Pain is Beauty

As cliche as the subject is, it's totally true in regards to today! I woke up at dark o'clock (7:15am) to be at my beloved sister's home at 9am this morning so I could accompany her to the salon. Today, she got herself a full fledged afro.

The reason that pain is beauty in this case, is that the solution used in perming hair smells like "a dirty fart, or an egg salad sandwich left outside in the sun" (amanda's words). I would say it smells kind of like what sex panther probably smells like. Either way, it was gnarly. I was at least 4 feet away from Amanda and had a hard time not gagging, so I don't know how she managed to do so.

I took a lot of photos, but only one was ok'd by amanda for posting online in my blog, so here it is!

So what's going on here is that she's had her hair rolled, and then the perm solution was put on. The cotton around her face is to protect her face from the solution that might drip down. The clear bag is to hold in the heat of the chemical reaction that's ocurring from the solution which makes the hair curly. I don't know how that actually works in a scientific way, I just know that the solution was self-activating and the heat caused by the chemical reaction made it so amanda didn't have to sit under one of those head heater things. The entire process of rolling, setting, rinsing and then styling took about 3 hours. It sounds like a really long time, but Tanya and Amanda make for very entertaining company.

Besides that fabulous adventure, amanda and I got lunch at the village bakehouse in Groton. Their chicken salad is omgamazing. the only thing that was better than that was....

This! It is called a "chocolate log" It's puff pastry with chocolate on the inside and MORE chocolate on the outside. Mmmmm tasty.

Once all this goodness was over, it was time to go to work. Thank god for diet coke and coffee.
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MeggyB

A nature adventure!

Meet Zeke, my friend Katelyn's amazing dog. He is the poster child of "nice and playful and lovable and adorable, NOT scary" for the whole pitbulls are not agressive monsters campaign. Seriously, how could you not love that face? But I digress, since the point of this post is that he, his mommy and I went on a walk at Bluff Point in Groton today. For some reason whenever Katelyn and I get together it rains...strange. Having been cooped up in a hospital, my room, or my car for a few weeks it was really nice to go and be surrounded by trees and green things. I didn't get pictures of our walk since I was busy walking and trying not to trip over Zeke, who likes to run right in front of you. He's sneaky (but not mean!)

Once we got to the trail that led to the cliff area, we stopped and sat on the decaying wooden bench to get some lovely photos of the scenery (and Zeke of course)




This is what you would see if you sat on the bench and looked straight ahead




This is what you would fall on if you tripped over the edge of the first picture. Awesome!



I like this because you can see a storm was afoot (it started raining right after Katelyn mentioned that. I blame her!)


I think this is a photo of where the Groton Airport and other stuff is. Maybe.


Zeke! It took several tries to get him to stay still and let me take a proper photo.


Katelyn and one of the attempts to get Zeke to pay attention to me. Also in the photo is my delicious skinny vanilla latte which was way better hydration than water (IT'S SO HOT. MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE!)

SO yeah. It was a lovely time, and now I'm in my warm toasty pjs, listening to some Cold Cave and figuring out if I want to make some new ringtones for my phone. I think the answer to that is "yes".
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MeggyB