Been a long time
Matagal ko rin hindi na-update ito. Busy na kc ako sa paid blogging ko. Pambayad sa 20the HS reunion namin ha ha ha. DH and I are having are reunion this year kasi. Have a great weekend my friends, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY weekend!!!
Matagal ko rin hindi na-update ito. Busy na kc ako sa paid blogging ko. Pambayad sa 20the HS reunion namin ha ha ha. DH and I are having are reunion this year kasi. Have a great weekend my friends, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY weekend!!!
Make a difference America, vote for Ron Paul on your primary. Let restore our republic, our freedom, and liberty. He is ready to lead us and needed our support, make a stand. Become a delegate for your district if no one is seated. Visit his website at http://www.ronpaul2008.com/ and check meetup.com to see if there are groups around your area. Spread the words citizens.
Ron Paul ReVoLution!!! Time for change!!!
I was online all day...(yea like I don't have any dc's to watched) and tonight I noticed my photo gallery had change. "OMG" thought to myself, someone hacked my profile. Not like this is a very high profile blog ha ha ha. After further investigation I found out that Friendster did it.
I know, did I mention I'm with my dc's all day because the school closed early today. And guess what, it is still snowing here. Started before noon today. Would be nice to take the kiddos tomorrow to sled outside. Ah...oh yea...they are all sick because we had some warm weather a few days ago...urgh. Welcome to the northeast US.
According to Punxsutawney Phil, we are going to have another 6 weeks of winter. I can say that this winter is not as bad as the last one. It's not as bad because I didn't get (knock on wood) that sick. Only the winter depression gets me every time. I wish I can do something about it. When I was working, winter doesn't bother me much because I was always out of the house. Now that I am SAHM it gets to me.
I'm hoping for a nice snow, para naman makapag-laro ang mga kids ko sa labas ng bahay...sledding or what not.
I haven't seen the sun since....ahhh...hmmm...I can't remember.Cold weather, rain and snow does not make it better either. We haven't gotten a full day of sunshine in the very long time. It's very depressing right now. Wet, gloomy, cold, windy and raining...ugh. I need some sun.
I got to watched Eric on one of his Orchestra performance. Check it out here . He was on the second row and the second seat. Can't hardly see because I had to sit far at top para walang dumaan sa harapan ko. Enjoy the music.
I was able to take Eric to the school bus stop today. I guessed I had enough time to do everything to get 4 kids get ready today. I'm getting better, plus there are 2 hour delay because the road was slippery. It rained last night and the temperature is not even above the freezing point. You would think it should snow because when its cold the rain should turn to snow. I'm not sure how the snow thing works. Anyway, the rain froze and the buses had to wait for the road get salted and graveled.
So, we waited at least 15 minutes before the bus came. Eric and Ricky takes the same school bus but different time. There are a few buses past by and I saw almost everyone who waits at the corner.
Remember the lady who talked to me in the beginning of school year, who want me to switch corner so that the bus can stop in front of her house. I can't believe she argue about where the buses stops. Now I saw here at our stop dropping her oldest daughter to take the bus for Jr High School.
So I was like, "what the hell, all those arguing and the whole time she knows that the buses DOESN'T stop in front of her house. She is something else, LIES IN FRONT OF ME AND KIDS. Why can people do it, she knows and I told her so and she still wants her way.
If you are wrong, how do you argue to make it right...but to lie about it.
I almost got out of my car today just say to her face that "I TOLD YOU SO". But then again, I'm lowering myself to her standard.
I'm pissed...but hey I will get over it. PEOPLE SUCKS!!! SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN LIER!!!
- Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, "Oh No!!!" and then hang up.
- Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The Telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me, either!" Hang up.
- Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.
- Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.
- Tell the Telemarketer you are on "home incarceration" and ask if they could bring you a pizza.
- Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.
- Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how's your mom?"
- Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up... louder... louder...louder...
- Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.
For three days the Wampanoags feasted with the
Pilgrims. It was a special time of friendship between two
very different groups of people. A peace and friendship
agreement was made between Massasoit and Miles Standish
giving the Pilgrims the clearing in the forest where the
old Patuxet village once stood to build their new town of
Plymouth.
It would be very good to say that this friendship
lasted a long time; but, unfortunately, that was not to be.
More English people came to America, and they were not in
need of help from the Indians as were the original
Pilgrims. Many of the newcomers forgot the help the Indians
had given them. Mistrust started to grow and the friendship
weakened. The Pilgrims started telling their Indian
neighbors that their Indian religion and Indian customs
were wrong. The Pilgrims displayed an intolerance toward
the Indian religion similar to the intolerance displayed
toward the less popular religions in Europe. The
relationship deteriorated and within a few years the
children of the people who ate together at the first
Thanksgiving were killing one another in what came to be
called King Phillip's War.
It is sad to think that this happened, but it is
important to understand all of the story and not just the
happy part. Today the town of Plymouth Rock has a
Thanksgiving ceremony each year in remembrance of the first
Thanksgiving. There are still Wampanoag people living in
Massachusetts. In 1970, they asked one of them to speak at
the ceremony to mark the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrim's
arrival. Here is part of what was said:
"Today is a time of celebrating for you -- a time of
looking back to the first days of white people in America.
But it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with a
heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my
People. When the Pilgrims arrived, we, the Wampanoags,
welcomed them with open arms, little knowing that it was
the beginning of the end. That before 50 years were to
pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a tribe. That we and
other Indians living near the settlers would be killed by
their guns or dead from diseases that we caught from them.
Let us always remember, the Indian is and was just as human
as the white people.
Although our way of life is almost gone, we, the
Wampanoags, still walk the lands of Massachusetts. What has
happened cannot be changed. But today we work toward a
better America, a more Indian America where people and
nature once again are important."
By the time fall arrived things were going much better
for the Pilgrims, thanks to the help they had received. The
corn they planted had grown well. There was enough food to
last the winter. They were living comfortably in their
Indian-style wigwams and had also managed to build one
European-style building out of squared logs. This was their
church. They were now in better health, and they knew more
about surviving in this new land. The Pilgrims decided to
have a thanksgiving feast to celebrate their good fortune.
They had observed thanksgiving feasts in November as
religious obligations in England for many years before
coming to the New World.
The Algonkian tribes held six thanksgiving festivals
during the year. The beginning of the Algonkian year was
marked by the Maple Dance which gave thanks to the Creator
for the maple tree and its syrup. This ceremony occurred
when the weather was warm enough for the sap to run in the
maple trees, sometimes as early as February. Second was the
planting feast, where the seeds were blessed. The
strawberry festival was next, celebrating the first fruits
of the season. Summer brought the green corn festival to
give thanks for the ripening corn. In late fall, the
harvest festival gave thanks for the food they had grown.
Mid-winter was the last ceremony of the old year. When the
Indians sat down to the "first Thanksgiving" with the
Pilgrims, it was really the fifth thanksgiving of the year
for them!
Captain Miles Standish, the leader of the Pilgrims,
invited Squanto, Samoset, Massasoit (the leader of the
Wampanoags), and their immediate families to join them for
a celebration, but they had no idea how big Indian families
could be. As the Thanksgiving feast began, the Pilgrims
were overwhelmed at the large turnout of ninety relatives
that Squanto and Samoset brought with them. The Pilgrims
were not prepared to feed a gathering of people that large
for three days. Seeing this, Massasoit gave orders to his
men within the first hour of his arrival to go home and get
more food. Thus it happened that the Indians supplied the
majority of the food: Five deer, many wild turkeys, fish,
beans, squash, corn soup, corn bread, and berries. Captain
Standish sat at one end of a long table and the Clan Chief
Massasoit sat at the other end. For the first time the
Wampanoag people were sitting at a table to eat instead of
on mats or furs spread on the ground. The Indian women sat
together with the Indian men to eat. The Pilgrim women,
however, stood quietly behind the table and waited until
after their men had eaten, since that was their custom.
(to be continue)