Steve Martin is one of my favorite entertainers of all time. He's one of the few childhood favorites of mine that hasn't gotten cancelled (please nobody send me anything if he has), he made The Jerk which is a top 5 comedy of all time and I recently started Murders in the Building which is a delightful show. If you haven't watched it, picture a cross between a random PBS show with Martin Short being hilarious and throw in Selena Gomez being Selena Gomez and you got a 4.5/5 show.
Anywhosers, back to Steve Martin. I only named this blog "Steve Martin" because I had some fun thoughts on Parenthood...GET IT!? CUZ HE WAS IN THAT MOVIE!? So below will be some interesting things I've gathered on being a parent...well maybe a few more things since my last parenthood blog.
ALSO...my book is complete, I'm about to publish it. I haven't yet because it feels like it's a time consuming process and I'm waiting on my cousin/brother to write my foreword who just had his first kid. AND with a new job/being a parent and husband/football season/holidays/staring at a wall out of exhaustion, I can barely find time to write this. That being said, thoughts on parenthood and getting older!
- I have a favorite kids song. We're lucky because growing up all the kids songs were garbage, minus a few, specifically this one:
One of my best friends recently subjected to me to Danny Go and let me tell ya, that shit SLAPS! Some quality there.
- Speaking of these shows, the impatience of my kids is outstanding if a show is buffering or they can't access it. Now I'm the old man who yells at a cloud when I explain back in MY DAY we only had 36 channels and had to buy or rent VHS or DVD's....even worse we had to wait for a show to air. We truly lived in prehistoric times having to wait for Doug and Rugrats like we were cavemen.
- The only thing we had it better than the kids now was when it comes to music. I've had this conversation with a few people of "Are we old now or does the music actually suck?" and I'm of the belief it's both. There's very few songs coming out now that are original or good. If it's Olivia Rodrigo she's taking whatever song or melody was big back then (still good though!) and making hits or Elton John discovered he can just remake his older songs with someone and that gets radio play. Also Dua Lipa is a robot, that is my next blog, 99 reasons why Dua Lipa is not a real human being.
- Also, one of the most interesting observations about growing older, our parents didn't have social media. So I'm guessing a lot of you boomers reading this got to stay in and not really be jealous of anyone going out because you weren't seeing it. I'm in the interesting "I'm super jealous you get to go out and drink while I"m home with kids but at the same time it's 9 PM and I'm wearing sweatpants eating ice cream and I'm perfectly fine watching Unsolved Mysteries" portion of my life.
I'd like to meet somewhere in the middle now that my kids are getting older. I want to go out and RAGE or throw a house party and RAGE while listening to RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, but I want to be done by 9:30 or 10:00 PM. I'm not 35 anymore! So those reading this, expect an invite of some sort in the near future to my Old Person Beer Pong Tournament, where it starts at 3 PM and ends by 9:00 PM...MAYBE 9:30 PM.
I elaborated on the following above, but I'm going to revisit this, there is just not enough time in the day either, especially as a parent. Typical day in one paragraph: woke up by my kid (it's fine, he's awesome and it's now at 6:30 AM!!! Make breakfast, get them ready, go to school. Go to work, forget you didn't eat breakfast. Work. Pick up kids make them dinner. They go to bed. You and your significant other, and I know this is EVERYONE, turn on a show and take your phones out in pure exhaustion. Sleep. Repeat.
What I would like to figure out is how to include a work out. Binge watching a few shows or movies I've had on my list. I would LOVE to play some video games that I've wanted to beat for a while (I've been halfway through Link to the Past for a good 6 years now....some day), listen to my records, finish some books perhaps? I had a goal all weekend to play a WWE game and make all my friends in to characters, I haven't touched it...too tired by 10 PM. I feel a sick day coming upon me cough cough. (I'm just kidding work!)
- Cholesterol!? Watching what I have to eat? What the shit is this? I just turned 40 which means if I even sniff cheese I'm going to be farting for a month straight. Eating right, while good for you, is seemingly incredibly hard and boring. The other thing I struggle with foodwise, when my kids don't finish something I grew up with the mindset that I gotta finish that. So if we go out and eat and they don't finish that delicious chicken nug or that cheesy, fart inducing pizza I must finish ASAP.
Parenthood is incredibly rewarding. Do not get me wrong (kids if you're reading this in the future you're great!). Just know when my kids get older and they can go and do more things independently, we're gonna have a role reversal and they are going to come home to me and Heather gaming at 1 AM, drinking some Natty Lights while I listen to my 2 Pac vinyl's. Also I should watch the movie Parenthood, I've never seen it. Time to add that to my "Movies Kleeman Surprisingly Hasn't Seen" list.
Hey! Thanks for reading, it's been a minute. Next up, HOPEFULLY THE BOOK. Please buy it, it's really good, I swear.
Til next time,
Jeff
PS Movies I recently finished I somehow hadn't seen are: Roadhouse, My Cousin Vinny, White Men Can't Jump, Ghost, Point Break...all decent, none I will ever watch again.
Movies on my list still: Death Becomes Her, Philadelphia, Cliffhanger, Police Academy (Kim Cattrall, Jeff's first crush!), Land of the Lost. There's more, but if you just read this blog, it's gonna take a while!
