Feeling slightly tense. Watching self.
Year: 2004
Preparions for the night
Going to rain hard today. Flood warnings already issued for the morning.
So, I wised up and made kindling. Now going to wash the floors. Then prepare myself for the meeting tonight. I’ve got about a half hour to pull this off.
Deeps thoughts from a 13 year old
“Dad, you know. It gets muddy when it rains.”
“Dad, you know. It gets muddy when it rains.”
The ride back from the school was quiet except for…
The ride back from the school was quiet except for the phone call from the teacher saying the 13 yr old left his homework. So we turned around. I made some casual chit chat but for the most part we were each in our own world.
Time to clean the floors.
Cleaning
Just got done cleaning. Succeeded at getting all upstairs trash out of the house. Changed and fed the baby. Cleaned oven hood, stone top and sides, microwave inside and out, kitchen counter tops, sink, emptied clean dishes and refilled dishwasher. Left to do in kitchen: kitchen table, refrigerator, and floors.
Time to go pickup the 13 yr old.
Baby just laughed outloud. She’s so great!
Baby just laughed outloud. She’s so great!
11-1
Day is slipping by. I’ve done some programming and watched History Channel while having lunch.
The baby has just woken from her nap and the wife is at the school until 2. The wife will return. And shortly after that the 7 and 10 year old will return and then I’ll go get the 13 yr old only to return home to clean up for the Blue and Gold scout banquet tonight.
My mind feels like the marbles inside are just rolling around.
School Wars
The school system seems to have it in for my sweet innocent 7 year old. I’d like to see his file as it is right now. I swear the idiot he had in kindergarden black balled him.
Font change
Reduced my font per a request. Please let me know if I made things unreadable.
I hate bill collectors. $57 to NBC Visa.
Hitler took over the world!
I must have seen 30 of these New VW Beetles on the way back from the school today. They are everywhere! Of course, this could be “red car” syndrome since the kids play the “Slug bug” game everytime we are in the car. They’ve started showing a lessor interest in the game and for that my bicep is thankful.
Time to take the 13 yr old to school.
Time to take the 13 yr old to school.
Let’s talk about Breasts!
The entire Janet Jackson Superbowl stunt has been blown way out of portion. As my wife points out so well, the streaker showed more indecency and got laughter while Janet Jackson showed us the equivalent of a Victoria’s Secret commercial and received ridicule!
The entire problem is that the United States is dominated by a bunch of prudes who make sex taboo. By making it taboo, we turn sex into the mystical thing that curious teenages just have to find out about. I bet that if it was “just sex” we’d have more people being less experimental. Or in the worse case, being safer about things.
I remember being a teenage when the first bra commercial came out. Let me tell you, as a teenager that was perusing every medical journal he could find, was amazed that National Geographic was allowed in schools, and knew where Dad’s and his friend’s dad’s collections of dirty magazines were kept, this bra commercial was gold! I spent hours trying to capture it on video tape. Yes, this was long before you could go on the Internet and just download it. We also couldn’t print pictures and taking the television into the bathroom was absolutely out of the question because it took 2 grown men to move a decent sized one. Allow me re-emphasize for the younger generation that hasn’t seen our media change so drastically over the past couple of decades that in my lifetime I can remember the debate about whether to allow bra commercials to be shown on television. In the early 80s (I think) the first commercial ran that tastefully showed a woman without a shirt. It caused an uproar! Here’s a woman in a bra on television. Well, there weren’t shows doing that and to most people this was like bringing a strip show into your living room. Now, we see Victoria Secrets and Haynes commercials all the time. They are still fun to watch but the astonishment is gone. Even Kmart had a guy dancing in his boxers.
Unfortunately, people seem to have a problem distinguishing tasteful nudity from raunchy pornography. I think our society tends to lump them into the same category. Janet Jackson did tasteful nudity (granted, it may have been inappropriate for the viewing audience but that’s not what this discussion is about) including it strategically placed in an artistic presentation with the timing of the nudity coinciding with the appropriate lyrics. What we see every day in the inboxes of our email is pornography.
What gets my goat the most is that she was primarily covered up.
This article “Jackson May Back Out of Grammy Awards” notes “The fiasco also affected NBC, which decided to remove a glimpse of an elderly patient’s breast in Thursday’s episode of “ER.”” which is a shame because obviously there are people in our society that see “it’s just a breast”.
Late to school. Been practicing the 7 yr old’s spe…
Late to school. Been practicing the 7 yr old’s speach. He is nervous about presenting it the way we’ve instructed but I think he’ll try.
Perhaps Cingular will work today.
A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…
A New Day!
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This Morning
* Woke at 3am and enough energy as to start my day. Had I bothered to get out of bed I could have had some productive moments.
* Woke again with the alarm at 5:45 and 6. Got out of bed at 6:05 and got the kids up.
Feeling down today like my muscles aren’t really there. Its also cold. I didn’t seek out the coal pile yesterday and the fire died last night. Now its raining outside and I left the axe out thinking we didn’t have rain in the forecast.
Goals Today: 3rd verse, same as the 1st Let’s just try to make yesterday’s goals happen and add “no arguing” to the list.
Half full or half empty? What’s it gonna be?
My wife and I feel we’ve begun to relate well to new found online friends in Australia. From our readings of their blogs we are two very similar families. I received an email from them tonight with an excerpt from Chicken Soup for the Soul – a good reminder to appreciate people for what they do and not focus on what they do not do (or do “wrong”). Ironically I’m between books so the connection between Autstralia and the need to refocus my outlook on life has inspired me to re-read what I feel is a great book, Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan. I understand that this book caused quite a stir amongst some Aboriginal people; for that, I do not understand the politics. I can however vouch for the spiritually uplifting feeling I get from reading the story. This book, as with most of my reading, was suggested to me. This time, instead of a friend, a total stranger in an airport singled this book out for me. On more than one occasion, airports have provided great reading references to me from other travellers.
