DaveWave94

Was this the first time in years that your daily streak ended? I wouldn't worry too much. You're sick and it's best to put your main focus on recovery instead of fancy shaves. Get well soon ✌🏻🍀

Thank you, much appreciated 🙏🏻

Thanks 🙏🏻

9. Dezember 2025

• Brush: Omega Roma Colossea 31 mm
• Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
• Blade: BIC Chrome Platinum
• Lather: Noble Otter - Ace
• Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Master; Lavera Mikrosilber Akut cream
• Alum: Osma alum block

2 passes on the head, 1 on the neck. Rough shave, a couple of weepers on my head.

Another late shave since I have a job interview at 10 tomorrow. Unfortunately not my best shave with this setup - used a fresh BIC Chrome Platinum and they're constantly biting me when they're new. The shave itself didn't feel uncomfortable, but I knew I was in for a hard time when I saw blood in the lather. Thankfully I still had my alum block around and the ZM recovery splash took care of the rest together with the Lavera cream.

Maybe my shaky hands contributed to this mediocre shave too, I am really nervous about tomorrow. It's a very fancy hospital in the Thuringian forest with a high reputation. They were rather fast to get back to me and I am quite interested about what they offer for my future career. No final decisions tomorrow, but I am indeed on edge because if they'd want me, it's a very good sign.

Have a nice day/evening/night ✌🏻

8. Dezember 2025

• Brush: Omega Roma Colossea 31 mm
• Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
• Blade: BIC Chrome Platinum
• Lather: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber
• Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Master

1 pass head shave, done before my late shift. Comfortable shave.

Hadn't shaved properly in a while. This felt nice, but unfortunately not a lot of time to get it done. Lots of things on my mind atm, can't write this properly... Have a good time, everyone. ✌🏻

That's definitely a fair and interesting point. I personally think a combination of both would be the ideal path. Me, growing up in the late 90s through the 2000s in rural East Germany, I was mostly just told to toughen up, don't cry, swallow your anger, etc. - so I often try to figure out difficult times on my own, trying not to bother anyone. I see where you're coming from though, as I also follow some ADHD communities where everyone blames every little flaw on their ADHD. I mean, it's certainly not the same for everyone and most likely, it's a spectrum disorder like autism. It's also definitely a part of me, but it doesn't define every single aspect of my life. Just because I have executive dysfunction, I can also just be lazy sometimes. Or do 8 hours of work in just 4, depending on the circumstances. Even though I have time blindness, I can manage to be punctual. I still managed to get two different degrees in the medical field - occupational therapist and registered nurse, while others lament that they'll never have a successful career with their ADHD. It's just a matter of the right coping strategies and working with my strengths instead of against my flaws IMHO.

So I'd personally say we should strive for a golden middle. Don't be a wuss, but crying is okay if you're overwhelmed with sadness. Don't let your conditions define you, learn to appreciate what you can do well instead. Ask for help if needed, but also offer your help - we're social beings after all.

Thanks walden, I truly appreciate it! I remember you posting about your wife beating cancer, so I felt comfortable sharing my current experience here. Hope everything will stay in best conditions for both of you, you really deserve it after such an arduous and painful experience.

Thanks. You're so right, I feel like if I'd continue in this unsatisfactory work environment, I'd slip into a major depression again.

Isn't it awful that society and our upbringing conditions us that "boys don't cry"? Everything except happiness and confidence is deemed unfit for the public space. I wholeheartedly agree with your statement 👍🏻

I'm in a weird mental state lately. Can't even explain the mix of emotions clearly.

First, my mother has a surgery appointment coming up next week since the doctors suspect breast cancer. We don't know if it's benign, malign, just an inflamed cyst, etc. - so this whole stuff has me worried. Of course I have some medical background knowledge due to my career, but apart from the rational mindset is the emotional one that's just scared of losing my mom to cancer. She's worried too, as she don't know how well she'd take a chemotherapy with her other health issues (fibromyalgia, small fiber polyneuropathy).

Then there's my need to change jobs - lately I realised how since I got done with my RN degree in late August, I was never happy about my workplace. Working almost every weekend (today is my third in a row, btw), working way more hours than the 30 h/week I was only hired for, only one or at most two days off between bouts of shifts, more early shifts than late shifts despite me telling them it fucks up my biorhythm and finally: no really competent things to do for me and being stuck in a rut. I decided that I need to change, either now or never. So I will let my fixed-term contract run out at the end of this month. Yet, making this decision on the 28th of November left only a small time window for getting a new job. I can proudly say that I managed to score two job interviews with online applications that really interest me. One at a hospital, the other at a rehabilitation centre for oncology and angiopathy (my mom works at the latter by doing arts and crafts as an afternoon activity for the patients, so that'd be a huge plus). I really want to expand my knowledge in the medical field, which is close to impossible in a nursing home. There, everything is trimmed on time efficiency and providing the bare minimum to the residents. I'm glad to leave this behind, but it's still stressful for me.

I lately have trouble to really show my emotions again. As I heard, this is rather common with ADHD and some other mental conditions and is referred to as "masking", i.e. putting on your "I'm normal" mask. Doesn't really help that in the past what I thought were my friends rejected and ridiculed me for being 'too emotional'. Therefore I usually swallow my sadness, anger, or any other negative emotion and due to psychosomatics I get digestive issues. Recently I saw a random YT video by a guy I don't even know - unfortunately he talked about how his old Chihuahua passed away recently and that was the straw that broke the camels back for me - I randomly cried in my living room like I last did... late 2023? I couldn't even cry a lot during my grandma's funeral since I had to be strong for my mother who was in tears. Thinking about it, I always had to be strong - or at least, appear so - because it was expected of me. So crying alone in the privacy of my home felt somehow cathartic.

Given that I lost all my "friends" due to my career choices and different lifestyles, I only have my parents as a regular social contact besides work. So I'm also really grateful for this little community here, even though I've never met anyone of you in person. It helps that I can sometimes get stuff like this off my chest, even if not many see it. For those who've read this far, thank you and have a great weekend!

Sounds like you've made good progress on making everything neater and safer for your RC club 👍🏻

2. Dezember 2025

• Prep: Aloe Vera gel
• Brush: AP Shave Co. black & clear handle w/ 31 mm Tuxedo Fan knot
• Razor: Leaf Thorn
• Razor: RazoRock Hawk V2 w/ Superknurl handle
• Blade: Derby Premium
• Blade: KAI Captain Protouch MG
• Lather: Los Jabones de Joserra - The Witcher
• Lather: GRN - Hemp & Hops brushless shaving cream
• Post Shave: OAM - Dolce Vita ASB gel

2 passes on both head and face, the latter since the henriquatre is finally back. Using two different setups to test the features of the WSDB SOTD generator.

Well, here I am again. The last few days were quite stressful for me tbh, so I felt like diving back into wetshaving as a hobby with a interesting experiment. Both head and face got a dry trim earlier today, so I wondered what would feel better: soap and brush or brushless cream/gel that's applied with my hands? To the surprise of probably no one in this hobby sphere, the soap won by a landslide. The only upside of this brushless stuff that's a hybrid between a shaving cream and a gel is that it was semi-transparent - so I could see the lines better. Oh, and I killed the remaining cream in the tube and don't need any more of it now.

Now it isn't like the face shave was awful, the result isn't bad and totally serviceable. But my skin doesn't feel that nice. I guess it reminded me way too much about how I used to shave: disposable razors, cheap shave gel and drugstore ASB. So honestly, safety razors only wouldn't make it special to me. At least not on their own. I fell in love with the full package, from preparing the lather to post-shave shenanigans.

At first I wanted to go for the Don Logan look of moustache and goatee barely connected, but it's still a bit short for that. I like how it gives me a cleaner, more well-kempt appearance - stubble beards are, despite their easygoing relaxed look, quite troublesome to maintain and get right. Plus I need to appear a bit more authoritative with job interviews coming up soon. Fingers crossed ✌🏻

3:15am shave

Congrats, I'd be dead from severe blood loss if I attempted to shave that early...