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Thanks to everyone that thought of my friends wife. The doctors gave her medicine to contract her veins to try and stop the bleeding and unfortunately that caused her two strokes, one on each side of her brain. I think it was OK though because she's awake again and can talk to her husband which is a very good sign. Apparently they were going to do some mega scan on her this afternoon that will hopefully shed some light on what has happened to her and how to fix it.

Lets hope for the best.

Hitting about 3.5 months...Just realized today I have tons of little chunks of hair that has been sucked into another dread near by where the roots are. I have decided to let a few of them do their thing since they are small enough, but there are two sections that would be way too big if I let them go. Over the next few days I'm going to be pulling hair out of one, but man! Both those stubborn dreads are tight! There are two chunks of hair basically criss-crossing from one dread root to the other dread. So I have to decide which one is easier to pull from and they are incredibly tight. We'll see if I can pull the hair out and get it back in. I realize now that the main reason this is happening is due to my crappy sectioning. I thought I had let my hair naturally section prior to doing my twist and rip, but nope.

Some of my dreads that I first started are tightly t/r that they actually are starting to feel "rougher" than my other ones, which I don't really enjoy...So I'm hoping maybe baking soda/acv will make those ones a bit softer to the touch...

I washed them twice this past week cause i was playing football with some friends and also grilling up some burger's so they kinda smell so yeah and after that i got my krochet hook and tightened them after i showered just cause they're still at that phase where they seem to loosen up after i wash them. But most of the ones in the back are flat dreads, and some still havent came together, it'll be 2 months this thursday :D so yeahh still being patient with the back ones, and those will be more of like a "naturall/neglect" kind of dreads, the ones in the back of my head, mainly cause when they were backcombed they all didn't come together, probably because they were too short or whatever but it'll be kind of cool to see how those come out opposed to my backcombed ones. I'm also wearing a headband to hold them out of my face cause they wont go down I've been wearing a beanie to put them down, wich seems to be working idk

Hello everyone! My name's Caroline and i've had dreads for a little over four months, and am currently in the process of combing them out. My current situation has invaded my mind for the past week and i decided that i really wanted to write it all down, so i can see my thoughts, and i figured i might as well share it with anyone that cares. To anyone considering dreadlock EXTENSIONS; this is for you.

I have been wanting dreads since my senior year of high school (2008). when i would see anyone with dreads i would literally stare at them, admiring them, i thought they were so beautiful and rad. there was something about people who had dreads that i wanted to be a part of. so four months ago, i started researching dreadlock extensions. i knew i wanted long, full dreads with tons of beads and yarn and decorations. I also know that i can be extremely impatient so i decided to do it. 4 hours sitting in a chair and 600 dollars later i would have insta-dreads! ...yep, 600 big ones. it was human hair, which i liked, it felt more natural. Anyways, I was very pleased with the finished product. for the four months that i had them i highly enjoyed decorating them, experimenting with hair styles, etc etc. But just recently i started to feel a void. I joined dreadlockssite and started looking at pictures and watching videos on youtube about people that let their hair naturally dread. And it took a while to finally admit it, but i realized that i had dreaded my hair for all the wrong reasons (so i personally felt). I felt immediately disconnected from my dreads. 50% of them weren't even my hair. Sure it was fun putting beads in and wrapping them with yarn, but i skipped years of the journey. I had instant gratification, and because of that i was bored with them already. I didn't get to watch them grow from babies, i didn't allow them to form their own personalities, i didn't even have a favorite one. they all pretty much looked the same. I didn't love them. And i enviously watched videos of people who adored their naturally grown dreads. After that, my hair felt like straw. it was heavy. and annoying. like a burden attached to my head. which is NOT how one should feel about their dreads. unless they have had them for decades and are ready to say goodbye. I decided not to waste anymore time- i decided to comb those bitches out. and as i write this, i have half a head of dreads and half a head of regular hair. it looks quite ridiculous, honestly. when i'm finished combing them out, (which has taken three days so far and i am half done..) i'm going to leave my hair alone and grown natural, neglect method, free dreadies. I'm anxious to see what they will do, and let nature take it's course.

so children, the moral of my story i guess... The harder you work for something, the more you will appreciate it

and if you're considering getting dread extensions, i highly recommend not doing it. unless you are confident that you don't want to be spiritually connected to them, or you don't plan to have them for very long. I'm hoping to reach out to those people because i don't want you to have to learn the hard way like i did. Thank you- if you actually took the time to read my story! I hope you have a glorious day.

my first vid! check it out!

So I am at my boyfriends house and I was looking in the mirror at my hair and I have found my very first dread.. :D :D :D

Super stoked about that!! Just thought I would share!!Pics to come!! :D

I hope you all are having a great day!!

so I have a spare moment to post,
I'd like to say thank you to everyone for reading my blog and comment on pix and things, as well as I'd like to say a very much appreciated thank you, to all you lovely people here on this site, for welcoming me with open arms and open hearts, it is a very warm loving community I have noticed,
This is something very powerful to me, I've been having all kinds of trouble, and been UN-abled to communicate with ANY of the people I know of late, and this is a somewhat disturbing fact to me, growing up as someone who was a very very social person myself, and always being around friends and loved ones, so I began feeling lost and wondering if I'd ever be able to find what I felt I was missing.

I was so intensely lucky to stumble across this brilliant page, made so pleasant and thoughtfully for people feeling the same way. I am just flabbergasted at how many other people there still are out there feeling almost exactly the same as me, and I am so glad to be able to freely speak out about it and not worry how people are judging or what they are thinking, because I know it's okay to disagree, and there's no problems, but allot of my friends of late are really really bugging me so horrifically, I feel as though I cannot breath around them any more

I hated feeling pessimistic and dis-heartened, I really thought I was actually losing my mind because I was talking to walls all the time, or at least that's what I thought, that's how perceptive and caring my friends were at the time, and I felt I was just running out of rope, and then, I decided finally to do my Dreadlocks, so I went searching for a few months looking for some pages, but they were pages either with Lack of information, or they would list seller's or salons and explain EVERYTHING on the positive side of products and different methods, but I also noticed allot of them POO-HOOED the natural way, and really pushed for the natural way as a style of "NEGLECT" this is sad, when natural begins to become "NEGLECT" and ALTERNATE, but none-the-less, that's off on a tangent.

When I found this page I was totally skeptical about the "NEGLECT/NATURAL way, so I thought, yeah why not give it a day or 2 n see just how that FEELS, so I did, but I was still slightly unsure about it all, then I started asking people on their washing methods and everything, and practically everyone on this site, suggested baking soda/sea-salt and a little lemon with some oils, so I mixed up some baking soda with sea-salt, a touch of citric acid (at the time as a substitute because for some reason we r out of lemon, AGAIN.... good on pancakes, might explain y, nom nom nom)
I used about 2 cups of cold water and 2 1/2 of boiling water to dissolve all of this, I had seen a post earlier on the site for this washing, because I was worried on touching and fiddling, although at the time I had plaits, not proper dreads, (only about a week or so b4 my dreads, to help along with the sectioning, and it worked a treat) so I'd seen someone suggested a good technique was lying upside down on the couch as long as they could, so I took this to mean they were soaking their hair in a makeshift basin with the solution.
Any ways I gave that same idea a go, to soak all my plaits n hair to clean it, and that is the biggest turning point for me for why I chose to do as Natural as possible as I could with my dreads, that and all the products and other methods, just FEEL like they r taking away from the very essence of being human, and being in tune with your mind body and soul.
as well as I easily believe had I of used the products, my dreads wouldn't be as lovely and exotic as they are.

I am truly in love with my dreads, just like I am truly in love with my absolutely gorgeous partner, who means the world to me, and without him, I don't believe I would have the courage to be myself, let alone stand for what I honestly believe in, he's helped me through some very emotional times, and although I am aware the relationship is still young, I can safely and easily say I can see a many more happy years and decades to come with him, we have been together for 2 years, but I feel as though we are so in tune, it's just wondrous and miraculous, every day spent with him is a day I will never be able to ever forget, and I wouldn't want to, after all, he's my light and my rock, he's one of the most important inspirations to my life, because I feel without him, I wouldn't be able to take this existential journey, or the big first step to start my dreads, and had I not have found him, I FEEL as though I would just be another mindless droid, sucked into the consumerism, ethical and moral decay that has become our modern society.

one of the things that I love about him is how he's showed me much patience, and he's showing me how to live harmoniously within myself and all my surroundings.

So I hope you can take something special away from this, just like I felt I was giving you something special, a part of myself, and hoping that you feel as inspired and calmed as me reading this, as I feel whilst I'm writing this, it's a very therapeutic past time for me writing so I really hope that I am able to do as much good for someone, as I believe Glen has showed me.

Peace and happiness all around for everyone

i wake up with fears and tremors these days... still looking for you beside me. I have to shake me head violently to prevent these thoughts from multiplying. They stop suddenly as the sea rocks in calming angst at the ending of a storm. I wait anticipating the backlash, but as i lay here the fears slowly dissipate. your energy still lurks between these sheets. and my mind misses the comfort of the love we once grew.


keep love, say my dreadlocks... keep love in your heart

everyday i will look for ways of being of service to others... how can i help? be more generous? i extend my offerings... my life is full, beautiful... in this moment and every moment as they come in all intensity always right now. I am truly blessed. life is in a constant state of renewing itself. sending healing vibrations of love into my ownself and out to you of the universe. everyone feel the warmth of existence within, it is an unbounded source of peace and love for the tapping.

loveloveloveamoramoramor

blessed days

I woke up this morning from a dream Ive had once before. I was running from a tornado, about five tornados actually, and I had this little boy with me. I am not sure where the little boy came from but i knew I had to keep him safe.

My eyes slammed open at 5:36 am and I could not fall back asleep so i decided to go for a run. It was nice and chilled this morning and the moon was full so it was a very pleasant run. It gave me time to think about alot that has been on my mind. Mostly this project I am trying to start. A good friend of mine is helping me set up a website (because i know nothing about starting a website) so that I can start selling my crochet and knitted items. Let me start at the beginning...

I have always wanted to do something to "change" the world. I knew from the time i could understand that this world wasn't a whole. I'm not big into politics, although im sure i SHOULD pay attention since i am a voter, but i know that as one earth, WE have 7 continents, 196 countries on our ONE earth. I don't know about all of you, but something in me believes we should all be ONE. That we shouldn't be worrying about all these petty little "laws" each of our countries have and that we should cut this war crap out. I know alot of it has to do with RELIGON. I personally, don't have a clue what I believe in, but I find it just crazy that we would WASTE our time here on earth fighting over something NONE of us knows for sure. I might be crazy for thinking this, but so be it.

Anyway! this brings me back to my project I am working on. I want to sell my items that I am making and take the proceeds and give them. Not just to another organization, but to the people. I want to make it personal. I want to give a family christmas! I want to give a lost puppy a home. I want to feed as many people as I can. I want to buy mosquito nets for thousands of people who need them. I want to build wells for others who need them. I want to change the world. and i can't change the world by sitting back and watching it fall apart because of something that none of us can help. we CAN help here and now, and I want to do so.

So i guess Ill see where this road takes me. hopefully to help thousands of people and spread love and peace. that is all I am in it for. I want to make someone smile.

I don't cry much if ever, but I burst out in tears today at work when my employment broker came to drop off my payslip. He's been off work for more than a month so I knew something bad must've been going on. His wife has been in and out of ICU for about a month now. She has bleeding on the brain and the doctors have no idea why or how to fix it. They have a small boy about the same age as mine.

Please spare a thought for them today.

Thanks all of ya.