Introverts, how is your day?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Understand..

In some cases, it would be complicated, at the very least it's good to be held by someone who is really care for the well-being of the person.

I guess I'm lucky that it's not complicated in my family, as in me and my siblings have very much the same attitude to our parents, and our responsible are divided equally and we communicate and respect each other's input, so I'd trust any of them to hold it as it would be pretty much the same.

Lately, my uncle shared with my mom that his boss's family/siblings were pulling off the plug of their mother's life support. Even as an outsider, he thinks it's very bad and heartless decision, especially since they are very well to do and could afford related medical bills. Of course we wouldn't know what is the exact situation and considerations and whether there is an objection by one sibling but overruled. 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

In my family’s case, the PoA is set up such that it’s not a joint PoA but a succession in case primary can no longer act as PoA or ends up not outliving the person the PoA is for.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Same in our family.

[Pseudonym]

I think I'm getting most of my hair chopped off tomorrow... bit nervous. 😳

[Carol the Dabbler]

Any particular reason for the change?

About ten years ago, I simply got tired of dealing with waist-length hair and have very happily worn it short ever since.  In fact, every so often I tell my stylist to make it even shorter, and then I like it even better.  I keep telling Alex that one of these days I'm going to just shave my head.  Just joking, though.  Probably.

[Pseudonym]

Well, the last couple of years the back of my head was shaved (I had an undercut). Been letting it grow out, it's finally got to about chin length so I was going to get the rest of my hair cut to match it, but mooching through photos on Pinterest I came across a style I love that's really short at the back with a slightly longer front... it's more unusual than the choppy bob I was going to get, I'd prefer something a bit more individual. At the moment it's so hot it's just been in a bun all the time anyway. Still wary though in case it goes wrong!

[J.P.]

I love how short hair feels like. Unfortunately my head shape and thin hair makes short hairdo a LOT of work every morning. Which I grew tired of over the years. All those products, travelling with a hair dryer, twisting and diffusing… 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Argh, how I would love shorter hair because one of the things that is tedious for me is drying my hair. And regardless of the weather, I wash my hair every day because I can't stand otherwise, unless I don't have the facility in remote areas.

There were two times when I chopped my hair short, once was in primary school and I forget how it's like. The other one was ten over years ago. I chopped it as boyish style, imagining that it would look pixy-ly cute or something, but instead I looked like Jack Nicholson in About Schmitz when he started to go nuts, and my colleagues said I looked like primary school kid. Although I have very manageable straight hair that falls appropriately when it's long, when it short, each strand has their own mind and gravity preference. So noo.. no more short hair for me. Anyway, I don't need any maintenance and just pull it up in pony tail just like Molly. It has been like that forever now.

[Carol the Dabbler]

My hair never looked right in a pony tail -- it's too frizzy, so the pony tail would look like a dust mop instead.

[Pseudonym]

Hair is chopped! Always a bit scary seeing four inches of hair falling onto the floor. Like it though. 

There are photos of me in my particularly hideous teenage stage with a ponytail that is literally the size of my head - scraped back scalp tight and then this massive ball of frizz. At the time I was also really chubby and had braces on my teeth, all around not a good look. 

I never travel with a hairdryer, nor do I twist and defuse. Twist and defuse makes no sense to me, when I try it is always ends in disaster. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

15 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

There are photos of me in my particularly hideous teenage stage with a ponytail that is literally the size of my head - scraped back scalp tight and then this massive ball of frizz.

And *that* is why I have never (well, hardly ever) worn a pony tail.

Congratulations on your new 'do!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Hair is chopped! Always a bit scary seeing four inches of hair falling onto the floor. Like it though. 
There are photos of me in my particularly hideous teenage stage with a ponytail that is literally the size of my head - scraped back scalp tight and then this massive ball of frizz. At the time I was also really chubby and had braces on my teeth, all around not a good look. 
I never travel with a hairdryer, nor do I twist and defuse. Twist and defuse makes no sense to me, when I try it is always ends in disaster. 

I’ve tried diffusing, but don’t have the patience for my hair to actually dry that way. As for twisting, the closest I’ve come is shingling and my hair looks like it wants to be dreads because my hair is so long.

[Carol the Dabbler]

On 7/22/2017 at 7:02 AM, Carol the Dabbler said:

What is the curly girl method?

 

On 7/22/2017 at 9:21 AM, SherlockedCAMPer said:

When you wash your hair use a sulfate-free cleanser or only conditioner. If you use a cleanser, follow it with a conditioner (a generous handful depending on length of hair) and take out the knots and tangles in your hair using your fingers only, Scrunching the hair to help it keep its natural wave/curl shape. Do not rinse out the conditioner completely. Once done with the washing, use a t-shirt or similar absorbent lightweight fabric to dry the hair. Never use a brush or comb in those curls as they force straighten the curls and waves to varying degrees. Also, if a hairdryer is used, it needs to be a diffuser on low to medium heat as anything warmer will dry out the hair. The book this is from is called Curly Girl The Handbook by Lorraine Massey.

The last couple of times I've washed my hair, I've let it more or less drip dry (no toweling, just dabbed at the drips with a t-shirt as you said) and fluffed it up a bit with my fingers.  So far it's making a big difference.  I had thought that my hair had gotten less curly in recent years, but with the second "curly" washing today, it's just as curly as ever. 

i didn't even use a special shampoo, just the same health-food-store brand I've been using for decades.  And no conditioner -- stopped using it when I got my hair cut so short that it really can't tangle.

The only thing I did differently from before is that I stopped wrapping my head in a towel after shampooing.  I had already been doing the fluffing, but it hadn't been helping nearly as much.

Thanks!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

You’re welcome

[Carol the Dabbler]

@SherlockedCAMPer -- if you're still doing the Curly Girl thing, you've been at it for a year now.  How's it working for you?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I’m still working on my routine. I have the ‘use the product til it’s gone before trying something new’ budget unless I’m allergic to it, then there’s return the product and try something else. I have johnspec doing the same method. The only difference for him his I give him leeway on hair style. I’m trying to teach him how to take care of his hair properly for our hair type which is different that what his straight-haired dad needs. My big issue is frizz and my hair might need more protein. I did a deep treatment (conditioner in the hair for several minutes before being washed out) tonight to see what that would do. I’ll find out in the morning how that worked.

[Carol the Dabbler]

If my hair was still long like yours, I suspect I'd need to be more careful with it.  But it's only a couple inches long now, so it can't go too far wrong.  And it dries a lot faster.

[Pseudonym]

Since I cut mine it's a bit too curly. I feel like Shirley Temple. Trying to figure out the best way of working with it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

You're on the right track, working *with* it.  Trying to control naturally curly hair is kinda like getting a cat to behave.  Ya gotta figure out how to set things up so that it'll *want* to do something halfway acceptable.

[Pseudonym]

Weird creepy noise in one of my spare bedrooms, something clicking in the ceiling. 😱

[Carol the Dabbler]

57 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

Weird creepy noise in one of my spare bedrooms, something clicking in the ceiling.

Expansion/contraction of structural beams due to heating/cooling?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Rats? Monsters? Richard Brook?

We used to live in wooden house, there were so much creaking, running, screeching that it had become a part of our lives. And I swear one day when I went up there I heard breathing as well. It's quite creepy, our upstair. It's dark with many corners, boxes and weird stuffs. Me and my big brother even tried to rescue kittens inside one of the fake columns or whatever structure it is. They had miaowed for a while before we decided to investigate. We couldn't get them out, and at one point my brother asked me to run because he saw something coming. It could be the mother, he described it as dark shadow with evil eyes. I think I tripped on my night dress and fell a couple of steps. The next day the kittens were gone. They were probably moved to safer place where no curious kids would go. Although it's scary, we always tried to have adventure there, it's part of our fantasy world. And it's also my place to study when I need peace and quiet from my younger brothers, or when I felt like climbing up. We scaled the house like Spiderman, it's miracle that we didn't break our legs or neck.

 

Anyway, this picture from a swimming pool in China is such a nightmare to me.

Good god, why would anyone go there. Gah, the crowd, is there even water or space? In the article it's actually a wave pool, showing the wave come and all those people move up and down but we couldn't see the water. How if someone is trapped below, it looks like it's very possible to die among those inflatables. Anyway, YIKES!! I'd rather be everywhere else.

[Pseudonym]

Richard Brook would be fine, he's the nice one remember?

I think it's woodworm. Apparently the death watch beetle like to tap to attract mates and you can hear them in the walls/ceiling in the summer. I got my house sprayed for woodworm ages ago but apparently they take a long time to die off because the spray only interrupts one stage of the life cycle. It sounds really creepy though. And obviously people always thought they were creepy since they also gave them a creepy name. 

And yes, that picture is hellish. When I was in school they used to squeeze as many of us into the pool as possible, and one day I got kicked in the nose because there was no room. Blood EVERYWHERE. 

[Pseudonym]

Is it just me or is the 5 separate couriers I'm having to use today seem a wee bit excessive? 😮

[Carol the Dabbler]

3 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

Is it just me or is the 5 separate couriers I'm having to use today seem a wee bit excessive? 😮

If your parcel services are anything like most of ours have become lately, even one would be too many.  Are yours any good?