Motorcycle daredevil of the 1970’s, Evel Knievel, died today. He was 69. He was in failing health. Knievel was best known for an attempt that failed to jump Snake River Canyon in 1974 on a rocket-powered cycle. Knievel had suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.
#1 Enchanted - $35.3 Million
#2 This Christmas - $18.6 Million
#3 Beowulf - $16.2 Million
#4 Hitman - $13.0 Million
#5 Bee Movie - $12.0 Million
Kiplinger has come out with some holiday shopping tips to save you money.
Some are simple like, make a list and pay with cash, but others are more subtle and may give you and idea you hadn’t thought of.
Check out all the simple ways to help save you some money this holiday. www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/11/10tips.html:
1929 - Television host Dick Clark is born.
1931 - Marnie’s mom is born. ( Happy birthday Mom )
1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez are married.
1993 - President Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law.
2004 - “Jeopardy” champion Ken Jennings loses but won $2,520,700.
Being with the ones you love.
Keeping family traditions alive and passing them to the next generation.
The smell of cookies and fresh baked bread.
The smell of turkey.
Giving.
Hoping for just enough snow.
Christmas lights.
Getting Christmas cards in the mailbox.
Decorating the tree.
Being reminded of what’s important.
The excitement of children.
A day off work.
Remembering Christmas’ past.
1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic light system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1929 - Richard Byrd makes the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
1963 - President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1981 - Actress Natalie Wood dies in a boating accident. ( b.1938)
2001 - Beatle, singer, songwriter, George Harrison dies after a battle with cancer. ( b.1943)
I ran across this article on WebMD about how many of us are addicted to e-mail.
According to a recent America Online poll, 41% of adults check their e-mail right out of bed in the morning, before even brushing their teeth! 25% of adults believe it’s unthinkable to go more than two or three days with checking their e-mail.
Here are some tips from the article to help you loosen the grip your e-mail has on you, good luck!
If all else fails, try to close up e-mail shop completely for a few days. You’ll discover that the tangled worldwide web you weave can, in fact, exist without the World Wide Web.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut.
1943 - President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Soviet leader Stalin meet in Tehran during WWII.
1959 - Actor Judd Nelson is born.
1962 - Comedian John Stewart is born.
1967 - Personality Anna Nicole Smith is born. (d. 2007)
1995 - President Clinton signs a bill that ends the 55 mph speed limit.
It’s that time of year when the Oscar contenders show up on movie screens around the country. Marnie and I love watching The Soup on E! every week. This past Friday, they showed this trailer for “The Oscar Movie.”
It may be wrong to talk about this, but I just heard another woman say she was going to stop shaving her legs now that it’s cold. No wearing shorts. . .no need to shave.
Okay, I have heard this from numerous women in the past and have always thought, no…you should keep shaving your legs. Why? Well, one, I would think your husband or boyfriend prefers smooth, silky legs to hairy legs like his own on a cold winters night. Reason two, women tend to let themselves go and that is damaging to one’s self esteem. If you look good, you feel good.
I think this is a secret not many talk about. I searched for pictures of hairy woman legs and found nothing worth looking at. I found men’s legs and even spider’s legs but no pictures of women’s unshaven legs. I know they are out there!
What the real deal out there? Do most women continue to shave their legs during winter or am I just unusual?
Matt and I were talking about the excitment we would feel before Christmas. It turns out one of the joys for both of us was when our mom’s came home with the Sears Wish Book catalog.
For kids today, they may not have the pleasure of curling up on the couch with a marker and circling all the wonderful toys and comfy slippers that they want from Santa, but they have something similiar. The on-line wish list, is available at most retail websites. My sister sent me an idea gift list for my young neice and nephew and it was a list from the Toys R Us website. The kids went on line and checked the items that they wanted. It took me back to the Sears catalog. Call me old fashioned but I think the old way was better. By better I mean, warmer, more of an event, something that became a tradition. It turns out Sears has brought the Wish Book back for 2007.
Maybe on-line shopping will be a tradition for those in this generation. I hope so, I hope they have the warm memories associated with being a kid at Christmas.
1924 - The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Pararde is held.
1942 - Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix is born. (d. 1970)
1960 - Gordie Howe becomes the first NHL player to hit 1000 points.
2003 - President George W. Bush flys to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.
Fill in the blanks…as the holidays come around, our to-do lists will grow and grow. I personally have already started to stress just a bit, with all these things needing to get done floating around in my brain.
Then the old stand-by idea popped in what little room is left in my head. Write it down! I am writing everything I want to get done for the holiday down on paper and posting it where I can see it all the time and then easily cross things off when I’m done. It’s not my planner, it’s not on my laptop…no my list will be posted on the refrigerator! I’m using the same method for my non-holiday to do list as well. The other thing to remember is even when everything is crossed off your to-do list, there will be more things to do just around the corner, so give yourself a break, prioritize, and don’t think it all has to be done at once. Slow and steady wins the race.
