It's Friday

It is Friday, April 7, 2006. My granddaughter, Jada turned 2 on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. She is my sunshine and inspiration. I feel good today, a little down mentally, because I feel I am having a hard time accomplishing my goals, but I am not giving up. Have you ever felt like you have really accomplished something in reality, but it's just so small that you just can't really see it. My two main goals right now is to go back to school for a computer program and to start getting myself out of debt. It is driving me crazy not to be in a position to pay my bills or start the process of getting out of debt due to lack of funds. I have a decen job, but something is terribly missing from me right now. I am sorry, but I just have to vent and get this out so that I can began to function properly for the day. The weather is gorgeous outside this morning. It is suppose to get up in the 80's this afternoon, wow. I have my hair pulled up into two ponypuffs with bangs and the back is hanging down. This is my favorite hairstyle and I will post a picture of it in a couple of weeks or so, along with some pictures of my mom. I love my hair so much and I think I'm cute. lol My locs have come a long way and I would never change them. I read a lot of post where some of us locked for spiritual reasons. I think I loced simply because I just like locs. With my locs, I feel mentally and spiritually free. I fell sexy and sophisticated all in one. I can creat all kinds of looks from fun, casual, business and off the chain looks with my babies. JML products have been very good to my locs and I am so glad to have come across them. Even if I ever took my locs down, which won't happen, I would never return to the creamy crack days. The way i came about locing, I missed the chance to experience my loose natural hair. I just realized when I first started locing that I had naturally coarse wavy hair. I could imagine myself in a pretty puff. Hahahahahah By the way, my mom's hair, which is now about 3 weeks old is doing great. Her hair as started to frizz some and it is so cute. My mother will be 78 on June 22 and having her living with us is awesome. Sometimes I feel really sad for her, because I think she is lonely at times and that bothers me. I want to do so many special things for her while she is still here. Anyway ladies, I hope you gals have a wonderful weekend and a great start of the upcoming week. I am going to happy our this evening with my sister to shake my locs, have one or two drinks and get my dance on. Peace

First Timer

I have had the hardest time setting up a spot for a blog and a spot where I can post pictures. I have created blogs at other sites, but have been unable to access them once I have created them. So here I go again. I am almost at my 2nd year loc anniversaray, and that marvelous date is July 06. I have enjoyed my journey, even the frizzies and the bad hair days, which have not been too extreme for me. I started my locs 2 years ago from microbraids that I had gotten in May of 06 and when July 06 came, time to take them down, I couldn't imagine taking down all those tiny braids down by myself, there was tooooo many. I had been wanting to loc for years but was afraid, so this was my opportunity. I had done some deep research on locs and I had made my decision to start the process now. The young lady that put the braids in did locs also and she was going to start mine. She said I didn't have to take the braids down, just twist them together. So when it was time for this to happen, she was no were to be found. So, I combined some of the braids myself by twisting them together. I shampooed and twisted my hair every two weeks until December 06. At that time, my bf cut the extensions off and I had a head full of 1" babylocs sticking up all over the place. At first I was scared because my hair was so short, but after I shampooed and twisted them, it was on an popping. My bf loved it and still does. Right now my locs are between 4"-6" all over my head. My best support and teachers have come from the different talk groups over the internet.