I am sad to report the end of the Goatee of the Summer of ’09. Its end was swift-ish, and blame is placed on the brutal Braun.
Yes, this morning, as I was shaving with my (admittedly old) Braun shaver, that weird cutter bar thing in the middle of the foils decided that the best course of action was to grab onto some beard hairs. Too many hairs. At once.
This was…painful, shall we say. Apparently, when pain is greater than a stubbed toe, but less than a kidney stone, I swear. A lot. Voluminously.
After swearing and blinking away the tears the pain brought to my eyes, I groped around and finally groped for and found some scissors, I was able to extricate shaver from beard. At this point my beard was suddenly and severely lop-sided, so, after clearing out the shaver, the rest went away as well.
Au revoir, mon barbe!
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I think I’m in the mood to do some baking this weekend…but bake what? I have a recipe for some brown sugar peanut-butter cookies which sounds yummy…
…but I also have some low-fat cream cheese in the fridge which is keening for a cheesecake. Maybe a Key Lime Cheesecake? Marble Chocolate? Hmm…
Any ideas from internetland?
I’m thinking about shaving off the goatee I’ve been sporting. I’m hesitant to do so because, well, I kinda like how I look with it. Makes me look like I have a chin and reminds me that, hey, I can grow hair. Maybe not on top of my head, but on the head, at least. But, the downsides of the beard are beginning to annoy me.
First, the itching is back. Now, all beards itch and, for me, it usually comes and goes in waves. We’ll it’s back now and annoys the crap out of me.
Second, there is the occasional beard dandruff. Despite shampoo and conditioner, it seems as if the skin under the beard just wants to dry out. It’s annoying, especially with dark shirts. (I know there are all sorts of treatments for this, but I’m not spending $10-20 on tea tree oil that might not work to fix it.)
Third, it’s getting all tangly and I’m too cheap to buy one of those beard trimmer kits. And if you’ve priced those, that means I’m pretty cheap. Maybe a sale will happen soon…
Finally, maybe I just want a change? I dunno. My (almost-) Daily Mugshot is getting pretty boring. Perhaps the appearance of Matt No-Chin Potato-Face will spice things up, eh?
Hmm…
Well, what say you my readers and Russian spammers? Keep the beard or lose it?
Matt
