When my son was an infant, up until he could roll over and crawl away, we had a toy that we velcro’d onto a microphone stand (so we could adjust the height) near his changing table. It had lights and played 3 quick songs or something. It went from diaper changes being 100% traumatic, more for my wife and I, to…

At least you got it right by going through all of those things before you pull out of the driveway lol

50,020 was the final word count. How did yours go?

This was my 12th year participating in NaNoWriMo. What I have learned over those 12 years (for myself):

Ok. I have not seen anyone tie a shoe like this before. I’m a loop, wrap the loop, and pull guy. I tried this knot and then spent five minutes untying said knot. Maybe I did it wrong. I’ll revisit this when my 3 year old is old enough to tie shoes.

The same plan I have every year (12th year!!!):

I generally say, “Come on, get your shit together.”

I’d like to start a crusade. My crusade is to stop people from using “y’all.”

We pay our babysitter (a friend of my wife) with a pizza and bottle of wine.

There is a history of thyroid problems in my family (sister, grandmother, male cousins, etc) and my doc just tells me I’m overweight and won’t check for thyroid issues. He’s the 2nd doc I’ve gone to about this and I get the same thing. What do I have to do to get this checked out?

That is the greatest Shaggy EVER!

If the weather is shitty by any means, Wife and I will tip more than usual. Being former servers, we rarely tip under 20%. They have to be really bad to get 15%.

We’ve both agreed that neither of us want to do any of it, but that’s part of being an adult lol

My wife does most of the cooking for dinner. She finds it therapeutic, so I’m cool with that. There are certain cooking tasks she leaves up to me, baking, curry, spaghetti sauce (4 hour cook down). I do dishes every night for the ones that must be hand washed. She unloads the clean dishwasher and I’ll load it. I…

Sometimes!

We’re still in the Daniel Tiger phase.

Or do what my wife and I did: have a kid.

I have a BA. In Theatre. I work in IT. I make significantly more than I did before I had my degree. Keep in mind I graduated high school in 1998 and from university in 2007. Why theatre? It was my passion, still is to some degree, but it’s such a well-rounded degree if you go to the right school.

I had a panic attack when I was a junior in college. I ended up quitting school, my job, and moving into my parent’s basement for a year. Ended up finishing school a few years later, where I met my wife. That panic attack was both the best and worst thing that had happened to me in my twenties.

With as crappy as my work wifi is, having the WiFi Assist on will actually save me some data as I usually have wifi off at work. I’ll test this theory over the next week or so.