I did a hot oil treatment today but I made some mistakes. Don't get me wrong, I am still oiled 😂 up so I don't know for certain... but I applied it to dry hair. I washed out the henna with a lightweight conditioner last night - only the conditioner. As I read... I do a lot of reading on this stuff.
I don't do a lot of beauty stuff but if I DIY at home I read up on it first. So my hair looked OK this morning. I had read olive oil was very good for ends. So I put some "expired" olive oil I found in the pantry (I have a small pantry but the bottle was hidden), in a glass container and nuked it slightly until barely warm, put it on my ends up about 2-3 inches. My hair is over a foot long, down to my waist. So I had plenty of hair left. I applied it to dry hair.
Then I melted some coconut oil I also had for cooking. I had a little olive oil left so I mixed them and applied it. Put my hair in a clip and under a shower cap.
Later I read I should have washed my hair with shampoo first and then applied it to wet, clean, hair. Oops. But that sounds like a pain: wash my hair, apply oil (not an easy process) and then wash it again all in one day. Not exactly my idea of a good time. We will see how this goes. I plan to wash it out around 7 PM. We will see. The plan is to look fantastic when my aunt takes photos on Wednesday. It has worked pretty well, I did get a little oil leaking down my neck but I wore my "junk" t shirt.
I don't like burgundy. So I bought a package of t shirts some time back, it was a 4 pack and I liked the other colors. But one was burgundy. So I use it for messy things like cleaning, cooking, henna treatments, and of course the hot oil treatment. It is surprisingly unstained.
At some point we sell a 4 pack of men's tshirts at work, in gray. I would like to get a pack but not right now, I have plenty of 2xl tshirts. For now I have plenty of shirts that work, for work. Not slutty (good high neckline, loose enough, longer hem), so good to wear around people on the bus, work, etc.
I also cleaned the kitchen a little and found a way to keep ALL my appliances on the counter. It looks a lot better, and room for meal prep. I do want to make a curry this week, with lentils and diced potatoes. Now I have room for that.
I need to find my pot...I keep meaning to look but I'm not convenient to it whenever I think of it. Up I go to look. I found the pot; can't find the lid. I will need to rethink do I need a 4 quart stock pot now that I live alone. It's a nice open pot but my storage is pretty limited... if I don't want it I can just put it out at the curb and someone will take it. We have a lot of trash pickers.
Speaking of trash I cleaned up some old packets of oatmeal I forgot about, out of the lower cabinet (hard to access), took it out and WELL there is a trash can full of mulched leaves and grass clippings. Would have been GREAT for compost but I don't have the energy for it today. I don't think I can dispose of stuff like that so I put the kitchen trash bag on top and kind of spread it around so it only looks like 😃 "normal" bagged trash. My trash pickup guys are pretty awesome, they have taken a ton of stuff the last few years, debris from the remodel, all the home care stuff (holding nose), and of course all the "Ron's dead and I don't want his stuff, stuff". Like that mattress... I'm surprised it didn't bite them! So I want to look out for them...
Anyway I do need to think about it. If I make, say lentils, curry, something like that I will probably not want to make a huge amount. My goal is to have mostly raw or cooked meat in the freezer with a few TV meals. I don't want to put a lot of leftovers in the freezer, I don't have room; just meat.
So that means I need to 1. Eat up the pot pies and TV dinners and 2. Buy/store/cook more meat. I won't have room for a big pot of leftovers, so I'm thinking a smaller pot is probably (I have a smaller pot) will be better. And of course I would get sick of eating the same damned thing no matter how delicious it was.
And if it isn't delicious I can eat a smaller amount. I am still trying to figure out meals here even one year out...I want to do more cooking because it is cheaper. And it is satisfying to cook a good meal.
I am going to go check the mail shortly greased up hair, shower cap, and sweats. Pretty obvious I don't have a date tonight! The cats are good about sleeping with me though so I don't feel too deprived. I just mainly miss - and this is what I miss the most, just being able to pick up my phone and call him anytime, and he was always happy to hear from me. I miss that a lot.
Not sorry he is in Heaven, out of his "Broken POS body" as he called it. But I miss him.
That's it for now.
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