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Today we get the Christmas Tree and meet an old friend for lunch so blogging will likely consist of a few movie reviews scheduled to post.
The tree has to last 25 days so we have to pick carefully. We particularly need it to still look good for the Christmas open house of the 2nd so lets see what happens.
Today my pastor wasn’t available so I needed to go to another church for confession.
Lucky for me the wife had some shopping to do near a church this afternoon so I went with her; dropping her off as Marshalls and went down the road to St. Leo’s figuring I could pick her up when done. I was worried as they tend to have a line but as it turned out an extra priest was on so I was in and out of fairly quickly.
After saying my penance prayers in the church I headed down to the road happy that my wife wouldn’t have to wait for me but thinking the penance I was given seemed small.
When I got to the department store the wife was still having trouble deciding what to get in terms of a gift sweater. Once I was there she had me going back and forth with her looking through woman’s sweaters, every one I suggested didn’t make the cut, wrong materials, wrong style, wrong cleaning instructions etc, etc etc…
I learned two important things today:
God has an excellent sense of humor
When God wants to show you mercy, take it, don’t question it!
Here endth the lesson!
We interrupt this blog to announce the death of my Brother’s dog Rufus at the ripe old canine age of 14.
My brother lives just over the 5th street bridge in the 2nd floor of the house that my wife and I lived when we first got married (we were in a tiny 3rd floor attic apt that was smaller than my kitchen and den put together) it’s even a tougher neighborhood than mine but he would still take long walks with Rufus that would occasionally take him across the bridge and by the house.
There is something about dogs, they are a pal in good times and bad, When a dog dies it’s an odd feeling. Earl Hammer and Rod Sterling said it best…
Funny about that.
This morning while everyone was getting ready to go to school I was sitting on the couch next to my oldest watching Morning Joe when the latest of the Direct TV film ads went up on the screen.
I commented to my 18 year old son that I know I’m getting old because I didn’t recognize the video or who the girl in it was. I asked my teenage son who that was…
…he said it looked like Lady Gaga.
Now a few clicks on the net and I discovered that it was Christina Aguilara and the video was for a song called Keeps getting better.
I’m a balding graying 46 who has been married 21 years, I might be excused for not knowing or recognizing her or her music, but my son is 18 and in college, works in a local department store, was active in theater in high school and is in the improv club in college.
This was an embarrassment to him, he had some concerns it might make him an object of some ridicule among his peers when this post went up. What a geek! What a dork! My answer was his fellows at college can enjoy their laugh…
…until graduation when they won’t have time to laugh as they struggle to pay back those student loans taken to pay for school while he while he completes his through college with Das Full Boat.
If he shakes off the laughs and continues to hit the books it won’t matter if he keeps his car radio on his classical stations, and hangs out with sober, religious, drug free friends like Amanda and company. (A crowd that rivals or defeats my college group in sobriety and beats us in the sick sense of humor division but loses to us hands down in the medieval edged weapons category.) He will come out of college way ahead financially and with the freedom to decide what he wants to do without a millstone of debt around his neck to hold him back.
If the economy hasn’t recovered by then it might just be the edge he needs to make it. I guess the joke isn’t on him after all. Remember Sheldon didn’t know who Radiohead was but who did Penny turn to for help…
and no I don’t know who Radiohead is either.
Update: But I bet these teen girls do.
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