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Robespierre - funny story.


I have to say that I am guilty of not understanding people due to language expectations as well. It happens to me all the time. And it might have nothing to do with the speaker. For instance after listening to my Mandarin CDs on my way home from work, I'll hear something/someone and my brain can't process it because it is still thinking in Mandarin. This is just an example. This happens to me all the time. I don't comprehend until I figure out what language is being spoken.



My favorite story is when I was in Mexico w/some dealers and we were at a restaurant. I was sort of paranoid about ordering and so was relieved after my turn was over. I can't remember what I got, but I got quite a laught because when dinners were served mine was exactly what I ordered but the dealer principal (native Mexican)was presented with a baked potato. The waiter heard him order "papa al horno" but what he really asked for was "pavo al horno" (baked turkey).

Aaaaaaaawwwww, so shiny and cute!

Home IS where the heart is, not where it might long to be.


The biggest mistake I made was when we moved once due to my husband's job. We were told it was a temporary situation; about a year and then we would be transferred again. So I hestitated to get involved in anything, thinking we would just be moving on soon anyway so why bother. Then we ended up being there for 3 years. It was like 3 years of being in limbo. After that experience I vowed that wherever life took me I would never act like it was going to be just a temporary thing and would engage myself in the people and my surroundings; sieze the day, the month, the years!

"And as soon as I start blogging for another person about a topic that interests me that sort of sucks the fun out of it anyways" - I can relate to this statement so much. As you know I'm a decent seamstress and many people have suggested that I do that for a living or at making extra cash. But for me the fun sewing is picking out the pattern and fabric combination, envisioning the end result, working on the garment until it fits just right. The minute I even think about "having" to sew as a job I just shudder to think about it. Having to do it for someone else and for their tastes would totally take the fun right out of it.


P.S. - I agree with your other readers. I'm sorry you lost some income but it will make more time for your photog passion so maybe it's just another door opening.

@ Amanda and Mamacita - do you think the distrust might be a gender thing, not a culture thing? In general I think men are more distrustful and women give people a little more benefit of the doubt but that question could lead to an entirely different blog post I suppose.

Congratulations Kyle, the part about you and S. missing each other cracked me up. And yes, that was TMI, but funny (too read about it, not to experience it I'm sure.)

Good Luck Kyle. I have complete confidence in you.

When I started reading this I thought "wow, doesn't she know this is a really old joke" but then when I read on I saw how embellished it was from the original. I laughed out loud too at the Italian part. Is it because we are related that we think the same things are funny?

Oh, there's something I forgot to mention to you. . . j/k.


Feature by feature all I see are differences (cause I'm your mom)yet there is something about her at a glance that does bear a resemblance.



I love your heart and your perspective!

Seeing you on video and hearing your voice and hearing you speak gramatically incorrect English makes me really homesick for you! Love you.

Yeah, just don't get too burned out pushing yourself so hard, O.K? But I also know you know how to stop and smell the roses. Remember when after you had pushed yourself soooooo hard in high school and were in your first semester of college that you said to me "I worked too hard in high school, I think I just have fun now?" !!!!!!

Just reading your post made MY legs numb!! And my toe nails fell off in sympathy. In addition to applauding your performance, I applaud your determination!!

Congrats. That is an honor indeed. I checked out the list and it sure looks like there are tons of interesting blogs out there. I like the way he has them categorized though and he sure gave yours a nice plug (if that's the right expression)

Love all of the pics. You guys look so metropolitan!

What an awesome post! Love it. Love you.

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in god we trust.

thats all very interesting. i don't blame Heart for that a bit, esp knowing what the song is really about. LOL

There are refugees from IKE in Gilmer!!

fned - you are a 100% yourself though! Don't divide that 100% 50/50 between Mex / American. Spread your 100% over both halves!!


When I was 23 my husband and I got transferred to a different city. We were told it was a temporary move, that we'd only be there for 6 months. So I made the mistake of not getting involved because I thought I was in temporary quarters. We ended up being there for 3 years. So I vowed that I would never make that mistake again so every move after that I made with a completely different mindset and tried to embrace the new places no holds barred.



I certainly understand that itch to go places and do things but I think there needs to be a healthy balance between wanting more out of life and making plans to do more but making the most out of where you are under the present circumstance.

excerpt from: "Let's pray and work for peace..." by Rita Walpole Ague, April, 2008, Colorado Springs, CO, All Rights Reserved   "The city of Colorado Springs is the home of one of the world's  largest military/industrial ("Masters of Space") and spook-laden complexes.  No big surprise, the city never offered an apology to the peace marchers [St. Patrick's Day Parade, 2007] or to Elizabeth [Elizabeth Fineran, the older, disabled who was tripped and dragged in the street until road burned and bloodied] before she died.  No did the city offer an apology to the peace demonstrators it tear-gassed immediately before the war in Iraq began.  Only one other country in the world, Greece, gassed its peaceful demonstrators who gathered in the protest of the U.S. entry into the now infamous war.

  Instead of mending its ways, Colorado Springs continues on its path of allowing no waves to be made, and no voice of dissent to be raised effectively.  De facto segregation exists in the poorly performing public schools.  Spousal and child abuse abounds.  State rankings of forty-seventh and forty-eighth in the nation as to provision for the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill are confirmed with gusto here in the shadow of magnificent Pikes Peak.  And 'slave labor', in the form of women brought here from the islands to work in the area's elegant hotels and motels, goes unnoticed and unmentioned in this anti-union, "America the Beautiful" city.

  Delegates and alternates, elected to go to a Democratic county assembly held in February, 2008, stood outside in the bitter cold, some of them for hours.  They were intimidated and turned away from the assembly in number.  Their complaints went nowhere.  And the state Democratic convention in May, 2008, scheduled to be held at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, looms like a larger repeat of the earlier anti-war protest right before the start of the war.  Police are ordered, armed, and ready, and no effective (within "shouting distance") protesting will be allowed on site.  The list of sins goes on and on in this overtly neo-con, 'Christian' heaven."

  So, elected delegates and alternates, and peace demonstrators, hope for the best but prepare for the worst when coming to the Democratic state state convention in Colorado Springs (a.k.a. "Naziville").

Oh good grief. Y'all have lost your ever loving minds. READ what the woman said. She didn't say that Black was a concept. . . . sheesh. Your paranoia is reading for you.

*sob sob*
Its understandable that you dont remember me..
i'm an ex Sri Gardener
Last year you came to SSG (now only SG) to talk about undergraduate programs (or sumthing like dat)...
Now i'm not in M'sia, im back to my country, Viet Nam
I often read ur blog...
Anyway, take care..
Muackzzz
=)

Hiiiiii Su Ann, i love your blog...
Anw, so sorry to hear about what had happened...
Take care, sis!!!

P/S: Wonder whether you know who i am?!?

oh please, i wish it would play out this way so everyone he thinks he has descended from the heavens will see how fast he accepts a veep position.


a man. a politician. a human being.



inspirational, yes. with much good, yes.



human. political. ergo "i'm your veep right here!"

Felicia . . . will voting for McCain to spite Clinton do any of the things you've mentioned? Aside from losing our reprodutive rights?