You can't find a Lord-a-leeping at a good price anymore.

PNC has come up with the total price of the 12 days of Christmas. You can save a lot of money by just giving me a Nikon D50 on just one day of Christmas.

	TRADITIONAL			INTERNET
	2005	2006		2005	2006
One Partridge in a Pear Tree	$104.99	$144.99		$176.66	$211.66
Partridge	$15.00	$15.00		$76.67	$76.67
Pear Tree	$89.99	$129.99		$99.99	$134.99
Two Turtle Doves	$40.00	$40.00		$130.00	$130.00
Three French Hens	$45.00	$45.00		$210.00	$195.00
Four Calling Birds	$399.96	$479.96		$440.00	$432.00
Five Gold Rings	$325.00	$325.00		$265.00	$274.75
Six Geese-a-Laying	$300.00	$300.00		$660.00	$660.00
Seven Swans-a-Swimming	$4,200.00	$4,200.00		$7,035.00	$7,035.00
Eight Maids-a-Milking	$41.20	$41.20		$296.64	$310.08
Nine Ladies Dancing	$4,576.14	$4,759.19		$6,700.00	$6,885.00
Ten Lords-a-Leaping	$4,039.08	$4,160.25		$10,947.00	$10,947.00
Eleven Pipers Piping	$2,053.20	$2,124.00		$1,700.00	$1,750.00
Twelve Drummers Drumming	$2,224.30	$2,301.00		$762.50	$1,500.00
Total Cost	$18,348.87	$18,920.59		$29,322.80	$30,330.49

Have you been naughty?

I gave thanks last year.

What does a four day weekend, early morning shopping, lots of football and green bean casserole mean.

It means it’s time to be thankful!

What would we do if we didn’t have those giant balloon parades to remind us that we need to be thankful?

We would be ungrateful heathens!

Here is an idea, after all the pumpkin pie is gone and you come up from that triptepham low and you have to go back to work to pay all those credit card bills be thankful.

You maybe going through as my daughter says the worst day ever but things could be worse. You are alive and you have the ability to survive and this to will pass. God loves you and will be there for you to give you strength.

I want to thank God for giving me family, friends and my church family that love me.

I want to thank everyone that has had their hand in my life it’s a wonderful life. (I feel like I should be shouting merry Christmas Bedford Falls.)

Thanks, Rodney

Don't be afraid for God is with you always.

BOO!

I love this time of year. The temperature change (will it suppose to cool down),football is in high gear ,the leafs are changing color and Halloween. I've decided to go with a black and orange theme for the month of October.

A NEW BLOG

I started a new blog. It is for information on Mona Vie and my journey as a distributor. Just click on this link to get there. MONA VIE - YOU LIKA THE JUICE

MONA VIE

I am an official distributor of MONA VIE.

You ask, "What is MONA VIE?" I am glad you asked!

MONA VIE is a juice that is made from 19 of the World's Most Life-Giving Fruits.

Our body needs oxygen and in this fast paced society, we eat fast food which is full of bad stuff for our body called free radicals. This juice is full of antioxidants which fight the free radicals.

You ask, "How can I can get this wonderful juice?!"

I'm glad you asked. You can get MONA VIE at my website www.mymonavie.com/SWANSON or click on this link MONA VIE.

You ask, "How can I become a distributor of MONA VIE and make some sweet moolah?"

It's easy. All you need to do is go to my website and click on "enroll now".


If you have any problems or would like to go to a meeting before enrolling, you can e-mail me at youlikathejuice@gmail.com.

This is a great product. It is pricey, but you only take two ounces a day.

The distributing costs money, but it is true you need to spend money to make money. You are paying for your tools to make it easier to sell things.

If you are not interested in making money, then at least try the product. In a time of cancer, heart issues and other diseases, it is more important to be concerned about prevention. I'm learning more as I go and hope to have some more important facts about the juice.

On the website, "MY STORY" is a default story. I'm making my story now.

Who are you people?

I took the family to see Disney on Ice last weekend. I was standing in line to get the kids something to drink when I see someone ordering a beer. What?! Why are they selling beer at Disney on Ice and who needs to drink at a kid's show.

Who are you people?

You know how they have advertisements about beer that's less filling. Since I never have had a beer I'm not sure exactly what that means.

I have an idea for a new beer LESS SMELLY.


If your going to sit by me at a ball game or I guess possibly Sesame Street Live and you are going to drink please

Try the new

BUD FRESH

same beer

less smelly.

Arrh!

Tuesday September the 19th is Talk like a Pirates Day. I don't know about ye scallywaggers out there but me family we be talking like pirates. Internation talk like a pirate day link.

I need your help

Imagine a kid saying to another hey I'll trade you my Samson for your rookie Nebuchadnezzar. That's right biblical trading cards - I need help because my character drawing skills lack greatness but the good side is that no one will know if Samuel had a mole on left cheek. I also will take any good ideas. If your ideas are bad please keep them to yourself (just kidding).

I don't want to sell them but I think it would be a good way for kids to learn the bible. I might just have them for my kids or for the kids at Church.

Here are some ideas

Noah - picture on one side

bio on the other

Noah -
likes - building thing and animals

strengths - listen to God instead of people who said he was crazy


Eve -
likes - picking fruit with husband and designing clothes out of leaves

strengths - mother of all the earth

These are silly examples but you get the idea.

THEY DO EXIST I TELL YA

I stumbled upon a website that is pretty funny. It's thingsthatdontexist.com. You need to check it out.

ARE YOU HUNGRY?

Here is a calling it in post. It sort of like radio stations on holiday weekends when they play the top 100 songs of the 80s.

Here is my list of my favorite restaurants whatever that is worth.


Seafood/Atmosphere

PEARLS DOCKSIDE – love the crab cakes – sunset on lake hefner

Mixture of things

CHILIS – shanghai wings, margarita chicken

Mexican

CHELINOS – cheese jalisco, chicken flautas

Steaks

STEAK AND ALE – the filet

OUTBACK – the filet

RANCH STEAKHOUSE – if somebody else is buying


Italian

JOHNNY CARINOS – the Italian nachos

OLIVE GARDEN – soup and salad

Spanish

EL POLLO CHULLO – 2-piece chicken with mixed vegetables and brown beans and Spanish rice

Chinese

P.F. CHANGS – Mongolian beef, sweet and sour pork, orange peel shrimp and you have to have the lettuce wraps as an appetizer

Home cooking

MIMI’S CAFÉ – Mimi’s pot roast - you have to try the carrot raisin bread – breakfast there is awesome too

CRACKER BARREL – grilled catfish with dumplings and hash brown casserole

Chicken

RED ROCK CANYON GRILL – the rotisserie chicken and their cornbread is really good

EISCHENS BAR – best fried chicken – long ways to go – Kingfisher – and it is a bar and smoky

CHICK-FIL-A – great chicken sandwich

Something different

BAHAMA BREEZE

Barbeque

SWADLEYS – pulled pork sandwich with the sweet sauce

Sandwich

JIMMY JOHNS – The #9 with peppers if picking up get the Italian vinaigrette on the side (watch them make the sandwich if you can they might be done before you get done paying. They’re that fast.) only located in Edmond so far


Hamburger

JOHNNIE'S CHARCOAL BROILER - the #9

Pizza

HIDEAWAY – the Mediterranean

PAPA JOHNS – anything no anchovies

Whats in a name?

What's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet."


--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)


I don’t know nothin about no Billy Shakespeare but I do know something about what sounds weird.


When we were on our trip to Orlando was during the same time that the Arena Football League was having their championship game. The Orlando Predators were taking part in this game and the local news station was interviewing fans at a local sports grill. This is when a fan says,


“Orlando loves their Predators!”


A predator is an animal or other organism (such as a wolf) that hunts and kills other organisms, called prey, for food in an act called predation.


I knew what she meant but an animal on the hunt was not what came to my mind but some sicko on my space pretending to be 16 and the captain of the football team to meet young girls.

I don’t want to see the mascot for that helmet and Orlando; you can have all of Oklahoma’s predators.

Dreams do come true!

Disney World is supposed to be where dreams come true and they did just 22 years late.


We were riding the monorail train out of the happiest place on Earth when we came to a stop. We were told that we had to wait on another train to unload.
As we sat there chit chatting about our day and listening to the people in the other cabin talk it hit me. My dream that I had in junior high had come true. I was stuck in a room with a group of junior high girls. This was not how I imagined it and I realized this might have been a dream of mine in junior high but know as an adult that it is one of my nightmares. We were stuck in there for as one of the jh girls put it “like 20 hours”. It was more like 20 minutes, which was long enough, trust me.

Be careful what you dream. It might come true 22 years later.

WHO YOU CALLING GOOFY!

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

People will come, Ray.
They'll come to Del City
for reasons they can't even fathom.
They'll turn up Sooner Road
not knowing for sure why they're doing it.
They'll arrive at the door
as innocent as children...
...longing for the past.
"Of course, we won't mind
if you look around," the greeter will say.
They'll pass over the money
without even thinking about it.
For it is money they have
and peace they like.
Then they'll walk off to the grocery dept.
...and walk in their pajamas
on a perfect afternoon.
They'll find they have wonderful treats
somewhere down the aisles...
...where they went down when they were children
and begged their parents...
...and they'll want lots of toys...
...and it will be as if they dipped
themselves in magic waters.
The screaming will be so thick...
...they'll have to brush them away
from their faces.
People will come, Ray.
The one constant through all the years,
Ray, has been shopping.
America has rolled by
like an army of steamrollers.
It's been erased like a blackboard,
rebuilt, and erased again.
But shopping has marked the time.
This stores, this money.
It's a part of our past, Ray.
It reminds us of all that once was good...
...and it could be again.
People will come, Ray
People will most definitely come.

I'll have some NACHO with my movie this summer.

My top picks for this summertime movie going experience.

1 Nacho Libre- with Jack Black - June 16th release date

2 The DaVinci Code - with Tom Hanks - May 19th release date


3 Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead man's chest - with Johnny Depp - July 7th releasedate

4 CARS - with Owen Wilson - June 9th release date

5 Superman returns - June 30th release date

6 Mission Impossible III - with Tom Cruise - in theatres now

STAND TALL AND PROUD AND SING OUT LOUD!

I was watching an episode of Love Monkey the other day(I don't why I don't like it or anything) and on this episode there was a character talking about her favorite songs of all time. There was a song by Dillion, which impressed the other character until she came to her favorite song "We built this city on rock&roll" by Starship. Which the other character thought she was just kidding but she wasn't.

Good for her!

Why is there this elitist mentality when it comes to music? If you like a song like it!

Don't be afraid of the laughs that come along with this!

I liked NSYNC! There I said it!

Is there something that you're embarrassed about. A CD that you purchased that you hid or gave it away because you were afraid that the Music Nazis would find you.

STAND TALL AND PROUD AND SING IT OUT LOUD!

Our new addition

It's a 2004 Toyota Camry!

Perfect Tenty

Have you ever wonder why the number ten is not tenty or onety?

They will know we are Christians by our E-mails.

I get tired of e-mails that say if you love God than you will send this e-mail to 10 other people.

You know the e-mail.

It has a interesting story or poem related to God than a guilt message that says something like "if this was a joke than you would send it to your friends".

Is this little poem going to change someone's outlook towards God. I can tell you for a fact that some of the people who have sent it to me that it hasn't changed them much.

It sort of like going to church only on Christmas and Easter like I did my part. My faith and love towards God will not be proven through two visits to church and an e-mail.

My love for God is proven and sometimes lacking proof in my everyday walk.

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Hey Macarena!

I was able to go to the Hornet's game on March 12th, which it was Hugo the hornet's birthday. They had mascots from around the NBA there celebrating Hugo's birthday. What's a birthday celebration without a wrestling battle royal between the mascots?


I learned something valuable by watching this. If you are ever attacked by a mascot of some sort just start doing the Macarena. A mascot cannot resist doing the Macarena. This will aid in your get away.

Chris Paul and me

Chris Paul will be soon known as NBA rookie of the year Chris Paul. There has been all this talk about the rookie wall that Chris Paul is going to hit that all of the rookies hit but still Chris keeps on going strong. Did you notice how I called him Chris because Chris and I are tight.

OK!

Mr Paul doesn't know me from Adam whoever that is. I unlike Mr. Paul have hit the rookie wall the blogging rookie wall. I don't have an original or unoriginal thought in me noggin anywho maybe I'll break out of it soon but right now me not speak well.

Shopping with Wally and P.J.

I don't get the shopping in your pajamas thing.

I don't even feel comfortable about getting the paper in my pajamas. I'm not trying to make fun of this(OK, maybe a little) but I just don't understand.

Maybe somebody can explain how someone can't put on some clothes before going out in public.

It's a big day

Today is my wedding anniversary. My wife and I are celebrating number nine. Today is also Abi's first day of pre school.

Today pre-school - Tomorrow college

I remember just the other day I was saying it will be a while before Abi goes to school.

EEK!

The good thing is she just starts out four days a week and two hours a day.

It's a very big day for the family.

There goes my gold medal chances

I've always dreamed of standing on a platform with a gold medal around my neck and the national anthem is playing while tears going down my check. It gives me goose bumps just thinking about it.
Did I ever do anything to pursue this dream? NO!

Now at the age of 36 I've realized my dream is not going to happen.

OK, I realized it about the age of 21.

OK, 16!

Then it happened, my dream had a chance, I was watching the Olympics and saw the event Curling. Have you seen this event? Ice rink janitors everywhere dream of making their countries Curling team. They don't look like great athletes. I can do this!

Then I have a flashback from the morning when walking to my car where I slipped and fell on the ice.

My dreams ended on a cold Oklahoma morning in my driveway but I will never forget that day. Well not for a while it hurt.

Who was the marketing genius that came up with that?

The other day I was behind a Lance snack food truck when I saw it. The marketing slogan that will put Lance snacks on the map or maybe not so much.

I got Lance in my pants.

I was stunned. Can you? I mean does it really say that?

If you go to their website you can play games or buy this wonderful shirt.

Good Luck Lance with your marketing strategy but please stay away from my pants.

Did you see any pink balloons in the air?

Emma Bonny Stephens was taken from this world three weeks before her delivery date.

I went to a graveside services for little Bon-Bon on February 14th 2006.

I can't imagine what pain this family is going through. I pray to God that he will ease their pain.

Just as Corey and Bonny had prepared a room for their little girl, God has prepared a room for her up in heaven.

It will be a rough time for the family through the years they will see little girls and think that maybe Emma might look like her. As years past they will think about how Emma would be starting school this year and Emma would driving this year.


The things I don't understand:

Why there are people like the Stephens who want to have a baby and this happens to them and you have people who have abortions.

The things that I'm not supposed to understand:

There are things in this world that I'm not supposed to understand but I know that it's God's will that it happens even if it's not what he wants to happen.(ex. Job)

At the services:

They handed out pink balloons to everyone and when they played the song Somewhere over the rainbow everyone released their balloons. Some people let go of their balloons earlier in the services not on purpose but I was thinking I don't understand why these people can't hang on to a simple balloon and that this is not what they had planned. They went through all of this effort to have these balloon leave at the same time and this was messing all of this up. Then it hit me when all of the balloons were being released that this is just like life. Some balloons went on earlier than the others like Emma even though this is not how they planned it even though I didn't understand either situation.

The balloons followed the ones that were released early.

2 SAMUEL 12:22-23

He answered, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.' 23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."

FINAL THOUGHTS:

While I was standing there listening to a song being played I closed my eyes and felt the warm sun shining on me and thought how blessed I was to be living my life. I thought about what I have done with my blessing. I feel that I have not lived it the way someone should to be blessed with life.

When I see a pink balloon, I'm going to think about Little Bon Bon and reevaluate my life to see if I'm living it to the fullest.

On my way back to work, I stopped by and saw my kids and gave them a big hug and kiss. When I was walking out of my parent's house, I see a pink valentine heart balloon floating over the roof right to me. I grabbed the balloon and took it to my little girl.

Thank you God for my little girl! I'm truly blessed.

Something to think about....

Why do you think God made animals that were
unclean that Jews were not supposed to eat?

You won't believe where I'm calling you from

Imagine this scenario.....



MAN : Hey, how would like to see the Rolling Stones live at the Super Bowl?

COLLEGE KID: Sure, what do I have to do?!

MAN: Well, you have to spend the first 5 to 10 minutes of the concert under a tarp.


Later at the Super Bowl.....

COLLEGE KID MAKING PHONE CALL

COLLEGE KID: Hey mom, guess where I am?

No, I'm not studying.

I'm under the Rolling Stone toungue!

Yes, I have clean underwear on!

Wait, there lifting the toungue....

COOL...

I'm at the Super Bowl but wait who are these old guys?

Happy Family Celebration Day!

I have officially named today Family Celebration Day. I know that it is hard sometimes to have family time together because of busy schedules but I also think it is a very important to spend time together. I hope that you spend more than this day having fun together with your family but I wanted to have a special day for my family and I wanted to share it with everybody.

From this day forward on February the 2nd it will be known as Family Celebration Day!

Enjoy time with your family. You never know when it will be taken from you.

I had my kids taken from my wife and I for four months on this day last year. We are not promised tomorrow and we sure don't know what it holds for us.

Love your family! Give them an extra long hug and kiss.

Your family is a blessing from God that should not be taken for granted.

Happy Family Celebration Day!

GARAGE SALE

This is my cat Garage and he is for sale at a low price of free.

He just appeared one day in our garage and he is still there. He makes frequent trips inside the house thru our doggie door. He's a nice cat but our cat does not like him. He started out as princess garage cat until a visit to vet where it was revealed to us that he is not a princess but a prince.

He's a long hair cat. OK!

I don't want to take him to the pound.

We will probably be stuck with him.

I think my mother's curse has been passed down to me.

We used to joke that stray animals would give out our address to other stray animals.

It would sound something like this - You go to this place and they will take real good care of you until you get back on your paws.

TRUCK BEDS vs. LITTERBUGS

Litterbug - Where does this term come from?

Actually the word litterbug was a play on the word jitterbug back in the late 40s in an ad for the New York Transit Authority

Thank you Cliff Clavin

One of my pet peeves is littering but I think people throwing trash in their truck beds   bothers me more. I guess it makes the person feel better that they didn't throw the trash on the ground but eventually it makes it there.

I understand they don't want the trash in their truck but can't it wait until they get to a place with a trashcan. I don't want their trash on the ground making everything look trashy. I guess the truck bed trash heaps bother me more because they are trying to get away with something.

At least the litterbugs put it all out there. (No pun intended) Look at me I'm an idiot who doesn't care what my city looks like.

The TBTH people say will I threw it away. (I really have never heard anybody say that but I bet that if you caught them in the act that this is what they would say) Whatever happens after that is not my fault. (If I ever heard someone say that which I haven’t ooh I would be somewhat upset.)  

I guess what I’m saying is don’t litter and that includes your truck bed.

Don’t get me started on people talking on cell phones while smoking, driving and throwing trash in the back of their truck bed with their radio so loud it makes my car shake.  

A gift from Garage

This Christmas, our cat Garage brought in a gift for us. It was a live bird. I heard it in our dining room and then it flew towards the entertainment center when I got over to save it from the cat it flew towards the screen door, which was not open, and it crashed. Then I ran over to let it out before the dogs got to it. Ojoe (our dog) got there at the same time that I did so I stopped her from getting the bird when Maggie (our other dog) came over to see what was going on which made Ojoe mad.

OK! Let's take a break.


Now here I am trying to let this bird out who has blood on it and probably has a slight concussion while trying to prevent the dogs from getting the bird and each other. Susan is finally able to come over and open the door and out went the bird. First, it was stumbling but finally it was able to regain composer and fly off to safety to our neighbor’s driveway where a big white cat jumped out and ate it.


Yes that's right after all of that the bird became a Christmas meal.

It was like one of those wildlife shows where they show the little animal being attack by the bigger animal in slow motion.

I believe it was that bird’s time to go and I guess that big white cat must have been good this year.