What I Heard This Week 01-25-2024
Mattress experts now say you should not make up your bed first thing in the morning, because you sweat during the night and the moisture needs to evaporate. It will help your mattress last longer, and you won’t be exposed to cooties, also known as staphylococcus, enterococcus, and norovirus. Just give it a couple of hours, then make up the bed. You know, my son told me this same story when he was growing up, but I thought it was just because he didn’t want to make up his bed. Sorry Gage.
Your brain at 3am: I can see that you’re trying to sleep so I would like to offer you a selection of every unresolved issue, memory, or things you should have said or done today as well as the last 30 years.
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Tiffany & Co. has a new collection with Pokémon, actually called The Tiffany & Arsham Studio & Pokemon Capsule Collection. You can get one of the collection of pendants or all of them. The jewelry collection highlights six Pokémon: Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, Jigglypuff, Cubone, and Mew. All in diamond, silver, and gold. The individual silver and diamond pendants cost $1,290 each. And the necklace with the full set of Tiffany Pokémon pendants at $7,190. If you are prosperous and have lots of spare cash, you can get the 18k Yellow Gold with Diamonds Pikachu pendant (the Pikachu pendant in gold without diamonds costs $9,190), then you will also receive a Poké Ball in Tiffany Blue. Hmmm. Who would have guessed back in 1996!
Just in case you didn’t read the front-page banner, instead going straight to this column (wink-wink), January 31st is Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day. I plan to appreciate appropriately. You must rejoice in the benefits of getting older.
In Austria, Josef Fritzl, now 88 years old, imprisoned his daughter in their basement when she was 18 years old and kept her there until 2008, when she was 42. Police said that Fritzl’s wife had no idea her daughter was being held in the cellar, thinking she had joined a cult. ☹ Oh, my! Did I mention that he fathered seven children with his daughter, three that stayed in the cellar with her, and three others that lived upstairs after he staged elaborate stories of finding the babies in bushes and on the doorstep, always with a note attached written by his daughter claiming she could not take care of the baby… the very gullible wife and mom still believing their daughter was in a cult, of course. One baby that died shortly after birth was cremated by Fritzl. Hmmm. Fritzl was sentenced to life in 2009 and has been held in a special unit for the criminally insane. (Gee, you’re kidding me…no empty basements available!) There is now a chance that he could be moved to a different prison, therefore allowing for the possibility of a release from prison. Some things are too weird and repulsive to understand.
The 2024 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo dates are set for Feb. 27 through March 17 at NRG Stadium. Feb. 27: BLAKE SHELTON, Feb. 28: Carly Pearce, Feb. 29: For King & Country, March 1: 50 Cent, March 2: Hardy, March 3: Ivan Cornejo, March 4: Hank Williams Jr., March 5: Oliver Anthony, March 6: Jelly Roll, March 7: Luke Bryan, March 8: Major Lazer, March 9: Lainey Wilson, March 10: Los Tigres Del Norte, March 11: Whiskey Myers, March 12: Bun B, March 13: Nickelback, March 14: Zac Brown Band, March 15: Jonas Brothers, March 16: Brad Paisley, March 17: Eric Church. Hmmm. A couple of names are performers I don’t recognize.
Kimberly Mata-Rubio was running in a special election for Mayor of Uvalde, a town where one of America’s deadliest mass murders happened… where 19 students and two teachers were killed in the 2022 Rob Elementary shooting. Kimberly Mata-Rubio lost her 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, in that shooting. Mata-Rubio would have been Uvalde’s first female mayor. Her husband is a local sheriff’s deputy. She is still most outspoken about the need for tougher gun laws, even testifying before Congress. Her campaign slogan was Moving Forward, Together. They say that if you want change, then you have to take action and be that change. Mata-Rubio was trying to be the change but lost this race to a former mayor and bank VP who calls for better police communications and mobilizing volunteers from the community. I wish her luck next time. Change is hard for people.
I was never a woman who wanted or needed a Sugar Daddy, but if Taco Daddies were a thing, my life might have taken a drastic turn.
Reba McEntire (National anthem), Post Malone (America the Beautiful), and Andra Day (Lift Every Voice and Sing), are scheduled to perform at Super Bowl LVIII pregame. Singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and businessman Usher, will perform halftime, scheduled for Feb 11th at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.
And God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world, then he made the Earth round and laughed and laughed and laughed.
Gaston Glock, an Austrian engineer who created the flat-nosed, plastic-body Glock handgun in 1982, now carried by military and law enforcement around the world, died at 94. We see this weapon in films, rap lyrics along with it being a growing number of the weapons on the streets. Mr. Glock gradually disappeared from the public eye, even as the 9mm handgun he crafted built global presence. Currently, more than 65 percent U.S. law enforcement carry Glock pistols. Think about how this guy changed the world. In 1999, Glock suspected that one of his close financial advisers had been embezzling funds. He confronted the advisor who then hired a hitman to murder Glock with a rubber mallet. Glock was hit in the head, but able to fight back, and punched the man until he collapsed. Both the advisor and the hitman were sent to prison. Glynis Johns, Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress who played opposite Julie Andrews in the Disney classic Mary Poppins as Mrs. Banks, and first to sing Stephen Sondheim’s Send In the Clowns, in A Little Night Music, died at 100. David Soul died at 80. I have fond memories of him on the hit 70’s undercover-cop show Starsky & Hutch, which I loved. He was Hutch. In the 60’s, he was a musician trying to make it in New York by performing masked, and billing himself as “The Covered Man” on variety shows where he stated he wanted to be recognized for his music and not his terrific good looks (my words, not his)… handsome and blond. Then came success on TV. In the 70’s he decided to relaunch his music career, hoping to be taken seriously as a musician. He released “Don’t Give Up On Us (Baby)” which ended up on Billboard Hot 100 as the #1 song. I never put the two together. Mary Weiss, lead singer of the 60’s girl group, The Shangri Las, died at 75. Remember Leader of the Pack?
Charles Osgood, 5-time Emmy winner and CBS Sunday Morning host, died at 91, after suffering dementia. Osgood was called “one of the last great broadcast writers” by Charles Kuralt, whom Osgood succeeded as host of the Sunday morning magazine program in 1994.
In Florida, in a recently released videoed confession, a 64-year-old man admitted to brutally killing his fiancée with a baseball bat just two months before their wedding… because he couldn’t afford the wedding or the lifestyle the 59-year-old woman desired. He had led the woman to believe he was rich and would buy her a house and boats. He also said he just didn’t know how to get out of the situation… he has now been sentenced to life.
A police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman, allegedly told her he didn’t intentionally rape her. I’m just wondering… is that now a legitimate defense? Just asking since all the rules of propriety and law seem to be changing everyday…
Recently, with our super cold weather, I have been popping open a hand warmer to help me when I walk the dog… or even work at my computer. You know the little packets that produce heat and happiness. Well, I asked myself what could be in those little cloth packages? So, I looked it up. First off, it’s just chemistry… iron powder & air (which makes iron oxide, rust and heat), activated charcoal, sodium chloride and vermiculite (hydrated magnesium aluminum silicate). When you open the package, the more pores you have in the fabric, allows for more air distribution, and that’s why you shake it. More air makes more heat. When I came into the office this morning, I shook the one I used yesterday and it became warm again. Not hot, but warm. Life savers.
National “Tina” Day is January 28th – I’ll take this space to say something to ‘our’ Tina… thank you for building our ads and this paper, and checking my column each and every week, along with adding commas where you think there needs to be a comma. I appreciate you on National Tina Day and every other day. To our readers: Thank you for sticking with us one more week. (Please sell something!)
Lisa
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