The Sky Is Falling!

My son bet his friend a significant sum of money that the world would not end. The friend is convinced that it will end and was willing to take on the bet. He apparently does not realize that my son cannot lose. If the world ends he does not have to pay. If the world does not end my son wins the bet. I am not sure if I should chastise my son for taking advantage of a mentally incapacitated individual, or congratulate him on his ability to capitalize on a market trend…

I am not seeing much evidence of a world preparing for doomsday. Y2K got way more action than this Mayan Calendar thing. Remember that? My best friend is still eating the rice from her storage bins 12 years later!

What if we all acted like Chicken Little and ran around saying "The sky is falling?" If we believed the end was nigh there would be no point to planning the business calendar for January. We should definitely open Christmas gifts early on the 20^th . I should have planned for this months ago because I could have had a website set up to collect donations to a “Save the world fund” and really cashed in on that. Now I may as well eat all of those shortbread cookies because the extra pounds won’t matter, and why not get a bucket of tiger tiger ice cream to go with that? In fact, we should have turkey tomorrow just in case and after that I will get out my bucket list and make sure that we get in at least the top 3 things before it is too late.

1.      Have a romantic dinner with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well maybe due to the time constraints and his current relationship issues, I may have to settle to watching True Lies while drinking beer...

2.      Go bungy jumping naked. Although it may be a bit cold for that…

3.      Play the “Sweet Transvestite” from the Rocky Horror Picture Show in a live production. Oh, I already did that. Just forgot to mark it off the list…

So what would be your top three things to do if the sky was indeed falling? Would it be something crazy or would you rather spend it with the people you love? Is there someone you would want to be with? Is there something that you would want to say? Those are the really important things. And really why should we wait until the sky is falling anyway?

Today is a great day to do something awesome with someone that I care about. I don’t need to wait for the end of the world.

How about you?

I think I am going to curl up on the couch with my daughter and watch something on TV. Maybe we can find the Rocky Horror Picture Show and laugh and sing for a while.

Always Loyal2U,

Kerry George