I have a number of fellow bloggers and we help each other out on blogging. Tips, tricks, technical stuff and the like. It's nice. We all have our reasons for doing what we do, we are all passionate about our subjects, and we share the love of reading each others blogs. It's a great little network.
But sometimes it goes further.
Last week, my blogger buddy the Flaky Fashionista, sent me over some "breaking news" on wigs. It was such a fabulous email to receive. You see FF was watching The Late Late Show on the Irish channel RTE. (on the 24th May if you want to check it out). http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/
She was brimming with exctiment for me in her email.
I was so intrigued with her news, that I downloaded the show immediately. (I now have an Irish TV app on my phone. Now that does make me giggle. Wonder how often I will use it??)
The show featured 4 people who had alopecia, in its various forms. And there was a CEO of a company there, pitching his new product.
As in such shows, he and his team, made these 4 people a new wig during the show and provided the viewers with a "Ta Da" effort. It was great entertainment. I personally loved it, as I was hearing first hand from Alopecians about the effort the disease was having on them, and I realised, whilst listening, that I never share my stories directly with other baldies. The stories and experiences were quite moving actually. Very real.
What I liked about this program was the new product they were featuring. It was a wig, that you literally superglued to your head for 6 weeks at a time. You then would sleep with it, swim with it, wash it in the shower etc.
So in short it becomes your hair. Apparently they last for a year, but need resticking frequently. the cost was very reasonable given the lasting of the wig.
I was excited to hear about this and for sure will be checking it out. It sounds like it could really work. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to have a full head of hair again. Not sure if I would like it. But then again maybe I would. It certainly has many advantages.
So thanks FF and to anybody out there who has ideas or hears anything do share, its great to know whats going on in the world of baldness!!
I like cleaning!!
I know someone out there who has just fallen off their chair, when reading this headline. This will be the someone, with whom, I hid in the car eating sandwiches whilst other "volunteers" cleaned toys with cold water and no gloves, on a grey and rainy day, a few years ago.
Anyway, today I decided, I like hard work and cleaning.
Today I scrubbed, polished, brushed and scrubbed some more. For hours in fact.
It was really rewarding. I took layers of dust away and removed smears of paint and produced something rather sparkly with lots of effort and elbow grease.
I reluctantly had to stop to eat, and when finished I couldn't wait to get back to it, to scrub some more.
I believe the context was important to the fulfilment I felt.
You see over the past 2 months, with the help of many suppliers, we have renovated a small house into something very sweet. This included, knocking walls down, installing new kitchens, bathrooms, everything. And today the last supplier finished and left us with a house that was completely unpresentable but fully functional.
So we had to turn this around as quick as we could, to showcase our little treasure to the world.
It was dirty and dusty work, but undisturbed, I slogged away.
You see I am not the sort of person who seeks out this kind of work, but today it had to be done and I loved it.
It is not often you do a task with such positive and immediate results.
So today I loved cleaning. Is this a new me???
Unlikely, I will just go and iron my posh frock and get ready to be back at my desk tomorrow!
Anyway, today I decided, I like hard work and cleaning.
Today I scrubbed, polished, brushed and scrubbed some more. For hours in fact.
It was really rewarding. I took layers of dust away and removed smears of paint and produced something rather sparkly with lots of effort and elbow grease.
I reluctantly had to stop to eat, and when finished I couldn't wait to get back to it, to scrub some more.
I believe the context was important to the fulfilment I felt.
You see over the past 2 months, with the help of many suppliers, we have renovated a small house into something very sweet. This included, knocking walls down, installing new kitchens, bathrooms, everything. And today the last supplier finished and left us with a house that was completely unpresentable but fully functional.
So we had to turn this around as quick as we could, to showcase our little treasure to the world.
It was dirty and dusty work, but undisturbed, I slogged away.
You see I am not the sort of person who seeks out this kind of work, but today it had to be done and I loved it.
It is not often you do a task with such positive and immediate results.
So today I loved cleaning. Is this a new me???
Unlikely, I will just go and iron my posh frock and get ready to be back at my desk tomorrow!
Family night
About six months ago, our family began something new. We introduced a new concept that I had heard from various people and read in various places about.
It is also something that was triggered by a program I went on that I posted about last year Not your usual training course.
Family night.
It can take on any format. Yet the principle remains the same. It is a weekly event where the family get to together to talk, to exchange ideas and to tell each other how things are going. It is combined with treats and something fun at the end.
Each "meeting" had an owner who organizes the venue (picnic in kitchen, snack in a "den" made out of blankets or on cushions with candles in the basement).
The duration is about 20 minutes, I dont know about your kids, but mine get very bored and distracted by sitting still and having a conversation.
Each meeting has a theme and we talk about that, it can be Pippi Longstocking, Money or whatever the kids pick. We once discussed Gangnam Style.
The idea is that we research something and chat about it. We also ask everyone how they are doing. Are they feeling fine in the family and ask everyone, adults included, to say what's not going well.
It's not easy for the kids to understand the exercise, but sometimes something unexpected comes out.
Mainly this meeting is about building a platform for the future, where anything can be discussed and ideas can be generated for the good of the family. I don't want to be in the situation with teenagers where we are unable to find an effective way to communicate. My hope is that we can find a way now to talk about stuff. Now when the issues are small.
In one meeting, we once debated how to leave the house on time in the morning without mum or dad screaming at the kids, to hurry up. The solutions came from the girls and they really worked. All they wanted was Mammia Mia played really loud on their alarm so they can get up when they hear it. The radio just wasn't compelling enough for them, to leave their warm and cuddly bed.
So as I write this, I shamefully have to confess, that this tradition has lost its way. Since our move, we have not found the time and space to do this.
I make a committment to host another one in the next week. Traditions start somewhere.
It is also something that was triggered by a program I went on that I posted about last year Not your usual training course.
Family night.
It can take on any format. Yet the principle remains the same. It is a weekly event where the family get to together to talk, to exchange ideas and to tell each other how things are going. It is combined with treats and something fun at the end.
Each "meeting" had an owner who organizes the venue (picnic in kitchen, snack in a "den" made out of blankets or on cushions with candles in the basement).
The duration is about 20 minutes, I dont know about your kids, but mine get very bored and distracted by sitting still and having a conversation.
Each meeting has a theme and we talk about that, it can be Pippi Longstocking, Money or whatever the kids pick. We once discussed Gangnam Style.
The idea is that we research something and chat about it. We also ask everyone how they are doing. Are they feeling fine in the family and ask everyone, adults included, to say what's not going well.
It's not easy for the kids to understand the exercise, but sometimes something unexpected comes out.
Mainly this meeting is about building a platform for the future, where anything can be discussed and ideas can be generated for the good of the family. I don't want to be in the situation with teenagers where we are unable to find an effective way to communicate. My hope is that we can find a way now to talk about stuff. Now when the issues are small.
In one meeting, we once debated how to leave the house on time in the morning without mum or dad screaming at the kids, to hurry up. The solutions came from the girls and they really worked. All they wanted was Mammia Mia played really loud on their alarm so they can get up when they hear it. The radio just wasn't compelling enough for them, to leave their warm and cuddly bed.
So as I write this, I shamefully have to confess, that this tradition has lost its way. Since our move, we have not found the time and space to do this.
I make a committment to host another one in the next week. Traditions start somewhere.
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