Meaningless But Interesting

I was going through some old college notebooks today, and I found some neat stuff.

Okay, a) yes, I still have my old college notebooks. I don't know why. And b) I was only going through them because I'm cleaning up my office. We're having friends over on Sunday, and we're trying to fool them into thinking we're clean, organized people.

So, at the beginning of each notebook was one of these:

It's a schedule of my classes (and work) for the quarter, and I apparently made one for each quarter.

Note the white space. I recall this as being a particularly hectic quarter. (Let me know when you're done laughing, and we'll move on.)

My wife and I had an observation about this a few years back, when people would see us looking harried with our two small children (two really is the hardest), and they would say, "Enjoy it while you can. It only gets harder."

And we would stare in disbelief. "Harder than this? How can that be?"

And then one day we sat down and looked back. Remember High School? Remember how difficult it seemed at the time? Compare that to now. Oodles of free time. College seemed harder still. Then we got married and wondered where our free time went. Then we had one kid. Then two. Oh, my.

Look at that schedule again, and have a gander at Saturday. Nothing there. A free Saturday. I haven't had a free Saturday in about 5 years.

Still, I might just keep one of those notebooks to show to the kids one day. I'll say, "Look here, I used to be pretty smart." And maybe it'll help. I remember one time finding out that my Dad had read Chaucer or something in college, lo those many years ago. And it upped him a little in my murky teenage heirarchy.

Delays

Sorry for the light posting. We went to Disney World a couple of weeks ago and then I had the flu.
"Why should this affect blogging?" you might ask. And it's a good question.

Not that I have an answer. The main problem is that when you take your kids to Disney World, you come back with thousands of stories. Good ones, like:

• Timothy and Stephen like roller coasters, except the inside ones, which Stephen doesn't like. Jonah does not like roller coasters at all, which means it is a good thing we tried him out on the little Goofy one instead of Space Mountain as was originally planned.
• When Jonah says he has to go to the potty (#2, FYI), he usually means he has to go. Unless . . . it is 8:00 PM, he's been walking all day, and he's already sat on the potty 3 times in the past 20 minutes and nothing has come out. At that point, the next time he tells you he has to go, he probably doesn't. Probably.
• Timothy got the flu on the first day. This could have been bad, but a) he responds well to Motrin, and b) Disney has free Children's Motrin in their first aid stations.
• If your parents are nice enough to take you to Disney World, you should let them ride the roller coasters first. Sorry Dad; sorry Mom.
• Fast Pass is awesome, except when you don't use it. Then you stand in line for a very, very long time.
• Jonah loves Tigger, and apparently believes that the characters are real. He said "See you tomorrow" several times to characters in the parks. Sweet boy.
  
• Stephen's love for Donald Duck continues unabated, even though he tries to hide it. He also loves Pooh.
• Timothy's not a fan of the characters anymore, but he really loves the roller coasters. This is going to be a fun time.

The problem with coming back from Disney World is that all these stories should get told. But I caught Timothy's flu and was out of commission for a week. So then I had all these Disney stories backed up, and new stuff kept happening. But you can't blog about Christmas decorations or shows or Sam's new facial expression when DISNEY WORLD STORIES have yet to be told.

So I'm working on it. Sorry.