Skank wave

Today was crazy busy!

I went to bed Tuesday night super late. Marissa called me for a late night gab fest and after I got off the phone with her, I finished watching season 1 of Sons of Anarchy. What can I say, I'm addicted to TV series okay?! The morning came super early, seeing as I never really went to sleep. I was excited to see my friend Jodi and her son Garrett for breakfast! It's been literally ages since I had a good breakfast. We met up at Denny's and had a really good time. It made me sad, I miss her and Garrett a lot. Good people in your life are hard to find, and with age I'm becoming to understand it more and more. Garrett was busy playing with jelly packages, and Jodi got him to call me Thao Thao! So cute, I love it. Even though at first he kept calling me E-I-E-I-O! He's about the cutest two year old boy I know! It was great to catch up with her. Since leaving work, she seems so much happier. I really wish she'd have another baby already! I can't ever get enough of spoiling other people's children ha!

There was lots to be done today. I went over to PetSmart to pick up some things. I ended up wandering around the store for a while. After I decided to go on a mission to find a new hair place. I've been desperate to get my hair done. I've been so spoiled going to the city. My main man, Alex does a great job! Not to mention he's Malaysian and works at an all Asian hair salon in Queens. Finding a good hair stylist is hard freaking work. I'd trust this man with anything...and I mean ANYTHING. He could chop all of my hair off, shave one side and dye it purple and it probably would look amazing. Besides, he wears the coolest Zelda shoes ever! I've been having massive problems with my water at home. We go off of a well, and the water is hard. I've always known our water was hard, but I don't ever remember it being this bad. My hair feels like brittle straw and is disgusting. I already have oily hair to begin with, but it just feels like I didn't rinse all the shampoo and conditioner out of it---when I KNOW DAMN RIGHT I DID. I can't even describe how gross it is. I'm super embarrassed about it. LIKE SUPER EMBARRASSED, enough to make me tie my hair up everyday!

I don't trust people around this area to do my hair. There is not a single soul in this podunk town that can style Asian hair correctly. I took a leap of faith and went to Ulta to get it done before my Aviva appointment. I was greeted with a big bright smile from Adriene, and she did a great job. When she was standing behind me in the mirror messing with my hair, I couldn't help bug squirm in my chair. My hair looked disgusting, felt disgusting, okay it was fucking disgusting. We got talking while she was shampooing me about the whole hard water thing. She said she had it at her house too, and it turned her blonde hair like a brassy red. Or as I like to call it effing SKANK WAVE. You all have seen the skank wave...don't act like you haven't! Skank wave is that dirty looking hair, greasy, out of control and off color. It just looks damn sloppy, and I've been rocking this look for the past month thanks to the well. She suggested getting a filtered shower head at Lowes, and that's EXACTLY what I intend to do. Meanwhile, she showed me some clarifying shampoo I could use.

Apparently the clarifying shampoo may or may not strip your hair of it's color. GREAT. That's fine though, no big deal. I mean, my hair is JET BLACK. I could stand to go a little lighter anyway I suppose. She told me when she was blow drying my hair that she could tell instantly what the problem was. THANK GOD! SAVED! My hair was still like gross and sticky, better than it was before but not great. That being said, I was confident she knew I wasn't a dirt merchant! I headed over to Aviva for my appointment and it went quick. I ended up gaining half a pound and yes that's still enough to get me pissed. Cody of course was super encouraging and told me not to give up. I have no intentions of, but I can't wait until the weight drops off again. Looking through my weight chart I have, it's a going trend with my personal case. IT PRETTY MUCH BLOWS. LOL

I headed home after my appointment and waited for my mom to get home. I really wanted to take her out somewhere to eat, and she ended up taking me. GRRRR. I hate when she does that. We tried a new Vietnamese restaurant near us, and ordered a traditional soup dish called pho. It is my favorite thing in the world. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. The service was all right, but I'm leaving Vietnamese cuisine to my mom. No one ever makes anything as good as your mother does! :)