So I’m sitting here and I’m supposed to be finding out various things about my little candle business so my mom can do our taxes. I think mainly she needs to know how much I spent last year and how much I made. I tell you right now, it’s in the red!
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Monthly Archive for January, 2005
Last night we went out to Applebee’s and then on to Walmart. At Walmart, we were paying for our stuff and I specifically remember thinking how young the cashier looked. I figured he couldn’t be more than 15 or 16. Then I moved up the line and saw that he was wearing a wedding ring!
Wow I must be getting old if people who are old enough to be married are looking like kids to me!
After the other two locations, we got back in the car and drove down to the bottom of the Muny.
These are the pictures we took there, including a couple of “extra” shots I took.
So what do you think?
World Leaders Mark Auschwitz Liberation
By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer
BRZEZINKA, Poland - As candles flickered in the snowy, winter gloom, world leaders and Auschwitz survivors Thursday remembered victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
The ceremony, which opened with the recorded rumble of an approaching train, was held on the spot where new arrivals were brought in by rail to the vast camp and put through “selection”  meaning those few who were deemed able to work were separated from the rest who were taken immediately to the gas chambers. Continue reading ‘Never Forget’
After the Jewel Box, we just walked around the park a little bit, snapping photos wherever. First we ended up at this little structure that was named Vandeventer Place. Not sure what exactly it was (other than a bunch of columns) but it must have had something to do with the 1904 World’s Fair, I’m sure. Maybe it was a musicians’ stand or something. ;-)
Anyway, here are the pictures from there and just beyond there… I probably won’t post any tomorrow as it’s FFAF, and maybe not until Tuesday when I get to rollover into February. ;-) There are a considerable amount of these more than the last batch and I’m not cropping down the vertical ones (too hard with these) so you’ll have to click “more” to see the photos. :-D Continue reading ‘St. Louis Pictures II’
So today was the day that I took the girls up to St. Louis to take their pictures.
I’ve decided it would be best to post these in sections so that I can post most of them without boring you all completely to death.
First we went to the Jewel Box. It’s a green house in Forest Park. I’ve never been in it before, but I’ve heard countless old ladies talk about it. It was smaller than I expected, but nice, nonetheless.
So here are the pictures from the Jewel Box… Continue reading ‘St. Louis Pictures I’
Maybe it’s a sign…
The other day, Elijah got his newest Imagination Library book the other day. It’s called El libro de basinca del pequeñtio. Or, in layman for English speakers, The Toddler’s Potty Book.
So, yes, maybe it’s a sign because Elijah has taken off his diaper at least 4 times in the last two days. Earlier today I even had the <sarcasm>pleasure</sarcasm> of cleaning him up after he took off a poopy one. He knows how to unzip his PJs and obviously take off the diaper and it’s driving me nuts.
Today he climbed up the changing table and fell off. Or so I guess. I was just getting ready to go check on him because he was too quiet and there was a BOOM followed by, “Whaaaaaa!!!” I was up there in a half a second and there he was on the floor on his back in a pile of stuff that was once on top of the changing table. Stuff that we put up there because he gets into everything.
Of course, I should have seen it coming… two days ago he started screaming and I go in there to see him with his feet on the second shelf of the three-leveled changing table, hanging from the top level, clinging for dear life.
And all weekend he’s been climbing onto the top of his box shelves, getting stuck. I actually have pictures of that one. He likes to pull the stuff off his wall…
Oh yeah, also last week he climbed up the outside of his crib and got stuck.
He still likes to Dukes of Hazaard it into his car, too. Sometimes he gets stuck hanging over the door.
He is driving me nuts!
I mean, I’m not too worried, but I’ve heard stories… lady at church has a kid E’s age as well as an older boy… age four now, maybe? Anyway when this boy was the same age that E is now, she said she walked into the living room to see him standing on a window sill. She went to get him down and he jumped. He broke his leg! Yeah, I can just see that happening to E.
Oh and yesterday he starts screaming so I go in there expecting to see him on top of the shelves again. But no, he’s standing in the middle of his room with that coat rack thingy. He’s holding onto it so that it’s leaning at about a 45 degree angle or something. One of the legs to it was pointed up towards him so that he couldn’t lay it forward or it might hurt his little boy parts and he either wasn’t strong enough or was too stubborn to stand it back up again! I cracked up, that was funny.
Continue reading ‘ho’olaulima… ‘a’ole!!’
I just finished the book that I have been reading like mad for the last week and a half: Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene, part of the Zion Covenant series. My mom recommended it to me and so I “rented” it (yes, I rent books at the library :lol:). Apparently, there are like a billion books that follow this one, and I’m ready for the next one!
Predating the events of The Zion Chronicles Series, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan stage name. Thus she is able to travel and play in Germany even though a 1935 law forbade Jewish musicians to do so. Her dear friend Leah, a cellist already introduced to Thoene readers in A Daughter of Zion, and her husband Shimon must escape Austria or perish in the coming Holocaust.
John Murphy, a reporter for the New York Times in Berlin and Austria, becomes linked with English politicians in a plan to overthrow Hitler. Elisa and John’s mutual connections with the Jewish Underground entangle them in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy that neither could have known.
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