The Big Chop!!!

After careful consideration and months of anticipation...............

I DID THE BIG CHOP!!!!!!

For those not familiar with hair terminology, the Big Chop is when you are growing out your relaxer and you cut everything off except the new growth so you can start fresh. I originally wanted to transition to natural hair with out cutting anything off. Yesterday, I sat in my office and asked myself why I was holding on to hair that would have to be chopped off anyway. I thought of my hair as a security blanket. I have had short hair before and every time I grow it out, the new long hair has a history to it. I won't get into the history of this hair, but it has had some special moments. This is the hair that was with me when my thyroid was acting up, the hair that blew in the wind when I was standing in front of the Barnes and Nobles in Va Beach, waiting on a chronically late Ron Mexico. This is the hair that I went on my first date with Rev in. All of the good and bad times of the last 2 years were in my hair. I sang a song last Sunday about walking into a new season in your life, and this is the beginning of a new season for me. Things in my life are changing and why shouldn't my hair? I felt liberation from a lot of the bad memories in my life as I took those scissors to my head. This wasn't just about getting down to my natural hair, this was about getting down to the natural me. When I was finished, I looked in the mirror, and I saw this new woman. My face looked brighter, happier. I felt like I was really looking at myself for the first time. I slapped on some of my fieriest hoop earrings and rocked that look like nobodies business. I am glad I did it. I am going to get my lil TWA shaped up so I can give up my half wig(some things are hard to let go of....lol).

Last night Rev came over(I am not sure how he feel about my new look.....he likes long hair) and we watched the atrocity which is called "I Love New York". That show is the reason we will never get ahead. My IQ dropped 100 points by watching that. That whole show is a collective evil side eye and eye roll. I will not go through the shenanigans here, but let's just say it is one of the most ignorant things on TV. I wish VH1 would stop running it. Shoot, stop running re-runs. That embarrassment of a show is over and for that my soul is happy. Be Blessed !