December 20

We cannot believe that it’s less than a week until Christmas. We’re certain you’re all in the same boat. It just doesn’t seem possible, does it? This is our kids’ last day of school until they go back for the new year in January. There are two ways to look at this development. On one hand, those people are loud and constantly bicker regardless of how many times you remind them that Santa can see all their nonsense. On the other hand, there is one thing that will offset this. We won’t have to set an alarm clock for two weeks! Wahooooo! That’s the one unemployment benefit we haven’t been able to participate in – sleeping in and wearing pajamas all day. Amylynn’s kids are unreasonable with this, always wanting us to wear actual clothes to take them to school. **eyeroll** Here’s some funny stuff that happened this week.

1. Flying in China. We don’t know what’s going on over in China, but all of a sudden they’re showing up in our news feeds with all kinds of misbehaving while on airplanes. This isn’t even counting that crazy woman in Korea who was so awful. How about the three women who got in a brawl over one of the woman’s baby crying. Apparently, it screamed the entire flight. The passengers actually came to blows over this – the photos show them crawling over seat backs. It probably was more entertaining than the inflight movie anyway. The best part is that the captain threatened to “turn the plane around if things didn’t settle down back there.” Another man – on his very first flight EVER – got tired of waiting for the plane to take off so he opened the emergency exit door to get some fresh air into the cabin. There is some discrepancy if this caused the emergency slide to activate. Regardless, the cabin stewards lost their minds. All we can say is we’ve been on planes that sat on the tarmac for what felt like FOREVER and it would have been nice to have some fresh air. We feel for you, dude.

2. So many other options. You’ve probably heard by now that Sony is not going to release their movie staring Seth Rogan and James Franco called The Interview. There have been some unfounded threats by terrorists, and several theater companies refused to exhibit the picture. We’re not going to get into the whole “the terrorists have won” argument or any of that. If you want that, there are plenty of diatribes on the internet all about it. Go nuts if you feel so inclined. This isn’t one of those blogs. Instead, we want to offer up some other suggestions of movies that should also be pulled for a myriad of reasons. Anything by Adam

Artistic license taken with the dog in question

Sandler, for example. If there should be some insanity and The Expendables 4 is made. Also, as much as we adore Jared Leto, we have to admit that he frequently makes awful movie choices. (Ava whole heartedly disagrees with this. Jared is perfect in all ways.)

3. The dogs are trouble. Do you remember last week how that dog set his master’s house on fire? This week one of those loveable pooches shot his master in the arm with a rifle. Everyone is quick to point out how it was an accident and the man is not suffering life threatening injuries, but we think it would be prudent to keep an eye on the dogs for the time being. Cats seem to get all the attention for being sneaky, but all the evidence points to our canine “friends”. We’re just saying, perhaps we buy the expensive food for a while and maybe a bone or two for Christmas until things settle down.

4. Everyday nice socks. This is a goal for all of us. Wear “everyday nice socks”. Our friend Pumpkin brought both the Sisters some “everyday nice socks” from South Korea. These particular “everyday nice socks” have Santa and Rudolph on them. Odd from Korea, you say? Pumpkin says they’re crazy about everything Christmas – they put up trees and everything. This makes us wonder what their “everyday nice socks” look like the other twelve months of the year.

5. Another mom who’s had enough. This is the best thing that’s happened on C-Span since, well, since forever. Brothers Danny (Republican) and Brad (Democrat) Woodhouse appeared on the news show. As you can imagine they were arguing since they have opposite political views and that’s what C-Span is all about. Apparently, their mother has had enough so she called in to the live show and told them to pipe down. Once they realize it’s their mom, one of them buries his face in his hands and groans, “Oh god, it’s Mom.” Our favorite part is when Mom said, “I’m hoping you’ll have some of this out of your system when you come here for Christmas. I would really like a peaceful Christmas.” Based on our experience, that won’t be likely. We’ve included the video below.