the mo had to go

yesterday the mo had to go - no frothy lather involved, just a get the fuck off my face kind of shave.
funny, so many guys in my office seemed to have the same problem when they got home from work

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of course, a fitting send off was in order

So, there really is a video here of my guy's mo

the end is nigh

today is the last day of movember and many men are rejoicing at now being able to lose the irritating facial hair that they have adorned or tried to grow for the past month
the guys who i have spoken to (husband included) can't wait to see the back of the god damn mo
i'm sure some guys had to abandon ship early due to shaving mishaps or misread calendars, or wifely intervention - soft cocks! ah well, there's always next year to go the distance.
this was dave's first year into mo-dom and he did pretty fine. raised about 265 bucks and i secretly think he admired his sprout - it's pretty impressive.

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so long mo!

he's losing his mo-jo

the mo is starting to itch, annoy and irritate, but man, it looks good

and i am sure many a bloke is ready to be rid of this bit of fluff

2 more days and it's gettin mowed down

he's nearly at the 300 buck mark, which is a pretty fine effort considering the itching, annoying and irritating

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and still, it grows

no doubt about it, dave's mo is

F I E R C E

and his donations have kept on coming, so thanks, he's raised about 195 bucks 

and he's hoping to crack 300 before the end of the month.

you can donate, by clicking on the link below and you can also check out how he's going.

dave's mo space

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time for some mo-tinance

 

 

 

mo on

check out this mo fo's mo

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beer o'clock

grow mo

half way through movember and 

the biker, bouncer, chopper, trucker, serial killer, pauly senior, put me in some leather village people style mo continues to sprout

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and remember to donate through the link on his facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/swordsy

my week in review

my monday didn't start out like any other monday.  dave had the flu and i had to catch the bus to work with the stinky people.
morning coffee wasn't at my usual ugees, but rather a nameless place close to work that i will never return to cause the coffee was SHIT
following that shit coffee, the day was going fine, until about lunch time when i felt a little palpitation, oh, then another, then a really big one which made me feel funny
hmmm, i thought, this is odd, so i rang my doctor - cause i had to see him about something else anyway, and they just happened to have a spot pretty much straight away.
so, off i trot, tell him what's happening and he looks at me in the befuddled way that sometimes doctors do, and says right, lets do an ECG!  WTF.  there was no LOL for me.
so i then have to endure the indignity of having some strange lady from the reception desk hook me up to the machine and make small talk while she does so.
ECG over, and it looks all normal.
my doctor is so thorough that he then wants to send me for a chest xray and also an urgent blood test to rule out any heart problem.
really, i am thinking, it was the bad bad coffee that's done this to me.
so he says, dear, if you were 25 i wouldn't be so concerned, but you are now in the middle ages. OMFG!
now, i want you to have two days off and follow this advice.

 

seriously, i have to cut out my three favourite things....
skip to thursday back at the doctor - so dear, how have you been feeling.  FINE, i say.
all the heart tests are good, but i just want to have another listen to make sure you don't have a heart murmur.  oh my god - is he the heart whisperer?
well dear, we did find something in your blood test that we need to talk about.  your glucose was a bit high.
hmmm, i think
so we probably need to look at this and guess what he writes me another advice

geez man, you could have just said i am a bit of a fatty boombah....i can take it, cause i am in my middle ages after all and i have had half a life time of learning how to deal with the hard conversations.  i don't need a piece of paper to stick on the fridge to remind me.

And Yes - i will be hitting the treadmill, the pool, the pavement, taking the stairs, getting my 30 mins a day, 10,000 steps, being in it for life, etc, etc, etc....but i will not be doing it in any form of ill fitting lycra.


you know your are old when you say to your partner
let's go upstairs and make love
sorry, they say, i can't do both!

Mr Movember

he's still sporting his germy, man flu, serial killer, trucker, chopper reid look

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food

i'm not going to muck around and make you wait for the first recipe share cause this easy arse dinner is perfect for a night lounging on the couch.

BURGERS AND FRIES

but, i do like to fake it up with a fake burger.
1. whack some oven bake chips in to cook
2. get a bun
3. get a fake burger
4. get some real salad - slice of lettuce, bit of beetroot, tomato, cucumber and don't forget the sauce
5. while the chips are taking forever to cook, fry a bit of onion and if you want the real bbq feel, slosh a bit of beer in
6. when the chips are nearly ready (in my world it's like forever) heat up that fake burger
7. assemble the burger in which ever order takes your fancy
8. then serve it up

but of course, if you don't have any of this stuff in the cupboard, then your fucked and you'll probably need to order chinese

and as i am always on the lookout for tasty treats, here's some others - don't want to be near anyone when they eat that!

 and an inspring vegan meal - oooh, is that an egg?

and now my guy Mr Movember

Movember

welcome to my new look blog. DA DA

it was about the end of july when i posted about getting my dot com and you can read all about that at
www.forty-four.tumblr.com

it's taken me so long to get it sorted, but finally after much tooing and froing between wordpress trials and disaster, i have gone with this blogging mob

i can't believe it would be so hard to get it organised, but alas my journey into html coding (if that's what it's called) was short, but not very sweet and i did a couple of test posts and a lot of fiddling, cause who doesn't like a fiddle and here i am.

my last post was in september, when i finished my year long photo a day journey and now, i have nothing, literally nothing, but the opportunity to wing it and blog about whatever takes my fancy.

So what better time to start blogging and support the MOVEMBER cause, when a lot of folically challenged guys try their hardest to grow something above their top lip

People used to be inspired by this man, the marlborough man -He was the Most Influential Man Who Never Lived.

but all that smoking and influencing has obviously caught up with them and now we need a worthy fund to help the guys.

So i am going to capture my husband's mo this month, cause it's going to be a corker and feel free to donate at http://au.movember.com/mospace/2218436

David - sporting the trucker mo, worn by serial killers and gangland members - neither of which is he.