Lazy Dad's Guide to Everything

Gosh, I don’t know what it is about Major Weather Events that make people go mental. I mean, I know that Hurricane Sandy is a betch and all, but it’s sort of out of our hands, amirite?

Here’s how the Busy-Lazy boys prepared for the impending storm:

• We went to the gym. The boy and I played some tennis-slash-squash, and then busy daddy and I each did quik-e half-hearted workouts.
• We went someplace for brunch, where I basically had a plate of meat and veggies.
• We went to the comic book store because if the power goes out, at least we’ll have something to read.
• We went to Target to pick up some last minute supplies, but I panicked and only bought some Kraft singles (at the boy’s request), some turkey bacon, and some tooth paste. Thankfully busy daddy was in a more organized state of mind, so he bought some flashlights and a couple of buckets. Oh, and we bought a case of Coke Zero because if the world is going to end, we might as well have some Coke Zero.
• I cleaned the house. Like, I did four more loads of laundry and then re-vacuumed the entire house, while busy daddy and the boy played Minecraft.
• We surveyed the humongous trees on our neighbors’ yards and tried to calculate which tree was going to fall on our house.

Since mass transit is shutting down in the tri-state area, I sent an e-mail to my busy business colleagues telling them that our New York and Philly offices are closed tomorrow. The boy’s school is also closed tomorrow. I guess we’ll be puttering around the house for a few days. I hope the power doesn’t go out. Maybe I’ll bake a cake tomorrow?