About Me
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- Gender
- Male
- About me
- I'm a first time dad just trying to figure it all out (and write about it at the same time). I love to golf (haven't been since she was born), am a diehard Yankees fan (have watched many a game since she's been born), and a full time marketing consultant (unfortunately still work all the time). I also apparently love putting things in parentheses (it makes me feel like I can explain things without making the actual part of this seem too wordy).
- Activities
- golf, watching baseball (Yankees), coaching baseball (Little League)
- Favorite Music
- country, pop, latin
- Favorite TV Shows
- Chuck, 24, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Hell's Kitchen, Survivor, Amazing Race, Friends
- Favorite Books
- Vince Flynn Books, David Baldacci Books, Nelson Demille Books, Brad Thor Books, Other CIA/Spy Agent type books
- My Primary Blog
- http://www.jontam.com/
- My Primary Blogs Feed
- http://jontamdaddydiaries.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
- Hometown
- Lawrenceville
- My Home State
- NJ
- My Country
- US
- Number of Kids I Have
- 1 (daughter)
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- Karma
- Member since
- Thursday, 30 April 2009 07:03
- Last online
- 186 days ago
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We'd be delighted if your organization would post on location, post on your blog, post online (facebook, twitter, myspace, etc), distribute via email, link http://myfamilycasting.com/ the following information. Please let me know if this is possible. Please feel free to contact me if you or anyone else you know would be interested in participating. Lastly, if your organization agrees to post this information on the website please email the post link to the email address below. Thank you!
**NOW CASTING FABULOUS, OUTRAGEOUS AND FUNNY FAMILIES FOR A NEW DOCUSERIES, “MY FAMILY”
MAJOR CABLE NETWORK is searching for a large, extended and multi-generational family to be the stars of their own comedy reality show. We’re looking for funny families that REDEFINE THE TRADITIONAL and BREAK THE MOLD of your typical ......ho-hum American household.
This show will document their lives and explore the family’s complexity while witnessing the craziness, chaos and love that makes their family special.
• At your annual Thanksgiving dinner, do you look around and think your family should have a reality show because no one would believe it otherwise?
• Do you find yourself having to explain your family dynamic to those unfamiliar with how things work in your non-traditional household?
• Do your siblings, parents, in-laws or hired help bring a new element that pushes the envelope? Maybe someone is in a May/Dec relationship or has taken on responsibilities or roles that might deviate from the norm? Perhaps one of them is gay or was adopted from a far-flung exotic locale? Is there someone of a different race or ethnicity that’s mixing things up in your previously homogenous family?
If your family puts the FUN in dysFUNctional, then this is the show for you!!!
Tell us about you and your family. The good, the bad and the ugly.
EMAIL ALL INFO TO ANI@ICONICCASTING.COM:
All Family Names, ages and occupations.
A brief bio about your immediate and extended family.
Include a family photo(s).
Contact Phone numbers for the main contact in each family.
* This is a feel good show where at the end of the day LOVE CONQUERS ALL.
* All family members involved must live in close proximity to one another.
*Characters welcome.
Thanks!
Ani
iconiccasting.com
myfamilycasting.com
The convention is supposed to be very, very family-friendly. So bring your wife and Kaylani! Woot!
You crack me up!
jonnytam13 on Thursday, 06 August 2009 12:59Ahhh, nope, very weird though! I've only ever met one other Jon Tam and it was when I was 7. Now THAT was weird.
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What I do remember is that I just posted a bunch of pictures to Kaylani's album today, so check them all out (they're in 3 separate albums). I've included a summary of our last 6 weeks below, but there are still more to come from Disney so stay tuned!
A few years ago, I became an avid Amazon Christmas shopper. It was just easier. Amazon had most things I needed, and with free 2 day shipping on Prime, I was losing money by not shopping on Amazon. But no matter how easy Amazon made Christmas shopping, it just didn't feel like Christmas without a trip or three to the mall. Christmas was about walking around, looking at decorations, having coffee/hot cocoa, and walking out with a handful of shopping bags and feeling accomplished for getting everything you didn't/couldn't buy off of Amazon. That's what Christmas was.
Christmas shopping with a baby who has just learned to walk is nothing like Christmas shopping with a 6 week old in stroller or Christmas shopping without kids at all. It adds a whole new complexity to the existing mall/parking madness, sale crowds, and decision making. Now, we have to split up. One of us has to follow Kaylani around and pick her up every time she falls/sits on the disgusting public mall floors while the other tries to find something on our list. One of us has to entertain her and distract her so we can walk between stores with her in our arms instead of at a snails pace due to her tiny, newly walking legs. One of us has to give her snacks so she stays in lines with us instead of walking around and grabbing all types of things that she shouldn't be touching/breaking. And when that's all done, both of us need to rest.
We spent 3.5 hours at the mall last night and came out with 2 presents. 2. That's less than 1 an hour. And if you take out the hour we spent trying to feed Kaylani and eat dinner ourselves, its still less than 1 present an hour. Add in the fact that we left the mall around 8:30, or after Kaylani's bedtime/cranky period and you get 2 exhausted parents.
So this is Christmas shopping for the foreseeable future for us. Today Mommy will try and tackle the malls by herself with Kaylkani, and tonight we'll try and do the rest by Amazon. Maybe we won't have to make a dreaded trip to the mall the Sunday before Christmas. But if we do, at least now we know what we're up against. For some reason, I'm not sure that makes things any better...but at least it feels like Christmas. And when it comes down to it, its still the best Christmas ever.
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