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Day by Day: Uncooler by the second, and happy about it.
Thu, 28 Dec 2006

Its been a little while and so many things have gone unsaid, but let me at least hope everyone had a very fyyyyne Christmas and look forward to good times to come. A quick post today as I consider getting back into the blog-swing of things.

We've spent a lot of time cleaning up around the house, moving things around and depopulating the future baby-room so I can attempt the very epic adventure: The Painting of The Room. I know this is a mundane event to many, but having to rediscover 'spackle' and polyfil and Alexa-goo for filling cracks and picture-hanging-holes: all things I've not done in quite some time. Yet, as I arm the gun-goo-dispenser and pretend to be manly I sometimes get this feeling of uncoolness.

Now - as so many would jump to point out - a guy who hosts barbecues featuring steaks and arcade machines or who asks Santa for a Sid Meier's game cannot climb much lower on the coolness ladder - but the feeling cannot help but present itself all the same - when you have a kid, you are by definition a square, forever to be texted '[]' by your nephew. Like, you could be a night-time DJ after your accounting job and still keep some hip but once the kid comes, I dunno, you've lost it :)

Now, this isn't a bad thing -- as I look at painting the room and dream about taking the future child running in a park, playing soccor, and showing him or her how to snort paint out their nose onto construction paper like a real punk, it just reminds me that deep inside all of us are the same. I mean, I was out looking at camcorders with a half dozen other dads-to-be during a Boxing Day sale, and sorting through boxes of hand-me-down baby clothes from my family. Weeeeird stuff. But once you have a kid, you remember the real priorities in life, and you think back to all those people back in the office who went on about their kids all day and you think -- yeah, hell yeah, thats the life for me.

We had 4 or 5 days of Christmas activities in a row, seeing lots of family and some friends and such. Ten years ago that would have driven me nuts, but now it seemed over all too fast, and I miss my family ... after having moved an hour or so away from then, it seems too far. Thats what I'm talking about.

Uncooler, but changed for the better. Creepy :)

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