Avacados are dangerous when drunk
Fantastic evening last night, as I invited my friend Jem over for a meal. I used the mushroom sauce I'd cooked chicken legs in the night before as a pasta base, but didn't mention it had once contained chicken as she is vegetarian, and hopefully I picked out all the pieces of bacon as well. (Is that unethical? Subversive carnivorism? I'm not sure)
(Jem is someone I met by chance, and like me she is also small, curly hair a bit strange. She does Reiki and a lot of arty things. She is not very sciency. Craves nature. But one of these people who you have a connection with immediatly, as though we have known each other for ages. She is nice but I still don't really know her very well and actually I sometimes find it a bit uncomfortable being near her -- almost as though we are a bit too similar, and we can't really exist in the same place at once, or she is already filling the role I normally do which leaves me feeling a bit stranded(?))
At the moment though I've had her over to Catriona's house a couple of times, mostly with the intention of feeding her up with quality food. It's also been nice to get to know her a bit more..this time she brought some wine which was very pleasant. And we made gooseberry crumble. yum.
So by the time she left I was feeling rather pleasantly full and also somewhat drunk. I'd made plans earlier to utilise a rogue avacado (from my veg box) as part of a deep hair conditioning treatment :
my recipe said to blend:
- 1/2 avacado (1 if you have long hair)
- 10 drops almond oil
- 3-4 teaspoons of honey
put on wet hair, leave for 20-30 min, rinse with warm water.
But because I'm drunk it changed slightly:
- mash up the whole damn avacado because otherwise it's a waste
- add some mayonnaise (which may or may not be good for your hair, conflicting evidence on this one, but hey it's in the fridge anyway might as well use it)
- a big tablespoon of honey because I can't find the sodding teaspoons
- capful of almond oil
- rosemary essential oil (good for your hair)
- lavender essential oil (smells nice)
vaguely mash with fork, getting mess everywhere. Decide that if it's good for 30 minutes, then it would be REALLY good to leave it on all night! Optimistically put on free hotel shower cap to contain hair + green gunk, put a towel on the pillow (can't be too carefull) and go to sleep.
This morning I woke to find my towel has a massive bright green and brown stain on it...which has soaked through the towel, onto the (mercifully green) pillow cases but through that onto the feather stuffed pillows themselves.
Catriona comes back tomorrow. And she doesn't appear to have laundry facilities in the house.
bollocks.
The only thing I had to hand was bicarbonate of soda (strangely, also to be used in a dodgy home made hair cleaning recipe) which actually does do some kind of a job removing stains. So I sat scrubbing away for ages (also needing to remove the snot green swampish residue round the bath from my shower and attempt to wash lumps of avacado out my hair..) ) and finally leaving both the pillow and pillow case sitting at home caked in bicarb hoping that maybe when I get home the stains will be gone.
As I scrubbed away I was trying to think of what I could Catriona.. the stain on the pillow is brownish so perhaps I could say I had a nosebleed? spilt some tea? I don't know how to explain actually it's avacado...
and does my hair feel any better for all this?? possibly.
moral of the story is : next time, just make guacamole.
(Jem is someone I met by chance, and like me she is also small, curly hair a bit strange. She does Reiki and a lot of arty things. She is not very sciency. Craves nature. But one of these people who you have a connection with immediatly, as though we have known each other for ages. She is nice but I still don't really know her very well and actually I sometimes find it a bit uncomfortable being near her -- almost as though we are a bit too similar, and we can't really exist in the same place at once, or she is already filling the role I normally do which leaves me feeling a bit stranded(?))
At the moment though I've had her over to Catriona's house a couple of times, mostly with the intention of feeding her up with quality food. It's also been nice to get to know her a bit more..this time she brought some wine which was very pleasant. And we made gooseberry crumble. yum.
So by the time she left I was feeling rather pleasantly full and also somewhat drunk. I'd made plans earlier to utilise a rogue avacado (from my veg box) as part of a deep hair conditioning treatment :
my recipe said to blend:
- 1/2 avacado (1 if you have long hair)
- 10 drops almond oil
- 3-4 teaspoons of honey
put on wet hair, leave for 20-30 min, rinse with warm water.
But because I'm drunk it changed slightly:
- mash up the whole damn avacado because otherwise it's a waste
- add some mayonnaise (which may or may not be good for your hair, conflicting evidence on this one, but hey it's in the fridge anyway might as well use it)
- a big tablespoon of honey because I can't find the sodding teaspoons
- capful of almond oil
- rosemary essential oil (good for your hair)
- lavender essential oil (smells nice)
vaguely mash with fork, getting mess everywhere. Decide that if it's good for 30 minutes, then it would be REALLY good to leave it on all night! Optimistically put on free hotel shower cap to contain hair + green gunk, put a towel on the pillow (can't be too carefull) and go to sleep.
This morning I woke to find my towel has a massive bright green and brown stain on it...which has soaked through the towel, onto the (mercifully green) pillow cases but through that onto the feather stuffed pillows themselves.
Catriona comes back tomorrow. And she doesn't appear to have laundry facilities in the house.
bollocks.
The only thing I had to hand was bicarbonate of soda (strangely, also to be used in a dodgy home made hair cleaning recipe) which actually does do some kind of a job removing stains. So I sat scrubbing away for ages (also needing to remove the snot green swampish residue round the bath from my shower and attempt to wash lumps of avacado out my hair..) ) and finally leaving both the pillow and pillow case sitting at home caked in bicarb hoping that maybe when I get home the stains will be gone.
As I scrubbed away I was trying to think of what I could Catriona.. the stain on the pillow is brownish so perhaps I could say I had a nosebleed? spilt some tea? I don't know how to explain actually it's avacado...
and does my hair feel any better for all this?? possibly.
moral of the story is : next time, just make guacamole.