I'm beginning to discover the joy and pleasure to being a parent to a (soon to be) teenage daughter. Kellie is currently going thru the pangs of young love, as she and the Kronik (my nickname for him) are in the midst of their first arguement. Its truly the stuff of movies. She apparently does nothing but talk about him....which of course leads to her girlfriends disliking him....and he does nothing but talk about her, which naturally leads to his friends disliking her. Its so totally high school. Except its more like so totally 7th grade. Anyway, positioning herself not coincidentally right in the middle of the action is her "friend", whom I call "Amanda the man stealer". The little bitch has had her eye on the Kronik since day 1, and unfortunately my beloved daughter can't see the forest for the trees. So I told her tonight that she needs to pick either Kronik or Amanda to be in her life....because its not big enough for them both. Its the classic case of "someone told me you like someone else", and Kellie is suffering bigtime for it. OMAN. I've got 6 more years of this shit? Yikes!
Well, once again south Florida was a lucky lady, as Hurricane Jeanne made a slight turn to the north and ass slammed the good folks of Stuart, Florida, for the 2nd time in a month. Oh we got plenty of wind, as opposed to Frances, which was all about the rain....but with Jeanne we got wind like I haven't been around in a LONG time.
All those people that tell you that being in hurricane sounds like a freight train going by weren't kidding. At one point on Saturday night, amongst the times that Kim and I were praying that our electricity wouldn't go out, I decided to take the fellas out for a brief stroll. Now, although at first glance this might sound like a truly idiotic thing to do....hey! Their dogs! They got business to do! Anyway, so we're out in front of the house....and naturally Midnight the Wonder Dog decides that this is a great opportunity to run around outside and play. Which of course impacts how quickly that Beezer the Emotionally Unstable Dog is going about his bidness. So I have to take Midnight back in and go out again with the Beez. So we're pacing back and forth, trying to inspire him to make Dad a present......and in the meantime I'm trying my best to stay away from any trees---especially any that are swaying just a little bit too far one way or another. Hey, I love the boys, but I'm not looking to get nailed on the head by a broken branch. So Beezer is understandably reluctant, so I decide to change our location ever so slightly and risk going over by some smaller trees in hope that the boy will do his thing. So I'm standing under the tree, and across the street the pine trees in my neighbors yard are swaying like there's no tomorrow. And that freight train noise that I told you about? Like there's no tomorrow. And then above my head I hear a very distinct creeeeeeeeeking sound. I looked at the boy and told him that he was just going to have to cross his damn legs!
By the way, for those of you keeping track, this was my FIRST ever story involving a dog trying to take a crap. Please keep score.
SPORTS ALERT SPORTS ALERT SPORTS ALERT
The proverbial mixed bag sports wise this weekend. A very nice weekend on the football front, as Notre Dame won their 3rd in a row, putting a major case of whoop ass on the Washington Huskies, with Brady Quinn throwing for 4 t.d.'s in the FIRST HALF. The Vikes beat the Bears, who....well, quite frankly....are the Bears and should've been beaten, and if truth be told...should've been beaten worse than they were. The WEED had his usual great game, catching 7 passes and starting one fight.
The Cubs, on the other hand....manage to give me a major case of heartburn as they dropped two games to the METS. (Let me state that one again: THE METS!!!!)
UGH! One of the games was lost....I kid you not, with the Cubs holding a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 9th....and 2 outs. And the Red Sox fans think they have it bad.
Pussies.
On the movie front.....I started the kids down the right road by exposing them to Blazing Saddles on Friday night. Kellie was totally bored by the movie until the campfire scene. That one gets them EVERYTIME. So then Kim & I watched
"13 Going on 30"....or as I called it, the story of my niece's life. Pretty good story with a nice little message thrown in (one that naturally my daughter managed to totally miss out on). Jennifer Garner is supposed to be the hottest thing in movies right now....too skinny. Decent movie though. ***
Later,
jeff
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