Rest

To say that it's been an emotional week is an understatement. I spent most of yesterday at home (with the exception of a run late in the afternoon), mostly because whenever I go anywhere I tend to spend money ... which I don't have. So, in order to reign in the spending and rampant consumerism that makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something, I chose to stay home. I was pretty much bored out of my mind most of the day.

One diversion that I've come to love and adore is the internet. There's so much to be explored on this information highway. I've spent the good part of the last two days on hair forums and natural websites, scouring articles and blogs on how to take care of my hair in its natural state. (For those who don't know this, I've stopped relaxing my hair and am trasitioning to wearing my natural napps - walking in freedom and the original beauty God gave me!) There are some seriously crazy sistas on these sites, and people feel the freedom to share some of the most interesting things under the guise of anonymity. I came away from this with a list of products to try and those to stay away from, as well as tips on how to (not) wash and comb my hair, pitfalls, opinions and a sense that my own hair journey was going to be all right.

You can only do this for so long, though. So, I moved on to Youtube for hair tutorials ... and got roped into the Old Spice commercials with the "man your man could smell like". Oh. My. Word. I haven't laughed so much in weeks!!! Besides the fact that Mr. Isaiah Mustafa is a GORGEOUS man in a towel, these commercials are a stroke of advertizing genius (because seriously, who really paid attention to Old Spice outside of old men before now???), the sheer ridiculousness of this guy's logic and sentence structure is amazing!! My favorite line has to be "The tickets are now diamonds!!"

So, in spite of the fact that I've been trying to watch a movie for diversion for over a week now but have been too distracted to do so, I've managed to find rest and respite in laughter thanks to the crazy people on hair forums and the Old Spice guy.

Love it.