So, I don't know if it's just me, but I remember when I was a little kid and time used to drag, pretty much everywhere I went. Waiting for Christmas, waiting for school to get out or summer to come. Now, I don't know if it's because I am a grown-up or because I have kids, but time speeds by and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to stop it. It's gotten so bad lately that I find myself wanting to go to bed late and get up early so I can do all of the fun things, as well as the boring things, I can fit into the day. Lately, Moe and I want to play Wii and time just flies by when we do that. I think it helps that we don't have a clock in the Wii room and we can just pretend that defeating that particular level only took a few minutes instead of the hour and a half it really did. Or, I have books that somehow are due already at the library when it seems that I just checked them out. Or go swimming and workout at the Y. I think it's been reading that has been tossed by the wayside, at least compared to how much I usually do. Oh, and also the blog writing. I guess it's hard to come up with intelligent things to talk about when your mind is focused on defeating the Emperor and collecting studs (lego studs, they're the money in the game you can use to buy special powers and people and vehicles). Do you feel the same? Does time still drag for you like it did when you were a kid or do you find yourself wondering where the day, week, month, year has gone? I can't believe tomorrow is July.
On another note, does anyone out there have special advice on dealing with curly hair? If she had been born with curly hair, I think I would've slowly figured out how to deal with it, but all of a sudden, BAM!, she's got all of these curls and they are being abused between the continued chemo and sun and chlorine from the pool. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I don't like my girls looking like ragmuffins!
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Time is FLYING by. It is amazing how the time-age continuum works. The older you get, the faster time moves.
The only curls I have dealt with are permed curls. Ahhhh, the 80's. Will she wear a cap in the pool? That saved my perms in my many years on the swim team/lifeguarding/teaching swimming lessons. Other than that, condition, condition, condition! Good luck.
I have curly hair, so I feel your pain! The best things I've found are a) ultra swim shampoo to wash all the chlorine out your hair and b) pantene pro-v curl mousse and c) I put conditioner in my hair in the shower and comb it out, and then I don't comb or brush my hair again until the next time I shower. It keeps all the curls nice and curly. Just put mousse in it (and since you live in Houston, probably a curl cream to lock out the moisture - I used to live in the South too. . .) and scrunch it and let it dry. Good luck!
I am surprised how quickly I lose time as well.
It seems like there is always so much I want to do and no time to get it all in. Sometimes it's so overwhelming, I do nothing at all.
The older you get the faster time seems to go because each day/week/month/year is a smaller fraction of your life. At 6, a year seems like forever because it's only 1/6 of your life. But at 30 a year is 1/30 of your life. I swear a month can go by now in a flash and leave me wondering what happened.
It does seem to fly by, doesn't it? I will have my first kid in school all day next year, and I can't believe it!
As for curly hair, my Emily almost always looks like a ragmuffin, so no advice from me! I do love the curls. When she lets me, I pull it back in tiny rubber bands and use mousse to scrunch the curls. Then it is cute!
I miss you!
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