It IS abnormally long. (My tongue. Not my hair.)
As you know, every three months or so, I travel to Kirkwood for my seasonal shearing.
Last week, I had positive results.
When I returned to the house, Meredith, who lately has been perfecting The Art of the Insult, greeted me with the following.
"You look like a boy."
Me: I can see why you would say that. A lot of boys have short hair. But a lot of girls do, too!
Meredith: You look like a dog.
Me: Um, I can see why you would say that. A lot of dogs have short hair. But a lot of dogs have long hair, too!
Meredith: You look like a dirty dishes scrubby sponge.
Me: That's a good one! But OUR dirty dish scrubby thing is green. So, no I don't.
Meredith: You look hideous.
Me: Uncle.
And then I morphed into a Goliath frog and I ate her.
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jen
at 3/10/2008 10:52:41 AM- You are petite and svelte, and you have such a nicely shaped head. If I could have pulled off my short hair and looked as good as you do, I wouldn't have grown mine back out.
Nice to meet you Saturday! Wasn't Ira fabulous? I almost wished they had let him do the whole thing in the dark, but I am glad they didn't.
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FP
at 3/10/2008 10:59:45 AM- Jen--I would pay something like $10 + all the eggs you could eat for you to sit on my couch and throw those adjectives at me every day. You're so nice.
AND, it was SO nice to meet you. Ira (why do I feel weird calling him that? it's his name, after all...) was really inspiring. AND, because the woman next to me asked him a question, I feel good knowing that maybe his eyes DID meet mine. (She was the perfectly-bobbed student who yelled "Which comes first?! The THEME or the STORY?!?!?!?!")
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Kathy
at 3/10/2008 11:17:58 AM- I with Jen: if I could wear short hair I would. Right now I'm in the process of growing hair. Unfortunately, I'm growing gray hair.
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gwendomama
at 3/10/2008 12:44:54 PM- some kids don't know when to stop.
at least you had the last word. and then ate her.
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Amy in KC
at 3/10/2008 1:24:59 PM- I am so not ready for intentional insults. Right now I deal more with things like this:
Jack: Mommy's eyes are green!
Me: Yes! Mommy's eyes ARE green!
Jack: Mommy's face is orange!
Me: Uh... what??
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You can call me, 'Sir'
at 3/10/2008 3:04:45 PM- Jeff should count himself lucky to have someone so close to Gene Simmons in the tongue department.
Also, Meredith's tenacity is to be admired.
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gorillabuns
at 3/10/2008 6:32:17 PM- My girls are the harshest of critics, especially when it comes to my butt or if I stink.
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Kristen
at 3/10/2008 10:01:05 PM- Your hair looks so gorgeous! Love!
Love the girly too, she really is perfecting it, isn't she?
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Erin
at 3/10/2008 11:11:11 PM- My favorite part of the latter photo is that your paper towels are perched on the counter mere inches from the paper towel holder.
You are completely beautiful. Even as a Meredith-eating Goliath frog.
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Alli
at 3/11/2008 7:34:25 AM- At least Meredith will always hold her own in the world. You like only slightly alien-like in that second pic.
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Summer
at 3/11/2008 8:10:35 AM- Wow. That is quite a vortex you've got a'brewin' there in your kitchen.
Lovely hair, too. (Not a'brewin', just sitting there looking pretty on your head.)
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heartfull
at 3/11/2008 10:40:07 AM- My kids always notice the way I smell. And tell me about it.
You were just miles - or maybe even yards! - from me.
My hairdresser just opened up her new shop in Kirkwood - I'm so happy. I really like her and she only charges $14/haircut. Yes, you read that right. $14.
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FP
at 3/11/2008 11:16:32 AM- Heartfull--Is she, by chance on Jefferson? Because the woman who does my hair recently rented her shop out to someone.
(I've always loved Kirkwood. It seems so Walkable.)
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heartfull
at 3/12/2008 10:16:59 AM- Yes! Wow - what a coincidence.
Lisa is great. I wasn't sure what to expect at my first appointment at the "new" place but I was so excited for her. It is so cozy and she said she loves to sit and watch the people walking by in between customers. Lots of light.
So you are one of those mysterious people who visits the shop each month when the women drive in from Nashville? Are they that good? Because Lisa told me how much they make on those weekends and man, they must be good.
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FP
at 3/12/2008 12:21:53 PM- Heartfull--Yep! I'm one of the mysterious ones! They've been cutting my hair for 20 years now, and I really can't imagine going to anyone else. (Funny. When I lived in Nashville, I would occasionally make the drive to St. Louis so they could cut my hair--and they, too, lived in Nashville!) They're very fun people.
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kimblahg
at 3/12/2008 10:28:58 PM- Aren't kids sweet? My son told me the other day that no one listens to me because I am boring.Believe me, I get bored of telling him to clean up and stop irritating his siblings too!
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moosh in indy.
at 3/13/2008 4:42:24 PM- I have a tongue like that one too, no one else seems to find it as awesome as I do that I could lick the inside of my nose if I wanted to.
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Shannon River
at 3/14/2008 12:26:32 AM- Can I ask a crazy question? Did you flip that photograph around or do you wear your wedding rings on your right hand? :-)
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FP
at 3/14/2008 8:55:51 AM- Shannon River--It DOES look like my right hand, doesn't it? (The photo was taken while I was tooling around in Photo Booth.) I think it's a mirror image, because the rings are always on my left hand.
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Poppy Buxom
at 3/16/2008 10:44:04 PM- You know, when I started reading, I was getting kind of sleepy, but that woke me right up. Thanks! Because I have dishes to do. Oh, wait ...
i love playing round with macs
You look fierce doll!