Quotable EJ

This month's edition of quotable EJ includes skills and fortunes, scenario planning, and pink hair. Let's start with the hair, shall we?

1. Awesome highlights
EJ speaking to me and her dad, riding in the car on the way home from running errands:

EJ: When I get older, I'm going to get highlights in my hair.
Me: Really? What kind?
EJ: Well, I'm going to dye all my hair dark, dark pink. Magenta pink, you know?
Me: You are going to get magenta highlights?
EJ: No, I'm going to have light pink and purple highlights, to make the magenta pink hair really stand out.
Me: Got it. Sounds awesome.
EJ: Oh, yeah, it will be so so so so so so soooooooo awesome, you will not believe it!
Me: I probably won't.
EJ: But it will still be awesome, no matter who believes it.

2. Fortune-finding
EJ opening her fortune cookie at lunch today with her daddy and me:

EJ: [Reading] It says, "Now is a good time to start a new hobby or collection."
Mike: STAMPS!
Me: [As I fiddle with my wallet, getting out money to pay the bill] EJ, what kind of collection would you like to start?
EJ: Hmmm...how about four dollar bills? Yeah, you could just give me four dollars now, that would be a good collection.

[Later, after the chuckling died down and she proposed maybe just a two-dollar collection, if we thought four wouldn't work]:

EJ: I'm going to take your fortunes with me, Mom and Dad, because I care about you.
Me: Great. We've got to get your dad back to work.
EJ: Daddy, don't worry about your fortune at work, because I have it.
Mike: Don't worry about my fortunes, eh?
EJ: Nope, I've got them.

3. Skills
While climbing up the stairs in a the cold rain to our home:

EJ: I've got some really excellent skills.
Me: Yes, you do. Which skills are you thinking about now?
EJ: I can freeze really well.
Me: Are you cold?
EJ: No, I can freeze, not move, just be frozen, that's what I mean. I can do it so well people might think I am a wall. That is an excellent skill to have.

4. Grown-Up Dreams
At breakfast with Mike and me the other day:

EJ: Guys, when I grow up, I'm going to move to Kenosha.
Mike: You are?
EJ: And DON'T WORRY. You DO NOT have to move with me. You DO NOT have to live there. [We've explained to her that there aren't jobs in Mike's field there, so we won't be moving back]. I'm going to live there when I am independent. That is where I'm going to get married.
Me: You are going to get married in Kenosha? Who are you going to marry?
EJ: See, the first day I'll move there. Then, the next day I'll meet my husband. Then, the day after that, that's when I'll get married.
Me: What's that wedding going to be like, one day after you've met your husband?
EJ: Dark pink. Magenta pink.
Mike: Of course.
Me: Like Aunt Melissa and Uncle Joe's wedding.



EJ: Yes, except this wedding will have light pink and purple highlights. [I'm imagining this going with her hair, of course]. The highlights will really set off the magenta pink. ["Set off?" Too much HGTV-watching with me?] They will be the accent colors.
Me: So, a Kenosha wedding to a stranger in pink with highlights.
EJ: Yes, that is exactly it!