| Thank You ! |
May 13, 2008 9:26 am
507 Views |  | Alex, Jules, Peter and Sean,
I Wanted to Thank you guys for a PERFECT Night of eating and drinking........Made my Birthday a very special treat for me...Thank you all for helping me celebrate my Birthday!!
I will treasure these memories....I love you all!
Christine
P.S. When I'm old and grey, I will look at these pictures and laugh and think about this day. and Laugh Out Loud!! |
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| Prepare now for the Beijing Olympics....... |
Apr 17, 2008 12:11 am
727 Views | A friend sent me this... It's too funny....
Learn Chinese in 5 minutes (You MUST read them aloud) Enjoy.....
Stupid Man Dum Fuk
Small Horse Tai Ni Po Ni
Did you go to the beach? Wai Yu So Tan
I bumped into a coffee table! Ai Bang Mai Fu
Kin Ni
I think you need a face lift! Chin Tu Fat
It's very dark in here! Wai So Dim
I thought you were on a diet! Wai Yu Mun
Ching
This is a tow away zone! No Pah King
Our meeting is scheduled for next week! Wai Yu
Kum Nao
Staying out of sight Lei Ying Lo
He's cleaning his automobile Wa Shing Ka
Your body odor is offensive Yu Stin Ki Pu
Great Fa Kin Su Pa | |
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| Thank you New York! |
Apr 14, 2008 9:50 am
787 Views |  | WOW!!! What a trip we had to New York!!!
1st all, I have to THANK BROWN......THANK YOU, THANK YOU, it was so nice of you to share your hotel room with us....Jules and I are going to take you to dinner...(When you finally feel RESTED from all that work you did in NY)
J.K. THANK YOU for EVERYTHING in NEW YORK!!
JOSH2006.. You are too cute, thanks for coming out and joining us that 1st night.
TNT.....What can I say to you! Driving all the way from Maryland to visit with us.. That meant a lot to us that you took the time to drive all that way and just spent a few hours with us.. I hope you didn't get a parking ticket... THANK YOU AGAIN...YOU'RE A SWEETHEART...
Sukebejiji...I enjoyed meeting you... Loved your personality.....Plus you're too cute..
Inq4life.....The flowers were beautiful a touch. THANK YOU for them and also for dinner...
Matt...DUDE, you are one crazy guy....We had a great time with you.....THANKS SO MUCH....
Gohmdol....What a sweetheart you were, driving around NYC looking for parking to have dinner with us... (Boy... I thought looking for parking in L.A. was bad.....this is nothing compared to NYC)
JULES...My partner in crime, Traveling with you was Great.
It was so great to put the actual faces to some of the handles....It was a pleasure meeting each and everyone of you....THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR SUCH A FUN TIME in NYC
I love you all.....and when you come to Los Angeles we will show you around here.... Till we all meet again...... |
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| Valentine Day Cards |
Feb 10, 2008 7:55 am
888 Views | Traditionally, mid-February was a Roman time to meet and court prospective mates. The Lupercian lottery (under penalty of mortal sin), Roman young men did institute the custom of offering women they admired and wished to court handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The cards acquired St. Valentine's name:
As Christianity spread, so did the Valentine's Day card. The earliest extant card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. It is now in the British Museum.
In the sixteenth century, St. Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva, attempted to expunge the custom of cards and reinstate the lottery of saints' names. He felt that Christians had become wayward and needed models to emulate. However, this lottery was less successful and shorter-lived than Pope Gelasius's. And rather than disappearing, cards proliferated and became more decorative. Cupid, the naked cherub armed with arrows dipped in love potion, became a popular valentine image. He was associated with the holiday because in Roman mythology he is the son of Venus, goddess of love and beauty.
By the seventeenth century, handmade cards were oversized and elaborate, while store-bought ones were smaller and costly. In 1797, a British publisher issued "The Young Man's Valentine Writer," which contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover unable to compose his own. Printers had already begun producing a limited number of cards with verses and sketches, called "mechanical valentines," and a reduction in postal rates in the next century ushered in the less personal but easier practice of mailing valentines. That, in turn, made it possible for the first time to exchange cards anonymously, which is taken as the reason for the sudden appearance of racy verse in an era otherwise prudishly Victorian. The burgeoning number of obscene valentines caused several countries to ban the practice of exchanging cards. In Chicago, for instance, late in the nineteenth century, the post office rejected some twenty-five thousand cards on the ground that they were not fit to be carried through the U.S. mail.
The first American publisher of valentines was printer and artist Esther Howland. Her elaborate lace cards of the 1870's cost from five to ten dollars, with some selling for as much as thirty-five dollars. Since that time, the valentine card business has flourished. With the exception of Christmas, Americans exchange more cards on Valentine's Day than at any other time of the year...."
The above stories are quoted from "Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday things, Charles Panati, Harper & Row Publishers,New York, NY 1987 pp 50-52 | |
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| Valentine's Day Origin............ |
Feb 10, 2008 7:51 am
823 Views | St. Valentine's Day: 5th Century Rome
"...The Catholic Church's attempt to paper over a popular pagan fertility rite with the clubbing death and decapitation of one of its own martyrs is the origin of this lovers' holiday.
As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The names of teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men; thus, a man was assigned a woman companion, for their mutual entertainment and pleasure (often sexual), for the duration of a year, after which another lottery was staged. Determined to put an end to this eight-hundred-year-old practice, the early church fathers sought a "lovers" saint to replace the deity Lupercus. They found a likely candidate in Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some two hundred years earlier.
In Rome in A.D. 270, Valentine had enraged the mad emperor the mad emperor Claudius II, who had issued an edict forbidding marriage. Claudius felt that married men made poor soldiers, because they were loath to leave their families for battle. The empire needed soldiers, so Claudius, never one to fear unpopularity, abolished marriage.
Valentine, bishop of Interamna, invited young lovers to come to him in secret, where he joined them in the sacrament of matrimony. Claudius learned of this "friend of lovers," and had the bishop brought to the palace. The emperor, impressed with the young priest's dignity and conviction, attempted to convert him to the Roman gods, to save him from otherwise certain execution. Valentine refused to renounce Christianity and imprudently attempted to convert the emperor. On February 24, 270, Valentine was clubbed, stoned, then beheaded.
History also claims that while Valentine was in prison awaiting execution, he fell in love with the blind daughter of the jailer, Asterius. Through his unswerving faith, he miraculously restored her sight. He signed a farewell message to her "From Your Valentine," a phrase that would live long after its author died.
From the Church's standpoint, Valentine seemed to be the ideal candidate to usurp the popularity of Lupercus. So in A.D. 496, a stern Pope Gelasius outlawed the mid-February Lupercian festival. But he was clever enough to retain the lottery, aware of Romans' love for games of chance. Now into the box that had once held the names of available and willing single women were placed the names of saints. Both men and women extracted slips of paper, and in the ensuing year they were expected to emulate the life of the saint whose name they had drawn. Admittedly, it was a different game, with different incentives; to expect a woman and draw a saint must have disappointed many a Roman male. The spiritual overseer of the entire affair was its patron saint, Valentine. With reluctance, and the passage of time, more and more Romans relinquished their pagan festival and replaced it with the Church's holy day. | |
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| What a woman should have........................ |
Jan 21, 2008 12:53 pm
1307 Views | A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to...
something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra...
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who lets her cry...
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in her family...
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a recipe for a meal, that will make her guests feel honored..
a feeling of control over her destiny.
how to fall in love without losing herself.
how to quit a job, break up with a lover, and confront a friend without ruining the friendship..
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but its over...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't take it personally...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year... | |
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| What Happens in Heaven? |
Jan 16, 2008 12:07 pm
Mood: beautiful, 1110 Views | I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was
showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a
large workroom filled with angels.
My angel guide stopped in front of the first
section and said, "This is the Receiving Section.
Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received."
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly
busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous
paper sheets and scraps from people all
over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we
reached the second section.
The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging
and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings
the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living
persons who asked for them."
I noticed again how busy it was there. There were
many angels working hard at that station, since so many
blessings had been requested and were being packaged
for delivery to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we
stopped at the door of a very small station. To my
great surprise, only one angel was seated there,
idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment
Section," my angel friend quietly admitted to me.
He seemed embarrassed "How is it that?
There's no work going on here?" I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive
the blessings that they asked for, very few send back
acknowledgments.
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I
asked.
"Simple," the angel answered.
"Just say, "Thank you."
"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on
your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you
are richer than 75% of this world. "If you have money
in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are
part of the 1% in the world who has that
opportunity."
Also .....
"If you woke up this morning with more health than
illness, you are more blessed than the many who
will not even survive this day.
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle,
the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture,
or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 700
million people in the world.
"If you can attend a church meeting without the
fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are
envied by, and more blessed than, three billion
people in the world.
"If your parents are still alive and still married,
you are very rare.
If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not
the norm, you are unique to all those in doubt and
despair."
Ok, what now? How can I start?
If you can read this message, you just received a
double blessing in that someone was thinking of you
as very special and you are more blessed than over two
billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you
want, pass this along to remind everyone else how
blessed we all are.
Attn: Acknowledge Dept.:
"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share
this message, and for giving me so many wonderful
people to share it with." | |
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| Happy New Year 2008 |
Dec 30, 2007 1:05 pm
1774 Views | | I would like to wish you all a fantastic new year full of love, health, wealth and faith, I also want to thank you for all your love and friendship, I look forward to spending more time with all of you next year. | |
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