Aoki's relationship with his father, owner of the restaurant chain Benihana, was also shown. The documentary shows the life of Steve Aoki as a DJ and producer, and as a family man at home in Japan. Aoki told Krook, "I’m letting you take a picture of me naked and showing the world." Premise A Facebook Live interview with Aoki was conducted by Katie Couric in support of the release of the documentary on August 24, 2016. Production of the documentary started in 2014, during the time when Aoki's Neon Future album was released. And his sister and brother.It was directed by Justin Krook and was produced by David Gelb, Matthew Weaver, Happy Walters and Matt Colon. However, it is a humongous pile of work going it (mostly) alone.Īnd kudos to the backpack leaver-behinder – he makes my coffee every morning before we head out the door and he adds just the right amount of half and half. My kids are my life and I feel blessed to have them with me the majority of the time now. We are all doing the best we can in the situation we are given at the time. Some people have spouses who are physically there but are checked out in other ways. Many moms like me have spouses in the military or who are gone across the world for long periods of time, or partners that travel often for work. Even small things feel extra hard when you do not have regular help from a partner ( this is where I include the disclaimer that I have a wonderful boyfriend who helps when he can, however, he is also a single dad of two, and we have separate homes, so yeah, it’s just difficult…). But it is enough to make me pause and be sad again for just a moment, for what life has turned into. In the grand scheme of things, a second run to school to deliver my son’s backpack is not that big of a deal (and neither are my naked toenails). We give and give and do and do because we have to and because we love them. Yet even though, every morning I get up and do it again, because that is what we do as parents who are present – we show up. I have comforted a sad daughter many nights in the last week, and one evening it broke my heart to leave her crying herself to sleep. So, I have fallen asleep with an ice pack on my shoulder each night. My shoulder is killing me from trimming the enormous holly bush/tree outside my bedroom window last weekend. My toenails need to be painted because Spring is here and that means sandals and flip flops in the South (priorities). I am tired to the bone and there isn’t a whole lot of time left for the “self care” stuff people talk about. And in the interest of not sugar-coating anything, I am exhausted. This fine-tuned routine could be thrown off by many things, a left behind backpack is just one thing to take the train off the track. It’s truly a miracle we typically DO get out the door every morning with all the things we require. The popcorn could explode in the microwave! (Unrelated, but just saying). Also, our clothes have to miraculously get clean, the kids need new shoes and they could get sick any day.
The rope could easily strangle me.ĭoctor’s appointments, left behind backpacks, sports practices, emergencies, school meetings, counseling appointments – ALL UP TO ME.
He is no longer here to take up any slack, should it need to be taken. About six weeks ago he started a new job in a city over three hours away, in a different state, actually. I used the term lightly before, when the kids’ dad still lived and worked in the same city as I do and we shared custody.
ILL SLEEP WHEN I AM DEAD FULL
Here’s the thing: I am a FULL TIME single mom now. Thankfully, this is only the second or third time this has happened all school year. Usually the “do right” takes up more space. Life is a mixed bag full of mistakes AND things we do right. A school she takes them to every day, which is NOT very close to home.Īfter I let out my frustration and gave a quick lecture about how we need to remember everything as we walk out the door, I calmed down and accepted I would be a little late to work that morning, and some days stuff like this just happens. These are not the words a single mom, who works full time, wants to hear one minute before dropping her kids off at school. “Oh no,” I hear from the back of the van as the morning radio news plays, and the four of us approach the school campus.
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