Here you are. Reading the crazy, insightful ramblings of our life. So who are we anyways? Rob, Amber and Louis. We’re the Remarks. A couple of lovers, parents, just trying to make it through this thing called life together, while taking some time to enjoy the ride. I’m a teacher, and Rob is an architect (… well, working towards being one). We laugh more than I thought possible, and life feels like one constant adventure. So jump on our train for a while, and ride along with us. Maybe you’ll learn a thing or two, maybe you’ll laugh, or maybe you’ll shed a few tears. Whatever it is, I hope you feel somehow connected to the Remarks.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Buildings?


This is what our entry way is looking like these days... Life has changed. 

My favorite conversation thus far happened last night. Rob and I walked by a small barber shop with a large sign in the window that said "$8 haircuts". Rob, with a mop on his head, thought he had stumbled upon a gold mine- so we stepped inside. There was a little old man sitting on a chair with his feet up reading the paper. As we walked in he slowly turned to look at us, smiled very wide and said "hello folks". After talking for a while about if the haircuts were actually only $8 and finding out that they were in fact $8 and- 'had we come in last week' would have been $5- Rob sat down in this little old man's chair for a cut. It was the three of us in a tiny barber shop with a 74 year old man and a very curious husband. The conversation that followed was one for the books.

Barber: So, what are you here for, the money?
Rob: No, actually I work for JLG Architects and we are starting an office downtown.
Barber: For who?
Rob: JLG Architects.
Barber: What's that?
Rob: We're an architecture firm that just moved to town. We have offices all over the state of North Dakota.
Barber (with a very perplexed look on his face): You mean... like... buildings?

It was all I could do to keep from laughing at this adorable old man who apparently was completely clueless about what an architecture firm is.

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