Admittedly, I love television. I enjoy a good story. Even more so, I love simply relaxing on the couch. Call me lazy, but its the truth. I know I should go exercise or read a book or something else that is more productive, but I just don't want to. It's my guilty pleasure.
We lead a pretty busy life at our house so the times that we actually get to sit and watch television are very few and far between. As a result, Our DVR is totally backed up and verging on too full. Now that I have found myself with a week and a half without a wife or a baby to take care of, I have a lot of time to watch TV and catch up. So here is my dilemma.
Which shows am I allowed to watch without Breanne? We have a few shows that I know I can watch by myself but there are a few that are considered "our shows" that we watch together and I know I'd be in huge trouble if I watched them without her. I feel the need to categorize them as to help me decide what is fair game to fill my time with and what is off limits.
So here is a sneak peak into our DVR. Don't make fun of my show selections either! I know there are several really interesting shows that have recently started but I just can't make time for them. Should you feel the need to make recommendations, keep in mind that I don't have cable.
My shows- shows that I feel safe to watch without Breanne
1. The Office- I only have watched 2 episodes of this season so far. It's just not the same without Michael Scott. So I have a lot of catching up to do on this one.
2. Survivor- I haven't watched survivor in years and randomly decided to check it out since it was just starting.
3. Private Practice- I'm so embarrassed. I got hooked years ago when they did a Grey's Anatomy crossover show. Try not to judge me too harshly.
4. How I Met Your Mother- I record it in syndication and new episodes. The syndication episodes are safe. New ones... not so much.
5. Big Bang Theory- Also recording in syndication. Stinking hilarious. She likes this show too, but I don't she minds if I watch it without her.
Her shows- shows that she records that I have no desire to watch.
1. Rachael Ray- I think we have approximately 77 episodes of Rachael Ray on our DVR. Breanne just doesn't have time to watch them anymore. She is in definite danger of getting about 52 episodes erased to make room.
Our shows that I might be able to watch- Shows that we typically watch together, however we are so far behind on them that I don't think we will ever catch up. Therefore, if I watched them without her it wouldn't be the end of the world.
1. The Voice- Fun singing show. They are still in the audition phase so there is nothing to crazy going on right now anyway. I just like that it is different. We typically put his on while doing other work on couch at the same time. I don't think she would mind too much.
2. Grey's Anatomy- Episodes from last season are still on our DVR. Catching up together is hopeless so I think it's fair game. Again.... I am so embarrassed.
3. Glee- I used to really like Glee a lot, but it has gone super down hill as of late. Therefore, 6 episodes have piled up on the DVR. It's one of those that I feel obligated to watch because I have seen so much of it so far, but it's becoming a little too much for me. And horribly unrealistic. I hope kids don't think this is an accurate portrayal of high school life. Just stick with the songs. That's what I like anyway.
Our shows that I am forbidden to watch without her- I know that if I were to watch these shows without her, I would be in big trouble!
1. New Girl- One of the funniest shows on television right now. She would be soooo mad if I watched without her!
2. Smash- We are only one episode into this show so far, but it was good. I can wait.
3. Up All Night- Again, it has piled up on the DVR but we started watching this show together from the very beginning so I feel obligated to wait for her return to catch up.
Julia's Shows- no danger of me watching this.
1. Sesame Street- I love Elmo and all, but its been nice to have a week of from him and his Muppet friends.
On a Side note, I've set my DVR to record the new show Awake that starts next week. It looks really interesting. I'm anticipating it being filed under the "My show" category.
Did I miss anything honey? Let me know now so I know which ones to act surprised about when we finally get around to watching them. :)
Friday, February 24, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Bachelor
Due to an family emergency Breanne and Julia are going to be travelling to New Mexico for a week and a half. Unfortunately, I will not be going with them. I need to save my vacation time for when baby #2 arrives later this year. This leaves me all alone to fend for myself. So I foresee a total regression upon her departure. Over the course of the past few years of marriage I have actually become sort of competent in the kitchen. I'm nowhere near as good as she is, but I can whip up a meal or two when necessary. Somehow I just don't see that happening next week.
I imagine that I will return to my old ways of frozen pizza type products, including but not limited to, regular pizza, pizza rolls, and pizza bread.
I think this whole routine will be novel for approximately 2 1/2 days and after that I think I will get really bored. There is only so much television you can watch and only so much of a conversation you can have with the dog. I am also really going to miss having them around. Especially Julia. Who am I going to have tea parties with while she is gone?
So here is my question. Who wants to entertain me? That's right. It is now your job to entertain me! How's that for delegating? I am hearby making myself available for movies, working out, hanging out, games, etc. Please, not all of you at once. There is only so much of me to go around.
If no one replies I will be sad and lonely. Do I sound pathetic enough yet?
I'm sure I'll be fine. Breanne really has the hard job of managing the munchkin all by herself so this is me officially shutting up before she feels the need to reply to this too. :)
I imagine that I will return to my old ways of frozen pizza type products, including but not limited to, regular pizza, pizza rolls, and pizza bread.
I think this whole routine will be novel for approximately 2 1/2 days and after that I think I will get really bored. There is only so much television you can watch and only so much of a conversation you can have with the dog. I am also really going to miss having them around. Especially Julia. Who am I going to have tea parties with while she is gone?
So here is my question. Who wants to entertain me? That's right. It is now your job to entertain me! How's that for delegating? I am hearby making myself available for movies, working out, hanging out, games, etc. Please, not all of you at once. There is only so much of me to go around.
If no one replies I will be sad and lonely. Do I sound pathetic enough yet?
I'm sure I'll be fine. Breanne really has the hard job of managing the munchkin all by herself so this is me officially shutting up before she feels the need to reply to this too. :)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Murphy's Law of Economics
We are all familiar with "Murhpy's Law" right? Something along the lines of "as soon as something bad can happen, it will". This law also has very close ties with the world of economics. Murphy's Law of Economics goes something like "the moment you have a few extra dollars, something will come along that will steal them".
Here are some examples. You get a raise at work and then your kid needs braces. You manage to have a little extra at the end of the month and you think "Yay, I can make an extra car payment this month!". Not so fast! Murphy steps in and breaks your alternator. And then there is Murphy's favorite time of year. Tax Return Season. The moment you get that check in your hands, your furnace will need repaired! He is pure evil I tell you!
You get the point. It's so frustrating. Currently my wife and I are pushing super hard to pay off our car. Its so close and I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are needing to pay it off before the baby gets here and the ultimate goal is for Breanne to work even less in the future. Along with paying off the car, we are needing to save up for the upcoming hospital bills. Since we have a stupidly enormous deductible, it turns out to be a very sizable expense. They say you can't put a price tag on the joy a child brings to your life, but apparently the hospital can. The last joy we are saving up for is maternity leave. Breanne has great job, however it has zero PTO time. That's 8 weeks without a pay check! Ouch.
So we have gone into serious budget lock down mode. We have a plan-ish and everything is on track. Then Murphy moved into our house. On an unfortunate note, Breanne's father is having open heart surgery tomorrow so she is going to be driving down to see him for a week and a half to help him as he recovers. So now a large portion of what we were planning on using for savings this month is newly being allocated to travel expenses and next months bills as she will not get paid for that time off. (see above PTO problem)
It's so frustrating to have plans derailed like this. Grrr!
Ok... so now I am done complaining about it and here is where I count my blessings. Ready, set, go. We are making headway on the budget and are blessed enough for it to be possible for her to go. We have an emergency fund (thanks Dave Ramsey), so this little hiccup is not as much of an "emergency" as it could be. God provides. I have always had enough so I can't start complaining now.
so, Breanne... cause I know you are reading this. An open letter to you. Don't be stressed. It will be OK. God provides. It will be fine and we will work it out. We always do. Let the voice of God be louder in your life than your pregnancy hormones. He cares about the health of your father. He cares about the logistics of all of this madness that you are trying to figure out. The where's, when's, who's, and how questions you are asking are not beyond His control. Not saying that everything will be perfect and will run according to plan, just that we will figure it all out as it comes. Just take a breath and handle it all as it comes.
While you are gone I will do my best to find where Murphy is hiding in our house and I will beat the crap out of him for you. Hopefully he will be gone before you return.
Love,
Michael
Here are some examples. You get a raise at work and then your kid needs braces. You manage to have a little extra at the end of the month and you think "Yay, I can make an extra car payment this month!". Not so fast! Murphy steps in and breaks your alternator. And then there is Murphy's favorite time of year. Tax Return Season. The moment you get that check in your hands, your furnace will need repaired! He is pure evil I tell you!
You get the point. It's so frustrating. Currently my wife and I are pushing super hard to pay off our car. Its so close and I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are needing to pay it off before the baby gets here and the ultimate goal is for Breanne to work even less in the future. Along with paying off the car, we are needing to save up for the upcoming hospital bills. Since we have a stupidly enormous deductible, it turns out to be a very sizable expense. They say you can't put a price tag on the joy a child brings to your life, but apparently the hospital can. The last joy we are saving up for is maternity leave. Breanne has great job, however it has zero PTO time. That's 8 weeks without a pay check! Ouch.
So we have gone into serious budget lock down mode. We have a plan-ish and everything is on track. Then Murphy moved into our house. On an unfortunate note, Breanne's father is having open heart surgery tomorrow so she is going to be driving down to see him for a week and a half to help him as he recovers. So now a large portion of what we were planning on using for savings this month is newly being allocated to travel expenses and next months bills as she will not get paid for that time off. (see above PTO problem)
It's so frustrating to have plans derailed like this. Grrr!
Ok... so now I am done complaining about it and here is where I count my blessings. Ready, set, go. We are making headway on the budget and are blessed enough for it to be possible for her to go. We have an emergency fund (thanks Dave Ramsey), so this little hiccup is not as much of an "emergency" as it could be. God provides. I have always had enough so I can't start complaining now.
so, Breanne... cause I know you are reading this. An open letter to you. Don't be stressed. It will be OK. God provides. It will be fine and we will work it out. We always do. Let the voice of God be louder in your life than your pregnancy hormones. He cares about the health of your father. He cares about the logistics of all of this madness that you are trying to figure out. The where's, when's, who's, and how questions you are asking are not beyond His control. Not saying that everything will be perfect and will run according to plan, just that we will figure it all out as it comes. Just take a breath and handle it all as it comes.
While you are gone I will do my best to find where Murphy is hiding in our house and I will beat the crap out of him for you. Hopefully he will be gone before you return.
Love,
Michael
Friday, February 3, 2012
What's in a Name? and Preschool Already?
In the daily goings on of my day job I come across a new people every day. I often meet people with... let's say "unique" names. Today however, I ran across one that officially beats them all. We came across a man who officially changed his name to "Bubba Bubba Bubba". That's right. "Bubba Bubba Bubba". First name Bubba. Middle name Bubba. Last name Bubba. His prior insurance policy was listed under the name "Bubba B. Bubba". I am absolutely dumbfounded by this. Why in the world would anyone willingly do this? Do you really want to spend your entire life explaining to people that "no really, that is my name."? I can completely understand going by "Bubba" as a nickname. Heck, I can even understand it actually being your first name, but what compels a person to legally change their first, middle, and last name to Bubba? Was their real name that bad? What would his parents say? As a man who is currently tasked with the job of naming a child I would totally take offense to this. Knowing that I agonized over finding just the perfect name for a child and then to have them later in life change it to "Bubba Bubba Bubba" would totally be a slap in the face. Let's just hope that I choose a name that my child will like enough to never want to change.
In other news, Breanne and I toured a preschool for Julia in the Fall. Seriously? How has this time come upon us already? There is a really good school in town that offers a 2 1/2 days a week program for 2 1/2 year olds so we are going to try and get Julia into it. How is it possible that my sweet little girl is going to be old enough to go to school already? I know it's just preschool and that its only just a couple 1/2 days a week, but it seems like it has all gone really fast. I can remember a time when Julia was itty bitty. Certainly she can't be old enough for this yet. She's still a baby right? It oddly simultaneously feels like it was just born yesterday and yet an eternity ago all at the same time. She is such a big girl already and it amazes me. She talks in sentences and knows her colors, shapes and letters so I suppose she is ready for this, but I'm not sure that I am. My little girl is growing up. Before too long she will be too busy texting her friends and rolling her eyes at me and probably won't have time for her daddy. At least for now, she still needs her papa bear and gives me lots of hugs. I'm way to sentimental for my own good.
In other news, Breanne and I toured a preschool for Julia in the Fall. Seriously? How has this time come upon us already? There is a really good school in town that offers a 2 1/2 days a week program for 2 1/2 year olds so we are going to try and get Julia into it. How is it possible that my sweet little girl is going to be old enough to go to school already? I know it's just preschool and that its only just a couple 1/2 days a week, but it seems like it has all gone really fast. I can remember a time when Julia was itty bitty. Certainly she can't be old enough for this yet. She's still a baby right? It oddly simultaneously feels like it was just born yesterday and yet an eternity ago all at the same time. She is such a big girl already and it amazes me. She talks in sentences and knows her colors, shapes and letters so I suppose she is ready for this, but I'm not sure that I am. My little girl is growing up. Before too long she will be too busy texting her friends and rolling her eyes at me and probably won't have time for her daddy. At least for now, she still needs her papa bear and gives me lots of hugs. I'm way to sentimental for my own good.
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