KyleKyle’s Blog

And I really will. Starting right now, 3am on a Thursday. For reals yo!

Thoughts:

Chelsea vs. CRFGJKHK Cluj = Sadface. Pull it together boys. Score a goddamned goal at least, even if you concede one.

Elsewise, Derek and I decided to make our Sunday soccer outing permanent, and I’m really going to try and force that into practice. I even bought cleats.

I need to figure out how to edit G2image so that I can insert normal sized pictures into this blog from the gallery. And I need to put the 10 pictures I’ve taken in 2008 into my gallery. It’s funny that 2007 could involve me taking thousands of pictures, and I could count the number of pictures I’ve taken in 2008 on my left hand. Maybe I’ll pick it up a bit in the next few days. Doubtful, but maybe. I need to work on this blog more. I bet Gallery, wordpress, and and all the pluggins need an update.

I must say, I’m damn proud of the banner on my blog. It still makes me happy. I hope that kid is okay, him and his sling shot.

I never set up an anti-spam system in my wordpress commenting, so my comment queue was flooded with spam, to the tune of maybe 4,000 comments. Yuck! So now that its fixed, I’m really going to start writing again. Really! Like a phoenix rising from the ashes… and not some dumb Harry Potter phoenix either, a bad ass phoenix that could sneeze that Harry Potter phoenix right back into ashes.

I feel like something isn’t quite right. Everything should be just peachy keen, but something feels missing. Even now as I try to write about it, I can’t quite say what it is. Perhaps I should just go to work and pretend like everything is great, business as usual!

Remind me how awesome its going to be when I have my own. I’ve been playing with a 3 year old named Theo lately who belongs to my friend Becca’s friends. What a super hilarious kid. I’m in no way thinking of knocking anybody up anytime soon, but someday with the right girl, we will spawn the most badass little people this world has ever seen. It’s all about the parenting.

See, I was in Dolores park the other day, and I constantly overheard parents telling their kids to be careful, and not to do things, and to be safe, and all that, no matter how benign the things they were doing. Don’t you think this constant voice of safety first could damage kids mentally? This is why we have so many cowards and hypochondriacs.  Parents should be telling kids to have courage, to take calculated risks, to be adventurous! These things are important! This is why I hate how all playgrounds have been made ’safer’. Dangerous play equipment teaches kids their own limits! It gives them mettle at an early age! But this is the great thing about parenting. Everyone gets their own chance to teach their own kids how to live, and I’m going to get a chance to do it my way, and that way will be totally awesome. TOTALLY AWESOME in caps even.

The stay at home father theory: I’d be totally happy raising kids at home and letting the woman work. I don’t understand why women hate all this cooking cleaning taking care of kids stuff. It sounds kind of awesome. Especially if someone I love pays for me to do it. Obviously I’m going to get my doctorate and all that, but how cool would it be to be Dr. Kyle, stay at home scientist! Now I’m just ranting

I’ll do the soccer bit first. Leg 1 game 1 of the Champions League happened Tuesday and Wednesday. Chelsea tied Olympiakos in Greece 0-0 and Arsenal tied Ac Milan in London 0-0. This is very promising for me and sad for Cassidy because it means Chelsea gets to beat up the Greeks in London and Arsenal has to salvage their game in Milan. Mwhahaha.

Acrobaticals! I’m totally in love with my Chinese Acrobatics class. I’m already planning on increasing my intake of body punishment next semester by adding a Stretching Intensive course and Aerial Conditioning.  My acrobatics teacher says this will basically turn my body into a monster and I’ll be able to do lots of cool things. Already I’m getting better at standing on my hands and what not. Seriously, Circus Center, I totally reccomends it!

Battlestar Galactica is an awesome show! WATCH IT. And play close attention to the Cylon Sleeper agents. They are among us! Right now! Seriously. My life has strange parallels to Helo’s.

And St. Valentine’s day happened! Many of you probably rocked the pillow fight, I decided to abstain this year for a variety of reasons, including timing, and a lack of a pillow. I did have a date though, we ent out for dinner and had lots of good conversation and I suspect a lot of fun. It has only become complicated since then however, which is a shame. Who knows… I never seem to. My dating strategy needs to be somet— Hahah Jewel just came up randomly on my iTunes, but the shitty Jewel from that Album she purposefully made bad… Damn you Jewel — something along the lines of being awesome and just letting it happen. My attempts to make anything work on not work never seem to have any effect at all I’m totally running out of time to discuss these things… but there’s more to come in the future, I assure you.

What a nice weekend! On Friday I went out and had a very nice time. I’m not gonna get all jinxy and discuss it, but sufficed to say I went home with a big smile. Patxi’s for excellent pizza, yummy ice cream, and Meet The Robinsons, an awesome little disney flick. We’ll discuss this more after this coming weekend perhaps.

Cassidy finally went and saw Cloverfield without me thank god. I didn’t like Blairwitch, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like Cloverfield. The silly review in the onion did it for me. Assholes, all of them!

In the soccer world, Arsenal pulled farther ahead of Chelsea and ManU again. Bleh. Good for Cassidy, bad for me! Werder Bremen managed to not win as well, so it was a shafty weekend for my sports teams. And screw the superbowl, could have watched it, totally didn’t care.

Hummmmmm…. Thats it for nows!

Basically, the summary of my day. I cleaned like crazy today, bid adieu to our little cat friend Lily, and welcomed a few new additions to the home. The mixer is a kitchen aid professional and it weighs some three billion kilograms. The coffee table is a gift from my aunt, heavy, sturdy, and wonderful. We just need to stain it red at some point. I made a carrot cake with the mixer immediately to test its strength. I made a complete mess of the kitchen, but the carrot cake was fantastic. Em, Julian, and Doug came over to enjoy it, play cards, and have exercise contests with Cassidy. Emily beat Cassidy at a push-up contest on the colossus, mostly because Cassidy has the words “Huge Vagina” tatooed beneath his belly button. All in all, I’ve had to much cream cheese frosting…. but it is just so damn good… help…

Cassidy and I watched lots of things today. We watched Chelsea continue on in the FA Cup. We watched Patrick Stewart rock the house in Extras. We yelled and screamed while watching season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. We watched Lady in the Water and I actually liked it, but Cassidy fell asleep with the cat. All in all a good day.

My matress arrived this morning. I’m going to sleep on my own bed in my own house for the first time since May of last year. Its just too bad I’m all alone on such a rainy night

So, I’ve done a few things to ring in the New Year. Mainly, watched 2 awesome movies: Holiday with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, and Stardust. They’ve made me feel a few ways, and I will describe these ways for you:

Holiday

This movie is fantastic! Not only is it cute, it has Grant and Hep falling in love! Okay, so anyways, this movie screamed at that little part of my brain that has always been jealous of people doing handstands and things of that nature.  SOOOOO, I’m signing up for Beginning Chinese Acrobatics. Seriously. I’m going to learn how to tumble and fly and all those things. And when I feel like I’m in better shape, I’m also going to sign up for tumbling, so I can learn to do handsprings. It’s going to happen!

Stardust

Stardust is an adorable movie that speaks volumes to someone who feels like they might have fallen for the wrong person in the recent past. Damn you Victoria and your wicked ways. Do you ever feel like you’ve learned to put up with far to much bullshit for the sake of trying to find love? I certainly do.  I’m certainly going to be doing it less, I freaking swear.

Besides that, my New Year has begun with little else besides a bit of hope and a sprained ankle.  I lost my picture formatting gusto, but I’m almost almost done. I just need to finish the last half of 2007, and then UPLOAD them. And Voila, several years of pictures availabl. I’m very excited.

I just got home to my Mom’s house. Everybodies asleep. I can’t wait to wake em all up tommorow and kick the crap out of my brothers. Tonight will be spent watching my brother’s Scrubs seasons 5 & 6! Finally! I hope everyone is having a nice Christmas.

Pictures will be finished when I return to the city shortly!