At torapines request

After helloheather's stab at a top 10 list, I too shall try my hand on "Top Ten Things No One Tells You About Being Married, But They Really Happen and It's Okay If It Happens to You!"

1. Sex in every room in the house is not as comfortable or exciting as it sounds. After the 3rd room, it becomes like eating the last bites of a huge slice of chocolate cake. You're only eating to finish it now and not because you enjoy it. Also, carpeting is not nice on the knees.
   
2. While most people combine their finances, it is perfectly okay to keep them separate. There is no law that says you both have to use only 1 bank account now that you are married.
   
3. As a man, it is okay to not be "in the mood".
   
4. ALWAYS ANSWER HONESTLY (except for the 'Does this make me look fat?')! While sitcoms produce hysterical situations out of little lies, they are never as funny in real life. Usually, someone ends up feeling hurt if not getting hurt.
   
5. Your wife is either a good cook, cleaner, or lover. Get 2 out of 3 and you're lucky. Get 3 out of 3 and you're probably dead.
   
6. You love shows that your spouse hates and vice versa. Its okay to watch them separately.
   
7. Getting married is easy. Staying married is hard.
   
8. In-Laws are not always scary and intrusive. There are also in-laws who immediately accept you as one of the family and love you as much as they love their own children.
   
   • Corollary: Once you provide grandchildren, the in-laws love you even more!
   
   
9. You may not always be interested in listening to your spouse, even if she really needs to vent. Whether you are or not, you must always act interested.
   
10. Having a child both brings you together and pulls you apart at the same time. You have a common bond in your child, but now only 10% of your time is spent with your SO rather than the previous 90%
    

Pondering on recent events.

With a certain story pertaining to a celebrity PVS patient, I, along with the rest of America, took some time to think about a Living Will. But, Living Wills are hard and require lawyers. I want the easy way out. So, rather than write a new one, I am going to plagiarize this one. Please substitute my name where ever Andy Maskin appears.

Honey, it is now your responsibility to make sure this will is followed to the letter. Enjoy!

Motion Induced Blindness

Want to know what Motion Induced Blindness is like? Check out this nifty page to find out.

I recommend changing sizes of the dots and speed of rotation. It's truely amazing.

The Motivation that is the NCAA Tournament

I have been in my office for several months now. I have a cable jack here, but I didn't hook it up yet. Mainly because I have some grand rewiring notions. What I eventually want to have is the Family Room TiVo on cable channel 105 (or something like that) throughout the house. Just add some RF extenders for the remote and you could watch TiVo anywhere in the house.
Well, today is 1st round of the NCAA Tournament, of which I am a big fan. So what did I do? I completely abondaned my plans, ran to my closet to get my old dorm room TV and hooked it up just so I can sit at my desk and watch the tournament. Oh ... yeah ... and do that work .. thing .. or whatever.

How do you know its St Parick's Day

from the Leprechauun Web Cam

NOTE: The web site only appears to work in Internet Explorer.

States Meme

gakked from mammabec:

Interesting note: I've marked off exactly half the states. I've been to 25 of them (plus Washington D.C.)

bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...

Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /

Baby Picture Madness

More pictures have been posted! Check out the Fourth and Fifth Month folders. BTW, the naming convention assumed a 1 based counting system rather than a 0 based. That's a fancy way of saying that the "First Month" folder is age 0-1 months and so on. So, while our little girl just turned four months old, her newest pictures are in the Fifth month folder.

Twench's Public Service Announcement

If you live in the northern central states, you are now entitled to receive a free credit report from all 3 credit bureaus. West Coasters have been able to get theirs for about 3 months now. You Southerners and East Coasters are just going to have to wait though. Go and get yours today!
This is actually an annual thing so you can get a free report from Experian, Equifax, and Transunion once a year, but only once a year. You also have the option of getting all 3 reports at once or staggering them. It's up to you, but I highly recommend you take advantage of this. Knowing what's on your credit report is one of the most important things you can do to protect yourself.
This has been a Twench Public Service Announcement. We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.

An Appropriate link for today

Dad Gone Mad has an absolutely wonderful post with ruminations on the his daughter's birthday. Given today is Lauren's 4 month birthday, I found this post to be quite apropos and elegantly sums up my feelings for Lauren as well.

Happy Birthday

Our little girl turns 4 months old today! Time sure does fly.

A Debbie Moment

Yes my friends ... I suffered from a Debbie moment. This particular moment involves a stuffed animal of Lauren's. Is this green four-legged dinosaur (like a brachiosaurus). This particular animal plays Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and has an LED in the snout that lights up. On the chest of this little animal is a star with the word "Press" in the center. Upon looking at this, I asked Debbie: "Why did they name the dinosaur press?"

Yes folks, that was a serious question that escaped my lips. *sigh* So, we now call the dinosaur "Press".

What a pipsqueak!

That little daughter of mine is such a pipsqueak! Yesterday, Debbie hosted a Creative Memories party so I had to get home early to help out before the partiers arrived. In this case, early means 6:00 pm. I thought "Great! I'll get to see Lauren before she goes to bed for the night." I fully expected to go home and feed her the last bottle of the day. Well ... this little pipsquek must have caught wind of this idea and endeavored to ruin my plans. She fell asleep FOR THE NIGHT at 5:20!!!!! A full 40 minutes before I got home!!!! Thus, I got no Lauren time when I got home. How depressing!

Things never to say...

to a "Work-At-Home" Mom:

Geez ... I feel so tired.

The sympathy you get could barely fill a thimble.