Jeremy the Halloween Horse

While Tara and I spent our Halloween work day painting our faces like sugar skulls, judging costume contests and taking photos of ourselves Jeremy had to actually ... like ... work.

He sent me this photo and while I appreciated his orange and charcoal outfit (complete with green monster socks, not pictured) and his horse head - with details like ear buds in the horse ears - I couldn't help but spend an obscene amount of time staring at the rest of the details in the photo.

How can I explain it... Okay - you know when you're a kid and you aren't entirely sure what your dad does at work but you know it's kind of important? That's what Jeremy's job is like to me. It's all very much a mystery to me. So sometimes when I'm here at home designing something rad like a cookbook in my striped socks (and very little else) I wonder what Jeremy's up to. I try to imagine what he's doing and what the setting is like. I try to picture the details - and this snapshot fills me in on a few: this photo tells me that he has a cozy chair, he eats leftovers for lunch at his desk, he snacks on almonds and protein powder, he is proud of his family, and he might be a little paranoid (see the little green mirror - I suspect that functions like a rear-view mirror.)

But what this photo tells me most of all is that I have the kind of husband who can totally rock a horse head - no matter the setting.