Growing up, my mother, older sister and I played the piano. My sister and I still do. I like to play Jazz or New Age, but with two 5-year-olds, I usually play soundtracks to animated Disney movies. Even if my daughter is engrossed in a game on her computer, she will usually come up to listen to me play. When I play music from The Lion King, she will also strip down to her underwear, stick one end of a scarf down the back of them (for a tail), then crawl around on all hours like Simba.
While in town, my sister and Mom divided up some old piano music at my parent's house. I was not there so instead of dividing the music up equitably, I got only what they didn't want. This left me with sheet music compilations for "ELO," "Neil Sedaka," and "Disco Fever." Gee thanks. If anyone out there wants any of these, I mail it to you for free.
We are hosting a party Sunday and my wife has been cleaning house this week. One the targets of her organization efforts is our kitchen pantry. She is removing food items that we won't use anymore and will be donating them to a local food pantry for the needy. We are donating formula because our youngest is now on whole milk. We are donating chutney because we don't know what it is.
We also are donating salt and sugar because evidently we'll never use those again. I suppose I don't mind because we are helping the needy, but only two weeks ago my wife told me to buy that sugar because she needed it.
My first two postings were on the topic of women. So I guess I'll continue that trend. At the lunch table today, my oldest daughter asked me "Does God talk to us? Sometimes I don't hear her." While normally flustered when answering questions about religion, I did manage to smile before answering "I don't know." I think I'll defer all "God" questions to my wife from now on.
She can take the "sex" ones too in a few years. I'll step up to the plate for the "drugs" one.
According to a study by the University of Canterbury, a man settles down within the first five years of his marriage and his testosterone level drops. This in turns affects his creative/scientific abilities. Essentially married have lost their "bite" and can no longer compete significant accomplishments. It also mentions men are less apt to crime crimes for the same reasons. Marriage makes a man dumb and happy.
I wonder the researcher would say about female scientists who, generally, have even lower testosterone levels.
I'm sure my spouse would agree that I was not the smartest guy around, but I doubt she would blame it on the fact that I married her.
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According to a European Conference on Weblogs, two thirds of weblog authors are women and three quarters are teenagers. I am neither. Well, at least my niece is.
One (okay, maybe just me) could call this weblog a resumption of a brief weblog I had this past spring when my wife and I adopted from China. That weblog had a hundred visitors a day for a few weeks in March. I expect that this will have almost no visitors. Since you are reading this, you can think of yourself as being in a very selective group.
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