If you are wondering where week one is or went, sadly, like all my stunningly good ideas this one came a week late so there is no week one. Anyways, on to the project.
Boredom, that is the primary driver here, that and seeing if I can grow a luxurious beard. I have tried in the past but often abandoned it before the close of the fifth week out of itching or raised eyebrows and tsk-tsking from my wife. This time I figured what I needed to see the project through was a visual reminder of my progress and the pressure of the Internet. Let’s weigh the pros and cons…
Cons
- Itches like hell
- My wife disapproves of facial hair experimentation
- Traps food
Pros
- My daughter strokes it like a cat and says, “Niiiiiiiice. Niiiiiiice.”
- It gets me one step closer to my goal or rocking it like Shel Silverstein
- Ups my *nix street cred
- My wife disapproves of facial hair experimentation
Will I make it to week three without shaving it off?
Tags: "The Beard Project", Bored, Me
Classic facial expression!
That’s great progress for two weeks. Tough it out for a month and when you’re ready to quit, give yourself a ‘stache for a day.
Thanks, I’m a hairy bastard by nature… Now ‘stache, I could get behind that, though, with the shaved head I’m thinking it’ll be more Tom of Finland than Lemmy. :-/
They say a beard will grow better if you give it lots of petting. Not that I would know, with the sparse, multicolored patches of pine needles that grow out of my face. I envy a man with a good, full, manly beard.
Good point regarding shaved head stachin.’ Shaved head + beard is tough to beat.
Michael, at least yours is multicolored. So is mine, actually: for a very long time it has been a little bit gray like ashes from white paper, off white, and (predominantly) perfectly white.