I'm in the shower this morning, shaving my head and basically minding my own business, when suddenly I realize my cell phone is ringing somewhere in the house.
At which point I nick the back of my head with the razor.
I tumble out of the shower, slipping across the living room hardwood floor and stepping briefly on the tail of a cat (which screams its displeasure before racing down to the basement to sulk).
I locate the phone and answer it, to hear my wife on the other end frantically explaining how she can't find the location she's supposed to be to catch a two hour bus ride to some interior design function she's going to attend.
I slip and slide my way to my office computer, call up Google, and try to make sense of the map that eventually appears. The wife has eight minutes to catch her bus. DAMN IT!
I zoom out the map, trying to figure out what the hell I'm looking at, and eventually realize, much to my chagrin, the location she's trying to reach is embarrasingly close to where we live.
"It's close to where we walked to last weekend!" I say.
"That doesn't do me any good!" she responds.
Six minutes remaining. DAMN IT!
"Remember?! That one place where we walked to?!" I repeat helplessly.
"Oh. . . oh! Where we walked! Before going home?!" she replied, in a sentence that made sense only to the two of us. "There it is! I see it!"
And so, today's first crisis was averted. On to the next one.
You know, even though I've been blogging now for over six years, and even though I came to terms with the fact pretty much anyone can happen across this little corner of the Internet, it's still mildly disconcerting to learn new co-workers have discovered your blog.
MSNBC.com headline:
"He’s Dem, she’s GOP — and they're married!"
I mean, seriously. This warrants a news article? Two people. . . with opposing opinions. . . are married. Stop the presses.
It's the exclamation point that really gets me. It's like saying "How is this possible?!"
Come to think about it, this should be expanded into a novel or movie.
"There's was a fragile love, fraught with political division. He believed in limited government and free markets; she championed universal health care and abortion rights up through and including the second tri-mester. Yet, despite these seemingly insurmountable odds, they found each other. . . and fell in LOVE!"
Then again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see such a headline on MSNBC.com. They're also running with, what, their 25th straight article about Tina Fey? Someone on the editorial staff totally wants to bang Tina Fey; it's SOoooo obvious.
Jody says: have you seen Iron Man?
Ryan says: I saw it in the theater. Good flick.
Jody says: yes...its one that I didn't watch closely enuf and need to watch again for more details
Jody says: i loved Robert Downy Jr's dry humor
Ryan says: Isn't he supposed to be in jail for drugs?
Jody says: all the time it seems
Ryan says: So, jail is kind of like home for him?
Jody says: must be
Ryan says: I always picture him with a bra on his head in "Weird Science."
Jody says: LOL
Jody says: that was a classic 80's movie
Ryan says: Which, by the way, Wyatt only had his brother, Chet, which means the bras they wore HAD TO HAVE BEEN Wyatt's Mom's.
