I appreciate the guest post, Lindsay Valdez
If you go to direct tv lexington watch the news and take notice of how large our population has become. You hear all of the statistics about our country’s increasing waist size especially in relation to the rise of weight-related health issues like diabetes and heart disease. Driving down the interstate the other day, I was surprised to see billboards with young children on them advertising that words like “chubby” and “thick” aren’t cute but are dangerous. These public service announcements seem harsh, but clearly they are necessary. The number of young children who are clinically obese is nothing short of alarming. Our world today does nothing but encourage this problem either. We are a society dependent on fast meals due to our busy lifestyles. Outdoor play has been replaced with video games, computers, and televisions. When kids have to be reminded to “get out and play for an hour a day,” we are in real trouble. Kids innately should want to play. They should want to imagine and run and jump and climb. Their fresh bodies shouldn’t be dumping grounds for food that is lesser in nutrition and quality than that which we feed to our animals.
Today is my niece’s sixteenth birthday! She is old enough to get her driver’s license. Hence, the title of my post. Unfortunately for her, she cannot get her license until she takes some driver’s education classes and her mother cannot afford to pay for them at this point in time. So the roads are safer a little while longer! Regardless, I hope she has a great birthday and I hope she has many more happy birthdays in years to come.
I have to admit that I have a soft spot for panda bears. From time to time I hear of people being mauled by brown bears, or black bears, or grizzly bears, but I’ve never heard anything in the news about people being mauled by panda bears. Naturally that makes me feel as if they are not vicious, even though they probably are just as likely to attack as any other kind of bear! I recently saw this cute video online about some baby panda bears that were being kept in a play pen, and one of them is intent on escaping. The video is just so cute; it makes me wish I had a pet baby panda bear (but only if they stayed this little and cute!)
Over the past couple of months Pizza Hut has been running a special where you can get any size pizza, any type crust, any specialty, for only $10. Well, my family likes Pizza Hut Pizza a lot, and I had received a couple of Pizza Hut gift cards for Christmas, so I decided that I would go ahead and take advantage of their $10 special and order some of our favorite pizza – their large pan meat-lover’s pizza. Well, I have to admit that the last two times that we did that, the meat lovers pizza did not have much meat on it at all. In the past, there was so much meat on the pizza that you could hardly see the cheese or the sauce! Now you can hardly see the meat. Very disappointing.
Guest post by Becky Thurman
I could not believe it when I went to Wal-Mart to buy a few things, and when I went back to the car it would not start. I think that the gas line was frozen, so I went into Wal-Mart and bought a can of dry gas. I put the dry gas into the gas tank, and the car still didn’t start. Well, I decided it was time to buy a new battery, so I went back inside the Wal-Mart and went to the automotive department and told the employee that I needed to buy a new battery and have them put the battery into the car. I explained that the car was in the parking lot and that they needed to go out to it because the battery in the car had died. The employee told me that they would only install the battery for me if I brought the car inside their garage. Well, I had no way to move the car into the garage, so I told them that they had lost the sale, and I would just get a jump start for now and buy the new battery someplace else.
So out to the parking lot I went. I popped the hood of my car, got my jumper cables out and started to hook them up to the dead battery. There was a nice young man just getting out of his car parked right in front of my car (talk about great timing!) I asked him if he could help me out with a jump start, and he did. He hooked up the cables, and started my car no problem. I offered to pay him for his trouble and he refused. So I gave him a big ol’ hug and thanked him so much. Then I drove home and told my hubby what had happened. He used to work in that Wal-Mart in that automotive department. He told me that he was going to call the store manager and raise some cain. Come to think of it, I didn’t hear that phone call; I’ll have to ask him if he ever made it! One thing is for sure, that Wal-Mart will not be selling me a new battery – we will buy it elsewhere.
