Random Moments With Us – Preemie

As I lay in bed with Venice, our daughter crawls in bed next to us and tries to cuddle up.  I look down and push her face away and say, “She was my mom first.”

Our daughter makes a sad face and Venice grabs her and says, “Don’t be mean Ryan, you know she was our little preemie.”  Our daughter was born at 6 months and has been called a preemie now for 3 years.

I pushed my daughter’s face away again and looked at Venice in baby talk, “I’m your first baby.”

Venice looked back down at me and said, “Oh sweetie, you will always be my first preemie.”

Random Moments With Us – Getting Bruno’d

Black BikersOn the way home from work earlier this week, I took the back way to avoid traffic from the main roads. I stopped at a red light and a few moments later two bikers pulled up next to me.  From my peripheral vision I saw that they were two big black guys.  I didn’t want to look over to them fearing that it would signal that I wanted the BBC.  I always make sure not to set off any BBC radars unnecessarily.  I gazed straight ahead waiting for the light to turn green, when suddenly out of no where I heard the first familiar notes of Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven.”

I looked down at my dashboard to see if my radio was on – it wasn’t.  I looked around to see if there was a white 19-year-old college girl who was getting ready for a weekend of clubbing by blasting her favorite party jam – there wasn’t.  In fact, there wasn’t anyone around except for the two bikers… and one of them had the song playing on full blast.  Accidentally, I made eye contact with the large black biker who Bruno’d me. I nodded my head once, ever so slightly, as a sign of affirmation and gave him a thumbs up; he gave me an thumbs up in return.

Eventually the light turned green and I made a left and headed home.  I looked in my rear view mirror to make sure they weren’t following me.  I’m not racist – I can’t be… I’m brown.  No, they weren’t following me.  What I did see was the reflection of a big biker dude fist-pumping to the bass of that little Asian boy’s song.

Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven” video

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Random Moments With Us – July 4th

July 4th(June 9, 2014) Ryan: Can you please see if you can get off on Friday?

(June 9, 2014) Venice: Why?

(June 9, 2014) Ryan: Because I am off and I want to hang out with you.

(June 9, 2014) Venice: I’m already taking a day off soon.

(June 9, 2014) Ryan: Yea, but that’s in a month, try to get this Friday off.

(June 9, 2014) Venice: When is July 4th?

(June 9, 2014): Ryan: …

(June 9, 2014) Venice:

(June 9, 2014) Ryan: I’m blogging that.

(June 9, 2014) Venice: Wait, no, I meant…

(June 9, 2014) Ryan: (interrupting her) No… don’t explain shit.  Don’t ruin that moment with an explanation.

(June 9, 2014) Venice: No but I meant…

(June 9, 2014) Ryan: (interrupting her again) I’m blogging.  Take it like a man.

50 Cent’s Opening Pitch of a Mets Game – Worst Pitch Ever

50 CentRyan: Go to YouTube and look up “50 Cent first pitch Mets.” Prepare to laugh. Then, once you see that and laugh, go to Google images, lol

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Venice: lolololol omg. He was even FACING the batter and STILL managed to throw that motherfucker like a foul ball.

Ryan: LOL.  Now look at the pictures. He is so girly. Has he never thrown a fucking rock in Queens, New York? Has he never thrown a newspaper? Has he never finished a piece of gum and thrown it down the road or onto a roof? Has he never fucking thrown anything in his entire fucking life? A football? A frisbie? A bag of potato chips to his boys? His car keys to his chick? What’s even crazier is, inside his first album cover, he is holding a fucking bat. You’d think he’d be able to toss a fucking ball. Tonight, I will give a baby a fucking ball. A baby who has never thrown anything but her bottle across the room and she will still pitch better than that.

Venice: I know lolololol. You can tell he has never thrown a thing in his life.

Ryan: This fucking guy probably has an allergic reaction even when he watches Game of THRONES.

Venice: lol. His grandma probably called him up after seeing this pitch and demanded he give back the THROW blanket she bought him for Christmas.

Ryan: AHAHAHA. She still has stains on the rug and walls from when he was a kid and used to throw up fucking sideways.

Venice: He probably throws up in 90 degree angles and hits the walls behind him even though his head is hanging in a toilet.

Ryan: He used to throw down with his homies and always hit his own boy that was standing next to him.

Venice: Vegas would never ask him to throw a fight.

Ryan: Fight? You can tell he couldn’t throw a fucking punch if his life depended on it. Imagine him throwing a party though?

Venice: He’d throw a party and give directions to his house… which leads everyone two blocks away to the left of his home, at some cameraman’s house.

50 cent batRyan: Ahahaha. The dude seriously throws like a sissy.

Venice: The dude obviously didn’t pitch growing up. Must be a catcher.

Ryan: Ahaha. You better stop with that shit. This is 50 cent we are talking about. You’re going to end up staring down the barrel of a gun….

Venice: And I’d never feel safer! LOLOL

Ryan: Hahaha. If he was aiming at the wall 20 feet away from you though?

Venice: Fucking duck, you’re in trouble then.

Ryan: Ahahahahahahaahahaha.

Ryan: How are we supposed to believe he was on the corner “pitching rocks to the fiends.”

Venice: Best drug dealer ever. The cops could never catch him pitching rocks directly to anyone.

Ryan: Ahahaha oh my god.

Ryan: There goes his career. He will be remembered for that pitch.

Venice: For sure

Ryan: The pitch went viral before the game was in the 3rd inning. No bullshit.

Venice: lmaoooo!  Sad! 50’s pitch went viral before the end of the Star Spangled Banner sang by 3rd grader Lindsey Jones from Queens Elementary.

Ryan: lol. It went viral before the ball hit the reporter standing 30 feet away from the plate

Venice: It went viral before Fiddy even had the chance to think “Aww haiil naw”

Ryan: The ball accidentally hit a kid tweeting about the pitch in left center field

Venice: lolol! It was like “Oh shit…here it co…” send tweet

Ryan: “OMG, you should see how bad this fucking pitch 50 just thre…”

Ryan: Next tweet. “Fuck, just got hit by the ball.”

Venice: Upside down sit-ups can’t fix that weeble-wobble pitc–” tweet sent

Ryan: PLEASE 50, NEVER EVER EVER EVEREVEVEVEVEEVERE EVER do a drive-by. For the love of little kids on tricycles EVERYWHERE

Venice: For the love of little kids on tricycles EVERYWHERE <– not necessarily “everywhere,” but at least in the tri-county area minimum.

Ryan: Haha.

Ryan: 50 is a humanitarian. He saw a mosquito with malaria on the camera man to the very far left and changed his mind about the pitch and decided to save him.

Venice: 50 was pitching to the bat boy

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Random Moments With Us – The Deadly Spider

deadly spiderVenice and I were getting ready for bed when I heard her say, “Do not turn around, get up slowly and move away from the bed.”  When she said that, I knew I was under attack.  I calmly got up and moved a step away from the bed.  I then turned around and saw the largest wolf spider I have ever seen laying on my side of bed getting ready to go to sleep.  Honestly, he may have had on pajamas but I was in shock and I really can’t remember what he was wearing.   Maybe he read our threesome memoirs, but I am sorry spider, it’s not THAT type of party.

I yelled for Venice to give me something hard to swat him with but instead she grabbed my pillow.  Unsure what she was planning to do with my pillow, I stopped and watched her.  She had the fire in her eyes and held my soft pillow like it was a battle axe.  I knew the spider’s days were numbered.  She jumped up on the bed and slammed her arms down as fast as she could smashing the spider with my cotton ball soft pillow.  The pillow was no match.  Venice, now known as my female Pillow Warrior, immediately realized the pillow axe was useless.  I could have sworn I saw the spider laughed after she lifted the pillow off of him.

Okay, the laugh part isn’t true, because the spider’s mouth was too small for me to actually see it move or laugh.  I did hear what sounded like a laugh though.  The next thing I know, this huge tank spider lunged at me.  Maybe he thought I would save him from the Pillow Assassin.  He seriously hopped maybe 1 foot off the bed towards my feet.  I jumped back and screamed.  Venice yelled out, “Oh my god, it has super powers!”

The Pillow Queen met her match.

I summoned the gods with the remote control I had in my hand and dropped it with a force that shook the entire room.  It’s just too bad I missed.  The spider sprinted to hide under a chair.  I lifted the chair with one hand throwing it across the room and swung again but this time connected.    It crunched.

Super powers my ass.

Hopefully Venice and I (really just Venice) learned that pillows are not something you grab to kill large insects.  In fact, the part of the story I left out for dramatic effect was me yelling, “No baby, don’t use my pillow, wtf, I don’t want spider guts on my fucking pillow! STOP!”  I decided to take that out of the story.   Especially because she totally ignored my pleading and tried to wack the spider with the pillow as hard as she could.