings account for me to go and get someone else to do it. So I got on the Sisterlock website and looked up the fabulous Gigi's information. I had seen her name all over so many pages that I loved. Needless to say when she answered I was a pure hot ghetto mess, but she talked me through it and when I told her why I attempted to start them (personal) she set me up with Taffy (lifesaver!!, pics to come later) I drove to Dallas the next day and after many hours, much scolding ( I am very educated on sisterlocks and the trademark and all of the time that Dr Cornwell put into it) here I am world!. Let me say that Taffy probably uncombined more than half of my own locks. Also she let me know that my parts are wayyyy too big. So I really did not do a good job ( I wish I could wipe the grin off my face in those pictures). My official locking date August 14th 2008. A more current pic is located in my profile. It has been four weeks....wow.. and I love it more and more everyday. It would definitly have been worth waiting four years to do. I am so glad to locked, I wish I would have done it sooner. If you are surfing the web and trying to find a way to start sisterlocks yourself because the price is too high, just wait. Take it from someone who knows it is definitly not worth it. From now on no more bad pics, and only I love my sisterlocks stories. please continue to stop by and let me know what you think.