Stuff of the Week Volume V Issue III

Stuff of the Week Volume V Issue III

Here I go again on my own. Going down the only road I've ever known. Yes, the stuff of the week is back for another exciting installment. Not that it really went anywhere, but it has been a week or so and nobody commented on the last one, so I thought I would try again just for good measure before abandoning it forever, like I have done three times before. Some might call it insanity by definition. I warmly welcome this presumption as it is, after all, 100% true. Have fun at it!

Movie of the Week: I just realized upon writing this that I have not seen a movie this week...so I am going to draw upon recent weeks and say that Disney/Pixar's Up is pretty darn funny. Despite the drawback of having to see it at a drive-in...a grueling double feature as it was followed by the Proposal (I have already shared my opinion on that)...it was really good. Nice laugh, good story, and (if you will excuse the cliche) eye popping graphics.

Upcoming Movie of the Week: Again, I return to the old tradition of having the upcoming movie of the week a movie that I will most likely never see as it is rated R. So, for those who don't care what is in their movies, I suppose I would recommend seeing Funny People with Adam Sandler.

Song of the Week: You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift. Ok, allow me to explain myself. This could take a while, and some careful shovel placement while digging myself out of this hole. This song is on at least twice a day at work, and I usually catch it another couple times while seeking through the mediocre radio stations here in Utah...and I may or may not have made up male lyrics for it...it happens on our side too! Trust me!

Album of the Week: Aerosmith - Big Ones. I heard this classic again while up at Bear Lake. It was a choice album to find once again after a two year absence.

Band of the Week: Aerosmith...well, they receive the honors for two categories as I also found their 2-disc greatest hits compilation that I own. The classic stuff is...well...classic?

Shock of the Week: Some guy walked into New York's LaGuardia airport with some batteries and wire in his bag, what looked like a bomb and was enough to close the terminal for a few hours and delay a dozen or so flights. I suppose the real shock of it all is that the guy failed to provide for the necessary ticking noise to make it real dramatic...oh well. Better luck next time!

Anti-Shock of the Week: Lady Gaga is a whore...mercy me! I heard the first two lines of her song "Love Game" and pretty much would have preferred taking the turn too sharp and running into a pole if only to destroy the radio.

Best Moment of the Week: Monday afternoon on bear lake with the windblown waves making for the ultimate jet-ski riding experience. It was sweet, and beat the crap out of me!

Game of the Week: Tiger Woods Golf 10 for the Wii. I love it! Easily the ultimate golf video game and, in my case, better than the real thing. The smell of grass is good but after topping a tee shot 20 yards this morning (one of my better shots mind you), I will take the video game.

Day of the Week: I suppose I will have to go with last Sunday as I spent it with one of my favorite families from my last area of my mission in France. The Tanguy family from Toulon were visiting the US with a tour group of church members catching all the sights. So, they were in SLC this last weekend. I went to the MoTab broadcast for the first time ever, went to church and had lunch with them, then had dinner with my parents and them. I even saw a member from my first area that night at the hotel where they were staying. It was a sweet day and was enough to bring my french back and confuse my brain to this day...

Non-Weekend Day of the Week: Well, Monday at Bear Lake was pretty sweet as the waves were equally as tasty as the bear lake raspberry shake I had from Le Beau's. Yeah! It was really good!

Famouser Person of the Week: Dr. Conrad Murray. He was Michael Jackson's doctor when he died. He does not receive this honor for that, but for the fact that he took the position to pay some $750,000 debt he had built up while accepting Jacko's offer of $150,000 a month for personal care. It was a very sound economic move...but...I guess you could say it backfired.

Girl of the Week: Jessica Wilkinson as she not only survived three days with the group of crazy but well intentioned folks we call the Mountain Road YSA Ward, but that she kept her cool, unlike the rest of us, through broken down jet-skis and other related drama. Kudos to her. Oh yeah, did I mention that she is one of the only two followers of this blog...?

Deja-vu Moment of the Week: So I was delivering pizza the other day and drove over the freeway down where shepard lane crosses I-15 and saw the miserable traffic. I instinctively looked at the clock to see that it was 5:47. No surprise. Construction aided bumper-to-bumper traffic at that hour. Well, crazy thing, the exact same sequence happened the next day. I saw the traffic while taking a delivery over the freeway. The same instinct that drove me before left me staring wide-eyed at the clock reading 5:47. If any of you can complain of a monotonous life, I will provide an echo.

Bug of the Week: The unrelenting string of annoying happenings between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday evening. Broken jet-ski, rarely mad but livid father, discontented co-workers who won't listen, and the list goes on and on. Welp, its all resolved. Consider me happy now!

Annoying Email of the Week: In a moment of weakness I overlooked the possible consequences of giving my email to a company and awkwardly tapped my email address out on the touch screen at redbox and now I get their "new releases" email twice a week. Here after two years I had a chance to start fresh, and blew it with 20 taps to a screen.

Weird News of the Week: Apparently the subject of hell has become a little taboo among evangelical churches...one pastor explains "When you're trying to market Jesus, sometimes there's a tendency to mute traditional Christian symbols." I found it rather funny that they mentioned marketing Jesus, and sidelining what just might happen if we don't follow him. Even the bible is clear on that one!

News Event of the Week: Health Care Reform. Ok, it is not an event, but surely a topic that brings up lots of controversy. One event was sparked by it as a rodeo clown at the ogden rodeo made a comment about the country wanting an honest president, but it got Obama and an angry Obama voter wrote a heated letter to the editor of how she felt isolated because she had chose the wrong political party for the party she was attending. My favorite part of it all was an online response given by a sound minded reader. Bush jokes were openly accepted, so how does that not apply to Obama? We still hope for something good because, after all, change we need.

Irony of the Week: Did anybody find it interesting that Obama jumped to the defense of the african-american Harvard professor and never thought of the others involved. Perhaps I am alone in thinking he was a little racist against the "white supremest pig" who followed protocol and logic to arrest him. Oh well. Only God can judge them.

"Sign that the World is Ending" of the Week: My Dad's 1997 Chevy Suburban that runs great can't sell even for $3500, so would thus qualify for the "cash for clunkers" program, after which exchange it would be melted down. Of course I dont understand the deeper issues, but it seems strange to throw away things that work and pay for them.

Tyler's Alias of the Week: An official "better future" skeptic...blame the media!

New Category of the Week: International Biker of the Week with an obviously Spanish name: Alberto Contador, winner of the 2009 Tour de France.

Tyler's Question to the World (answers expected): Why can't I be more like Sean Knighton?

Fool of the Week: Anybody who thought Tiger would not recover from his nearly cut-missing status at the Buick Invitational. It's basically his tournament. Ok, I must admit I had my doubts, but how often to tigers miss a kill twice in a row?

Deep Thought of the Week: Lessons learned from the early hikers may not help their wounds or twisted ankes, but must, by all that is right, prevent others from tripping over the same rocks in the trail.

Random Thought/Saying of the Week: If all else fails, would there be anybody to succeed in understanding? The odds seem stacked against it...

Car of the Week: Mine because it rolls...and has working airbags!

Color of the Week: The color of girls eyes...who cares what color. If you can discern the color because she is looking at you, its all that matters really...

Candy of the Week: Smores! I finally had one! My summer is complete. Well, off to school!

Tyler's Reflection of the Week: Life sucks. Deal with it, and it will get better, or at least bearable. The bright future ahead of us is distant, but taking our eye off of it wont make things any easier. Keeping vision doesn't get us there faster, but allows us to have a more positive perspective along the way. Even if it doesn't work out as planned, it will all work out in the end...chiche as it might be, let us take this fact into consideration. If you are breathing and your heart is beating, you have something going for you. If one of these is missing, either the end is near, relief is waiting at the door, or you are unconscious and dont really care anyways. Scattered reflection keeps my mind going. Some might say my mind is wandering, but there is a clearly defined direction, and that is a greater understanding of who I am, and what I am doing here. It is the reflection that I am convinced endures to the last breath or terminal beat of a dying heart.

This Week Last Year: Last year I was still in Nimes, and will be until September 20th. However, there are many stories to tell. This time last year we met for the first time our new mission president. We were pleased to discover that he was not the intimidating high-end plastic surgeon from Virginia we had all grown to love, respect, and fear; but rather that he was a soft cuddly teddy bear from Quebec with a heart of gold and a smile that took all doubts, fears, sadness away. Dont get me wrong, I love both of my mission presidents, but the change, like most, was as welcome as it was necessary and inspired.

Tyler's Anger Management Section: My anger is centered around spark plugs and weakened plastic this week. You see, I went to Bear Lake and took the jet-skis. Well, the first day only one ran because the other was only cranking on one cylinder. I am not too mechanically inclined so I fumbled about until Sean and I were lead to the conclusion that the spark plugs needed replacing. Well, that one worked out. As for the weakened plastic, the fins on the side of the other happily working jet ski were torn off due to shoreline neglect and waves, causing dime size holes to take in enough water to nearly sink the poor little boat. Let's just say that was a pain, and two more new spark plugs and much anguish later, they both work again. Heck of a week though!

Top 5 of the Week! (because even after years, 10 is still too many for one week)

Top 5 Reasons Sarah Palin's resignation is just sad...

5. Tina Fey just lost a nice little gig...oh well, 30 Rock should be enough.

4. David Letterman will have to search elsewhere for cruel family aimed jokes...the Obama's?

3. I suppose this is the end to the pulled back hair and glasses look...1990-2000...oops, my bad.

2. Alaska will have to stop shelling out money to protect a woman from public scrutiny...back to claiming more caribou land I suppose.

1. America has lost its last semi-attractive governor...if only the Governator could show his golden abs...perhaps it will be an IOU...

Well, its finally over. The third issue of the Stuff of the Week Officially brought back from the dead for your mindless reading pleasure...guess what people? You can post comments now with your own personal section of the stuff of the week. I am trying this new age marketing technique. Highlighting things that have been possible the whole time and throwing a bright yellow "new" tag on it. Do it now while it is still cool! enjoy!