Scar was underrated

Before he hurled his brother to his death and before he ushered in a new era where the hyenas ruled the Pridelands and royalty was forced to become vegetarians and hang out with pigs and Nathan Lane, this guy did something smart. He got prepared. Of course, his preparations included fratricide and a vast conspiracy to take the throne (Disney totally ripped off Hamlet), but still, he got himself ready and in my book that makes him underrated. He didn't just wake up one day and say "You know, I sound like Jeremy Irons and that automatically makes me sound evil and cool. I think instead of laying around all day that I'll just make myself king." No, he made plans, he made preparations. He got together with his friends and he came up with a plan of action. And it worked. Scar was underrated. Scar knew that for the important things in life, be prepared.

That's what has been going on in the past few weeks. Ever since we found out we were having a boy we've been getting ready. Amanda went and registered at Target and Buy Buy Baby, a store I had never heard of but assumed it was named after the Bay City Rollers song. I've linked them below, just in case anybody wants to take a gander.
Buy Buy baby Registry
Target Registry
We decided that Nathan's room was going to have a Winnie The Pooh theme, Classic Pooh, so Amanda's creative side kicked in and she felt like we should paint the room. So we went to Lowes and got some blue paint and now Nathan's room is no longer cream colored with black chalkboard paint below the chair rail, but it's blue, with no chair rail and she painted Winnie The Pooh's tree in the corner of the room. And then we decided that the pink carpet needed to go, and so I took this past Monday off, pulled up all the carpet and put down some faux wood flooring. It was not the most enjoyable of experiences. I've never felt so old in my life, at least physically. I've felt old way before that though, like when I had to figure out if Cardi B was a real person or the name of a medicine you take to help fight psoriasis. I had to take the following day off just to recuperate. It reminds me of a phrase my mother has used all my life:

"You do things for those you love."

What she always left off was that that doesn't mean you enjoy those things. In fact, most of the time those "things" are the least enjoyable acts. I mean, you don't go on vacation and say you're doing it for those you love. But you do them because those people are worth it. And that what Scar thought to. He was really thinking more about himself when he murdered his brother and banished his nephew, but he made a decision that what he wanted was worth it (It wasn't). We are a long way away from being ready, which is a ludicrous idea anyways because nobody in the history of children has ever been ready, but that doesn't mean that we can't be prepared. So in the next few months we will be doing a lot of things to prepare and a lot of things that will be emotionally and physically painful, but Amanda and I know why we are doing it.

Nathan Thomas Massey is worth it and he always will be.



Unless he decides that Mick Jagger is better than Paul McCartney. Then I'll have to rethink some things.