It's a fern heavy weekend, with two, yeah that's right, two, sleepovers this weekend. All hands on deck with ya good boi around - he might be shittin' on these peoples heads, son.
Like I said, I always have a secret stash of powdered donut holes around here somewhere. Now I know another bestie who loves them just the same as I do.
I got home early enough to catch a few minutes with fern.
If this young fella is awake, it's almost impossible to take a selfie with him because he is so ready to shower my face with love anytime my beard gets close enough. Way too many tongue kisses.
He's with us all day tomorrow and will be sleeping over again. I'm looking forward to it.
Today eeeeeeeemma stopped by to point out how dope alabama shakes is. I sent her a link to this feeling. That's the chronicle from the day she was committed and it has a song from sound & color, the album she referenced today. I don't believe she knew the connection.
Going into tonight, I had no idea that I was going to consume an art show. Like, no idea. I thought I might catch some corbin tennis (longer story), but not some art.
Fuck the art though for a minute. Never forget Wu-Tang is for the children and look at this wonderful crew. I won't have any kids in high school ever again (theoretically, lol) and thus, this crew might be it for me. They inspire me. Every single one of them.
I won't even speak on any of the eeeeeeeemma art pictured above. She and her art speak for itself. Her art teacher loves her. I love her. We love her. Perhaps one day she'll learn to love herself. 😉
Time for a brief detour into my children and the thoughts that float through my brain matter as I consider them. It's not just eeeeeeeemma, or bonnibel from earlier, that inspires me. It's all of them. I could, and would if you follow the hash tags, explain to you how they inspire me. Each and every one of them.
That said, it's eeeeeeeemma's time to shine today. As one example of her star shining, I can say that this website would not exist in the form it does without her inspiration. My paintings, my drawings, my code, my journey, my website, or any of it, isn't the same thing it is today if I don't see her build out her own journey. She has a PORTFOLIO, son. I aim to be as creative as she is. I remember I am creative by seeing her creativity. Even more poignant: I learn I am creative from her creativity.
Can I just say this though? I might be able to compete, at least on a creativity level, with a bunch of high school seniors. I say this with all the love in respect in the world. lulz
We're gonna keep it light tonight because we got a surprise visitor (surprise to me at least).
First thing new emma does is walk right up to me, hugs me, and tells me she missed me. Same girl. Same. 🥹🥹
Sorry ladies, I'm a one girl guy again.
You might not know this about me, but I am known to have a secret stash of Pick 'n Save powdered sugar donut holes around me at any given time. I now know my love shares my love.
I tried to capture this magical bestie moment and fern was having none of it. Let a three year old and our good boi get together and it's crazy zoomies szn. He wouldn't sit still for all the bacon in the world with our little lady chasing him around all night. She has tasty feet too.
There's some proof that the blur boi was actually here.
While I'm not a huge ice-t guy, this album cover is iconic. Must grab.
Best in haul.
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Low key day with nikkigirl on her made up holiday designed for commerce. lulu and p-funk stopped by with fern, so I'd say that wins the day for the #1 momma bear in the house.
Oh, and I fixed a dryer that wasn't broken for her. lulz
This song always make me think about my mother, and not just for the obvious reasons. It's a song about a troubled woman raising a troubled child. We fit that mold. lol
I haven't ever been a good son for my mom. She had to go through it - all while I was going through it. Sure some of "it" was her fault, but much if it was outside of her control. I was destined to be a troublemaker and I used to blame her for my troubles more than I do today.
At scale, she's the majority of the reasons I am who I am today, and I also struggle to remain connected to her in any real way. My brothers and sisters carry me here. I love them for that.
Few things make nikkigirl happier than if I fire up Game of Thrones for us to watch for the 36 billionth time.
I aim to please.
Frisco Mo Bounce-Fest
Volleyball returns. As the AAU championships in Orlando apporach in June, we've got two warm up tournaments first.
How about a block and some celly to get us started?
The first match against one of the MKE Sting teams was a tight 27-25 in the first set and a bit of a beatdown, 25-13 in the second.
Turned out that two of the wings on the team were horsing around before the match and nearly broke something on the grounds playing hacky sack or something. They were benched for this match and our boi, jeff meff, got some extended run on the outside.
He did a hell of a good job out there.
Next up, Mamba.
Back in his normal middle position, he helped to lead the team to another sweep: 25-21, 25-19. They were firmly in control for almost the entirety of this match.
After a strong morning, I was feeling pretty confident we had a shot to win our third straight tournament......
......and the #1 MKE Sting team put it on us pretty good while the bois lost both sets: 22-25, 13-25. They let go of the rope in the second set a bit and just like that, their 16 set, 8 match win streak was over.
We close the day against......another MKE Sting team. This one day tournament was at the Sting facilities and they are quite large. There's a lotta volleyball coming out of the Milwaukee area.
About the only good thing to come out of this match is that each set started......
The kiddos ran out of steam to close the afternoon, losing both sets: 17-25, 19-25. We've had better afternoons together.
Our hero mr. meff didn't play in the last match so here's a bonus shout out to clark. He was still putting it on kid's heads.
I haven't seen our boi play for nearly three months now, and let me tell you, he's a hell of a lot better. Benching or otherwise, there's no way they'd trust him on the outside coming into this year. He's put in a hell of a lot of good work to get here.
3rd place (not exactly sure how, lol) ain't so bad either.