November 9, 2007

I have finally broken down and tried to update a little on this website. Seriously, do you come to this tiny corner of the internet looking for late breaking news?? Who knows, maybe 2008 will bring about monthly updates and new rants. Ok, stop laughing, it could happen.

Funny how it seems the last time I added a rant it was about daylight savings. Well, we just did it again. I went around and changed all the clocks and left some much better moving them back from 8am to 7am, thinking I just gained an hour that I could have been sleeping. As you can tell, I'm still not over my issues with this.

But onto more important things, we are having a little girl in January. Yes, Quin will have a little sister. And yes, we know it will be a girl. When we had Quin we left it as a total surprise. I liked it that way since it isn't like you have a return option if it isn't what you wanted. Now we are working on getting the house ready.

For all the guys out there, you know what this means. Hours of hearing about how you need to paint the baby's room and all the other things you need to have ready. It is painful to guys. Why? Because we are very simple creatures. We don't see how it matters to an infant if the room is white or vintage white, if the clothes she is wearing are blue and people say you have a handsome son. We are just happy if we can get out of changing a diaper.

So ladies, please cut us some slack. No we didn't carry them in our belly for 9 months or suffer through labor. We don't lose the same amount of sleep staying up and feeding them. But when they are 3, getting on your nerves and you are frustrated beyond belief, we are the ones that will say how about we go for ice cream, which only makes you even more pissed off. Why do we it? It is our way of trying to help you preserve your sanity and reminding you that we are simple creatures that still can't match our own clothes let only matching Granimals for our kids. We love those damn kids, too.

September 28, 2005

Yep, seems like it has been quite sometime since I have had a reason to complain. Don't kid yourself, I do plenty of complaining . .ask Nicole . .ask my co-workers. Really, writing these rants is a matter of time.

For those of you have kids, you know why there are huge gaps in these rants. No time!! Don't get me wrong, I'm trilled to the oldest child in our family ( you know it is true, Nicole has two kids to deal with . .Quin and me). There is nothing quite like looking into an infants eyes and seeing that smile, knowing they have complete trust in you. For those of you who have teenagers you know this look is replaced with with rolling eyes when you say," When I was your age ..".

Still time files by and there is nothing we can do about it .. or is there. I have a crazy idea, why don't we change the time on all our clocks twice a year. We can turn them ahead an hour in the Spring, because everyone loves to lose an hour of sleep on a Sunday .. really, who sleeps in on Sundays!??! then, in the Fall, we can turn the clocks back because everyone knows you'll need an extra hour to rake leaves. What a great idea, don't you think. Really, it isn't hard enough getting all the clocks in the house to read the same time.

I know, you are saying I'm being silly. By messing up our clocks we get an extra hour of sunlight. Think of all the good things we can do with that hour ... yeah, watch reruns till the new Fall season starts. Well, here is an idea, when it gets dark, stop playing in the street, come inside and turn on a light.

Wait, what time is it ... damn, you'll have to excuse me, a new Desperate Housewives is on ...

May 23, 2004

Yeah, yeah, it has been quite some time since I updated anything. Life is a tough game to play in a timely manner when you don't have a rule book.

Speaking of rule books, let me bounce an idea off you. WE the people means all of us, right?? Not just those who believe in a Christian god and even those of us who don't believe in a god. Maybe I misunderstood the word freedom and the phrase separation of church and state. Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe people have the right and freedom to worship whoever and however they want so long as it doesn't harm or effect anyone or anything else.

With everything going on in the world, you would think the place where people would understand the importance of freedom and tolerance would be the place that really put it on the map, the great USA. Come on people, practice what we preach ... live and let live and stop telling me I have to say "under god" when I pledge my allegiance to my country.

From October 12, 2003

Ok, cut me some slack, I work full-time and host a website for my dog. Do you really think I have time to come up with something to complain about every week. Do I look like Andy Rooney? Wait, don't answer that ...

Speaking of the dog (and Andy Rooney)... Some friends of ours gave us a gift. It was a Beenie Baby dog called Hodge Podge. Not that Hodge is copywritten, but come on!?!? The birthday they put on the toy is July 27, 2002, this is easily a year after Hodgethedog.com was made public on the internet and more two years since Hodge was born. Now, I am not saying they stole the name, but maybe, just maybe, they got the idea from this website. Crazy as this seems, I am pretty sure I also, at some point in time sent my resume to the company (since they are based outside Chicago and I was often looking for work). And on my resume and in my cover letter I am sure I mentioned this website. So, put two and two together and I think you get my line of thought.

Maybe, if you feel the need, write the company and let them know you know who the real Hodge the dog is and let them know about this website. After all, can't we all just get along!?!?!

Check back soon for something else that has bothered me.