Lyric of the Moment 10

"Everybody's lookin' for love, oh-oh /
Ain't that the reason you're at this club, oh-oh /
You ain't gon' find it dancin' with him, no-oh /
I got a better solution for you, girl, oh-oh"

     ~ Jason Derulo, In My Head

Otherwise known as: Jason Derulo misuses wisdom to get in your pants.

The better solution is not to go home with him to "get down to business, and skip foreplay."

New Dad Confession 4

I think I have the first part of fatherhood down pretty good - wanting children, a strong desire to be a good dad and husband, a critique of the erosion of family values in western culture, growth in building a strong character and personal integrity, etc.

Turns our the second part of fatherhood, actually living those things out in the mundane moment to moment of daily life, is pretty dang hard.

Relativism

"Yet our modern society is stuck in puberty. Relativism has become the dominant operating system in a culture that scoffs at what we once knew, too rebellious to respect the wisdom of our forefathers, too self-sufficient to seek the truth, and worst of all, many times just too lazy to bother."

     ~ New Fundamentalists: Beyond Tolerance by Fr. Daniel Brandenburg

With young adults, when we choose between moral norms we don't really understand and pleasure that we experience, it makes sense that we'll often choose pleasure.

New Dad Confession 3

Every formerly "normal" dude behavior like speeding, mild weaving through traffic, jaywalking, walking through construction zones (you know, the usual), etc., now comes with a conscience dialog objection of, "Do you know why I stopped you?  You realize you have a baby with you right?"

And also with you-r spirit.

I have to be honest and say that it was really hard not to judge all them fooz who haven't been to Mass since the new translation happened (and by "fooz" I mean "fools" in the Proverbs sense). Reflexive responses of old gave way to fumbling and awkwardness which made for my amusement, but distracted me from the coming of Christ. Here's hoping that the shock pushes them out of lukewarmness.  But preferably towards the hot side of reawakening their faith.  And not the cold side like Christopher Hitchens, but hey, he was fascinatingly cold.

New Dad Confession 2

Let's say this is my baby:


When we went to the doctor for our two month checkup and we were told that our baby is in the 90+ percentile for height and 20-ish percentile for head size, this is what I imagine how people must see our baby:

(Don't call me "Tiny")

Here's hoping that the height percentile will persist and that it's matched with hand-eye coordination.  College athletic scholarship here we come!

New Dad Confession

Go with me for a sec.

Let's say this is me:
(For the record, I don't intend on being a Tiger Dad.)

And let's say this is my baby daughter:
(My daughter is way cuter, but so far not as chill.)

When the majority of people say that my daughter looks like me, I have a hard time taking that as a good thing. 

Simply put, I'm a guy and my daughter's a girl.  If a girl looks like a guy, it's not supposed to be a good thing right?

As a result, what I end up processing in my head is that my daughter looks like me if I were a chick.  Something like this:



Yiggity yikes.