What a long week this week has been. But hey it's Friday night!
Wow how things have changed, long gone are the days of coming home and putting on my jeans and boots and starting that big black shiny Road King and heading down the highway for some wind in my face. Stopping in at Maggie's on Michigan where all the real Indy bikers hung out to have a cold one with our friends...and the weekend revolved around "The Bike".
Now Friday nights go like this......
Have had all I can take at the office and head out at 4:00...load Seger in the Van (ya the Golden goes to work everyday with me) and go pick up the Dude (aka...Nash). Find out he had an awesome day and they had been having water fun all afternoon...nothing like 15 soaked kids. So we get his stuff together and load the van back up......did you notice I said VAN.....ouch that hurts....I always have driven trucks.....Jeeps and Suburbans were my choice but I did have one Ford Expedition but I hated it.....anyway....Yes I drive a Chevy Van....and for those of us from the 70's I can assure you nothing you are thinking happens in Chevy Vans anymore so get over it....
So we call momma (aka Mauzy) and divide up stops on the way for the ranch. Nash and I pick Blockbuster as our stop. I tell you I have ridden a Harley all over the US and England, Ireland, Scotland (home of the famous Kim Ayres), Holland, Germany and France....ok you got me...had to ride thru Belgium to get to France....but there is nothing quite like going to blockbuster with a 6 year old. So half an hour later after paying for 4 movies and 4 re-stocking fees from the last ones we returned late we were headed for home.....
Now it's Friday night movie time ....everyone is in their shorts and favorite t-shirts and soon the table downstairs will be full of chicken nuggets, chips, burgers and pop corn. And we can start by watching Nash's two academy award winners....Santa Clause one and two..........
And my big choice left over from the old days.....should I wear the t-shirt from Hog's Breath Saloon or Fat Boy's Rule.....
So what's my point in all of this.....Absolutely nothing......life is good, just different then it use to be and different then I planned....but if I had to choose between heading down the highway with the wind in my hair or watching a movie with Nash.... I will hang with Nash.....
Does anybody know if the new Dressers come with a DVD player in the sidecar?
PEACE DUDE!
3 comments:
Since when did I become "famous"?
I've been thinking about some of your more recent posts, and about the nature of what it means to us to be Dads.
Given some of your thoughts, I wondered if you'd read the book "Manhood" by Steve Biddulph. I highly recommend it.
I wrote a blog entry about it, or at least one aspect of it, a couple of years back. I think it was before you found my site, so if you haven't read it you might find it - and the comments for that matter - quite interesting: Father and Son
Kim
Hell man you are the most famous blogger that I know of.....and the only one in any of those countries that I listed that I know....
Thanks for sharing your post and the info on the book....I will have Mauzy get it for me from the library today. I just hope I can figure out thru my work to help more DADS become 10%er's.
Peace
hahahah.. Love your post! Oh I am not lettin Mike see it tho, he is looking at getting another Harley :p As for the movies, Yup we do Santa Clause 1 & 2 here too, ALL YEAR :p I finally put them away!! The end of the yr will see SC 3 out so we are in for a LONG TREAT next year :p
Aren't kids wonderful :) :) Whole new way to enjoy life!
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