The kids’ school pictures are in. I love them both from a dental perspective. BoyGeeding is missing his two front top teeth and DaughterGeeding is sporting braces for the first time. Also, it’s the first time she’s had bangs. She’s not happy with the picture because she wished he wore her hear down.
BoyGeeding wants to be Indiana Jones for Halloween. I planned on putting together his costume by purchasing individual pieces. I checked a consignment store in Grapevine to try to find a cheap jacket, pants, and a shirt which could pass for what the character wears. Luckily, I found the costume (shirt, jacket, pants, no hat) in his size for $3.52 and quickly pulled the trigger. Thankfully the logo on the jacket isn’t as large or noticeable as the one in the link. To add to my luck, Amazon had a decent version of the hat for only ten bucks. But perhaps my most enjoyable moment was placing the hat on his head as well as I could in the following manner. For a moment, I felt like we were transported into the movie.
While searching Indiana Jones wardrobe stuff I came across a website which provides an astonishing amount of detail. Check out their page about the fedora and the recommended vendors area and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
DaughterGeeding and I watched the season premiere of ‘Young Sheldon together and I’d like to point out two things.
The episode focuses on Sheldon taking apart the refrigerator and his father having to call a repairman to put it back together. The bill was $200 and Sheldon’s father made him pay it back by working a newspaper route. DaughterGeeding didn’t understand the concept of newspaper delivery. I had to explain to her how my parents would subscribe to the local paper and it was delivered to us every day and that’s how we got our local news, computers and mobile phones couldn’t perform those tasks at the time. It was delivered to us because someone picked up a stack of freshly published newspapers from the press, wrapped them up with a rubber band, and tossed the paper in our yard by driving by. I explained there was an “art” to throwing the paper through the car window or from a bicycle. Then it was a trip down memory lane explaining how sometimes the paper would get wet from the rain and the challenge of trying to dry the paper, separating the pages without tearing them and setting it out to dry.
Sheldon became frustrated at his lack of progress of being able to pay his father back and yelled the following towards him, “I’m not just tired, I’m exhausted. Everything hurts. I get up in the morning to do this job I don’t even like. And I’m just doing it for the money, and it’s not even a lot of money. I keep trying harder and harder and it doesn’t even make a difference. So if you are going to yell at me or punish me let’s just it get over with.”
I immediately paused the show and had a conversation with DaughterGeeding how many adults feel exactly the way Sheldon does. That for many (not all) of them, are in that position because they did something to close themselves off from other preferable opportunities. While no one is better than another person and there is honor in their work to provide for themselves and their family, she needs to take education seriously so not to limit her opportunities to do whatever she wants.
Somewhat related to that last bullet point, while watching a ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ segment on Ted Turner, I had to call her in the room. While at Brown University, Turner memorized “Horatius at the Bridge“, a poem about an ancient hero confronting insurmountable odds, and recited it from memory in his interview with Ted Koppel. DaughterGeeding is currently studying the poem at school and memorizing it for a recitation assignment. It was another good lesson on the importance of being cultured and helping her see what she is being taught can be related to something in the real world.
Hey Microsoft, can we lay it off with the Salmon Sisters commercials during football games this weekend, just a tad, please?
Georgetown, TX is the first city in the state to be solely run on renewable energy (wind and solar), perhaps the largest city in the United States to do so.
“Actually, our wind farm is more than 600 miles (965 kilometres) away up in the panhandle and our solar farm is about 700 miles (1,125 kilometres) away, and so through the transmission lines, that’s how we get the electricity.”
“And if you want to blame someone, blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything,” Hensley said. “They ruin the dress code, well — ask Adam. Look at Eve. That’s really all you got to get to. You can go back to the beginning of time.”
“It’ll be like that the rest of your life, keep your mouth shut, suck it up and follow the rules,” Hensley said.
The Jonestown massacre has always intrigued me. ABC will have a special about it tonight. For you young ones out there, that’s the origination of the expression, “Drinking the Kool-Aid”
I’m withholding my thoughts and opinions regarding yesterday’s Senate hearing. So I promise there’s no hidden message or slight here. However, the LiberallyLean guy posted a collection of thoughts that got me to thinking how easy it can be for anyone’s judgment to be clouded. It would be challenging for me to rank these in terms of which would have been the most unbelievable to me just five or ten years ago. Maybe the U.S. gymnastics doctor molesting all those girls would top the list. Hell, they all would have been hard to believe.
For you ‘Better Call Saul’ fans – Free Will Baptist Church – If you click the donate link, it takes you to the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.
Leighton Meester is in a new ABC sitcom and I think she looks like a young Tina Fey in some of the commercial. They were actually in a movie together, Date Night, but not as daughter and mother. Meester was born in Fort Worth while her parents were serving time, “Meester’s parents were serving time in a federal prison for their involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States.“
Disney latest step to address its overcrowding problem is to remove seating in several places around the park, in an attempt to improve guest flow.
If I’m driving and Erasure’s “A Little Respect” comes on, I’m singing at the top of my lungs. Also, I alter the lyrics by replacing “me” with “Keith”.
“Oh baby please give a little respect to me Keith“
There are more than a handful of songs that I’ve choreographed my own hand movements to. My friend Jimi is witnessed this more than he’d like.
I asked BoyGeeding what he wanted to be for Halloween, and without hesitation, he proclaimed Indiana Jones. There are some moments in life when you feel like you are parenting right.
Armchair Political Consultant – Texas Governor Greg Abbott will be re-elected easily. I would advise him to not run one negative political ad, which I think will increase his likability factor.
