Wishing I Would Be Treated More Like An Adult!

So Mommy and Daddy started out the weekend pleased to let me watch the upstairs TV in the morning.  They summoned me so we could all watch a rocket launch as a family, with all the rain I figured it would be us just watching movies together snuggling.

Strangely as the day progressed and they checked social media on their phones they seemed a lot more inclined to allow me to head down to the basement and totally loosened the leash on how much I could play on my iPad.  Well, nothing makes a smart young boy more suspicious when they seem to want to shield me and when I catch images like this on TV when I come up from the basement for dinner and am only offered vague explanations and teaching moments it just makes me more curious and a little concerned.  I appreciate more screen time with my favorite YouTube personalities but it was beginning to seem more like a smoke screen or at least a red herring.  I wish someone would just level with me for once in my life!

The fact that an EMERGENCY ALERT came across my social media feeds TWICE didn't inspire confidence!

Something is suspicious here. 

Jaxon

My Daddy Is Cringe!

So in the vocabulary of my Generation who has grown-up on Memes and YouTube and is now dealing with the Corona Virus my Daddy is officially Cringe!

First of all it was very depressing to see that the people who are technically the Elders of My Generation are not taking social distancing at the park today seriously.  All through the week all they seemed to want to do is to strip down to as little clothes as possible and drink beer and get as close to each other as possible!

You would think that my Daddy would act like an adult and lecture them but all he did was take a beer out of his backpack and take a Selfie like he was some sort of YouTube Flexer.

I will create a Meme to tell him how stupid he looks.

Take The L!

Calming Myself With Ivar's Comfort Food

Daddy is determined that we get out and have adventures even if we are going to have to be careful.  Bike rides seem great in principal but all of a sudden we needed to get lunch.  Fremont seemed like the logical destination but when we got off the Burke-Gilman Trail everything seemed set-up to remind me that we are in the midst of a Pandemic.

It was too much for me!  I just wanted to get back to something comforting that will always feel like home to me!  I'm not even 10, this is all very concerning for a child!

Oh the normalcy of the Ivar's Fish Bar and a warm bowl of Chowder even if we had to go to a secluded park as a precaution.  Thank you Mr. Haglund, you probably never expected in 2020 how important you seafood would be to a little Boy!

How Will I Describe This To My Children . . . ?

Well Seattle has partially opened up.  I can walk through a park now but we aren't at a time where I can just hang-out with other kids, you have to keep moving!

Eventually my parents say I will get to reflect back on these times and tell my kids what I endured and I know exactly how I will describe my time . . .

. . . Lots of sitting on uncomfortable rocks and street corners to avoid places people with Corona Virus might have touched.

Tiger King's Strange Hold on My Parents

So Mommy and Daddy have been pretty bored during the Quarantine.  Mommy has her Podcasts and Daddy has his Basement and Beer.  Generally they just seem bored right now.  Well not tonight . . .

I was intrigued at first.  My parents say I have a "Cat Allergy"  and am not allowed a Kitten but this man has hundreds and when he's not playing with them he is shooting his gun and blowing things up.  

It isn't that I didn't appreciate learning a little about Joe Exotic it is just that I was disturbed by the hold he had over my parents.  As the hours flew by Mommy and Daddy just became more fixated on his convoluted life with his strange feuds and the shadier people he seemed to be associating with.

Usually I would just use my parents being distracted as an opportunity to play more video games but after a couple hours I felt obligated to just put myself to bed.  If Mommy and Daddy are going to watch a Netflix series way past all of our bedtimes I can't be expected to be a 9 year old Parent.  I can only take responsibility for my own well being!

I guess thing didn't really turn out that well for Joe in the end.  I bet when he was a boy his parents didn't tuck him in either.  Just saying . . . 

Blogging Because I'm Bored!

Granted I haven't posted on my Blog for a while and why should I ?!?  I was having way too much fun being a Little Boy.  I know a lot has happened.  Trump got elected, I started school, riding a bike,  I started going to the park on my own and got introduced to Minecraft and PewDiePie.  The desire to Blog just seemed antiquated and then came this . . .

Yeah, no school, no visiting with friends.  I feel like I've truly grown-up now that I've learned life can hit you with a Corona Virus curve ball.

As you can see I'm not exactly the fat, dumb and happy Baby that started the Blog, now life has hardened me.  Sadly, when you become wiser you don't always become happier.

Yep, my reality has changed, empty streets and parks, no physical interaction with my friends going on a month now.

Dad has been taking it hard also, his playground is closed also and he has never been the same!  

So yeah, as long as COVID 19 is hiding out there I have to keep a lower profile at home so this Blog will be a way to vent a bit.

I will strive to maintain the quality of my Blog from the previous years.  It just might have more of an  EDGE now!

Remember, practice social distancing and wash your hands!

Jaxon

Dick's Run!

Have you missed me!  Well you better have but there is a reason I haven't been blogging since 2016,  I'm turning into a full on BOY.  Sitting on the couch just and playing on a laptop just doesn't have the draw anymore.  I have a bike, an iPhone (My Mom's) to play Pokemon on and lots of friends that require attention.

Regardless, we did something big today.  Daddy had suggested that when we took our first trip to Dick's Drive-In we should hire a professional photographer because it was just such an important event, well, he had to settle because I wanted to try my first Dick's Deluxe and I couldn't wait anymore.

Yep, just picture me like this ten years from now after a football game pushing my curfew to the max, I might have a cute girl sitting on the hood of my car with me also.

Christmas Depravity!

Mommy and Daddy thought it would be fun to watch a Christmas movie from when they were my age tonight but to me it was pure emotional pain.  They generally watch a steady diet of Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas but tonight Daddy insisted we watch "A Christmas Story", I didn't know families could have so much dysfunction during Christmas!

It was truly horrific to watch. I didn't know life could be filled with so much emotional turmoil, families being torn apart because a lamp is delivered, child abuse through soap, depraved sadistic sociopaths, violence, depraved anti-social behavior caused by peer-pressure.  Oh don't forget a duck's head is eventually cut-off!

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I just didn't know there was just so much PAIN in the world.

It was all way too much for me to handle so I chose to deal with it by turning my back, covering my ears and yelling.  

Too much to deal with!

This wasn't supposed to be what Christmas was all about!!!!

Jaxon

Pokemon Go!

I have found many things in life to be passionate about over my last six years such as Transformers, Dinosaurs and Legos but over the last couple of months I have found a passion that has so overwhelmed my life that I don't even have time to Blog.

My new passion involves scouring the greater Seattle area be it a restaurant, a copy center or a vacant lot for places where Pikachus, Squirtles and Charmanders spawn.

The sad part is that I have pretty much dominated the territory in my neighborhood and need to search out more fertile territory.  Because I am an ambitious Poke hunter this can mean I go out at anytime of day or night as well as any weather condition.  Just about anywhere could be a Pokemon Gym and if a battle starts I am determined it will be a fight to the finish even if my Daddy is shivering and just wants to keep on walking.

I also believe that the best hunting territory probably is in places others don't necessarily look.

Turns out the guys who run the liquor store know a lot about Pokemon also.  They were so nice but Daddy didn't think it was appropriate for us to hang out there all night.  Hey, if I can find a Pokemon Gym I'm going to take advantage.

Jaxon

My Olympic Dream . . . Gold Medal in Storytelling

Oh my, I can't believe time goes by so fast, it seems like just a few years ago I was watching little men in top hats choreograph dance moves at the Olympic opening ceremonies in London . . . in a blink of an eye I'm watching some of the greatest athletes in the world compete in Rio de Janeiro!

It was the usual cast of characters but with the addition of Simone Biles I'm inspired to train to be a gymnast also since I have already mastered swimming and running.

But just when I didn't think I could get any more inspiration from the Olympics I found a new source of inspiration and he shined even after his event was over.

Talk about a life lesson that could stay with me forever.  

I will always remember him as the person who taught me the art of the Tall Tale and I really put it to work tonight. 

I really wanted to go to City People's to buy something, anything really, so I told Daddy they were giving away free gold there.

Yep, now I'm feeling like I just won a Gold Medal, even if the place was closed by the time we got there.

I'm not saying there wasn't the possibility that City People's was giving away free gold just like Ryan Lochte might have been held-up.  It is just all up to interpretation.  

Bar Fly!

I've never really been to a BAR before but last weekend I had my first experience.  Well, full legal disclosure I didn't enter the roped off area, I stayed within the legal parameters.  Still, I feel like I got the full experience.  It was my Aunt Ashley's last night working there so we decided to celebrate.

First things first, get lubricated.  Nothing makes inhibition disappear in a five year old like a double root beer float.

Follow that with some guy time.  Nothing like a UFC fight on the TV to bond with the men in my family.  Especially hanging out with my Uncle Andrew and hearing that he still owned some LEGOS, very curious.

But then the REAL fun started when the house band started playing "Sweet Home Alabama."

Honestly I think I was dancing through the entire set of cover songs from the 70s and 80s.  Someone was going to sleep like a log tonight.

When they finished to one of Daddy's favorite songs,

Cheap Trick's "Surrender" and I wasn't even tired I could almost see a tear in his eye, he was so proud his son appreciated his favorite music genres.

I'm thinking I like these bars!

Jaxon