Today I got my hair trimmed and highlighted. The hairdresser and I got to talking about disabilities and she told me about some friend of hers whose daughter has a rare disease--she couldn't remember the name of it, just the initials and the symptoms: upon injury to a certain area of the body, the soft tissue in said area turns to bone. I came home ( Read more... )

Because of my disability, I can't raise my arms above my head unless I'm lying down, and I don't have a lot of dexterity or hand strength, or fine motor skills, or whatever you want to call it. I've never been able to put my hair up at all, so after many disappointing attempts in various positions, I eventually gave up and figured I'd just have to ( Read more... )

Firstly, thank you everybody for the happy birthdays that I mercilessly teased out of you! ;D And thanks to belenen for the v-gift! *hugs entire friends list ( Read more... )

Suze Orman is kind of one of my personal heroes. I've been watching her Saturday night show on CNBC--I'm a bit of a nerd for personal finance stuff--since I first discovered it sometime in 2006, and I find her to be a very smart, strong woman who also genuinely cares for the people she's helping. I'm inspired by that. I like her attitude a lot, and ( Read more... )