Brows Time!

Eyebrows. Bigger means younger. I'm no longer young, but I don't really want to look it if I don't have to. 

When I lived in New York City a million years ago, I got my eyebrows waxed for the first time at Boom Broom Brow Bar. It was the thing that made me feel like a real, grown-up New Yorker. 

2009. I mean, not bad for a red-head.

I had my first baby in 2013. He's amazing. He has a little brother who is equally amazing, but becoming a mom didn't agree with me as I thought it would. He was a total surprise at 5 weeks early and then he was very sick for a month. That does a job on you, guys, and I needed something to make me feel like a person. I remembered how I felt about myself after getting my eyebrows done, and a friend posted that she had started working at an eyebrow threading place. Ok, ok. I should have known. But I was deep in the throws of postpartum and I didn't know anything. So, I went. "Keep it natural, just a clean up" apparently sounded like "make 'em skinny like it's the 90's." I was horrified. I already hated my new body, and now I got to hate my face, too. It was awful. 

This is 4 years later without a single pluck. The before.

Now, to my delight, I get to go back to NYC in October. I'm excited to see my friends, I'm excited to see shows, I'm excited to see the sights, but I'm most excited about Boom Boom. Enter Boom Boom Brow Job Growth Serum. $40 bucks and it will probably last me less than a month. Yes, I'm that desperate. Maximum effectiveness is at 4 months, which is exactly when I'll be back. So, let's journey together and see if this can be saved.

Cheers!

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I am the worst stage manager ever. Of all time.

Here I sit... blogging... in rehearsal.  We're "organic blocking" and this is the first time we've been though some of the scenes, so there is very little for me to do.  But blog.  I also have very little to say. 
Last week off, Christmas break, was very nice.  It was quiet, we slept a lot, very relaxing.  Also, a little frustrating with both of us being sick and a little frustrated with each other... just one of those being married things :)  And now I'm right into working all day, rehearsing all night, off to Minneapolis this weekend and then back to it all next week.  Honestly, I can't wait til it's all done!  But I always feel like that when a process starts and then miss it when it's done. 
Ah, well... enough of my rambling!

Another chapter...

Well, we're all moved!  Just to a bigger place just down the road, but I still felt a little bittersweet leaving the other apartment.  When Jared and I met, he'd just moved in, so we really fell in love in that apartment.  We kissed for the first time in that living room, we got ready to go to the judge to get married there, I lived though his deployment there. 
I'm always one to look back.  I like to analyze past events and to make sure I can keep precious memories fresh in my mind.  But, it's time to look forward!  We live in a real people's dwelling now.  Much more room, and office for Jared to do his school work, a guest room and everything.  I can cook dinner in the kitchen here and we can eat it at a table!  We're working on becoming real grown-ups and preparing for all that means.  It's exciting and I'm focusing on that!!

An old fashioned wife

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about what it means to be a wife, both in today's standards and in the way God intended us to be. 
My start as a wife was somewhat stunted, getting married and then having my husband leave so soon after.  But it, I have come to believe, has been stunted by Jared and I living together first.  It has made our start into married life far less climactic that perhaps it is supposed to be.  We are having to muddle out way though figuring out how our roles as married people, as opposed to dating people, have changed.  So, here we are struggling to figure out who is going to do the housework now that Jared is not the stay-at-home partner and who holds the responsibility for income and who holds responsibility for household things.  I would much rather it be the old-fashioned way.  But I don't think my husband entirely agrees.  So there is the conundrum.  I already feel like I'm supposed to do it all, and therefore I'm failing at all of it.  I think Jared feels like he is supposed to lead and earn income, but he just doesn't really want to.  And when he has less to do, he is less productive.  When I have more to do, I am less productive. 
Does anybody feel the same way?  Anybody think I'm crazy?  I feel stuck and need some help!

And we're married... still!

After more than 6 months, here is the update...

Jared returned from Afghanistan unscathed and we started to work out how to be married people. It was bumpy to begin with, as would be expected for newlyweds and just returned war vets. Then, in March, he and I were cast together in Camelot at La Crosse Community Theatre. I played Queen Guenevere and Jared played a knight, Bliant. He had a great time and it was really good for us. He got to see what doing theatre was like and we got to spend time together doing something constructive. It really helped get us though the rough patch.

And here we are on August 21st, two days after our one year anniversary and our finally getting to celebrate our wedding! We called it the "weddiversay" and we had an absolutely wonderful time! check out some of the first photos below, taken by my wonderful bridesmaid, Ali Close.

My reception shoes!  I love my Chucks!

Ceremony shoes from Kick in La Crosse!

My dress, from Bonnie's Wedding Center in Viroqua.

I wore the pearls that were my 16th birthday present from my  mom and dad.

The reception was held at Norskedalen in Coon Valley, decorations done by Caitlin Bures and my bridesmaids (this idea was Kelsey Taunts!)

My flowers from Old Oak Family Farm in Bangor, arranged by Caitlin.

Dancing with my daddy to Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole's Unforgettable.

Jared and I dancing to You and I by Michael Buble

Ugh...

Curse you Christmas commercials featurning children, hormones, and all of the baby madness in my group of friends... I do NOT want to have a baby!! Honest! At least not right now...
But they're so freakin' cute... and... then... I sorta do. CURSE YOU GENETIC NEED TO REPRODUCE!! CURSE YOU!!!!!!!