#4 of forever
True to my neurotic nature, this is the date in which I will forever post the annual Father’s Day blet picture day photograph, so that I can be tickled in future years when I look at the On This Day section of my brog and see a veritable montage of the years and passage of time as my kids go from tiny little baby nuggets into the vibrant and sassy little shits that I love more than anything in existence.
I should also like to point out that this is the first, and probably only year in which all blets in the photograph are actually still actively on television. Literally every other blet in my collection is retired or redesigned, and it’s only a matter of time before NXT rebrands the North American blet, and it’s seemingly always rumored that the WWE will scrap the women’s tag team titles.
Full disclosure, I actually took these photos almost a month in advance and have been sitting on them until this time, and I’m glad that I did. I had just gotten my hair cut, and my lawn was cut a day earlier, and I’ve been having some issues with my landscapers and was forced to softly fire them, leading to me having to cut my own grass after taking the last four years off from the chore.
Also with the summer in full effect now with daily 90F+ temperatures, all of us would’ve been miserably hot and cranky doing our photos now, compared to the conditions of when I had taken these. So no regrets whatsoever on shooting well before Father’s Day and well before my arbitrary posting dates, especially with how they turned out in the end.
Like the years prior, this one is also a composite photo, seeing as how we’re not quite there yet where the girls can both sit and pose and smile and be ready for an organized photograph, much less have me included while I’m trying to shoot with a remote. I don’t know when it will be when they can focus and keep their shit together for a collective group shot, but it doesn’t matter. That’s what Photoshop is for.
I did enjoy all the candid behind the scene shots that I just kept pressing the button to capture, because as much as I want a composed, cohesive final photo, the pictures of my kids’ natural behavior are equally priceless and bring me much joy to look back at as well.
Perhaps next year will be the year in which I put together a collage of photos seeing as how it’ll be a multiple of five, and then I’ll neurotically do it such on a five-year basis. I still have 23 blets that I haven’t utilized for myself, notwithstanding any future blet purchases I make (despite the fact that tariffs have nuked their costs in the absolute wrong direction), so there’s many more years of this to come
And I will continue to look forward to it every year.
