Jeremy Herndon

What a terrible event

I was so surprised and saddened to hear about the earthquake that hit Haiti!  So many people killed or injured.  So many buildings ruined!  I cannot even begin to imagine the horror that those people are experiencing.  I hope that the humanitarian efforts are successful.  I was talking to my nephew just the other day about how he might want to volunteer to join the Red Cross and become part of a disaster relief team.  I wonder now if this tragedy will motivate him at all to look further into it.

Cici has been talking about her sister that went to a sono bello center last week to see about having some liposuction done. She has been trying to diet and exercise her way back into her “pre-baby” figure for several years now and has gotten quite discouraged. A good friend of hers recommended liposuction. I hope it helps her to feel better about herself and that it goes smoothly.

I’ve always like penguins!  I was cruising the youtube site and found this really funny video of a penguin racing down a luge.  It is being presented as an animal olympic type race.  What a riot!

My wife and I decided to stay home for New Year’s Eve and just relax at home. We had a really nice dinner – beef stroganoff; one of my favorites! A nice bottle of wine, some home made bread. Relax by the fireplace and put on some mood music, dance a couple of slow dances.

The ringing phone blew those plans apart – my sister-in-law called us, in a panic. Her daughter had borrowed her car and hit a deer on the way home. The car is undriveable. She was calling me to ask me to go out with my truck and find the daughter and take care of the situation as best as I could. Since the accident was closer to my place than to hers it was hard to say no.

So my wife and I bundled up and hopped in the truck, off in search of the wrecked car. Sure enough, the front end was bashed up pretty good. We called for a tow truck and drove our niece back home. Thankfully she wasn’t injured herself – the deer was a large six point buck! Too bad for the deer, it didn’t survive the crash.

So the new year is off to a bad start – a car wreck on New Year’s Eve! Well, maybe that’s just a bad ending to the decade and we hope that this new year will be an improvement….