Brazilian Blowout - LOVING IT!!!

My hair is....well, let's just say "difficult".  The medications I've been on do strange things to it...prednisone made it fall out, cyclosporine made it grow back, so the current status is thin hair on the ends and super-thick near the roots.  Basically, my hair is currently bi-polar.

My friend Holly raved about this hair treatment she had done in Australia...it's a smoothing treatment, but sometimes it results in straightening.  A couple of weeks ago, I was driving home, and there was this ridiculous neon sign that said "Brazilian Blowout".  Ok, normally I wouldn't fall for the neon thing (especially when it said Brazilian - anything), but I went online and found out that it was a legit salon offering this smoothing treatment.

I want to grow my hair out again, but with mangy hair like I have right now, I also want to rip it off my head.  I figured this was the only way to see through the awful growth period.  The shots are before and after, before and after, etcetera, etcetera (please disregard the crappiness of the photos...I swears I can take sum purrrrty pictures ;)















Oh my word...I don't think I can tell you how happy I am that I did this. It was $$$$, no doubt, but for me, worth every single penny. It's definitely smoother and shinier...and bonus, it took almost all of the bizarro curl outta my hair...not all, but most. Straightening is a breeze now, and only takes a few minutes. Most days I can just roll outta bed and it looks great. A huge time saver, and for me, probably a hair-saver. I can EASILY wait out this growth period if my hair behaves like it has. I'm singin' your praises, Brazilian Blowout!

Crazy hair after her bath

This is what her hair looks like after her bath...seriously defying gravity!

My crazy-haired little lady :)

I meant to get her a haircut this weekend, but it just didn't happen. And I'm kinda glad I didn't, because I might not have been able to get these cute shots of her!

Re-doing office...

After Christmas we went back to Ikea because I apparently hadn't correctly purchased all of Izzy's kitchen the first time (I forgot the upper part that included the microwave), and no way was my little girl NOT gonna have her kitchen, so we headed down there again last Wednesday.
I had originally wanted to "re-do" the office over Christmas, but with the biopsy and everything, we decided not to tackle it, but we DID think we could make a few improvements to start off with. We bought some cabinets to hang on the wall and some free-standing cabinets to replace the messy shelves we had in there. And of course, with Ikea furniture, this required assembly, which Izzy was only too happy to help with. She was very curious about the paper inserts that were in the box with the drill.

She's starting to climb a lot more now, and I think she was excited that she could get up on the cabinet all by herself...



A little downtime with her magna doodle (this, by the way, was a fantastic gift my moi....going to come in handy on the trip to Sweden this summer!)\

And a little dancing

I don't know if you noticed her hair, but I was having a little fun with it...

And I just realized that I don't have finished pictures of our work...maybe tomorrow I'll get that done!