Matt’s Random Thoughts

So I had a really good friend in high school who went to college and started having conversations with Jesus. That’s somewhat normal. Apparently now, however, he thinks he is Jesus. Sure. So which virgin did you pop out off?

To add to the whole religious thing, our local news had a Story about a family finding a piece of popcorn shaped like an angel. They want to sell it and use the money to benefit the recent Tsunami victims. Suuuuure… I’m sure God took time away from helping the tsunami victims (or causing the problem to begin with, depending on how you look at it) to send down an angel to your popcorn. Can you say crackpots?

So that’s the Virgin Mary in the grilled cheese, an angel in popcorn, and a chicken head in the McNuggets. (REMEMBER that Newport Newsers? At least that was real!) Maybe I’ll find Buddha in my toilet? Or perhaps Krishna in the mold on those mashed potatoes that were in the fridge for a while… No no no, I want Zeus to appear as a stain in our carpet. Whatever happens, they better hurry, because Elvis might be hiding in the closet.

So what deities have you seen in random objects? Or, better yet, if you were to make something up, who would you see where?

Crazy people… crazy.

My “old woman” is actually an “old woman” today. Happy 24th! I’m actually leaving Newport News today to head up there. I should be there around 3 or so. Yay Delaware and Tax-Free shopping!

Santa was good to me this year! (Though I’m still waiting for him to give me a job. C’mon Santa! Fire a few of your elves!) I think everyone liked their presents though. I sure liked all of mine! Yay!

I also did my good deed today. A kid got a flat tire on the road by the house today. He asked if we knew how to change it. I didn’t, but I remember going over how to do it during driver ed several years back. I went out and helped him, and we eventually got it fixed. Too bad his donut tire was leaking air too. Bummer.

I had to drive with Nannie today to go pick up Aunt Ruby in Tappahannock. We drove Mom’s truck, so that was nice. I had never seen her house, so I got the tour. Then we came back for dinner. I think I ate too much.

So, how was YOUR Christmas?

Lots going on today. Mucho presents wrapped. Argh! The tape is stuck! Dammit! The paper ripped. $^#&*$^#$ Finally, we finished. This is why I BAG most of my gifts rather than attempting to wrap them.

Got my car inspected today. Take that stupid Firestone! (Just a note, NO ONE should EVER get their car inspected at Firestone. They fail you to try to trick you into getting work done on your car. They actually failed me by telling me things were broken on my car that didn’t even EXIST on my car!)

Yesterday Mom gave Cocoa away to Dr. Kinsel. Good-bye, Cocoa!

Random note: Kiwanis is starting to advertise with Google Adwords. Interesting…

I was Santa yesterday at the Christmas party for the kids. I think it went over well. I actually had to dress up tonight to go to Connie’s to talk to Chase. It’s funny to see the kids’ reactions. I’ll have to post pictures when I get them off my sister’s camera. That’s all for now. I have to get to bed soon so Santa will bring me some fun stuff! Maybe he’ll bring me a job for Christmas! (YOU HEAR THAT, SANTA!?)

On Thursday the last Rappahannock Record of the year came out. This is the issue that includes the annual “Letters to Santa” section. I snatched some of it from their PDF archives.

First up is Mr. Spiers. You may have read this post a while back about my band director being arrested. Well, much has happened since then. The band was asked to represent Virginia and the US by performing in the London New Year’s Day Parade! WOW! And I thought it was great when we got to go to the Bahamas! They had to raise around $140,000 to go, on top of each student raising his/her own money. Below is a photo and blurb from the record about Mr. Spiers and Santa. The note is blurry on the pdf, but it says “Dear Santa, I want to go to London for Christmas. Love, Robbie”

Next up is my nephew Berkeley. He made the paper twice. First is his letter to Santa, as posted below. It actually appeared in there twice, so I suppose someone at the Record wasn’t paying attention. The interesting thing is that both letters had different grammatical corrections.

And to follow up, Rappahannock Internal Medicine had a “Happy Holidays” ad in the paper. Dr. Maan asked the employees and kids to be in the picture, so Kelly and Berkeley were there in the bottom left corner.

And that’s it for the paper. Yes, it’s a slow news day in the land o’ Matt, but given that I’m home for the holidays (until I go up to Tara’s) I’m sure someone will happen eventually.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I think I discovered today why the post office is slow. About 45 minutes ago I walked outside to take out the trash. The postman was sitting in his little truck talking on his cell phone. I came back inside and had lunch. Now, 45 minutes later, I walk outside to check the mail. It’s not there.

WHAT? No way!

So I peak around the corner. The postman is STILL in his truck yacking on his cell phone. Oooooh, I want to complain so bad. If I were employed, my taxes would be paying for him to just sit on his ass, and that pisses me off. Argh! And to top things off, I want my google check, dammit! So much for getting to the bank before 2.

I dropped Tara off at the airport this morning. Now she’s in Delaware. Eva’s in New York. And I’M here in the apartment, all by my lonesome. Whooohooo! Yay for being able to do whatever I want, hahah! See you guys after Christmas!

Whoohooo! Let’s hear it for the first snow of the season! Although, a big fat “BOOOOOOOOO!” to the coldness of the weather tonight! Brrrrr….

Let’s all think of April the new Aussie as she experiences her first warm winter. I’d send you some snow if I could! (I don’t know if it’s make it through customs…)

Tomorrow we’re volunteering at a holiday party for the homeless in downtown Newport News. For whatever reason, during a conversation about it tonight, I searched “homeless” on my page’s google search. The following were the ads that appeared at the top of the search.

I wasn’t aware you could find the homeless on eBay. Are they employed there? I suppose they must be online if you can find photos of sexy homeless singles online. That’s crazy!

Robbie, an old friend from high school, just posted photos to my photo album. He’s currently in Iraq. Check them out.