(not because of a bruise, because I have a black thumb when it comes to plants)
But look at the tulips I've been forcing! I think it might be a success.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Maybe my thumb's more gray? or brown?
(not because of a bruise, because I have a black thumb when it comes to plants)
But look at the tulips I've been forcing! I think it might be a success.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Belated Birthday Blogging
I'm a little behind schedule (hours away from 2 weeks, but here are birthday highlights
mmmmmmm 411 millionaire pie.......
Hula hoopin' for exercise? yes! (neither one of us can do this for more than 15 seconds...)
I'm stuck in my present (it's a sewing machine, yay!). I asked for help, and d reached for the camera!!
It was a great day. D made me his great french toast for breakfast, we had mimosas and went to see Slumdog Millionaire, which better win some awards tomorrow, it is soooo good! We both really liked it, which hasn't happened much recently.
After some hula hooping and fun with the new *pink* iPod, we went out for great sushi, and then made cupcakes at home and watched new Office DVDs. Awesome day!
mmmmmmm 411 millionaire pie.......
Hula hoopin' for exercise? yes! (neither one of us can do this for more than 15 seconds...)
I'm stuck in my present (it's a sewing machine, yay!). I asked for help, and d reached for the camera!!
It was a great day. D made me his great french toast for breakfast, we had mimosas and went to see Slumdog Millionaire, which better win some awards tomorrow, it is soooo good! We both really liked it, which hasn't happened much recently.
After some hula hooping and fun with the new *pink* iPod, we went out for great sushi, and then made cupcakes at home and watched new Office DVDs. Awesome day!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Actual winter
As I drove home from work in snow flurries, I realized I hadn't posted pictures from our last snow, two weeks ago. It was the first time we'd had more than a dusting in I think 6 years!
4 inches!
4 inches!
Monday, January 19, 2009
A little local history for MLK day
Yesterday, I took the youth to a program at Ashbury Temple UMC to hear some people speak about Durham's place in the Civil Rights struggle, and it was really informative. A teenage girl from Hillside highschool was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in the 1940s, years before Rosa Parks' famous sit-in. And a group of teenagers from Ashbury itself (one of whom was one of the speakers) were arrested for sitting in the white section of Royal Ice Cream parlor 3 years before the Woolworth sit-in in Greensboro, which usually makes it to the history textbooks.
Also, I learned that Durham was known as the Black Wall Street starting in the late 1800s because of a large number of black owned banks, and because of over 120 black owned, not fronted and secretly owned by whites as in Harlem, Atlanta and other large cities, businesses, it was put up as an example by early civil rights leaders like Booker T. Washington. Unfortunately, all this progress was destroyed when the city built the freeway right through this thriving business area, and the promised shopping centers were never built. It is a shame that such exemplary progress was lost for the sake of easier transportation, and that I never learned any of this in my years of North Carolina history in school.
Also, I learned that Durham was known as the Black Wall Street starting in the late 1800s because of a large number of black owned banks, and because of over 120 black owned, not fronted and secretly owned by whites as in Harlem, Atlanta and other large cities, businesses, it was put up as an example by early civil rights leaders like Booker T. Washington. Unfortunately, all this progress was destroyed when the city built the freeway right through this thriving business area, and the promised shopping centers were never built. It is a shame that such exemplary progress was lost for the sake of easier transportation, and that I never learned any of this in my years of North Carolina history in school.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Traditional Christmas Eve at Ichiban!
Here's installment 1 of way overdue festivities
old friends!
Dad? not blinking?
My bro & sis being silly
Proud sisters with our choirboy!
old friends!
Dad? not blinking?
My bro & sis being silly
Proud sisters with our choirboy!
On the 3rd day of christmas my true love gave to me:
It had a bow and tag and everything! Isn't it beautiful? Cleared of old food, cleaned out and organized! See that ketchup? It's next to mustard and pickles, since you almost always need those together! Such a sweetie!
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