Our local fire department has a great December tradition of surprising the neighborhood by having Santa throw candy at the kids from atop a fire engine with lights and sirens ablazing. Seeing the kids run to the door with excitement last night is something I hope I never forget and I look forward to it each year.
We also watched Rudolph last night, and per the ‘CBS Evening News’ it’s the 50th anniversary of it being first aired. In their segment, they said it was filmed entirely in Japan and with all sound recording done in Toronto [Wikipedia]. You know, it is funny how CBS started last night’s programming with something wholesome like Rudolph and ended it with the Victoria Secret’s Fashion Show. Remember when that thing first aired on CBS and the commotion it caused?
One of our neighbors, a friend of WifeGeeding, hasn’t been home in a very long time as she’s been with her mother in another state who is terminally ill with cancer. WifeGeeding noticed her yard needed the leaves raked, and being the person that she is, decided to rake their yard on a whim. I helped her bagged them up, but we’ll have to return tomorrow to finish the job.
It’s got to be more than a decade since I last put on a pair of whitey tighties, and I doubt I’ll ever wear another pair again.
The Texas Rangers have a Christmas commercial with Derek Holland and his dog, poking a little fun at the injury blamed on the dog. I can’t find it anywhere online so you’ll just have to watch out for it.
Local radio legend Terry Dorsey will call it quits come Dec 17. I’ve never listened to the guy, but I do remember he had some funny television commercials.
Maybe it’s because I’m such a red-blooded patriot, but it bugs me how adored and how much attention William and Kate are getting. It also bugs me how there’s certain protocol like how they can’t be touched. William and Kate posed with LeBron for a picture, and the media picked up on how LeBron shouldn’t have put his arm around the princess. Sheeesh. They need to get over that “we shadn’t be touched” stuff unless they have the ebola. If she showed up at GeedingManor, I’ll guaran-damn-tee-ya Kate would get one of those bear hugs from me that you’d hear her back pop. I guess I can understand it more if we were on their soil, but if you are are gonna visit ‘MURICA, then you need to more abiding to our way of life.
$23.49 and 49.99 – Target Was Selling A Black Barbie For Twice As Much As A White Barbie – I have no idea why Buzzfeed didn’t take the extra step to see what price the two dolls were selling for at Wal-Mart, Toys R’ Us, or other retailers before publishing this article. They possibly gave competing retailers an opportunity to change prices after its posting. Actually, I checked other articles on the story and they didn’t either, so I decided to take a look at those other two retailers myself. Toys R’ Us sells both versions for the same price of $39.99. Oddly, Wal-Mart doesn’t sell the African-American Barbie Fashion Design Maker Doll, but the white version of the doll is $29.00. However, this article shows a more expensive ice skating African-American Barbie than the white version at Wal-Mart.
I just stared at this picture for a long while just wondering the swell of emotions that must be going through his mind – Third Ohio Man Wrongly Accused of 1975 Murder Exonerated – And when you think of numerous exonerated black men that came out of Dallas as well as all the recent events, you kind of start to understand why so many fear the police.
Ben Stiller shared a nice story on Letterman last night. His daughter is now going to the school he attended as a kid. The school opened up a time capsule and she found a letter her father wrote when he was a kid at the school. Olivia Munn was also a guest and talked about how her mother has a Chinese/Vietnamese/Oklahoma accent. That actually brought back a few memories of MomGeeding who had a Vietnamese/Texan accent which only about four of my readers will remember.
I love the fire department tradition as much as the kids do. I was really sad when Liz sent me a picture of the kids outside as I was boarding a plane late last night. 🙁
And you beat us to the leaf raking. We were planning on do that this weekend after all of the leaves fell in their yard. I love our little community! Tell WifeGeeding you guys did a great job.
The flood of exonerations over the last 5-10 years erased all doubt from my mind that the death penalty should be abolished. We can argue the moral implications of whether the state should have the right to take a guilty person's life all day, and I will respect and understand both sides of that argument. But when you factor in the possibility that, along with the guilty, the state will occasionally execute a wrongly convicted person, I'm done.
The simple facts that mistakes can be made or that prosecutors/police behaving badly can result in a person's life being taken should simply not be acceptable to our society. Texas has already executed at least one wrongly convicted man (Cameron Todd Willingham), and the politics surrounding that decision go all the way to Rick Perry. I hope and pray that within my lifetime we'll see the end of the death penalty in our country.
Ok, this is weird, but try a pair of these. They are pricey, but I swear to you they will change your life. Comfortable, never ride up, never get a wedgie, never even notice them. http://www.tommyjohn.com/
I love the fire department tradition as much as the kids do. I was really sad when Liz sent me a picture of the kids outside as I was boarding a plane late last night. 🙁
And you beat us to the leaf raking. We were planning on do that this weekend after all of the leaves fell in their yard. I love our little community! Tell WifeGeeding you guys did a great job.
The flood of exonerations over the last 5-10 years erased all doubt from my mind that the death penalty should be abolished. We can argue the moral implications of whether the state should have the right to take a guilty person's life all day, and I will respect and understand both sides of that argument. But when you factor in the possibility that, along with the guilty, the state will occasionally execute a wrongly convicted person, I'm done.
The simple facts that mistakes can be made or that prosecutors/police behaving badly can result in a person's life being taken should simply not be acceptable to our society. Texas has already executed at least one wrongly convicted man (Cameron Todd Willingham), and the politics surrounding that decision go all the way to Rick Perry. I hope and pray that within my lifetime we'll see the end of the death penalty in our country.
Ok, this is weird, but try a pair of these. They are pricey, but I swear to you they will change your life. Comfortable, never ride up, never get a wedgie, never even notice them.
http://www.tommyjohn.com/
You'll thank me later.
Man, I hate when that fire truck comes around. Waste of money, in my book, and the local ESD is already outrageously expensive.
Dude, it's "tightey-whities", and they're amazing.
I would fight you for the chance to hug Kate.