Au Natural: Perm is so Passe'

Well that's how I feel today. After seeing more and more women saying good bye to no-lye... relaxer, that is...I too realized that I was totally over the ritual of perming my hair. Weaves, wigs, tracks....OVER IT!

So discreetly, I stopped perming and started growing. I still wore relaxed styles until I got to the point where I could no longer disguise my natural coils...which I affectionately refer to as naps!

I finally got to the point where I couldn't just blend my hair in with straighter styled half-wigs and tracks, full wigs looked totally ridiculous, and i was just irritated with having crap on my head all day.

So I got brave...and started wearing my hair in its natural form. Though it isn't my best look, it has been very liberating. I'm really looking forward to my hair growing and trying twists and other styles.

But I'm not going back to perms any time soon.

Welp...It's a Wrap

It was a beautiful summer day in July, and I had everything on my mind except for what happened to me on the day of my parents' 25th anniversary.

Boo asked me to swing by his job after work for a hug on the way to the restaurant for a family dinner in honor of my parents. After pulling the car to a non-parking spot and throwing on my hazard lights, giving boo a quick hug, having some mindless chit chat about the haps of the day, my love pulls a red box out of his pocket and says..."well what if I asked you to marry me?"

Uhhhh.....WHAT?!?!?!

He did not just say that, and what the hell is he digging in his pocket for??? WHAT IS GOING ON??? lol.

And out popped a little red box.

After several rounds (about 20 minutes worth) of "Are you kidding?" "Is this for real?" "What's in that box?" "You're so crazy!" and of course "Oh my GOD!" I finally opened the box a peep and saw that there was in fact something sparkling inside of it. So it was at that point that I turned it up a notch and kicked into a few rounds of "OH MY GOD! IS THIS FOR REAL? WHAT IS THIS? WHY DID YOU BUY THIS!!!???"

And once it all got through my big skull what was going on...I finally said,"Well why are you doing it like this? You aint even on your knee!"

So boo gets down on one knee on the corner of 13th and L and asks me to be his Mrs.!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

So... it's a wrap folks! I'm officially OFF THE MARKET!

YAY!

Time for the next scene...