In your face! 6 April 2007

I realized something today! Facial hair is weird. I mean have any of you guys ever stopped and said the phrase, “hair is growing out of my face!”. Maybe some of you ladies have said the same thing – just kidding! Some of you younger fellas probably don’t worry too much about it because your facial hair is the equivalent to the fuzz on a peach. But don’t worry, soon and very soon you will look at yourself in the mirror and come to the same conclusion, that it is weird that hair grows out of your face.

What is even more fascinating to me is the amount of facial hair that some guys are able to grow in comparison to others. Lets take my good friends Josh and James for example. Well, James has a pretty meaty gotee rockin, and Josh can whip up a pretty mean beard in a matter of a couple of weeks. Then there is Mike (a.k.a. DynaMike), another friend of mine, who is probably the hairiest dude I know. He can shave in the morning and have a full beard by the end of the day. Its like he rubs miracle grow on his face or something.

But I have to be honest, having friends that have no problem growing ample amounts of facial hair kinda makes me jealous. Why you ask? Well, its because it would take me the better part of a year to grow anything on my face, and if I did, it would be sparse at best. In fact, I sometimes refer to myself as “Patches” because there are literally patches of skin on my face that I don’t think a single hair has ever come out of.

Its just that I think it would be really cool to say one day, “ya know what Sam, its beard time”, but I can’t; instead, I have to say, “ya know what Sam, its patches time” which is not nearly as cool. Oh well, maybe next year!

I will leave you with these golden nuggets for you and me to aspire to:

DOWN WITH WINTER!! 13 March 2007

Oh man – can you smell it??? Can you? The sweet smell in the air, the temperature rising, and the sun hangin out w/ us for a few more hours a day!! Ahhhh spring…it is finally upon us and I love it! No more icy wind in the face, no more operation slick streets, no more two stinkin feet of ice everywhere you go!! That’s right, in your face winter, you’re out – spring is in!

You may be curious as to why I have an unbridled hatred for the winter, and well, there is a good reason for it. You see, I am a Florida boy. Yep, I hail from the sunshine state where the winters would generally consist of me wearing just a long sleeve tee shirt and some shorts. If the temp dropped below 70 degrees we Floridians considered it freezing. But unlike her in T-Town, there was no need for parkas, sweaters, scarves, gloves, earmuffs, and boots to keep the ice out of your socks, or oversized down coats that make you look like a human marshmallow. In fact, my first winter here in Tulsa was the very first time that I had seen snow up close and personal.

I just don’t get people who are totally into winter. It blows my mind. I mean, think about it – not only is it crazy cold outside, but everything is dead! “Green country” is really “Brown crusty dreary country”. The trees look dead, the grass is all crusty, and it seems to be cloudy all the time, and everyone is all pasty; unless of course you are a “fake-baker” which is a whole other blog that I will get into later!

Its official, Mother nature has spoken – winter is out and spring is in! Hooray for spring.