I just finished reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty, a book which surprised me first when I pulled it off the library shelf and again when I realized how much I LOVED it. I've never read a Western before. I picked it for its size more than anything else. It isn't my genre, but this book is now probably in my top five. It's that good. I loved every character and I was sad to find I'd read the last sentence:
"The woman. They say he missed that whore."
It was at the bottom of the page and I was disappointed when I turned to the next page and it was blank. Even at 857 pages, the book was too short! Reading it made me mourn, yet again, the loss of Deadwood. I am definitely looking forward to reading the Prequel and Sequel. Who knew I'd love reading westerns so much?!
In other news, I'm still loving my new hair. Thank you SO MUCH for all the sweet comments about it. You all are making me feel a lot better about the fact that Dave hates it. HATES. IT. I knew he would, so it was no surprise, but still. Men are weird about long hair. His first comment to me was that I officially looked like a housewife now. So far I haven't let it hurt my feelings - I kept my hair long mainly for him for the past decade. It's my turn. And I love it more every day. It's so EASY!! I slept on it wet and it still looked fine the next day:
If I did that when my hair was long, I woke up looking like Medusa and had to rewash it before facing the world. It was evil.
Also! Our new TV rocks the Casbah. Between ditching my glamrock hairdo and getting a flat screen TV, it's like this was the week we were finally destined to become part of the 21st century!
Dude, you do NOT have housewife hair! You look fantastic. I don't know what Dave's talking about with the housewife comment, it's not like you went for the football helmet 'do.
Since high school, my hair length varies from chin length to just past my shoulders, so your version of short hair is actually kind of long on my scale. (And my husband would never in a million years tell me that he didn't like my haircut, because that is a mean and hateful thing to say, so I totally think you should pinch him on the back of the arm every time he says something negative about your hair. Call it aversion therapy.)
Posted by: cindy w | June 27, 2008 at 03:51 PM
Dude! You look HOT! And so what if you look like what you are: a sexy, beautiful woman who takes great care of her kids and cooks awesome food, among other things. Housewife shouldn't be a put down, so take it as a great compliment. :)
It isn't like you look like Alice from the Brady Bunch or anything.
And agreed, most men are weird about the long hair thing...
Posted by: serror | June 27, 2008 at 03:56 PM
I think you hair looks fabulous. As someone whose Significant Other is always unhappy with my choice of hairstyles (I've grown it long, he prefers it short), I can totally sympathize...
But oh well! In the end, it is YOUR hair. If you like this haircut, than keep it! It looks great on you!
Posted by: Tanya | June 27, 2008 at 04:51 PM
I think your haircut looks great on you. Maybe tell your husband if he likes long hair so much, he can grow his own hair long. :)
Posted by: Victoria | June 27, 2008 at 06:03 PM
Dave's comment was tame compared to what my husband said when I cut my hair. First he just looked at me, then down at the ground, then mumbled...Wow, you look...nice. (I knew he hated it!) But then he said I looked like a 60 year old housewife who goes to the beauty parlor to get their hair done! LOL
Posted by: Photographer Lori | June 27, 2008 at 06:29 PM
You look so young and sophisticated. I can't believe he hates it! Those men and their long hair fetish (well, most of them anyway).
Love Larry McMurtry too. But not as much as I love your hair.
Posted by: Julie | June 27, 2008 at 06:37 PM
I'm glad Dave's comment didn't hurt your feelings. It kinda hurt MINE though! That was mean.
You look great! Often long hair can just look "I haven't cut my hair in a long time - a.k.a. I'm not interested in maintaining my appearance" ya know? But you look fantastic!
Posted by: DaisyCake | June 27, 2008 at 07:07 PM
I loved that book too. I took it on vacation just because it was long and I ended up loving it. I'm also a big fan of The Last Picture Show. It's WAY shorter but also good.
Your hair is even cuter on Day Two! A good sign!
Posted by: Elizabeth | June 27, 2008 at 07:27 PM
OMG--your hair is fabulous! It's the complete opposite of 'housewife.' I just got my chopped too, but yours looks much better.
Posted by: Jennie | June 27, 2008 at 08:10 PM
HellOOOOOOOOOO hotness.
I love the hair. Shorter, sassy, sexy. It's got everything. Tell Dave I'd be glad to run my fingers through it!
Posted by: Mocha | June 27, 2008 at 09:09 PM
That is so NOTTTT housewife hair. I'm happy to show Dave a picture of for-real housewife hair if you'd like...starting with a picture of the haircut my mom had for 20 years AFTER Dorothy Hamill. Yuck.
And we? Still have small TV. Maybe this year, when I have two kids to entertain while I try to take a shower, we will finally do something about that.
Posted by: Annagrace | June 28, 2008 at 09:22 AM
Our family dog growing up, who my parents still have, is named Agustus McCrae, Gus for short. My brother was younger than 10 when he watched the movie Lonesome Dove and it quickly became his favorite.
Loving the hair! All of my friends say the same thing about their husbands, but mine is different - he's begging me to cut my hair short! It's always in a ponytail, like yours was, but it seems the shorter I cut it, the poofier it gets. No thank you!
Posted by: Ali | June 28, 2008 at 02:08 PM
Wow! I missed the hair post the other day (just read it now), but it made me smile to see the picture here. It looks so good. I'm glad you're liking it too. Sounds easy. Easy is GOOD.
And yeah, "housewife"??? I don't think so. This look is anything but.
Posted by: Elizabeth | June 28, 2008 at 09:05 PM
I had hair down to my butt, cut off 10" for "Locks of Love", let it grow back, went to get a LIGHT layered trim for the ends the guy did such an awful job that daughter said it looked like a "horses ass" in the back. Went to a real Salon and we spent 6 mos. fixing it.
The husband & I have an agreement NOTHING above tops of shoulders.
Your hair looks awesome & I can relate to the waking up as medusa. My hair was so thick and wavy it looked like someone tried to surf in a hurricane in the am. LOL
Posted by: G-Mom | June 29, 2008 at 06:06 AM
Still loving your hair. Husbands! They are crazy, no?
Would you mind emailing me info on the new TV (make, model, cost, etc.)? We just moved into our new house and are in the market for a new, hip-as-our-new-home TV and yours looks awesome in the photo. I'd really appreciate it!
Posted by: Colleen | June 29, 2008 at 03:05 PM
Dave is wrong, wrong, wrong! you look great!!! I love the new hair and I think he is nuts for saying such a terrible thing.
cheers!
Posted by: Amy H | June 29, 2008 at 06:51 PM
The first rule of being friends with anyone (even if it is over the interweb-thingy and we will never meet!) is that you never overtly criticise their Significant Other - however, Dave needs to remember what we all tell our children about if you have nothing nice to say ..... Whatever, ignore him totally on this subject - you look great!
Posted by: Sally | June 30, 2008 at 05:01 AM
I think long hair is kind of... weird. Like animalistic or something. One of my sisters has long hair, and even though it's not mine, just looking at it makes me feel overwhelmed. Like it's so cumbersome or something. I much prefer shorter hair, especially when it's adorable like yours!
Posted by: doahleigh | June 30, 2008 at 05:54 AM
Hey! I love Lonesome Dove too. FANTASTIC book.
Posted by: rebecca | June 30, 2008 at 08:57 AM
You are gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, and while I might slightly agree with the housewife description, I say it with nothing but love, baby. You're the housewife we all want to be! Totally hot, making amazing food from scratch, still smitten as a kitten with your husband. Be a housewife! Be an AWESOME housewife!
Posted by: Laura | June 30, 2008 at 09:03 AM
Dave is wrong. Your hair looks great, and looking at the before picture, the new cut makes your face look so thin! Looks awesome!
Posted by: Kristen | June 30, 2008 at 10:02 AM
You look FANtastic. Truly. Your long hair was gorgeous and I'm not surprised your husband misses it. BUT I think you look sexier and more sophisticated with the short 'do. It nearly causes me to rethink my current hair plans b/c my hair would curl in much the same way as yours does short. And I wanna look hawt too! :)
Posted by: Must be Motherhood | June 30, 2008 at 02:25 PM
You do NOT look like a housewife! You look fab, fab, fab. It takes years off you - don't listen to your husband - what do they know?!
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