Contemplating Hair Suicide

This is what My hair will look like soon:

 My growth is maybe one and a half inches longer than the woman's hair in the above picture.
I'm seriously thinking about chopping my locks off. I've been growing out my relaxer for the past seven months and I'm bored with it. I'm excited to be growing out my naturally curly hair again, but it's taking so long, and patience is a virtue that I definitely don't have much of. I've always had long hair--as a child, as a teen/adult with a relaxer, and now, as an adult sans relaxer. So it's kind of hard for me to chop my hair off, even though I really REALLLY want to.

This is my hair (relaxed):

I'm just really chicken...!!! For me, cutting it to a teeny weeny fro would mean chopping off about 11 inches of hair. And having hair that short would be a shock, especially since I wouldn't be able to put it in a ponytail on bad hair day! :)
But I'm really getting the urge to cut it! I planned on waiting til August of next year (2011) to cut my relaxer out, but at this point, I don't know if I'll have the patience to see it through. But if I do the big chop before next year, it's definitely going to be in the summertime because I don't need any icy cold winter wind blowing on my scalp! LOL

Peace, Love, and Chocolate,