Surprise! Surprise!

Disclaimer: I am terrible at planning and/or executing surprises. Let me explain...

My sister who studies in California decides to come home and surprise my parents. She foolishly shares this plan with me. Fast forward to the arrival night, she arrives later than expected which throws my 'I have a meeting' alibi right out the window. My overly protective mother (understated greatly!), who is probably wondering why her girl child is not at home after midnight from her "meeting", is calling my phone more than sinners call on Jesus. Me being the "honest Abe" that I am, and not wanting to lie...again (figured I'd used up my quota for the day already) turned off my phone, which in hindsight was probably not the best idea.upon our arrival at home my mother rushes to hug me before my sister LOL! My family was just about to head to police station to report me missing *hides face*. So to future surprise planners, whether the surprise is for me or not, I suggest you keep me out of the proverbial loop. I consider this post fair warning.

I got to spend an amazing month with my sister but now she's off again to be awesome at school. And although I can now return to sleeping diagonally on my bed, I sure will miss that crazy lady.

I added the bloopers...they're so much more fun!

Murphy's Law

Urgh!! Whatever could have gone wrong today...certainly did. Firstly, it totally slipped me that school reopened and in order to get a taxi to get to work on time I would have to leave at least fifteen minutes earlier than usual, so I got to work late on the first day for the semester. Sigh! Secondly, I prepared for the wrong lab...smh, and while running routine safety checks before the lab my co-worker and I discovered that the safety shower lever was stuck...after we pulled it and it was running. We had to take turns filling and emptying containers so as not to flood the lab while we waited for the relative persons to come deal with this watery situation. Long story short...I got a work out and a bath. Needless to say, my first day back was eventful.

In other news; I got me some yarn locs! Had them in for a while and despite missing my own hair immensely...I love them soooo much! Partly because its great to have an ease from constantly having to comb my hair, but also because they're so protective. I was warned about being lackadaisical with my regular hair regiment thinking that the protective style meant I didn't have to do any work, so I tried to spritz with water every other day at least and moisturize and oil at least twice a week (this was aslo dependent on if I was out in the sun all day or the humidity of that specific day). I had them in during my guatemala trip and they were like an attraction, I could not get used to random spanish people randomly putting their hands in them. Sometimes it was even borderline creepy!

After a couple weeks of wearing it straight I decided to try to curl them. My hairstylist (big sis) is back home for a little bit so I thought I'd maximize on the opportunity. I scoured YouTube looking for a method with an outcome that was to my liking and found one using pipe cleaners. Now I didn't have pipe cleaners, but I did have flexi rods, so I improvised. We washed, rolled, hot watered and waited. I left them to dry for about 24 hours (did some blow drying and sitting in front of the fan) and the results were gorg! If only they lasted for more than a few hours. After about 3 hours I noticed they atarted to drop a bit, and by the time I got home from work my pretty curls were almost non existant. I have not yet come up with a plausable cause for such, but I intend to continue experimenting.

 These things were hell to sleep with...only for the love of all things hair