Wednesday, May 31, 2006

NO, I Did NOT Lose a Bet

Yes, I’ll finally admit it. I’ve been in denial for a while. Cutting to the chase: I’m going bald. And though it’s been happening for a while now, I’ve finally gotten around to actually caring that it was really happening.

My problem was that from the front I looked pretty normal:

Nothing too terrible. If you squinted, were really near-sighted and it was dark, you couldn’t even really tell I was losing my hair. The real problem was further “north” and the crown of noggin was barren. Right where I’d put a skull cap, if I happened to be Jewish. I should add that Reha proposed wearing a yarmulke full-time, but I declined.

Which brings me to the “tuft.” I HATE having just a tuft of hair just above my forehead. It looks totally stupid. A comb-over (or some sort of prosthetic (yes, a toupee) is out of the question, so I’ve been threatening to go “Jean-Luc Picard” and shave it all down to stubble.

We went to the grocery store and I made a detour into the hair care aisle and picked up some electric clippers. When we got home I begged and cajoled Reha into shearing me. She’s always been hesitant to do anything with my hair but I assured her that if the results were less than optimal I wouldn’t hold her responsible. Because 1) it will just grow back (well, some of it will grow back. Portions of it are obviously permanently out to lunch, but whatever) 2) Anything is better than than the “tuft” 3) a hat is always in order and cures many hair related ills.

See, pretty normal. Not that great, but I don’t care all that much, really.

Here we have Reha getting busy on the back. She’s a wonder with clippers, baby!

OK, now obviously, this is just great. This is how I see the tuft, frankly. Makes me look like a big, fat troll doll.

The final result. I know, I know. Not quite as sexy as Jean-Luc, but please, let’s remember that the source material Reha had to work with wasn’t all that great.

This was the most surprising thing to me. My hair isn’t quite as blond as I thought it was. I always imagined that I have aryan-nordic-teutonic locks, but it’s not really. It’s more dirty-dishwater colored. How disappointing.

And I’ve learned a couple of things. 1) If you beg your spouse long enough, she’ll give in 2) My head isn’t that bad looking. No surprising Gorbechov-esque continent shaped birth marks under there 3) My head gets dry while I’m still showering 4) Lucas thinks I look like a convict, so that’s pretty cool.

And of course, it just wouldn’t be a complete evening at the Deal Family Compound without Ellis putting something on her head and posing for a picture.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/31/06 at 08:09 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Photos Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

So Close, Yet So Incredibly Far Away

We had the guy. We HAD HIM in our clutches. Well, not exactly our clutches. We had him trapped.

I saw the little guy and ran over to where he was scooting around and trapped him with my cunning and guile. OK, I put Lucas’ backpack in front where he’d normally run.

Eventually, we trapped him with a big cardboard thing. Long enough to get the camera and snap a few shots of him, and also long enough for him to devise an escape plan. Bascially, he squished himself flat as a pancake, wriggled his way though a crack in between the cardboard and boxes, ran over Jonah’s foot (Jonah SCREAMED and woke up the neighborhood) and then ran in between the unfinished floorboards and the wall.

We cried. We had a cage all ready for him and were going to make him (her?) into our latest pet.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/30/06 at 01:22 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Photos Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Friday, May 26, 2006

The Out of Context Random Quote

Co-Worker: Maybe need to stroke that to make it fatter.

Me: Oh yeah. That’s nice.

CW: Yeah, that’s really nice.

Me: OK. I just want to do Julie Roberts and Dakota Fanning and then move on.

For the record, we are talking about setting type, you pervs.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/26/06 at 09:41 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Family Facts (according to Jonah, age 8)

I was born in:
1998

I came home to live with my family in the city of:
Salt Lake City

My family consists of:
Ellis, Jonah, Lucas, Carrie, Mom and Dad

My favorite thing about my family is:
tramp (ed. note — he doesn’t know how to spell trampoline)

My favorite family member is:
Lucas
Because:
he plays on the tramp with me

My favorite thing to do with my family is:
build the tramp

Many things have changed about my family since I was born, but most important is:
getting the tramp

If I could change one thing about my family, it would be:
the tramp would already be built.

So I’m thinking he’s pretty happy with his birthday present.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/24/06 at 12:04 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Great Day!

OK, I know this is kind of banal, but I just have to say:

“I found my cell phone! Glory day, Glory Day!”

Sad thing. There were only six messages on the thing and it had been gone for about a month. Only six people tried to get ahold of me while I was mobile-phone-ly challenged. How sad is that?

And three of them were hang-ups.

Guess where it was the whole time?

In the last place I looked.

No wonder no one wanted to talk to me.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/23/06 at 02:17 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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