I had a post written up about my misadventures with Steve last night, but as I was about to post it this morning, Sean turned on the news. It doesn’t seem appropriate now, so I will just tell you this.
Well, Scott and I are off to eastern Wa tomorrow for a wedding and to visit friends and family… Let’s all pray we make it back safely, for as we know, PEOPLE KEEP FUCKING DYING OVER THERE!
On the upside, for the three people I know who died this year, three I know were born. Twin boys I’m helping take care of, and early Thursday morning a friend of mine had a beautiful baby boy. I was there and got to see him when he was like 30 min. old. crazy. I also just found out that the three cousins of mine that are recently married are all expecting babies early next year.
You gotta wonder about the timing of three people dying and three being born all in one summer. The whole idea of a rhythm of life really starts to make sense when stuff like that goes down.
Anyway, glad to be back! hope everyone’s doing well! Scoot and I will be back in portland in a couple weeks, and then you’ll never be able to get rid of us! haha!
Ugh. I’ve been sick. Urn had a cold, which somehow Annie caught. So of course, now I get sick, too. Which wouldn’t have been so bad if Annie hadn’t used up all the Kleenex and taken all the cold medicine with her when she went home for the weekend. Oh well. On a weekend when I had no larger plans than to stay home and be anti-social, I guess this is a better time to be sick than a normal workweek, when I can’t afford to miss work. If I’m going to be miserable, it might as well be in the comfort of my own home.
One thing I’ve noticed about being sick is that my attention span gets even shorter than usual, and I get even more apathetic that usual. I don’t feel up to doing anything more than sitting on the couch and watching TV, and I don’t even really want to do that. As a result of this, when I get sick, I tend to watch a lot of movies. But due to my extremely short attention span, I can’t handle movies with a great deal of plot. So I end up watching a lot of BAD movies.
This weekend, I rented The Sixth Day, which was about what I was expecting (Arnold blows things up and makes bad puns!), and the first Highlander, which was a lot worse than I remember. I also saw most of Muppet Treasure Island, which has some really funny pirate songs. Then there was some horrible made-for-TV Mission To Mars knockoff on the sci-fi channel, a police chase documentary, about 15 minutes of Wyatt Earp, in which Kevin Costner makes a lousy Wyatt Earp, but the guy they got to play Doc Holliday is pretty cool. Add to all of those a couple hours of just channel-flipping, watching 10 minutes of Star Trek here, and 20 minutes of VH1 there. Sadly, I couldn’t find any Bob Ross episodes anywhere. Bob Ross is the best thing to watch when you’re sick. He was an amazing guy. And, of course, I watched Iron Chef. It’s just about the best show ever.
Addendum, 10 minutes later:
I forgot to mention about 3 episodes of Saturday Night Live and The Replacement Killers, which was much much worse than The Killer. Being sick, I wasn’t even able to enjoy the fact that Mira Sorvino or however you spell her name left her shirt unbuttoned for the entire movie.
The REAL reason Miles hasn’t told us about his apparent upcoming trip to Japan!
You know it seems odd to say that now, but I remember when I was younger it was common practice for me to just call Ryan and Sean “Brothers” as if it was one collective name they shared. “Brothers, wanna go outside?” “Please don’t cry, brothers!” “Dad, brothers did it!”
I just wanted to wish you guys a happy birthday here since I know you both read this site, and since there are no good e-card sites anywhere and I’m too poor to buy either of you a real card (or gift).
So Happy Twenty… (um, let’s see, they’re three years younger than me, and I’m 22, so they’re 19 now… so yeah…) Happy Twentieth Birthday, Ryan and Sean!