That is SO not an 1803 house style. Shit, what are they on?

"Somebody on the internet is wrong!"

Hey, I look at dollhouse miniature sites AND old house sites the way some people look at porn.

Actually, kind of the way I look at porn. ANYHOW.

There is wrong, and then there is, "Umm. Yeah. Not buying from YOU Wrongy McWrongpants what is wrong about things." wrong.

Owie. Sinuses hurt too much to sleep. Neti pot helps for about half an hour or so, and then they start hurting again.

I never found liquid detanglers very helpful. What I did like was having a nice wide-spaced detangler comb. [link] Worked wonders after a shower, best when I bent over and brushed my hair from the roots at the back of my neck and down towards the floor. It was really good at smoothing the tangles right out. Once the underneath was smoothed out, everything else pretty much fell into place with a couple of flicks of the wrist.

I used to have a great hair pick that was the best thing ever for getting the tangles out of my hair when it was waist-length.

Right now, despite not getting trimmed for over a year, I'm pretty much tangle-free thanks to the repeated use of henna.

Sleep and not-pain~ma, Hil.

I think my hair have a split personality: sometimes it's 2A, most times is 2C. I never know what I'll wake up to, or how it'll look like in 5-6 hours.

Catching up: i took the job at 9-1-1 and am currently in phase 4 (of 5) for calltaking and phase 1 (of 5) for police dispatch. Just found out i am employee of the month! Not even certified yet! Now if i could just convert some of the good job~ma into health~ma for my laryngitis and coughing.....

Yay erin! (and hey, too!).

I'll give you some health~ma if you'll give me some job~ma. I have two weeks off, I can afford being sick.

I wanted, once, for a few days, to work at the lost and found section of the police. I love the idea of pointing people back to info/data/object they're after, and sorting that. I hope that doesn't make me crazy.

Not crazy, Shir. I loved being the quartermaster for my Boy Scout troop back in the day. It was like being a librarian of assorted stuff.

I'd come home with basically one huge tangle, which would take my mom about a week of working at least an hour a night to get through. Is it just a curly hair thing?

Nope-- fine straight hair can have a tendency to really snarl up miserably too, especially right behind the ears and down at the nape of the neck. And it's easy with straight hair to pretend it's not happening as long as you keep the top layer brushed.

Hmm. Interesting. My sister straightens her hair, and she seems to get much fewer tangles than I do. And her hair was definitely as much trouble as mine when we were kids.

For your sister, straightening her hair doesn't change the texture from coarse to fine; it just changes the curl to straight. It's the fine texture that makes fine, straight hair tangle so much. Since your sister's is artificially straightened and therefore still coarse, it doesn't do the death tangle of fine hair.

signed,
has fine hair that's also curly -- kill me now

Srsly. As a wee tot, my hair was long long long -- probably like Lillian's -- and washing/brushing/detangling my hair was an exercise in patience, futility, and many tears. Eventually my mom realized that the best option was a cute Dorothy Hamill haircut, and off it went. SO much easier.

Which is, BTW, much the same reason I'm getting it cut next week. It's SO fucking long right now -- I need to take a picture. It's really pretty like that, but after about 2-3 hours it gets hot and then its own weight starts to pull the curl out, which then makes my hair just look wrinkled and messy, so then I just put in a ponytail, which -- if I do that every day, what's the point?

Plus, oh my god, the bedhead.

So despite the grumbles of The Boy, it's getting quite a bit cut next week.