Today is my favorite holiday. It's Groundhog Day. At least I always tell people Groundhog Day is my favorite holiday as a joke. So the whole deal is if a groundhog sees it's shadow today, there will be 6 more weeks of winter. This is such a joke because there are always 6 more weeks of winter left on Groundhog Day.
Gaelic people call today Imbolc. It's the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, which means it's 6 weeks away from each of those celestial occurrences. Gaelic folks celebrate eight holidays throughout the year. They fall on the solstices, equinoxes and the half-way points between those. The most important ones however are the half-way ones. These are the beginning of the seasons since that's when nature is showing the earliest signs of the upcoming season.
We say spring starts on March 21st because it's the equinox. Well, I can tell you right now irises are blooming as are daffodils and the camellia bush, almond trees as well as acacia trees. I've been watching birds start their nest building around my home too. The first signs of spring are happening right now, so this is why Imbolc is celebrated today as the real beginning of spring.
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So we watched the Super Bowl yesterday. It was actually fun because it turned out to be a game that wasn't decided until the last 20+ seconds of the game. I want to know how much Mr. Kraft paid Seattle coach Pete Carroll to do the dumbest thing ever. With two timeouts left and the ball at the one yard line for a score, the Seahawks could have run Marshawn Lynch (aka "The Beast") three times to make one yard and call a time out between two of those plays had he been stopped short. Instead they let the clock run down without calling a time out so as to give them just enough time for one play. They totally let the Patriots know they were obviously going to throw the ball. Wow. That is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen in a Super Bowl. How could New England not intercept the ball!
What an idiot Pete Carroll was. This wasn't just some game during the season, this was the Super Bowl. The Seahawks would have definitely won the game by simply giving the ball to Lynch for the score. Stupid.
Well, the Super Bowl ads are always interesting. Nationwide Insurance which is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and owned by Dimon McPherson who belongs to the Delaware Ward of the Columbus Ohio North Stake. It put out some of the creepiest ads, IMO. OK, I know Mormons are all about families...big families with lots of kids, but that ad where the little boy is talking about what he'll not be able to do because he died in an accident really blew up twitter. "Nationwide 'cause your kid died" was the best joke response I thought. I loved the image of a big screen TV that had fallen onto the floor. You were to think a kid had been crushed to death by it. I can see the Nationwide person telling you they are sorry you're kid died, but your TV is covered.
My favorite ad was for snickers because navajo jokes about how she looks like Danny Trejo in the morning.
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