What Did I Forget?

So I woke up, did the "three S's", got dressed, got all my stuff, and went to work. But I forgot to run a comb through my hair. I knew there was something I forgot. I'm transported to a time when I'm 10 again, and my school principal is reprimanding me... for not combing my hair. I guess some things never change.

Funny

It's always funny, the impact of one person. The new President will either make great strides to right the wrongs of much of the world, or fall flat on his face... or maybe achieve mediocrity. But then what?

The Bathroom

Why or what is going on in the bathroom that makes my 13-year-old have to constantly be in it? Is it a bad colon/bladder? Is she "pleasing" herself? Does she just want to get away from her parents? Drugs? Good god, I don't know, but I think she spends more time in the bathroom than anywhere else.

The Enigma

And so my youngest has taken to tattling on me. It started with a "He's looking at me" to her mother. Usually while my wife is holding her and them buries her head into my wife's bosom. But last night the needling mental torture kicked in.

She would crawl on the floor until she got to my feet, socks on, shoes off... and take a big sniff, wrinkle her nose, and say "Stinky!" I happen to know my feet don't stink, at least not this time. My 2-year-old daughter is teasing me. It is hard to put into words how disturbing this is.

Where to go from here? A tickling contest? Do I smell her feet and say "Pew, stinky!"? Ignore it? I just don't know...

Made in China

Why is it that "Made in China" will make me spout off curses and talk about downgrading with cheap shit more than anything else? Is there a bike company that makes bike somewhere other than China? And is affordable?

$5 Dance

Did you see the President and the shoe incident? Me and my mom were just talking about it. She says the Iraqi guy was trying to protect him, not really, but anyway... like he was holding the $5 in his hand. That's the best we can do? The leader of the free world, no matter how hated he is, get's the five dollar dance and that's it.

What a world...

I Don't Know

So my daughter, after telling all of us why she needed to be excused from the dinner table, (she had to make a number 2) is spending too much time in the bathroom. I call out to her, "hey, what are you doing?" Her reply "I don't know". And neither do I...