I'm also headed over to Julian's to help him install his new graphics card! Hopefully I don't screw it up or fry something! He has complete faith in me and my totally awesome hands to which my breathtaking brain controls!
Monday, March 29, 2010
BEEFCAKE
Kind of a rough day today as nothing worked like it was supposed to and my account for work kept getting locked out.
I'm headed over to Billy's tonight to start doing P90X again! Going to get BEEFCAKE! Hopefully I'll get in shape enough for soccer this weekend and I don't want to puke or something.
I'm also headed over to Julian's to help him install his new graphics card! Hopefully I don't screw it up or fry something! He has complete faith in me and my totally awesome hands to which my breathtaking brain controls!
I'm also headed over to Julian's to help him install his new graphics card! Hopefully I don't screw it up or fry something! He has complete faith in me and my totally awesome hands to which my breathtaking brain controls!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
26 More Hours To Go
So I was watching Brett from his Viral Video Film School deal, an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAUyh1JyRQk
and this guy cracks me up! I wish I could blog like him! Some would say he's got the advantage with video, so would it be vblog? Instead of reading this you should be learning this guys weirdly numerically ordered lessons.
So I've been watching kids for roughly 26 hours by myself now. How am I doing? I'd say pretty good. I've found myself eating a lot more sweets. I don't know if it's because Rach is gone and there's nobody to monitor me, or if the kids are driving me to do it. Stay at home Mom's who's weight is the same or worse years after popping out your first... I understand now.
The kids have had their moments with their gnarly screams that might as well be point blank in my ear, but I somehow get through it. I even stopped one of Lacie's relentless cries because you won't hold her. I told her to stop crying and to 'go on'. I was tickled purple when it worked. Hanging with the kids non-stop for this long has allowed me the special observatory pass into their inner thinking or something. It's crazy! Oz wasn't falling asleep for his nap so I peeked in on him and he was biting his blanket saying, "Yucky poo... yucky yucky" So I went in and sure enough he was fully loaded! Ha ha, right now as I write this, Sean has Oz on his belly and he's lifting up his shirt smacking his back. Just as long as it didn't hurt him I guess. Well, dinner is in the oven - pre made Rach meal (45 min at 400)- I know I'm pathetic that I need that. I think it just proves how much Rach loves us all that she wants us to eat something she made even though she's gone!
and this guy cracks me up! I wish I could blog like him! Some would say he's got the advantage with video, so would it be vblog? Instead of reading this you should be learning this guys weirdly numerically ordered lessons.
So I've been watching kids for roughly 26 hours by myself now. How am I doing? I'd say pretty good. I've found myself eating a lot more sweets. I don't know if it's because Rach is gone and there's nobody to monitor me, or if the kids are driving me to do it. Stay at home Mom's who's weight is the same or worse years after popping out your first... I understand now.
The kids have had their moments with their gnarly screams that might as well be point blank in my ear, but I somehow get through it. I even stopped one of Lacie's relentless cries because you won't hold her. I told her to stop crying and to 'go on'. I was tickled purple when it worked. Hanging with the kids non-stop for this long has allowed me the special observatory pass into their inner thinking or something. It's crazy! Oz wasn't falling asleep for his nap so I peeked in on him and he was biting his blanket saying, "Yucky poo... yucky yucky" So I went in and sure enough he was fully loaded! Ha ha, right now as I write this, Sean has Oz on his belly and he's lifting up his shirt smacking his back. Just as long as it didn't hurt him I guess. Well, dinner is in the oven - pre made Rach meal (45 min at 400)- I know I'm pathetic that I need that. I think it just proves how much Rach loves us all that she wants us to eat something she made even though she's gone!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Pray for Me and the Seeds
Holly Cow! I'm going to have to watch all the kids by myself! For how long!?!? Friday morning to Sunday night?!!!! Everybody pray for me! I'm so dead, they're going to eat me alive!
I saw Sean playing pretty rough with Oz last night. Oz was on the couch and Sean was up on the back of the couch. I wonder what was going through his head, because he just came down on Oz and they both came down on the floor. Thank goodness for carpet! Oz loved it and they were all running with their blankets around the house screaming! That line reminds me of Lord of the Flies for some reason. Lacie is definitely babbling more. Oz doesn’t babble at all and knows some lower case letters now. When it’s time for bed and I ask Lacie if she wants to brush her teeth she runs down towards the bathroom saying, “teef… teef”. If I say the same thing to Oz he’ll say, “ ahhhhhhhh”. As if I’m a doctor! Sean will lay in the bathtub on his back, open his mouth and wait for us to brush his teeth. I’m hoping this is a phase. I’m only letting it continue because we can brush his teeth really really good like this and he doesn’t fight us at all! Lacie is still sleeping with a pacie… sigh… I can’t wait till we break her of it. Rach asked if I was going to do that while she is away all weekend. I don’t plan to but I might inadvertently by not waking up when she wakes up for her pacie in the middle of the night.
So I bought a bag of sunflower seeds - Davids. The bag congratulated me for being a seeder. Hmm – cool – thanks. Then it proceeded to tell me how to eat seeds. Is there really a right way to eat seeds? I just throw them all in my mouth and chomp away. Oh man! The awesome juices that get flowing in my mouth because of all the sodium is unbelievable. I am officially addicted to seeds! My mouth is pretty torn up right now from eating almost a whole bag today, but it’s a small price for such a surge of flavor filled goodness! Long live the seeds!
I saw Sean playing pretty rough with Oz last night. Oz was on the couch and Sean was up on the back of the couch. I wonder what was going through his head, because he just came down on Oz and they both came down on the floor. Thank goodness for carpet! Oz loved it and they were all running with their blankets around the house screaming! That line reminds me of Lord of the Flies for some reason. Lacie is definitely babbling more. Oz doesn’t babble at all and knows some lower case letters now. When it’s time for bed and I ask Lacie if she wants to brush her teeth she runs down towards the bathroom saying, “teef… teef”. If I say the same thing to Oz he’ll say, “ ahhhhhhhh”. As if I’m a doctor! Sean will lay in the bathtub on his back, open his mouth and wait for us to brush his teeth. I’m hoping this is a phase. I’m only letting it continue because we can brush his teeth really really good like this and he doesn’t fight us at all! Lacie is still sleeping with a pacie… sigh… I can’t wait till we break her of it. Rach asked if I was going to do that while she is away all weekend. I don’t plan to but I might inadvertently by not waking up when she wakes up for her pacie in the middle of the night.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Babies watching Biggest Loser
Last night I sat down with Rach to watch the The Biggest Loser. I don't know what it is, but we always eat ice-cream or some dessert when we watch it. She says it's coincidental that it just happens to be The Biggest Loser. She's probably right, but I'd like to take a second and estimate how many calories this show has actually made me consume. We've watched the past two seasons and each season had at least 20 episodes. We eat the slow churned stuff, you know, to be healthy (240/cup cal depending). So that's 9600 calories in one year just in ice-cream! That's not including the extra stuff we put in our bowls that I'm not telling you about because then we'd really look like fatties! -- 3000 calories to a pound -- Speaking of fatties (not the ones on The Biggest Loser) we've almost finished off my B-day dessert Krispie Kreme Cheescake all by ourselves. Yummmmm! There's a contestant on The Biggest Loser named, Sunshine. What kind of name is that? I don't know how she can walk the streets with a crazy name like that! What's her middle name Moonlight?! It'd be funny if someone said, "Shove it where the sun don't shine, Sunshine!"
I saw this pic and at first I laughed because the caption said, "Playing Tetris with babies isn't that easy.", but then I was sad because babies in the back of a pickup truck is not cool! Birds can totally poop on them!
But seriously! 9 babies in the back like that! Crazy people!
I saw this pic and at first I laughed because the caption said, "Playing Tetris with babies isn't that easy.", but then I was sad because babies in the back of a pickup truck is not cool! Birds can totally poop on them!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Questions and Answers
Just enough time for a little questions and answers...
Do you feel guilty when you say no to the cashier person when they ask you if you want to donate a $1 to breast cancer? It's just one dollar dude! Give it!
Why are some loaves of bread double wrapped? Does that mean the loaves that I normally buy could be fresher? No, I think the people double bagging are trying to be fancy driving up the cost and being less green by using more materials!
I often wonder if technology has made my life harder than easier. Do you think technology and its exponential advancements will someday completely ruin our lives? No, I recently fried my laptop last week by unplugging it from the wall instead of a nice shutdown. Technology is still a piece of crap!
Why can't grown-ups wear the same cute footsie PJ's there totally awesome kids do? I know that women wouldn't want to take their arms out every time they got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, unless there was a crotch zipper or something. For us guys... that's a big zipper in front! I'd be worried I'd accidently zip up something valuable after going to the bathroom in my sleepy state.
Do you feel guilty when you say no to the cashier person when they ask you if you want to donate a $1 to breast cancer? It's just one dollar dude! Give it!
Why are some loaves of bread double wrapped? Does that mean the loaves that I normally buy could be fresher? No, I think the people double bagging are trying to be fancy driving up the cost and being less green by using more materials!
I often wonder if technology has made my life harder than easier. Do you think technology and its exponential advancements will someday completely ruin our lives? No, I recently fried my laptop last week by unplugging it from the wall instead of a nice shutdown. Technology is still a piece of crap!
Why can't grown-ups wear the same cute footsie PJ's there totally awesome kids do? I know that women wouldn't want to take their arms out every time they got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, unless there was a crotch zipper or something. For us guys... that's a big zipper in front! I'd be worried I'd accidently zip up something valuable after going to the bathroom in my sleepy state.
Monday, March 22, 2010
My Birthday Weekend
So check it! reee ah reeeee ah My name is Joe, I don't do blow but if you tap I'll say I can't rap!
I went out Thursday night with my lovely wife and enjoyed a nice steak dinner and free dessert. I ate soooo much! Rachael had a surprise for me so she knew not to eat too much. We went to the F1 Factory Raceway!!! I was super excited! I raced twice and Rach once. I'm glad she toughed through the fear and did it. She was last place as she didn't punch it too hard. Maybe she thought she was carting around 3 little ones in the back haha I don't know! We had Krispie Kreme Cheesecake from that Rach created as well has many other sweet things like Monkey bread the morning of. I spent the day at the zoo helping Billy with his biology assignment. I really didn't help that much, I was just glad to relax and see some animals. The orangutan exhibit was especially interesting as there was what looked like a family of 3. The little one was about as tall as Sean but the arms were freakishly longer. It's crazy to think that a baby orangutan could kick my butt!
Julian spent the night Thursday night and hung out with us Friday. He beat me three times at Wii bowling but I beat him once so that made up for it. I think he let me win on the last one though. Rachael bought me the video game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare II so Julz and I played it Friday afternoon as the little ones napped. The game caused me more frustration than I would've liked because my graphics card was clocked to0 high.
Friday morning we went and on a farm tour! Yeah, cows, goats, chickens, horses all smothered in an aura of stink! We had a lot of fun! The kids loved walking around seeing everything! It was great that Julian was our helping hand because all three of our little ones wanted to go their separate ways. I learned that the brown cows produce a much creamier milk. They got to feed a goat and a horse by putting the food in their hands. Lacie was afraid and didn't like it haha! Oz loved feeding them; he wanted to keep doing it so he'd pick up some hey and rock on the ground. The kids did some cute things later in the weekend. I saw Lacie get side control as she took Oz down to the ground. She didn't let him get up but he didn't seem to mind. Then the next day I saw Oz take her down and tickle her. They are having some good matches now. We put Oz in the crib with Lacie to give hugs and kisses good night. And he did exactly that, he knelt down and gave her a big smacker and a hug. It was the cutest thing! Sean's giving up naps for sure. He says he has to go potty every 5 minutes or just cries for mommy in his room. It was very frustrating yesterday. Sean is getting a lot better at talking and at the park I watched him dribble the soccer ball pretty good. Oz and Sean quickly became friends with this other little boy at the park and they loved kicking the ball to each other, and Lacie quickly became friends with a little girl that was at the park. The boy and girl were much older, she was 8 and he was probably 10. It was great to see everyone playing so well with each other!
I went out Thursday night with my lovely wife and enjoyed a nice steak dinner and free dessert. I ate soooo much! Rachael had a surprise for me so she knew not to eat too much. We went to the F1 Factory Raceway!!! I was super excited! I raced twice and Rach once. I'm glad she toughed through the fear and did it. She was last place as she didn't punch it too hard. Maybe she thought she was carting around 3 little ones in the back haha I don't know! We had Krispie Kreme Cheesecake from that Rach created as well has many other sweet things like Monkey bread the morning of. I spent the day at the zoo helping Billy with his biology assignment. I really didn't help that much, I was just glad to relax and see some animals. The orangutan exhibit was especially interesting as there was what looked like a family of 3. The little one was about as tall as Sean but the arms were freakishly longer. It's crazy to think that a baby orangutan could kick my butt!
Julian spent the night Thursday night and hung out with us Friday. He beat me three times at Wii bowling but I beat him once so that made up for it. I think he let me win on the last one though. Rachael bought me the video game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare II so Julz and I played it Friday afternoon as the little ones napped. The game caused me more frustration than I would've liked because my graphics card was clocked to0 high.
Friday morning we went and on a farm tour! Yeah, cows, goats, chickens, horses all smothered in an aura of stink! We had a lot of fun! The kids loved walking around seeing everything! It was great that Julian was our helping hand because all three of our little ones wanted to go their separate ways. I learned that the brown cows produce a much creamier milk. They got to feed a goat and a horse by putting the food in their hands. Lacie was afraid and didn't like it haha! Oz loved feeding them; he wanted to keep doing it so he'd pick up some hey and rock on the ground. The kids did some cute things later in the weekend. I saw Lacie get side control as she took Oz down to the ground. She didn't let him get up but he didn't seem to mind. Then the next day I saw Oz take her down and tickle her. They are having some good matches now. We put Oz in the crib with Lacie to give hugs and kisses good night. And he did exactly that, he knelt down and gave her a big smacker and a hug. It was the cutest thing! Sean's giving up naps for sure. He says he has to go potty every 5 minutes or just cries for mommy in his room. It was very frustrating yesterday. Sean is getting a lot better at talking and at the park I watched him dribble the soccer ball pretty good. Oz and Sean quickly became friends with this other little boy at the park and they loved kicking the ball to each other, and Lacie quickly became friends with a little girl that was at the park. The boy and girl were much older, she was 8 and he was probably 10. It was great to see everyone playing so well with each other!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Happy B-day to Me!
My Birthday is tomorrow!!! I'm hanging out with friends and family and eating sweet stuff! How great is that!? So I'm stuck at work for now waiting for a process to finish but it should be finished soon and I'll be well on my way to seeing the fam!
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