History

My dad posted this pictures on his blog, so I thought I would rip them off and show them on mine too.

This is a picture of my Great-Grand father and 3 of his 4 children. My grandfather is on the top left. Yeah, the short one. I'm sad to say that I never met any of the men in this picture and that honestly makes me sad. My great-grandfather was a hemp farmer and apparently made very good money at it until, in 1937, the US government out lawed the cultivation of hemp in favor of the big petroleum newest money maker...nylon. My grandfather, from what I understand, was pretty strict and unfailing. He was 20 years older than my grandmother.

This is a picture of my grandmother, who from what I understand (I never met her either) was a scrappy little thing. My dad said that back in the early 70s when she was in her late 40s she beat the crap out of my uncles wife (never got to meet my uncle either) for calling her a bitch. My uncles wife was about 25 years younger than my grandmother. Maybe thats where I get my kick ass and take names attitude. Her parents (nope, didn't meet them either) are in the front and she's in the back row, right. She's pretty, don't you think?





Anyway, I thought these photos were pretty cool. I like to share pictures of them and hear stories since I missed out on having grandparents for the most part. My mom's father was alive until I was 22, but he wasn't a good influence. For example, when my daughter was born his first question was "is it black?" I was so angry that he never saw her. Regardless if she was or not, it wasn't the health of the baby or my health that he was concerned with, it was what he thought people would think of him if he had a black child in the family. My daughter is not bi-racial, but I couldn't allow that sort of racist thinking in my daughters life, so I cut my ties with him. He died awhile later. His parents were alive when I was younger, but my great-grandmother on that side was the type of person that would look you up and down, loudly proclaim how fat you were getting and ask you in the nicest, most serious voice if you wanted another piece of pie. She thought she was higher on the social ladder than she really was because she did the hair of the socialites in the Quad Cities ( yes apparently back then, there were socialites in the Quad Cities). Her husband was very quiet. Convinced me that the reason he wore and eye-patch was because a bird came down and plucked out his eyeball. Weird. They slept in separate bedrooms for the whole time I knew them. That's weird too.

I found the COOLEST website.

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN





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This website is so wicked. OK, what you do is upload a picture of yourself (headshot works best) and it scans your face then tells you what celebrities you look most like. I did myself and Aspen. I look most like Sania Mirza (the first time I've ever been told I look like someone Hindi! And a tennis player!), then, in descending order, Alicia Keys (are they crazy? I look nothing like her!), Neve Campbell, Maryl Streep (come on!!), Chelsea Clinton (what?!!?), Patricia Cornwell, Anna Lindh, Romy Schneider, Elisha Cuthburt (wow...thanks!! Shes hot!), and Celine Dion (OK, now I'm offended).



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Aspen looks most like Shirly Temple, then Ninet Tayeb (I can totally see it, though, can't you? They have the exact same nose, mouth and eyebrows. Hey, if she grows up and looks like her, that's cool, look at her, she's beautiful!) then Katie Holmes, Emma Watson, Katherine Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Jodie Foster, Renee Zellweger, Romy Schneider and Audrey Hepburn. How freakin cool.

I dont know, I can kinda see it in some of the photos of the people, but like me and Alicia Keys? Ok....whatever dude. I also think its pretty funny that I resemble a Hindi tennis player and my daughter resembles a Jewish singer. How wierd.

So then, I put in the only photo I could find online of my boyfriend that would work...and...hahahaha...wow. They couldn't find anyone who really, REALLY resembled him in this photo, the number one was only a 51% match, but I had to laugh because three of the people he hates most in the world came up...George Bush, Anthony Kedis and Britney Spears... I can assure you, however that Eric looks NOTHING like any of them. I got a good hearty laugh, though. I need to get a better picture before the next time I try that.

Anyway, its a good time waster. Let me know what you all come up with!

See ya!

So sorry

Hey all...I am alive, I assure you. Sorry I haven't updated, been busy with no comp. Although I am not sure how many of you even read this thing.

Anyway, holiday break was good-ish. I don't know some parts of it were really good, some not so good. Getting to spend time with my daughter and my family? Good. Being at my moms while she's in Kuwait not so good. Getting to spend time with my boyfriend and watch him jam out like a rock star? Good. Arguing with my step-father over discipline styles? Not good. So there you have it. I will save you all the details of all the stuff Aspen got, she got lots of stuff and is very excited about having more stuff to spread around her already too-small room. She's been being very mouth lately and trying to pull her weight around, so we've been trying to work on that over break, but I didn't get a lot of help from my step-father who proclaimed that she shouldn't have to do things for herself because she's still a baby. Wow. I didn't know, they didn't tell me that in all the parenting magazines I read. I thought at 4 years old she could do things like get dressed, go to the bathroom, brush her teeth and wash her hands all on her own. Apparently I'm mistaken.

So last Saturday, I went to Coral Ridge Mall with my friend Nikki (for those of you who don't know, its Iowa's largest mall). We took the kids (her 2 and my 1) and shopped. It was fun. Then on the way home it was about 11pm or so and we were driving the speed limit at 70mph in the left lane when what we thought was a dog at first jumped out of the median. I realized as we hit it that it was not a dog but a coyote.
Not, however this kind of coyote;

Which, quite frankly we would have found far more amusing. "So we were driving along and this coyote jumps out of the median, ends up flat as a pancake against the side of the car, and gets up and waddles away...freakin hilarious! Ha ha ha meep! meep!!! Haha haha haha"

And it wasn't even Peter Coyote, actor extrordinare, who has appeared in such amazing movies as; "The Hebrew Hammer", "Baja Oklahoma" (TV) and "Suddenly Naked". Who, sadly, would have ended up with the same amount of haha's at the end of that story.

No, no. It was this kind of coyote. Who sadly has a broken neck now and was drug by the police officer off the road by its tail. Its lying along 380 south of Gilbertville if you want to see it. Nikki and I have been asked the following questions about this incident; "Whatd you go and hit that coyote back there for?" and "Why didn't you skin it and bring it back?" and (my favorite) Nikki was asked TWICE "Are you sure it wadn't a deer?" Uh....yeah. Were sure. Idiots.

Anyway, so that was a fun experience. School's started and I have a news internship at an AM Sports station here in Cedar Falls. I also have a part in our schools production of "Dead Man Walking", 3rd rehearsals tonight. I also am in a class where I have to do 25 hours of community service. My poor boyfriend isn't gonna see me as much as he'd like, but I will make as much time for him as possible. Here he is...he's gonna hate this...lol.

This is when he was playing with The One Night Standards, now he plays solo, and his music is really awesome. He's got talent, I'll tell ya that.

Peace and love, ya'll.