Live life, Cell phone challenge….

I was inspired by reading one of Jessica’s older posts where one day she actually turned her cell phone off for the day. This got me thinking how much of today’s society has relied on staying in touch with everyone in an instant. Lets say 10 years back, cell phone we only used by the elite class. The important people that walked around big cities or in there cars holding this huge looking white brick, the rest of us just walked around enjoying life. It was much simpler back then, no worries, just casual living. We got to go to places with out having to check in or have someone find us. If someone needed to talk to us, they simply waited till we got home to call us. It made for better conversation, to actually have something to talk about to someone, calls lasting about 1 to 2 hours. Now fast forward to today, everyone has cell phones, from the 80 year old grandparents down to the 6 year old elementary student.  Every one always seems to be in a rush. Look around one day, you see people walking and texting, people updating their Tweets or Facebook. Do we really need to use our cell phones so bad that we have to make Laws about texting while driving? Really, does anyone ever use their phone to talk to anyone any more? If so, how long are your conversations, do you really make time anymore to actually talk to someone on the phone or do we tell them to look at your Facebook for updates? We are so used to our phones that we are missing the world as it goes by, then we wonder where that time went.  I want to place a personal challenge to all, turn your phones off of one day, just one day. Really go out and enjoy this life that we have been given. To know how to live just for one day, to actually feel freedom, freedom from all that is tying us down to blog, tweet or update Facebook pages. Just to notice the things around you, birds, trees, season changes and kids playing. I challenge you, yes you, just for one day, and turn your cell phone off. Stop and smell the flowers instead of walking over them while texting. Your friends and followers will still be there tomorrow. 

I went on a Date!!

I went on a date with my wife, (you though wrong). My wife and I are trying to do things together to try to break up our same old routine. We really do not go out and do things or go to places by ourselves in a long while. With my wife and I schedules, our daughter school and church activities, our grandson that we baby-sit, all this takes a toll on our marriage. We do not want our marriage to get to where it was heading so my wife is trying to book all these different events for just the two of us. Our first was this play that we went to on Saturday. It was a low budget play but never the less it was a very good and cute play. It was called “Las Nuevas Tamaleras”. It was about these three young girls trying to make tamales for the first time with a little help from two season angel tamale makers. It was a cast of five actress and the props and acting would make anyone go see it again and again. As a matter-of-fact, they did 9 shows so far and each one has sold out. They tour Dallas, Austin, San Marcos and finally San Antonio. The majority of the audience has seen this one hour, one act play for a couple of years in a row. If you can understand Spanish, then I suggest you try to see this play next year when they tour again. I know we will.

Well after the play we went to down to the River Walk to have dinner and enjoy the lights. Also if you have never been to San Antonio during Christmas, it is defiantly worth the trip down here. So if all goes well, this is the first date of 6 for the month.

NOTE: I took some pictures but they did not come out so good so I downloaded some from the internet where we ate at. 

A trip for Stupid People….

Would you like to go to this Island? Well you can not! I am in the works with the Costa Rican Government to purchase this island for the soul purpose of sending all the stupid people that I have meet. Now I am not talking about the occasional “DUH” moments, I am talking about the true stupid ones you have the misfortune of dealing with every single day of your life. You know the ones; these are the people that miss all the obvious reasoning’s of knowing what is right and wrong. The ones that Sue the McDonald’s for making them fat or spilling hot coffee on themselves while they are driving and talking on the cell phones. The ones that fall into an open man-hole in the middle of the freaking sidewalk with caution tape and flags all over. Even the simple ones that when asked, “What day is it today?” They reply with the correct day by also adding the term “All day long”, and then 30 minutes later they ask you what day it is. The ones that try all day long to place a square peg into a round hole and complain that it is a design flaw, the ones that insist that the door will not open for you when you push and the sign say pull. These are the lucky folks that get to live on this island. With plush green foliage, tropical weather and shark infested waters. These are the lucky ones that get to go and let us regular people live in harmony.

How will I get them to go to this island? It’s simple, for one they are stupid and second, I will tell them there are dinosaurs on this island and if they go now they can have some cookies for the trip. So who wants cookies and see dinosaurs?

Don’t Mess with Texas Football…

Texans take there football very serious, from watching Pee-Wee Leagues all the way to traveling 500 miles to sit in a parking lot to be crown the best tailgate partier for their favorite team. Most women here base their shopping days on Sunday, Monday and Friday Nights. The girls go do their thing while they know the boys would be sitting in the same spot when they get back. I guess this was one of the reasons that my wife married me was I may don’t like to sit all day and watch football. I don’t own a football jersey or even a football to play in the yard with. I don’t jump up and down like a crazed maniac when ever a team makes a touchdown as if I personally had something to do with it. Anyway this post has nothing to do with me, I am writing about the true blue fans, the ones that have that crazy look in there eye when the team is 4^th and Goal with 15 seconds to go. Like my neighbors for example; these guys live two houses up from me. I don’t have to know when Dallas is playing; they show me by putting up this big inflatable Dallas Cowboy Blowup in the middle of their driveway. Like this one:

They open up the garage door, have a few friends and family members over to watch on the 60 LCD TV and couches that are set up in there. I don’t have to know the score of the game or see who the game is progressing; all I have to do is listen to them. If the Cowboys lose the game, all is quite and then you see that inflatable giant go flat and slowly get dragged indoors. If they win then all hell breaks loose. Well that does not sound like radical fans you may say. Let me give you another example by using my neighbors again. Apparently the Cowboys made two stupid mistakes that cost them the game, (if you’re a fan then you know which game I am talking about). Well this made my neighbors so upset that they all went over to the big balloon and started beating on it with bats and broom handles! One of them came out with a pistol and started shooting at it! After the police left it was quite for the next couple of games. Then what did I see this weekend, but a new blowup Cowboy, even bigger than the first.

 Well the Cowboys managed to win the game in overtime and they went nuts. They were dancing, shouting and throwing beer all over each other as if I was watching some pagan ritual right before my eyes. You would have thought that they had won the SuperBowl by their public display. I just hope next year, for the Cowboys sake, that they do make it to the SuperBowl just to make the neighborhood a better place for at least one more year.