It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Hey, don’t forget that this Wednesday (12.3.08) we are decorating the Teen Room for Christmas. I will be making sugar cookies and frosting so you can frost your own cookie (or cookies, if you like). After we decorate and have cookies we will finish the night by reading a Christmas story. Look forward to seeing you all then.

And now for something that deserves to make “The Wall of Stupid Stuff”; we went to the Partridge Creek Mall last Saturday evening with my brother-in-law and his fiancee. We had an good time. The Christmas lights (that’s some of them in the pic) were beautiful. The company (especially the one I was holding hands with) was enjoyable. And then we came to the Three Dog Bakery. I am not a pet person and everything in the store seemed like a waste of money. I just don’t get that store. And I definitely don’t get this. There were dog jogging strollers for sale in the store. Maybe I’m crazy, but I thought that when you took your dog for a walk or jog that meant that the dog actually walked or jogged. Why on earth would you pay $200 or $400 (yep, that’s how much they were) for a dog stroller?! I often have a long list to give my wife when she asks what I want for Christmas, but I can assure you that such an item will never make it on my list.

Just for fun and because the Lions stink!

I noticed a little while ago that WordPress now has a poll option and I’ve been wanting to use it. So here we go. Keep in mind as you vote that the Lions are now 0-11 and have 5 games left.

In The News

I heard about two interesting, yet totally unrelated stories this morning and want to share them with you.

Story 1 - A couple from metro Detroit was in Washington state celebrating their one year anniversary. They were driving and a cow fell about 200 feet off a cliff above and landed on their minivan. You can read the entire story here. Here are a few quotes from the story in the Free Press:

I’m just glad to be alive…It’s raining cows out here, man…All of the sudden I’m looking at it, and I tell my wife, ‘It’s a cow,’ I kept saying: ‘I don’t believe it.’ I must have said that 20 or 30 times…We came out here for relaxation, a quiet time…You could say this doesn’t happen every day.

Can you even imagine having a cow fall on your car? I mean, when you are in an area with mountains and cliffs and that kind of stuff, you might think maybe a boulder, a mudslide, an avalanche, but a cow?

Story 2 – On a day that should be filled with joy (it’s Mr. W’s birthday) I am sure that this story causes him to have a heavy heart…or it will at least give me plenty of good reason to pick on him (and his Kentucky Wildcats). UK started out their men’s basketball regular season by putting a 67-40 whooping on Central Arkansas and last night they went up against the mighty Runnin’ Bulldogs of Gardner-Webb University. Sadly (to some) they were torn to shreds by the Bulldogs with a final score of 84-68. Oh, did I mention that UK came into the game ranked #22 in the country and GWU came into the game picked to finish 8th in the Atlantic Sun Conference. You can read the EPSN story about the game here. Make sure you offer Mr. W you condolences next time you see him, oh and happy birthday!

What On Earth!?

That was all I could say when I read this story that is so very deserving on being posted on The Wall of Stupid Stuff. Apparently a man from Baltimore was arrested at Best Buy after trying to pay with $2 bills. I know that $2 bills are not the most common thing today, but you would think that there might be at least one person working in the store that would know that the bills just might be real. Here’s an excerpt from the news story.

Bolesta explained what happened when he presented the bills to the cashier at Best Buy Feb. 20. ”She looked at the $2 bills and told me, ‘I don’t have to take these if I don’t want to.’ I said, ‘If you don’t, I’m leaving. I’ve tried to pay my bill twice. You don’t want these bills, you can sue me.’ So she took the money – like she’s doing me a favor.” Bolesta says the cashier marked each bill with a pen. Other store employees began to gather, a few of them asking, “Are these real?”

HT: Tim Ellsworth

Greatest Site Ever!

Several days ago, I came across a link to the greatest stress relieving (and probably time wasting) web site ever. Click here to end up at the best the world wide web has to offer and make sure that you try “Manic Mode”. Here is another site that even offers more excitement. Enjoy!

A Wise Man Once Said…

Mr. W is such a wise man (doesn’t he look like it?). I just received an e-mail in which he shared some great thoughts and they were so profound (profoundly insane, that is) that I have to share several of them.

1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don’t panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto. The blockage will be almost instantly removed.

2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting
someone else to hold them while you chop away.

3. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. 

Stupid Church Sign

I have seen some interesting church signs over the years, some have made me laugh, some have made cry, some have made me think, and some have made me say, “Uh, what were they thinking?!” Well I saw one of those “Uh, What were they thinking” signs several weeks ago as we were headed to Harvest Fest. The sign said, “What if the Hokey Pokey is what it’s all about?” I’m not sure what spiritual truth they were trying to communicate to passers by, I just hope that it wasn’t also the title for the Sunday morning message. This sign is not the first one like it. I read about one in South Carolina a year ago. You can read about that one here. Very interesting.

What is She Doing In There?!

How many guys have ever wondered that while your mom or sister was in the bathroom doing her hair? I mean, all you need to do is put some gel in you hair and then use your hands to comb it, right? Well, yesterday I heard a very interesting, life changing (okay, well maybe it’s interesting but not so much life changing) statistic. Someone figured out that the average woman will spend 2.5 years of her life doing her hair. “Wow” is the only word that comes to mind. I did a little quick math and if I lived to the age of 70 (spending 1 minute a day on my hair – that’s probably significantly more than I actually spend – it’s probably more like 15 seconds a day) I would spend about 18 days of my life doing my hair. That is only 895 days less than the average woman will spend. I guess that means I just have a little more time to watch Sports Center, or something like that.

A Post for Brad

After church last night we went home and decided to have something to eat. We had FRENCH TOAST! It tasted so good, but better than that it brought back many thoughts of our mission trip. If you didn’t have breakfast and you need to get your “Toast” fix you can listen to the song here.

An e-mail from Jesus

There are few things in this world that I’m coming to hate more than junk e-mail. Every day I open my e-mail and there it is…junk mail. No matter how many e-mails I blacklist, they just seem to multiply like rabbits. I am constantly getting offers about the “next greatest thing” or who knows what. They always seem to come from strange named individuals, who I’m sure don’t exist. A while ago I got one that took the cake. The “from” line said it was from “Jesus”. It had no attachment and so I decided to open it, just to see what it was (not that I thought that it was really from Jesus). All there was was a link to some very weird sounding web page that I chose not to visit. I just got done blacklisting and deleting e-mails for the day, so I’m free for another day, or until “Jesus” e-mails me again.