Little Girl Parties

Wives, never ask your husbands to go pick up your 4 year old daughters from a girls' only birthday party. I had to do just that tonight. The wife was so intent that the little one be picked up by 7PM. When I got there the party was still in full swing! Not a drop of testosterone in the whole house. Plus, most of the kids were sleeping over. And mine was taking her sweet ole time the way a 4 year old will. So there I am, the only guy, in a house full of girls who are running, screaming, eating and barely watching a movie playing on the TV. I stood there with my hands in my pockets. I love my daughter, but I never so much wanted a bunch of beer drinking, chip eating, football lovin' guys' night in my life!

The Chill

It has been so very cold lately. I'm not all too confident that it's the weather. Times are so bad now that the coldness I feel about the uncertainty is going right through me. I'm never sure what will be around the next corner. Used to be that I would relish it, think of it as an adventure. Now I'm just not sure. There never seems to be an up side.