Seriously, I felt like I was either going to go dust the ceiling with my head or I was on my way to go film some porn. But with a little help from my good friend Photoshop and several test pics of me in various stages of "poof", I was able to replace my flat hair head with one that had more body and bounce:
For those of you who don't know, M is nearly impossible to shop for. Seriously, even if she tells you what she wants, you'd better research the hell out of it because if it didn't score at least 4 stars on Amazon, it's going back...just like that elliptical machine I just bought her. What makes it worse is that her birthday is December 26th! So not only do I have to come up with an entire Christmas worth of swag, I also have her birthday the next day (I know, it's worse for her blah blah blah, but still - my blog, my rants). So this year I thought that I had totally outdone myself. I had been paying attention to her subtle hints for months, and I knew what I was going to get her - a Kindle!
I was so sure of myself that I thought no matter how bad my other presents were, M would love me forever because I remembered that she wanted a Kindle and I got one for her:
But it was not meant to be. Two days after I bought it, M told me she didn't think she wanted a Kindle this year. My dreams were shattered:
And I was stuck having to revert back to my other ideas. Unfortunately, I was not having much luck with those either:
Come on! Target should have a mandatory dress code - shoes/pants required and you can't wear a stupid red shirt unless you fricken work there! Ah well, it all turned out fine in the end. M kept everything I gave her this year (I think) and I got to learn how much of a terrible, sexist pig I am for buying my wife a sewing machine for Christmas (which she asked for by the way). It was a win-win kind of holiday!
Since the weather in Minnesota has been insanely snowy this year, I have been abusing the hell out of the ability to work from home. It's nice because I can still do everything I do in the office, except without the need to spend two hours sitting in "snow traffic" wondering why the hell I didn't just work from home. Although with M and the kids also at home, it can get a little tricky trying to teach the kids that when Daddy's on a conference call, he needs to be left alone:
Finally I will leave you once again with some recent comments from my children. M and Ash have become addicted to New Super Mario Bros for the Wii. Ash usually wants to play it by himself, but M is really good at this game and it's nice that they can both play at the same time. Course the comments can be pretty funny too:
Lastly, I wish I knew what is going on in the minds of kids. Sometimes they say such random things that you wonder how their thought process led them there. I was thinking about that recently when we were all playing "horsey" together:
Actually, maybe it's better that I don't...
-Cheers!
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