Snippets are all I have today between cleaning the house and making the changeover to Xmas mode, setting up the tree and generally having an over-productive day at home.
* We got rid of the last cat in our house more than a week ago and have vacuumed up several vacuums full of cat hair and still I'm greeted by tumbleweeds of cat fur on a daily basis. That cat was magical. That is the only explanation at this point.
* Trying to achieve balance assumes there is a point of balance between two things. Case in point: There is no "right" amount of things to do around the house on the weekends. I'm either not getting stuff done or I'm getting too much done and not spending time with the kids on my days home. There is no fulcrum to this dynamic and no sense trying to find it.
* Skipped the turkey dinner end of Thanksgiving this year in favor of a kids movie and was much happier for it.
* My kids actually recognizes the dance from "West Side Story" in the movie yesterday, which was totally there for the adults, and thought it was hilarious. They are weird kids and I tell them that everyday so it's not a shock when they go out into the world to deal with normal children.
* We go through an insane number of batteries in our house. Anyone that makes a kids toy (Owen's piano, for example) that can plug in but does not include the plug, forcing you to shell out $20 at radio shack for a poorly-fitting one, should have 110 volts run through them.
* The influx of people coming home for the holidays is just starting, just in time for the wife and I to leave for Las Vegas next week. So long, suckas!!
* the Improv A Go Go lottery happens on December 1st for the January-May 2009 season, if you are a performer and want a spot in that time period send me an email before December 1st at noon. Emails received after 12 noon (and there are always several) will be deleted. Gotta have a line somewhere, send emails earlier rather than later to make sure you're in.
* yes, it's actually a lottery.
* My kids love the Wii and are crazy excited to try out the classic Atari games. I'm sure they find the blocky graphics and shitty controls to be challenging. I find that seeing games from my childhood side-by-side with technology from theirs makes me grumble with classic old man "back in MY day" resentment.
that is all - cleaning, playing 8-bit games and digging Xmas tree out and untangling lights.
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