Kass, the kids and I had a very nice, low key New Years Eve. We made lasagna, watched Narnia and Deadwood (still on Season 1) and capped the night with Crumbs cupcakes and a bottle of Dom Perignon that a good friend gave me earlier this year.
Sitting in bed, I started thinking about what Kass would do if I were the dude in Rupert Holmes' "Escape (The Pina Colada Song). We listened to it on the road trip we took earlier in the week and, like many jingly songs, it stuck in my head.
For those of you who haven't listened to the lyrics closely, the story is about a married guy who answers a personals column that starts "If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain." He plans a rendesvous at a bar called O'Malley's and it turns out his wife, who as he sings it he had "fallen into the same old dull routine" with, had placed the ad. All ends well as they make up and "laughed for a moment."
That line strikes me as extremely odd. They're in a rut "like a worn-out recording of a favorite song." They're so desparate that she places a personals ad and he answers it. Then they figure this all out at a random bar and start laughing and make up.
What would Kass do if she showed up and I was there answering her ad? What would your wife or husband do? I bet Kass wouldn't laugh. One of her first lines would probably be "Are you fucking kidding me?" That's what she said when I emailed her my marriage proposal.
I guess the real lesson here is not to fall in the same old dull routine, right? I imagine for many people that's easier said than done. Work, life, kids have a way of getting in the way. I feel very fortunate to be able to spend a ton of time with Kass and it's never routine. We work together everyday and are constantly working through issues together, we have a standing date night Tuesday and Saturday nights and we try to get away from he kids and work for at least a weekend every quarter.
Pina coladas anyone?
(Here are the lyrics, just in case you haven't paid close attention while listening to the song. SOURCE)
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
By Rupert Holmes
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read:
"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape."
I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.
"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."
So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..
"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."
"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."
