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The Hand is gone. I repeat, The Hand is gone. I successfully smuggled it into my aunt’s car on Thanksgiving, where I wedged it in a giant Target bag filled with the cupcake stands we used for our wedding.
I had a brief moment where I thought she might not find it, and it would be left to decay for months or even years in the dark confines of her basement, but after she got home I received a phone call that started with “YOU DIRTY RAT!” so all was well. (When your elders “swear” it is awesome.)
Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, and to my relative that made the comment, “Where’s all the turkey skin?” I am sorry. That’s kind of my thing. A few years ago, I made a turkey for Jason and I solely so I could eat the skin.
Oh yeah…the Jello Jigglers (Dirk Digglers) were thinner than they should’ve been because I can’t read directions, but they still turned out fine.
Jason had to work until 1:00 the day after Thanksgiving, so I decorated the house for Christmas by myself and had a blast. While the cats wrestled fake tree boughs and chased bouncing ornaments, I decorated the tree with my chosen color scheme for the year (red & gold) and played Christmas music, singing off-key to my favorites while fast-forwarding through those that annoyed me and/or were sung by a Beatle. (Also, I still have the chorus from that Gloria Estefan song Love on Layaway in my head, and it is truly horrendous and should be used by the government to get information from uncooperative individuals.)
When Jason got home, we wrapped Christmas lights outside, and I think the pleasure of plugging in Christmas lights and experiencing that glorious moment when they all work is one of my favorite things about the holiday season. That and a brand-new box of hot chocolate sitting next to a fresh bag of marshmallows in the pantry.
In non-holiday news, I am getting a haircut on Thursday. I am having it cut short. Long hair and I are officially DONE. I used to think it would be great and that I would have tons of volume and body, and enjoy sunsets and beach walks with my hair, but instead, we barely tolerate each other and communicate only in curse words.
I’m tired of finding super-long strands of my hair everywhere and feeling like it’s trying to kill me whenever I wake up to find it wrapped tightly around my neck. I especially hate how when I sit back, my hair gets pulled and when I shut my car door, my hair gets caught. Also, people are starting to think I am a freak (more than usual, anyway), because I am constantly swiping at hairs that are tickling the back of my arm.
So, off it goes. It’s going to be somewhere between chin and shoulder-length and when I whine in a few months about how I want it longer so I can do something with it, please point me to this entry.
Also? We got a digital camera this weekend. I feel sorry for you all.
Digital camera YAY YAY YAY. I am SO EXCITED to see more pictures. Especially of the new haircut! Exciting to chop off all your hair? Do you have enough to donate somewhere? I think the new Pantene hair donation program only requires eight inches instead of 10 or 12 like Locks of Love.
Also, my chosen color scheme for every Christmas tree is purple and… purple. Sadly, we won’t be having a tree this year. But next year!
Comment by Jess — November 26, 2007 @ 7:39 pm
I frequently get my hair tangled in car doors, purse straps, safety belts, etc. One terrible morning a chunk of my hair got caught in the dog’s collar when we were in the car, and he decided to help by PULLING AS HARD AS HE COULD. I was screaming to my husband, “HELP ME HELP ME OH HELP HELP” and he was just staring at us in confusion, and the dog was freaking out, and I died. The end.
And yet I still have all the hair.
I’m insane.
Comment by blacksheeped — November 26, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
The only thing I don’t like about doing a live tree to plant after Christmas is that we only get to enjoy it for a week and a half. It has to get right back out in the cold, because if it doesn’t, it comes out of dormancy and then dies when you put it back outside. One of these years I’m going to get a fake tree to put up right after Thanksgiving and then we can just add the live one later.
Comment by JMC — November 26, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
Digital camera + new haircut? Pictures!! Perhaps before and after photos?
Comment by Stephanie — November 26, 2007 @ 9:00 pm
I second the request for Before/After photos with the new camera!
Comment by Shelly — November 26, 2007 @ 9:30 pm
One thing I hate about having long hair is the way it starts TRIANGLING out.
Comment by Swistle — November 26, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
Hooray on the digital camera. If you use it with the ease you create mastheads and other creative stuff, we’re in for a great roller coaster ride. Oh. And the thing I hated the absolute most about my hair when it was long was rolling it up in the car window. When I started having to braid it to sleep without choking myself, I got it cut. Another before and after request.
Comment by PixelPi — November 27, 2007 @ 6:59 am
Yay pictures! Start with the hair, please. As you know, we are hair twins and I hate my long hair too. I have been wearing it in a ponytail every day for MONTHS and I am so serious.
Comment by Tessie — November 27, 2007 @ 8:30 am
Jess: I don’t think I have enough to donate; I’m guessing I’ll get about 5 inches or so cut off.
Blacksheep: I forgot about the hair in seatbelts – that is the worst! Probably not as bad as the hair in the dog collar, which instead, is hilarious. To me.
JMC: I love the fresh pine smell of a real tree, but besides that, they’re so much work! I love that you plant yours after Christmas – what a great idea.
Stephanie, Shelly, PixelPi & Tessie: OK, ok. I will do before and after pictures, although you do realize now that you’ve forced me to actually FIX my hair for the Before picture, right? Because I’ve been like Tessie and wearing it in a ponytail 90% of the time.
Swistle: Oh, god, yes. The Triangling. I usually have that problem only if I curl my hair. The top gets weak and bored of supporting everything and then gives up, so it’s flat against my head while the curls all droop merrily to the bottom, so I look STUPID. Also, static electricity + my hair = comedy gold.
PixelPi: Your comment about the mastheads made my day – thank you! (I’ve been in a masthead-making frenzy lately. I’m now set until May.)
Comment by Shauna — November 27, 2007 @ 10:28 am
I am sooooo jealous that you have a color theme each year. That? That is my DREAM.
But A., the sentimental, sweet man that he is, insists that we decorate the tree only with ornaments from our childhood and that have memories attached to them. So, it is a very sweet, uncoordinated tree in our home. *sigh*
Comment by Artemisia — November 27, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine are really great, i love their music on the old days.”:
Comment by Sarah Graham — July 20, 2010 @ 8:58 pm