Fittingly, my pal Fancy emailed me and sent me to see her Flickr photos from the trip to England. Very great pictures.

About four months ago I would have left work, (in the building next door to where Corey Lidle crashed his plane a few weeks ago, but that’s a different entry story) on Friday, caught the N or the R to go see TK in Brooklyn, or the 4 or 6 to go meet TRose down in lower Manhattan. We’d probably go to a show or check out a random bar or something, and I would stay on the couch as I was living way the fuck away in the Bronx (BX!), and the next morning would be NYC leisure time eating walking reading while I spent a few hours working my way back to that northeastern borough.

Today, I will leave work in about half an hour. I’ll drive home in my new-to-me 1996 Honda mini-wagon (named ‘The Tonda’) and listen to sportsradio. I’ll meet my girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter at the local public library book sale, which usually has awesome books. We’ll do that and then scare up some dinner and who knows what the heck I will do this weekend. It will involve a lot of responsibility and watching/entertaining/parenting of E, which I am still very much getting used to. Work will be busy Monday, but Monday night I plan on watching an exciting football game. I will also probably do what I often do, and realize the weekend flew by and I didn’t call the people I wanted to call and do half of what I wanted to do.

But, tonight I’ll sleep in a too-small bed, and it will be made even smaller when E wakes up and comes in around 1 am, so I’ll wake up around 3, fighting for space with a 4 year old, a 29 year old, and 2 or 3 cats. And not even in a Queen size bed! We’re talking Full Size here, people! Crazy, right? But so it goes. I feel like I will suddenly be looking around at this family I’ve help create and wonder where the fuck all the time has gone. So I try my best, and get used to not sleeping a lot.
Besides, it’s way more fun to hang with kids.

I had all these old band stickers, and kids love stickers, so now we have in the kitchen this huge cardboard-box-turned-playhouse decorated with Queens of the Stone Age, Nebula, Fu Manchu, Murder City Devils, Thrasher and Zoo York stickers, etc., alongside other kiddy and girly stickers. I find that funny.

Have a good weekend.