John Beck

Bon vivant par excellence
Organizer of good things. Skeptical romantic. Needs pasta.

Top 25 Random Facts

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There’s this thing going around on Facebook where people post their top 25 random things about themselves. I personally didn’t post one but my sister posted one and I found it absolutely hilarious and decided to post it here on my blog. I hope you all find it as funny as I do:

1. I have had 4 surgeries in the past 4 years.

2. Would love to open up my own school for students with disabilities.

3. Would love to pick up everything and move to Taromino, Sicily.

4. I do about 97% of all yard work.

5. I do about 95% of all house work.

6. I would like to have another boxer puppy.

7. I am the most happy when I’m with my son.

8. I would love to mingle with gorillas. Just call me Dian Fossey.

9. I would love to open up a restaurant or a bagel place.

10. I don’t know how to make bagels.

11. I can never write anything without Chris proofreading it first.

12. Chris proofread this.

13. I’m obsessed with organization and have been wanting to go to the container store FOREVER!

14. Hopefully for Valentines Day, Chris will bring me to the container store.

15. I’m supposively passive-aggressive. I don’t know about that, what do you think?

16. I’m self-conscious about several things. So much so that I can’t share them with you.

17. I hate the gladiator game. Chris, Dan….dorks!

18. During early high school years I attended a modeling school.

19. I have huge feet, size 11. HUGE!

20. I like to steal swords and gold.

21. I can watch a movie, people die, I don’t cry. If an animal dies, I will cry for an hour.

22. I used to go to Karate class and loved it, but it killed my back.

23. I hit a tracter trailer on the turnpike after spinning 4x in a snow storm. Car = Totaled.

24. I am a certified therapy dog carrier and have taken Sebastian to a lock-down school, retirement home, hospital, and a school for children with cerebral palsy.

25. In my adulthood, I have only pooped twice in a public place.

Ryan Newman fan club package

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My Ryan Newman fan club package arrived today. Over the years I’ve gotten many little goodies from the fan club, autographed pictures, magnets, license plate frames and other little goodies, besides the yearly fan club t-shirt and membership card. This year they really outdid themselves.

The fan club package arrived today, a lot of odd things were included this year. Everything was packed neatly in a Ryan Newman fan club cooler. I got the usual fan club t-shirt, this years was a nice black one, the others were ugly white ones. I also got the usual fan club membership card and cool little fan club magnet. Ok, pretty cool so far. Also inside were 2 more t-shirts, a sweet U.S. Army shirt AND a very cool Meaty Bone t-shirt. Isn’t that odd? Both shirts are really awesome, much cooler than the actual fan club shirt.

Also included in the cooler is a blank CDR (a yellow one), a fishing lure with Ryan Newman’s autograph on it, a bag of rubber bait worms, a small stick of Old Spice (his teammate Tony Stewart’s sponsor) and a small package that looks like matches from Duraflame but it’s actually green tea stress relief lotion.

Isn’t that awesome? That was a really nice surprise to come home too. Thank you Ryan Newman for being awesome! Oh, and Ryan Newman, i’m from your wife’s home town, if you ever come and visit let me take you out for dinner! Sweet!

NASCAR calendars updated

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NASCAR finally updated the official schedule on their site. I’ve updated my subscription calendars to match that schedule. You can subscribe to all 3 top NASCAR calendars in the File Sharing section.

Favorite TV shows of the week: January 25th to January 31st

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1) Battlestar Galactica – “The Oath” +5
2) Lost – “Jughead” +8
3) Fringe – “The No-Brainer” -2
4) Flight of the Conchords – “New Cup” -2
5) 24 – “Day 7: 1:00PM to 2:00PM” -1
6) House – “Big Baby” +3
7) Scrubs – “My ABC’s” Not Aired
8) Scrubs – “My Cookie Pants” Not Aired
9) American Dad – “Chimdale” New
10) The Simpsons – “Lisa the Drama Queen” New

Favorite TV shows of the week: January 18th to January 24th

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1) Fringe – “Bound” New
2) Flight of the Conchords – “A Good Opportunity” New
3) 30 Rock – “Retreat to Move Forward” +2
4) 24 – “Day 7: 12:00PM to 1:00PM” -2
5) The Office – “Prince Family Paper” -2
6) Battlestar Galactica – “A Disquiet Follows My Soul” No Change
7) My Name Is Earl – “Darnell Outed, Part 2” -3
8) Kath and Kim – “News” New
9) House – “Painless” New
10) Lost – “Because You Left/The Lie” New

Favorite TV shows of the week: January 11th to January 17th

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For all the newbies, every week I put a list up of my favorite TV shows that I watch in order from my favorite to my least favorite. I leave out daily/variety shows. New shows have been airing for the past couple weeks but I only put up the list when I watch more than 5 new shows. Here’s this past week’s favorite TV shows.

1) 24 – “Day 7: 10:00AM to 12:00PM” New
2) 24 – “Day 7: 8:00AM to 10:00AM” New
3) The Office – “Duel” New
4) My Name Is Earl – “Darnell Outed” New
5) 30 Rock – “Flu Shot” New
6) Battlestar Galactica – “Sometimes a Great Notion” New
7) Scrubs – “My Saving Grace” New
8) Scrubs – “My Happy Place” New

Good Luck Steelers!

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Ravens lost a tough game. Steelers were spectacular. Joe Flacco made some dumb moves, 3 interceptions. He threw some great balls but he also showed why rookie quarterbacks never win playoff games. I knew the Steelers were going to win before the game even started but when the Ravens started coming back and it was 16 – 14 in the 4th quarter I really felt the Ravens were going to win. They started off with great field position and then this stupid penalty came against the Ravens for unnecessary roughness. The penalty ended up putting the Ravens down at the 14 yard line, which was at the time of the kick around 40 something. Flacco made a couple of big passes but eventually got intercepted and was returned for a touchdown. It was that penalty that turned the game around. On the other hand, I feel pretty confident in saying that the Steelers are going to win the super bowl. So the Ravens may have lost but they lost to the next world champions.

I have a feeling Flacco learned a lot this season as a rookie. No rookie has ever made it this far into the post season and I have a feeling that next year he’ll be a lot better. Now that the Ravens are over I have NASCAR to get excited about now. A few more weeks and the green flag will be waving. Also, luckily for me, new episodes of my favorite TV shows have been airing. I’ll start posting my top shows list soon.