Is Your Ring Tone Appropriate

Rings Tones Are A Reflection of Our Personality

Imagine this:

You are in line at the Piggly Wiggly picking up the gallon of milk that your sweetie just texted you to pick up on your way home from work when you notice the lady in front of you is buying a large bag of pork rinds, a bag of circus peanuts, some licorice, a king-sized Reese's Peanut Butter Cup candy bar, taco chips with hot spicy cheese sauce and chile, and a super sized mega fountain drink when  all of the sudden her cell phone goes off.

Her ring tone: Let's Get Physical - Olivia Newton John
A more appropriate ring tone:  I like Big Butts - Sir Mix-A-Lot

Imagine this:

You are in the stall of the bathroom. Someone enters the stall next to you when all of the sudden their cell phone goes off.

Their ring tone:  Taking Care of Business - BTO
A more appropriate ring tone: Boom Boom Pow  - Black Eyed Peas

Imagine this:

It's been 5 years since you had a new driver's license and so you pack a lunch, some bacterial wipes and head to the DMV for the long boring wait to renew your license. You are scanning all of the employees trying to figure out which one you will get.  You are next in line and you do not want the older lady on the end with the tattooed make-up and ill fitting wig because she is slower than a turtle and has been averaging one customer every 1.2 hours. Before she could call your number her cell phone goes off.

The DMV employee's ring tone: Bad Day - Daniel Powter
A more appropriate ring tone:  Wake Me Up When September Ends -  Green Day

Imagine this:

You decide to do the right thing and go to church on a nice spring Sunday morning. You are about to participate in Holy Communion when all of the sudden the man sitting in the pew in front of you has his cell phone start ringing.

His ring tone: What The Hell – Avril Lavigne
A more appropriate ring tone:  Jesus is Just Alright -  Doobie Brothers

Imagine this:

I am skyping Mr. Bricks and his circa 1978 cell phone goes off in the background and guess what his ring tone song is???

• An Ava Aston song
• A Buck Owens/Porter Wagoner duet
• A Broadway show tune
• The McDonald's Jingle
• Mr. Bricks cell phone is too old to be able to download ringtones

I really don't think I need to provide the answer on that one, I think it is obvious.

Blessings,

Ava

xox

The Super Bowl.



So what is all of the fuss about this Super Bowl?



So why all of the fuss over a super bowl? OK, I am going to humor you all for a second and pretend I just crawled out from under a rock and I don't really know what all of the Super Bowl hype is about. In fact, I have some questions rolling around in my little Greek noggin as to about what the game of football is really all about anyway.

From what I see, it just seems like a bunch of high-priced athletes fighting over money. At the beginning of the game they get the biggest guy from each team to go to the center of the court, track, diamond, field or whatever this sport calls it. Then they flip a quarter. And for the next (what seems like) 8 hours they fight over that twenty-five cents. I know that is true because I can hear them yell, "Get the quarter back, get the quarter back!"

I hope you like that, I'm using my best "A" material.

I really didn't discover the game of football until I was in high school...and then I really didn't learn much about the rules of the game of football. What I did learn was that all of the cute boys in school were on the football team. So I tried out for cheerleading as an excuse to be near them, and as a way to harness my inner Greekness. And I wasn't just a cheerleader, I was named captain of the cheerleading squad. Yep this big Greek yapper has its advantages I tell you. They said since I was always talking, I might as well be in charge. Ok, so I know a little bit about football, so bring it on!

The part of the Super Bowl hype that upsets me the most is that a football game seems to have more importance than a major religious holiday. Furniture stores, car dealerships, the grocery stores and even Subway are all having Super Bowl specials. I am sure there are more than one confused little kid who wakes up on Sunday morning, runs down stairs and is disappointed that there are no Super Bowl presents waiting for them. Don't we always give kids present on holidays like Christmas, Halloween, Easter and their birthdays?

In reality I think the Super Bowl gets far more media attention than Easter, more stores and companies advertise for the Super Bowl than for Easter. Just think how easy it would be for a company like Subway to advertise during Easter?

Jesus took five loaves of bread two fish and fed 5,000 people. We take one loaf of bread and throw on some sliced process meat and a crap load of veggies on it for only $5.00. The $5.00 foot long now at Subway! Happy Easter.

But alas, like Bieber Fever swept over a nation of pre-teenaged girls, so has the Superbowl fever swept over an entire nation. I will be on my couch on Sunday watching the commercials and laughing, watching and wondering out loud why they would get the Black Eyed Peas to be the half-time entertainment, and not get a real band like Journey or Foreigner to perform. I will also be watching The Pittsburgh Steelers kick the butts of the Green Bay Packers -Just sayin.

Blessings,

Ava

xox