26th Jun2011

I Won’t Remember What It’s Like To Be Young Again.

by J.C.

Want to see what a birthday is like for a full-time father and worker then look no further.

5:30 – Wake up. Kiara has swim meet at 7 so Stefanie set the alarm for 5:15 and got up so I’m awake now.

6:45 – Scheduled to work at 7 but there’s nothing to do at home so might as well work. Oh joy. Larry, the Saturday regular is waiting for me. Think I’ll keep the doors locked until 7 just to avoid him a little longer.

9:15 – Treating my self to a glorious Burger King breakfast. Sold a grill for $10 at a garage sale yesterday so I’m splurging on myself. Damn, their iced mocha’s are good.

10:24 – Took a birthday dump. It wasn’t very good to me.

2:00 – Was just staring at a guy’s horrible tattoo on his leg. It was of a stick figure that looked like the Tin Man with puppet strings. Then I realized it was a fake leg and it was just sharpie drawn on it.

4:15 – Finally off work and home. Greeted to presents from wife and kid. T-shirt I’ve wanted for a while, House Blu-Ray, and chocolate goodness.

5:30 – Birthday nap. Not much different than normal day nap.

7 – Birthday dinner: china buffet. Its what kiara picked and she didn’t eat any. Not very good.

8:45 – Watched Criterion’s House. What a bizarre film. I don’t know how anyone could ever explain it to anyone. I mean a piano eats a Japanese chick!

10:15 – Washed baby bottles.

11 – Stefanie went to work. Back to being bored by myself again.

Worked on this new theme for the blog until almost midnight then got in bed because it was storming. 15 minutes later Kiara joins me scared.

And that is the birthday of a father who works full time. If you would like to have the pleasure of this type of birthday just have a couple kids and then rack up some bills.

25th Jun2011

Though you’ve played at love and lost and sorrow’s turned your heart to frost…

by J.C.

Hmm. Last blog was back in March. You know I’m forgotten pretty much anything blog worthy that has happened since then. K’s BDay was in April. We had her party at Studio 50 and she had a good time.

Easter came and we colored eggs.

Penelope crawls and almost walks now. She currently has an inner ear infection and bronchitis so that sucks.

Kiara joined the swim team this year and actually enjoys it which is nice after sitting through a crappy year of Softball.

Stefanie and I went to a couple concerts over the months. First we saw Moving Mountains and they were great. Can’t recommend their new CD Waves enough. Then we saw Thursday last weekend and they put on a good show like they always do. We also went to an early screening of Attack the Block last month and that movie is pretty awesome.

Apparently our basement has elevated amounts of mold so we are going to have to get that removed now which is going to be fantastic.

I went to the Nashville Screen Writers Conference again this year in May. It was a fun time and it was nice to finally meet Sheridan from mypdfscripts.com after all these years. Also good to talk to Tim, Rian, and Malcolm again in person. Those guys are always super nice and easy to be around.

Let’s see what else. I cut off all my hair. Not that really classifies as useful information, just rambling about shit now.

Back towards the beginning of June Stefanie and I celebrated 2 years of being together. What a couple years it has been. I can’t imagine spending it with anyone else.

Can’t think of much else to say. Here’s a couple more pics to look at of the kids.