When it comes to my hair, I am very low-maintenance. The only products that touch it are shampoo and conditioner. I just blow dry it and the brush it, and that’s about it. I have relatively thin hair so I try to stick with shampoo and conditioner that give extra volume [or just a regular conditioner]. I know conditioner usually does the opposite of giving volume but without it it is so much harder to comb.

Now, I don’t have perfectly straight hair but it is very lightly wavy at best, and I tend to have a bunch of hairs sticking out from my head, and I wonder if a hair straightener would help with that. I know many of you girls probably use one and couldn’t live without one, but I have never used a hair straightener, seriously. Would that make my hair seem ‘neater’? And would it still have volume, or does a hair straightener take away the volume? Suggestions? Also feel free to suggest other products to make my hair less frizzy without making the hair heavy and look thin? Thanks.

Today I met up with my sister and her kid. We had lunch at her place and then we were going to go to the Isar river to enjoy the sun. Or so was the plan. What I didn’t know was that my sister was planning to cross the river - by wading through it. The water was shallow so that was no problem. I was wearing flip flops, no problem either. Or so I thought. Until I lost one in the current. Luckily I was able to grab it before it floated off. Well, skip to a minute later. When I lost both shoes at once. Clearly I was not able to grab both, so one floated off in the river.

I was pretty annoyed because hello? Not only were these some of my fave flip flops [inexpensive Old Navy ones, but we don't have Old Navy here so they are not that easily replacable], I was also now shoeless. [I still had one but what was I going to do with one shoe.] Also? Wading through a river barefoot? Painful. Very painful. So I decided that instead of crossing, I’d go back. My nephew was already on the other side at this point, so my sister and I discussed what to do. I really didn’t want to cross the river - I was thinking, next thing I’ll probably stumble and fall or something and then it’s goodbye cellphone, mp3 player, digital camera. After a while we noticed this teal something floating about 100 yards from us down the river. Sure enough, my shoe. There was no current there, so it was just floating and not moving. My sister rescued the shoe for me, so I am after all not shoeless, but it was kind of traumatizing nonetheless. So since my sister didn’t want to come back to the this side of the river [as her kid and all of their stuff was already on the other side] and there was no way I was going to lose my shoes again or possibly drown my electronic devices [knowing me there's a good chance I would have], we ended the afternoon early. Crappy but I’ll hopefully be able to make it up to them soon.

Anyway, after this traumatizing event of my shoe going suicidal on me, I did retail therapy which helped me recover from my near-loss. I originally went downtown to get a birthday present for a friend [and I did get that as well] but I also got some stuff for myself. Stuff being three pairs of shoes, a jacket and a nice shirt. Want to see what I got? Of course you do!

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