Restaurants

Flags in food?

Don’t know if you can see that image to well, but it is a picture I took of a mexican flag stuck in my mexican food. Did I forget where I was eating? Did I need to be reminded that I was actually eating mexican food? Was it to hard to tell from the actual food? Nothing says class like a miniature flag crammed into your food.

Why are mexican places the only restaurants doing this? Or are there more and I just don’t know about it. Does PF Chang’s put chinese flags into your lettuce wraps? Maybe a rising sun at your local Stix? McDonalds should start putting old glory in every Big Mac. At Olive Garden I don’t remember getting a flag in the all you can eat breadsticks and salad (additional charge if splitting this by-the-way).

But, many mexican restaraunts go with the flag. And many times it is stuck in that cornbread goo that no one eats.

Could someone enlighten me on the flag in food thing? Rules to it maybe? Nationalities that practice this, etc.

Sledding

“Well, don’t go putting none of that stuff on my sled Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? . . .”

Merry Christmas.

Atheists

Do atheists celebrate Christmas?

Why? Why do they bother? Oh, they can say it is santa now and good will and all, but no Christ means none of that other stuff happens either. No God no cmas. I say they work. Do you really believe in being an atheist? Than take a stand and go work. And that goes for other holidays to. Even Halloween. I mean, they don’t believe in the supernatural either do they? So don’t dress up, stay at home.

And if George Washington doesn’t believe in God there would be no America, you see where I am headed. No 4th of July. So work on that day too.

And why is it spelled atheist? I thought it was i before e except after c. Do the atheists even have an objection to that? To spelling? Maybe they just don’t believe in those kind of grammer rules.

Maybe atheists don’t even really exist. Kind of like a bigfoot sort of thing? Most of the time if you pin them down they probably will go the whole agnostic route. Which is really just hedging their bets. Maybe there is a God, maybe not. Come on, do you have to be that liberal (refusing to take a position that is…).

Could some of you atheists out there tell me what the whole cmas deal is? Are you in or out?

Phone

Just blogged from my new phone.

What is this world coming to?

Magic

Santa’s bag is magic.

You knew that. But did you how it got to be magic? Because it is made out of the swaddling clothes that baby Jesus was wrapped in. Now is that awesome or what! Not only did they hold the saviour of the world but also when sown together they can hold all the toys of the world. I learned this bit of info from the movie we redboxed the other night, “Christmas Is Here Again.” Basically a rip off of every cmas and disneyish movie ever made in an effort to create a modern classic. But, hey, it worked for me and the kids liked it too.

And on an unrelated note, I mentioned loving the food court, but I also like the Target cafe. It was date night with the girl and where else could I treat her that has 2 dogs an ICEE and split a bag of chips for 5 bucks? Nowhere, other than QT (which I also love…and also makes a good date spot). Anyways she thought it was great so don’t judge me.

What other magical items could be made out of Jesus’ things?

Court

Not that court.

The food court at the mall. One of the most wonderful places of all time. It is kind of like the Disneyworld of food. A dirtier, greasier Disneyworld, but glorious none-the-less.

This past weekend my wife and I had the whole day with no kids to do some cmas shopping. I am talking all day. 9am to 10pm. Well, as we were running around I said lets eat somewhere awesome that we never get to eat at. Someplace I love. The food court.

I mean everything is there. Any flavor, any nationality of food, any thing you could ever want. Lots of fried things, pizza (and really how often to you get sbarros, incredible…) lots of soda, you name it.

When we arrived it was packed. Everyone else had the same idea. But see, with no kids and no stroller to try and herd through that mess, it didn’t matter. No 4 mouths all wanting some different food, no worrying that we will all stay together, or wishing we had brought their leashes. None of that.

And hey my wife is worth it. What better way to treat her on her day off from kiddome than the food court. (oh she just reminded me it is NOT her favorite.)

So what did I/we choose. Panda Express. It was all I could have dreamed of. Fast and fried…delicious. And just the two of us were able to squeeze in the middle of everybody and basically share a table with some other crazed cmas mall shoppers. (and side note what is with sweat pants and snow boots (uggs that is). Teens every where taking casual down a few notches. Did I miss something?)

Well, it didn’t ruin or court experience. I am still as big a believer as ever. We even topped it off with some extremely over priced cookies at Mrs. Fields. Again, it WAS a special day.

All rise for you, food court.

DTV

Digital converter boxes rule!

Rabbit ears never looked so good. Did you all know this already?

Incredible, more channels, widescreen, hd looking even on a standard def tv. Crazy.

Don’t forget to get your coupon.

Countries

Who decides what a countries inhabitants will be named?

Why are we Americans not Americanis or Americanites or Americanians? We need to get on the same page here. You have Turks, English, Russians, Chinese, Peruvians?…I mean seriously. Are there no rules or policy on this? All of the endings seem to be different.

And Hebrews, Israelites, Israelis, Jews—which is it?

Does anyone have any answers?

Amerish?

HSM3

I wanted to be a star.

Something you may not know about me is that I “once” had a dream of singing and dancing on broadway. I don’t know if it began with my trip to see Cats with my folks in Chicago or the endless hours of following along in the lyric book to my parents Jesus Christ Superstar records. Maybe it was the Paint Your Wagon movie with Clint Eastwood or all the Opera my dad listened to in the car.

Maybe it was going to see the nutcracker every year for a school field trip or maybe it was forgetting my lines in Down by the Creek Bank or quite possibly it was playing the lead in Kids Praise 4 as Psalty the singing songbook my fifth grade year.

I don’t know for certain what it was but I had of dream of hitting it big on broadway. Even into high school it was still there. Singing in choirs, solos or the dream role of Elijah, in Elijah the musical.

But one thing may have held me back more than anything…I can’t dance (or act really, and singing is OK).

Oh, in my mind I can. I try and dance. I often grab my wife and try and cut a little rug but she just laughs at me and reminds me of me unfulfilled dream. I die a little more inside each time.

What this does mean for me now, and the reason for the title of this post is I loved High School Musical 3. Actually I liked all of them. Not 2 so much, but 1 and 3 for sure. Yes I took my daughter with me to see it so as not to creep anyone out being in there alone and all. She loved it too. That Zac Efron can move. One day I will share with her my dream.

It also means I like all Meatloaf songs, watching Seven Brides for Seven Brothers on TBS if I can catch it and renting Mary Poppins at the library…for the kids.

(It does not mean that I like Grease…it is still awful, but that is for a different post).

So there you have it, remember we’re all in this together.

Artificial

Artificial trees that is.

Is this what the world has come to? A real tree is too much of a hassle for you? It takes too much time to go out and pick one? I mean we have already lost actually going out and cutting one down all you have to do is throw one on the roof of your import when you are at Walmart.

What fun is there in a fake tree? No cleaning up needles, no remembering to water, no laying on your belly trying to get it level as some one holds it up and walks back and forth telling you it isn’t quite right. No trimming it up yourself to the perfect shape, no cutting off the bottom for a clean water sucking stump, no pine smell in your home, no dragging it out after cmas and throwing it in the lawn tell you can take it to the park for tree dumping. No nothing. Just pop it up and instant cmas.

No, trees should be work, they should change each year (again…like facial hair), they should take time, be a little stressful, and then you have something. What is Christmas without stress?

You might as well have an artificial Christmas all together. An artificial baby Jesus and a fake Bible too. Get rid of everything that is old and not digital and doesn’t fit into your webworld. You can’t have one rememberance of the past?

It used to be just democrats and maybe green people had fake trees (and my grandma, and people who had those silver metal ones, like my mom has, but those don’t count cause those are cool…) but now days everyone has fake trees.

And don’t even get me started on pre-lit…