Archive for April, 2008
- Do you know what’s better than spending a beautifully warm and sunny Friday and Saturday in class? Pretty much anything. OK, it wasn’t that bad, but I miss my weekends.
- On the bright side, I did get to eat in a college dining hall for the first time in 11 years. I sort of forgot what it’s like to eat in one. The quality of the food is pretty much what I expected (not great, not bad), but it’s the sheer volume that I forgot about. For $5, I could have eaten a panini, a pizza, a hamburger and fries, tacos, a turkey sandwich, a salad, 4 bowls of cereal, a make-your-own stir-fry, as many soft-serve ice cream cones as I wanted, and four bunches of bananas. The all-you-can-eat concept is not something that I’ve encountered a whole lot lately, I decided to take advantage of it and stuffed two bananas in my bag for later in the day. Of course, both got smooshed in the bottom of my bag and got banana all over everything. That’ll learn me.
- A Saturday night of Chinese Food, beers, and Wii was pretty much the perfect ending to a very long week. I must admit, I never envisioned being in my 30’s playing video games at home on a Saturday night. With my wife.
- Lawn maintainance has begun for the year. I didn’t have time until yesterday, but I finally raked up all of the dead junk, mowed the crazy-long patches in front, seeded, and fertilized. I’m hoping that the week of rain will get things off to a good start. I’ll need to be better about the deep watering this year as I sort of let it slide last year resulting in weeds taking over a good chunk of the lawn. Never again!
- I also took the opportunity to clean out my grill. And by clean, I mean hack away at the layers and layers of charred grease and fat that was caked into every nook and cranny in the grill. You know you’ve got problems when the entire inside of the grill lights on fire anytime you leave it on high with the cover closed for five minutes. I’m sure my neighborhood will appreciate me not filling the street with black smoke.
- The Lovely Tess’s favorite foods of the week: miso-glazed salmon and stir-fried broccoli with garlic. Until the third consecutive day of it when she took a handful of the broccoli and unceremoniously dumped it on the ground. The girl knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to let you know. Oh we’re going to have our hands full.
- Seriously, we’re going to compost this year. I started doing it last year and quickly lost steam. This year, I’m going to be better about it. I swear.
- So I’ve been routinely having late-night conference calls multiple times a week for school stuff. As the Lovely Suse needs to get her beauty sleep, she’ll go to bed while I’m still busy talking about school nonsense. Of course being the considerate husband that I am, I make great efforts not to wake her up when I finally go to bed. Last week I failed miserably at that. At around 11:30 on Wednesday night, with the house completely dark, I made an ill-fated attempt at returning the phone to the charger on her nightstand. It being completely pitch-black, I failed to notice the full glass of water perched atop a stack of books on the nightstand. Of course I knocked the glass over dumping the entire contents all over the table and the floor. Oh, but it gets worse. The glass happened to knock into the glass globe-like lamp that the Lovely Suse loves oh-so-much. Of course, the thing cracked and broke into multiple pieces, waking her out of a dead sleep. You know the look that a wife can give a husband when they’ve done something really stupid? Multiply that by about 1000 and you know what I experienced for about two full days. Yes, I’m an idiot. That’s been well-established by now.
- For anyone who was grossed out by last week’s post, sorry. It had to be done. Life is full of poop.
- Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!. The greatest wife of all time surprised the hell out of me and got me a Wii for my birthday. Granted, she seems to love it as much as I do (and has more time to play it than I do), but what a great gift. I haven’t owned a video game console since the original Nintendo (which pretty much defined my life from 5th grade to 8th grade), and I’ve never been much into the modern video games. I get bored easily and don’t have the patience or the time to devote to playing. But the wii changes things completely. You’ve seen how it works, and it’s every bit as fun as it looks. The interface is ingenius, and the game play is super-intuitive and fun. We’re completely hooked. We’ve only played the included sports games, but I’m looking forward to seeing how games stack up. I see Guitar Hero in my future…
- George and the Lovely Tess got me my very own Sigg Bottle. It’s light, it’s sleek, it’s sturdy, it can be used as a weapon if necessary, oh, and it holds water too. In light of the growing concerns over BPA, this bottle hopefully won’t kill me.
- The Lovely Suse and the Lovely Tess both get the day off today for Patriot’s Day. I’m so jealous. I am, however, not jealous of all the people running the marathon today. Been there, done that. And my body has no interest in ever doing that again. I’m pretty sure that if someday I decided to run another marathon, my legs would revolt and intentionally try to injure themselves to prevent me from running ever again. Let’s just say that they didn’t really enjoy the first marathon experience so much.
- Our main internet router died yesterday. You don’t realize how much you depend on the internet until you’re completely cut off from it. My email, calendar, phone numbers, and every piece of information that I seem to need is online. I started walking around the house searching for an open wireless network in the neighborhood, but amazingly, everyone had their security enabled. That’s just not right.
- My favorite pair of jeans is about to die. I give them about 4 hours before giant holes start appearing. I’ll be very sad, but I guess I can’t complain. I’ve worn them probably 5 days a week for about a year and a half. I can only ask so much from an item of clothing, right? In the meantime, there are a bunch of those iron-on patches in the inside to try to beef up the high-stress areas. It’s sort of pathetic.
- I’ve got to come clean about something: I have those little fun packs of peanut M&M’s in my desk at work. I’ve gotten into the habit of eating one a day. Seriously, there are only like 5 M&M’s in each pack, but it’s still sort of funny that I now NEED to have those in there. In fact, it’s 9:30am and I just ate an M&M.
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