Laurie and I are HORRIBLE parents.
Monday, Evan lost one of his molars (tooth loss #13, if I remember correctly). He put it under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy and he drifted off into a peaceful slumber. Chloe was in one of her insomniac moods, so she was up for about another 30 minutes reading a book in her bed.
After lunch yesterday, I think "Oh shit! I didn't do the Tooth Fairy thing." I call Laurie and ask if she remembered and she said no. She said that Evan woke up that morning and saw that the Tooth Fairy had forgotten to bring anything.
She told him maybe she was on vacation or since he was sleeping in Chloe's room that night she didn't find it and that the TF would be back that night.
It's bad enough that we forgot but the reason that I forgot makes the story a typical Chris story.
I forgot because I was fucking my wife. Although I throw that term around pretty liberally, it's not used as a euphemism for sex AT ALL in my house. It's either "let's do it", "I want to be with you", blah blah blah. But there's no pretty term for what we were doing. We were engaged in hair-pulling, clavicle-biting, sweaty, noisy, deliciously painful, fucking. Laurie's head got slammed into the headboard; my fingers got smashed between the headboard and the wall, and Laurie literally pulled a muscle in her leg.
Yay me!
Anyway, I felt horrible about forgetting about the TF. Last night when he was going to bed, Evan could not find that frickin' tooth anywhere. We scoured the entire house and couldn't find it. He was again upset and thought he was going to get screwed out of his TF experience. Instead, I told him I would write the TF a note and he could put that under his pillow. Here's what I wrote:
Dear Tooth Fairy, Last night you inadvertantly forgot to pick up the tooth from under Evan's pillow. We all understand how busy you are and can appreciate how that type of oversight can happen. However, Evan can no longer find the tooth as it was lost in the house sometime yesterday. I can fully attest to the fact that Evan DID indeed lose his tooth and hasn't received any remuneration for his loss. Regards, Chris (Last Name), Evan's Father.
Dear Tooth Fairy,
Last night you inadvertantly forgot to pick up the tooth from under Evan's pillow. We all understand how busy you are and can appreciate how that type of oversight can happen.
However, Evan can no longer find the tooth as it was lost in the house sometime yesterday.
I can fully attest to the fact that Evan DID indeed lose his tooth and hasn't received any remuneration for his loss.
Regards,
Chris (Last Name), Evan's Father.
It seemed to work because he was cool with it AND the TF hooked him up with a Fin during the night.
More to come later today...I'm working on my first BB post!
Time sure flies when you're a miserable SOB, doesn't it? I can't believe it's been over a month since my last update. I guess I'm just out of shit to say. How many times can I write "I'm so fat. I can't stop eating. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Internet lesbian pussy?"
Apparently HUNDREDS of times, bitches. That's my bread and butter. (mmm, bread and butter)
I'll try my best to avoid bullet points, heavy indents, parenthetical asides (yeah, like that's going to happen), and other such nonesuch in this entry, but I'm a bit rusty (like a trombone, perhaps?) See, I told warned you about those dirty little parenthetical asides. They creep up on you like that sneaky little Vietnamese dude that lives next door to your crazy Uncle Chuck, you know, the uncle that has flashbacks whenever he goes to the mailbox and sees Pho Duc Nguyen through the picket fence that he jokingly calls the DMZ.
I can't even really remember the last time I had an update that filled you (that's the royal "you") in on what's going on in the flab of flesh otherwise known as "Chris". Plenty of TV posts; some quick drive-by type updates, but nothing substantial.
Christ, it's hard not busting out the bullet points for rest of this.
Over the past few months I've discovered that I'm in need of some serious fucking therapy. Or it's quite possible that how I've been feeling is a side affect of not blogging (which has been self-reflective and pretty therapeutic in the past). I just feel…blah. There are moments when I get excited about things (like the spur of the moment purchase of a strobe light & fog machine and constructing a fog chiller for my front porch the day before Halloween or my marathon reading sessions), but for the most part, I'm just coasting along through the day wishing I were either asleep or alone. Instead, I still go to sleep late, wake up early, and spend the day doing a job I'm bored with and then go home and spend time with my family. Sigh.
We've had a busy summer/autumn. A vacation to Florida in June, a couple of trips to LA (Louisiana, not LaLa Land), and camping. I've got lots of pics posted to Flickr, but haven't been motivated enough to spend time annotating them.
I've also been reading way too much lately, much to the dismay of my TiVO. I wake up in the middle of the night hearing papoo, paPOO, PAPOO (damn, aural humor is so tough to pull off with text).
That's all for now. I'll try to post more this weekend.
You can't say that I don't pay off on my promises. Enjoy the stupidity.