I'm into Gilmore Girls now

Have you ever had the experience of being sucked into a TV show despite yourself? Well it's happened to me with Gilmore Girls. I used to laugh derisively whenever I saw Michael's picture (now gone) on Hoss's sidebar, with a caption about how he and Hoss were watching the entire series on DVD. But the last laugh is his. I like to think I'm a sensitive, new-age guy. For example, I recently made a batch of brownies for my wife to take to her book club (I totally support women's literacy). But even I couldn't take Lorelai and Rory at first, when Marcy started taping reruns of season 6. All the self-conscious cuteness was just too much. Yet somehow it sucked me in, and now that we've just finished watching the season 2 finale on DVD, I'm dying to find out if Rory will dump Dean for Jess (I should say when because she is so going to dump him), and when will Luke and Lorelai finally admit that they are in love with each other?

My weekend in Utah

A few highlights from my four-day weekend in Utah:

1. French toast stuffed with cream cheese (Hoss rules the griddle).
2. Bubba Burgers (look for them in your local supermarket’s frozen food section).
3. Watching Marcy clean everyone’s clock in air hockey.
4. Listening to my grandma insist that I write a novel about her life. And her preferred pseudonym for the book is “Mrs. Gotrocks” (got-rocks). Don’t ask me where she came up with that. Oh, and the Breathsavers she started sucking on because her saliva is drying up give her really bad gas so she doesn’t go to church much anymore. Just FYI.
5. Squatting with my siblings in the park so the photographer can get a nice “head shot” of us all.
6. Three consecutive days with one-hour-plus naps.
7. Wearing shorts around for the first time in almost a year.
8. Discovering Warren’s fries and fry sauce near my parents' house.
9. A little Apple Beer.
10. Waiting at a road block while the cops, with their guns drawn, took down a Suburban full of hoods two lanes over on the way home from the airport Tuesday night, with 4th of July fireworks in the background.