A portrait sort of update.

[jackshoegazer]

I know it's been a while since you've all seen my beautiful mug, so I thought I'd play the role of generous king and allow you to gaze upon my glorious visage.  Really though, kiwikat said I was "growing quite a beard and it looks very natural on [me]."  I haven't been trimming it short, so it's gotten quite thick and I've let my hair go long and wild as well.  Metro-Jeremy would say that I've abandoned using "product."

Plus, I was playing around with this tutorial and wanted to see how it looked.  And I needed a new picture for HotOrNot and for MySpace, a site I find myself using only to stay in touch with a few select people.  I wish my friends would just make the LJ switch.  Especially after all the drama with FOX buying MySpace.  The peeps who started MySpace just made $580 million dollars and they still have controlling interest in the company.  Whodathunkit?

Those guys made millions and here I am, all excited because I'm going to get something like $4200 back in taxes.  On the bright side, this means I can pay back everyone who's helped me out this year, plus do some preventative maintenance on my car, and put down a deposit on an apartment for Jacquelyn and I in the spring.  If everything goes right, we should be moving in June, after school lets out.  I'm quite excited about it.  I love my current place, but the Universe tells me more and more that I belong in Madison right now, and I'm starting to agree.

I have not felt at-home in my home as of late. Maybe it has something to do with splitting my time between here and Madison. Maybe I'm just fiending for my own place. My own space. I think I'm tired of sharing a temporary cave. Maybe it's the Cancer in me, but I want to invest in a home.  I want Ethan and I to feel comfortable and stable and everything is better and that home seems more complete when Jacquelyn is there with us. A bit sappy, yes, but hey, I'm a Cancer, I like home.

Anyhoo, without further ado, I present, uh.. me.

How does one not be self-indulgent?

Comments

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

You look great, as always. And I don't think what you have illuded to is "a bit snappy" at all. I think you deserve to feel at home. Like my mama has always said "life is a buffet and some poor suckers are starving". Go live and for the love of god.. be happy!!! :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thank you, on all counts :)

[moonshinekat.livejournal.com]

i bask in your narcissistic glow!!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you better! Like I'm the muthafunking SUN, baaaaaaybbeeeeee!!!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I withold comments on your appearance. I could be considered biased, and actions speak louder than words, anyhow. ;)

I am honestly very honored to be a part of your life with Ethan. I can't wait. Thank you. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I especially like my eyes in this one. The tutorial was a big help because the original looked like this...

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I think a clean mirror would help a little. :)

Tutorial?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

The link for it is in the post, silly :) What I don't get is why that mirror is dirty. No one uses that bathroom, except the kitties.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Links in posts don't show up any different colors in my current layout.

[mananath.livejournal.com]

ahh yes. a giant thumbs up for letting the beard grow in. I warn you though, you will get attached. I was planning on taming mine next week but as the day rapidly approaches I fear I don't have it in me. It's my baby. I've grown entirely too attached to it!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ah, but isn't it the beard that is attatched to you, mon frer?

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Good morning! You should call me if your phone is not dead.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I should huh?

[mananath.livejournal.com]

sometimes I wonder...

[bythebootstraps.livejournal.com]

you've got great eyebrows.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thank you, oh Compliment Goddess! I think they're my favorite facial feature.

Did you know...

[bythebootstraps.livejournal.com]

that in Persian culture eyebrows are considered very important? It is one of the things people use as a marker of beauty. In Persian dance, there are moves for only the brows and the dancers can isolate each brow!

Re: Did you know...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I had no idea, that's awesome. I'm quite happy to see attention paid to such and undervalued feature :)

Re: Did you know...

[bythebootstraps.livejournal.com]

It is awesome. I learned all this from a Persian woman who was grooming my eyebrows with strings.

Re: Did you know...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I think I saw that on Queer Eye, they made these weird loops with the string and did the eyebrow shaping like that, right? Too bad our culture just likes the upper chest and the ass (in both genders.)

Re: Did you know...

[bythebootstraps.livejournal.com]

yes. It requires quite a lot of skill and the method is supposedly thousands of years old.

Re: Did you know...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It looked pretty crazy. I couldn't even tell exactly what they were doing, the lady did it so fast. It's funny to know, because so many people think of the past as barbarians with little sense of aesthetic beauty or grooming, but attention has always been paid to beauty, as much, if not more in the past.

Re: Did you know...

[bythebootstraps.livejournal.com]

this woman told me it's tradition for a persian woman to have this done all over her body in preparation for her wedding.

ouch!

Re: Did you know...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Though I imagine it's a step up from a full body wax :P