new car

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oi.

We are truly suburban now.

We moved from SF to Tempe, AZ. You have to have a car for each adult in the family…if you have kids. Fuck. That’s all I got to say about it.

So today we are going to go out and buy a car. It’s July 31 and there are incredible “deals” today if you buy a 2005 model. The dealers want them off the lot to make room for the new models.

We are buying *cough* a mini *cough* van *throw up*. I’ve never seen myself as a minivan owner. But with kids and dogs, they are truly unavoidable. ugh.

*sigh*

Buying a car today.

Finally a name

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So we decided upon Julian Dale Porter-Kaplan.

Unfortunately, because we waited three weeks, we have to get a birth certificate the hard way, as well as SSN. The hospital won’t help us and the state is pretty hard to deal with 🙁

Ah well. I miss Kaiser. They were amazingly well managed.

oh yeah

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So the two weeks leading up to the birth of my new son were just fucking hell. Way too much shit going on at work, and pending new family member.

Birth and a baby can really reset one’s priorities. I think I have my head on straight again! Work just got a lot easier and less stressful 🙂

new baby

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got me a new baby. Born Tuesday, June 28 at 1:47pm 🙂

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

This time round the entire thing was so much easier!

I forgot how nice it is to have a baby sleeping on your chest. sigh. happiness.

Y’all gotta try this some time.

new xbox bee killer game

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Well, not xbox, but real life.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Ok, just spent an hour killing bumble bees. Fuckers are nested under the shed out back. Like a dumb ass, I hired an organic exterminator to make them go away. Three fucking useless weeks later, no fucking god damn piece of shit change. So today, I go out armed with two spray bottles filled with soapy water and a weed wacker. I start going at the grass around one of the spots that they come in and out of. They immediately start coming out. Sos I go into first person shooter mode. Two fisted shots as they come out, get em nice and wet so they have a hard time flying, run in and stomp. Repeat for an hour. Killed several dozen bees this way. Get adrenaline going in super mode. KILL, KILL, KILL!

After an hour of this, I call and leave a message on the exterminator’s phone about the uselessness of their service, and demand that they refund my money.

I’m just now calming down.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

first tooth

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Colette lost her firt tooth today.

Pretty cool stuff. It has been loose for a few weeks now. Tonight it finally popped. She was very excited at first, but then it started bleeding a bit. She’s never seen that much blood, nor tasted it before. It wasn’t that much blood though, just enough to drip a bit.

Then she had a big dilema. Should she keep it or give it to the tooth fairy. She decided to give it to the tooth fairy and ask if the fairy would leave it with some money.

hehehe. cute.

BTW, Jason Alexander wrote a childrens book about the tooth fairy. Bastard spoiled the end by revealing that it was the parents doing it! We were reading it to Colette at the book store and it was too late to stop. We had to tell her it was just a story and that the tooth fairy was real…if she wanted it to be…which she did.

Damn it, what was Alexander thinking? No joy in that story. No real payoff. Just a spoiler for a puzzle that kids don’t even ponder. Shit head IMO.

Anyway, I’ve got lots of ranting to do these days 🙂

I got some video and pictures of the toothy event 🙂