a haircut and a bee story
i don’t like my spelling skills as much as i used to. i never have been real big on grammar, i think it’s mostly a waste of time. people speak how they speak. i do agree there should be some basic rules, but they should make better sense.
just like a bunch of things should make better sense.
i was flooded with relief when i read that annie was going to live after being bitten by a snake. her snakebite made her very sick.
lolly and her youngmanfriend are going to share a home together as a family now. i think it’s fine. and it don’t matter what i think about it. but, i still think it’s fine.
donnie is getting a degree in april and is going to come to houston to get his wet-animal-hide with his good grades on it. so i will get to see my grandson then. me and ben are talking on the phone this week and i think he sent me a video to my email box. i have to check after i am done here.
blanca keeps having good moments and we celebrate and i baby-feed her bits of cookie (she loves this stupid game). when i find a puddle, i calmy talk to her about it, but i am using short ritual, same-same-thing each time. she gets told what it is, and it goes outside. i touch her nose close enough to the puddle and then i tell her to come and we go to the back door. i open it and tell her outside. and i repeat, go pee outside. and i am hauling her ass to the door about every hour on the hour give or take 5 or 10 minutes here and there. until sleeping time. then she is on her own. oh….. dustin sucks at crate training. if i say much more than that, i will be bitching. i don’t want to.
so today she was standing in the great room space next to the bench wall and she was staring at the tv. it had something she was interested in. i was in the next room and had a clear shot at her…….. i watched her, zoned out on tv, settle her little short ass down towards the floor and she was just about to start peeing.
"BLANCA!" "OuTSide!"
it really startled her and i’m suprised she didn’t just go ahead and pee. she made it to the backdoor and i gave her a piece of the bacon flavored dog treats. they are her favorite. she also got a very good rub all over.
while she gets her cookies i keep repeating this little goofy song at her "blanca is a good dog, she goes outside to pee-pee like a big girl.." you have to be there to appreciate it.
i sing potty training songs to my dog.
i need help.
let’s see. it’s been about 4 weeks ago that i cut my hair again…..
i don’t really do a great job, but it’s never been horrible, so from time to time, i do it again for one reason or another. mostly because it will bother me and i will just start snipping at it to move it out of the way.
well, ever since i saw it on tv the very first time, i have always wanted to own my very own flowbee. i mean, how cool is that? nobody ever listens to what i say about my hair anyway. and it is not going to do anything it does not want to do. it’s going to go in the direction it wants to.
well i didn’t get a flowbee. i got a
Conair Even Cut Rotary Hair Cutting System
i expected great things. didn’t happen. i mangled my hair so bad. really bad. i only have pictures in my phone, but it was bad.
i asked keith last year if it would be okay with him if i shaved my head to see what it was like. he told me he wished that i would not please. so i didn’t. i was worried that he would think i did this on purpose. i knew it was stupid to think that, but hell why not pile on one thing more.
i texted dustin at work and told him i needed his assistance with his clippers as soon as he got home to finish off my hair. it was hanging from tufts here and there on my head. wADS of hair. not. making. it. up.
i fecked up my bangs so that dustin couldn’t even fix them.
i have a buzz cut. it’s about 1 /2 an inch long at the longest parts of it. it will be another few weeks until i need to start thinking about some kind of trim to see if it can be straightened out a little more.
i will no longer be cutting my own hair. i am fired.
one of my favorite people to adore at od, talked about some magic cream she uses. i wondered if it was like the blue star ointment type of stuff and googled it. it’s called egyptian magic cream. i think. and i found it at amazon. the website is hilarious and even oddball. if i had not already talked to someone that loved it, i would have said hell no and bought some aveeno or something. i liked very much that it was made up of olive oil and bee products. i liked that it said it was useful as an astringent and for bites and scratches and skin abberitions of all kinds.
i really like this stuff. my skin gets awful and dried from the oxygen and med side effects cause these little alarming looking bruises all over my hands and lower arms. every little bump and scrape. skin breaks very easy. old lady hands. i swear my skin is already better. and i had all these little nip marks from das hound that are just about healed now. a combination of the bee venom and less biting from the dog.
i would be scared to use this stuff if i was allergic to bee venom. just thought about that. wouldn’t they have to put a warning on the label if that was an issue?
i am using this stuff from head to toe. it is fun to use. you glob a little blob into the palm of your hand. rub your two hands together to heat the blob gob to turn it into oil. the friction of your hands makes the blob gob get hot and melt. it is better pronounced with your eyes closed.
you know you want to try it now.
Does it work for cracked heels. I might have to try. Does it feel real oily which is a problem I have with some of the stuff I use. Oh no on your hair. At least it’ll be easy to managet.
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I’ve almost always cut my own hair too. It grows unbelievably slow so if I don’t like a cut, I’m stuck with it for a long time. I’m sorry about your hair but I think it would be kinda cool to have really short hair. At least I think I would like it lol. My skin gets really dry too, I wake up with scratches all the time, looks awful. I’m glad you found some good stuff. Take care Ruby! ((hugs))
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wow. that was one hella hair cut!!!
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You are so funny (Ha Ha) in the way you tell your stories. You’re doing really good in the way you’re training Blanca. I have to get some of that cream.
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Great news about Blanca’s success in going out to pee! Yay, Blanca! I love the way you write. Your diary entries are usually thoughtful and often amusing. I love your self-deprecating sense of humor and your willingness to look at all sides. You are a good person, jule. I sort of like that person who turned you on to the Egyptian Magic too. 🙂
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OMG Ruby this made me laugh. Was I writing here when I got fed up with my hair and took the dog clippers to it? Had a racing stripe right up the back. Blanca will have a lightbulb moment one day and get it. Good for Donnie – he done good. And you know I love Lolly and Hannah wish happiness for them. Egyptian Magic Cream should be paying that diarist commission – we areall checking it out.
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Annie is a little better today. She was alert and hungry this morning. I’ve given her pain pills so now she’s sleeping but I think we are going in the right direction. I remember how much she liked you when you were here. She’s got good taste in people.
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I almost forgto – Lmsusan2003@yahoo.com and thank you. xoxo
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I think I’ll send my 2 yr and 3 months sweet little boy to you to potty train. We have worked at it on and off for months but when he won’t pee on the potty what can you do? I bought him a musical potty chair and that has helped some but very little. He just doesn’t care if he has wet pants or dirty either! But I love him to death! I have trimmed the bottom edge of my hair but never cut it. Get you a good stylist and go every 4 weeks. The world turns upside down if I can’t go every 4 weeks, it keeps it in the style I like. I make my appts 3 months ahead of time b/c my stylist books up quickly so I stay on the ball and make my appts while I’m there.
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Oh yeah, have you and Ben ever installed Skype? You have no idea how much joy it can be to see Ben on your computer and talk to him. Brad and Jen were having to use some type of expensive internet till their regular internet got installed and they took their good easy time! So I got to see and talk to Emily last Thursday for the first time since early January and I was thrilled. She has imaginary sisters and Brad and I were the imaginary sisters that day. She is such a fun entertaining child and I love seeing her once a month. I hope you and Ben will do this, I think you will enjoy it.
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The stuff is actually sold some stores near me if the place is still in business. I might try it. My mom has terriable cracks in her feet that sometimes bleed and I’m starting to show indents that could possible lead to cracking due to how dry they get. Its worth a shot, all natural ingrediants. Awww Blanca would look cute in a doggie dress, lol. Chris doesn’t have a choice with Daisy she’s
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soley mine besides paying for the vet, food and so forth but I’m the one that will be taking care of her and so forth. I’ve made it clear you either let me dress up the dog or I’ll get a reborn baby doll and keep that around the house, guess what he opted for, lol.
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I do the buzz cut thing every now and then, and generally maintain my hair less than an inch long.
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I have a friend who has been cutting her hair with a Flowbee since they came on the market. Her hair is always immaculate! It always looks like she just walked out of the hair salon. My mother talked me into an almost buzz cut when I was in my 20’s. I wore a wig for months!
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YOur hair looks cute short, lucky you! Remember to have Sarah touch it out soon, she’s really wanting to do that for you! Can’t wait for Tuesday!! We should be there around 9ish. Looking forward to having you visit and beading the day away wth you!
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ryn: ME? NUTS? Ha!!!!! I’m tempted to ask you who told you I was nuts so I could go nuts on them but somehow, that seems counterproductive. Thanks for the note though! 😉
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RYNote 1. As I wait as my Daughter cooks dinner, I must say things change. Lunch in mid day, Teatime was a light meal in the late afternoon, the main meal was dinner about 7 or 8 in the evening; but its all messed up now, some call the mid day meal dinner and teatime is the last meal between 5 and 7Â’ish. We have a light lunch and a main meal at 6 to 7, teatime is coffee @ 4Â’ish.
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RYNote 2, if you understood the above, perhaps you could explain it to me, modern life!!!
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RYN: I don’t give a rat’s ass what Zimmerman is feeling today.
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No offence to you, of course.
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Oh wow!! I’m not brave enough to go super short like that. I have a pudgy face so I would look like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. I would be terrified of that lotion. I’m highly allergic to bees. I should have an epi pen but I forget about. I swell up like crazy when stung from a bee. I panic during summer when the bees are around. As far as grammar and spelling, tough crap. If someonedoesn’t like it, too damn bad. I don’t read you because of perfect grammar or spelling. I read you because you are enjoyable to read. RYN: Yes, life can change in an instant. It’s just so sad that she overcame leukemia at the young age of 12 to die from a drunk driving accident at 26. This is exactly why I will not drive and I will not get into a vehicle with someone when alchohol is involved. Pete does not drink at all. I can call him without a problem. This young woman had over 200 people at her candle light vigil yet no one was called. That’s crazy to me. I’d rather be called at 2 am than let someone die.
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I am a self-hair cutter too. When my husband died – 10 years ago next Christmas plus one day – I decided I would never cut my hair again – well except for bangs and sideburns and of course I had to because it got so … got I don’t know how it got. Thin? Maybe? I went on a diet – WW in fact – and a lot of my hair just fell out. Don’t tell WW please I don’t want them to sue me. Anyway myhair is now a bit past shoulder length and I let my sideburns grow out but I still have bangs. I have through my lifetime cut my hair short. Either combing it forward when wet and cutting it off around my face and or holding out from my head with one hand and cutting it off about an inch long with a scissors in my other hand. That would work the first time but I would lose interest in keeping it up/short and then I would let it grow through all the awkward stages to ‘long’. I wonder what makes some of us self hair cutters? Cheapness? Simplicity? Distrust of technology? Desire to not follow the herd? Self-confidence? See yourself in there anywhere? I should be writing an entry. But notes are funner. Easier. Less responsible. If I keep going I
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God I’m jealous of your notes. Long ones. People seem to invest words in diaries that have words in them. Oh.
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Your grammar and spelling are exquisite. So there.
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Do you have a bunch of favorites only entries too? REason I ask is your entries are wonderful but they have quite a bit of time between them. Don’t bother adding me to your favorites list – looking in note history I think I asked to be added years ago – and I apparently did not keep reading because you seem totally new to me. I am a bad diarist. I spread myself too thin and I am devoted to making my own entries. I used to be better at a lot of things. Story of my life.
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