Beards and War Stories.

Men want to be manly.

Women like to be told who they are, and men like to tell people who they are. Women enjoy a sincere letter, a public declaration, while a man beams and struts knowing that everyone can see his black-eye, big truck, or beard. These are not negative attributes, if anything they wonderful complexities that make men and women who they are.

Like I said earlier; Men want to be manly. Now, if anyone knows this for a fact, its me. I live with two boys, and recently one of my roommates, Billy, decided it was time for the potential of his facial hair to be fully realized. Unfortunately this decision involved the experimental use of a men's hair growing product. Even more unfortunate Billy did not read the box of the miracle grow product very well. After working the facial gel into a lather there was a quick series of events that followed; burning, yelling, scrubbing, and last but not least....staining. (please see below)

Yep...men want to be manly, though I've never seen anything like this before; except maybe in Chuck Norris' fan mail.

I am pretty sure that this is not a phase men grow out of.....my dad is 60 something....and our telephone conversations often reflect the menly need for manliness.
"I know its great! I mean if he can do it, I can do it too, ya know kick everybody's ass in the world!" My dad, Michael, much like my name Michaela....but that's a whole other issue in itself. Anyways my dad was referring to the Bourne Supremacy trilogy, which he had just purchased at Costco, and watched....in one day (he's retired). He proceeded to tell me some old stories from his days as a Marine, and somehow managed to shift the conversation to how many times he had been to the gym that week, and what his workout routine entailed. He described a routine that would reflect that of a Navy Seal, which is hard for me to believe due to the fact that my dad looks like...this;

My dad kept talking, and I eventually spaced out. When I noticed a silence longer than 3 seconds, I figured he was done and said, "wow, you are quite the guy dad". To which he replied "Haha nah, just old stories." Just old stories? then how come you remember them so well, with enough detail to talk for 15 minutes straight.

Anyways, its true. Beards, bulgy muscles, big cars and battle cries. Men are manly; just ask them.

p.s. this is irrelevant, but I have to stop crossing my eyes, i mean it looks hilarious, but boy am i getting dizzy. my co-worker tiffany said 'its like smoking....it makes you look cool, but its killing you'....i couldnt agree more. this is almost as painful as a Flinstone push-pop brain freeze.