Tag: Family

International Women’s Day

I don’t feel like I did enough to honor International Women’s Day today.

I spent the day with my wife and spend a long time on the phone with my step daughter. That’s about it, unfortunately. No offense. Sorry.

I did pull off the Activity App’s International Women’s Day challenge though, so that’s something, right?

A Nice Early Start

Jen had to get up early for a work thing today. It started at 5:00am. She set the alarm for 4:00am. I told her I would get up with her, in an attempt to be a good supportive husband. I don’t think she quite believed me. The alarm went off at 4:00, she snoozed it, then reset it to 4:30.

Next thing I know it’s 4:50 and she’s up and getting dressed and ready to start the day. Hell, I better get up too! She told me to go back to bed. I said I was going to be a good supportive husband and get up with her. I didn’t actually say that. I think what I said might have sounded more like, “grmblegrrglearrggh” but I think the meaning of my grunts came across.

Now it’s quarter to 7:00am, her work thing is done, she’s working on a computer she recently put together, I am about to start mixing a new tune.

Maybe at some point today I’ll be able to talk her into taking a nap. Heh heh heh. Kidding!

Trip to France

We got a FaceTime call from Bellana today. She and her roommate went to Paris over the weekend. It sounds like it was one of those out of this world experiences that you can only have when you’re 20 years old and taking a semester abroad. You know what I’m talking about. She said there will be a vlog post at some point. I can’t wait to see it.

This morning I was talking about how bringing the barrels out to the street marks the high point of my social calendar. Oh to be 20 and crazy again. Again? I was 20 once, but I don’t think I was crazy. I’m proof that youth is wasted on the young as well as at least 50 other old people cliches.

The House Plants Have Names

As of this morning the four house plants in the bedroom have officially official names.

This tall drink of water is named Zack. Jen said it just looks like a Zack. Zack Attack, you know.

Jen told me that I had to come up with a name for the Japanese Peace Lilly. The choice is obvious. It’s name is Sgt. Angel, though Sgt. Angle is also acceptable. Do you get it? No? Go watch the movie Hot Fuzz. All will be made clear.

This one is named Ron. Jen didn’t give an explanation, but I have to assume it is in honor of the best member of the Harry Potter Big Three, Ron Weasley. Why is he the best? Why, red hair of course. Also because Weasley is our King, he never lets the quaffle in, Weasley is our King.

Finally, and by far most important, is Bellana’s clipping. Bellana named the plant that the clipping came from Burt. Therefore, the clipping (COMPLETE WITH A NEW LEAF!!!!!!) will forever be known as Bertha.

There you have it, folks. The plants have been named.

No Electrical Fun Today

Jen was going to rewire the light switch in the dining room today because she’s absolutely amazing. She was doing a little research last night and found that our switch contains some stuff that we weren’t prepared to deal with, so we gave it a miss and are looking to have an electrician come in. That means one of the two main projects on the agenda for today didn’t happen. The other main project is my super hero wife making spaghetti sauce from scratch. It’s on the stove right now and it smells so good.

You would think that I would have used this extra time to record guitars. Nope. Not yet. Maybe after dinner. That seems like a decent plan. If not, tomorrow. Instead of guitars I worked on drums. Not literally, more like I worked on GarageBand functions that simulate drums.

GarageBand has a tool called Session Drummers. There are a bunch of different “drummers” to choose from, all with different styles and different quirks. I tend to bounce back and forth between two. One that is pretty straight ahead rock and another that is more R&B. For the last two (I think) Quarantine projects I only used the rock drummer. I was planning on sticking with the R&B drummer for RPM but, with eight songs underway, I changed my mind. I went through a bunch of the options available today and picked a different Rock thing. I then changed the drummer on all eight songs.

Will the listener be able to tell the difference? Nope. Not likely.

Does it matter to anyone on the planet Earth other than me? Nope. Not at all.

Damn if that sauce doesn’t smell gooooood.

One Day Down, or Something

It’s almost 10:30. It’s just about time to turn in for the night.

It looks like I have made it through a whole day without caffeine. I didn’t think it was possible but there you go.

The headache is still there but Tylenol helped. I’ve had a ton of water today and I burned through a lot of grape flavored mix stuff. I need to slow down on that, but probably not for a couple of days. I need all the help I can get. How long before a lifestyle change becomes a habit? Three days? 30 years?

Tomorrow Jen is going to rewire one of the light switches because she’s a fucking super hero. I’ll help, but she has more guts than I do. Also… guitar. That’s my hope at least. It should be fun.

Birthdays

Today is Harry’s birthday. He’s 19. Happy birthday, Harry! We’re not going to see him until March. He’ll be coming home for spring break. Jen and I both took that whole week off. We won’t do anything amazing or anything, we’ll just be able to hang out with Harry. It’s going to be cool. I am really looking forward to it.

Happy birthday, Harry!

Today is also my nephew Brian’s birthday. I don’t know when we’re going to get to see him again. Covid, right? I am so sick of it, but at least I got to text with him a little today. He has a flip phone. I assume he’s home from school because of the weather but it was nice to hear from him.

Happy birthday, Brian!

We did a little pre-birthday birthday dinner for Harry before he left. Maybe we’ll do another one after he gets back because why not? It’s a birthday, right? Celebrate all you want!