I probably shouldn’t be sitting here eating a bowl of sugar cereal at 3am right before going to bed, but here we are… 😛 Like any good kid of the ’80s, I grew up eating cereal while I watched cartoons in the morning. Frosted Flakes, Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch – I had many favorites, and…
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July 13, 2016: He Floats!
Look at this smiling, little guy! Granted, there’s only a few inches of water in the tub, but somehow in a week’s time he went from flailing about whenever he got his ears wet to loving laying down during his baths. I’m even told that he did so much better in swim class this week…
July 11, 2016: Blogging by Candlelight
It’s weird to think that a little over a hundred years ago, people didn’t have electricity in their homes at all when here our power has been out for a little over an hour and I’ve already done all the writing I care to do, caught the Pokemon I care to catch, and now I’m…
July 10, 2016: Ice Cream Break
Sometimes you just need to take a break, throw everybody in the car, and go get some ice cream. Exhibit A, as you see here, is a new summer offering from Cold Stone – Loaded Peanut Butter Batter – and if you couldn’t tell from this picture of Christopher shoveling it in as fast as he could with that itty-bitty…
July 9, 2016: Pokémon Go … Outside?!
I never really got into Pokémon and admittedly I know next to nothing about it except that it’s the most popular video game franchise of all time behind only Mario. I know that little monsters are involved, and for some reason we’ve gotta catch ’em all, but that’s pretty much it! Still, social media has just exploded the last couple of days…
July 8, 2016: Writing Articles vs Writing Comments
I had an interesting discussion about this today after receiving some negative backlash from my post yesterday about racially-motivated police brutality. We all know that 90% of Internet comments are garbage, and I would argue that number trends slightly higher when I post something controversial on Facebook. This makes it particularly frustrating because instead of…
July 7, 2016: #BlackLivesMatter
Last night I watched the video of Alton Sterling being shot by two police officers who had him pinned to the ground. It’s such a gross and disgraceful abuse of authority that I don’t even know what to say about it, and I can’t imagine what possible reason the officers involved could give for saying…
July 6, 2016: Going Postal
I think it’s probably about time that I broke down and invested in one of those little electronic scales so that I can just print my own postage from home… Now by no means could it be said that I “live out in the middle of nowhere,” but for some reason the area where I live…
July 5, 2016: Sweet Home Exhaustion
Yesterday was a very late night … I don’t think I was climbing into bed to chow down on my giant cinnamon roll from Gaston’s until almost four o’clock in the morning! 😯 Still, despite my aches and pains today because good god, am I out of shape + this kid is getting heavy!, I can’t deny that it was a…
July 4, 2016: Sweaty Family Fun
And here I just finished writing something about Disney World being way too busy on Independence Day to visit … so where do you think that I ended up yesterday?! 😯 It ended up being very much a last-minute, impromptu trip – we didn’t even walk into the park until sometime after 7pm, but as Christopher’s auntie is moving away…
July 3, 2016: Grill Skills
I think I might actually be getting a little better at this whole grilling thing! Today was a day of splashing in the pool, and of dueling sparklers, but mostly it was a day of grilling – the first time we’ve done so this year, in fact. I actually like to grill, save for the fact that…
July 2, 2016: Lore of the Rings
I found myself with the unexpected urge to watch The Hobbit this weekend after randomly hearing the incredible cover of Song of the Lonely Mountain that Neil Finn did for the soundtrack to the first film. I ended up making it through An Unexpected Journey just a little while ago this evening after watching the first half during naptime,…
July 1, 2016: Envy of the Open Road
Sometimes I wish that I could just get in the car and drive, and not like in an abandonment-type situation, mind you, but more so in a pick up and go explore a new place-kind of way. I wrote about this somewhat recently last fall when my sister and her family moved down to Orlando, and I find myself…
June 30, 2016: Consistency vs Content
Nights like tonight are really hard for me to get a Thing-a-Day post out because after fighting against the 11th hour to get my humor column for the week done, I frankly just have no words left that I feel are worthwhile to talk about in this space… As this project has sort of evolved over the last…
June 29, 2016: The Pace of Learning
A big fallback for parenting has always been that old saying, “…as long as they’re healthy…”, so it can be particularly scary when somebody tells you that your kid might not be developing like he’s supposed to be… Christopher turned two years-old earlier this spring and although I could never keep most of the dates straight when…
June 28, 2016: Oh Boy, Oh Boy!!!
So this just in … it seems that Sevener House is going to be a kingdom of men because we finally found out at our latest ultrasound today that the twins are definitely boys! I expect to find Sara and Cleo holed up in the bathroom with a tub full of bubbles alongside corresponding glasses of wine and…
June 27, 2016: Kidney Stone(s), Revisited
Here I thought that we were done with this thing last Friday – I had suffered my fate and peed out my rocks, and it was time to move on with the rest of my life. Apparently the rest of my life was a mere two days because after waking up this morning with that same familiar ache that…
June 26, 2016: Under Da Sea
Today was a day of family fun at the Sea Life Aquarium over in Orlando! Aside from the crying tantrums, and the not wanting to listen, and the general fussiness that comes from being a two year-old, but family fun just the same!!! 😯 It can be frustrating how one minute he’s doing great at holding hands…
June 25, 2016: Smile More
I only recently discovered Roman Atwood on YouTube in the last couple of weeks … I think possibly through Casey Neistat’s vlogs … but I’ve really been enjoying watching his own vlogs because the guy just always seems so damn happy all of the time! 🙂 Note that he kind of made a name for himself through pranking and…
June 24, 2016: Blue Skies
So who would’ve thought that peeing tiny rocks out of your dick hole would make you feel better?! …well, not the process itself mind you, but the aftermath has certainly been preferable to whatever I was experiencing the last two days while those stupid, tiny stones were still cruelly traversing my innards and whatnot… 😛 Admittedly I never would’ve expected it to literally…
June 23, 2016: Rollercoaster of Vicodin
I’ve come to the conclusion that I think I would probably be just about one of the most boring drug addicts ever … at least with regards to pain killers. So I’m now on my second day of Vicodin as we valiantly fight against the boulders that have taken up residence in my various ducts and canals. In…
June 22, 2016: Kidney Stone(s)?!
Well … at least it’s not back pain??? 😯 Needless to say, things didn’t improve last night quite as I had hoped … I actually woke up thinking that I was feeling better, but throughout the day the pain somehow relocated and then returned persistently worse until I finally bit the bullet and went to urgent care where the nice doctor and…
June 21, 2016: Back Pain
The signs of getting older are becoming more and more apparent, from the teenage bagger at Publix offering to carry my lone shopping bag to my car to the fact that I’ve recently been actively shopping for the bounty known as life insurance, but nothing serves as a painful reminder of my own feeble mortality more than … back pain….
June 20, 2016: Legos Aus Deutschland
Today was a first for my Lego Minifig collection – I received an order of minifigures that were made exclusive to Germany! …and also Austria and Switzerland, but either way – a considerable drive for me… 😛 These (European) football-loving fellows are from the special series that Lego designed in coordination with the German National Football team, kind of…