Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cute Valentine's Story

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, here's a recent exchange between me and my two year old daughter Tessa.

Tessa said to me, out of the blue, like she does: "Daddy, you married Mommy."

"Yes, sweetie, I did."

Then she thought for a moment, looked me square in the face and said "And Mommy married you?"

"Yeah, honey, that's what everybody says..."

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Season's Over

Well, another NFL football season is in the books. The Green Bay Packers are our new champions. I don't particularly like the Packers (and I like their fans less) but I must admit that it was a good game they played this evening and a well deserved win.


So now I become relatively sports free for a while. I don't care for baseball or basketball. I can take or leave hockey. I mean, I'll watch from time to time but I don't usually go out of my way to watch a hockey game. Can't stand Nascar. Don't even mention golf. Nope, not much going on that holds my interest in the sports world.

There are a few exceptions though. I do like soccer and try to watch when I can, but most games are on when I'm at work or asleep. Especially English Premiership games. I do enjoy American soccer as well but again, the games are hard for me to find.

My other interests are in the somewhat lesser watched sports. I do like to watch the smaller sports like X Games type stuff or those sports like beach volleyball that you only see in the Olympics. Sometimes ESPN2 puts that stuff on. World's Strongest Man competitions are cool too...when they bother to televise them. I also like women's tennis...and not for the short skirts either. Women tennis players just seem to care more and be more into the match than men do.

Ooh..it's also almost time for PBR bull riding to start up too. Laugh if you want to but it takes some skill to ride a bucking bull for 8 seconds. It's man vs. nature, very primal. I've seen many riders get seriously injured trying to tame these beasts. Not really sure why they want to, but it's strangely entertaining to watch them try.

And that's about it for my sports viewing for a while. Mostly hit and miss stuff that isn't easy to follow.

I already miss football. Bring on September.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Well...

...I'm sick of the snow.

Tessa knows, and can sing, a Justin Bieber song.

The dog is back to eating his own poop.

Valerie's iPod got stolen.

But on the plus side...

We had a lot of good family time this week.

Patterson is getting closer to moving and has learned to feed himself.

We are all healthy.

And there's a new Motorhead album out next week.

So, all in all, it evens out...and I'm a pretty happy guy.