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Natural Hair Adventure: Carol's Daughter

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You know how you see people talking about natural hair journey. Well, mine is a freakin adventure.  I left a city with mostly black people where the stores were stocked with black hair products to a city where the white folks think hair I bought from the store is my own. I joined thirsty roots to find some help, encouragement, and all I got was, chop your damaged hair off.  I don't want to chop my hair off.  So I weaved it until my hair was au naturel.  And now my hair is great and growing. I've run into some problems.  For instance after I wash my hair and condition it...it's still very dry and very hard.  What the hell?  Dry and hard?  Comb breaking hair...hard as a rock.  I've been trying every other conditioner I can out there but not getting the results I was looking for.  I know I sound like a commercial...but this stuff is amazing! MARGUERITE'S MAGIC is the perfect name for it.  How my hair just takes to this product and absorbs itself into my hai

Game of Thrones Rocks!

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Here are my glasses, I don't care for them very much. I ordered black and those are on back order, so I am wearing these for now.   Okay.  So.  Okay.  I didn't want to watch this show but this guy at work read the books, he recommended that everyone watch the show.  When he said it was Fantasy Fiction, people kinda turned their noses. I used to have a whole thing about fantasy fiction, I kinda felt like, magic was an excuse for everything and that it really wasn't explained.  When the real reason was, I couldn't wrap my mind around it.  I'm glad for this point of view because it helps me understand why some people can't wrap their minds around science fiction. Anyway...I watched it and fell asleep on the first episode.  There is far too much overtime going on.  Sometimes I can't even understand what they're saying; but I might be going deaf as well as blind...got my first pair of glasses last week. The last episode saw was when the dude w

Catch-up

Ugh, I hate that I haven't been blogging since November.  Coincidentally, that's when my new boss' boss started. I've been going out to dinners, I've been to Charlotte, I've been in overtime hell since then and my feet are HURTING. But now I'm back for the five people who did read my blog to share a few feelings about some things. THE HUNGER GAMES...are Awesome.  Old news I know.  I've been trying to find the time to read the last book.  I really feel like Katniss Everdeen is the reason behind the change in my behavior, lol.