A new year...and a new me??

Okay, so I have decided that at the start of next year (that is right, January first) I am going to shave my beard. I think this all got planted in my head when we had some district managers visit our store. While one of them was talking with the deli people, we got talking about shaving because Travis had shaved that morning. And then one of our executives said, 'I wonder what Mike would look like without the beard.' And it is going to stay shaven for the entire year. Why? Just for something different. This is a huge difference. The last time I shaved was when I first came down here to visit Andrea before I went back to work on Mackinac Island for the second year...so April 2005. So it'll be about twenty-one months. And in that time frame, I had three (yes THREE) different styles. The well loved chops. I had several women comment on them on the Island. One of which told me that they were sexy (she then ran to catch up with her husband and two kids). I also had one woman say "That is a man after my own heart" on the way to ferry. That completly threw me off, but it was a great inside joke that summer between Trace, Katie, Steph, and I.

I sported a full beard from October until April when I went to...
The full mutton chop. Even more fun which turned more heads when I wasn't at Cowtown. I liked this look, and so did people I worked with at Cowtown and Target. I have one woman I work with at Target who started calling me 'Sideburns'. Totally cool, and she still calls me that even though I have grown back the full beard.

So after I finished up work at Cowtown at the end of October, I went back to sporting...
Yes, back to the boring full beard. Now I just look like a well educated college graduate who works at Target. Ho-hum. But yeah, I'm shaving January first.