Husband Clothes

My husband came home for a day while on his job out of town (for one day). It’s wonderful to see him. And absence is so good for the heart, as well as the eyes. He is looking cuter than ever! Of course, this follows a 2 week absence. So, at this point, in my eyes the man would look great regardless of his actual appearance. For example, he could have gained 100 pounds, and he would look perfectly sexy to me right now. Or, he could be sporting his non-shaved head look and still look great.

Note of explanation on that last sentence: Shaved head is the ONLY way for him to go–otherwise, hair gets out of control. He thinks “doing his hair” is unmanly. To him “doing his hair” would involve using any hair product including shampoo (he uses normal soap), combing, or heaven forbid blow drying. See, he needs to be “manly,” therefore when his hair grows, it is horribly uneven, sticks out in weird places, always looks dirty, and is super unattractive. Except perhaps today, when it would look absolutely marvelous to me…

Oh, but this post is about “many” Hot Dads. I will list them for you now:

• Hot Dad #1, my husband, as I just described in detail.
• Hot Dad #2–the one I posted yesterday (who looks identical to my husband). I haven’t run into him again. That suits me fine, as it gives me a guilt complex, though it is also exciting.
• Hot Dad #3 has appeared. But this one’s a little ironic and odd. Let me explain.

Yesterday, I was waiting for my son to come to the gate. I was just minding my own business, observing people. Then I see a guy, a child’s father presumably, running to the school gate–he was late to pick up his child. I noticed he was quite nice-looking. (And I thought to myself, “What’s up with all the Hot Dads? Am I boy crazy or something? Why do I keep noticing Hot Dads? I need to GROW UP.”)

Low and behold, after about four seconds, I recognized him. He’s a friend of ours. It took me a minute because he’d shaved off his 1970s geeky detective mustache. You know, the ones that looked like this:

Sure, it looks GREAT on Johnny Depp as Donnie Brasco (good movie by the way, though old and violent). But for ALL other guys, this is a HUGE no no–except Johnny Depp, they make all men look TOTALLY CREEPY. (Note: If you are a guy, and you have one of these, please contact me immediately for constructive, inspirational suggestions that will intensely benefit your love life. And they’re FREE! Just my way of giving back.)

Oh, so you can imagine my dismay when I realized that New Hot Dad was actually Old Friend Creepy Dad!!!!! WHOA. It’s always strange when you know someone well, and then suddenly become aware that the person is attractive. Hm. I wonder why Old Friend Creepy Dad decided to shave his mustache? It sounds mean to call him this, but I simply can’t continue to refer to a male friend guy as “Hot Dad #3″–that’s just asking for trouble.

I am usually with the times when it comes to movies. But in this one case, I’m way behind. Just in case there are other people out there who are as behind the times as me, I’m going to rave about this movie from 2005. The movie is Pride and Prejudice.

I saw it on TV two nights ago. I almost never watch TV (except UFO documentaries, which I love so much I’m not even allowed to discuss it, otherwise you will think I’m a crackhead). BUT now, watching TV is kind of fun because it’s an easy activity to do while feeding the baby. So, the other night, I was flipping through the channels–that’s pretty much how I watch TV (till I find a UFO documentary, then the flipping abruptly ceases and microwave popcorn gets prepared). Sorry. Back on track.

And there I see a beautiful little scene from an unfamiliar movie. Kiera Knightly is at a lively party with classical sounding violin music, dressed up in late 18th century clothing, hair all done up in curls. She’s giggling in a circle with a bunch of girls.

Then one of the girls says something like, “Elizabeth, one day you too will understand. Just the right man will catch your eye, and you will not be able to turn away.”

Next, a guy walked into the party. He clearly caught her eye. I was HOOKED. The movie didn’t end until 3:30am, and I still could not pry myself away any sooner. I had to catch every last moment. (Quick question: Why isn’t Matthew Macfadyen so, so, so, so much more famous than he is? He’s SUCH a convincing actor. I would watch anything with this guy in it.)

I might even need to watch this movie again. I didn’t even check the names of the screenwriter or director, but the way the story was presented was incredibly engaging. It portrays the chemistry between the leading characters more vividly that any movie I remember seeing.

The scenery, clothing, movement, music, and acting in this movie are superb–really takes you away. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. Now I’m in the mood to watch more good movies. New or old–please recommend some to me. Books too!!!

In this post, I discussed one of our dilemmas that my husband had over work. He had to make a really hard decision. He’d just gotten a good job in the LA area–wasn’t sure how it would go. Of COURSE, at that very moment, ILM offered him a contract to work on the new “Indiana Jones” movie (6 hours away in San Francisco). TOUGH moment that was–how do you turn down THAT? But he did. And it all worked out fine. Thank goodness. He loves his job here.

So this kept me highly interested in how “Indiana Jones” would turn out. I heard it was getting a bad buzz. Just saw an update on this blog called A Katt’s Life. Apparently the movie is kind of so so. That’s fine–I am happy it won’t bomb. I would have been very sad if my childhood adventure legendary movie series bombed. Okay, really it’s just because I want Shia LeBeouf (pictured with Harrison Ford above) to become super famous so he’ll be in tons of movies for me to watch.

Oh my, I just realized I am so much older than that guy. How embarrassing that I made that comment. Mmmm, well thank goodness that comment was NOT at ALL based on attraction, rather it was based on um…well, that he is such a talented comedic actor. And that’s it.

Speaking of Shia (let’s call him by first name, it feels right), why can’t I have dreams about him instead of about Vladimir Putin (as described here)? While we’re on this topic, why did I recently dream that I had lunch with Josh Hartnett? I barely even know who Josh Hartnett is. Does this make me a floozy? ha ha. Joking–it was just lunch. Josh was flirting with me mildly–that’s a relief. It’s annoying when guys flirt with me heavily, since I’m 7 months pregnant. (So funny this evening, no?). Plus, Robin Williams was there. And he kept trying to play matchmaker between me and Josh. Weird.

Actually, I think I need to stop right here. Everything I’m interested in saying right now is getting progressively less wholesome and increasingly more bizarre. I’m not too happy about that. Please forgive me. And enjoy Katt’s update about the new “Indiana Jones” movie.

Like most people in the movie industry, my husband has worked away from home for some projects (for months at a time). In each case, he could have stuck with work close by, but the far away work would increase his salary level and work skills. We chose the harder road, but it has paid off.

However, the relocations and work hours can be really hard on families. Once we moved back to Hollywood (for the 2nd time), my husband decided to stick to nearby projects.

Then OF COURSE, 6 months later, ILM offered him a job on the new “Indiana Jones” movie. (ILM is in San Francisco, which is 6 hours away from us. We just moved to Hollywood from there last year.) Good relocation, good pay, real high quality production. He’s worked there before and really liked it.

But he stuck by his decision and didn’t take the job. Now, the Indiana Jones movie is supposedly getting a bad buzz. So, I was thinking, hm, if my husband had sacrificed to go work on this movie, then it bombed, that would have kind of stung for him.

But uh, hello, how is that movie getting a bad buzz? It’s starring Harrison Ford, the most awesome man of all time. This man will still be hot when he’s 98. And I LOVE his success story (read it here)–student who made C’s and D’s and got fun of and bullied in school, tried acting but didn’t do well, became construction worker. Then “Star Wars.” Howdy.

And please don’t anyone even get me started talking about Shia LaBeouf who I felt was rather geeky until I saw “Transformers” when I discovered that Shia’s face, and name, grows on you and he is an incredibly hilarious and talented comedic actor. Also, his little stint of refusing to leave the Walgreen’s parking lot while publicly intoxicated (this part correct?) was one of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard. The sheer fact that he was at Walgreen’s was actually funny enough. Then the SO ADORABLE mugshot–I fell totally in love with him. In a non-sexual way of course. But anything with him in it can’t possibly maintain a bad buzz.

Uhhhh, was there a point to this post? Oh, yes, I just forgot to point it out. hehhhhehe. The point was that my husband turned down that project for good reasons, and that worked out well. Now if he could also start making good handy work decisions, good decisions about visiting the dentist to fix his tooth which is STILL CHIPPED (front tooth, of course), good decisions about not getting traffic tickets, about not wearing the same pair of pants 20 days in a row…