Wild and crazy

Are you like me? Do you take big risks? Do you like to live on the edge? Are you living on borrowed time!?

I was warming up my food for lunch at work today in one of the public microwaves in the cafeteria. I wasn't cooking a bag of microwave popcorn. But... I used the popcorn button anyway!!! That's NUTS, right?! Who, in their right mind, would use the popcorn button just to warm up some leftover casserole from the night before?! (...which was an excellent casserole, by the way, thanks to my lovely wife...)

On a related note, the guy using the microwave next to me was even more crazy: he was having THREE corn dogs for lunch.

(I love me a good corn dog. And two is pretty good, too. But three would definitely be pushing the envelope.)

An obvious sign that you shouldn't have cut your own hair

Within 24 hours after cutting your own hair, you've had four comments similar to the following:

Did you recently get a haircut? Looks kind of interesting... Um, did you do that yourself!?

Peeps

I hate those sugar-coated marshmallow peeps. They taste like sticky cotton, covered with sand. The Easter Bunny brought some for my kids one year. If he ever does that to me again, I'm gonna set a trap for the Easter Bunny and make some soup or something.

Movie Review: Dan in Real Life

You're a good father, but sometimes you're a bad dad.

That was one of the most memorable quotes from the movie. There aren't a lot of good movies that are mainly about a dad or a father. It was humorous and funny, but not necessarily hilarious. I was very pleasantly impressed.

I've been thinking a lot lately since I saw the movie about the difference between a "father" and a "dad." I'm not sure what the exact difference is, but I agree with the movie: you should try to be both.

Leprechaun Trap

My 7-year-old son used a cardboard box from the garage yesterday to construct a trap to catch a leprechaun:



He wanted to get the leprechaun's pot of gold so that we'd be rich. Then he was going to keep him and feed him Lucky Charms cereal, which I guess is what leprechauns eat. I told him we should train him to be our slave.

The trap was placed in our pantry in the kitchen. Inside the trap, he made a Wii out of paper and tape, which he thought would be a good lure for the leprechaun. And on the outside of the trap's door, he wrote "gold!" and "lucky charms party!"

At night, after the kids were in bed, I put the note in there and put a few Reese's peanut butter cups for the gold.

I always chuckle when...

... I drive by someone in heavy traffic and glance over to see the person with his finger up his nose. It makes me laugh.

Then, while I am laughing, I look in my rear view mirror and notice that I got my finger up my nose, too. Oops!