Friday, January 2, 2009
Piggy Banks & Paris Hilton
I hope you had a great New Year's Eve. As expected, I didn't make it to Midnight. I fell asleep a little before 12 o'clock, on the couch, with a glass of wine in my hand. What a party animal, huh? Rae woke me up AFTER midnight, so I missed the whole ball dropping thing. I can deal that. In fact, I've reached a point in my life in which seeing the ball come down is just another reminder that another year has gone by.
Speaking of which, today is my one-year anniversary at Thunder. It really has been a fun year and I'm looking forward to being with you in 2009.
Other than that, just a few quick things today:
A new poll out shows that Barack OH-bama is the most admired man in the country. Not because of his politics, but because he's the only person in the country who is guaranteed to have a job over the next four years.
The lousy economy has caused a comeback of sorts. Piggy Banks.
It's true. A New York Company that sells chrome piggy banks for $31.00 says they sold this year faster than they could stock them. Apparently the stalled economy seems to have finally convinced Americans to save money. In my case, the problem is my entire savings for the year 2008 was $31.00. What am I going to do? Spend my entire savings for the year on a chrome piggy bank and then have nothing to put in it? On the other hand, it probably is better than a regular bank. It's safer. You can actually get your cash back out of it, AND you get the pleasure of smashing it with a hammer.
Finally, we can't get away from Paris Hilton. This time, she has the Australians annoyed with her. They're criticizing her for her "excessiveness" (I don't think that's actually a word.) It seems she went on a shopping spree in Sidney for a dress to wear on New Year's Eve. She found one and bought it. It cost $3,800.00. When asked about the criticism, she said she thinks it's important to "help out the economy everywhere in the world, and what's wrong with doing a little shopping?" Knowing this mental midget as we do, she probably spent $3,800.00 on a dress that has only 50 cents worth of cloth in it. Besides, if she REALLY wants to stimulate the economy, she should make another video, the kind that made her famous in the first place, if you know what I mean.
Have a great weekend.
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