Tuesday work worked me.
After doing my usual cramming of two days into one, working through lunch as is typical these days, I decided to pack up and leave shortly after 4pm. I wanted to leave early because I had some “work/life balance” errands I wanted to run. Namely, it’d been far too long since I’d randomly brought home flowers and chocolate to my wife. I also had been wanting to pick up a particular gift for Keaton for a while, and figured I could kill to birds with one stone and be cheered upon my homecoming as some benevolent springtime Santa Claus. So I stopped and got some midrange spring arrangement and walked in with it. They look nice, as much as my male opinion is valid here, in the vase on the kitchen table.
Prior to getting the flowers I made a stop at the local hobby shop to pickup the gift I wanted for Keaton. See, last week I got this crazy idea that it would be fun to build, decorate, and launch a model rocket with her. My brother and I used to do this with my dad, and I know it’s typically a “guy thing” but I thought she’d get a real kick out of it. I bought a starter kit with all the junk one needs to blast the things into the air, and made sure to pick up a can of pink spraypaint and a purple paint marker so we can do some fancy decorating around the Disney princess stickers we’ll surely affix to it. So yes she’s a little young, but how cool will it be for her to do the countdown for SpacePrincess One and hit the trigger to launch it? Then we get to chase after the thing as it drifts back down; I’m pumped.
What? The rocket thing is just something I wanted to do and Keaton would’ve rather had a 3rd dollhouse instead? Well… maybe so but too bad… we’re gonna father/daughter bond with this rocket. We are!
Goodnight.
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