Nothing of substance

Lately I have been feeling like I have nothing of good quality to talk about on the blog. I don't want to bore you guys with my school activities (hell I would bore myself) and my love life.... well, Lewis is gone back to work out of town so I don't get to interact with him much. Wedding planning-wise: not much I can really handle as of right now. I go back to East TX next month to do some wedding business so I'll have an update on that then. Other than that, nada.

Am I suffering from writer's block?

Here's the issue: sometimes a post idea will come to me at the most random times and then later when I am in front of the computer, I can't remember it! Or, as I am creating a post my words just don't come together like I want them too so I delete the whole thing. And then there is just those times when I'm staring at a blank page, watching the cursor blink. This is probably more like Blogger's Rut.

Perhaps I am just putting way too much thought into it and I just need to start typing away and see what happens........... Help would be nice!

If you guys could please, PRETTY PLEASE send me some suggestions or ideas I would greatly appreciate it! It would stop me from feeling like a loser in bloggerland. And I'll continue to try and come up with more exciting thing here at So this is what they call life!

Make today great folks :)

Hair news: Relaxer update

This post is about a week overdue cause I actually relaxed my hair last week, but I wanted to get this up and tell you guys all about my plan......


I relaxed my hair at 12 wks post and I had never been so happy to see my hair straight (or straighter, I should say). I decided to give self relaxing another go (with NO help from Lewis this time lol) and do someones half and half method I saw on youtube.... IMO it worked but it didn't work, catch my drift? Lol Basically the half and half method was almost what I need to do to self relax, I just need to tweak it to my own liking. For instance I did it where you part ear to ear and relax the top or back first and then do the opposite. Well I don't own a shower hose to wash my hair, I just use the faucet in the tub so trying to figure out which end to do first was a challenge! Then after I decided on the back, the only way I could do it without getting the front of my head wet was to turn on the shower and do it that way...... so by the end of the morning I had basically taken 3 showers relaxing my hair smh. Next time I think I'll part my hair straight down the middle and attempt it that way, seems more faucet friendly.

The only other problem I ran into with my hair, and this one is the most frustrating at the moment, is that my new growth is seeming very resistant to the relaxer! I was not able (once again)  to get my hair to straighten out-really at all. I mean it stretched out, but that's about it. Literally none of my new growth got straight, not even my edges! So I am again left with texlaxed hair   severely underproccessed hair. It would be all good if that's what I was aiming for, but it isn't. I don't know what to do at the moment..... maybe I should stop trying to do my own hair...... or maybe I'm not working it through enough? Idk.

Although I had my issues with the relaxing process, my hair turned out pretty good!

I do have a thin spot in the middle back (if you can't tell I just pointed it out for ya) that I will address in separate post..... Check my length out though! Excited. I think I could use a little dusting.... but I'll wait until I research the self trim some more.

Welp, thanks for reading and checking my pics out..... if you have ANY tips on self relaxing, self trimming/dusting or anything else please share with me! I refuse to go back to a stylist if I don't have to!

My hair..... semi-currently.

So remember when I posted a few weeks ago that I was uber frustrated with my hair? ::If you don't it's okay, here's the link:: Well a few days later on a whim I decided to quit whining and do something about it......  STRAW CURLS.

Right after I took them out......

After about 3 days, I started to separate them. 

Although you can blatantly see my new growth courtesy of the flash on my phone and they don't look the best/professionally done, I think this hairstyle did a good job of giving my hair a fresh look. It was a much needed changed from the everyday bun/clip routine I had fallen into. All I used was a cap full of setting lotion (that blue liquid in a spray bottle full of water) Smooth Shine Polishing foam mousse (got mine from Family Dollar store for $2.75), drinking straws and bobby pins. This hair style lasted me a week; from Labor Day until this past Monday. The only reason why I took it down was because I had separated the front so much that they were starting to lose definition, other wise they would still be up.

Currently 7wks post now..... Got 5 more wks and I will be relaxing. I may have to revisit this style in the future.

What ya think? Did I do a good job? Have any tips or suggestions for other hair styles or how I could make this one last longer? COMMENT!

And it begins: Protective styles

As I talked about in a previous post I have decided to go on a protective style kick. It starts today and I want to see if I can last until then end of my school semester [first week of May]..... that's about 8wks. Can I do it? We are definitely about to find out! The goal I want to achieve out of this is to retain as much length as possible; I'm sure I can.

You know how everybody has a hair growth spurt during sometime of the year? Well I believe that mine is between Feb and Aug.....yea, it's pretty long! And now that I'm in a city where from March til October it's HELLA HOT most of the time, I should see some really good growth. Cross ya fingers for me:)

I DC'd and co-washed my hair yesterday and ended up doing a semi-protective style for the week. I say semi because some of the ends of my hair are still exposed but its not touching anything. That means it's not protective right? ::shrugs shoulders:: .......... Eh. Anyways here is the hairstyle:

In the back all I did was part the back section from ear to ear, put it in a ponytail and pull the pony upwards to connect it to the next sectioned off piece of hair. Basically it was all up and tucked away except for the top ponytail and the piece I pulled to created the fullness of the curls. ::These are straw curls btw.... hence the drinking straw still in my hair lol::

SN: This actually ended up being a fail for me! I didn't leave enough hair out so the curls looked really spaced out to me....Even after I separated them :(

Kinda cute? Not cute? Ya'll let me know! I'm still trying to gather some more inspiration for protective styles too so if you know any don't hesitate to share!!!

House guests

Lewis texted me yesterday afternoon while he was at work and here's how the convo goes:

Him: What you doing?
Me: About to go get some replacement plates ( lost my license plate on the interstate few days ago) what's up?
Him: Just asking......
Me: Alritey
Him: My co-worker just told me he was coming over tomorrow after work...
Me: Why?
Him: IDK
Me: Wait.... that means I have to cook!
Him: Lol I guess babe
Me: O__o

THIS guy....... smh.


First of all, what kind of co-worker just INVITES THEMSELVES over to somebody else's house? When Lewis got home I was like " what sparked this convo of him coming by?" He just looked at me and shrugged his shoulders and then said "oh, his wife is coming too"...... HOLD UP. So you agreed to us having a dinner party? What will I cook? How should I dress? What if they don't like what I make? What if they look around our apartment like " they could definitely do better"......... I was freaking out :::in my mind not actually, I'm too cool for that:::

After I calmed down a bit, I decided that I was going to do the best I could with what I had. I can go pick up some meat to make for dinner and I'd cleaned up a great deal yesterday cause we brought back a lot of stuff from Lewis' apartment in Tyler over Christmas holidays. I still need to straighten up a little bit more and pick out something to wear..... What do you wear to these kinds of things? Can you tell this is my first time?  I'm so new to this whole wifey/hostess thing, and of course Lewis is going to expect me to have it ALL in order when he gets off without any of his help. 


Men.


Lucky for him, I'm cool in a short-notice-situation...... Right?


:)

I'll let you know what I wore and how everything turned out....