Saturday Morning Dump- Link Style

I know I should be doing link posts every week- after all, they’re a great way to build relationships with other bloggers, plus usually they’re kind enough to link back when they do their link posts. I know, I know, I get all that. The problem is they’re, well, boring. How many link posts have you actually read and enjoyed? If the answer is more than 0, you’re lying. LIAR!

(Actually, Len Penzo’s are pretty good. I usually enjoy his, except he bashes the democrats EVERY WEEK.)

That’s all gonna change kids. Rather than doing the usual link stuff, I’m going to throw in all sorts of extras that you’ll go bananas over. Simpsons quotes? You betcha. Music videos? Oh yeah. Sports? You better believe it baby. There’s gonna be so much cool stuff that I might just end up forgetting the finance links.

Let’s do this thang!

Random Thing that Irritated Me This Week

People who wave at me while I drive, YET I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THEY ARE. Why are you waving at me? We’re obviously not pals, I don’t even recognize you. Are you doing it to be polite because we made brief eye contact? If that’s the case, stop trying so hard!

People from Saskatchewan do this ALL THE TIME. When you go there the highways are filled with people who don’t even know each other waving back and forth. Naturally, such a display of friendliness and comraderie pisses me off.

Random Thing I Enjoyed This Week

Apple juice boxes. Oh man, I love apple juice. Since juice boxes only come in kid sized containers, adults never think to drink it. Apple juice immediately takes me back to about 1991 whenever I drink it. It is truly delightful.

Song I Like and Therefore You Should Too

Ha! You all thought I was going to crack out Taylor Swift for this one, didn’t you? Well, I fooled all you suckers.

Glory Days has to be my favorite Bruce Springsteen song and is a suitable choice for the first song of the week. My ex girlfriend’s mom and her friend used to get together once every six months or so and talk about how they used to run this camp’s kitchen together. Every single time they got together the conversation would make its way to this fact. And once they got talking this song always crept into my head.

Simpsons Quote of the Week

“You’ll have to speak up, I’m wearing a towel”

Sports You Should Watch This Week

Honestly, the beginning of January is pretty thin for sports. The NFL playoffs are on, you know you want to watch New Orleans at Seattle to see if the 7-9 Seahawks can actually win a playoff game. Please Seattle, at least keep it close. I’d love to see Drew Brees get beat by a team of morons. That’ll show him for being the only nice guy in the whole league.

The BCS championship game is on this week, meaning guys like me will tune in for about half a quarter because we think we better watch the championship. Then, realizing why we don’t watch college football all year, we change the channel to re-runs of Dragon’s Den or something.

Somehow I ended up on the front page of Google results for the search “I hate Kevin O’Leary”. Because of this, I get decent traffic on every Wednesday night Dragon’s Den is on. It amuses me that so many people hate Kevin O’Leary.

Blogging Snack of the Week

Looking for a snack to keep you fueled while you blog/read blogs? We’ve got ya covered.

This week’s snack is ketchup flavoured Crispy Mini’s from Quaker. My goodness are those things good. It’s a good thing they only come in a package that’s 142g or else I would eat a metric ton of them in one sitting. The ketchup flavour is sweet and doesn’t overwhelm at all. Plus, Wal-Mart had them on sale this week for only $1 per package. I was in gluttony heaven!

I used to really like the Barb-q flavour, but then they went ahead and changed it. BASTARDS! I hate it when companies decide to do that. I’ve come accustomed to a certain barb-q taste. If you want me to try a competing snack, then go ahead and change the flavour.

And then they put some BS on the outside of the package saying “New improved flavour!”. Everybody already knows the new flavour is crap, but try it anyway on the slight hope it isn’t.

Babe Loosely Related to Finance

This week we’re going to go with Money Rabbit, who was foolish enough to put this picture on her site.

Why do I say foolish? Let’s have a closer look, shall we…

OH MY GOD MONEY RABBIT! SOMEONE IS PEEKING OVER THE FENCE! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!

Oh Right, Time For Links

Money Smarts, Million Dollar Journey and The Financial Blogger each got their picks in for the 2011 stock picking contest. And since those jerks won’t let me in on their fun, I decided to make my own stock picking contest. Take that!

Aww! Canadian Mortgage Trends and Garth Turner are fighting. Blog wars always amuse me. Play nice fellas!

Echo explains why he cancelled his gym membership. Sorry Echo, no ketchup flavoured crispy mini’s for you this week. Fatty.

Rachelle from Landlord Rescue doesn’t care for basement suites. I, on the other hand, think they’re quite lovely.

Carnivals this week

Turns out I wasn’t in any. Next week though, totally different story.

Have a good week everyone.

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