Daily Archives: Saturday, July 2, 2005

Russell’s Wavey Hair Comes Out

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I mentioned in a post about Asa’s hair the other day that Russell seems to have a slight wave to his hair, as if it’ll get curlier later on maybe … today I noticed that he had a ringlet.

He was playing in his room and it was very hot in there. I looked closer to the nape of his neck and his hair had formed into several loose lovely botticelli curls, the underlayment hair in the back only. On top it was straight.

So I decided to experiment on him. I trimmed the back of his hair a bit later, just to even it up and make it a bit shorter in the back than it had been, it had grown much longer in the back than the sides. So I evened it up some, and then wet it down and gave him a light conditioner-only wash. Then I combed all the tangles out, he had a lot …which is a clue to waviness itself, IMO. So then I put a bit of hair gel in and mussed it up, scrunchy way, to help develop waves. His hair was happy to obey that session when still wet. It wasn’t straight as a stick all over at all. I hadn’t really tried that ever with his hair, usually just combing it out after a shampoo and letting it dry or blowdrying it. So here it was, a conditioning wash and natural dry with some gel. His ringlet underlayment developed on it’s own. The sides got a wave to the edge and stayed back, not falling into his face as straight hair as it has always done after a blow dry or a shampooing sort of treatment and then a week of no shampooing.

What I am knowing is that it has been hot and humid lately. That will bring out the wave in someone’s hair if it’s there. I was actually thinking about it the other day that he actually doesn’t have such straight hair as I might have considered it was earlier in his life, and looking back I can see that slight hint to waviness. He has what can become a botticelli thing, I think. Straighter on top, heavier overlayment and much curlier underneath.

So if he is like me, with the conditioner treatment way he can wet his hair down everyday to refresh the curliness … and that will aide him with having longer hair, keeping it back instead of hanging blah in the way. It’ll be characteristic of a cuter him too. It’s all long enough to pull back into a handsome male ponytail, the front being shorter still, but holding in there alright if pulled back and smooshed into place before securing. It’s a style that I like for him, as his face is interesting, has angular fine features of a sort that a short haircut looks weird on him, but longer hair fine, and pulled back looks “artistic male like” artsy, snobby, intellectual … as much as a 9-year-old little boy can look like that. He’s growing up though, his face has changed dramatically the last few years. My own hair as a child was mildly wavey and got really unavoidably curly in my early teens. For my children I am here knowing what to do with curly hair, when I was a child no one had a clue, neither did I until I was a lot older. I tried to blow it out all the time, and shampooed it to death, chemically straightened it and somehow still retained my own head of hair. So I’m here to help my wavey children. Experience taught me well, no need for them to have horrid experiences!

Device Updates

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I’m excited about something on eBay … Dh let me bid on a Canon Digital and I got the high bid (won) this early AM! It’s the elder Digital Rebel, not the new 8 megapixel but the first sort, the 6.3. It’s a super upgrade for me, and what I have had my eye on for as long as it’s been around the marketplace. This one is used, but “as new” as can be, supposedly. I don’t mind that at all. It’s a pricey product in the marketplace new, $799 is the higher price it goes for, and can be found for a bit less some places, but less places now that they are out with the newer model at the old DigReb6.3 price of $999.

The current digital camera I use is an Olympus something or other, just an auto point and shoot little thing that is a frustrating camera, for me, to use. It’s good for simple pictures, but not an SLR at all. I have a film Canon Rebel, just don’t use it right now since I have so many rolls of film I’ve been waiting to have developed for a very, very long time. So with the new one, when it arrives, I’ll have cousin cameras, A film Rebel and a digital Rebel. I will be able to go nuts, finally, taking pictures in how I like and have good results film wise or digitally. I love this whole thing, I’ll have two bodies of cameras to use EF lenses, swapable. I’d like to one day upgrade to bigger megapixel model, but to start with, the 6.3 is fine.

Happy early birthday to me! (is how I’m viewing this … sort of …) Thank you dearie Frankie! :)

Frank has a business expense device coming soon, a laptop we got on eBay, and so then I’ll have this desktop, which we are sharing for the time being, computer to myself at least. I will need to have a ‘puter at my disposal to load the new camera pics on to fiddle with at any time I wish to have the camera be a great thing of fun for me. Recall if you read the few things posted in June 2005, I lost my laptop use when four-year-old recently got juice all over the LCD screen and the backlight fritzed out between then and when I discovered the “accident”. If you didn’t read that before, you did now, the short version.

This desktop is running pretty good now as well. We did get Memory for it, a full Gig in dual-channel modules (Corsair 3200 512 x 2 ), the night that my laptop died. We were buying that memory, out on other errands as well. Came home with total expectation of having the desktop running better after memory install and had no pre-understanding that my laptop was going to be dead to my use. What a defaltion that was for me. But as for the desktop, the Abit board is running the memory in dual-channel mode and there hasn’t been a single BSOD ever since taking the old Kbyte 512mb 2700 module out. Before the memory switch, there were those bluey thingies oftener than not. So the ‘puter opens big stuff faster now too. Nice.

The processor is running at slower speed though. I can’t make it rack up to what it really is. I guess I ruined it running it at a lower megahertz as long as we’ve had it … it was on another board before with that Kbyte memory. Moving to the Abit NF7s board it wouldn’t run right at it’s fastest processing speed. I had to put it down to 100 mghz. It’s an Athlon 2100+. So now with the new memory I can’t get BIOS to load processor real speed or antything BUT 100 … urgh. It’s wickedly weird, from my limited experience with processors and upgrading and such I haven’t had a “stuck” processor. My real desire was to take the processor off and reapply it when I installed the new memory. I didn’t do that. I should have. But I need to find my Artic Silver and also wait until Frank’s newer laptop comes, slated to be delivered July 11. I’ll also have to wait to do it until I can convince Frank to buy a new processor IF THIS ONE flips out when I re-seat it. So I’ll leave it alone until a new one could be afforded. I’d just get a new one that’s out there somewhere, that could be overclocked if I want … if I can find one, so faster than Athlon 2100+ but not much. Newer ones are locked, can’t overclock those. My very own 2100+ seems to have locked itself at a lower speed, even though it’s recognized as a 2100+ in the system. I re-set BIOS even. Just didn’t re-seat the processor, as I stated above.

So anyhow, this is all hope for the future to have a great little desktop that is fairly powerful and useful for family use of any kind; and I will *hopefully* get a laptop sometime sooner than later. (I used to take my laptop into the bedroom, in the van, into the kitchen, outside, anywhere. I only lost functionality of it because of small-children-being-bad-to-it when I wasn’t in the room and they were; two separate occassions, but never any other times, as it was unattended multiple times before and after, just two separate one-time things killed it slowly.) I miss my laptop-ability of all sorts. I miss having the computer at my fingertips just any old time I think of something to do or look up. It’s a real kill to my listening to music now too. And looking stuff up for the children as I was gearing into my Summer Fun Educationalness Time with them that relies heavily on the computer and internet (looking info up, printing stuff).

It’s July 2. It’ll be July 11 when Frank’s laptop arrives, so by July 12th the desktop will be free for me to use anytime, that’s 10 days away. I don’t like to wish time away … but … I don’t want to, really. I would like to stay 38 as long as I can, don’t want to push closer to 39 too soon, nor push Frank into 40 faster. He’ll be there on July 10. That’s a big event. Every day is one to savour, not wish away, and especially when you get older. Oh the days I can recall just wishing to be out of my childhood and … I am and it’s something I know a lot about now. Do not wish life away, it goes too quickly as it is. :)