Me? Bored? Nahhhhh....

You were born on 13 January 1977.
Your date of conception was on or about 22 April 1976 which was a Thursday.

You were born on a Thursday under the astrological sign Capricorn.
Your Life path number is 11.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 6.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 9.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2443156.5.
The golden number for 1977 is 2.
The epact number for 1977 is 10.
The year 1977 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/31/1976 and ending 2/17/1977.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Dragon.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Goose; your plant is Bramble.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Famenoth, the third month of the season of Poret (Emergence - Fertile soil).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 23 Tevet 5737.

The moon's phase on the day you were born was waning crescent.

As of 8/31/2006 4:53:05 PM EDT
You are 29 years old.
You are 355 months old.
You are 1,546 weeks old.
You are 10,822 days old.
You are 259,744 hours old.
You are 15,584,693 minutes old.
You are 935,081,585 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Orlando Bloom (1977)
Stephen Hendry (1969)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961)
Richard Moll (1943)
Charles Nelson Reilly (1931)
Gwen Verdon (1925)
Robert Stack (1919)
Sophie Tucker (1884)
Horatio Alger (1832)

Top songs of 1977
You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone
Best of My Love by Emotions
I Just Want to Be Your Everything by Andy Gibb
How Deep Is Your Love by Bee Gees
Evergreen (from 'A Star Is Born') by Barbra Streisand
Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary MacGregor
Rich Girl by Daryl Hall & John Oates
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco
Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 4.23561643835616 years old. (You're still chasing cats!)

There are 135 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 30 candles.

Those 30 candles produce 30 BTUs, or 7,560 calories of heat (that's only 7.5600 food Calories!) . You can boil 3.43 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1977 there were approximately 3.1 million births in the US.
In 1977 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.
In 1977 in the US there were approximately 2,152,662 marriages (10.1%) and 1,036,000 divorces (4.9%)
In 1977 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

Your birthstone is Garnet

Garnet is used as a power stone
Some lists also consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources): Emerald, Rose Quartz

Your birth tree is: Elm Tree, the noble-mindedness
Pleasant shape, tasteful clothes, modest demands, tends not forgive mistakes, cheerful, likes to lead but not to obey, honest and faithful partner, tends to a know-all-attitude and making decisions for others, noble-minded, generous, good sense of humour, practical.

Songs in the key of C

Leave me a note. I give you a letter of the alphabet. You think of ten songs that start with that letter that you like/own/are on your harddrive. Then you go!

[Thunder Road] gave me the letter C.

Call Me - Me'shell Ndegechello: I can't remember which of her songs I heard first, but this is from her first album 'Plantation Lullabies', and it features her sexy gruff voice, and that fabulous bass guitar, as well as just being a sexyyyy song in and of itself.

Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue: Potentially the most deadly earworm song EVER - but then - I love Europop. It also reminds me of the funner part of my last days at Lilly - this was the theme song for the Scottish contigent. I had locs still back then, and I whipped hair with the best of them.

Canned Heat - Jamiroqui: Not really EuroPop, but it's a slamming dance song, one of the ones that gets me grooving at my desk. I heard them perform this song live, and you can't help but sing (and dance) along.

Circle of One - Oleta Adams: I fell in LOVE with Oleta after hearing (and performing a choreographed dance routine) to Everything Must Change in highschool. This song blends so wonderfully with that one - the fact that when it really comes down to it, you can choose to be lonely, or to share yourself with others - and either way - change is vital.

Cleaning Out My Closet - Eminem: a classic (can you really call it that?) of his. If any song reflects his style and his voice and his subject matter - this is it. This song IS Eminem.

Clear and Present Danger - Mattafix: A new favorite of mine - stumbled across it while looking for new music on music.mp3.ru. I sat and listened to the entire album in rapture - it's soft, and laidback, but energetic. And the voices! It's almost a lullabye...with a hot drum line.

Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls: What was the name of the all female rock tour that Sarah MacLachan chick was running? (Thanks ya'll - The Lillith Fair!!) The year I saw them in Atlanta, the Indigo Girls were featured, I was neckdeep in my first lesbian relationship, living in my own place for the first time, and I screamed this song along with the Indigo Girls - this song will always take me back to that year.

Control - Janet Jackson: "When I was 17, I did what people told me...." CLASSIC Janet. And of course, the mantra for a generation of young women - hell, it's still partially my mantra - I'm such a controlfreak.

Crazy in Love - Beyonce: When I hear this - I can't help but to start quivering and shaking the girls. I'm not a big fan of Ms. Knowles - but I lost about 15 pounds to this song while in Geneva - as well as got hit in more times than a little bit. Then, that might have been more the pole dancing than anything else. *does the boob jiggle*

Crede-Ma - O-Zone: Despite the fact that I have no CLUE what they are saying (this is the same group that sings the infamous Numa-Numa song), I love this song. It's a combo of r&b and rap, with a very smooth, roadtrippin kinda feel.

An unexpected (though logical) side effect of my hair vitamins regime has been - well, my hair has been growing - EVERYWHERE.

I'm a mildly hairy woman - arms, legs, line below the belly button, and one stubborn hair on my chin (besides the other areas that us adults usually have hair). Lately though, I've been noticed hair growing in other places, as well as my normal hair being longer. For instance!
A few weeks ago, I was in some meeting, playing with my wedding set, and noticed hair growing out of my FINGERS. Very fine, very soft, pitchblack hair. EEEP!
A week or so after that, I was rubbing my chin deep in thought, and found that my usual chin hair had somehow managed to grow in two inches and THICK before I found it and plucked it as I have been doing for years.
Today, I was at a lunch banquet for work, in a FREEZING room, and noticed that the hair on my arms was EXCEPTIONALLY long. Now, usually, sometimes I'll shave my arms - but my arm hair has NEVER been this long. Once again, it was pretty thin, but LONG. Seeing that prompted me to check my chin - and lo & behold! The hair had grown back - about a 1/4 inch long - AND a second one has joined it.
*checks underarms* Yup - I shaved Sunday, and I've already got a nice bit of stubble there - where as usually, I could go for at least a week before FEELING any hair, much less SEEING it.

It's really cool seeing these signs that my regime is working - the hair on my HEAD is so wild and wooly, that most of the time, I can't tell WHAT's going on in my scalp. Though - I have noticed 'tingling' up there in the mornings after I take my MSM. I don't know if it's a mind trip (which, it could be) or if I'm really feeling my scalp - do stuff. I plan on adding biotin - I'm going to order it tomorrow after I get paid, so I'll most likely start using it next week, and from what I've heard - it REALLY gives you the tingles. I've been keeping an eye on my hairline - I've been focusing the SS oil there mainly, because that is the thinnest area of my hair. I know that part of it is because I have 'baby' hair there - super fine, barely wavy, and did I mention super fine? - but I know that should grow in too with time.

I was feeling rather down on myself earlier, because I KNOW that I have not been taking proper care of myself - we aren't even going to TALK about my diet - but seeing these sort of things tells me that my body is functioning rather well - otherwisde it wouldn't be wasting energy on something as pointless as HAIR.

Okay - let's catch up here.

I rinsed the henna out Sunday morning, as usual, and put the koHumectress in. I LIKED the smell, and it was really, really, thick, which is something that I've missed in the cheapie ones. I let it sit for about two hours, and then rinsed & tried to comb out.
Well. I'm not sure if the koHumctress is one of those kinds of conditioners that if you let stay on too long, it starts pulling moisture out of your hair or what, but - it was NOT pleasant. I rinsed it all out, mixed some V05 & honey together, and put that in my head.

Then, hubby called from work and said that he wanted to go out to eat - so I had to figure out what to do with my hair. I had been thinking about combing gel through my hair so see if I could hold onto the curls without them shrinking away to nothingness, and I figured - what better time? So, I mixed up some ORS L&T gel, a touch of olive oil and some HH, and slapped it into my hair, and combed it out. I have to say - I used a little bit too much, and I was worried about my hair drying in time to go out!! When I went to Sally's, I also got four large hair clips - two black and two white. I pulled out the black ones, and worked on making a semi-cute style sith my hair pullled back on either side, then a lil funky bang-type thing in the front.
I can't WAIT for my hair to get longer - it ALMOST worked, but my hair is still to 'choppy' lengthwise for it to look really nice. So, I just slapped it into a pufro, plucked out the edges, and let it dry. It looked really cute - all my curls were happily in tight lil spirals - nanoslinkyhead, as hubby called me.

I slept on it, and the next morning - YOUCH!! The gel had dried nice and crunchy, and my hair was SOOOO not feeling being combed out - so I just got it soaking wet, pulled it out as much as I could, and rocked another pufro. I knew that I wanted to twist on Monday night, so I wasn't too worried about it. I tossed a scarf over my head for my drive in to work, as I drive with the windows down, and didn't want the wind to force my wet hair to dry into a half high fro.
Interestingly enough, my hair was WET almost all day long - it didn't fully dry out until the ride HOME at the end of the day.

I knew that I was going to have to use some conditioner - to wash the gel out of my hair, as well as to give me enough slip to comb through it, so I figured I would give the koHumctress another chance. This time - it worked WONDERFULLY. I just got my hair really wet, tried to rinse out as much of the gel as I could, then squished the koHumectress into my hair. It was almost instantly soft, and the tangles loosened enough that I was able to comb through with almost no problems. My hair is still too short (on my poor, roughed up left side) to get a good grasp on to comb out the ends without tugging the roots, but the koHumectress did a pretty good job - gave me plenty of slip, and definitely cleaned all the gel out of my hair.

I rinsed it out, combed out my hair once more, then sat down to do some twists. I'm thinking it took about two and a half hours - comb/part/WP/Gel/twist. They are - medium size, I suppose, rather than my usual TINY ones. I'm working to be sure that I get used to making larger twists, so that I cna keep the twisting time to around two hours - anything longer starts to irk me - and I don't know WHAT I was tripping on with the 5-6 hour long twisting. I really think that combing my hair out WELL before I start twisting helps a lot - it makes the parting process ever so much easier.

I'm going out of town this weekend, so I think that I'm going to have to *weeps* skip a henna session....but wait! I'm taking the Labor Day holiday and a couple of days after that off - so I'll just henna late! Yesaah!!
Speaking of henna - my roots still laugh in the face of henna, so I better enjoy these red tips I have, cuz once they are gone, I'm back to my natural hair color. Ah well, I've got a year (or more) to get used to it, so I'll be fine. I simply REFUSE to bleach my hair again, so I'm going to have to work with the color that comes out o my head.


I've really gotten to like using stuff on my head that is edible. It makes SOO much sense to me - why would I want to use stuff on the OUTSIDE of me that would be POSIONOUS to the inside? I mean really, that can't POSSIBILY be healthy.
I've been thinking about trying to make a homemade conditioner - honey, powdered milk, olive oil and maybe some aloe vera..... Isn't that almost SMT? Hmm, I might need to look at that thread again.

Stuff & Bother

The lawn is - stunning. Stellar. Amazing - and hubby managed to pull a last minute save and found some poor man to do the WHOLE thing for 200.00 bucks. *jaw drops* We ended up paying him 260, and I still feel like we robbed him. I need to take a picture of the HUGE pile o brush that is sitting on the road - somehow, I seriously doubt that the trash guys are going to take it - I need to call MLGW and see who can come and get it, and how much they are going to rip us off.

Came home yesterday and the fertilfocus was in the mail, which of course, I had to promptly try out. It's COOL. I've got nothing but dots and lines, but I suspect that I'm going to start bleeding next week or so (the severe sleepies and general evilness being a sign), so that's not suprising. Went and visited some friends Friday, and got to cuddle the absolutely cutest, baby boy EVER. It's odd, because he didn't LOOK like a baby - facially. You know how babies are usually just - well, they don't look all the way done? This baby - there is no doubt as to 'who he's going to look like' because you can see it in his face already - precious kid. Hungry too! Mom had been trying for 7 years to have a bambino, so he's a much, much loved little baby boy. She passed along one of her natural fertility books - Jambalaya to me.

Went to the library before I went there, and roughly had a bookgasm. I got the following:

 Satan's Lambs,  Flashpoint,  Eyeshot and No Good Deed by Lynn Hightower
 Fledgling by Octavia Butler 
 Echoes of Egyptian Voices :an anthology of ancient Egyptian poetry by John L. Foster.
 Brown Girl in the Ring  and Midnight Robber by Nal Hopkinson
 Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (for the hubby)
 Dragonfly in Amber and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
 The Gilda stories by Jewlle Gomez
 The Literature of Ancient Egypt; an anthology of stories, instructions, and poetry., Simpson, William Kelly.
 Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

So far, I've read Banewreaker and Eyeshot, and started on Satan's Lambs I think I'm going to take Echos and The Gilda stories on the trip with me...gotta always have at least ONE book along on any trip - never know.

The weekend was lovely, sat around with goop in my hair, messed around with the wallpaper (paint remover DOES do a pretty nice job in most spots - some, I think we are just going to have to sand down), and primed a couple of inches of another room.  The lawn guys were busy at work all weekend (ALLL weekend - we sooo got a steal!) and C had to work this weekend - his last working weekend before the boss comes ack from vacation, so he was there pretty late making sure his p&q's were all lined up in a row. We managed to go out - got some YUMMMYLICIOUS sushi (god, how I adore sushi) and sake loveliness.

I think I'm going to go clothes shopping today after work - I want to pick up some nice going out clothes - it's SO depressing to realize that all my clothes are throughly utilitarian work clothes, and nothing spicy at all. Besides, I've got a coupon, and I'm almost paid off on my LB card, which is just WRONG. Besides - I'm going to Hotlanta this weekend - I already KNOW my hair is going to be fire - I want my clothes to be blazing too!

Ooohhh - we finally purchased our computer desk and chair - I had to buy it this weekend, as I had talked myself out of buying a 400 dollar digital camera, so I figured I would get something fun that we're SUPPOSED to be buying instead.

 

 

 

Purty, ain't they? Our computer is chrome, white and black, and the room is going to be red & black. Soooo lovely.

I'm taking time off after the holiday to work on the house - so hopefully, by the time I get back to work, the office will be primed and have at least one coat of paint on it, and the living room will be primed and painted, AND the library will be cleaned up and some books will be unpacked. I've got big plans, doggone it! The housewarming is getting closer and closer - I need to put together the invite list - I was thinking this morning, and I realized that we might actually have a pretty big bunch of people there. I'll get C to start working on the menu.

Really, that was mostly stuff, and hardly any bother.

I had to go to Sally's today to get another applicator, as I forgot to get it Friday, and while there, of course, I had to drift through the aisles and see if anything looked interesting.

I considered buying some Humectress, considering all the RAVE reviews I have been hearing, but decided to NOT drop 18 bucks on 20 oz of conditioner that I KNOW I'm going to fly through. On another hair board I'm on, someone was asking whether the knock off stuff worked as well as the real thing. I'm waiting (patiently, patiently!) for my free sample of Humectress to show up in the mail, but figured while I was waiting - why not scoop up a 5 buck bottle of the knockoff stuff, and see how it worked? I also figured that it would be easier to tell a difference if I used the real thing AFTER I used the fake stuff. I would expect to see an OBVIOUS difference once I use the real stuff if they are really different. If I don't see much of a difference - or it's worse for my hair, then I know that the real deal isn't worth the money.

I plan on using it tomorrow once the henna comes off as a DT, bu t my debate is whether or not to add honey to it. I'm thinking that since it's supposed to be SUCH high class stuff, I won't. In fact, I definitely think I won't - I want to see how well it works (at 5 bucks for 16 oz) compared to the cheapo stuff (0.89 for 18 oz) plus honey. Once again, if I don't see an impressive difference - I know it's not worth it.

*nods* sounds like a plan.

So - Henna #5 is currently working it magic on my head.

I clarified before doing it - a mix of honey and baking soda and some water that I put in my hair, and let sit while I was taking a shower, then rinsed it out. I think I've figured out my personal 'siganl' that a clarification is needed. Firstly, my scalp starts to itch (though, I'm STILL wondering if that was the pectin) and secondly (and really, most importantly) my hair takes a while to actually get 'wet'. I mean, it'll be wet, but not really WET, and I have to work my hair under the water for a while before it acts right and feels really - moist. So - I left that in, and rinsed it out before doing the henna, and when I got out the shower, I noticed that my hair looks REDDER wet. I've kinda noticed it before, but it was really distinctive this time.


This henna contains
1 henna bag
The rest of the paprika
Honey
White Rain Conditioner.

Pretty basic, in other words - *LOL* except for the paprika, it's basically the mixture that I started with.
Anyhow, applied the henna firstly with lines against my scalp, then glooped the rest onto it. The usual, ya know? It's earlier (but not really by much, as I usually henna when I get home, and it was 5pm when I did it) in the day than I usually do it - but I was out with friends last night and REALLY didn't feel like dealing with it.

It amazes me just how STEAMY my head gets with the saran wrap and henna and all - I left the edge of the shower cap, and can feel the warm, moist, henna-scented air drifting out.

So, largely because I'm impatient as all get out, but also because I wanted to see if it would come out as good after I slept on it, I un-twisted my hair tonight in a twist-out.
I definitely need longer hair to pull this off right - right now, my hair looks like a mushroom - not soft enough to be limp, but not long enough to hang nicely.
Though - the twistouts I had during camp looked REALLY good - I think it was because they had shrunk up more. I figure, if it looks a hot mess in the morning, I'll just get it good and wet, and tie a PHHB around it, and be done with it.

After I took my twists out, I massed some SS oil in, and then firmly told myself to keep my fingers out of my hair, as the twist out is the easiest hair style to mess up - play in it too much, and you loose all the twist definition you had originally.

Which, is one of the reasons I'm writing this, as keeping my hands busy is the only way to keep them out of my head.

Henna tommorow! *yay*

I love henna'ing - it's messy, and it's goopy, but dang, it's FUN. And I get many lovely results - I need to take a picture outside in the sun so that I can try to get an accurate picture of the color - it's GLORIOUS. I'm not sure if it's more red, or more brown - it's - interesting, really. It's SUCH a natural color that it changes depending on what I'm wearing, the lighting, and the amount of makeup I have on. And the way it changes from FIRST rinsing the henna out to the day afterwards - it's - impressive really.

I know that some people worry about it going to 'dark' but.... *sigh* considering how DARK my natural hair color is, I figure that the darker it gets, the less obvious the demarcation will be.

8/24/06

Sometimes, I realize I'm just an odd bird. Well, it's not that I'm unAWARE of the fact that I'm an odd bird, it jsut sometimes I'll do something exceptionally odd enough that I have to stop, and laugh at myself for being SUCH a odd bird.

We've finally bit the bullet and scheduled someone to come and tame the wilderness that is our yard.  I'm not even going to discuss the price, because it hurts my feelings, but really, if we had someone come out every month, it would end up being about the same amount. Damn, I must be sure to tell him to leave the remains in a nice big pile (compost, how I love thee!)

I've been in a distinctly odd mood lately - I haven't been READING. I haven't picked up a book in about two weeks now - which is - virtually unheard of. I think it's more because *weeps/hangs head in shame* our books STILL aren't freaking unpacked, so I don't have my usual selection - but at the same time, I'm kinda bored with the books I have.
I'm going to the library tomorrow in hopes of redeeming myself with some lovely fluff - any book recommendations? I'm actually willing to try anything - fiction, non-fiction, whatevah!

Me & The Boy are going to visit My Mommy over Thanksgiving - we plan on driving, as with the way things are going, you would have to PAY be to fly. Anal, angry, narrowminded, shortsighted, dumbasses. Besides, at this point, I might be on a no-fly list - name change or not, and that would REALLY piss me off. We wanted to extend the vaca and finally use one of the packages we got suckered into and go to Vegas, but he has to accrue vacation, so we're lucky to get that *still crossing fingers that he DOES get the time off*

Speaking of time off, I'm taking part of the week after Labor Day off - I plan on really buckling down, and getting the house set up. I know, I know, we've been there for damn near five months, and we're still half-assing it. Hoepfully, HomeDespot will have a good fan sale going on over Labor Day weekend, as that's our scheduled house thing. And by all that is HOLY - I WILL finish taking down that wallpaper and prime that bleeitybleepingbleep of a room. AND unpack my damn books.

European popdance is such fun music - my toes won't stop wiggling, and the only reason I'm not headbanging and generally making a plum fool of myself is because, well, I'm at work.

Speaking of work  - *gags self*. 
Though, to be honest, it's been mildly busy this week, and the more I HAVE to do, the more productive I am - interesting, eh? So, I've only been bored 60% of the time, rather than my usual 90%.  Hey, I'll take it when/where I can get it.

Hubby said I look like I'm losing weight. He's so sweet.....not saying he's a fibber or just trying to butter me up for some extra booty, but - umph. He's got a better eye than I do, or than the scale does.  I HAVE been eating (damn demanding body, wanting food every 3 hours or so - the NERVE!), and taking vitamins, and I FINALLY got my bleeeping keycard to get into the fitness center, so I'll be starting to go there and walk (at the VERY least) next week.  I'll most likely be sucked onto the weights too.

Really odd - last weekend, both me & C had some sort of stomach 'thing' (didn't feel sick, and the only thing we both ate were some fries) that caused - foul, liquid emissions from the orifice that normally produces solids. Then, earlier this week, G got 'something' that generated some of the RANKEST shit ever. Like - holy mother of god, what DIED and shat itself out rank.  I found it odd that EVERYONE in the house had stomach problems - human and non.  And unless the furry bastard is dumpster diving, we certainly didn't share the same food.

*debates whether it's too early to sneak out of work*

Hmm... I think I'll wrap this up, wander about the wide world of the 'net for a while, then escape. 

Home, sweet Jungle.... must take a picture of the madness so I can share our slothy homeowners shame with all ya'lll.

*smooches* babes!

Last day of twists, as tomorrow is a twistout!!
So - this week. My twists have been VERY fuzzy. I don't know if it's because I didn't use enough gel - and I even regelled them Tuesday night! - or if it's because I didn't use as much WP this time - but it's fuzzy as all GET out. I've got quite a few sections of hair where full length strands of hair has escaped the twist - and I wasn't even rubbing my head all that much. My scalp has also been suprisingly itchy too this week - I'm thinking it might be time for a bit of a clarifier on my scalp. I wonder if it might be a side effect of the pectin?
I plan on doing a twist-out tomorrow, and then henna'ing - though, I'm supposed to be running some errands and going over a friends house tomorrow, so - I might not get home in enough time to really do henna.........okay, yeah, who am I fooling? I'lll most likely do it tomorrow night! *LOL*
I'm pretty convinced that the vitamins are working - I cut my nails last weekend, and they are already starting to extend over my fingertips again. I have this one STUBBORN chin hair that usally is very thin and only grows to be about 3/4 of an inch, and I was looking in the mirror a few days ago, and the damn thing was SUPER thick and about 2 inches long!!!!!!!! Plus - and this is really creepy - the hair on my fingers in coming back - super fine, black hair. I used to have this before, when I was in college, but I haven't seen it for YEARS - now, they are showing back up. Yes, yes, me thinks my body is getting all it needs to grow, grow, grow!
I still seem to be shedding a healthy bit - I'm actually *gasp* considering getting a BRUSH to insure that I get all the shed hairs out. I know, I know - I think that it's insane to even TRY to use a brush on nappy hair, but then, not too long ago, I also didn't know that cones were the debbil on my hair. Maybe.
I'm debating on stopping cutting my hair for a few months - maybe from now until late October (which is when our housewarming is) just to see how much length I gain. I think I've most likely cut off at LEAST 3 inches by now, but my hair still looks the same length - which would make sense, as I figure that I grow about 3/4 of an inch a month normally - so an inch a month (because of the vitamins/nutrition) would make sense. Also - the really short patch I had in the back of my head - I'm thinking that maybe I DIDN'T break it off, but that I cut it off when I cut out a loc to to a dye test on. It's close enough to my back hairline for that to have been possible - and that piece of hair has gotten almost twice as long now - it's in a twist mostly by itself, and I can feel the thicker bottom section before the twist goes really thin - so that's a VGT!
I need to pick up a new applicator bottle tomorrow, and another set of measuring spoons (I cut the end off of one before checking that it would fit in the bottle, and it's a pain in the patootie digging it out of the bottle now) and some more paprika. Other than that - I don't think that I'll be getting any hair stuff - I've got plenty of conditioner and baking soda.
Length note: middle of the forehead twist goes to the middle of the bride of my nose - about even with my eyes.