As much as I love seeing movies at the theatre, being a parent puts a serious cramp in the frequency in which one can actually get to a theatre.  This isn’t a huge issue since I enjoy seeing a movie on my good ol’ 57-inch high def television, but there are certain movies where I really would like to get out to see.

For me, movies since Ally was born fell into two categories.

My apologies to whichever blog came up with this first, as the person who sent this to me didn’t know where it originated, but here is a fun game.  I've never posted things like this on my blog, as most are cheesy (and this one is too) but this one struck the right cord with me this morning.

1 - The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

The gauntlet was thrown down on Wednesday in the Comments section of the blog.  The topic was bottled water but there was a reference by my good buddy Ian about how superior New York style pizza is compared to Chicago style.  Another old school Chicagoan (Jason’s Mom – don’t worry, I won’t use your real name!) reminded us that flat square pizza is the original Chicago style pizza.

Those of you who know me know that I am big on recycling.  I even take my newspaper that I read at lunch back home to put it in my recycle bin.  Until we got our new water cooler hooked up at our new office, I took home my used water bottles to place in the recycling bin too.  We can debate until we’re blue in the face whether or not items marked for recycling are actually recycled, so let’s just assume they are.  Some communities and companies are obviously better at it than others and no system is perfect.

There have been a few instances this past month where I’m reminded of people who have “Made It”.  Regardless of whether you like that artist or athlete or actor, the fact remains that if you say “Bend it like…”, you know that person is talking about David Beckham.  If someone says “Yo, Adrian” in a stroke-addled tone, you know it’s a reference to Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Rocky’ character.

This post will probably just confirm my OCD for the masses but I need to see if others are as meticulous as me.  Besides being a neat freak (although that has changed somewhat at home since taking care of two kids trumps organizing one’s kitchen counter at times), I’ve always been a huge fan of The Rotation.

“What is The Rotation?” you ask.  Simply put, it’s when you take the clean items out of your dishwasher and place them at ...

With the writer’s strike looking to not be resolved any time soon, it looks like my Netflix queue will have a larger-than-normal chunk bitten out of it in the near future.  In a way this is a good thing since, as anyone with kids can attest to, your TV watching time is severely curtailed (not necessarily a bad thing).  We can barely keep up with the shows we watch normally so adding a movie or two to the mix is a luxury sometimes.  Megan and I love movies so the cutback in our normal volume of ones we’d like to see makes our Netflix queue keep on rising like a lump of dough with some out-of-control yeast (Good God, that analogy sucked – see why we need professional writers?).

Note to my newspaper delivery person - when sending out your holiday card solicitation for tips, make sure it’s not the day my paper is sopping wet.  Yes, I’ll tip regardless because that’s what I do, but others might not be so understanding or sympathetic.