RTT: Lent, Olympics, Snow, and the Geico gecko

 

This is me, being random.  If you want to be random and it's Tuesday, why not pop on over to Keely's, grab the button and do some randomness of your own!   Be sure to leave your link there, so others can see how random you truly can be!

So today is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, the day Catholics all over the world give up something they love for 40 days in penance.  I remember my mother giving up chocolate for Lent (she said Sundays didn't count and she'd indulged every Sunday).  I gave up sex for Lent for a couple of years... oh wait.... I had no choice then... I was getting divorced and alone.  

I'm really enjoying the Olympics, especially the skiing and snowboarding and speed skating.  The figure skating?  Meh.... they're ok.  I'm still trying to figure out how some couples score higher, even when they FALL, than couples who appeared to have skated flawlessly.  The scoring still favors the Eastern European countries. 

Speaking of Olympics ... I cried like a baby when Alexandre Bilodeau won the first Gold for Canada.  What a wonderful background story, with his brother as his biggest fan!  It warmed my heart to see that bio!

So we've been getting quite a bit of snow here in Pennsylvania.  Sixteen inches on Feb 5 and 6 , then another 20 inches on Feb 9 and 10.  Last night, we were supposed to get more snow... I heard 2 to 4 inches, 3 to 6 inches, 4 to 8 inches.  We got a coating.  Some schools closed in anticipation.  What dummies!  Right now we're getting flurries.  Maybe I should get to the store for supplies while I still can.  I'm running out of Diet Coke with Lime to go with my Captain Morgan.

We're (that means the ex) looking into getting my son his own car insurance for the car his Dad is giving him for graduation.  Progressive gave him a quote that is HALF what State Farm told him, for the same coverage!  We've had State Farm for nearly 30 years.  I think it's time I looked into switching insurance companies.

Speaking of insurance companies.... years ago, when we had a restaurant, we were looking into getting car insurance for the car that was leased in the restaurant name.  The Ex called Geico for a quote.  They asked if we had a deep fat fryer in the restaurant.  He said yes and Geico refused to give us car insurance!  We weren't parking the car inside the restaurant!  The agent actually hung up on him!  Geico also does a credit check too and if you don't measure up, they won't insure you. 

OK, that's it for now!  I might add on more stuff tonight, but for now, I gotta get this butt into work!  

psst!  I have a friend who blogs here... her name is Vodka mom. It's also the name of her blog.  Her blog is one of the funniest I've ever read! Anyway, she was nominated for the Top 50 Mommy Bloggers.  It would be really cool if you could check her out, read some of her stuff and go over to Babble and vote for her!  And you can vote more than once!  As a matter of fact, you can vote once a day!  Last time I checked she was ranked #8!  Simply click here to go to the site.  And check out her blog!  You won't be sorry!!