For those of you who (still) follow me regularly – or even sporadically – you'll know how hard the holidays were for me last year. Instead of a new pair of Jordans, a stocking full of candy or even the (almost certainly) well-deserved lump of coal, Santa left me a storm cloud of depression and a lifetime supply of what I call my "crazy pills."

You'll also know, after watching our overproduced ice bucket challenge video over the summer that I'm always down to support a good cause.

Which is probably why my friend – and former cover boy – Reid Rasmussen challenged me to join his Movember team this year. The Movember Foundation, born in Australia more than a decade ago, urges men to spend November growing moustaches to "spark conversation and raise funds and awareness for men's health issues, specifically prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems." And, no doubt, to make those Thanksgiving dinners that much more entertaining.