Coming home

I was born in the state of Ohio and spent the first four years of my life there. I was raised in San Diego and consider it my hometown. I would visit Cleveland on rare occasions, but did not spend to much time there growing up. About twelve years ago my mom moved back to Cleveland and has been there ever since. I have probably visited Ohio more times in the last 12 years then I have since moving away at four. I consider home to be wherever my mom is, so when I say that I am going home to visit my mom, I am now talking about Cleveland. I recently flew to Cleveland because my mother was rushed to the hospital. My mother health is declining, so this was not her first visit to the hospital. What really caught my attention was my sister saying that she just signed a do not resuscitate order. I've been here for a week and my mother's health has improved, but she is still in the hospital and will probably remain there even after I leave this Sunday. As I sit in my mothers kitchen, looking out at the grey sky, listening to my father coughing in his bedroom, watching a city that I hardly know cat-nap, I start to think about home. Not the home that is the city where my mother lives, but the home that is the city where my own family lives. Is this what being an adult is all about?

slip, slip, slippage

I had to make an unexpected trip to Cleveland, Ohio to see my mother in the hospital. I had to forgo this month's scheduled re-tightening in order to make the trip. I can wait until I come home and make another appointment or I can get my hair done while I am here. I looked into some natural hair salons and their prices range between $90 to $100. One salon in particular has their price listed at $45/hour. What! Are you kidding me?!! I know that I have some slippage going on and I want to address it as soon as possible,  but not at those prices. I went on the sisterlock® website and emailed some trainees and consultants and I am just waiting for them to respond. I also wanted to see what a different consultant is working with and make sure my consultant was on point with my hair. Until next time.......

Ain't nothin going on but the....

Well I really do not have anything new to report about my hair. It is growing, but I do not notice a huge difference. I notice that I have a lot of shrinkage. My loose hair would always shrink up on my head and my locked hair does too.  I have started to do twist-outs instead of braid-outs and have decided that the twist give my more length. I know there are people who say that they never had bad hair days with sisterlocks, but I can not make the same claim. I have had some bad hair days, but I really do not sweat it. I am just letting my hair do whatever it wants to do. I wash my hair weekly and do the occasional twist out. I will be getting my third retightening next week. That's it and that's all. I need to take some pictures so that I can have a visual record of my journey.

The last dragon

I got my reti on Wednesday and I must say that my hair is growing like crazy. You would not be able to tell due to all of my shrinkage. Today I was wearing my contacts for a change and happened to catch a glimpse of a loc that is usually hid by my eyeglass stem. Well to my surprise I had a two headed dragon! I had asked my loctician if she needed me to remove my glasses while she did my reti and she said no. Obviously she ended up combining a loc. How do I feel about this? Well the loc in question was to small for my taste anyway, but I think that there should be some kind of dialogue if she did this on purpose. On a different note, I have not used my bio oil as much as I was previously. I did feel the length of my Cesarean scar and found part of it strangely smooth. I this stuff work??!!! I am re-motivated and I will keep everyone informed of my progress.

2 month update

Here I am going on almost 7 weeks with my sisterlocks. I will be getting my re-ti next week. My hair is growing like crazy. I have shrinkage and a lot of it. My main complaint is that I do not have the movement that I wish, but maybe that will happen as my hair grows. I am not sure. I will ask my loctician if there is a way to get more movement...I am not sure exactly how to express what I am wanting here. My hair is just sitting on my head, but I really want is to whip my hair back and forth. Lol.

What I will be trying out for the New Year

I just ordered Strong Roots Red Pimento Hair Growth Oil and it came in this morning. I just washed my hair last night and picked up my order from the post office and applied it a little while ago. I applied it to my scalp only and will do an application once a week after I was my hair. I already have a lot of hair and my hair seems to be growing pretty quickly from the sisterlocks alone. My hair really is not in any need of growth oil, but my scalp is dry and is in need of moisture. I will also use this on my teen who wears her hair relaxed (hopefully for not much longer) and is wanting to grow out of her latest haircut. This month I have started to use Bio Oil on my stretch marks, acne scars, and C-section scars. I will share the results of my Bio Oil experiment in another two months or so. Lastly I am trying to get in shape with the hope that it will help with fertility. We have tried to get pregnant again with no luck. I took a month off  from the whole stressful fertility thing, but that month has turned into three months now. I am really excited about trying to get pregnant, but I will try not to get stressed out about the process. If it is to be, it will be or not. Only God knows what he has in store for me

The streets of Sacramento.

We went to the outdoor ice skating rink downtown on Christmas eve. We were almost there when a mom and son stopped me an complimented me on my sisterlocks. The duo were both loc wears too. We chatted for a while when the subject of who my loctician was and her information. I was happy to pass on the information, because I get an hour free on my re-ti for every referral. I already have an hour earned from referring one of my customers from the pharmacy to my loctician. By the time we made it to the ice skating rink we only had a 1/2 hour of skate time left before they closed. Turns out 1/2 hour was more then enough, we were exhausted and slept really hard that night. I didn't even hear Santa on the roof.