And now more tales from Potty Training
This just happened and made me laugh so hard I almost had to push Alex off the potty and use it myself! Alex was sitting on his little boy potty trying desperately to do #2…he has #1 down.. it’s #2 that ’s hanging him up. So, he’s sitting on the potty grunting, just like his Daddy taught him, his back is to the backdoor which is about two feet away. Casey, our dog, comes running across the yard right up to the back door…and just as I’m about to tell Alex, “Hey, buddy, Casey is right behind you and if she barks I don’t want it to scare…” and right then Casey lets out this BIG Bark and scares Alex so bad he didn’t have to sit on the potty anymore! I tell you, Casey truly scared “it” right out of him. I’m still laughing…
Am I the only one who won’t spend $150,000 on a car? I’m not talking a swanky full of testosterone sports car…nope…..I’m talking a Chrysler 300C. Hello! I can get one of those for 27 Grand…give Detroit a few more months and the price might drop under $20,000. So what car is worth that kind of money? President Elect Barack Obama’s old car. 
The dude who owns it picked it up after Obama turned his lease in on it. Guy has it ebay…current bid, $150 thousand. I know it’s a piece of history…but so are the pants he wore last year. I mean if we’re going to start selling things he’s owned/used…how about his math book from 7th grade…or that chair he put out by the curb for the trash. Come one lets get real…the election of Barack Obama IS A HISTORIC moment, but don’t waste your money on things he owned before he was president. The baseball bat that Babe Ruth hit his 60th home-run with is worth something…the 59 bats he use before that are just bats that happen to hit a ball. If you want to spend a truckload of cash on something historic wait until President Elect Obama shortens his title to President Obama…then you can start buying the chair he sat in, the razor he shaved with, the shaving cream that’s filled with his beard stubble….
Have you started planning for Valentines Day yet?
I just got a reprieve from impressing Tracey…our small group at church decided to get together and have a group dinner. Sure the guys are going to cook but it should be cheaper then going out to a ritzy restaurant…and splitting a dozen roses four ways is a lot cheaper! Oh yeah, the wives said we can’t cook pizza/dogs/burgers/ribs or chicken…and they banned us from using the grill, the smoker and anything that comes prepared. Maybe going out to dinner would have been easier!
Someone give me a soapbox!!!
I’m a dog lover. My dog Casey is 10 years old. Sonor lived for 12 years and Topper was 11 when he passed away. I’ve called Animal Control of neighbors who have treated their dogs cruely and I’ve lost count of the number of strays that have spent a night in my garage while I tried to track down their owners…I love dogs (well except chihuahuas…and I haven’t met one that likes me so the feelings mutual)
Here’s my beef…PETA tried to mess with Beyonce claiming she abandoned her dog with the folks at her management company, but after examining the evidence they’ve backed down. I’m sure it kept but them up all night wondering if the pampered pooch was getting fed enough designer organic food and sleeping in a toasty warm bed…maybe now they have time to worry about all the dogs that get abandoned on the side of cold, wet roads in Real America. No wait…they don’t care about those dogs…because those dogs belong to the people that can’t get them the headlines that they crave. I guess we’ll have to leave caring for 99.8% of the dogs in this country to you and me and the .2% that belong to celebrities to PETA…boy, those folks are so caring.
Thanks for letting me vent…
Do you love country music? I mean REALLY love it…have a deep unquenchable passion for it! If that’s you…check out this link tonight at 9pm Central Time. I’m doing part-time work at 650am WSM, The Home of the Grand Ole Opry, and tonight we’re debuting a show that re-plays old Opry shows. I’m talking shows from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Back when Hank Williams didn’t have a Jr…. Willie was that new kid and no-one had heard of Johnny Cash! This is going to be a great show. They’re so old we had to dig up a record player…the shows were archived on records. Check it out and tell me what you think. It’s called “The Golden Era of WSM’s Grand Ole Opry” and you can hear it every Saturday night at 9 central on wsmonline.com.
Amazed again at how fast Wikipedia can update. Ricardo Montalban dead
less then a day and that site has the update. What do you remember about him? I’ll bet it’s the same as me…”Welcome to Fantasy Island!” That cool white suit…the cool accent and…wait, wait…Tattoo. Yep, Tattoo. I think I remember his line even more. Heck, I still say it. Probably said it twice since Thanksgiving. It’s just a great line…especially when you have a son who loves looking at planes. “The De plane, the de plane!”
Hey, how about this…if you were stranded on an island, not Fantasy Island, and could only have one TV series to watch…what would it be? Tracey and I were talking about this last night…she choose
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer“ (doesn’t surprise me, she’s had me record every episode on video). I didn’t choose my favorite…decided to go more practical. I’d take “Law and Order”. If I’m stranded I don’t want to watch the same 20 episodes over and over and over. I’d rather have 19 seasons to choose from. If I was going for pure entertainment then it’s “Hogan’s Heroes”.
Love that show! Love that theme song and it would inspire me to try to escape the forsaken island I was stranded on. How about you? Any suggestions…leave them in the comment section.
Bummed about the Titans loss. Why, Why, Why…oh wait, I know why. If you can’t hold onto the the ball you can’t win. Case closed-season closed.
BTW, ever think football and child rearing would ever go hand-in-hand? Alex, my two year old, was whining this morning and I said, “Titans don’t whine.” He stopped whining and said, “Mr. Kerri Collins doesn’t whine?” “No”, I said, “He doesn’t.” That’s when I heard my wife from the other room say, “No, but Vince Young does!” Yep, we try to teach honesty in our family…
If you were some famous celeb going to the Golden Globes tomorrow what 
would you want to grab for your free goodie bag? The six day Tahitian vacation…the designer sunglasses…maybe the designer dog collar? Not me. I’d go for the adult sized Footie Pajamas! Talk about comfort…I’d never have to put on socks at night again. Now if they came with a trap-door in the back I’d be even happier.
One last thing…Vince Gill has hooked up with Steve Martin! Yep, that Steve Martin…Steve is an accomplished banjo player and is putting out a bluegrass album featuring Vince and Dolly Parton. It’s called, “The Crow: New songs for the five string banjo” should be for sale Jan 24 and he’ll be playing some of the songs on SNL Jan 31.
