Journal Update:
It has been a whirlwind of a couple of weeks! Since 2008 I’ve had a big gap between my two front teeth. My bond fell out, the bond that had been in my mouth since high school. I was broke and chose not to fill the gap in. By the time I was making a comfortable enough living to deal with my teeth I had met Tony. Tony loves that actress that plays Sookie Stackhouse on that Vampire show so he urged me to keep the gap. His dogs name is Sookie. Anyway since we’ve been together about 5 years now and he could care less what my teeth look like, so no more gap, plus I fixed two crowns. I figure if I have to spend a lot of money on my teeth I want them to LOOK better. lol
Then we actually put new floor in my spare bedroom. The carpet had been pulled ages ago but we had been too busy to put in new floor (do it yourself-ers). I wanted to match the floor in my room and the hallway but upon looking up the info I found out the stuff is off the market for having 13X the amount of legal formaldehyde in it!! I guess there was a 60 minutes episode on it but I live in a box and hadn’t heard anything about it. So not only could I not do the spare room with it I have to replace the stuff in my room and hallway before selling or renting the property! I’m irritable. We didn’t spend all that money on the floor and then a day and half installing it on our own just to find out it is toxic. They have sent us a test kit to see if we are STILL breathing in toxins. I doubt it…it has been 3 years but we will see. We have sooooo many remodel jobs at the bank (studio) the last thing I imagined was having to REDO things in my home! However we did get the new floor in the spare room last week which is very similar to the toxic floor but non-toxic and we painted the big 3rd floor room because it had NEVER been painted. The studio is too hot for remodeling jobs so it was time to work on home. I’ll deal with the poison floor later :/. I’m not sue happy, I’ve never been involved in a lawsuit but I did join in on a class action lawsuit that is being put together in regards to this poison flooring issue. I’d REALLY like to be reimbursed for the material. I don’t think that is asking too much and I REALLY hope it isn’t something that will make me sick down the line. We will see what happens. Had I not needed to purchase new floor I would have never known about the problem, of course the company never contacted me- but when I contacted them they immediately pulled up my information and sent me the test kit which is being handled by a third party.
Sooo right before all of that I took out my blond weave. It was time. My short dark hair should have been safe underneath but something happened- perhaps the heat of summer and I lost a shit ton of my natural hair. It is horrible and it is noticeable and it is terrifying soooo. I won’t be able to do weaves anymore and for the time being I’m stuck with very dark hair and wearing clip in extensions. My natural hair has been short and dark for a long time but not really thin. It was pretty devastating- however I understand things can go very wrong when you mess with your head and this time I didn’t luck out. Oh how I wish I could chop it off into a pixie and start from scratch but then I can’t wear clip ins and somehow I think most of you would not appreciate me with a reallllllly butch haircut. I know changing the color and style annoys enough of you.
I also just had a friend come for 5 days from London and I hadn’t intended on it but we took time off to show him around- Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Detroit by boat, cruising in an old car, hooking him up with models to shoot etc. It felt really great to take some time off and be a tourist in my own town. Then we stumbled across and amazing deal on a home with lots of water front property we could keep our boat at and we tried to buy it. We thought we had it!!! We basically celebrated but someone came up with full asking price cash and we didn’t even get a chance to counter but we wouldn’t have had that anyway. We found out we didn’t get it yesterday so the pain is fresh!!
Tomorrow we are going to West Virginia for a family wedding for the weekend and Sunday I get to see Dixie Comet in Pittsburgh! I haven’t seen her since my wedding so it will be great to catch up and nope she does not want to shoot (sadly).
We will be back here Monday night and then I’ll be shooting with Monica Jade who will be staying with me a few days, Rachel who I’ll be shooting the 3rd, and Adara will be back at some time next week. If you’d like a custom with any of them please title your email CUSTOM: jj@borntobebound.com
Back to what you guys really care about- you will get at least 2 of your 3 weekly updates before I go to bed tonight. That is a promise.
Once again I’m sorry to those of you that have sent emails…I’ll be getting to them tomorrow and with my new email server I don’t have thousands of spam messages to sift through and that is sooooo niiiiiiice! See I’m not all complaints!!
Oh and to those of you that have seen my getting into shape kind of take a turn toward the other way months back I am starting again with a trainer mid month. I got distracted by all of the issues in life but I FELT better working out very regularly so I owe it to myself. My clothes still zip they just don’t look as nice, lol. I have to get back on track now before I end back up at 216 lbs, that was a dark time.