Friday, November 1, 2019

7 Quick Takes about Faking Trust at Great Clips, Riding with Darth Vader, and Distressing Things To Put On Your Floor

It's 7 Quick Takes Friday! How was your week?

1


Up until about an hour before we went trick-or-treating, I wasn't sure at all how it was going to go, or if it was going to happen at all.

It's been raining here for the past four days (I know because the kids left a bunch of their outdoor toys outside and I keep waiting for them to dry out before dragging them back in the garage and it's not happening.)

But about an hour before trick-or-treating, the rain mysteriously stopped. So I threw a broccoli quinoa casserole in the oven for a quick meal (apparently I wanted everyone to eat zero bites of dinner and save plenty of room for candy) and all 8 of us went out trick-or-treating, after all.

2


It was, I think, the best Halloween we've ever had. It wasn't raining. It wasn't cold. Everyone had fun and no one complained or had to be carried for the last 20 minutes.

The 3-year-old was a lumberjack, the 7-year-old was a ballerina, and the 13-year-old was an elf. She made the coolest elven headpiece using wire from the basement and some craft jewels and hot glue:

Pull up a chair and laugh along in this week's 7 Quick Takes Friday, where Jenny of Unremarkable Files gets real about Halloween, haircut roulette, and distressed rugs. #7qt #7quicktakes #unremarkablefiles #bigfamilies #funny #real

The 11-year-old was a banana for the third year in a row, and the 15-year-old and the 5-year-old decided to do a joint costume and be Loki and Thor. I would show you pictures, but you'd die from the cuteness.

3


This week, I got a haircut that was several years overdue.

I don't have a regular hairstylist. I just walk into Great Clips when my hair has gotten so long it's driving me crazy and ask the nearest person with scissors to get rid of it.

After looking at the picture of the short cut I wanted, the random guy doing my hair sat me down in the chair and asked, "Do you trust me?"

I said yes, which is code for "not really, but it's hair and it grows back and I have a coupon that expires this week and I have to pick up my son from soccer in 35 minutes," and he chopped it all off.

Pull up a chair and laugh along in this week's 7 Quick Takes Friday, where Jenny of Unremarkable Files gets real about Halloween, haircut roulette, and distressed rugs. #7qt #7quicktakes #unremarkablefiles #bigfamilies #funny #real

Pull up a chair and laugh along in this week's 7 Quick Takes Friday, where Jenny of Unremarkable Files gets real about Halloween, haircut roulette, and distressed rugs. #7qt #7quicktakes #unremarkablefiles #bigfamilies #funny #real

And do you know what? It was the best cut I've ever gotten playing the Great Clips roulette game.

Usually, I have to trim it up so much at home afterward that I'm basically giving myself a second haircut, but this time I barely messed with it at all. I guess I should have trusted him.

4


My 8-year-old got her ears pierced. There may have been some peer pressure factoring into her decision which kind of irritates me, but I suppose there are worse things. Her friends could be jumping off bridges.

Anyway, she's very happy with her new earrings and enjoyed showing them off to the rest of the family when we came home from Claire's.

My older two daughters, who have never had one iota of desire to pierce their ears, agreed that they were nice, but just... why.

"I mean, I understand why you'd want your ears pierced because they look pretty," my 13-year-old said. "It's just... 'I'm going to poke holes in my ears so I can hang stuff from them?' I'm sorry, that's weird. I don't get it."

They get their freakishly disproportionate sense of practicality from me, I'm afraid.

5


When we went to Claire's for the ear piercing, we pulled up next to this car in the parking lot which gave me a laugh.

Pull up a chair and laugh along in this week's 7 Quick Takes Friday, where Jenny of Unremarkable Files gets real about Halloween, haircut roulette, and distressed rugs. #7qt #7quicktakes #unremarkablefiles #bigfamilies #funny #real

It's just a sticker in the window, but my 5-year-old was convinced it was a real guy in a costume and steered clear.

6


We've been shopping for area rugs online and saw a lot of "distressed" rugs.

I can see how the distressed look adds a whimsical, sort of rustic charm to some things, but I don't think it applies to rugs. Doesn't a distressed rug just look like... a worn-out rug?



Maybe if all the rest of your stuff is nice, people will get that your rug is only distressed in an ironic way. But in our house, everything (including me) looks distressed because it genuinely is, so when I pay money for something I'd like to enjoy it looking nice for at least a little while before the kids completely wear it out!

7

In other good news, my 3-year-old won the Halloween coloring contest at our local grocery store. We go to pick up his prize (a $50 gift card to the movies!) this afternoon.

We're really excited, even though the winners must have been randomly drawn from a hat because he's only three and, to be perfectly honest, it wasn't even his best work.


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5 comments:

PurpleSlob said...

Your hair is gorgeous!!

Wendy said...

I love the hair cut!

Kimberly said...

I don't get the "distressed" trend either. Distressed wood, distressed jeans, and now distressed rugs--why would I pay good money for something that already looks shabby and worn out?

Unknown said...

So many things to comment on. Loved loved your hair. Amazing you had a good Halloween with the weather. Kara had smow all day. The diadem was great! The 13 year old comments on pierced ears are a hoot. Also echoes dad. He has commented frequently about my "fish hooks". And the coloring contest..Jenny won one once. Same thing where you think Really? But not nearly as nice a prize!

r0b0d0c said...

Love the new hairdo!!!