A sister finally locked.

Silence is ...

I will start by agreeing and confirming the first paragraph of Kay Exquisites latest blog sentiments, I could have blogged a few times this month,  but life, time and emotions did not permit.

Loc count ...

I have an old mobile that has the facility to countdown days to an event, I set it for my Sisterlocks install day last May, it continues to count days since the event ... sooo on day 289 (2 weeks ago) I literally woke up that morning to discover my hair was, at best, 98% fully locked!

It has taken approximately 9 1/2 months, hmmm the time it takes to have a baby, Ha!!!

Excuse my ranting ...

Well since then I have been a VERY BAD girl ...

Ok OK  .. In the scheme of things, MY bad would not be anyone else's bad ... On that day I just stepped in the shower and washed my hair (why? because I wanted to!!!!)

AND ...

I used ANOTHER  shampoo, I used herbal essence balance (clarifying shampoo) cos I noticed I had the odd bit of build up on some of my oldest loc's, it was very effective,
Anyhoo, did anyone notice that I said and quote...' I just stepped...'??? yeah thats right ...

I did NOT band and braid, yeah thats right I DIDN'T! kmt ! (lol) and you know what? I DON WANT TO! kmt! (NEWBIES PLEASE do not try this at home!! I am rebelling but I am able to pay the price! please read on, there IS a method to my madness ...

As most of my followers are aware, I have like, the softest hair, I  found 3 or 4 that had totally unravelled from tip to end, acting-like-they-aint-never-been-in-no-sisterlock-pattern-before! KISS MY TEETH!
You should have seen them! Perfectly, curly and coiled looking shiny and pretty like they suppose to be free!!!
Why am I talking like this? Because I read everyones blogs and emails ok, they be washin hair like it aint no thing, EVERY week and then there's ME lucky to smell water once a month!!! I mean, I got this ONE LOC' (actually 2!) just behind my right ear that is locked at the top AND bottom but coiling like a black spring in the middle!

You will never guess what ...

Mis- communication is a pain in the rear. This happened to me recently, between me and my consultant. I asked if I could book my next appointment (in April) ahead of my current one, which SHOULD have been today (27th) She offered me a Retight Class for the 21st, I said yes! COOL! and was ready to blog it ...

SOO ... last Sunday I planned a day with kids and headed 20 miles north of north, I got to the petrol station and was totally feeling the day ... got to the car and my eldest gave me the phone, Liz said I needed to call her NOW!! WHY? because I was suppose to be 30 miles in the opposite direction! At her house cos everyone was waitin on me!!! GRRRRRRRRRR!

Yes I admit recently, I have poop for brains ...

... an HOUR later with MUCH frustration, and having dumped my kids on the side of a road to make their own way home  :((. I continued to drive 90 ... in a ?? mile zone ...
I arrived at my retight lesson, mentally  not prepared at all and rather stressed out.
HOWEVER! My BFF  TOLD me I MUST  focus on half full NOT half empty ... ready or not, here I was ...

4 hours later ...

I am a bonafide D I Y'er, YEP ... Nai is doing it for herself!
I was also unprepered for the fact that I would be sent home to do it myself, GASP! What!? No pamper me time?! gasp! splutter!

However ... I did it! Actually, I did it over 3 evenings, four hours per session, while watching TV or just chilling in my room. I can do it myself! I managed to join 5 or so, but patiently stopped everything, and unjoined them, I avoided knots and repaired a hole ... and I am VERY PROUD if myself ...
I found out that I hve a 3pt rotation, if I said that right, I think I started out with a 4, 

GUESS who is doing my hair for April .... ?

LIZ!!!!!!!! HAAAA HAAAA sorry loves, I need me some pamper time, yes I can do it myself but it is soo much better when someone does it for me! ROTHFL!!! ; )

But to tell the truth, I actually liked that I did it AND I plan on alternating with Liz to make sure they are all good and until I win over the curly rebel head of mine.

And finally ...

Today is day 303 tomorrow is day 304 ... if you are not a mathematician that means I am 10 months locked tomorrow the 28th march ... Nai is Loc'd, doing it herself (sometimes) and TOTALLY loving it xxx

Past the ninth milestone ...

Just a few pics ...  2 just before a night out pics below, two days after retight. Night before washing.

The morning after!!! I mean I got in at 4am and all I could manage for the whole day was a loooong session in the shower!

Wet ...

Finally dry! :)

No matter what I feel ...

Just a brief post, This week was ... sigh

I woke up one day and believed I felt not just Gods peace, but his prescence. On my way to work I began to reason myself out of it, debating weather I even truly knew exactly what that was, or if ... He ..., God ... had EVER been WITH me. Yes, I am right there ...

Anyway ...

That same day, I did nothing out of the ordinary and was my usual miserable self, the class loved me ... NOT! I gave the children free activity time, I owed them! Only to find that a majority of them preffered that time ... with me! They circled my table, ( I was surprised) and promised them circle time for another afternoon.

4 children still attached themselves to me and they began to talk ... about God.

I am ashamed to say that I had underestimated these children, big time! ... and they shamed me .. sort of.

As we spoke one little girl spoke up, "Miss ... " she said in her half cockney accent ... " I dunno what it is when I'm around you" screwing up her little face, trying to articulate what she wants to say, but was finding it hard to express...

... " I dunno what it is when I'm around you ... but I feel like, like God is there, like he is wiv you, kinda, yeah like I feel safe, WE FEEL SAFE! yeah ... like God is in you , around you, ... sort of ... ah dunno ... I feel safe and peaceful ..."
If you lost me by now, read the first paragraph ... staying ever true to my fool emotions ... my response was to do what?
laugh!
Yes, like Sarah, Abrahams wife! I LAUGHED!

Never before have I believed I was so, He was so ... WE were so far apart.
last time I read the bible it said ... Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ...
Guess I was wrong ...

Again ...