Climbing Mt. Everest...or the couch...whichever is closer...and easier come to think of it...It better be the couch!

My son is a climber.

Today I found him standing on the back of the couch trying to see out the window.

It wouldn't be so bad if he could learn not to fall. (No damage except to his pride)

This can be entertaining however. One of his favorite climbing spots is the coffee table in the living room. (See picture in earlier post) Yesterday he climbed onto it and walked around for a minute. Then he sat down and shimmied forward so that his legs were hanging over the side of the table. He swung his legs and giggled at them. Or me, but I hope it was his own actions he was laughing at and not a early childhood realization that dad is actually not as smart as he looks....and he doesn't look that smart!

After awhile he decided to shuffle back a bit to stand up so that he could walk around again but sort of last his balance backwards. It would have been simple to let himself roll slowly onto his back and then recover but he fought it. He stayed in this half collapsing form for around twenty seconds as he tried to sit back up but couldn't. Think halfway up on a crunchie - if I did that for as long as he did I would not be able to type right now, I would hurt too much. During this time, as he fought gravity and jerked his tiny body several times to straighten up, he managed to twist 45% and slide sideways about 6 inches.

As expected he finally decided to let gravity take over. YEP! You guessed it. He was now at the edge of the table and leaning backwards off of it. His feet shot straight up and then he tumbled down.

He was not happy with this turn of events.

I laughed through the tears, his tears that is. (Does that make me a bad parent of just normal?)

Before you feel too bad for him I have to point out that the story doesn't end there. Once he was done crying, about 12 seconds later, he grabbed one of his books and climbed back up onto the table where he promptly started to walk randomly while trying to read his book!!!!

I miss having no fear and a 20 second memory. At least as I grow older I know I will get one of those back.

One of.....what...back? I was saying something....I think it was important. Oh well, it'll come to me eventually. I just hope that no one thinks I am strange because of.... what was I afraid of? ...What was I talking about?

Someone's at the door, I'd better go hide.

Hung Up

I find it disturbing that as Madonna gets older I like her music more and more.

The new single is good enough that I am thinking of getting the album. I don't buy CD's!!!!

Looked like a good idea!

[A is for age:] 28 for another 4 months
[B is for booze of choice:] never had enough to decide
[C is for career:] Eternal student
[D is for your dad's name:] Wesly
[E is for essential items to bring to a party:] Sour cream and oinion chips
[F is for favourite song at the moment:]That one by that guy (sorry jeff, it’s the best I could do)[G is for favourite game:] Tickling Andrea
[H is for hometown:] Regina
[I is for instruments you played:] piano, trumpet, trombone, accordian (yes…I know!)
[J is for jam or jelly you like:] Frozen raspberry jam.
[K is for kids?] Jason and NO NAME (or TBA)
[L is for living arrangements:] House basement with wife kid and dog. You can’t have my dog. Anybody want a kid? Onlyl whines when not eating!
[M is for mom's name:] Heather
[N is for name of your crush :] Andrea
[O is for overnight hospital stays:] Never
[P is for phobias:] spiders and hights. Not phobias yet, but I do avoid them.
[Q is for quotes you like:] AHHHH! The phone is leaking!!!!!
[R is for relationship that lasted the longest] 6 years (or 10, or 13, or 20,…depends on who you listen too.
[S is for sexual preference:] Yes please
[T is for time you wake up:] 8-9 am.
[U is for underwear:] BB’s (boxer-briefs
[V is for vegetable you love:] Tomato
[W is for worst habit:] Procrastination (i.e. I should be doing homework right now.)
[X is for x-rays you've had:] Shoulder, ankle, lungs. Apparently lungs should be clear. Mine were not clear and I got a $300 prescription. 2 months later, I could breath again
[Y is for yummy food you make:] Most things
[Z is for zodiac sign:] Piceies??? The fish thingy. It’s never right. Actually it is also never wrong. They are so vague.

Stealth (plagiarized shamelessly from Darrell)

"Pardon my C-cup". A line that is sure to become one of the best remembered movie lines off all time, along with "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn", and "I'm a mog, half dog, half man. I'm my own best friend". The movie Stealth certainly had plenty of action. Every two minutes I was getting up to hurl over the seat in front of me, a condition brought on by the waves of cliches and pointless scenes that assaulted me. I mean...it was...an...okay movie.... Okay, that's a lie.Really, it wasn't a completely terrible movie. But it was by no means a good movie either. There was nothing particularly surprising about it, no twist ending that no one saw coming. The cliches came hot and heavy, the characters were almost developed and the special effects, while good, were nothing that hasn't been seen a million times before. The thing that elevates this movie slightly above any other of a million other mindless action flicks is that the acting was actually pretty good. Sadly, the material that they were acting out was not so good, but with what they had they managed to do the best they could. It's like shovelling a pile of poop - you may be the quickest, strongest, and best poop slinger out there, but at the end of the day it's all still crap.There were so many problems with this movie that it became an unintentional comedy. For example, in one scene the intrepid hero fires a missile (that's one missile) into a clump of trees at the edge of a forest. There is a huge explosion. I'm okay with that. But what about the second explosion, and the third explosion, creating a fireball a half a klick long. I'm pretty sure that the missile explodes once and that's it (I'll admit I may be wrong I suppose), and there was nothing else there to create explosions. Unless those were gasoline trees, where we get fuel from the sap. Another explosion, um, scene features our intrepid hero firing a missile into a hangar at an airfield. This time the many explosions is more believable, given the materials present in the hangar, and I think he fired more than one this time. They show people outside of the hangar being flung backwards by the huge explosion. Somehow, though, two guys manage to not be flung back, even though their buddy standing right beside them is flung back dozens of yards.And let's speak of our intrepid hero. It's at least halfway through the movie before there is any indication that he is the focus of the movie. Up to that point, he's actually a sleezeball and that's about it. And he reveals to another character that he is in love with Jessica Biel (the lone woman pilot). And it shows in how he looked at her while going off to sleep with another woman, an occurance that is apparently quite common. Now that's love. As my brother said, "it's like they opened up the book of movie cliches and pulled out thirty of them for the movie" (or something like that). The characters were not developed at all. They certainly tried character development over the first half of the movie, but it just didn't work at all. By the time the actual action started in earnest, I didn't care about these characters any more than I had when I walked in. I was rooting for Jamie Foxx's character because he was the actor I knew best. That was it.It was supposed to be an action packed drama. It turned into a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 comedy. I felt sorry for Jeff because he was sitting between me and Peter, and we kept him busy swivelling his head back and forth to listen to our comments that were much more entertaining than the movie itself.Really, we should have been expecting that though. Considering our evening started with us grabbing tickets to see the 7:50 showing of Four Brothers, only to find at 7:35 that we had purchased tickets for a movie not opening for two days, seeing a bad movie was not surprising. The planes looked cool though. And I found it amazing how much stuff they could get away with simply by placing this movie in "the near future" (actual subtitle at the beginning of the movie). For instance, in "the near future" we will have satalites that can read fingerprints left on objects and identify a person. That can zoom down, and then see sideways, zooming in horizontally towards their subject. Planes that can fly at Mach 4 and go around the world without ever needing to refuel or worry about it (except when it becomes a plot device). This movie astounded me. Heck, I usually am amused by bad movies (see: Anacondas), but this one was too much.

HERE HERE

Yet sadly it really was still enjoyable.

Line to compeate with "Pardon my C-cup.":

"Just tell me you love me you pussy!"

JASON

And HEEEEEEEEERRRRREEE HE IS!

Tired of School

I am haveing a really rough semester. i am struggling in all my classes and just don't want to be here ever. I feel burnt out.

I applied for a job with the Regina Housing Authority yesterday. I meet all the requirements and am really hopeful about getting it. This is the group that manages the Regency cres. townhouses that we used to live in.

If I am ambitios I will post some pics of my son later. Those always cheer me up!

Dam Riders!

Another year and another dissapointment.

You would think that after so many bad years I would be used to it but it just seems to hurt more.


aaarrrrrggggh!

reconversion

I came back guys. Figuring out where Mecca was 5 times a day was just too time consuming!

اغتيال محامٍ في فريق دفاع صدام حسين، الثاني في أقل من شهر

اغتال مسلحون مجهولون في كمين مسلح المحامي عادل الزبيدي الذي يمثل نائب الرئيس العراقي السابق طه ياسين رمضان، الثلاثاء في حي "العديل" غربي بغداد. يُذكر أن محاميا آخرا يدعى سعدون الجنابي، ويمثل المتهم عواد البندر أحد أعوان صدام حسين السبعة، والذي مثل في المحاكمة الشهر الماضي، كان اختطف من مكتبه من قبل عشرة مسلحين ملثمين في العشرين من أكتوبر /تشرين الأول الماضي، قبل أن يعثر بعد عدة ساعات على جثته قرب مسجد شرق العاصمة العراقية. التفاصيل