Save Your Marriage and Keep the Wrinkles at Bay!!

Lately I have not been around my little blog world much, and for good reason. I have been working on my newest anti-wrinkling scheme.

Just last week I was doing some research for my always informative, well maybe not always informative, beauty column at Takerootandwrite.com and I stumbled upon a little article about how it could be true that if you "make that face long enough, it could stay that way."

So I started thinking about the weird facial expressions I make all throughout the day and thought about the horrors of permanent wrinkle lines in the shape of my most famous brow scowl.


I tried to count in one day how many times I make that face, and I got lost around 535. Every time I come across a problem at work, read something totally off-the-wall, find Kaydn Rye with an open bag of Fun Dip in the living room (why in the world do people give kids FUN DIP for Valentine's Day? WHY???) or just in general when hubby comes home. He'll say something totally weird and I respond with this.....



Or this....




Or there's the not quite as famous lip smooch face. This is the face I make about three-quarters of the work day. It's my "I am in deep thought about jury verdicts (you know, since I write jury verdicts for a living)" face. Or while I'm driving, or while just staring out the window (which I do quite a lot of - it's called writer's block) or even while cooking dinner, I have caught myself making this face.



Or this one...



Don't ask my why I took five minutes out of my day to snap pictures of my bizarre faces.

I'm going to have a "furrowed brow, pursed lip permaface" for the rest of my life, unless I act fast. Having a child and a husband doesn't help the furrow brow, but I have come to the conclusion that I must be annoyed probably 90 percent of the day. I came to the this conclusion on Sunday while talking with another couple in our church who have taken it upon themselves to meet with us regularly for I guess what you'd call marriage discipleship. (Who knew marriage was going to be THIS hard?) No one has ever taken the time to really take us under their wings (Take, this broken wing, and learn to fly again...okay no more songs and no more parentheses today) and guide us through some sound Biblical truths on marriage and staying together, until now.

So anyway, we were sitting at their table on Sunday discussing some deep marriage stuff when we stumbled upon one of the questions in the back of the marriage book we're all reading together, Sacred Marriage, which is one of the most brilliant books I have ever read, by the way. One of the chapter questions reads, "What are some things about your partner that annoy you?" The chapter was all about respecting your partner, despite their weaknesses, and yada yada yada. So hubby had a couple actually pretty insignificant things that he rattled off, and this just set me off - to say the least. Another part of this question is to remain calm and not absolutely freak out at your partner's answers, and I definitely failed.

We somehow get around to me, and I don't list anything specific. Instead I just blurt out, "I'm just always annoyed!"

At that moment I was like, whoa, I AM always annoyed. What is my problem??

So, long story short, not only did I not know that I could spew marriage advice and anti-wrinkle advice all in the same post, but now you see how being constantly annoyed in your marriage can cause wrinkles. And nobody needs that. And that big revelation about my own character flaws? Well, let's just say that this week I have only made the furrow brow face 535 during the entire week, not just on Monday. I call that personal growth.




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