Frustration Will Make You Do Interesting Things: School Edition

Well Hello Everyone!!! I am so sorry that I have not updated my blog in a while! I would first love to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope that you make it positive and that you work hard to achieve your goals.

So as you can see this is another installment of "Frustration Will Make You Do Interesting Things". For people that know me, know that I have been working on my PhD in Electrical Engineering since finishing my Masters in 2008. But most of you don't know, I have been out of school for over a year :-( . I had completed all of my course work and my qualifying exam and just quit! o_O  Strange, I know. I made all kind of crazy excuses. I had just gotten married and moved 1.5 hours away from school. I attempted to find a full time job but EVERYONE kept telling me "Well we will definitely hire you once you finish your PhD". REALLY!? LOL!! I mean no one was letting up. When I told them that I wanted to give up on the dream of completing my Doctorate, they would just say that you really need to finish.

Well fast forward to this summer when I had absolutely NO plans of returning to school, I landed an awesome internship in my field and had a great mentor that said plainly, "You owe it to yourself, your husband, your family, and to everyone to finish your PhD". So after a lot of things "Falling into place", I have the opportunity to complete my degree. I am currently enrolled this semester and I am so excited! It is like I have a fresh start. I have a new advisor, new research and a new outlook on things. So you know what, Frustration will make you do some interesting things! LOL! I was so tired of not being able to find a job and look where the Lord led me back to. I am so grateful!

The Girly Engineer

Frustration Will Make You Do Interesting Things: Hair Edition

Hello Everyone! You may be wondering about the title of this blog post. Ha Ha! Well I have some things coming up in life and I will do a series of Frustration Will Make You Do Interesting Things posts. I think that the title is fitting.

 

If you didn't know, I am in the process of transitioning to natural hair. With me working out all of the time, swimming all of the time, loving curly hair, and the fact that I normally have my hair up in a sew-in, braids of some sort or a wig, it really doesn't make sense to get relaxers anymore. Besides, I had no idea that my hair actually curls up instead of being straight up kinky! Ha! I have not had a relaxer since March 2012.

So back to the historic frustrating moment. I really wanted to have something done to my head and after watching many YouTube videos, I decided to get Crochet Braids. Not the old school Crochet braids with the little stringy already braided braids that I would wear in high school. LOL! I normally have someone that braid my hair and does my sew-ins here in NC. But for some reason, I could not get in touch with her. **LeSigh** Then I went to a local braid shop and they said they would charge me $140 to do the Crochet braids! Ummm... Heck no ma'am! I am very low on funds. SO... I decided to try the Crochet braids myself. But the frustrating thing is... I cannot cornrow my own hair! (Oh how I wished I was home in AL. I knew my mommy would hook me up.) So I asked the ladies about how much it would be to get my hair cornrowed. She said $40!!!!!!!!! **faint**

 

I was so desperate and frustrated that I went on Craigslist to find someone to braid my hair. Bad idea. I talked to the girl and she said that she was coming and all. She never showed up. :-( At this point I was so mad and frustrated that I started flat twisting my hair. Before I knew it, I actually started to feel that the twists were sturdy and that maybe, just maybe I could do the UN speakable... DO MY OWN CROCHET BRAIDS!!!

 

 

It took me a while to get the hang of putting the needle in and catching the hair, but after many crazy hair pulling moments and 3 days later (worked on my hair about 2-3 hours each day), I was done with what is my first time doing any kind of hair style like this.

 

 

Enough talking! On to the pictures. :-D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So the moral to the story is that being frustrated with something just might lead you to so something pretty cool. Something that you had no idea that you could do.

 

 

 

 

The Girly Engineer