"Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, I'm free at last..."Today is the last day of Movember, and tomorrow I can finally shave my top lip again!
Actually, I'll let you in on a little secret, I didn't want to have to go through all the Christmas Tree Construction with my own little facial hair tree lurking on my lip being all moustachey, so last night I trimmed it back to about the same stage as the end of Week One. But I still haven't shaved so technically it's still there (but then I can rationalise or justify just about anything, so we won't go there).
Can you tell that I've been having some sort of moustache-related cabin fever for the last few days? Maybe it was because the end was in sight, maybe my mo was just getting a little bit long (although it doesn't look like it in the picture, bits of it were kind of long and straggly and generally pokey)... but it had just been getting on my nerves. Part of the problem was it was growing more or less at a right angle to my face... which is why it never quite looked as lush in the photos as perhaps it did on my face (I say "perhaps" with very little certainty)... it was all sticking straight out before it started on the downward bit... stoopid inability to grow sensible facial hair...
Before I trimmed it, I was slightly conflicted about how I would feel once it was gone... it's been around for a whole month, which could be a record as far as me and facial hair goes (it certainly is where mos are concerned, that's usually the first bit to go)... and in some ways I have grown attached to it (no pun intended), attached to stroking it and taking it's photo every afternoon when I got home from work, and it just generally being there.
But like I said, over the last couple of days it's started to feel like a burden and like it's been getting in the way. So once I trimmed it, no big guilt, just relief... which I can only assume will increase when it's gone for good.
And honestly, I think this is a memory that will stick with me, but if I make even the vaguest suggestion next year about taking part again, could somebody please point me in the direction of this post? Then please smack me upside the head and tell me "no"...
I'd like to give big, heartfelt thanks to fellow blogger Tom and local lurking commenter Liz for their donations... your contributions are greatly appreciated *hugs*. Without checking all my bits and pieces, I think I've made between $90 and $100 in donations all up, which is pretty good I think... not great maybe, but decent.
So... so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen and goodbye to my "lip rat", it's been interesting, but now it's time for you to go...
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8 comments:
Awww, so this mean you will be back to your usual smooth hirsute-free twink cuteness? Yaaay! As Brian Kinney himself once said, "so many men, so little body hair." ;-)
Hey, that's looking like more than fluff now!! *duck* ;)
I had a moustache from 1977 to 2001 (all of 24 years). I shaved it off at Easter without saying a word to anyone and waited for comments as I came across family and friends afterwards. Only one person commented. To this day I have no idea whether the rest never noticed or just could not be bothered saying anything.
Yeah, Bodhi, I'm about fifteen years old to be a twink, and you obviously haven't been paying ANY kind of attention, because that's SO not a category I've ever fitted in, even when I was the right age...
Check your letterbox Sunshine, there's a slap with your name on it in the mail :P (plus I've already heard all the jokes, thanks anyway)
Funnily enough Victor, that's not the first time I've heard somebody say that... it seems to be a common thing... weird, wonder if there's a specific reason for it (other than that people are self-absorbed and don't pay attention to stuff around them).
Fifteen years TOO old is what I meant... *rolls eyes at self*
Awww, your still Twinkie to me Yani :-)
So I am "Local Lurker Liz". I kinda like it.
Hell yeah... you know how I love a nice bit of alliteration... ;)
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