I've changed the template, because, you know. Please let me know what you think. Is it a disaster? I'm trying, y'all.
In other news, a few years ago, Jill tagged me with a meme thingy. I thought I'd do it now, but I couldn't find it. Sorry... Here's a flower instead. (Jill, I expect you to say, "How did you know Jesus-Yellow was my favorite color?")
But I did make a note of Ricardo's 3-months-old meme, so I'll do that one.
It's basically 10 honest facts meme, which I guess would be a break from the norm. For example, the highly-paid model whose pictures I use in this blog will get a week off while I finally reveal my true identity:
This picture was taken in a light bulb store. Man, it was so hot there--I just had to unbutton my shirt and shave my chest. Wait, what the hell is wrong with my right thumb?
Anyway, here are the facts:
1. I'm not doing as much as I can. As much as I should. About a lot of things.
2. I'm shaking with the fear that the little guy will wake up from his nap and start crying. I mean, I love him, and when he wakes up I'll make him an omelet and potatoes, and he'll throw his leftovers on the floor so the dogs can have some, and it'll be funny because he knows he's not supposed to do that, but how can I stop him when he's being so cute and kind like that? But please, sleep for another 30 minutes...
3. And just when I'm thinking about that, Buddy starts to cry downstairs. He can't be hungry. Drives me crazy. We were at the vet yesterday, and I felt so much love for him because he's this giant scary monster of a dog who's now old and scared of everything, and he wishes he could have the dog next door as a friend, but he also knows he can't control himself around other dogs. So he's this sad old dog (that has had a good life, I think, don't get me wrong), and he counts on me, and he'll give his life for me or for Honey or for his favorite human, the one who feeds him most, but sometimes I think about that day 10 years ago, and I know I didn't have a clue what I was getting myself into. I wouldn't do it differently now, though. He was my friend. I couldn't let my roommate take him to a shelter where he would die. But when he or his sister wake the baby up I want to bang my head on the floor so hard it'll pop up in the middle of The Great Wall of China.
4. Speaking of good boys, the baby just woke up. But he's not crying. He's saying, "Two," which is the most fun number to say. See you later.
5. Man, I have such a headache.
6. But even if we just concentrate on the hard part, like "Since when don't you like pasta? You love pasta!" or even worse stuff, like making my head explode, I can't imagine going back to work for some shitty place like fucking Comcast fucking Customer Service. I'm being too hard on them. You get free cable and internet if you work there!
7. I speak to the baby in Hebrew because I want him to speak Hebrew. But why is it so important to me? I can't find a good reason anymore.
8. I'm no Marilyn Manson, but honestly, sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and I can't imagine how Honey can even kiss me good night. What does she see that I don't? I mean, I can be presentable. I can shave the upper-cheek hair. But most of the time I think I'm a little hard on the eyes. If you ask me.
9. It's just me and the baby for a few days now, and I'm thinking We'll go to the pool, and we'll go to the zoo, and we'll walk all around the neighborhood, and we'll go on car rides, and we'll eat Rita's ice cream, and we'll play all the time, and it'll be so much fun, but then his grandma calls and asks if I want her to help by having him stay with her for a day, and I tell her I'll let her know later tonight. Although, really, it was a borderline-rhetorical question. I could use a breather.
10. As long as we're honest, I have some guilty pleasures, like this blog. Go on. It's okay to look.

And as usual, I'll be happy if anyone pretends I've tagged him or her, but I'm not going to tag anyone because I've been burned before, man.








22 comments
Comment by Dusty on 9:36 AM
Buddy's story made me cry. It's so hard when they get old.
Comment by Faiqa on 10:44 AM
Something of a lurker here... but when I found out that you are, in fact, Hrithik Roshan, I *had* to put my two cents in. I LOVE YOU, HRITHIK!! Even if your thumb makes my skin crawl. Also, your English is way better than I expected ;)
I like the new layout -- and I've enjoyed your blog for sometime. I just wonder how you find the time to put together such entertaining content between making all those movies and your deformed thumb advocacy.
Comment by SJ on 12:01 PM
Like the template. All awesome and like totally wow.
Old dog and young human quite a potent combination to drive a middle aged balding man like you got nuts. ;)
Comment by Xbox4NappyRash on 1:08 PM
Template is better.
Comment by CaraBee on 1:43 PM
My best friend sat on an airplane next to that extra thumb guy once. True story. Evidently an extra finger is lucky in India. Me? I think its kinda freaky.
And as much as I wanted to hate that Bangable Babes blog, it's actually kindof funny. Bad feminist.
Comment by Ellie on 6:13 PM
The Thumbbbbbb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You remind me of Zohan.
Comment by People in the Sun on 10:38 PM
Dusty, it's usually very subtle with both of them. It's only when people who haven't seen them for a while come to visit and talk about how white he is that I realize The Terror of Brooklyn is getting old.
Faiqa, wait--that's his real thumb? I thought it was a bad angle and there was something behind him. I actually got this guy by doing a Google Image search for the word handsome. Yep. Only when I actually put the picture up here I realized it looked like ginger. And thanks and welcome. Glad you de-lurked.
SJ, cool. Thanks. Soon I'll probably add some buttons and widgets and whatever until it doesn't make any sense again. And I'm not bald. I'm just hairily-challenged.
Xbox, better... So you don't like it... It's okay if you don't. But is there anything specific?
CaraBee, I would have walked off the plane. I didn't pay this money to sit in a freak show! Or better--I would have demanded they took him off. Either he cuts his finger off or gets the hell off the plane!
And be careful, that dude might write about you next.
Ellie, right? Let's say you meet someone and then after a few months of dating you're ready to reveal your terrible secret: What's under the glove you've been wearing this whole time. Instead, he probably goes to bars and waves his french fry at women, saying, "You know what they say about guys with deformed thumbs..." And they probably buy it because it's a sign of good luck. It's a strange world we live in...
Comment by SJ on 1:22 AM
If you are adding widgets why not add the Golden Ganesh widget ;)
Comment by Jill/Twipply Skwood on 11:30 AM
Well I'm off the hook for the tag, I see! Thanks for the flower though! How did you know Jesus-yellow was my favorite color?!?!?!?
Pretty new blog design!!!
That was a heartbreaking story about Buddy. :-( It also reminds me of how incredibly important *A*N*Y* baby sleep is. It's like "Let a sleeping dog lie" times four hundred million.
In fact remember that cute little nephew of mine that's too young for college? Whenever anyone asks my sister in law, Erin, if she minds if they do something that could by some impossible stretch of imagination wake up the baby, I interrupt with, "You COULD. But then Erin might have to kill you."
Also I just want to give, what do you call it? Moral support? on the Hebrew thing. Any language, really. If you don't teach him it's not even available to him. But if you teach him, he can have it as his disposal if and when he wants it. It's like table manners that way.
Comment by Mongoliangirl on 5:21 PM
We've decided to put our old girl down at the first of August. I keep promising myself I'm not going to fall apart over it. But I will.
Comment by Blues on 6:07 PM
what the hell, i thought I commented on this post already.
I like the new look over here. Lookin nice, lookin snazzy.
Regarding your effed up thumbs, welcome to Brachydactyly type D. There aren't very many of us.
Comment by Ricardo on 5:14 PM
I think the new template looks great!! Keep it.
Were you not on your way to becoming a blog pin up boy when you were entered as the sexy daddy blogger? I thought you were fast becoming an international sex symbol.
The Hebrew, hey, it's a cultural thing and it makes him bilingual which will then get him better jobs and more money and stuff like that. It all works out.
Comment by Sebastien on 8:20 PM
I love how the dog and child have such a symbiotic relationship...
Hope you are able to get some rest. Cool that you are teaching your child hebrew, I think it is great, not only a great way to connect with their culture, but it gives a person invaluable tools when they have been exposed to multiple languages at such a young age. So I think it's a good thing even if you aren't sure of it :)
Comment by Sebastien on 8:21 PM
But you should probably teach your kid French, since that is, like, sort of the greatest language ever! (come on, did you forget how arrogant French people are? we're the best at everything! :)
Comment by People in the Sun on 12:11 AM
SJ, done. Sorry I didn't do it before. I'm a bit behind on everything. That's cool. And the Facebook fan club makes me want to get a Facebook account.
Jill, I knew it! And glad you like the new template. I just needed a change. And I can't help myself--I get the shakes after he falls asleep because I'm so scared of him waking up. Mostly I can just go in there and shove the pacifier back in his mouth, but sometimes him waking up means he screams if I don't take him up to our bed. And then while we're asleep he'll kick us and pull our hair (okay, her hair), and sometimes take short strolls on the bed because he wants me to have an early heart attack.
And you're right about the Hebrew, of course. Maybe I'm just too disillusioned by the politics. I need some more time to relax after the visit. Too many drivers honked at me there.
Mongoliangirl, I'm sorry. It's a horrible thing. People talk about dog years, but really, you're talking about a dying teenager, you know?
Blues, you actually commented on the template in the previous post. You're not crazy. And just for the record, my thumbs are perfect. In fact, I'm a thumb model. In most movies, when you see a close up of the main character's thumbs-up gesture, that's my hand. Easy money, but I have to travel to Hollywood a lot.
Ricardo, cool. Thanks. But about the international sex symbol, I'm not sure what happened. Maybe I was just an internet fad. Maybe I was the "Chocolate Rain" of hunkiness.
Sebastien, but what happens when the child realizes that--unlike the dog--he can't lick his butt? Every man remembers the day he finds that one out.
And hopefully he'll speak better French than me, eventually. He is French, by the way.
Comment by Jannie Funster on 6:54 PM
I feel for you on your ageing poochie, I know all too well what that's like.
LOVE your template, I'm inspired to change mine up a bit now, thanks!
Comment by People in the Sun on 1:42 AM
Jannie, thanks. He's still got enough energy to fight me when I try to feed him his antibiotics, so that's a good sign. (And welcome).
Comment by Nanny Goats In Panties on 6:34 PM
Well, if it's all the same to you, I don't do memes, but I'm glad you did yours. I loved reading it. and I laughed in lots of places including this one, which may or may not have been your intention: "I can't imagine going back to work for some shitty place like fucking Comcast fucking Customer Service." Or maybe I just like hearing people say "fuck" - I don't know. Whatever.
Comment by People in the Sun on 9:39 PM
It's involuntary. I can't use the C-word without using the F-word before and after.
Comment by Sebastien on 3:20 PM
He is French???!!! No wonder he's so awesome :)
Comment by Cooper on 1:23 PM
Quite nice, and easier to read.
Comment by People in the Sun on 4:40 PM
Sebastien, mais oui!
Cooper, good good. I needed to move to black on (almost)white.
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