I have to say, yesterday was a good day. Took the kids (3 and 1) to the park, a friend bought me the MP3s of a new album I mentioned I was looking forward to hearing, dinner with the wife (toddler meltdown in the restaurant at end of the meal, followed by him passing out in exhaustion in the car), and with the exception of that and getting up repeatedly overnight with teething baby and nonsleeping toddler demanding to see me, I really can't complain!
We just started watching "Friday Night Lights" in our house. Never seen it before! We needed something to watch after finishing... "Orange Is the New Black" (bringing it nicely back to this post!)
Well, the toddler is kind of being a monster sometimes because he's almost 3 and dealing with a lot of emotions he doesn't understand how to process (because he's THREE). And the baby is teething and obsessed with crawling (as in, he doesn't want to sleep at night; he wants to crawl) and while my wife works from home most of the time so the kids stay there with her, when the nights are sleep-free we get stressed and she gets mad at me and resents that I get to flee off to work in a quiet office and I feel powerless to help.
First-world problems, I know. The kids are healthy and happy, and we have a house to live in, so I try to keep things in perspective. Just wish I could HELP. I want to enjoy this time when the kids are this age, despite the stresses. I don't want to wish them to school age and out of our house, despite how tempting it is to do that.
She probably screwed over all her white employees too, in terms of "might get rich someday."
The underlying color in the NY Times story is the color green.
If you give to my kickstarter, I'll record a DVD commentary for the movie of your choice! I have two kids under 3, so if the movie came out since 2010, I probably haven't seen it, so there might be long periods of silence, followed by me saying, "Ohhh, look at that... hey, it's that guy from that thing!"
Huh. Kirstie Alley's ex-husband Parker Stevenson (an original Hardy Boy with Sean Cassidy) was also part of the original cast of Baywatch in the 1989 season.
I did not know that, but found it out in about three seconds after finishing the Scientology story.
That is why, I don't care what anyone says, the internet is wonderful.
I enjoyed it! It was a long week, and I got a toddler asleep and held a drowsy baby until he fell asleep, then watched Sharknado as a reward. Fighting flying sharks with a chainsaw. Really, I couldn't ask for more.
*SPOILER BELOW, I GUESS*
And John Heard stealing his favorite bar stool when the bar is evacuated, then using said bar stool to save a dog trapped in a car, then immediately being killed by a shark. That was awesome.
"Mrs. Miscavige reportedly hasn’t been seen in public since 2007."
Oh boy...
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1ASRkCTPZ_Nqkgax7C4L2WUOnmNHw9XQXyC3Avqe4CmWrg0-Y7w
Dealing with kid's daddy separation issues while the almost 3-year-old is in preschool. First-world problem, I know, but makes me want to hug him and never let go.
I was with him until that part:
"Yeah, I DO like this song... Good dancing... they look like they're really having fun... wait... did he just tell her to get in the trunk?"
Macaulay Culkin had a cameo as Jacob's son in the original "Jacob's Ladder." It would be stunt casting, but also kind of interesting, to see him in the lead now.
"ALL DONE, ASSHOLE."
--This kid.
"All done? Tired? Out of breath? Try swimming farther than you ever have before to the ladder while I film it."
--Kid's asshole dad.
Wow, his wikipedia page certainly shows he's someone qualified to defend you against charges or racism:
During his tenure at B104, Beck was arrested and jailed for speeding in his DeLorean. According to a former associate, Beck was "completely out of it" when a station manager went to bail him out. In early 1992, Beck and Gray both moved to WKCI-FM (KC101), a Top-40 radio station in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1995, WKCI apologized after Beck and Gray mocked a Chinese-American caller on air who felt offended by a comedy segment by playing a gong sound effect and having executive producer Alf Gagineau mock a Chinese accent. That incident led to protests by activist groups.
I'll never eat a Hershey bar again without picturing young Don having one in a whorehouse (if he steals more than a dollar from the john).
And he's been "Don" for so long now that I didn't even notice the parallel with Bob at first when Bob's fake identity was uncovered.
Re: Role models on TV...
As a father of two little kids, this really struck me the other day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4aGNfPBHeE
and made me really think about how my father was with me, and the kind of father I want to be.
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