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I've never been good at making friends so the ones I do have, I hold very dear to me. There are also some people in my past that I still hold dear that I thought the friendship was totally over because of somethings both of us said and did.

Then there are friendships that I have that are entirely superficial. It usually takes me a while to realize these friendships and I always end up being the one hurt by them.

There have been several people that I'm no longer friends with because the friendship wasn't really real to begin with. Then there are ones that I thought I was done with that have come back into my life and I feel like I want that friendship to be back where it was before it was ended.

I now find myself in a predicament where I am coming in contact with an old friend that I had a falling out with, there is nothing I'd like more than to repair this friendship and she seems to be on the same page as me. I am also losing a friend that I thought was a true friend but it turns out, she's nothing but a fake.

The friend and I that had the falling out were totally mean to each other, hurtful mean. Devastatingly mean. We said a lot of things to each other that we probably meant at the time but after we said it and let it all sink in, we realized how stupid and selfish we were. I miss our friendship. I'm worried that we won't be able to be as close as we were before, but I'm okay with having a nice, normal friendship with her, at least being friendly together.

On the other hand, I don't want to be friends with this other one any longer. She's made some very rude and mean comments to me that are unforgivable, questioning me as a person and a parent. This has pissed me off. I want to end the friendship, but I'm horrible with confrontation.

No Shampoo/Conditioner Part 2!

4 days! You're reading this right, 4 days I went without having to wash my hair! And it still looked semi decent!

I washed my hair again with the baking soda mix and I'm even more hooked than I was the first time!

One tablespoon of baking soda, one cup of water, lather, rinse, repeat!

I'm overly excited about this. I don't remember if I posted the picture in the last blog, so I'm going to post it in this one to show you the difference in my hair shampoo washing vs baking soda.

And my hair this morning after washing with Baking Soda:

Can you see the difference?!

This is the most amazing thing I've done for myself in a really long time.

No Shampoo/Conditioner

No shampoo, I'm crazy right? Ha! No!

I thought that going without shampoo and conditioner was going to be absolutely disgusting. I was like well, okay, so, no shampoo, my hair is going to be horrid. I was dead wrong!

I washed my hair with baking soda for the very first time tonight and I have to tell you that my hair is freakin' awesome. It's light, it has volume (if you know me, you know my hair never has volume no matter how much I try), it doesn't feel heavy or weighed down. It's a Godsend.

I thought about it over and over when the girls in my Facebook group were talking about it and I ended up reading about fifteen blogs to see what it was all about and in every single blog I read, it was all nothing but praise for this method of washing your hair.

Take a table spoon of baking soda and mix it with a cup of water. Use like you would shampoo, rinse. Ta-da! It's spiffy! I'm telling you, that I'm seriously hooked. You do the same with the vinegar.

If the mix becomes too much for your hair or it doesn't work as well as you want, you can use less or more of each of the baking soda and vinegar. Like, if it's too oily, use a half a teaspoon of vinegar instead of the full teaspoon.

I am a convert. Do it. Seriously. At least try it out once and if you don't like it, you can go back to your chemical ridden shampoo and conditioner.