Reason #47290301 I'm glad I didn't get on the jury. The defense attorny liked to use the term "cotton picking", as in "If I called your friend, the police officer, a cotton picking liar, would you be willing to consider the possibility that she was lying, or would you automatically believe her statements".

juliana was my sister and was raiding my mom's pot and telling me my hair was awful and then she fixed it for me.

Suh-wheet. That sounds awesome.

Kittenish, you be good, you hear me? Going to the vet wasn't all that bad in the end, as far as Old Kitty (Gracie? Not sure yet) is concerned this morning.

I once got out of jury service by telling the judge I couldn't be impartial because I had already made up my mind. heh.

You said, "Every woman has to have a trademark. Mine is this single curl in the middle of my forehead." and then you made the curl like John Travolta in Grease.

When she was good, she was very very good....

BWAH!

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Poor li'l Kittenish.

Oh I refuse to believe you have a mommy cut anyhow. Momy cuts are entirely reliant on attitude.

Yeah, what Jars said. No way the Beauty That Is Raq can be brought down by a mommy cut.

I'm definitely anti-extension, but Jilli has had a lot of experience with them so she might be able to give some advice. Though her extensions (as I understand it) tend to be obviously Not Her Hair being bright purple or like that.

Raq I'd recommend you experiment with new product and styling approaches. Styles which are medium to short length and curly can be the height of glamour. Some of the most beautiful women ever wore their hair in that style. All kinds of hot mamas.

So, I ended up taking today off work. I had a doc appt this morning that took forever and I wouldn't have gotten to work till almost noon. And, I have to leave today at 3 to go to school. I figured it wasn't worth it.

The nurse and doc both fussed at me because I was supposed to go in for a follow-up in Jan and am just now getting around to it. They want me to come back in 6 months for another and fussed again to make sure I'd come back in 6 months and not wait 12 months like last time.

I understand their insistance, but I also know my family history and the exam today confirmed it. Meaning, I don't have anything to worry about, so I just don't feel the same urgency to have 6 month follow-ups that they do.

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I'm definitely anti-extension, but Jilli has had a lot of experience with them so she might be able to give some advice. Though her extensions (as I understand it) tend to be obviously Not Her Hair being bright purple or like that.

Yeah. I get extensions so I can have wacky colored streaks in my hair without the damage & upkeep of coloring them myself, so it doesn't matter that my extensions are made from the same stuff as Barbie hair.

With that said, I have seen spectacular extension jobs done with human hair; ones where you think it's the person's real hair. Let me see if I can dig up some information.

I have a real, live bee expert coming by the house to check out the bees which have nested in the wooden awning on the back of the house. He said that it's a 95% chance these are yellow jackets (which, yay! were the masquot... maskot... thingy for my alma mater. He's coming to see for himself. If he's right, he will advise 1) leaving them alone till the weather gets cold enough to freeze them to death and then caulk the hole; or B) he can use a vacuum to slurp some but not all of the li'l beasties away so their numbers are less troublesome, at which time we can leave them alone till the weather gets cold enough to freeze them to death and then caulk the hole. In the meantime I am in a cleaning frenzy because Ack! Stranger in the house!

Many snuggles and good vibes for Kittenish.

I think not-good extensions are very, very bad. It would be one of those things where I'd really want to see the work someone had done on a real person -- someone like me who doesn't spend a lot of time on her hair -- to see what they looked like.

I would love to get extensions, my hair doesn't grow beyond brushing my shoulders (trade off being that my leg hair doesn't grow either). But, I doubt I could afford the kind of extensions I want, the kind that make you wonder/think the hair is real.