BBQ this weekend

Anybody want to come over and try out my new grill?

I don't know if the little girl who lives across the parking lot JUST learned to fucking talk or what...but for the last 4 days all I've heard all day long is her damn chattering...usually starting around 7am when she runs out into the parking lot after her father as he leaves for work. I thought Mike was going to throw something at her this morning.
Yet another reason why an outlook of children in my future seems bleak.

Open letter

Even after 5 years, its comforting to know that small messages from you still warm my day.

Summer Time

I just saw my first firefly of the season! Summer's comin'!

Did you know you could dose out LSD in the indent of a pez candy...straight from the Mickey Mouse mouth?
Yeah.
Neither did I.
I'm so proud of you!
Blargh!

I needed that...

Woken this morning by Mikey, from a dream ABOUT him and my father. For some reason, in all of my dreams my father appears as he did when I was about 10 years old. Young, thin, with hair and a beard. It makes me sad that we can't time capsule those moments and live within them whenever we choose.
I got very nostalgic for my childhood home yesterday, as my brother, father and I sat around with my aunt and uncle, at the outdoor table we've had since I was in elementary school. Reminiscing about how we used to make our porch swing a star ship, and how many gauges we put into the log walls from ramming it into them.
I miss summer vacations as a child. And I wish I hadn't been such a bratty teen and had more memories of times away as a family, when my parents were still together.
I suppose its a lovely day for a good cry...

Dave...

So excited to introduce Mikey on August 5th to the wonderous-ness that is dancing on a grassy hill at Twilight to this....