Archive for the 'I have a slight TV addiction' Category

things I’ve wanted to blog about for a while, but just could never seem to write an entire post about

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Rerun can roll over both ways.  This is pretty early for a baby.  Thus it’s proven; he’s a genius.  He still gets up once a night to eat.  For some reason this [...]

In which I admit that I’m not a “Carrie”

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I haven’t seen a rated R movie since 1999. That’s right, I don’t watch rated R movies. In those nine years a lot of rated R movies have come out that I’ve wanted to see. And by “a lot” I guess I mean there are a few that I’ve wanted to see. Like “Garden State”. [...]

Does anyone know when the Olympics start? I haven’t heard.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I know we’re not the only people currently obsessing over the Olympics. Some of our friends, who are very, very anti-television signed up for cable recently. Just so they can watch the Olympics. They’ll cancel their subscription once they’re over and go back to living in a cave not watching TV.
We’re a little late to [...]

In which I talk about my on-going love affair

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

I was too young to remember, but my parents often told the story about the time our family television exploded, right in the middle of Mork & Mindy. They decided, right then and there, that they didn’t want to bother getting a new TV.
And so they didn’t.
We were the only family I had ever [...]

I which I try to be more upbeat then I really am

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

It was raining so hard yesterday afternoon that instead of walking a couple of blocks to pick up Babboo from school, I drove. That’s right people, I drove a few blocks to his daycare.
Cut me some slack, it was really pouring down rain out there.

(Apparently it wasn’t raining enough for the City of Seattle [...]

My kid learned how to fly a helicopter this weekend. Sort of.

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Friday night, before heading out to have dinner with friends, Babboo and I stopped over at our new house to check on the latest going-ons.
Behold, we have a concrete driveway:

While this may seem rather boring and not really blog worthy, it is, in fact, very exciting. Of course it doesn’t mean we’ll be moving [...]