We're headed to V-town this weekend. Ssshhhhh, I'm flying under the radar. We're going for Yom Kippur, which may sound random since we're not even Jewish, but the community around us is, so the kids don't have school on Monday. Mazel tov!

mopeds!

my reality

One mile from my house and across the street from Sophie's school there is a little blue house waving it's flag at me, taunting me, mocking me. With 2 bedrooms and 1 bath she asks for $670,000. And at 1,008 sq ft I'd only be paying $664.68 per square foot of her living space. Wow, what a deal. And yet, sadly, me thinks we've already out grown this palatial wonder. Ahhh!What does my future hold? If someone out there knows, please text me.

a phenom i just don't understand

This is Owen's favorite car.

"Oh, that car is so cool. Look, it's like a house. You could sleep in it and there's curtains on the windows so the sun won't get you hot. Oh, I like this car."

For as long as i can remember, D has tried to sell me on the idea of buying a Le Van because you could install a homemade bed in the back and lay down on trips. I think the Le Van comes with factory installed curtains. Like father, like son.
Good thing they're cute. The boys, that is. Not the cars.

dreamz

had a dream last night that i could travel through space. Not to space but through space. distance. from one continent to another with the blink of an eye. at some point if found myself headed down a river in Australia in a Stinky Falls kind of way. I got to the end and was being pushed up against the wall with all of the water bearing down on my ready to crush me and swallow me into oblivion when I looked up and saw John Kerry at the same wall. He had been hiding there since he lost the presidential election in 2004. I went back and forth between home and the wall a few times but i can't remember anything after that.

p.s. if you never saw the movie american dreamz, you are truly missing out on something special. go rent it today.

in action

some pics from the games this weekend. It was exciting. Uncle ross came to the games and found himself jumping up and down screaming like it was the world cup.

Yes, I do accept checks.

I had someone pay their rent with 9 money orders this month. NINE! and some of them for the most random amounts. 190 dollars, 45 dollars, 20 dollars. Her rent is 1400/mo. For the love.... Go get a checking account.

All suited up...

Yes, soccer season begins this satuday and we are all ready to go. they both play around 9:30 am this week so i'm glad doug is around. Hopefully we won't have a ton of game conficts, if I'm alone it'll be hard to be in two places at once. Should be a great season, though. I'll let you know.

always, always, use a crosswalk

I just saw a man nearly loose his life crossing six lanes of moving traffic in order to catch a bus before it left the bus stop. I replayed the senario 10 times in my head with the man actually getting hit and flying across the intersection. My mind kept thinking about how i would have been a witness. Would I have stayed and helped the man or would i have kept on driving and let someone else deal with it. If i had stayed, i would have had to report to the police/firefighter and others about what happened and that means I wouldn't have been able to pick up Sophie from school. Who would i call to help if i couldn't leave to get her? Also, Is this guy married or have children? He's probably leaving a woman husbandless and his children fatherless for the rest of their lives because he didn't wait for the next bus.

When the light did change i drove slowly through the intersection looking at the imaginary "accident." And i felt very sad. Poor guy. Dead right here in the road. hmmm..........a moment of silence, please. ok, maybe that's a little overboard. But i drove away thinking, the risk just isn't worth it. Next time, he might not be so lucky.

Puch Maxi's

You hang on to bikes this cherry... behold, D's new hobby.

the ultimate sacrifice

Last night, D and i we're going to get a babysitter and hit the movie theater. "Invincible", i think, was our top choice this weekend. After a few phone calls that harvested no available Young Woman, we decide to take the whole family and see something together, ya know, make it a family event. They have babysitters all the time, right? This is a great idea. So we all troop on down to the cineplex and on the way we start thinking that if we're going to go do something together we should probably make it count and go ice skating or bowling (always a good idea) or something that requires us to interact more than passing popcorn back and forth. So we deliberate... But O was so ready to Barnyard. He's been saying so since the marketing started 18 months ago. Alright then, Barnyard it is. For the next 98 min, each time a butt joke or some bodily noise/fluid escaped or was referenced, i thought...this is the ultimate sacrifice as a parent. I could have spent my 11 bucks on something i really wanted to see but chose to endure this animated torture instead. Wow. what a good parent i am. I think i deserve an award or a button or something.

At the end of the night the kids were happy and sleepy. Two very good things. We came home and put them to bed and stayed up until midnight watching a rerun of the VMA awards.