Archive for July, 2008

7/28/2008

Monday, Jul 28th, 2008
Categories: 2008, topten

Tess's Fauxhawk

  • The Lovely Suse and the Lovely Tess were down in Connecticut on Friday and Saturday, so I had the place to myself. I spent Friday night on the sofa being a lazy man, which I haven’t done in months. Of course, this was my one chance to sleep as late as I want and enjoy the peace and quiet. And what time did I wake up on Saturday morning? 6:15AM. Seriously. I was wide awake and so was George, so we got up. By 9:00am, I had done laundry, washed my car, and cleaned out the fridge. I spent the next 2 hours doing yardwork. Nice and relaxing, right? Well, these are the things that I can’t get done when everyone else is around, so it was nice to be able to do all of those things that I’ve been meaning to do for weeks. Oh well. I don’t need much sleep anyways. Ironically, the Lovely Tess slept until 8:00am that morning.
  • I’m wearing seersucker pants today.
  • We hit up the SOWA Open Market on Sunday. Man, it’s been a while since we’ve been downtown. It’s sort of sad. I guess that’s what happens when you turn into boring suburban parents.
  • The Lovely Tess is officially walking. It’s sort of a Frankenstein-looking stumble, but she somehow manages to stay balanced. She’s also officially in the “drunken college student” phase. She stumbles around, throws stuff around, makes a huge mess everywhere she goes, yells and screams, and gives big slopppy kisses.
  • At work one day last week, all of a sudden, honey started dripping on my desk. What the hell? Well, I have a bottle of honey flipped upside down on a shelf that I’ve had up there for months. For some reason, the humidiy must have gotten to the point to where the cap shifted slightly, and a stream of honey started flowing out of it. Weird.
  • For any of you Mac users who would like to still run Windows for various things but don’t want to run Boot Camp or shell out the bucks for something like Parallels, give VirtualBox a try. I installed both Vista and XP using it last week and it works like a charm. And it’s free. Not that I’ve really needed it for anything, but it’s nice to know that it’s there if I need it.
  • Without fail, when it decides to rain when I’m grilling, it always turns into a torrential downpour just as I need to take everything off the grill. I think I’ve finally figured out how to do it, with the big golf umbrella in one hand and the tongs in the other. I’m able to keep the plate and the grill under cover, take everything off, turn off the grill, and then head back inside. Of course, that doesn’t keeep my feet from getting sopping wet and muddy.

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7/21/2008

Monday, Jul 21st, 2008
Categories: 2008, topten

Tess Loves Tupperwear

  • Is there anything worse than waking up in the morning and thinking that it’s Friday morning and then realizing that it’s actually Monday morning? I don’t think so. I also had just had a dream that I was using stolen/phony credit cards and that Don Cheadle was chasing me. Weird.
  • I never thought it would come to this. We promised each other that we would never become these types of people. We’ve gone off the recycling deep-end. We’re washing and reusing plastic ziplock bags. Holy moly. OK, not all bags, but just the ones that we’re using to store our produce from our CSA. Before we put things in the fridge, we put everything in large 1-gallon bags so that they don’t wilt. It seemed a little hipocritical to use all of these bags every week and then throw them out, so I started rinsing them off and reusing them. So sue me.
  • Do you have fruit fly problems? Here’s an easy solution that we’ve called into action recently and it works like a charm. Honestly, I feel no remorse watching those little buggers frantically trying to swim out of the vinegar in the bottom of the glass.
  • It’s as if toddlers are somehow wired to like Sesame Street. We’ve held off from letting the Lovely Tess watch any TV or DVD’s, but there are times of desperation when she’s completely lost her mind and you need something to settle her down and occupy her for a few minutes. Streaming Sesame Street to the rescue. She quiets down and starts watching with us and peace returns to the house. I’m guessing that this is a very slippery slope that we’ve started down.
  • We grilled up some whole sardines on Saturday night. If you can get past the 40,000 bones that those little suckers have, them’s some good eats.
  • We had a very white-trash Saturday afternoon in the backyard. The Lovely Tess played in the kiddie pool in just a diaper while the Lovely Suse and I sat in lawn chairs, picked weeds, and ate freeze-pops. It was awesome. Until the Lovely Tess’s diaper exploded from being so full of liquid. Who knew that there was gel in there?
  • There’s nothing better than when the power goes out at work. Dozens of engineers are forced to talk to one another with nothing else to do.
  • I haven’t worn socks (except for working out) in about 2 months.

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