Personal Space

Baby and I are having some personal space issues. Allow me to cite two examples:

1 - Baby usually wakes up around 6 or 7 in the morning and I bring him back to the bed for breakfast. After the wife finishes feeding him, we are both too exhausted to take him back to the crib, so we allow him to sleep between us. "Between us" usually turns into "underneath me." The kid always ends up on my side of the bed, no matter where he starts. The wife says it's because I weigh more than her, so he just naturally falls into me. I think she's secretly pushing him to my side.

2 - Last night I was using the restroom (#1) with the door open (wife's pet peeve) when all of a sudden I hear baby heading my way. So I'm standing there, doing my thing, when baby crawls between my legs and lifts himself up on the lid of the toilet bowl and starts looking in. He must've been fascinated by the bubbles. Well this is a pretty awkward situation for me, as I'm coming to the end of my flow, and trying desperately not to pee all over my firstborn's head. With a few deft maneuvers, I was able to wrap things up mostly without incident. I think I may have inadvertently sprinkled him a little, but he's doing fine today. I guess I should listen to my wife and close the door. Or get a urinal.

Yogurt

What's up with the recent perversion of frozen yogurt?

It used to be in a few really good flavors, and no more expensive than ice cream. (TCBY).

Now you've got two options:

- Go to one of the trendy yogurt shops that took awesome yogurt and made it tasteless. Then they sell it plain and charge you extra if you want to add any fruits or toppings to give it back its flavor. (Red Mango).

- Go to one of the variety yogurt shops where they have 12-18 different flavors of crappy yogurt coming out of 4-6 soft serve machines. You can add as many toppings as you want and they price it by the ounce. You take a cup, add a little of two flavors (because what's the point in just getting one?), put it on the scale, and BOOM - $5.99. The cup alone costs you $0.89. (Yogurtland).

Another Pet Peeve

I hate when hymns in church are sung too slowly. I hate it so much that I could write a whole blog about it. So I started a new blog where I can do just that.

ldswardtempos.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

More Pet Peeves

As long as we're talking about pet peeves (and I guess we are), I've got two more:

1 - If you are filling up your water bottle at the drinking fountain and there are two fountains of different heights (the normal one, and the short one), PLEASE use the short one. It's much more likely that the person behind you is of normal stature than that he is a midget/child/wheel chair dude. That's just common courtesy.

2 - After boarding a plane when putting your carry-on baggage in the overhead bin, please put it in with the wheels facing you, or away from you - NOT to the right or left. When you stow your bag in this manner, it leaves room for the rest of us. Stowing your bag otherwise is the air travel equivalent of taking up two parking spaces with your car, which basically makes you a douche.

Pet Peeve

When music that I like is on the radio, I always enjoy listening to it more than if I had just put in the CD. Probably for two reasons. 1 -It's always cool that of all the songs that could be playing, they are playing one that I like (especially since I don't listen to the radio all that often). 2 - It's validation that I'm not the only person that likes that song, that it's popular enough for the masses.

Don't you hate it when your spouse's/boyfriend's/girlfriend's/partner's alarm goes off in the morning and it's playing one of your songs, and before you get the chance to enjoy even a little of it, the aforementioned bedtime buddy turns it off and goes back to sleep?

That's happened to me twice this week with the same song - Animal by Neon Trees. Now I've listened to it on my computer since, but it's not the same as listening to it in the comfort of my bed with it randomly coming on the radio. So I think I'm going to put it on my iPod and if it comes on again, and she turns off her alarm, I'm going to blast it on our bedroom speakers. That'll show her.