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There are a few posts that every blogger is required to write by law. As a good friend recently pointed out, “The Post in Which I Loose All My Readers” is the first. After that I’m pretty sure that “The Post About Nothing” is the second, and “Random Things” is the third. Never one to break from tradition, I have decided to obey that law.
We traveled back home to St Louis to visit my family last week. The last time we did this it was with one child, and things did not go well. This time, with two, I was expecting the worst. Fortunately the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars because both kids were little travel cherubs, and the trip could not have gone more smoothly. Frankie was completely stoked to be flying on the big airplane and spent most of her time coloring,
and Dominick basically just ate and crashed the whole time.
Mommy got to have a little chill time with some friends of ours,
and daddy did too.
Frankie and her friend spent time off by themselves doing girl things,
and Dominick just checked out the scene.
Because of the time difference I was awake to see the sun rise on the first day or two, but my stepdad’s wicked-awesome metal bird sculptures kept me company while I drank coffee outside and waited for the others to get up (They’re for sale, by the way…so is his awesome other work. Just thought I’d throw that in there.)
Pretty good trip, I’d say…I’m glad we went.
The problem is that, since I’ve been back, I have lost all interest in things electronic, including the internet. Traveling and visiting family does that to me. Being away, disconnecting, jabbering away until the wee hours of the night with friends and family and eating big breakfasts with grandparents always places the laptop squarely onto the back burner.
So here I sit, looking at a white page half-full of not too much, struggling for content that will not only entertain, but that will also ignite the little literary pilot light that burns inside me from time to time, and cannot do it. So I thought I’d take the easy way out and just flat-out talk about myself. I don’t have to think about it and it will buy me some time until I actually have to think of something good. 10 things about myself that almost no one knows. Here we go.
1. I love glowing yellow light at night. Think paper lanterns, the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse and old Japanese homes nestled in the forest. Love it.
2. I used to use a body wash from the Gap called Grass. It smelled like a lawn that had just been mowed. I loved it and was really pissed when they discontinued it.
3. I am a master of electronics and can handle almost any home theater setup but cannot, for the life of me, keep my Bluetooth headset charged.
4. Once, for Halloween, I went full drag as a French Maid. After my girlfriend (yep, it was Aline) did all my makeup and I put on my wig I looked in the mirror and was very, very bothered by how hot I was.
5. I eat way too many eggs.
6. If she were real, I would leave my wife for Princess Jasmine.
7. I throw up if I ride in a car or a train sideways.
8. Birds, of any kind, make me incredibly uncomfortable. I also think that all birds are dirty. I do not know why.
9. When someone else is talking, and they start to get that little phlegmy, gurgly sound in their voice, I subconsciously clear my own throat and continue to do so until they clear theirs.
10. My largest character flaw is that I will immediately begin laughing uncontrollably the second anyone falls down, regardless of whether or not I know if they have hurt themselves.
So there you go. Don’t worry, I’ll come up with something better on the next one. 
-Matt
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October 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I would comment on this post…..but I stopped reading your blog after your “Post Where I Loose All My Readers”. I was one of the tens of thousands you lost. I bet you are regretting the day you wrote THAT post, huh???
Although?
You might be able to win me back if you post a pic of you in drag as a French Maid.
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Matt Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
@McMommy, TOTALLY regretting it. I wish you had warned me. And you can forget about the French Maid pics right now. They have been packed in a wooden crate and hidden in a huge warehouse full of other wooden crates.
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October 26th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I’m savoring this one, Matt.
Watch out for that parakeet behind you!
Barbara´s last blog ..Buddy Walk Mardi Gras – Style in Texas!
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Matt Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
@Barbara, that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, thank you very much!
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October 26th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
well i guess NOW i know what i’m going to be for Halloween!
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Matt Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
@aline, Score!
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October 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
My favorite perfume is Obsession Night (and thanks to Ebay, I just got a full gift set for $15!). and the REASON is is my favorite is because it smells likes grass to me. Not grass as in weed, but, you know, GRASS. The problem is that no one else seems to smell that, just me.
I love the pictures, and you all look so relaxed; jumping back into real life pretty much sucks.
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Matt Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
@Kori, Yep, obsession is good, and a better deal than weed at under $100 for an oz.
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