roseba

Ah, did the headline get you? Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about doing the Lindy and Swing. I recently took a beginner class in Swing/Lindy. It was so much fun. I learned some of the basic steps and now have a good idea where this can expand. It was great fun.

Many people want to take classes like this but are deterred because they don't have a partner. In my case my gentlemen friend asked me to do it with him and I said, sure, when, what time? I always wanted to do this.

So it's been 22 days since I started the no-poo method. As I mentioned in a
previous post, I wasn't going to do this cold turkey. I have too many
occasions where I need to look presentable and this was non-negotiable for
me. But being very familiar with supply and demand, I knew by simply
enlongating the duration between washings, it would help.

So today was going on my third day without a shampoo. Yesterday, I washed my hair, but with water only. It looked ok. Today, not so much. I had it slicked back into a pony-tail, but since I'm sporting a crop doo, it's pretty hard to keep it in a pony-tail.

For the last week or so, I have been reading about the no-poo method of hair care. People do this for many reasons, for the environment, for frugality, for chemical-free lifestyles. I'm intrigued for a very different reason. I've spent a lot of my life trying to manage very fine, oily, stringy hair. At any length longer than a crop, it is very limp and flat unless I take on a lot of extra work. It requires a lot of effort with blow-drying or curling it, simply to give it some body. I've tried perms which do nothing but dry my hair out, as well as break pieces of it off.

The picture above is my daughter thanking me for a wonderful Christmas.

Today is what the Canadians call "Boxing Day". People run out to stores, and try to get the best bargains they can get, much like Black Friday after Thanksgiving. Blech! This isn't what I have in mind when I think of Christmas.