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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2020 23:20:22 GMT
I cut my own hair. I’ve debated it for weeks and today, after thinking through the whole hair salon, confined space thing, I got my sharpest scissors and hacked a good inch and a half off the ends. It’s long, so it was difficult to get everything even in the back, but I think I did a fairly decent job of it. Hooray! I'll bet it looks great. I do a combination of mirror & by feel -- check the back in the mirror so I can grab what I want to cut, then put the mirror down & pick up the scissors. You might want to buy a pair of hair-cutting scissors. Even the super cheap kind (the kind I have) last forever. Also, check out this chart. I've been buying their shampoo & it has changed my life. (I'm a 2C) www.sheamoisture.com/find-your-hair-type.html One last bit of unsolicited advice, which is what Kimby wrote. So much easier to step right into the shower afterwards & not worry about spiky little short bits of hair getting stuck in your clothes.
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2020 23:49:28 GMT
I just wore an old white t-shirt. It made a good contrast against my brassy, brown hair and also caught all the little tiny stray hairs that escaped my grip. I started with wet hair, then shaped a little more after it was dry. For the first fifteen years of marriage I cut everyone’s hair regularly, including my husband’s. So, I have had a bit of experience, just not when it comes to cutting my own. The right side is now just slightly longer than the left, and the bottom of the back needs a little layering, but I doubt most people would ever notice or care about those things. Cheapest haircut ever! Interesting chart, Bixa. I’m guessing I’m a 2A.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2020 0:38:33 GMT
You cut it wet?! You are brave! I cut mine dry and for preference, when it's ready for a shampoo. Then it is more "itself" than it is when it's nice and clean.
The pictures on the chart aren't too helpful. Also, what they call wavy, I would call curly. I went with 2C because it was the only one that mentioned coarse hair, although mine is less coarse now that I'm more platinum.
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Post by htmb on May 14, 2020 2:24:28 GMT
Yes, wet because it’s long (below my shoulders) and almost all one length. Also, it was done on the spur of the moment. Picture a quarantine-crazed woman with a pair of scissors, and witch-like hair that hadn’t been trimmed since November.
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Post by casimira on May 14, 2020 2:26:22 GMT
Good for you HTMB! I'm impressed.
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Post by tod2 on May 14, 2020 15:27:37 GMT
We did it! I kept it soaking wet from the shower and we moved onto the patio . I held a mirror so I could partially see what was being chopped off. It went pretty well and I even let the scissors near the sides, finally finishing off with a few snips of my fringe. Then back to the bathroom basin for a good rinse. Even at the hairdressers I make them rinse my hair after a cut. Solves a lot of prickly itching later. Anyway, I then applied my hair mousse and blo-dried my hair. It looked fantabulous! YAY!! Success!
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Post by htmb on May 14, 2020 15:29:02 GMT
Oh, I’m so glad! Congratulations!
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Post by whatagain on May 15, 2020 7:15:25 GMT
Whatagain family grew !
Please welcome the 2 children of Eragon, herself daughter of Opera. Opera is a full Maine Coon, then divide by 2. Eragon is tricolour and the newcomers seem to be of dominantly red hair. We are not acquainted to the fathers...
We thought of naming them Covid and Virus but Rubis and Jupiler are cited. Any proposal welcome 🤣
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Post by bjd on May 15, 2020 7:33:35 GMT
There were some twins born somewhere in Asia at the beginning of the epidemic and named Corona and Covid.
How many cats do you have, Whatagain?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 15, 2020 8:11:37 GMT
Whatagain's cats multiply exponentially, like a virus.
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Post by questa on May 15, 2020 8:18:53 GMT
I love the unusual names you have for your cats. Where do the names come from and what do they mean?
I had a cat whom I called 'Japhy Ryder' after the character in Jack Kerouac's novel, 'The Dharma Bums'. The name Japhy Ryder was Kerouac's version of Gary Snyder who went on to be a highly esteemed poet, essayist and teacher of Zen Buddhism.
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Post by questa on May 15, 2020 14:14:04 GMT
Well chosen names...it is fun fitting the cat and name together, isn't it? My eldest son called his beautiful 3 colour cat "Foxy" because she was a Foxy Lady. The white with orange and darker tabby or black is called a Calico here. My second son called his tabby (dark stripes with white chest and boots) "Minkie" because she was as fat as a Minkie whale. My current cat is "Jasmyne" a name made up from the letters of the first 3 cats.
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Post by bjd on May 15, 2020 15:38:25 GMT
We only ever had one cat at a time. Some of them had "official" names but all ended up being called "Cat". They don't come when you call anyway.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 15, 2020 15:50:45 GMT
When I had a cat, I found that they would come running if I shook the box of Friskies.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 15, 2020 19:41:55 GMT
It is a wonderful luxury to be able to have a sneezing fit at home without people looking at you accusingly.
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Post by whatagain on May 15, 2020 19:52:59 GMT
True they dont come. But when you call a wro g name they dont react. Then when they hear their name, they turn their head and look at you. Before ignoring you. But not always. .
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Post by Kimby on May 15, 2020 21:27:41 GMT
We are amazed that Pearl DOES come when called. Almost always. Not bounding like a dog at his master’s command, but in a more relaxed way. She’s the best-natured and best-mannered kitty we’ve ever had.
To keep her from scratching the furniture, we’ve trained her to scratch on her carpet- & sisal-wrapped post before we give her her dinner. If she’s hungry, she’ll often run right to her post and give it a scratch when she thinks it’s dinner time.
She’s 100% on using her litter box (a blessing after blockhead Mo, who would stand in the box and pee on the floor next to it!). When we travel with her, we can put her in the room with her litter box for a few minutes before we leave and she’ll squeeze out a pee even if she doesn’t really need to go! Then she sits in her Sherpa bag under the seat in front of us on the plane, hardly crying at all, and sleeps most of the way. At airport layovers, we look for “companion care” bathroom or family bathroom where we can lock the door and let her out to stretch her legs while we take turns peeing. Then back in her box for the next flight. No accidents ever. Knock wood.
Pearl is simply the best cat we’ve ever had. Too bad she was 8 or 10 when we got her...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 15, 2020 23:44:21 GMT
I miss having a cat, but I don't miss rescuing songbirds. All the catd we had over the years were hunters. Mabel sort of gave up killing stuff when she got to 18...she couldn't see very well so contented herself with finding the most comfortable spot...preferably in a pool of sunshine.
The dog we have now wouldn't tolerate a cat...
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Post by Kimby on May 16, 2020 0:36:42 GMT
Our first cat, a tuxedo cat born on the Indian reservation, insisted on being an outdoor kitty, roamed farther than we would have liked and left “gut piles” on our door mat regularly. Boodles stalked the birdfeeders, and “belling the cat” did not help. We once saw her jump up and snag a hummingbird out of the air, sadly. She did come in to sleep every night, and lived to be 20 1/2 (probably due to the quality of her diet!)
When she died, we vowed to have an indoor cat to protect the birds and mousies. We ended up with TWO cats, sibling 5 month old tabby cats, born on a different Indian reservation 20 years to the day after Boodles was born! Mo and Mia kept each other company and kept us in stitches and didn’t care what lay beyond the door of the house. They were good lap kitties and good bedwarmers, too. And it was nice not contributing to songbird mortality.
Then came Pearl, who we inherited from Mr. Kimby’s Mom, who had gotten her 3 years earlier from another old lady who had to go into the nursing home, after having her for 4 years or so. Pearl had also been in an animal shelter (as a kitten?) where she got microchipped and was spayed. Pearl is beautiful, a Siamese tabby mix that looks like a lynx point Siamese with slightly crossed blue eyes. She’s smart and well-behaved (mostly), but she let us know in no uncertain terms that she NEEDED to go outside.
We started out just letting her explore the garage, but that wasn’t enough, so we put a harness and leash on her so she could sit out on the deck with us. That soon evolved to supervised off-leash walks on the lawn and driveway, and before long she was allowed out for short periods, with us checking on her frequently. She already knew how to climb trees, a good skill to have when dogs, bears and coyotes roam the neighborhood. She likes to watch chipmunks, but even when one was trapped in the garage, she didn’t try to catch it. She also watches birds and squirrels but doesn’t attempt to catch them either.
Because she’s so short and our 4-acre yard is mostly tall grass, and brush, it’s easy to lose sight of her, and hard to know which direction she’s gone. So we bought a tracking device, called TabCat. A transmitter slips onto her collar and a slim hand-held receiver lights up and beeps when it’s pointed at her. When we’re in search mode, it also causes her collar tab to beep softly so she knows we are looking for her and is usually heading toward us when we find her.
It’s a good compromise between having an indoor and outdoor kitty.
(Blah, blah, blah indeed. Sorry, proud kitty parent!)
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Post by kerouac2 on May 17, 2020 21:31:03 GMT
Maybe I'll see about getting a haircut tomorrow. If my place is fully booked, I'll make an appointment.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2020 17:44:39 GMT
(Hmmm… did not look into the haircut option today.)
I have always had an occasional dry cough like my mother before me and her mother before her. My father would always tell my mother "I don't like the sound of that cough" but he knew that she would never see a doctor. It never bothered me, because I had the same one. During all of my years working, some of my colleagues would say "I don't like the sound of that cough. You should ask a doctor about it." But I knew that it was nothing.
For the past two months, I have not coughed at all because I know that it is socially inacceptable. And it would also seem to indicate that the cough has been psychosomatic for generations.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2020 18:05:04 GMT
I would call it a “nervous cough”. Some people clear their throat endlessly, others cough. IMO.
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Post by mich64 on May 19, 2020 3:24:22 GMT
My husband actually asked me to trim his hair in the back, he was quite happy with the result. No mentions of hair salons opening anytime soon.
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Post by lugg on May 19, 2020 19:32:40 GMT
For the past two months, I have not coughed at all because I know that it is socially inacceptable I read something somewhere that was along these lines - I used to cough to cover my farts now I fart to cover my cough
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Post by whatagain on May 19, 2020 19:49:32 GMT
For the past two months, I have not coughed at all because I know that it is socially inacceptable I read something somewhere that was along these lines - I used to cough to cover my farts now I fart to cover my cough Roflol.
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Post by whatagain on May 19, 2020 20:15:01 GMT
I spent a GREAT day.
Nothing in the morning. Just some errands- get some useless masks given by the county. Then get some FFP2 for my wife that turned out to be just surgical masks.
Still i managed to buy 2 bottes of primitivo from puglia.
So back at 2 pm to have lunch with the girls. Then cleaned the pool and spend 1,5 jours playing with Marie, sinking each other.
Nice.
Then i had orders from mrs Whatagain to cook a blanquette de veau. No détails... So Google being my friend 'marmiton recette blanquette'. 2.5 hours for the recipe. Glups. Difficulty : easy... ok i like that. 1 kgm of veal. 2 carrots. 1 took 6. 1 onion. Ok.
Put some butter. Oops 100 g at lest. Veal. Flour. 1 glass of white wine, 3 of waterloo- to cover. Ok... 3 glasses of rose. 1 of water. First major improvement. Carrots onions. Let cook at 'feu doux'. Wtf ? On a escale if 1 to 10 what is 'mild' ? Grrrrrrrr. Started at 4 then down to 3. Stirr from time to time. Cook mushrooms separately because nr 3 doesnt it. After 2 hours add a mixture of yellow egg, ah, a second one as the cat licked it. Crème fraîche. Double the dose. Good move too. Lemon. Lemon ? Turned out to be essential. Rice. And the cherry on the cake : a bottle of Torrontes. Argentinian grapes. Seems to be round only there. Did the journey from argentinia in my suitcase some years ago
Burps. Ah. And i found the time to buy flowers. Mes wHathagain was pleased.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 19, 2020 20:53:13 GMT
I often consult Marmiton for recipes. Then again, I rarely respect the details.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 19, 2020 20:59:54 GMT
Let cook at 'feu doux'. Wtf ? On a escale if 1 to 10 what is 'mild' ? I believe directions in English usually call that a "gentle simmer". You are a good man, Whatagain!
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Post by questa on May 19, 2020 22:54:43 GMT
You are a very funny man, Whatagain.I love the way you have with words, tossing them around like a language salad.
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Post by bjd on May 20, 2020 5:57:23 GMT
I use Marmiton too when I have a few ingredients but don't know what to do with them.
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