Howdy do yall….

This is going to be my last blog post regarding this topic.. But I must say that I have learned along the way. For people that blog for a living, I have a greater appreciation for them because finding information to back up your thoughts and topics can become a tedious job. Not only finding substance to write about… but just simply WRITING.. takes time lol..

I haven’t mastered the whole 60 to 70 words per minute on the computer lol… so it takes me some time to put together my thoughts and words… I may average about 20-30 ha-ha..

Any who..

My favorite thing about doing a blog is that it allowed me to speak on things that would probably spark issues within the organization that I am affiliated with. I mean being a female in the military is hard enough and for some reason we will never meet the standards of the males and they will always have an issue with us.. It’s not all of them tho… But being in a male oriented workforce.. The views of some make it feel like the views of all.

To try to discuss hair topics in a shop full of males would be like trying to cross the street during rush hour! It just doesn’t make any sense. For one they wouldn’t understand the topic and because they simply don’t care. For example a coworker of mine and I were discussing where she went and got her hair done at, and she stated that she went to a Dominican shop and then we proceeded to continue to talk about it. Now mind you there were males present but not in the conversation. I am assuming that the guy was tired of our conversation so he then said “maybe I can go to the Dominicans to get my hair done to.” SO me and my friend just laughed it off and walked away but in my mind I was thinking seriously! First of all you are white and secondly you have no hair! I felt that if he was so over the conversation we were having he could have just left the area instead of interjecting a pointless statement..

This blog has given me a certain level of freedom and also a tool to expose some of the dos and don’ts within our organization. For example the dreadlocks… Do yall know the same girl I see all the in the gym is still putting a wig over her dreads! So one day I asked her why was she doing that? She told me that she grew her dreads as soon as she was accepted into the Navy. It was something that she had prior to joining the military and she had to cut them to join so she wanted to grow them back… She didn’t really have any religious reasons as to why she wanted to wear dreads… it was just her personal style. So lastly I said, you know they are now authorized for wear in the Navy. Why are you still wearing a wig over it? She said because she just wants to avoid comments from coworkers about her hair and it was easier that way.

In retrospect I could kind of see where she was coming from about not wanting to be a shop spectacle because I have had it happen to me before… Not in a bad way but every time I would change my hair… It would be this big hoopla about “wasn’t you hair another way last week?” I’m like thanks for noticing but it gets old after a while.

Anyway… now when I see her I feel a little more at peace instead of being puzzled about her wearing a wig over dreads… I mean it made her head look lumpy.

Lastly,

I have enjoyed sharing my thoughts. I liked reading the comments from my viewers. Let me tell you something funny… I had no idea anyone was reading my blogs until I found the comment section. I was like they like me… they really…really like me. Lol…

I may continue to blog after this… but maybe a different topic… I would like to explore a whole different world out there because there are so many issues out there that are just screaming for my opinion such as the way people let their children behave in public… I think that would be an excellent topic because man do I tell you… There are some brats in the world…

Thanks for reading…

Be blessed

Ash