Elmo and the Missing Suitcase
Everyone is back home and all that is right and good has been restored. The balance in the force is back...
The girls' trip went well except for one small tiny detail: When Mickie dropped off Mia at her parents she left her suitcase and took Mia's to Indiana. Whoops. Mickie ended up borrowing some clothes from some friends and shopping for some new ones. I guess she didn't want to try on Mia's Elmo undies.
Speaking of Elmo, the new Tickle-Me-Elmo is on sale at a retailer near you. Here is a sample video and there are plenty more to be found on YouTube.
Mia doesn't have the tickle version but she does have the tinkle version. She has an Elmo that when you put a bottle in its mouth has to go potty 20 seconds later. Apparently like little kids and women on trips, Elmo has a very small bladder... By the way, who has the job of making the Elmo potty sound effects? What a conversation piece that would be at a party.
What I really want to know is when are we going to see a combination of both? How great would it be to tickle Elmo and then have him have to go potty? You can't tell me that wouldn't be awesome. I even have a name: Tickle Me till I Pee Elmo or TP Elmo for short. Somebody has got to get on this.
What to do and the September Shuffle
Mickie and Mia will be gone next week. Mickie is going on a girl trip to Indiana to visit friends and Mia is going to Grandma and Grandpas in Burlington. So that leaves me all by myself. The question is what should I do with all of this free time? The early votes are golfing, mowing the lawn, and snipe hunting. I need some good ideas - leave them in the comments section.
Here is September's Shuffle on my iPod. Remember the rules:
- Shuffle Your Songs
- Report the first 5 five - no cheating
- Ending Credits from the Napoleon Dynamite Soudtrack - Sweet!
- A Quiet Interlude by the David Crowder Band on the album A Collision
- Valentine by Jim Brickman on the album Picture This
- Trudog-the Return by TobyMac on the Welcome to Diverse City album
- We Will See Him as He Is - 1998 FBBC Summer Ministry Teams - the one I wasn't on...
True Patriots
This post is few days late as I intended to post it on 9/11 but better late than never. Like most people I was profoundly impacted by the events of that day. Growing up I and most of my friends could never really identify with what Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation.” The World War II Generation was one of the most patriotic and heroic generations in American history. I have never really known what it means to love my countryand to sacrifice for my country. In fact patriotism was more like a subject in school than a deep emotion.
Even now most of us know little about true sacrifice. We are lucky to have not had to fight the majority of this war on terror on our soil. Unfortunately with the forgetful mindset of most American people I am afraid that day will eventually come. Until September 11th I never knew how it felt to have a deep emotional connection with my country. It was definitely something I took for granted. But everything changed that day. Through all of the horror that was September 11th I believe a new generation has learned in a small way what it is to be a patriot. I felt a common bond with my fellow countrymen that had never been there before.
And In the days that followed I can remember getting choked up at just the site of our flag. With that I wanted to share one of my favorite renditions of the Star Spangled Banner. It includes a dramatic reading of the story of the anthem and will give you chills.
I Changed It...again
Cue trumpet and drumroll please...
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I Think I'm Getting Old
Friday night Mickie and I went on a date. We haven't been on too many since Mia was born and we really need to go on more, but that's not the point. We were walking around the mall going into the stores that we like, Gap, Baby Gap (where Mickie found a pair of pants for Mia for .47 - yes that decimal is not misplaced they were actually forty-seven cents...) the Apple Store, Pottery Barn and some others. I happened to be looking for some pants to wear to work - something very casual khakis or cargo pants. I normally buy most of those kind of things at the Gap but they had diddly so Mickie asked if I wanted to go into American Eagle.
Now, I'm not sure if there was a polar shift or other weirdness going on but we both kind of stopped and then had a conversation about whether or not we are still allowed to go into those kind of stores. When are you no longer supposed to go to American Eagle, Abercrombie, Hollister, The Buckle etc...? At what point do you look like a desperate loser trying to fit in with a generation younger than you? We must have passed this point because neither of us felt comfortable going in any of those places. Is it a certain age? Is it when you have kids? Is it a certain weight? Or are we just off our rocker? Maybe its when you start using phrases like "off your rocker."
Anyway help us out and let us know if we are still cool enough to shop where the cool kids shop.