...accepting that we're "homely."

It was a rough morning and as my little brother would say, "we reached a new low." It started out with Kyle dousing his very long hair with massive amounts of my expensive Moroccan oil (purchased pre-budge and pre-realizing we are over $100,000 in debt) and ended with a very startling realization.

Kyle has never had his hair this long before and it's been a point of frustration pretty much every morning as he gets ready for work for the past couple of months. Sometimes I help him by busting out the flat iron and sometimes he just tackles the beast on his own. His hair is super thick and kind of coarse and poufy. When cut short it actually styles very nicely and is one of his best features, but when it's long it's major pouf city and, you guessed it, Kyle's the mayor.

When we had our, "holy crap, we are $124,000 in debt" awakening and embarked on our quest to become debt free back in June 2013, we still hung on to a few luxuries. Luxuries being things like, Satellite TV,  shaving cream, and hair cuts. These days we're bumming off of our relatives' Netflix accounts, shaving with bar soap, and channeling our inner hippie (or homeless person?) by letting our hair grow out.

This morning when I heard Kyle grumbling from the bathroom (I knew we should have let Dad Flobee his hair over Thanksgiving) and I went in to see if I could be of any assistance or moral support. He let me flat iron his hair a little, as he told me that he was looking at pictures of us pre-budget and how we looked all nice and put together and now we look, "homely." I thought about that for a second and decided that he was right. Here's proof.

Here is Kyle and I exactly one year ago at our wedding:

Here are some mug shots, I mean, photos taken of us this morning:

I personally think Kyle is handsome with long hair, but I know it wasn't just the hair that was/is bothering him so much. We ended up talking for a while about our progress with getting out of debt, what the heck we're doing in LA, and how, what, and where we should plan for our future. It's good to have those talks even if you don't come to any solid conclusions and I think we both felt better afterward.

We've been talking about starting a blog for a while to track our progress of getting out of debt, and after this morning I thought there was no time like the present. We want to have something to look back on when we finally scream that we're debt free in Nashville with Dave. It all seems really hard right now, but I know that when it's all said and done it will be an experience that solidifies our marriage and taught us a ton about. I know this because I already feel closer to Kyle and I've already learned so much about life and money in the past 6 months.