Today I was at work – minding my own business because I finished putting up my classroom decorations and completing my lesson plans – when I realized that my phone battery was getting low and decided to put it on the charger while I went to a round of afternoon meetings. I come back about an hour or so later to several notifications on my phone. I look at the various social media sites and see that I have a message from Patricia, the owner of GlobalCouture, a wonderful website that is about loving your own hair (She’d interviewed me earlier this summer). Her message said, “I have a surprise for you!!! You are featured on Curlynikki.com today!!!”
Shut. The. Front. Door.
I started pulling up everything I could. I was ecstatic. I’ve talked about my hair and the natural hair community here before, but I’ve never focused on this as a natural hair blog. This is just my way of combining my nerdy-fandom, love of writing, weirdly great memory, and favorite show in a therapeutic way. When I saw my feature, I can 
imagine how Carrie might’ve felt when she met her two fans in Paris (Season Season, Part 2, “An American Girl in Paris – part deux”). She was in a foreign land, wanting a bit of normal, and unknowingly walked into something that made her really happy.
When I saw my feature, I was so happy I yelled in my classroom, ran into the hallway to tell someone, but no one would know what I was talking about (Which is what I actually screamed, lol). That’s when I realized that most of my close friends either live away, moved away, or aren’t as easily accessible due to life changes. None of this is a bad thing, it’s just different. Similar to Carrie, she was excited to see her book in a window with no one with whom to share her glee. She had Petrovsky, but he didn’t understand the same way that her friends would.
I’m happy to have several differences from Carrie. My man is no Petrovsky, that’s for sure. He understood and was happy for me. And, my friends are a phone call away and I don’t even need a calling card. 😉 All in all…that’s a blessing. And I’m pretty sure it’s high on the non-romantic-interest best days ever of 2013.
Have you had a day that you would consider epic? What happened?
Love,
-V
Sex and the City Psychology 
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August 9, 2013 at 11:31 pm
anson1
Wow!! I’m very proud of you, cover girl superstar!!! I know how much pride you take in your hair & I’m glad you’re getting some shine for it. I’m glad to hear your man got how important it was to you, too. I don’t think I’ve had an “epic” day. I’ve had good ones, great ones & bad ones. And a long list of combinations of the three. But the closet to an epic day for me that didn’t count a romantic occurence came probably the first night I made more money than I could count. For like 10 minutes, I just…..looked at it. i just couldn’t believe it. Like, all this is mine? I learned to adjust as I made more as time went on.
Again, congratulations friend!!
August 11, 2013 at 10:26 am
K L Buckley
Just read the feature on Curly Nikki. Nice to put a face to the blog. I’m from Baton Rouge too! Love seeing a hometown girl doing her thang!!! Gorgeous hair by the way…and absolutely love this blog.
August 11, 2013 at 5:06 pm
msvivienne
Thank so much K L! Thanks for reading the feature 🙂 and I’m glad you’re been reading this one. I often wonder if people are reading and not responding, or that no one is reading. Glad to know it may be the former instead of the latter!
August 12, 2013 at 11:25 pm
theurbanschoolhouse
Great feature! Love the classroom pics. 🙂