My father and I are big fans of The Christmas Story. It is a tradition for us to watch it as much as we can. What usually ends up happening is we watch the whole movie over a span of the 24 hours. 15 minutes here, 20 there… but they time Christmas is over, we’ve seen the entire thing.

Last year I got the chance to go to the actual house the movie was filmed in. The house is in a suburb of Cleveland. and still in the exact condition as it is in the movie. I got to see the bathroom Ralphy ate the soap in and decoded the secret Orphan Annie message, the kitchen the family shared dinner in, and even the living room with the leg lamp (Fra-gi-le… must be Italian).

This is one Christmas tradition that will never grow old.

Side note: Josh Groban’s Christmas album is the 9th most popular Christmas album of all-time. It came out last year!!! Go get em Josh! Grobanites for life…

In the past couple days I’ve been doing some reminiscing, you know, looking at facebook pictures and stuff. I realized that I am extremely lucky to be alive today. I got on the wrong side of THut and I lived to tell about it (don’t they have a show like that on Discovery Channel or something?). Let me explain.

THut wanted to hang out with me one Thirsty Thursday. I told him I didn’t think I had time because I had to finish my senior research project. He goes “I’ll take care of it…”. Five minutes later, I get a knock on my door from a kid dressed as a clock. He had a big black eye and was crying. I asked him what happened and he simply said, “THut kept saying, ‘I don’t care about time’ and then he bitched slapped me”.

I didn’t want to be bitch slapped so I decided to go out with him. He took me to a nice Japanese place because, as Thut put it, “Rice is my faaaavorite”. Rice wasn’t good enough for THut though so he decide to eat a bald eagle. “I want to be the symbol of freedom”, he said. Then he realized he was a hypocrit because of the three Asian slaves he owns. “Did you know it takes them 14 hours to make enough fabric for my right bicep?” “Oh, that’s nice”, I said back, trying to hide my fear.

It was about that time that THut wanted to get back to the room, but he didn’t have a girl to bring with him. One thing I learned is that THut takes his sex life very seriously. Girls don’t choose to have sex with THut, rather he chooses them. Every time THut has an orgasm, God doesn’t kill a kitten… THut does. It is his tradition apparently.

I had to leave before the animal sacrifice but there are a few more things I learned about THut.
THut has the same gravitational pull as the moon.
THut invented the cotton gin, then gave it to Eli Whitney so Eli could take credit for it.
THut discovered a pattern to pi — then he ate it.

Please share your THut stories so that we may all benefit from these teachings.

I was bored today so I decided to do a Google search on James Bond and Jason Bourne.

No real ‘new’ news on Bond. Boo-ho. I liked his new movie, but a Bond movie every two years is fine by me.

The greatest news I heard today – albeit old news- is that Bourne 4 is going to be released in 2010. Is it too early to set up a countdown on here?  The reason that this is old news is because this was apparently announced in Feb 2008. Guess I missed that E! news special.  Apparently Bourne will be heading to South America for the new movie. The only hitch is this movie won’t be based on a Robert Ludlum novel (even though movies were very loosely adapted from the books, they still provided an overall plot structure). I’m freaking excited.

I wouldn’t say that I have a bromance to Jason Bourne, rather I think it would be more of the ‘crazy stalker’ relationship. Worst part is… Jason Bourne is a character. It’s like having a crush on one of the Teletubbies.

I also read an article about how Ben Affleck wants a part. Sure he does. Wasn’t his last film Gigli? I won’t get into that can of worms, but I will say if he gets into the movie, it will 100% ruin it.

I am going to research about becoming an extra for the film. I would gladly accept an ass-kicking for a chance to co-star with Matt Damon be in a movie. That’d be a way to break into the business.

I guess we’ll see how good the movie is (or if I’m in it) in 547 days or so.

Mari and I have dated for nearly 21 months now and I’ve grown to love her for many different things.

Her beauty: She is a gorgeous girl and she doesn’t show it off. She is always great-looking, but when she tries… beautiful! I love playing dress up with her and going places like formals, Josh Groban concerts, and Broadway shows.

Her brain: Nursing is one of the hardest (right behind Meteorology — at least in my opinion). Mari dedicates herself to long nights of studying borborigmy — the scientific word for a rumbling tummy — and other assorted health care things. She is literally the hardest worker/best studier I have ever seen.

Her humor: Noone makes me laugh more than Mariolina. She is goofy in everything she does and I love to see her smile. Her smile is one of the things I first fell in love with.

Mari is the one person who keeps me grounded in this crazy world. I consider myself to be very lucky and truly blessed to be with this amazing girl.

One of my favorite things to do with Mar is just lay with her in my arms and not say a word. She doesn’t have to say anything… her kisses speak volumes.

I love you Mari!

The snow has moved in, officially starting in Danbury at 11:41am and probably not going to be ending until the early morning hours tomorrow. I’ll let you know tomorrow just how much snow Danbury gets… my early estimate is 9.6 inches.

This should be fun. I am supposed to be packing but instead I’m looking for my snow clothes.

Here’s my new forecast video…

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