The TightenUp.......

The last time I had a retightening was in February, and I just recently had...............no, NEEDED to see my F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S consultant Ericka on Sunday 5/6 @ 7:30ish in the AM!!! I am so geeked. My hair had grown so much. Yall know from my Fotki, http://public.fotki.com/HaZeLEyEd1/, that my hair was thin in spots. In the beginning..............

then there was the first retightening.............. Still a 'lil scalpy, yeah........huh?!?!?................I know, but it got real bad. I think I neglected my babies when I was going through my whole car situation. SHOOT I didn't have the money to get that attention to detail that Ericka cares about so much. So I looked like THIS 'bout the head..............

CHIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile..................on Sunday the back row was taken down and the single locs were made two.

My baby, yall know the one that was the first to just bloom, is now FOUR smaller locs. It took some time, but I am so happy that my hair is TightenedUP!! I feel like a new person. I remember when my appointment for a fresh perm or fade where DUE!!! After it was done you couldn't tell me SHHHhhhhhhhh.......

I'm excited that I am actually letting my hair grow. 2 years ago this time I was BALD, by choice, but nontheless BALD!! Well TODAY marks 7 months being SL'd and let me tell you................... I'm still happy I made the jump to Sisterlocks(r).

I don't believe this....

Ok, it was on 5/1/07 a rainy Tuesday afternoon. One of my co-workers offered to take me home after work. We're slowly working our way through the downtown Detroit rush hour. We're talking about the days events and how tired we were. We pull onto my street and I happen to glance toward where I last saw my car parked ready to give my baby the type of look a mother gives her sick child. However, to my surprise, my baby isn't there. Am I seeing things!??! I see a gray Saturn, and a gray, truck, no gray, Cirrus.

I'm about to cry, my car was STOLEN?!?!?!? No, it had to have been towed. The battery was dead, and it was leaking transmission fluid. I resolve that my neighbors thought it was an abandoned vehicle, and had it towed. Ok, Ok. I'll just call the police department and figure this one out tomorrow.

Well, 5/2/07 comes around and I go to my local police station with a copy of my title and ask where my car was towed. I was then told by the officer that my car wasn't towed by the police department. WHAT?!?!?!? SO SOMEONE REALLY DID STEAL MY BABY! I make a report and take a bus back home, defeated, angry, violated, and just sick. I mean, I have this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. For some reason I don't cry, I just pray to God that I can still stay on my plan to pay off the remaining balance of my tickets, and when they finally find my car I can go through with registering it and renew my license at least by June, not May, but JUNE!!! Another setback.

It's now 5/3/07 I come home and I get this letter in the mail from the MI Dept of Treasury. It's telling me that my refund has been adjusted and the amount that they placed towards my driver responsibility has paid off my tickets. Hallelujah!!!! That means I can renew my license like tomorrow Friday 5/4/07. That also means that when my car is found and it's not in too bad of a shape, I can purchase my insurance and renew my tags, and DRIVE!!!

I can see the light at the end of my tunnel.

Thanks for sharing in my whole ordeal.