Amazing hair day

 I know you guys are tired of my hair posts but TOO BAD. I have seriously been doing some amazing stuff with this bucket of curls on my head.  These pictures were  one day after a deep conditioning. I woke up the next morning like YES! Get it curls!

Digital Remedy

My luck with iphones has been on the frits . I dropped my 5s several times until it became unusable. Then I dug up my 5and  shattered it to pieces. I was at work and needed my phone so a friend of mine told me about this place downtown.

The guy was really nice and the prices were a little bit cheaper than other places i called. Plus its a  local business ! Support local businesses!

The Grey Chronicals

 

Since I decided to take a break in April/May you guys missed out on some great things that happened.

One of those things is my hair .

Almost year ago I started entertaining the idea of having gray hair . I have been graying since I was 12. I have never dyed my hair in fear of going all gray but mainly for the fun of it .

I told a couple people to get their opinion because there was no one in our city who had it.And I should have known not to take value to their opinions. But they were like who does that ? That's dumb.
Side eye
Also it was kinda hard to just go for it since  I didn't have a stable hair stylist.
But luckily after the 2014 December hair catastrophe I started going to Justin's cousin, Jessica. I even mustarded up the courage to tell  her what I wanted . And she told me she could do it. She'd never done it on natural hair but she's done it on weave .

I was over the moon !
 

 

Unfortunately the color did not stick . So I had to come back to try again. But on the plus side  I got this cool Carmel to work with for  a couple weeks. Woot woot!

Photos say 1000 words

I lost 5 lbs this week. I thought about food at least 80% of my day . Making sure I didn't over eat - tracking - feeling hungry- thinking about someone else's food .

5 lbs is a great start. Then today I decided to make Rotel for a friend that was coming over . So I had that for lunch and a large bag of Doritos for dinner. 

In the middle of the day I had a friend text me a picture . I'm not quite sure how old I was . Maybe btw 17-19. I was blown away because although you can def tell its me. I look nothing like this girl. and it's so sad. Some people who take that as motivation to put the chips down but for me it made me realize how far I fell. And how long it's going to take for me to get back up.

 I feel like I need someone to blame/ need an excuse for being this way . Or someone to take my hand and lead me out of this mess. But there isn't anyone .

Delta-Anne & Southern

Oh you know just a day riding in the truck going to boarding for the weekend .

I tell you these Labs are so well behaved in the truck . Super cute !

Truth or Dare

Truth

I'm a failure. I've been overweight all my life. It use to be just 20 then 30 now 75 lbs I could probably benefit from losing 100lbs - and that's the truth. 

I am motivated in all ways of life but putting the chocolate cheese and burgers down.  

I see the problem but it's hard to keep fighting it . Sometimes I have extremist behavior - and after 3 weeks I'm needing to come back to reality .which for me means being extreme in the other direction . 

Dare-

Today I flushed about 30 milk chocolate covered almonds down my toilet . After eating 55 in less than 20 minutes . In my mind I was going to sit down and eat the serving size which was 9 and all I had room for according to my fitness pal..

Yeah-

My name is Alisa, and I have a problem .

I need everyone to hold be accountable . Please don't pressure me into lunch/dinner  or get treats . I don't own the ability to say no. Because when you have an addiction - it takes over .

Last week I started back running Sunday Monday and Tuesday. 

Enjoy the sweaty selfies

3603

When I was a little girl I use to gripe about wanting to live in a apartment. A few of my friends and their families lived in apartments. There was this one complex that use to be popular in my town that was near my elementary school. My grandmother would tell me your friends are very lucky to have to home but you should want to live in a house , a house that you own. I would tell her over and over no I don't want that I want an apartment. Obviously I didn't get it. I thought apartments were like hotels. Huge beds, pools, and people came to clean them when you left for the day.

Many of you guys know I moved out of my parents home when I was 17. No real reason but I wanted to be closer to my friends, and I wanted boys over. ( wink )

3603 has been a home I had been going to since a small child. My mother actually grew up in this house and its next door to my gg Annie's house. My brother lived here a couple years in the 90s and destroyed it . After than I guess in my mind it was understood it belonged to me.

Its always makes me feel good to know that I have multiple places to go to that belong to me.  I know that's a strange statement and I am aware that I am beyond blessed .
So when I went to give it is first mowing of the summer it made me fall in love with it all over again. I just have some many memories, and I don't think anyone will understand this house for what it means to me just by looking at it.

Downtown Cinema: Back to the Future 2

Portico Church has this amazing idea to give back to the residents of our town. The last Saturday of May June July August  at sundown they show a movie on this big screen and give out free popcorn and water. Its a pretty banging idea. I brought my nephews and my oldest niece with me to watch Back to the Future 2. I've never seen the second one but it was a big deal because in this movie they go to the year 2015!
Unfortunately this wasn't the best children's movie because they have some not so kid friendly words. But it was still a fun experience with them!

Naturalish...

There aren't many things that when I look back I've done and realized it was a great idea. BUT stopping getting perms, and cutting my hair off was probably the BEST things I've ever done next to graduating college .March 2014 I stopped getting perms. I  also got my hair colored and cut.  I tried to flat iron it a couple weeks. Then in May 2014 I had my own version of the "big chop." . I didn't have any fly- aways to straighten so I started washing my hair everyday. Then after a week or so after that got boring so I starting watching YouTube videos about products for natural hair. I didn't do much research because I had two friends who were already natural so I used some of their suggestions.

In Sept I got another haircut . Went in to get my ends trimmed and came out with less than half of my hair cut off. I looked like a boy. Luckily I realized that hair doesn't define me. And I kept trucking . ( It only takes me twice to learn from my mistakes)

I'm not the best naturalist. I still dye my hair. I get it straightened once a month. I only detangle it once a week. and I only co wash it once a week. I'm not a hair person. I went natural so I could stop messing with my hair  not to do more. And apparently my hair responds more to low maintenance activities.

 

I would like to thank Mane Choice Manetablism

Shea Moisture products

Ogx products

 

 

Colordash 2015

So on May 2 my friend Hoguii and I ( plus her friend Dontae) did the Color Dash 2015. I had all the confidence in the world that I would be beasting out this race but everything that could have went wrong - went wrong.
Why this raced sucked!
I'm fat
This is not as fun as The Color Run ( I knew that would happen)
I lost JMN's Bluetooth headset- and didn't realize it until I was half way done with the race
I had NO music
Hoguii and Dontae were wayyy ahead of me and I finished the race by myself :(
The volunteers seemed like they were afraid to hit me with color
the race was 3.6 miles instead of 3!
I forgot my Garmin
So I have 4 more races to attend this year to meet my quota- I gotta get on it!

Yoga with the kids-

Hellllloo

HEY guys!
Its been some time since I last graced you guys with my most inner thoughts- concerns- and opinions. I can say that I have missed writing about the random adventures of my life. This break was no way shape or form a trial of blog stopping. I have so many of my favorite bloggers in the last year that out of the blue quit on me so there is no way I am going to do the same to you.
It has been pretty uneventful at the Nelson-Nelson household. What about you guys? Anything interesting? Leave it below or email me . TrappedintheSouthLA@gmail.com