As you may recall, I recently stayed in a hotel that had many of the items from the room for sale. It’s become the video known as “The Price is Right: Hotel Edition”!
So this morning I spoke at a high school in Oklahoma and last night stayed in a Holiday Inn Express. You may also recall a certain visit to this hotel!
But this morning as I’m brushing my teeth and getting ready to leave, I notice something on the bathroom counter I had previously missed. Here’s what I found:
That’s right! The Holiday Inn Express Catalog! I couldn’t have been happier because all I could think about was a video titled…
“The Price is Right: Hotel Edition: Part II: The Return: The Express Version” (it had a lot of subtitles)
But the problem was that I had to leave in just a few moments after I found this “catalog”. So I say that to say, I’m not sure when the next is I’ll be in a Holiday Inn Express but you can be sure we’ll be making another video when we’re there!
I’ll go ahead and wet your appetite: 2 trays of 8 cinnamon rolls including shipping (as seen on the cover of “said” catalog)…any guesses?
I hate to even admit this but my wife and I were watching part of that show on Fox tonight, “Moment of Truth.” I know, I know…we’re pathetic…
If you haven’t seen it basically people are asked really tough, personal questions and a polygraph tests measures whether or not they are telling the truth. If they continue to tell the truth, they win money. So of course they just ask some brutal questions…good for ratings of course.
But it made me wonder two things…
What skeletons do you have hidden in the closet that you hope no one ever asks you about?
Or what about this…
If you could ask anyone any question you wanted and they had to answer you honestly, who would you ask and what would you ask them? And to take it a step further, what would be your motive in asking that question?
I don’t know what it was like where you’re at but it was a really weird weather day here in southern Missouri. We woke up to about 1/2″ worth of ice on everything and it didn’t stop all day. There was none stop rain/sleet/ice/other forms of precipitation but on top of that there was lightning and thunder all day long.
Really pretty strange stuff…and there’s supposed to be more of it tonight and tomorrow.
Of course knowing how the weather operates in Missouri, I’m sure it will get up in the 80s and I’ll be lounging at the pool by Friday.
This morning at church, our pastor was talking about raising children and he had a great thought I wanted to share with you.
He was talking about this spectrum that exists in our lives that balances ‘responsibility’ and ‘dependency.’ I’ll explain it in the context of my own little girl…
Right now, my daughter will be 2 years old in a couple of months so obviously she is pretty dependent on others for virtually everything she needs. Because she has such a high dependency on others, she then has very little responsibilities in life. But as she gets older, her dependency decreases while her responsibilities will continue to increase. And over time, she’ll get to a point where she’ll have very little dependence on her parents but will in turn be fully responsible for her own decisions.
Regardless of your age, let me toss out two questions to you: Where do you fall on this scale? And better yet, where should you be?
I’m watching the Grammys tonight with my girls and had a couple of observations…
If you could one of the major awards out there, what would you want to win? A Grammy, an Emmy, an Academy Award, an ESPY, a People’s Choice Award, an MTV Award, a Tony (not sure what that’s for!)
So you just won whatever award you dream about and you have 30 seconds before the music cues you to wrap it up…who are you going to thank? What would you say?
As I watched the various performances, I got the sense that the artists truly loved what they get do. From the singers to the dancers to the musicians…they all seemed to really love what they do. So of course the question is…do you truly love what you do? Is it fun for you? If you’re not having fun or don’t love what you do, what’s keeping you from doing something different?
Amy Winehouse is something else…not sure what, but she’s just something else…
Just finished our taxes today and have them in the mailbox ready to ship out tomorrow! I used Turbo Tax as we have in the past and it makes the process so simple.
And of course, best of all, we’ll be getting a refund! That always helps…
Will you be waiting until April 15 or are you planning on getting yours in sooner?
Now I’m going to be outnumbered even further! But I’m very excited to have another daddy’s girl around the house.
Get this though…we’re looking at the ultrasound screen, which if you’ve ever seen looks like a gray, fuzzy blob. And having gone through this once with our first child, I had some sense of what we were looking at and looking for. So after a few seconds I actually saw what you’re looking, and I immediately said I knew it was a girl!
And a few seconds later, the doctor concurred!
Maybe I should do that job…HA! I think I’m going to stick with hanging out with teenagers!
Earlier this evening, my wife and daughter and I went to the mall to hang out and grab a bite to eat. While we were there, we spent about 30 minutes at this little kid’s play area. It of course was a great opportunity for my little girl to get out some built up energy and run around crazy!
But I found myself watching other parents and how they responded or treated their own children. You could tell some parents were indifferent to what their kids were doing or how they were behaving. Then there were the parents that would just rip into their kid for any little thing. You know what I’m talking about. They would go off on their 2 year old to the point where it is almost uncomfortable for everyone else there.
And I found myself feeling sorry for some of these kids. Because as a child, you have no control over what kind of parents you’ll have. You have no control over what kind of home you’ll grow up in. You have no control over how much or how little your parents will care for you or love you.
The only thing you really have any control over is how you’ll respond to the situation or the environment.
I’ve met students who come from phenomenal families and end up wasting their life away. And then there are teenagers who really got dealt a crappy hand in life but have decided to make something of themselves. The difference?
Their attitude to their world made all the difference.
