I Am Chief Celebrates ONE YEAR!

This Friday will be exactly one year since my first post here at iamchief. I'm not alone, I just saw where another brother is marking one year in the blogo-sphere as well.

So, by way of celebrating - and to give me an easy way to post during a week when I haven't much time...I'm going to re-post FIVE of my FAVORITE blog posts from the past year (in no particular order). I'll blog one "post from the past" each day this week, culminating on Friday. (somehow I think I'm the only one excited about this)

What's been your favorite post at iamchief? Let me know in the comments, and perhaps I'll post the most popular (considering my wide reading audience of two, this might not go over all that well).

My first of five is actually one of my first posts. It has to do with my son's first haircut (which wasn't his last!). This post was titled:

Cheesy Hair Salon Names and My Son's New "Do"

Ever noticed all those corny names for hair salon? My guess is that they mostly rank pretty high on the cheese factor scale. Granted, it's hard to come up with a great pun. Puns are either royal, or just plain retarded:

Cuttin' Up

Hair Force Academy

A Cut Above

The only two punny names that weren't funny names that I can remember were "The Clipper Ship", where the owner used a clipper ship decor in his salon and "Choppers", where the decor was - of course - choppers (those motorcycles with the front wheel sticking way out). Those where cool names, and actually were used for the same shop. Apparently the owner got seasick from looking at so many boats, that he got revved up over motor bikes. (I know, bad puns! See, I prove my point!) You know, now that I think about it, this same guy, many years earlier, named his shop "Suds & Scissors" and before that "His & Hers". Not bad, not bad. For the record, as I've grown up, I've had my hair cut in every one of the above establishments.

Here's just a few I found quickly on the internet, some of them aren't really puns, and some of them are actully kind of cool.

Shear Hostility

Mane-lining

Hair-oin

Clipping Penalty

Dexa-Trims

The Mane Reason My Parole Was Revoked

Reason Has Been E-Clips-ed by Rage

Running With Scissors

In No Conditioner To Drive

Cuts & Bruises

Dude, I'm So Buzzed

I Hate My Mother

George Hair-ison's Solo Career

Why Won't You Dye?

and from the local phone book:

Upper Cuts

Wild Hair

Transformation Christian Beauty Salon (what?)

Snip 'N Clip

The Shortcut

and when in doubt, use the word "Shear"

Shear Pleasure

Shear Madness

Shear Impressions

Shear Professionals

Shear Elegance

Shear Blah, Blah, fill in the blank blah!

enough of that...shear torture...wait here's more:

Head First

Heads First

Heads Up

Head Waves

Head To Toe (gross!)

Head on the Door (um, ok?)

then there's the overkill of using "Hair"...

Hairloom Family Hair Design

Hairline Barber & Style

Hair Affair

and so on, and so forth, ad nauseam...

I'd like to hear your favorite/worst hair salon name - just leave a comment below. Pass the cheese, please.

And now the subtle segue into our own family hair style story (ok, not so subtle...here's the story anyway, which I emailed to several of my friends several months ago when it occured).

My Son's New Do

Aaron Job has previously used scissors, in a controlled, adult-supervised enviroment. Recently we let him have his way with the funny paper. He likes cutting out the comic characters.

Observe photo #1:

In the above picture, he's in the study...with lots of books (not pictured here)...and bibles (not pictured here)...
The following day this photo was taken, Anita noticed a slit in a page of my new bible which was laying open on the desk.
She asked, "Aaron Job, did you cut this page in the bible?"
He answered, "No"
She asked again, "Aaron Job...did you cut this page in the bible?"
He again answers (keep in mind, he still has scissors in hand), "No."

Knowing Aaron Job usually is pretty truthful, she examines the "slit" closer to make sure it's not just a tear. Confirming that it's indeed a slit, she asks a third time, "Aaron Job...did you cut this page in the bible."
The guilt overwhelms him. "Yes, ma'am."

In a divine, poetically justified way, Anita notices where in the bible the cut was made:

I submit photo #2:

(Actual photo, by the way)

I won't go in to the rest of the story. You can probably figure it out.
So... I come home from work, and as I enter the house, I find a pile of sandy blonde hair on the bar.
Seems that even after the bible shredding incident, Aaron Job smuggled the weapon into his bed during nap time.
Anita tells me that when she went to get him up from his nap, his excitement and pride rivaled that of his 2 year old sister when she goes on the big potty.
"Mommy, look! It's not long any more!"

Now, photo #3 (Review Photo #1 for reference)

The photo does'nt reveal the other bald spot on the top.
So, after spending the evening cutting the grass, I ended the evening cutting the hair...what was left of it. So finally...

Photo #4.

The bible cutting event was probably inevitable, but punishable none the less (since he lied about it).
The hair cutting was certainly inevitable, but just plain hilarious!!
Thank you Lord, for children! And for digital cameras!