I wish I had taken a picture of myself before I went to get a haircut this afternoon... because the lady who cut my hair didn't understand "I just want an inch trimmed off". I just keep telling myself that hair will grow back. Also, the next person who cuts my hair will speak english as their first language, not their second. Also, don't mock my hair because I only could get half of it to act the way I wanted. Hope that doesn't happen every day until it grows out--it's too short to go up in a ponytail.
Three good things that have happened in the past 30 days:
1. I survived the Relief Society Activity from Hell. Okay, so it wasn't really THAT bad, but we did spend a solid 5 hours at the church the morning of decorating and setting up tables and chairs. We have a member of our committee who comes up with great ideas but once she has an idea there is no stopping her. It got really intense. Let's just say that we were all really happy to receive an email saying that the decorations for the next activity (which is this week) are going to be a picture of Christ on each table in a nice frame as well as a vase with flowers. Our set up should take about 35 minutes tops, depending on how many people show up. We'll literally just need to pull out tables, chairs, and tablecloths. No ladder will be required. Woohoo!
2. One day I completed three online assignments for my class that I'm working on as well as submitting an assignment to my professor to grade. This was the first time I'd had to submit an assignment to her and I was relieved to get it back with a 100% and notes that tell me that she was really happy with the writing samples I provided. I'm taking a cooking class and each lesson has me cook different recipes. After I cook them I have to write up what recipe I chose, why I chose it, who I served it to, if I would make it again, and what from the lesson I was able to apply to cooking that recipe. The assignment I submitted to her was a compilation of 6 of my writeups. I was very glad to know that I had been writing the amount she was expecting, not less. I'm excited to finish this now knowing that she's a fair grader!
3. This one made me really happy. Each month Chris's team from work goes out to lunch where they celebrate the birthdays for that month and give some recognition and celebrate their successes by eating good food. Chris is in the group that picks different restaurants and the only criteria is that the restaurant must offer vegetarian dishes as there are several vegetarians in their team. The people who have birthdays that month have their meals paid for by the company, everyone else pays for their own food. For March the team went out to PF Changs. I've been wanting to go to PF Changs since New Years Day when we were really wanting some Chinese food, but we hadn't ever made it over to there. Chris ordered the meal that he knew I would want (Mongolian Beef with brown rice) and saved me a decent portion of each. He said he went for it because it was kind of expensive, but we both know he ordered it so that he could share with me when he got home! I was so excited that I got my Mongolian Beef and that we didn't have to pay for it!
Also highlights:
USAAs recent hires (at least I think that was the group) were invited to attend an outdoor showing of Tangled last weekend. They provided pizza,drinks, popcorn, candy... we just had to bring a blanket to sit on or chairs. It was a blast, we loved the movie and the free food! i love free date nights!
we decided that next weekend we're going out to eat for our date night and Chris let me pick where (since he gets to pick where he wants to go out for lunch once a month for work). We're going to Rudy's to get us some good Texas BBQ. We already know exactly what we're getting: 3/4 lb Brisket, 1 whole sausage, and a pint of creamed corn. We're really really excited, it will be super tasty. Haven't had bbq since December when we went to the outlet malls and made our way up to The Salt Lick.
I got to do proxy initiatories and sealings for the first time in the last 30 days. we go each month and do a session so i was excited when a friend asked if i wanted to go do initatories with her one day. then when chris and i went they told us the session was in spanish so we went and did sealings instead!
oh and we bought hummus! we love hummus! it's one of our favorite snacks!
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I'm sad that its day 30. but i like your haircut even if you aren't happy with it. I like it cause you are cute no matter what your hair looks like. And I hope you are having a happy April.
Oh! Oh! I need to give you the hummus recipe! It's not exact because my brother gave it to me and he does "a little this and a little that".
In a food processor:
2 cloves of garlic
1 can garbanzo beans
1 Tablespoon Tahini (sometimes found by the peanut butter - it's a sesame seed paste)
Lemon juice (1 tsp. or more if you want)
Cold water (probably half a can, but you can add more if needed)
Salt (start with 1/2 tsp.)
Onion powder (optional, do a few dashes)
For a garnish and I think it's a must to make it delicious (people beg for it):
Fresh parsley
Sliced green onion
Diced tomatoes
Sprinkling of paprika
Drizzle of olive oil
Serve with warm, toasted pita bread, sliced cucumbers, maybe even some carrots.
I hope you love it! It's a little tricky getting the right consistency.
Thanks, Sarah! I'm way excited to try this recipe!
I forgot to tell you, be sure to drain the beans. :-D
The haircut looks nice Marci and I'm sure that you'll love having the shorter locks during the summer months! It just takes some getting used to whenever a drastic change happens.
I agree though about the "inch" situation. It's a legendary issue that happens to us all. I do one of two things: Either, remind my stylists to only cut it an inch "once" because it doesn't add up right when they take an inch off on their first pass across my head and then take another inch on their second pass, and so on and so forth. Before you know it - 2-3 inches are gone! OR when I want an inch off I tell them I want a half-inch off. Both approaches have worked well.
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