Posts from — June 2006

Last day Bush is in office……

For years, I've always used Tide, but last year I read an article in Consumer Reports showing that Wal-Mart brand is almost as good.  So I am happy to say that after about a year of using the product I am very pleased.  It's called "Ultra" and comes in three scents.  Make sure you smell each one before you purchase, one of them smells awful in my opinion.  For the fraction of the cost of Tide and other name brands, you can't beat it.

Mommy Bacchus has been out of town on business for the past week and the house has never been more organized.  Since my job requires me to travel, I'm usually the one away on business, but this week the tables were turned.  Since I do the laundry in the house, I always make sure the majority is done before I leave on a trip.  Since Mommy Bacchus does the cooking, I asked her to have some meals cooked before she left.  Without having to cook meals made things much easier for us, but the kitchen was kept clean and the timing of baths, meals and play time went like clock-work.  Each night MB inquired as to how we were doing and after the third evening, I could tell she needed to hear that it was a disaster while she was away.  So the smart husband that I am, I purposely left dishes in the sink and threw around some dirty clothes the night before she returned.  When she came home, BJ and I almost jumped on her and begged her to never leave for business again.

Sometimes a dad's gotta do, what a dad's gotta do. 

I went to Target today to get a sun shade for my car.  It's getting hot here in Texas and the old shade passed into retirement last summer.  While opening up the package I noticed the following:

"VEHICLE SHOULD NOT BE DRIVEN WITH SUNSHADE IN THE WINDOW" 

You just know that some knuckle-head has done this in order for the company to have a need to publish this disclaimer. 

Doesn't reading this post make you feel smarter???

Have you ever received a gift from your child and wondered what it was suppossed to be? Well, that's how I felt this past Father's Day.  I received this object from BJ and I had no immediate idea what it was, but I quickly fell in love.  It was made in school, by my child and I didn't care how ugly it may appear to others.  My son made it with love and I love him for it.  I began to put it in the box under my bed where I kept his other crafty gifts he's given me and fell in love with the entire collection of no-name, hand prints, colored paper work, and lumps of clay.  Evidently his teacher secretly asked the mothers to bring in objects that belonged to the fathers so that this gift could be made.  Mommy Bacchus gathered a number of items I kept in a can on my dresser, and this is the result.  This is the official list of items

• Listerine cool strip pack
• Honda Key chain fob
• Eye-glass screw-driver kit
• Dress shirt collar-stay
• Golf Ball
• Random Business Card I will never use

These are the special moments no one tells you about when it comes to becoming a parent.  By far this is my favorite gift from him to date (Still waiting on the wide-screened HD TV), and I decided to take the entire collection of items out of the box and display them with pride around the house with the exception of this current givt.  Tomorrow morning this is going to work with me and placed prominently on my desk.  I will use it as a paperweight or use it as a conversation piece. No what it's ultimate use will be, I will smile each time I see it.

I finally got around to putting up a vacancy sign and obtained a new roomate.  Please visit Amber at "Cause I Said So." She was formally at My Monkey House with her husband and looks like he set her up with her own domain.  She is a mother of three with a great sense of humor.  Unfortunately she's having some problems with her parents taking her hospitality for granted, so please stop by and share her pain.

Congratulations to the Miami Heat organization and their fans.   The Dallas Mavericks had an opportunity to win, but let the Miami Heat take it from them.  Miami definitely wanted this more and it showed.  What a series come back and my hat's off to the Heat. 

Although I am disappointed in how the Mavericks played the last four games, I am more disappointed in the lack of professionalism the Mavericks organization displayed.  From the top down, it seemed like a virus was infecting the team.  I disagree with any whining about officiating.  Fouls and the lack of calls are part of the game.  A team should factor the lack of calls into every game and KEEP a lead long enough so fouls don't matter.  The whole situation left a bad taste in my mouth.  What makes matters worse, next week I go to renew my season tickets with my business partner.  Mark Cuban has caused me to go to therapy so I will send him the bills.

So it looks like all you other dads can relax and stop trying so hard.  It is clear that I have won this prestigious award and you can thank me for letting you off the hook.  

It's amazing how wonderful a card can make us all feel.  Just admit it, you got the same card as I did and you still loved reading every word.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day.  Feel free to tell share how you celebrated.

Did you get what you wanted?  I didn't.  I wanted a Mavericks Victory, and that didn't happen.  I did get treated to breakfast at the local Waffle House and spent the afternoon working in the yard with BJ.   Yes, I love Waffle House and how could you not after watching "Tin Cup." Where else can you get your hash browns scattered, smothered and covered?  

I have always had the belief that I was blessed with two sets of parents. My mother and father divorced when I was four, and I never experienced anything other than a non-traditional family setting. Both my parents re-married and I spent the school months with my mother and step-dad, and summer months with my dad and step mom. I loved and respected my step-parents just like any other member of my family.

My father passed-away 13 years ago and I have written posts describing past memories I have had. But this father’s day post is dedicated to my step-dad. I must admit that I gained a greater appreciation for my step-dad after witnessing the birth of my own son. Since my step-dad doesn’t have any biological children of his own, I often wondered how he could love me like I love my own BJ.

When my step-dad married my mother, he offered to adopt me as his own son. My father refused to agree and wanted to continue to be a part of my life. Regardless of any child support my father would have paid, I still spent the majority of my childhood at the home of my step-dad, and MY STEP-DAD NEVER COMPLAINED

• He never complained about money, bills or finances
• He never spoke badly of my bio-dad
• He never treated me any less than his own son.

What he did do was this:

• Taught me how to fight, have a back-bone and stand up for myself
• Showed up to my school events, concerts, and father/son dinners
• Watched and played sports with me
• Loved me like his own son
• Bottom-line-He was there for me

Now back to the question. How could my step-dad love me the way I love my own son? After a few years I finally found the answer; it didn’t matter. What matters is that he was the father-figure in my father’s absence. If I acted up, he straightened me out. If I needed a spanking, he got out the belt. If I stayed out late past curfew, he put me on punishment. My step-dad was/is/always will be a vital part of my development into manhood. So my hat’s off to you step-dad, and to all the step-dads that do the impossible.

It takes a HELL of a man to take another man’s seed, and grow it as his own.

It takes a HELL of a man to take another man’s seed, and grow it as his own.

It takes a HELL of a man to take another man’s seed, and grow it as his own.

Happy Father’s Day

Yes the series is far from over, but Dallas fans have a legitimate reason to get excited. We played probably our second worse game in the playoffs and we still won by 10…this is reason to believe that we can win the series.