FYI!!!! A new Holiday!!!

Mark your calendars NOW! A new holiday is on the calendars. It's called Rick's Day and all those that are my friends will get the day off. All those that aren't will only wish they could be my friend so they to could enjoy a day off. On Rick's day, your job is entitled to pay you double time and a half for being Rick's friend. Check will be paid to you on February 29th that ends in a odd year. Also you are entitled to a free meal at the restaurant of your choosing as Rick's friend of course. Said meal will be paid for by the Federal Govt, hey we pay enough taxes right?

So now aren't you glad your my friend? Oh by the way Rick's Day occurs every October 2nd :-) Hey wait a minute isn't that coming soon?

All hail Rick's Day!!!

Columbus Day is coming yay, yeah right

Several years ago my parents hosted a foreign exchange student. He was from Spain and boy was he a character. He had this thing about Columbus. He believed that it was Columbus that SAVED the New World. It was he that brought civilization to the savages. Uhh, hey Beavis! The Yucatan Penisula was thriving with civilization before he got there. South America also had vast cultures. So if aliens came to Earth and landed in Podunk, USA would they think that ALL people from Earth are a bassawkards as them?

Yes Columbus did "discover" the New World, he did bring horses and the compass but he also brought Syphilis and Small Pox two diseases that had NEVER been on this side of the Earth. Hmm? The natives taught the Spaniards how to survive, just like they did with John Smith in Jamestown. Funny huh , how the savages "saved" the whiteman but the history books all say how it was the white man who saved the poor savages.

Back to the foreign exchange student, he and other Spaniards believe that CORN is for animals and he would NEVER lower himself to eat such a revolting thing. Well your hero had a great way of making him eat corn. I brought out Tortillas. Mmm, estos son muy sabrosos! Que es esos? Son de MAIZ. The look on his face was pricless. He had down about 6 corn tortillas before I told him. I was trying to be mean, but he had really pissed me off.

Come to find out his daddy paid the company to have him come to the US. Foreign Exchange students are upposed to be the cream of the crop right? Well lets just say he was not. He had his buddies send him HASH in the mail. Idiot would smoke outside and then tell my mom I wasn't smoking. She only lived with my dad for ever how was a smoker and had given it up after smoking 20+ years. You think we could smell the smoke emminating from his body? He drew the Spanish flag on the sidewalk of the high school and was appauled when they called my mom to tell her of the "vandalism" She made him scrub and clean it on his KNEES!!! Go Mom!!

So to all you you who have off tomorrow for Columbus Day what are we recognizing? A great discover or a murderer of a great civilization?

Get that phone out of your ear

If this offends you sorry.

A while back I was driving and noticed how many people were talking on the phone either thru bluetooth or with the phone to their head. I also noticed some people with their monster drinks and it made me think of WALL-E. Were they trying to tell us something in the movie? I'm a HUGE proponent for technology, but come on? V has gotten after me for being on Facebook "too much" or sending "tweets" out but some people have taken technology TOO FAR. Our kids can't even think with out their phone in their hands. What ever happened to FACE 2 FACE communication? Yes, the world is better with Twitter and other social networking sites. But NOTHING beats F2F. Also the movie told of these people movers because they were TOO big to move on their own. Hmm?

15 movies that shape my life

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you've seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what movies my friends choose.

To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note -- upper right hand side.) I hope you participate, even if you didn't get tagged!

1. Dazed and Confused <--Alright, alright alright!
2. Sixteen Candles
3. Three Amigos
4. One Crazy Summer
5. Better Off Dead
6. Fletch
7. Starship Troopers
8. Flash Gordon
9. Smokey and the Bandit
10. Vision Quest <--my first R-rated movie
11. Forrest Gump
12. Breakfast Club
13. Weird Science
14. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
15. Karate Kid

Funny how most of the movies on my list are John Hughes movies. I guess I should have moved to Shermer a long time ago. Also strange is how many of these movies have John Cusak in them.

I can give a quote for EVERYONE of these movies!!!