Office of the President Elect?

Gimme a break! What an ego! What utter nonsense!

Obama, or his lackeys, MADE UP this office! No previous president elect has ever dared present himself in such a self-serving manner. Why does Obama seemingly NEED to have such an office? All other presidents elect have simply made do. Why the need to plagiarize the Great Seal?

In fact, according to the Constitution, he is not "officially" the President Elect until the Electoral College casts their votes on December 15.

The first time I saw this new "office", it struck me as odd. The more I think about it, the more bizarre it gets.

Thoughts?

Did you know?

After watching this, I am overwhelmed with information. What does it mean?






[HT: Matt Harmless]

Small Earthquake Felt in OKC

A very small earthquake was felt by many people in the Oklahoma City area late Monday night. The Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory reported the shaker to be 2.7 on the Richter Scale, hardly anything to get excited about.

Why then, am I posting this to my blog? Because it was OKLAHOMA in which the earthquake was felt. Not exactly a hotbed of seismic activity.

Earthquakes are unnerving. My friends in Taiwan reported feeling the 6.0 that hit this week. Now THAT'S an earthquake!

It is a very strange sensation. I've been in earthquake simulators before, but they just don't feel like anything I have ever experienced. I was in several when I lived in Los Angeles back in the 80's, and we felt a few when we lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Emily even felt the December 26th quake that created the Asian Tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands. That one even made ponds in Oklahoma move back and forth!

Personally, I've never felt an earthquake in Oklahoma; and that is JUST FINE WITH ME!

Red Paint

So, I be-bop down to Wal-Mart to get a quart of red paint to paint the sign for our church's Christmas parade float.

Would you believe Wal-Mart doesn't sell red paint!?!

You can get varying shades of red, specifically pink, but you can't get "barn red". You can't even have it mixed! Only shades of red were available, but nothing that anybody would call "red".

Oh, you can get red spray paint and if you go to the craft aisle you can get a little bitty teeny tiny bottle of red paint, but it would take three dozen (at $2.99/bottle) to get it done.

What's the world coming to?

Ace Hardware, here I come!

What Happened to "Free Air"?

Remember when you could get air for free? No, not the breathing kind, but the fill your tires kind.

Before we went overseas, almost everyone who sold gas had free air. Now, you have to pay .75¢ just for the privilege of topping off your tire pressure.

Gone are full-service stations. The last one in Wagoner closed last Christmas. Gone is service of any kind. People don't care anymore; except for making a buck.

There is still a place in Vinita, OK, that has free air. God Bless Shout-N-Sack!

Give a break! Give free air again!

#12 on Google

I did a search for "Lottie Moon" on Google and my church website was #12 in the search results! How about that!?!

Wintry Weather

We awoke to a taste of wintry weather this morning, as a very light blanket of snow fell early this morning. By the time I took this, it had already begun to melt.

Sooners to play Missouri!

The Sooners are now scheduled to play the Missouri Tigers December 6 at 7 pm in KC, MO, for the Big 12 Championship!

Way to go, Sooners!

Sooners = BCS #2

According to the Week 14 BCS poll, Oklahoma is now rated number two. That would be just behind Alabama and just ahead of Texas.

I haven't seen the announcement, but it would appear we are going to be playing Missouri next week for the Big 12 Championship.

For some reason, Oklahoma dropped to number 4 behind AL, FL, & TX in the AP Top 25. What's up with that?

Boomer Sooner!

SNOW!

That's right! This morning, it was spitting snow. Albeit, very few flakes, but IT WAS DEFINITELY snow!

Oklahoma 61 - Oklahoma State 41

Does anyone know who the OU Special Teams coach is? They sure need some work!

Did our defense even bother to show up?

Brent Mussberger did better last night, but he stilled showed a bias against the Sooners. Why can't ABC hire a non-partisan commentator? I blame the Democrats.

Now, we wait to see if we get to play in the conference championship. Now THERE'S a strange way of determination!

Boomer Sooner, Baby!

More family

The group in the living room.

Emily and her cousin, Kaylee in the game room.

Audrey and her cousins, Nick, James, and one of the twins. (I can't tell from this picture which one.)

Brent needed a little nap with Barney. Awwww.

Good Food and Good Fun!

A "creative" picture with half of the table in the picture, the other half in the mirror!


My nephew, Brent, enjoying.


My sister, Pam, showing off her pies.

Dad carving the smoked ham.

Saturday Thanksgiving

Mom and Dad.


Me and my Meme.


Aunt Patsy, Sally, Mom & Meme

Christmas Decorating Time

Emily and Audrey removing the cultural trinkets and replacing them with a Nativity collection and a Christmas village.

We bought a new tree last year in an after Christmas sale. We didn't realize HOW BIG this tree was going to be!


The house all decked out in lights.