The Bushrod Chronicles

happy new-ish year

so it has been… ahem… a while since i’ve last posted… and in writing this i notice that my last post… all the friggin’ way back in october mentioned that i’d had a short break due to a run in with the ol’ orthomyxoviridae family rna virus… which kinda sets it up to sound as if i may have actually expired from said afforementioned virus and as i sit here now… at 3:02 in the morning… semi-giddily sleep-deprived-but-unable-to-sleep… that strikes me as a tad funny…

so… err… coupla notes i guess…

i’m not dead yet… but thanks to all those that sent the flowers and cards…

seems a break was perhaps just in order, wot???…

a few random thoughts from the last couple o’ months…

i’m employed now… no longer a homedad professionally… although it seems i sometimes still get the opportunity to act as one on a amateur level as les enfants are still pretty much continuously sick… and now, as a two worker type family, love-of-my-life karen and i get to burn our own supposedly-for-ourselves sick days to stay at home with them… what a bummer that is… a) the day pretty much blows because yer looking after sick kiddos who love you but aren’t real enamo(u)red with life in general… b) you’ve used up an officially sanctioned “sick day” in the process… and c) you’re invariably covered in germ infested ick for the duration… therefore almost assuring yourself a cold in 3-4 days’ time… loverly…

anyway… the new job’s going spiffy well… feel’s good to be working again… i miss the stay-at-home-dad thing a lot but i’m typically one of them glass-half-full fellers and as such see and feel bunches of good stuff in the new situation…

with the whole no longer a stay-at-home-dad thing i’ll be shutting down, for a while at least, the homedad site… it’s been fun posting, as much as i managed to, of our adventures over the year-and-a-half that the kiddos and i hung out together constantly…

in the time that i was deathly ill and on the verge of expiry slacking off big time from blogging we had some cool adventures… k and i went to seattle for thangsgiving, american at the wheelers abode… my personal favo(u)rite holiday by far… a rockin’ fun weekend was had… we went sans enfants which as it turns out was good as i spent a very large portion of the post-turkey-day friday sportin’ a rockin’ hangover…

the holidays, somewhat obviously, came and went… as did the kids’ b-days… they had lotsa fun and were spoiled quite handsomely…

the curling continues to intrigue me and give me joy… love-of-my-life karen got me a badass curling broom for christmas (yes, mr. wheeler, i hear you laughing)… i suppose the fact that i just referred to my new curling broom as badass kinda makes me giggle too…

our neighbo(u)rs still blow… crap dogs… after a hell of a long time attempting to be mellow about the situation, the occaisional noise portion of the situation anyway, i finally went and told ‘em to shut the friggin’ things up a couple of days ago… we’ll see how that bodes for the whole “relationship” thing as time progresses… sod ‘em…

the beloved ohio state buckeyes… well… better not hurl myself to far down that path o’ woe… suffice it to say i was… uh… ever-so-slightly-disappointed with the big game…

at any rate… i plan to be back to the blogging now… hello again… it would be one of my two “new year’s resolutions”… the other is to work diligently toward recording, in sparse demo format, my ouvre… been threatening to do so for a while and the time’s right… gotta lot of pretty cool songs that i’ve written over the last few years and i reckon it’s time to lay ‘em down in some fashion for posterity…

bye for now…

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