Showing posts with label kids do the darndest things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids do the darndest things. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Five Is The Magic Number
The news is on.
And the weather folks are all in a twitter about the snowstorm that is about to bear down on us this weekend.
I've seen the panic in the streets here before, and generally, whether (weather!), it is a hurricane or an ice storm or a fucking blizzard, the people in the South lose their shit. But really, in the decade plus that I've lived here only maybe twice has a snowstorm lived up to the hype.
I don't want a foot of snow, but then again, if it is going to snow by god fucking snow!
Anyway, it got me to feel the need to post and in posting I realized that I've had this here little blog for five years now.
And, a lot has gone on since then.
I started it because I was getting a vasectomy and it seemed like a good way to talk to myself about it. I'd been a fan of journals and diaries for a long time; I am a documentarian at heart. I also started one as way to jog as they say. Because as a writer I needed to exercise my words and what better way then to talk about my days. I was, after all, a few years into my stint as a stay-at-home-dad and a few years out of a job as a journalist and felt the need to put my experience down on paper as they say.
Along the way I raised some boys, dealt with a lot of shit, had my car stolen, catered my ass off, told a lot of stories about past jobs and found some new friends who could relate to what I was doing on a daily basis.
As life tends to be, the ride has not been without its bumps, but there it all is for me, you, your mother's best friend, or someone linked in to facebook or some other web 2.0 bullshit to look back on and read.
I was never good at keeping up on the baby book, but damn I think I did a bang up job of blogging about life as a parent.
And the weather folks are all in a twitter about the snowstorm that is about to bear down on us this weekend.
I've seen the panic in the streets here before, and generally, whether (weather!), it is a hurricane or an ice storm or a fucking blizzard, the people in the South lose their shit. But really, in the decade plus that I've lived here only maybe twice has a snowstorm lived up to the hype.
I don't want a foot of snow, but then again, if it is going to snow by god fucking snow!
Anyway, it got me to feel the need to post and in posting I realized that I've had this here little blog for five years now.
And, a lot has gone on since then.
I started it because I was getting a vasectomy and it seemed like a good way to talk to myself about it. I'd been a fan of journals and diaries for a long time; I am a documentarian at heart. I also started one as way to jog as they say. Because as a writer I needed to exercise my words and what better way then to talk about my days. I was, after all, a few years into my stint as a stay-at-home-dad and a few years out of a job as a journalist and felt the need to put my experience down on paper as they say.
Along the way I raised some boys, dealt with a lot of shit, had my car stolen, catered my ass off, told a lot of stories about past jobs and found some new friends who could relate to what I was doing on a daily basis.
As life tends to be, the ride has not been without its bumps, but there it all is for me, you, your mother's best friend, or someone linked in to facebook or some other web 2.0 bullshit to look back on and read.
I was never good at keeping up on the baby book, but damn I think I did a bang up job of blogging about life as a parent.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Against My Better Judgement
I let my boys watch a few episodes of Wildboyz.
Mostly as a cure for boredom as it has been nearly one hundred degrees the past few days, that and the boys are still going through a delousing from the whole head lice debacle which pretty much keeps them stuck inside for the better part of the day.
Yesterday we got the thumbs up to go swimming but with the temp so high in recent days, the pool was like bath water.
God knows what kind of communicable diseases you can get from bath water.
So after tiring of video games, on came the Wildboyz.
Then the unthinkable happened.
Today a black mamba woke me up.
Mostly as a cure for boredom as it has been nearly one hundred degrees the past few days, that and the boys are still going through a delousing from the whole head lice debacle which pretty much keeps them stuck inside for the better part of the day.
Yesterday we got the thumbs up to go swimming but with the temp so high in recent days, the pool was like bath water.
God knows what kind of communicable diseases you can get from bath water.
So after tiring of video games, on came the Wildboyz.
Then the unthinkable happened.
Today a black mamba woke me up.
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