Evan took his first official step today… and by first step I mean first step. It was only one foot forward, but that’s more than we’ve seen before, so I’m gonna go with that as the first step. In other news, he’s trying (somewhat successfully) to climb up onto anything he can get his knee(s) up to. Time to move the flower vases!
Not that I need (or endorse) these, but a buddy of mine sent out 25 popular pickup lines (found on Usenet) in an email. Use them at your own risk:
These lines help shed some light on how/why some men just can’t find Ms. Right. I’ve never been a big fan of the pick-up line. In fact, I’m 99.99999% sure that I never used one. I’ve alwasy been the type of guy to win a girl over with my humor rather than anything else. But for some semi-prurient fun it’s kinda interesting to see what some folks will say to make a fool of themselves.
A buddy of mine forwarded me a link to the FilmWise Invisibles™ Quizzes; an online set of quizzes where you check out a picture from a movie and try to guess which movie it’s from. To make it a challenge, however, they remove the people’s faces/etc. from the picture. Very fun if you’re a film and trivia buff like me.
Today my dad would have been 56 years old.
I’ve been obsessing over death over the last few weeks, and I just realized that it’s probably been a subconscious way for my brain to deal with this; no wonder I’ve been so moody lately. It always happens around several key times of the year: his birthday, Christmas, and the few weeks preceding my birthday, (since that’s when he died). I don’t even realize how it’s affecting me until Kimberly or I figure out what time of the year it is.
It kills me that Evan will never know my father. I’m one of those people who hate it when people try to make a dead person sound like some sort of saint, but my dad really was a great person. Sure; he had his faults… we all do. But he was so laid back about everything, and very caring, and so funny in his own quiet sort of way. And he so much wanted to be a grandpa.
I think that’s all I want to talk about that right now.
It’s going to be a long day here on the old (and new) homestead… we’ve taken possession of our new home today (though they let us in and have keys a few days ago) and I’ve taken the next few days off to get things ready. Painting, some minor moving, any clean up necessary; it’s all part of the plan for the next week. For people who hate moving so much, we sure do a lot of it!
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Today Evan is 10 months old today, and to celebrate I decided to get a new car. OK, maybe that wasn’t the exact reason I got the new car, but it’s a reason, right? 
I bought a brand new 2002 Suzuki XL-7 4×4, and it’s schweet… expensive, but sweet. I’ve finally got A/C, power windows/door locks/steering all in one, and all the other amenities I’ve been wanting for a while. I missed that stuff! And it drives so smoothly and quietly that all I want to do is drive her around all day. The only thing I don’t have in it is a sunroof and leather, and since I don’t like leather car interiors anyhow, I’m not missing much at all. And it also seats 6 passengers, so we have more room in it now as well.
After the debacle of my old Honda dying on me I decided it was time to get a new car rather than starting to dump a bunch of money in my old car. I mean, don’t get me wrong; the Honda was a good car… but the story of how I got her is long and involved, and not without a little bit of drama, so suffice to say that not having that car aymore is a good thing.
Thank you Eddie Izzard for that insight!
I bit the bullet and decided to try going to a chiropractor. I got my x-rays back and my bones cracked today. Too bad his office was backed up due to some other issues and I had to wait for ~1.5 hours before he saw me. Good thing he had like 30 years of National Geographics to read while I was waiting!
I heard that it would hurt the first time getting my “adjustment”, but truth be told it actually felt kinda good. Like cracking it on my own, but in spots I could never get to before. I’m a little sore now, but that could just be the normal pain I was feeling before. I’m actually looking forward to the next adjustment on Monday.
Oh, and how’s this for weird: my Dr. saw that I have some impacted wisdom teeth in one of my skull x-rays.
Just got home from work, which is bad enough (notice the time of this post), but as I turn the last corner to my house… my car breaks down. I had to push the damned thing just over the top of a hill to coast down to my driveway. Could be worse, I guess. I could have broken down in the middle of nowhere. But it still sucks! And at least I have a Honda Civic and not a Suburban; otherwise that thing would just be a bump bump in the road.