My top 5 childhood crushes
In May I reminisced about my childhood heroes… today you get to read about my top five childhood crushes (lucky you).
5. The Abba girls
I confess my very first childhood crush was on Agnetha and Anni-frid. My siblings were all teenagers when Abba-mania came to the Drake household (late 70s). I was four years old. Ahhhh young love.
4. Daisy Duke
I’m sure EVERY boy alive during the Dukes of Hazzard television series (1979-1985), had a crush on Daisy.
3. Wonder Woman
Who can forget the lasso throwing, bad-guy thumping Wonder Woman (1976-1979)? I guess she was everything a five-year old wanted in a lady.
2. Princess Leia
Princess Leia Organa made it to number two. She was definately a woman who could take care of herself. I bet Han Solo camped in the lounge a lot.
1. Wilma Deering
Coming in at number one (none of the others come close) is definately the lovely Wilma Deering from ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ (1979-1981). I know I’m not the only guy who had a crush on Wilma growing up (right Lesmond J?).
It’s amazing how the seductiveness and the tight body suits of the 70′s didn’t even register in my young mind. The age of innocence was great. Looking back, I think the most attractive aspect about them was that most of them were in cool TV programmes/movies with lots of action and explosions and guns.
Well, almost 3 decades later, I am a very happily married man, and have an incredible wife! How does DW compare to my childhood crushes? DW blows them all away. She’s real too… not a creation of TV land!
Do you believe in Emily?
Seeing isn’t believing anymore. The future is now and the future is scary.
By the way… Emily is not real. She is a computer generated image.
Read more here.
It’s how we finish that matters
With the Olympics almost at an end, and in light of other recent events, I thought it was a good time to post a link to the recent renewalyouth study: ‘The Race’.
It’s important to remember that the race of life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon, and it’s not how we start the race that matters, it’s how we finish that ultimately matters in light of eternity.
Click here to view the PDF file.
God bless
O Praise Him
Anyway, she showed me the following clip. It brought tears to my eyes, put everything in perspective, and proved yet again that God is good regardless of the circumstances or the news, and that the garment of praise really does combat the wet blanket of heaviness.
Be blessed.
Bigfoot… Bigfake
Last week a body of Bigfoot was found, this week it was discovered to be a hoax. Bummer, I was hoping it was real. A lot of people are disappointed right about now. (Especially the guy who paid $50,000 for the body 
Read the Foxnews article here.
Mr. Mum
I take my hat off to every stay-at-home mother out there. You girls are legends!
Paisley Jade (that’s my wife) has been in bed with a very bad flu for the last few days, so I’ve taken a few sick days to cover for her. We have four kids, who need fequent feeding, washing, and cleaning up after… especially our youngest, so it’s pretty much a full time job making sure she doesn’t get herself killed (she’s an 18-month old adrenaline junkie). So I’ve been cooking, cleaning, bathing, feeding, nappy-changing, clothes-folding, book-reading, dish-washing, medicine-giving, chauffeur-driving, play-fighting, discipline-giving, room-tidying, grocery-shopping, and being a nurse for DW.
I will say it again, stay-at-home mums are legends! Definately the most under-appreciated job in the world.
DW… I appreciate you so much… Get well soon! The small amount of sanity I have left is quickly depleating.
My Chucks: old and new
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