11-08 - Den dreaming
- Brush: Yaqi 'Purple Haze' w/ 24mm Mew Brown knot
- Razor: 1953-54 Gillette 'Aristocrat Junior'
- Blade: Gillette Nacet (11)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Soap
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Balm
- Fragrance: Proraso - Wood and Spice - Cologne
Taking this photo of my 'den' (read: what my wife lets me keep on the bathroom counter and not on a shelf in the next room) I feel like a mother bird, looking down on her babies in the nest. All of my soaps, balms and splashes - each a baby in its own right - stare up expectantly at me, and I can almost hear each and every one of them mouth 'use me, use me'.
I've never done an AA before this, and I think I see now where the difficulty lies. It's in the lack of variety. It's all well and good to love a specific thing to bits, but I love curly fries yet wouldn't want them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 365 days a year.
I suppose there's also the matter of subjecting yourself to particularly gruesome gear restrictions (looking at you, pigstinkers and cutthroaters), but as I established yesterday I'm not that worried about my hardware as I picked it to be particularly easy-going.
This whole wistful waffling about lack of variety was compounded today when I received three full, unsullied tubs of beautiful artisan soap in the mail. Mark my words - I will stay strong. But by golly I will also complain about it.
Tags: #MammothMafia23 #UNCHALLENGE