Got my hair braided while I was in Key West a couple of weeks ago and just wanted to share the awesomeness with everyone.  This hairstyle somehow made me incredibly happy.  Really.  Like giddily, insanely, happy.   Especially the sparkley beads.  I felt like a little kid, maybe because the only other people getting their hair braided were little ( Read more... )

So, my husband bought a book to read on the plane the other day, and since he pretty much only reads non-fiction he bought The Book of Firsts  by Peter D'Epiro which is mostly a list of cultural happenings throughout history.  I (naturally) read the twelfth century section last night

( ...and found to my surprise that... )