Geico Gecko’s Son

In many ways I think my family is very normal. As far back as I remember we could never agree on what percent of fat should be in our milk and for whatever reason we once had quite the battle on the home front because we couldn’t decide whether or not yellow and green made blue (it doesn’t my grandma and I were right).
To make us unusual I guess would be our pets. Or more like my sister’s pets. I am not really an animal person but growing up in such close quarters with them I have gotten used to it. I guess I thought Texas would be a break from critters but I was wrong. So I have had two run-ins with geckos this week. I don’t hate reptiles because of my sister I grew up with a lot of them in the house. But I certainly don’t love them. 
Both of the ones I saw are babies to give you a scale this clear box is normally what I put Q-tips in (don’t worry it won’t get used for that again) so this guy is pretty tiny.

If you remember the concert from this post my favorite performance of the night was Darius Rucker. Again I realize the unnormality (not a word; Don’t care) of my family when people my parents age have no idea about music or singers that would get you exiled from my house for forgetting. I can remember singing this one when I little and that makes me very nervous because I don’t remember where or who I sang it in front of.

Also in the music realm. When I was little my dad used to sing a song to me to me and when I was older and tried to figure out what it was no one could seem to remember it. For awhile my mom tried to convince me it was this song, which is also a great one.

I wasn’t convinced and it continued to bother me for, I am not kidding, years. At some point this year I took my mom’s CD collection because I figured she didn’t need it anymore and listened to a burned CD titled “Anita” on the way to Athens. On it was the song that had been stuck in my head since I was a kid.

While I realize this adds little to anyone else’s life, knowing this song now gives me a lot of happiness that I can listen to it and remember times I shared with my dad.

*Disclaimer my family doesn’t support the habits talked about in these songs, we just like good music.


If you can stand one more video this one makes Tyler’s Texas Heart swell with pride. It is a very creative commercial but I refuse to admit that.

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