Okay folks I haven't written in a while but that's totally my fault. Life has been kicking my butt with the amount of work I've been doing. My hair I thought was taken care of since it was up but apparently the braids were too tight in places as there was some breakage. Not so much that I'm distraught but more than I would like. Some areas grew like weeds but that has created an uneven neckline so it will need to be trimmed on Wednesday when I go in. My plan after a lot of conditioning and protein and the like yesterday is to relax tomorrow afternoon. I might have waited longer but I'm still teaching and on Friday I'm flying out for another pinup photo shoot.I was going to rebraid my hair in a few weeks before I take off for my first real vacation in a month of Sundays (don't you love old southern woman speak) just so I didn't have to deal with it but was planning on box braids or larger individual braids instead of the micros. It again didn't do as much damage as it could and my hair feels oddly thick even if it's not down to my butt lol. There is quite a bit of new growth that I need to take care of as well so we'll see how that goes. If I'm not loving the hair life post vacation and work conference then I'll take down the braids and do a massive chop of whatever isn't super straight.
With all the hair out I can step on the scale and have a more accurate reading. Turns out I was about right about how much weight they were adding to the scale because as of this morning I am officially 51 pounds down since I started working with Elizabeth at FitOrbit. I can't say what weight I was at when I took the original photos but I was in a size 18/20 or XXL or XXL in vintage clothing at the time. Now I'm in 12s and 14s and no bigger than an XL in some of the vintage clothing designers I love. I actually shed a bunch of clothing that I can't wear anymore and my closet looked sad until I hung up the vintage clothing and now it has its own little section in my wardrobe lol.
I'm very excited about the vacation even though I'm slightly nervous about going alone. However, I've vacationed in the US alone so this shouldn't be too much worse. I'm paranoid at all times and overly cautious. I've gotten some good travel advice and now can't wait to catch my plane and wake up in another country. And I get to do it again a few weeks later for a conference but this one will be more locally out of the country, just crossing the northern border. Oh oh and I got a research grant so I can move forward with the studies I wanted to do this summer. Yeah for me. So yeah the hair thing not so much fun BUT the rest of my life is going well.
When I get back from the photo shoot, tennis lessons start and I'm thrilled that I can take my ridiculous amount of tennis knowledge and make myself look totally incompetent while I work out. I'll try to take a photo or short video to share my pain with all of you. What's up in your world ladies and the occasional gent?
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