Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
Funny, Isn't It?
How whenever you ring up your bank when you're in a bit of a pickle, your call seems to get answered by someone who's been trained to the level of a Ninja in the Art Of Patronising™, but when you're Doing Rather Well Thankyouverymuch™ you get straight through to the happy smiley bloke with a joyous lust for Monday mornings.
They won't be quite so preppy and chirpy with me after I've paid for what (I think) is going to be the most monstrous garage bill evah 
It's that dreaded car-tax time of the year, and my poor little Punto is facing an MOT.
I'm guessing brakes, suspension, windscreen washers, lights, wingmirror, emissions, tyres...
...and it's a good job aesthetics isn't part of the test, because I'd be fucked
Steiger
I look up, and the grid wraps itself around me
Rumbled
Want
Dear Lancastrian transvestites, admirers and non-weird casual blog-readers.
I feel it's an obvious presumption to make, that I would look adorable in this. Therefore I think it only right and decent that one of you makes the trip to Dalton Square, and parts with £175 on my behalf.
Size 10, ta.
Yours, Siobhan Curran (Princess)
Oh, The Irony
Not wanting to be obvious and plug it again, but I'm just sitting down to sign a sticker to send to Mike 
, so that he can auction off a multi-signed copy of Shaggy Blog Stories.
My entry, if you haven't bought (and read) a copy yet (which you should, cos it's rather good), was a rehashed version of my Eddie Izzard story, retitled "Do You Have A Pen?" — in which (to recap) I make a tit out of myself in front of the world's second (
) most popular transvestite, by asking him to sign a napkin with a soup-based thumbprint (because I had no pen).
So yeah, days too late (Sorry Mike) I went out and bought envelopes, stamps and stickers, and I'm just about to sign my name ... and I can't find a bloody pen.
/me opens a tin of soup...
Honestly Vague
I notice, with probably no great surprise, that the Post Office has given up indicating precisely when they intend to collect the mail, and gone for the more honest approach of giving a rough "anytime in the next 24 hours" approach.
I half-expect to see that "MON" replace with "JUNE" sometime soon.
/me whistles innocently 
I doubt there's anything innocent about you whistling 
Invent One For My Skin, Please
My hair is hugely important to me. Ever since I started growing it three years ago I've been enormously chuffed with it (well, apart for those two months where it was just the right length to poke me in the eye all the time).
Yeah, true, it's very fine (but there's lots of it), but I was hoping to find just the right shampoo/conditioner combo to add a bit of 'whumph' to it.
The other day I started using TRESemmé, and I thought it was doing me the world of good. But I've been noticing that I've got really bad dandruff.
Seriously, my head looks like a trendy pasta dish with parmesan shavings 
Charlee there recommended Herbal Essenses, but I was wondering if there was any other options? I'm after something that'll leave my normally dry hair all shiney, not destroy my colour (which I'm having done again on Friday), and not make my scalp the same texture as fifty-year-old paint.
I'm loathe, BTW, to use Head And Shoulders — not because of any stigma or anything. It's just that I used to use it as a kid, and I really hated how bouncy and shiney it made my hair...
...oh. Hold on
An Absence of Bears
Don't touch Head and Shoulders — it's rubbish and will strip your hair of colour. You've almost certainly not got dandruff just a bad reaction against Tresemmé I got the same thing with using a Lush solid shampoo bar if you really did have dandruff then the only stuff that would help it would be the likes of T-Gel. Useful gen I got from an ex-hair dresser who I knew at Uni, he was studying Chemical Engineering I suppose he would know.
Herbal Essences works for me too and I also like the Aussie "miracle" shampoos and stuff. Makes my hair very glossy when I remember to use a conditioner.
I use L'orieal Elvive with Nutrileum, it works pretty well on my hair though I've only been using it a couple of weeks
I was going to make a suggestion re shampoo but Jane has beaten me to it. Herbal Essences or Aussie Kangaroo Paw are brilliant and have no bad effect on colour, in my experience anyway. Let us know what you decide to try
Well, I think the consensus is Herbal Essenses, so I'll try that
Gragra
This afternoon, I have mostly been playing with curling tongs.
yarrr me hearties, tis a good one if ever I did see.
Thanks April
I'm just wondering if I made that too big. I mean, normnally I leave them the same size as the standard Flickr 'medium' size, but I thought "fuck it, I like that one" so made it as wide as I could.
Want a fun game though? Drag it to your desktop, open it in Photoshop (or whatever you strange PC people use), and flip it horizontally. God it looks weird...
...flip it horizontally...weird.
I remember reading somewhere that we use a huge amount of our brain to process / recognise faces. So much in fact, that we don't have the capacity to do a proper job if the face is inverted. So that's probably why.
Good picture though. Works well in the blog page with it having virtually no background. And it doesn't appear to have been processed to buggery and back, for a change
It was though
That's the sign of a good job — when it doesn't look like it has.
(well, apart for those two months where it was just the right length to poke me in the eye all the time).
Mine curls naturally at the bottom, and therefore briefly developed the ability (many years ago now) to plant the ends straight up my nostrils.
I'm loathe, BTW, to use Head And Shoulders.
You've always struck me as someone who makes it their business to use correct English as much as possible. Loathe is a verb meaning to hate. Loath is an adjective meaning unwilling. I believe you wanted the latter, although it's shocking how many people will insist otherwise despite it being an exceptionally common misconception which carries no shame in having once believed it.
Personally I've used Pantene for a long time now. I remember I used to use Herbal Essences; the reason I stopped is lost to me now.
open it in Photoshop (or whatever you strange PC people use)
We have Photoshop too, but true to my usual form I don't use it (see also my avoidance of Firefox (simmer down, I avoid IE even more) and PlayStation), instead using Paint Shop Pro. To me, Photoshop has always had the problem of a GUI that doesn't lend itself to easy discovery of tools you might otherwise be unfamiliar with.
open it in Photoshop (or whatever you strange PC people use), and flip it horizontally.
Thanks to the Power Of Laptop™ I just turned the screen round, seemed to work just as well!
Lush shampoo bars are about the only things I can use... Worth a try and at least they actually look nice in the bathroom if you don't get on with them
I'm definitely a Suave Brunette girl. I like it well enough. It might be worth considering too.
I'm rather chuffed with your picture. The curls are awesome and it's so plain but so you! (Rather than the big dresses, which are so not plain but so you.)
Late to the party but I too recommend Herbal Essences (mind you, you've seen my hair up close, so you may not take this as a recommendation).
Not only is it delightfully fruity but if you believe the advertising, it gives you the mother of all orgasms in the shower.
Although that part hasn't yet worked for me — maybe I'm not applying it in the correct place...
my word, your hair is soooo long these days.
i reccommend Sebastian Xtah hydrating shampoo and conditioner — it's very very good, and it smells divine.
An Absence of Bears
I've just re-read 2006/09/22 — I think I understand this title, and I hope they're somewhere safe (then again, if past experience is anything to go by... 
)
Talking about An Absence of Bears, have not seen any mention latley of your cats.....
davew
It's a shame that we can't respond to your twitter comments from your source code. Now that would be cool!
You've always struck me as someone who makes it their business to use correct English as much as possible
@Lauren — Yes, good point. I read somewhere once that it's OK to have the odd typo — where it's caused through a slip of the fingers (and God knows I have my fair share of them) .. those are just accidental. But using a word in its wrong context is unforgivable — better to look it up and use it properly, than to use a guess out of ignorance.
I stand gramatically-corrected, but I'm not going to retrospectively change it, because then neither your comment, nor this response, would make sense
mind you, you've seen my hair up close
@K — Yes, I have. And I've nicked your shampoo too when you weren't looking. And you're right, I'm going to have to give the orgasm-in-a-bottle a try
Sebastian Xtah hydrating shampoo and conditioner
@C'lam That sounds too posh. Even for me
An Absence of Bears
I've just re-read 2006/09/22 — I think I understand this title
@Ali' — Ah. Nope. Miles off hon. They're both fine, on the other side of my bed. The title was in reference to a totally sad thing I did the other day — replicating my bedroom in SL, and placing my Linden Bear (don't ask) collection on the hastily-made chest of drawers.
To be perfectly honest, my little photo-spree last night started with me trying to take a picture of myself in a RL setting, that I could replicate in an SL one — but I just couldn't get my pigtails to stand up like the prim-versions, and resorted to the curling tongs instead.
I'm quite glad I did, BTW
have not seen any mention latley of your cats...
@Dave — They're fine Biscuit is still shitting just next to the litter tray, and causing me stinky-grief. And Tish has developed a streak of bravery, and has started trying to attack me while I'm eating, in the hope of getting the highly-prized "Human Food".
In fact, you can follow what Biscuit and Tish are up to, on their own Twitter feeds
It's a shame that we can't respond to your twitter comments from your source code
@Beki — well, you could just get an account and do it through that I never really intended the things to have any other relevance to this blog, other than a sideways 'timeline' — a sort of recontextualisation and documentation of what was going on, in other spaces, outside of what I felt I wanted to write about.
To be honest, there's a few of them that I half-write with the intention of expanding on in a post (like the one about the domestic on the train home this evening — I mean FFS, how can some people conduct the intricacies of their personal lives out in public like that?!) ...
...but, you know, I'm a shit blogger even at the best of times.
Your cats have Twitter accounts — O.Kaaaay!
[whistles innocently while slowly sideling away]
re: shampoo
If it's really cheap, don't use it. It'll be similar to putting acid on your hair. Go for something that isn't Frederic Fekkai, but also not bargain bin. I've been pretty impressed with Sunsilk, personally.
Re FFR, I had kinda the same thing with Dave a week or so ago, 'cept I took her home to service pre-MOT and we found that her front brakes had seized on
So we put her in the garage for "front brakes and an MOT please" and got back front brakes, new tyres, new inner tubes, rebuilt back wheel (broken spokes) and an MOT thankyou. Fortune. Luckily it's nearly my birthday, so Dad went halves. Even more luckily, when I taxed it online last night, it was only £32, but I see my car's gonna be a whopping £180!
Re Dress, would love to, but can't because, well frankly, I'm just too jealous of your dress size.