3 month Update

Hello!

I know it's been a while since I posted!  Much has happened over the last month and a half.  I decided to stay in the city for medical school! I'm super excited and scared and nervous and anxious all at once.

My sisterlocks have been holding up pretty well.  All I've been doing is washing with the Sisterlocks Starter Shampoo every 1-2 weems, which I honestly hate, but I understand is a necessary evil.  I hate that the shampoo has no smell, has no moisture, and leaves my hair and scalp feeling super dry.  However,  I definitely can see that my hair is starting to lock, especially in the back.  I'm counting down until August, when I can hopefully graduate from the starter shampoo to other shampoos and conditioners.

I haven't done much with styling either.  Since I have the last summer off until medical school starts, I'm going to try and style my hair and see what results!!!  My hair is still pretty short, which sort of limits my styling options though.

Anyway, enough talk! On to pics:

Fab sisters, me, and almost 3 month old sisterlocks.   My oldest sis (middle) is highly considering sisterlocks and will be monitoring mine closely.

Me, my "niecey-poo", and just over 3 month old sisterlocks.  One of my favorite pics of all time.  My hair is growing, too :-)

Simply Sad

So I'm sad for many reasons.  I'm sad because my program is ending, and my good friends and I will be parting ways.  I am sad because I still don't know what medical school I am going to choose, and I am no closer to making a decision.  I guess I feel like I'm in limbo.  I'm sad that my Seattle high has vanished, and I've returned to reality. I'm sad because I feel like I've regressed, like all the progress I've made from a insecure fourteen-year-old to a confident twenty-something year was for naught.  I'm sad because I feel like I'm going through adolescence...again!  I'm sad because I feel lonely sometimes, and even though its been almost a year, I still miss him.  I'm sad that his absence still makes me sad. I'm sad because I've lost faith... sigh.

Hopefully I'll cheer up soon, and get out of this funk and count my blessings!!!  Until then, here's a pic of me, my sisterlocks, and three my besties:

Please click on the picture to see a clearer pic of the locs!!! (Just realized these pics were taken at the 2 month mark :-))

Sense, re-sense, and multisensical wonders

I went to Seattle confused, unenthusiastic, unmotivated, and unhappy.  I left Seattle inspired, at peace with myself, invigorated, and probably even more confused, lol.  I guess I learned that (1) I'm only 23 and I have a whole exciting life ahead (2) I WANT to be a doctor, and I think I'll be a darn good one too (3) No one but me defines my happiness (4) I do have the ability to love again, but I must never let "love" make me forget numbers 1-3.

How'd I learn all this?  Well, for one escaping the environment that made me feel unmotivated and unenthusiastic helped.  Being at a conference surrounded by brilliant leaders in medicine was inspirational.  Having a roommate with an exceptional life story helped put my own life in perspective.  And experiencing my first real crush post-ex bf was... I can't put it into words.  According to a new friend, in Seattle I experienced, "sense, re-sense, and multisensical wonders."

But you guys care about sisterlocks! So here are some pics:

P.S. Welcome new subscribers!!! :-)

Sisterlocks, waitlists, and other meandering thoughts

Hello all!!!  Thanks for the two new suscribers! It was getting kinda lonely blogging to my one follower (who happens to be my ex and probably forgot that he is even following this blog, lol).    So it was my original intent to blog more often, but the problem is, my life is so boring that I don't do anything that requires me to take pretty dolled up pictures of my locks.  But this past weekend I finally went out with my sis and her friends and I have pics of my sisterlocks 1 month in... yay!!!

So I had my hair re-tightened about 1.5 weeks before these pics were taken.  I had them re-tightened so soon because I had my followup mini re-tightening session:

Other than that I have some major decisions to make over the next few months.  I have to choose which med school to go to!  I have to see if I can get into one of these schools on which I have been placed on the waitlist ... I have to find myself before my new journey begins!!!!  So much to do so little time :-)

My Sisterlocks Debut

Hello all!  My sisterlocks were born last Thursday morning at 2:00 a.m.  After 16 hours of marvelous work done by my consultant, I am officially apart of the network of sisterlocked sistahs.  I must say I love them!!! They are so, "me".  I just wake up, fluff up my hair, and its all set!  The only negative that I've experienced this week is dry itchy scalp, which I hope will go away once my scalp gets used to producing its own oils.  I am willing myself not to put any products in my hair.

Well enough talk! Here are the pics:

ONE MORE WEEK!!!

The countdown begins! Only one more week until my sisterlock installation! I'm excited and nervous! I can't wait to see how it looks.  I promise to post pics as soon as my head is complete!!!

Almost One Year Later... and I'm taking the plunge!

A lot has happened in the last year.  I fell in love.  I fell out of love.  I SWORE I didn't wouldn't get in to a medical school. I was accepted to a top-twenty medical institution.  I was sooo down. I was on cloud nine.  I cut off all my hair, then grew it all out, just to texturize it and cut it off again.  Oh yeah, I had multiple sets of braids, twists, cornrows in between.

BUT GUESS WHAT!?! I set up my installation day on 2/16/11. Its official.  I'm gonna get locked.  But I'm super scared.  I don't know what my hair is going to look like!!  I've been scouring the internet for hours upon hours to find a sisterlocked sistah with my exact hair texture: very very very very (I EMPHASIZE VERY) tightly coiled 4a hair that is very dense... then I realized, no one is going to have the same exact hair like me... only my blood sisters come close. (And pictures can also be so deceiving...) So I guess I'll have to wait two weeks and see :-).

Until then, look at some pics of my nhappy locks until I have more interesting sisterlocked pics to show you:

Pic of my tight tight tight coils

Right before I texturized my hair in 8/2010.  I actually eventually cut all this off after my texturizer grew out a bit.

 

My hair today!!!  I know its extra deceiving cuz it looks extra shiny.

Actually, this is how I really wear my hair in traditional starter locks cuz I'm too lazy to even comb my hair on a daily basis.