So We Can Blame It All On Adam and Eve

Ever wonder if all that random stuff that floats around in a four-year-old's brain all day will ever translate into something that might come in handy in the world outside of the land of food-covered preschoolers?

Well I have confirmed that it will, and it does.

I think Kaydn Rye may someday travel the world with a cape and leotards all while trying to save the world from people with names like Dr. Doom, Magneto and Lex Luther, oh and don't forget Megatron.

With that wonderful little tidbit of knowledge you will know why I felt obliged to ask about his latest superhero man's supposed aggregation of enemies.

It all began as I'm trying to finish up a case summary for my editor by the end of week on my latest medical malpractice-liposuction gone awry-with a perforated bowel case (if I had a nickel for every malpractice case I've written on that began with liposuction and ended with a snip to the stomach, the intestine, etc, I'd be a millionaire - let's just say I wouldn't be working as a legal writer, I'd be laying on the beach in Tahiti).

Kaydn Rye comes down with his latest character from some good vs evil story and he begins to tell me about how his man implodes his enemies.

I ask, "So why does your super hero man have so many enemies."

He explains, "Well, Eve took the apple from the snake and then Adam and Eve ate the apple and then all the good people turned into bad people. That's why there are so many enemies in the world."



I guess he set me straight on that.

In other "Kate's world" news, on a completely unrelated note, hubby and I seem to have stepped into some personal growth as well this past week.

You know how before bed you may say something like, "Honey, can you please remember to [insert task that absolutely must be done, cannot be put off until the next day and which does not fit into your own schedule of working all day, conversating with a four-year-old, cooking, cleaning, enjoying an active social life and of course, blogging)? And can you make sure to do it on your way to work, or after work, or on your lunch break, or at least sometime tomorrow?"

Hubby may say something like, "Yep, I'll make sure I get er done, honey."

Well, let's just say that around here that same conversation occurs almost nightly as part of some sort of really annoying eternal recurrence. And as part of that eternal recurrence, he'll for sure get the job done the next day only after a phone call, a text message and an email, all with "reminders" about the previous night's "get er done" philosophy.

I think most often the problem we have is that while I'm explaining to him what exactly needs to be tomorrow, and he's nodding in agreeance and reciting things like, "Yep, I'll do it at lunch tomorrow, honey," he's really not even awake. I can honestly say that almost every night I have a conversation with someone who is completely unconscious.

So the other night I decided to attempt at a new strategy. I told him what I needed him to do for tomorrow and then gave him a little pop quiz to determine his degree of consciousness.

"So what's today's date?"

"Who won the Superbowl 1987?"

"What color are my eyes?"

"Who's the president of the United States?"

"Who's the president of Iran?" (You can't say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and not be awake.)

Only after answering each question correctly is he cleared for consciousness, and with this quick little pop quiz, our problems appear to be solved.