The Perils of PVR...(when living with 3 women)

As most of you all know I share a house with my beautiful wife Vanessa, my adorable daughter Ava (2), and my favorite cousin Patricia. We share a lot of laughs and good times, with very few squabbles. Herein lies my dilemma; we have a PVR and the current list of recording looks like this (# in brackets indicates number of recordings for that particular show):

Millionaire Matchmaker
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (7)
Thomas & Friends (5)
Oprah (2)**
WordWorld (2)
Young and the Restless (3)**
Sesame Street (2)
Criminal Minds*
The Middle*
Criminal Minds Suspect Behav. (2)*
Modern Family*
Castle (2)
Undercover Boss
Real Housewives of Orange County/Atlanta/NYC/Beverly Hills/New Jersey**
American Idol**
Survivor
Biggest Loser
Bethenny gets Married
Dr. Phil**
One Tree Hill**

Now granted, the ones with a * are shows I enjoy and will sit down and watch when I can. The girls will try to argue that I also enjoy the ones with ** but those shows and I have more of a "Stockholm Syndrome" relationship. You see I am subjected to them so much that I have no other choice to force myself to try to learn what is going on and who everyone is so I can try and understand what the attraction is. Much like a hostage who expresses adulation and has positive feelings towards their captors that can appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, essentially mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness; hence the reference to Stockholm Syndrome.

All kidding aside, when I do express an interest to watch something I usually am granted the wish. I just hate asking for fear of the wrath of a woman scorned.

So, honey, that is why you often wake up at 3:00am on a Friday or Saturday night and I am not there anymore...I'm getting in some TV/PS3 time so we can all continue to get along and live in peace.

Love you girls...even you Patricia...just not the same way...you're my cousin...lol

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Holy sheep dip...it's still here!

Well...what can I say...as a blogger I am a failure. Like many other things in my life I get all pumped for something, do it for a couple days and then it all falls off the rails. It has happened about 20 times with weight loss plans, side projects, and a real potpourri of other things.

I can say there are two things in my life that I have been able to keep constant are husband and father...I guess those are pretty lofty achievements on their own.

As a father, I can't believe the little 8lb15.5oz bear cub I held in my palm on March 20, 2009 is about to be 2!! Pardon my french...but SHIIIIIT! Where has the time gone? Now she is a hurricane, rolling from room to room leaving couch cushions and princess phones in her path. She is developing a voice and opinion of her own...really wish NO DADDY wasn't such a big part of her vocabulary, although it sounds cute sometimes (mostly the times when it isn't followed by double palms to the face). All of that aside she is such a precious joy to have as a daughter. I can't get over how smart she is, and often forget she is only 2 and have to remind myself of this when frustration looms. We, (Vanessa and I), are truly blessed to have such a happy, smart, little monkey on our hands.

Believe it or not adapting to being a partner in a relationship has been a harder adjustment for me than being a dad. After 11 years as a "Professional Bachelor" the adjustment to sharing life with someone has been a slow transition...mostly because I am stubborn and always right! All kidding aside, I am very lucky to have a wife who helps me grow into the partner I need to be.

Back to my comment about 20 failed attempts to lose weight I am embarking on my final attempt. I have listed too many reasons above to not embrace a wholesale lifestyle change and get myself in shape. I have been thinking the last couple of days about a list of short term goals and one long term goal. I will make those goals public here soon in the coming days and plan to utilize this blog to update my progress and still wax poetic about life as a dad. I follow a blogger by the name of Drew Magary, who recently lost a shit-ton of weight through a "humiliation diet" you can read about it here http://deadspin.com/#!5545674/the-public-humiliation-diet-a-how+to

I plan to loosely model my current expedition on this...loosely because I don't want to pay no royalties...

Stay tuned my friends...there will be days when I need my followers

"Snoop" Dougie Thompson