My Man has Skillz

Because Annalise has been a pretty notorious hair puller, I had been just letting my hair grow and pulling it back all the time. I figured that if it were shorter, I couldn't pull it back and I'd be at her mercy constantly! Eventually even if my hair was pulled back, if I was holding her, she'd reach back and grab the knot or braid and just hold on, I guess, because it was comforting to her.

But she is not so bad at pulling hair these days and I was getting kind of tired of my long tresses, so I decided I wanted it cut. I can't really say my motivation for doing this, but I told Rob last week that I wanted him to cut my hair and I wanted him to do it as soon as we got home from church on Sunday so I would have the longest stretch in my week before seeing someone I know.

He asked if I wanted him to use the trimmer(!) that I use on him and Caleb or if the "Suck n Cut" of Wayne's World fame would work better! I assured him that scissors would suffice!

So we decided about how long it should be and he cut a little longer so that if we had to trim more (we did) it would not end up a lot shorter than I intended. It was a little off and one side was definitely longer than the other, but I snipped a little on it after he was done and a little more last night and a little more this morning and I am reasonably content. I am pretty unskilled when it comes to fixing hair and the interesting thing is that last hair cut I got cost almost $60 and once I had to fix it myself, it didn't look all that different from the haircut Rob gave me yesterday afternoon.

But before you ask, "What were you thinking!" asking Rob to cut my hair, which is pretty much what he asked me, I told him that of all the amateurs I would consider, I would definitely pick him because he has such a good reputation of doing difficult jobs well, particularly jobs he has no experience in. Mostly this is because he is slow and careful. So I got a free haircut and he got something new to add to his resume.