It is SHAMEFUL how long it's taken me to get another post on here. I resent February for being so full and so short...it's a formula for franticism. That's not a word. Frantic-ness. :) Better. ANYway... We have been so busy! Eldon is loving his TA job and I'm...um, still working at the mailroom. I'm anxious to move on, and that's all I'll say about it. Last week Eldon had to grade all the lab notebooks for the chemistry students and each box took him less and less time to do...So he may not have "loved" that afternoon. :) I stayed for an hour or so, then took Eldon's cousin home, went back to our place, made pasta and cheese-filled rolls (with dough I'd saved from Sunday), and rushed back to my starving husband. We had so much fun sitting there in the chemistry department, eating from tupperware (it was so good...Eldon and I were exceedingly pleased with me :) talking and laughing as quietly as possible. Gosh, I just love him. We have so much fun together.
And on that note I think I'll recount the story of Eldon's last haircut. Usually I do a great job, but this last time I did a terrible thing. Let me preface the story with disclaiming details. The last time we cut his hair it had taken so long to clean up the hair in the kitchen that we decided to cut it outside. This wouldn't have been such a terrible thing had it been earlier in the day and the sun had been out. However, by the time we remembered it was 10:00pm, and the sky was dark. So I proceeded to cut and snip by the orange light of the bulb on the side of the house. Everything was going well until I got to the second sideburn...which I shaved completely off. :)
"Oh no." I said, and stopped cutting.
"What?? What is it?" he asked, with a little bit of panic in his voice. And this is the part, dear reader, when I broke into hysterical laughter. Yes, in my infinite compassion and charity, I found the situation absolutely hilarious! :) Eldon laughed too, bless him all his life, but his was much more cautious and hesitant than mine. Once I gained control of myself I had him turn around so I could shave off the perfect sideburn to match the...missing one, and then we went inside to look at it in the mirror. We stood there in the warm bathroom (Oh! It was also freezing cold outside, which I'm sure made my hands less steady.) and laughed in shock and disbelief at how terrible a man's hair can look without sideburns. I didn't realize how essential they were until that night. He's a wonderful sport, and I'm pleased to report that they are growing back nicely. :) He's a patient man.
I got my hair cut also, but by a professional so it looks like how I'd said I wanted it to look. In my despair that my hair has lost its curl I decided to just chop it off. :) When I blowdry it it's pretty cute, but I hardly ever make the time to do that, so usually it just looks short. :) It's fun to have a hair style for the first time in my life, actually. And if the weather would just stop raining and snowing on it--thwarting my every effort to look groomed--that would be great. :) Spring will come someday.
On a different note, we had Bryce and Sarah over for FHE the other night and that was so fun! We ate dinner and then played Settlers of Catan (Eldon's and my favorite game) and Eldon soundly neat us all into the ground, which made him a happy man. :) There was much teasing and many feigned grudges for a blocked road or a stolen resource card, and we just loved it. It was fun to spend time with Sarah and get to know her better. She's a darling girl. I'd mostly only spent time with her in presidency meeting-type settings before this, so it was fun to see this other side of her too. What else? Tomorrow we have sharing time, which should be pretty exciting. :) We're going to go fishing for Book of Mormon prophets and have our kids hold the pictures they colored last week while we tell brief stories about who they are and what they did. We hope it will be edifying...it could very well turn out to be a disaster. :) There's always that risk in junior primary...I'll be sure to talk about it in our next post. Goodness...
That's all for now. OH! How it's not! How could I forget? Eldon has a cousin named Craig, and we spend a lot of time with him and his wife. I think they are our most frequent visitors. Anyway, a couple weeks ago--during an intense round of Mad Gab--we all decided that we'd go off processed sugar for an entire month. No candy. No cookies. No joy. So we've been doing that, and it's been terrible! :) Sugar is such a wonderful, wonderful thing. We have given ourselves a few "breaks". One was Valentine's Day, and another was the night Craig and Savannah (his wife) came over with a chocolate fountain (I know, honestly...). But for the most part I watch longingly as everyone around me eats candy and drinks soda. :) It's a good thing, because even when we let ourselves eat sugar we find we can't eat as much as we usually would...if you classify that as good thing. The jury's still out for me. :)
Well, I think that's all for now. And I promise not to wait three weeks before I write the next one! :)
PICTURE KEY: top--Bryce and Sarah come for FHE; middle--Craig and Savannah visit; bottom--Eldon's lack of sideburn :)
