Semi-related tangent: there is apparantly BUZZ at my workplace about how I am looking different these days, since cleaning up my act via the lasah and lack of chronic hair mismanagement. According to one coworker, "everyone is saying [I] look like a totally different person!". Ugg! This is HORRIFYING! Also, vaguely INSULTING! Why can't everyone I work with just think of me as a (ginormous) brain in a jar, like the good lord intended? DON'T LOOK AT ME! And if you MUST look at me, don't pass your thoughts down the chain like some goddamned game of telephone! BUZZ. Honestly.
Anyway, this post is not actually about my apparent Extreme Makeover! It's about the promised PICTURES:
At Boston Marathon Expo. This is actually a sort of shitty picture of BR, but I look decent, and this is my blog, so...Sorry Charlie. You can see the basic gist of my haircut here, although you can't tell that it's longer in front due to the whole unfortunate sunglasses-as-hair-accessory thing.
BR and I meeting Bill Rodgers, wicked famous runnah and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon. He was SO NICE. Also: skinny. He was wearing a suit with a t-shirt and running shoes. Hee!
Lance Armstrong and crew running by us, around mile 16 of the marathon. What's that? You can't actually SEE Lance Armstrong in this photo, and furthermore it's taken FROM THE BACK as if I didn't even REALIZE it was him until much, much too late, but took a panicked half-assed photo anyway, knowing BR would be pissed if I totally spaced? Oh, shut it.
BR and AD around mile 16. He INSISTS on wearing that Army shirt at races, even though it's so old and worn that you can literally see right through it. It does encourage spectators to cheer for him, though. In one race we ran together, he wore that shirt, and I wore a shirt with my name on it, and nearly every spectator called out, "GO ARMY! GO JESSIE!". ARGG!
At Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. AD declared all of the waves "bubbles!" (?). I declared myself a fan of fried scallops eaten on a patio on the boardwalk. Mmmm.
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Looks like you guys had lots of fun! Also, you are very tiny. I knew that already from previous posts, but these pictures make it abundantly clear. I always wanted to be little and petite like that. *sigh* No one will EVER mistake my 5'8" self for "petite"...
Oh MY emotionally crippled heart! The sweaty daddy and baby picture! The Family beach picture! AHHH!
Also, sunglasses ARE 1000% a hair accessory, dammit! Anything else is too much work.
I love that picture of BR and AD, if you hadn't SAID it was at Mile 16, then I wouldn't have thought you guys were just out on a Saturday together. He's wearing ACCESSORIES.
OMG my dad is a runner and he has that t-shirt too .. he wears it ALL THE TIME to run in -it is sooo thin my mom is afraid to keep washing it and my dad will not get rid of it .. too funny
Okay:
1. You are gorgeous! And yes, a walking brain, too, but a beautiful brain at that.
2. I LOVE that pic of you, BR and AD walking toward the surf on the beach. If I were you that one would get framed and put on the fireplace mantel.
I love all the pictures! You are all adorable! Yes, even the STEAMROLLAH
Your hair looks great but apparently you look like a different person in every photo ever taken of you so I can't weigh in on what your coworkers are saying about you. That last photo is priceless, though.
You are so, so pretty!
I totally adore that picture of AD and BR - that one's frameworthy. And so is that last pic of you guys at the beach. You're a good-looking lot.
One of my former coworkers was a middle-aged woman who had a bad perm, glasses and for awhile, braces. She got Lasik the same week she got a haircut and her braces off, and you should've heard the buzz around the office after that. I think it pissed her off to hear everyone say How Good! she looked, because she realized everyone thought she wasn't attractive before.
(You were always attractive, so don't think I'm going there. I'm just saying I get how weird it is when coworkers start saying nice things to you about your appearance when you've made changes.)
Emily, I KNOW about the running with accessories! WHO DOES THAT? Also, he ran with his PHONE clipped to his shorts and TEXTED ME during the race.
Shauna, that is exactly how I felt about the coworker thing! It's sort of insulting that they were making SUCH a big deal out of it, and also it makes me INTENSELY UNCOMFORTABLE to think that people are evaluating me based my appearnace! GAH!
What is APPEARNACE, anyway? Cannot type AT ALL today.
One - You guys all look great.
Two - BR actually STOPPED?! In the MIDDLE of a RACE?!? WTF? That negates the whole fussypants/competitive thing. I'm confused.
Dude, you totally look like a different (though at all times very cute) person yet again.
Totally cute babies all over the place today. BR is the cutest dad evah!
I love the hair and AD! And am so jealous of the beach in NH.
We just had a lady here who got rid of her totla 80's hair and wardrobe, and it was a huge deal! She quit last week. I wonder if there is a connection??
You are so pretty! It really does look like you guys had a great time. I want to know how your weekend trip went as well.
Such a good looking family! Really... I'm not just saying that.
Cool picture with Bill Rodgers. Was Ryan Hall there? I might have a wee crush on him.
Lori, Ryan Hall WAS there! He was signing autographs at the expo. He looks like a SKELETON in person, as do a lot of elite runners.
A totally hot SURFER skeleton, right?!?
You and BR both look super-enthused to have your picture taken with that runner, but he just looks really tired. Maybe I am just projecting though because if I ran lots of marathons, I would probably just curl up in a ball and cry inbetween runs.
PS The haircut looks great!
I hear you. Nothing like a good backhanded compliment to make me feel good at work - "you look so great NOW" or THESE DAYS - the implication being that I looked like complete ass before. Ugh.
I was totally prepared before seeing the pics to tell you that you didn't look different . . . but you DO look different in every picture. Sorry - I still think you look beautiful if that helps.
Is it just me or does AD suddenly look like she has TONS of hair?
And also - love the haircut!
fana, she DOES have more hair now, although she's still kind of rocking the Toddler Mullet. We've taken to giving her the forehead ponytail to keep it out of her face until it evens out.
OMG - Maddie totally has the toddle mullet, too!
Anyhow, I love the hair. And the glasses-less-ness. Although, you were totally cute in your glasses.
I agree that the last photo is frame-worthy.
Also, how cute is it that AD wanted to hug her daddy even tho he's SO SWEATY?
He TEXTED you while RUNNING THE BOSTON MARATHON?!! Holy Hell!! I was actually texting in spin class the other day but the bike is STATIONARY, therefore not nearly as badass. It's almost insulting to the marathon. He may have hurt it's feelers.
You guys are all ridiculously cute. RIDONK.
Whatever. You're totally cute.
You all are freakishly cute. & I am never standing next to you for fear of feeling like the Jolly Green Giant.
everyone has already STOLEN MY COMMENTS, but i agree that
a) BR runs with a NECKLACE?? and
b) he STOPPED MID RACE? and
c) holy crap you are a fiiine lookin' family, and
d) totally love the haircut
One of the reasons he stopped is because his brother jumped in to run with him for awhile. And, he was doing the race "for fun", if there is such a thing with him, and so supposedly wasn't worried about his time.
Bubbles--hehehehehe! Mimi refers to the ocean as "the big blue beach," as opposed to the regular beach that is right next to it.
TESSIE,
I've read your posts before and totally loved them, although I feel like an intruder. YOU are too, too funny even if you are in Texas. But you are much cuter than your blog picture. Much. I can hardly wait for fun fact Friday - and you?
Love the pics. You guys look great. So glad you made it home to Texas okay. (I know you couldn't wait to get back here).
You are so CUTE! That's all.
I've never actually posted before...but I just wanted to say I HATE when people go on and on about how different you look. I worked in a manufacturing facility so we all wore jeans and t-shirts all the time. At the Christmas party one year I showed up in a dress with make-up and NOBODY recognized me. Literally. I almost got turned away at the door b/c the lady I work with everyday didn't realize it was me. Then all these people were being all rude, like who the hell is this random girl talking to me? Most of the people didn't even realize it was me until I freaking won the door prize and went to get the prize. Everyone was like OMG you look so different. Apparently I look like shit on a normal basis :-P
You are AAAAALL adorable and that last picture, with the baby's feet all half up in the air?
Made me want to DIE FROM CUTENESS!
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