Three Years!!

Hi all,

  So it's been three years now since I've cut my hair and gone natural. It's been a crazy ride but I'm glad I stuck to it. My face and body and never felt healthier..plus my hair has grown out so much, sometimes it even astonishes me. This journey isn't over for me yet because as my dad has, keeping up with yourself and taking care of yourself is a life long endeavour. I just want to take the time now though to reflect back on my journey and see how far I've actually come. If you've been reading my post you can see pictures of me when I first cut my hair back in 2009. Well here are some pictures today of how it's grown. Now that my hair is getting longer, I do worry about my ends because I don't

"dust" or trim my ends like over women do that I've seen on videos but since I am graduating on Saturday! YAY! lol I'm thinking about straightening my hair (don't worry professionally, I don't trust myself with heat yet) for the occasion and I'm just really curious to see how long my hair actually is. I guess then, I'll get my ends trimmed and see how I can keep my ends nice and neat. Throughout this journey, I want to thank a lot of people that has guided me throughout this experience. First I want to thank all the ladies on Youtube for creating such great informative videos that girls like me can follow and look up to. Finally I want to thank my hair dresser Meeka! She's an amazing hair stylist that I would recommend to anyone. She's given me lots of advice about my hair and how I should treat it to let it grow and I'm really indebted to her for all her advice! Anyway, I'm still not at my goal length yet which is a little  bra strap length going down my back but I know that I'll reach it...maybe in year 4 or 5 of my journey. After I reach that goal, I think I might start cutting it if if gets longer because, if you have hair like me, you know how much of a hassle it can be with two-strand twist once you've washed it. It literally takes me hours to re-twist because it's so long. but, after I reach my goal length I intend to just maintain that length. Anyway, besides hair talk, I just want to say Happy Mother's Day to my mom and to all the mom's out there that work hard for their babies! We really appreciate it, even if we don't show it all the time. So please keep doing what your doing and always know you are loved!!! Thanks moms! I also want to take the time to congratulate all the college graduates of 2012!! As I said earlier, I'm graduating on Saturday (with a shit load of debt!) but yeah, it's a pretty big accomplishment and I'm proud of myself! I'm graduating with a Japanese BA degree and I'm looking forward to using my language abilities in my future jobs so I couldn't ask for anything more (except maybe a more fair way of charging kids for school so that don't end up with a mountain of debt even before they have a job to pay it off...but hey, you can't get everything huh..)