One of the perks about having a job and not being a student, is that once you're home, you got nothin to do but watch the boob-tube-aroo and fool, fool, fool. So I used to just relax by watching the tube or play Civ IV. I can only take a couple of hours of staring at the picture box and Civ has been losing its allure, so I decided to take up a new hobby. But, alas, what was I to take up?
I narrowed it down to 5 hobbies:
1. Annoying my wife
2. Annoying my neighbors
3. Scrapbooking
4. Sports and junk
5. Growing out my toenails to beat the Guinness world record
As appealing as the first 2 sounded, it would lead to a cranky wife and/or neighbors, so that was ruled out. Scrapbooking is awesome in every way, so I knew that wasn't for me. Sports is so last week. So growing out my toenails was the hobby!
The first week was going great, until I realized that I STILL had all sorts of time, no matter how much I spent focusing on toenail-growing. One day, while simultaneously growing the toenails and watching "Beetlejuice", I saw the impressive model city they had in their basement, and I decided to go into modeling.
No, not male modeling, although I would be the Most Smartest Model if I got into it. Instead, I went down to Ye Olde Train Modeling Shoppe, which is also Ye Biggest Train Modeling Shoppe Inne Ye USA, and starting perusing. I didn't want to waste a bunch of dough on a model train, because I didn't even know if I would like it, so I spent 10 bucks on a "Homestead" set (water tower included!), bought some Super Duper Awesome Ridiculously Sticky Glue and a Precise-O Knife. I took it home and started gluing away, and lo, I finished my first model. I had a few screwups, probably used way too much glue, and even bent the antenna on the house, but I think it looks FETCHIN good.
"Oh, Ima doin' the warsh out here on the range..."
"Oh shewt! George done did sit in a cow pie again!"
"The unshaven giant is back again!!! Aieeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!"
7 comments:
oh kent.
i find your blog quite entertaining.
so...tag. you're it. instructions there.
While you're at it, could you kindly tell mother to come down from the shingles?
And if you look to the left...you will see a very sad man.
And if you look to the left...you will see a very sad man.
Sigh...good 'ole models. Very impressive. I was thinking of pickin' up a hobby, and almost grabbed myself a paint by number at Michael's the other day.
I almost took up model trains, but changed my mind for 3 reasons:
1. Model trains are ridiculously expensive.
2. They take up a lot of space in your basement.
3. It seems like I ought to have more important things to do than fool, fool, fool with model trains. I don't, but it seems like I ought to.
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