{"id":599,"date":"2008-02-21T23:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T04:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-02-21T23:42:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T04:42:46","slug":"rearranging-the-furniture-of-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"rearranging the furniture of his face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>mr. happy stuff has taken to wearing facial hair on a regular basis these past few years.  i think it&#8217;s because no one at his job cares whether or not he shaves and maneuvering a razor around one&#8217;s face isn&#8217;t really much fun, so he doesn&#8217;t often bother.  especially in the winter.  sometimes he begins to look like a fuzzy bear (a cute one, of course).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"298\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/carissaabc\/R75OIbxLIGI\/AAAAAAAAEkY\/N0Uh020UuNw\/beard.jpg?imgmax=640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(he&#8217;s the one in the back, in the yellow shirt)<\/p>\n<p>but, whenever i give him a haircut, he tends to take that opportunity to remove all of the hair on the southern half of his head at the same time.  this last time that i cut his hair, he came down in the midst of shaving with this cock-eyed smirk and a goatee he&#8217;d just created and said, &#8220;whadd&#8217;ya think?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>i think he thought i would laugh and then he could go upstairs and sensibly shave it off.  instead, turns out, i love it!  look how cute he is! he sighed and agreed to try it out for at least a day (&#8220;you can always shave it off,&#8221; i reminded him).  for the next few days, i&#8217;d get this crazy grin on my face every time i looked at him and he&#8217;d look startled and say, &#8220;what?&#8221; and i told him that it was just fun to see him with a new look&#8211;the same thrill i get when we rearrange furniture in a room that has stayed in the same arrangement for awhile&#8211;zing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"421\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/carissaabc\/R7fEdLxLHfI\/AAAAAAAAEbM\/S-H1mmUnvT0\/IMGP9334.JPG?imgmax=720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the only facial hair change that was more dramatic in my life was when my father, who had worn a full facial beard and mustache for my entire life decided to shave it clean.  i think it took me a whole week not to jump whenever he came into a room.<\/p>\n<p>anyone else have any good facial hair makeover stories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mr. happy stuff has taken to wearing facial hair on a regular basis these past few years. i think it&#8217;s because no one at his job cares whether or not he shaves and maneuvering a razor around one&#8217;s face isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-that-makes-me-smile","category-trip-down-memory-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}