St Patty's Day and Humid

I figured I was going to make the best of capturing pictures of my curls. Got to wash them out tonight. GRRR! I was also glad to try out my new eye color "humid". This joint is da bomb! I can't wait to wear it again. I am loving soft spikes, I can't wait to use them again in a couple of more weeks. I don't want to get addicted to curling my locks just yet. They are locking just fine with my freestyle.

For all those make up lovers, here is a list of MAC shades that I used:

VEX

Down Brown

Hood Winked

Humid

Palm Sunday... Soft Spikes Attempt

I decided to use my soft spikes again. I like the results, too bad I can only wear my hair like this for 2 days. On Tuesday I have my 4th retightening appointment. I am also thinking about recruiting my kids to take my hair shots. It is so hard to try to take a picture of the back of my head. DH usually helps me out when he is around. Church service was great! I am going to relax for the rest of the day. So I know I might have flattened curls when I wake up.

Since I have her picture up here, let me tell you about my little mini me. This child is gonna make me go crazy over her hair. See her nice and pretty bangs in the picture. Well for two weeks I had this long pretty curl coming down to her face while the rest of her hair was cornrowed. This child decided to take a round brush and blower dryer to the curl that I had to the front. This little girl used a blow dryer without that protective tip on it, and can you believe she burnt her hair off and I had to cut it down to a bang in the front. Lawd help me! She could have burned herself. She is a girly girl just like me when it comes to hair. I bet she will have a lot of hair stories to tell when she gets older. As if the big chop that she did last year wasn't enough. If I could only give her braidlocks. Oh well...Enjoy the pics!

Yet Another Corporate America Post

So, I've been thinking... Should I start applying for another job. I think I have my game plan all mapped out. Is it time to make that move or should I stay a little longer. I have read a lot of post about having locks in corporate America. I did not have locks when I interviewed for my current job. My sister just recently landed a new job, she is natural, but does not have locks. She rocks the kinky twist and wears her hair pinned up nicely in interviews. I always figure, hey I can pin my locks up too. The interview is always about first impressions. But is Corporate America ready for my shells, my earrings, my CD collection and books that I keep on my desk. If their not, all well. I can't change me, accept me as I am... (after you make that salary offer) LOL!

There are two jobs that I will apply for, I am in no big rush to leave where I am. I enjoy the work and I am here to learn. Sometimes money can be the issue and that would be the only motivational issue for the change. I do not mind commuting all the way out here to Baltimore. I get to sleep on the train, or do some homework, or jot down blog ideas. Although, it would be nice to be closer to home.

When it comes to work, I don't think appearance should be an issue. I think what counts most is work ethics, experience, and education.

So the cat was like WTF...

I happened to be married into a musical family. My husband sings, the kids sings, those little buggers even like to play musical instruments. The closest I come to this is being in the children and youth choir for years, and I played the violin when I was in the fourth grade. I love to write songs, when there is ever time to do so. So I been having this music bug ever since one of my favorite movies came out on video. I loved Stranger Than Fiction with Will Ferrell. I guess I found myself relating to some of the things within the movie. For instance, I have the same counting problem. Do other accountants have this problem? I count stairs, I calculate the change before the cashiers puts my money in the cash register, I add up sales taxes, I even count the number of words in billboards and posters. Anywho... so I been feeling musical and I always loved the sound of a guitar. I recently bought this beautiful acoustic guitar. I can't play it just yet, but I am practicing a couple nights out of the week. I will soon take some lessons with a community center. The kids discovered my guitar, so now the boy wants to play... he plays the drums, so I guess adding the guitar to his many talents should be good.

Made it to month 5...

I made it to month five. I am so excited that spring is almost here. I did finally wash my hair. Thank goodness. I always notice a lot of change after I wash my hair. I love the way it plumps, then after a day I get major shrinkage...

I had to take a picture with my purple hat. Actually, I took this picture about a week ago, but have yet to share it. I am in love with this hat. I have four purple ensembles that I wear with it. I am also stocking up on some things to rock for spring. Each year I choose a spring color. This year my color is "green". Green is one of my favorite colors... I even went to the MAC counter and picked up "humid" (green shade of eye color). I can't wait to use it.

Lincoln Contest

Check out the original song/video by my group E-mence. We are trying to win the Lincoln song contest and we need your votes... you will need to register with Spotlight herehttp://lincoln.unboundsound.com/ . It is free and literally only takes 2 minutes..then you log in and rate their song/video. Please give them 5 stars. Also it would be nice to have you post a comment but that is optional (but would be greatly appreciated). :) Please pass this along to your friends and family to support them as well. To check it out, click this link: http://affiliate.kickapps.com/kickapps/_Lincoln-Takes-You-Higher-by-E-mence/video/166145/15116.html Internet Explorer may cause a problem with viewing the videos or registering. This can be fixed by downloading Firefox as yourbrowser. Firefox is free and takes no time to download. Here is the link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/(This is not a gimmick to download Firefox. Internet Explorer is just known to give people problems with this site.)Remeber to vote for Emence. Thanks yall…I really appreciate it!

Sniff Test

This is sad, but true. It is taking me longer and longer to find time to wash my hair. Especially since I'm in grad school, work 2 jobs totalling 80 hours a week, three kids, husband, house, 2 cats and a dog... Whew! Wonder if I can say that all in one breath. Every night when I go to bed and cuddle with DH, I ask him if he could sniff my hair. He keeps telling me it smells OK, I even pull my hair towards my nose just to see if it smells OK. It don't "STANK!" Thank goodness. I haven't washed my locks in about 3.5 weeks... My hair isn't itchy, or flaky, which is probably another reason why I am not pressing the issue of washing it. I only wash with the Knotty Boy Soap bar. It is the only shampoo that I am using. I also like to use the ACV once a month.

A fellow blogger wondered if I put anything in my hair. I don't... just H2O. No product = No product buildup in my locks.

Big hair + Locks = JOY!!

This title comes from a comment posted by MeikMeika. THANKS! I often refer to my hair as a "lions mane". I do love the fullness, and my parts seem to be virtually completely gone. But I love it when my hair is freshly tighten. I am able to run my hands across my scalp with no problem. The appearance is also neat, and it feels 100% lighter. My hair is retightened every 6 weeks. I guess its the long wait that makes me miss my parts. However, I do love my big hair. In a couple of more days I will be coming across 5 months of being locked.

My hair is doing well. I am also being spotted for having sisterlocks more often, at first everyone was asking about my "small braids", and what type of hair did I use. LOL!!

I often look at the blogs of those who have mature locks and wonder if my hair will turn out like theirs.... Do you ever do the same?

Rubber Bands... Hard to Break

I can't seem to shake this habit of picking up rubber bands and using them as headbands. You would think from the number of times that I popped one or few on my forehead that I would stop using them. My only style is really my "freestyle", and sometimes I want my hair away from my face while I am crunching numbers. I think I need an emergency Brunsli hair tie or tomoka twist at work. I already keep an emergency squirt bottle of tap water at work when my hair is thirsty, I also keep a small squirt bottle in my book bag. I even keep emergency lip gloss... (lip gloss... I loves lip gloss). So why prey tail I don't have emergency hair accessories... Must be time to get some more. I have been looking at another hair tie on eBay. Need to order it before its gone. I love my red one...

Reflection of 4.5 Months

Not too much is going on with my hair. For some strange reason I think not posting for a week is way too long. LOL! It's been 3 weeks since my last retightening and I have 3 more weeks to go until my 4th retightening. I call this stage my "lions mane" stage. I can't wait for this winter weather to break so that I can just let my hair airdry.

She Is On-A-Roll

The third grade is the first grade level where they receive actually letter grades on their report cards. Baby girl, and in fact all of the kids have done well this year. We recently went to my little "Minnie-Me" Honor Roll assembly. We are so proud of her, she was so excited about making the honor roll too. I can't wait till the day that she makes Principal's Honor Roll.

Sometimes I think this blog is becomming more and more about her. Here is a picture of her holding her certificate. I even framed it and I am anxiously awaiting to frame more of them as she gets them.

Not Exactly Valentine's Day

I had a fabulous weekend. My husband and I went out to dinner and then we went to a family function. This weekend my mom and dad had my kids. Thank goodness for Grandparents. We didn't do anything out of the norm on Valentine's Day so we made sure we did something this weekend. We had a nice evening with intriguing conversation. What was even better was the food. I can get down when it comes to good food, no salad tonight! My husband can put it away too.

I got all dazzled up for him and rocked the hell out of a freestyle. I got so many compliments about my hair that night. Here are a few more pics. Enjoy

SoFt SpIkEs

I purchased Soft Spikes in celebration on becomming 4 months on lockdown. I also have a twist and hairtie in route, but anywhoo... Big ups to the ladies on lockitup. I was unsure of what product to use on my baby locks. I got a lot of good suggestions. The one that I like most was to just use water. That is exactly what I did. I spritz my dry hair with water and used a little bit of the setting spray that came with my spikes. I ordered a lot. I got four packages of the large. I guess I am anitcipating on when my locks get longer. Here are some pics of my Soft Spikes experience. Enjoy!

Month 4

Reflection back on the past 4 months. Enjoy!!

Top left is @ 3.5 weeks

Top right is @ 2 months

Bottom left is @ 3 months

Bottom right is @ 4 months

3rd Retightenting

I had my third retigtening this past Thursday. My appointments are becomming shorter and shorter. My hair was retightened in 2 hours and 45 minutes. I had no slippage and only new growth was retightened. I haven't B&B in 6 weeks. My hair is really holding up. I love the way my new growth grows in, I love the spirals in my hair.

However, it feels like it is snowing everyday. I get extreme dry scalp in the winter. My hair was flaking all over the place. My consultant told me I can start using the Sisterlocks Moisturizer. I am going to try it, I hope it won't make my hair slip. I put absolutely nothing in my hair, this attributes to my dry scalp. Thank goodness my scalp isn't itchy. I almost got chastised for not using the sisterlocks starter shampoo. But I had explained that the starter shampoo makes my scalp itchy. It made my scalp feel as if it was on FIRE. So then it was understood why I used the Knotty Boy Soap bar. It's not a sisterlocks product, but hey it gets the job done! In my opinion it is way better than that starter stuff! (I hope the sisterlocks police don't arrest me. LOL!)

I had so much to do the day of my retightening so here are some after, after shots from my retightening. Oh yeah, I also got chastised for choping off my little antennas. I like the way they are growing in now, I don't mind them be short, they are growing in thick and healthy. Which is all that matters to me.

Blue, Blue and more Blue

So there is nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon. I am a girly girl, so I had some fun with the makeup. I call this look "Moon Walk" Enjoy!

I am always asked if these are my real eyelashes, and yup they are.

Grown and Sexy...

There is nothing like a man with a dream, and a woman who supports him 100%. But this music sh$% better jump off soon! LMAO! Please support them if you like their music. Check'em out on Youtube and also Myspace, and add them as a friend. Much love. Thanks.

OMG... I Think She Likes It

My parents asked my kids over for the Super Bowl game. I was excited, no kids... just husband and wife time. So I stayed awhile at my parents house after the game and my mom and I did some bonding things like doing her make up and she showed me her new excercise toy (which damn near killed me). LOL! She was asking me if she should grow her hair back, I told her no because the short style she wears is very cute on her face. Then I asked if she is still letting her hair dresser perm her hair. She told me that her hair dresser only puts it on the back and on her side burns. My mom has a very loose curl, my curl isn't as loose as hers. A couple of years ago my moms hair started to thin. It was becuase they were giving her a touch up ever 6 weeks. WTF! Now when I used to perm my hair, I did it every 6 months or once a year and it was a mild formula. My mom hair texture is like a 2B, so basically her hair dresser was just making extra money off of her knowing good and well she had no reason to get a perm. So now she lets them perm her hair sparringly. Thank goodness...

She has finally admitted that she likes my locks. She loves the size of them and she thinks they suit me well. My little brother has started his second set of locks. His first set was so adorable, and he had grown them for 2 years. My mother hated them. He cut them off about a month before I got mine, and he is now starting over. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that she has finally made PEACE with MY HAIR.

I've Been Tagged

Ok.. So,here are the rules: (1) Link to the person that tagged you. (2) Post the rules on your blog. (3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. (4) Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. (5) Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. Now let's have some fun
I was tagged by Abena .......so here it goes :)

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1. At the age of 27, my family still calls me by my nick name
Plookie (Pa-lou-key). Don't they know I am a grown
A$% Woman!

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2. I am a die hard soccer mom, spring season is about to start and I am more excited than the kids.

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3. As my first job out of highshool I was a tellermarketer. I sucked badly and quit the first week.

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4. I was a girl scout until I was 16 years old. By then I figured I was too old to sing Kumbaya around the campfire.

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5. I went through a faze when I rocked bright red hair. It was so hard finding outfits that did not clash with my hair.

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6. I had my first kiss in the back of the church. I knew God was watching... but it was worth it.

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Let's see.... I am now tagging: Carmen, Wendi, Free, Blaqkofi, Trina, & Allecia

So This Is What The World Looks Like...

I lost my glasses back in August 07. Normally I would wear them when needed or just to make a fashion statement. Well, life without them has been miserable. I finally got my eyes checked after two years and ordered a new pair of glasses. As an accountant, I work with numbers all day long. Spread sheets began to look a little fuzzy and sometimes I couldn't figure out if that was a "1" or a "7". I never want to part with my glasses again. These spectacles also cost me a fortune, these bad boys better tap dance and read the books for me. LOL!