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By briantologist | September 21, 2005
Oh my god. I’m just so tired so early these days. I promise you it’s not really anything to do with Wee Beans; actually it has more to do with the fact that my coffee shop has been closing at noon this week for some kind of maintenance crap, which totally knocks my refill schedule out of whack, because rather than getting it at the end of the noon hour or in the middle of the afternoon, I end up getting it just before noon, then sort of nursing it for a couple of hours, and honestly it’s just not the same as drinking it later, it just isn’t, so don’t even try to convince me.
See, that right there is something I’d have deleted for being so goddamned boring and mundane, were I properly caffeinated at the moment, which if you’ve been paying attention, I’m totally not. I’m afraid drastic measures may be necessary, including but not limited to:
• Getting one of those electric kettle things
• Getting a second French press to keep at the office
• Trying to remember if there’s something else I should be doing at work other than making coffee
• Nope, can’t think of anything
I feel like I should have better reasons for not having posted in a week and a half, but I got nothin’. Football season started, which means fantasy football season started, which means my team (The Thick, Hearty Soup) is well on its way to rising nearly one standard deviation above the norm before sliding backward to a 7-5 record and third place in the consolation playoffs, and yet another fifth-round pick in next year’s draft, which anyone can tell you is the perfect draft position to wind up with a 7-5 record. “Okay, but not great.” That’s the Thick, Hearty Soup way. We’re the New Orleans Saints of the fantasy football world, only without the gutted hometown and excrement-laden stadium.
But things are good, I guess. Henry could not possibly be even one tiny bit cuter, and he sings little songs and makes little smiles (real ones! I think!) and kicks his little legs like he’s marching and dear heavens, I could not possibly love him any more, not even one bit. The thing that’s so goddamn wonderful about having a baby is the way you’re able to love him. It’s a purer feeling than I’ve ever experienced in my life, the kind of love that’s completely un-tainted by personality. There’s no part of him that I have to look past in order to love him, no “I love him even though he ________.” (Other than the pants-crapping thing. Which isn’t that big a deal anyway.) It’s just this perfectly sweet feeling, this little bubble that forms around us in the mornings when he’s lying on his back making happy baby sounds and kicking his little legs back and forth, and it’s so completely bullshit-free that it makes me want to cry tears of happiness, something to which I’m not normally disposed.
That’s it. It’s the fact that there’s not one ounce of bullshit between Beans and me right now. This is a rare and beautiful thing.
Topics: Fucking Awesome | 11 Comments »
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:28 am
so not the presence of the wee bean, but the absence of coffee, the other wee bean.
you say you feel Boring And Mundane and Tired but i could not be more delighted with you right now, because the ability to be sarcastic and biting is already proven, so the ability to admit to wanting to cry tears of happiness makes you even more interesting. you’re charming as hell when you get all sincere.
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:35 am
awww. now what does henry look like again?
and, OMIGOD, i saw some actual, honest to god, felbatol with felbamate tuesday. it does exist, and it almost glows. with nostalgia. and bygone expiration dates.
xo
September 22nd, 2005 at 9:06 am
My sort of lame comment is “oh, that’s so nice!”.
I think I need more coffee too.
September 22nd, 2005 at 10:31 am
Now, would you be that gushy if you had enough caffeine? I think not. I love that you love your kid… just hold onto that feeling when he’s 15 and knows it all… when he’s 20 he’ll snap back. :)
September 22nd, 2005 at 2:25 pm
God, I love it when people have kids, but seriously, who cracked open your sticky sarcasm shell and scooped out all your gooey rainbow-sherbet insides??
just kidding. you are adorable.
September 22nd, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Seriously, a rainbow crapped a unicorn on my brain.
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:11 pm
Good lord, how much coffee (by weight) is in a GALLON? That’s gotta be, like, 4 or 5 pounds…
September 23rd, 2005 at 4:09 pm
God, you are making me wish I had a kid. Please, stop. I don’t want one. I swear.
September 25th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
puppies and rainbows and lollypops. i love it. every new dad should have to read this post.
you have a lucky little family there…
September 25th, 2005 at 10:54 pm
One of my favorite things about Travis (he’s the roommate/long-time-friend’s baby) is that I don’t have anything to feel guilty about with him. I’ve never hurt him in any way. I’ve been there since day one (I was totally cheerleading in the delivery room) and our relationship is completely untainted, and I don’t have that with anyone else in the entire world.
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