Everything old is new again.

I’ve got to tell you, I’m not at all a fan of small babies.  Never have been, probably never will be.  When someone asks if I want to hold their newborn I usually do it, but not because I have any real desire to do it.  Even with my own son I never had a strong urge to sit around holding him or any want to be with him every second of the day like Jessica did (or seemed like she did anyway, she has a very strong protective motherly instinct).  They just don’t do anything interesting to me, all they do is poop and cry and need something that you don’t know what it is 24/7/365.  I just wanted a break from him just for a little bit most of the time.  Just not a baby person and I don’t think I ever will be.  The part that I really do like however is now that he is getting older and is growing, learning, and discovering the world and developing into the person that he will be as an adult.  I really enjoy his naivety to the world around him and I get a great deal of enjoyment out of introducing him to old stuff that was pretty cool back in the day, but is now just boring to most people because everyone has seen it a thousand times.  Lately it’s been Transformers and Star Wars that he’s really interested in.  It’s just fun to sit down and have movie night and watch a series like Star Wars with someone who genuinely has no idea what is going to happen next and is peppering you with questions like a machine gun as you go along because everything that is happening is a surprise.  I love it when he comes up with responses to situations that are totally unexpected and you have no idea if he heard it someplace or came up with it on his own.  It’s just a lot of fun.  I’m glad we have such a good kid, and I’m happy I get to do it again with someone new soon (after the initial little baby stage that I can do without).

Welp, looks like we are getting a major facelift done to the house.  The hail totaled the roof and gutters so we are getting them all redone which is great because the roof was ancient anyway and needed replacing and the gutters looked like dookie because yours truly installed them.  Since we are getting that work done we will be getting new soffit, siding and fascia done at the same time, as well as a new deck on the back and a new garage door.  It will practically be a new looking house (still need some new windows but that will have to wait).  It’s not exactly the best time and doing all this stuff wasn’t really in the plans right now but you’ve gotta take advantage of the insurance money I guess.  Our insurance adjuster for the house just happened to be our neighbor from 2 houses up the street (I didn’t know that’s what he did for a job), and he seemed to be pretty favorable towards us with his estimate of the damage, which I guess was really good karma from having me just the day before cleaning up storm debris from their driveway and street in front of their house (I actually did everyone’s driveways and cleaned up the street for the entire neighborhood).  I could have really done without the damage to my car though.  The estimate on the hail damage for that is just under $4000.  Makes me really want to get the garage cleaned out so I can put the most expensive thing I own other than the house in there instead of protecting stacks of old cardboard boxes and broken junk that needs to be thrown away from the elements.

Last but not least, I want to pimp out some of the videos that Jessica has been working on for her job, there are more on the way eventually, but not yet. She’s pretty dang good at making boring stuff not boring.