May 22 2008
Just like Hemingway. He showed me anyway. You can be a hero, all you have to know is what to say.
Unfortunately, I don’t always know what to say… but I do have a penchant for words and that’s why I was delighted to discover Hemingway in my family tree! He’s not in the direct line, [...]
May 12 2008
Continuing with my Royal Blood post, I’ve been investigating Herman Op Den Graeff and who his parents are and came across a very helpful page on RootsWeb from Kevin Sholder that offers some useful things to study. His studies are unique because as opposed to other researchers of this matter, he delves into the locations involved.
The locations are [...]
May 11 2008
Ok, as I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning on blogging on my family tree. I was all ready to do that right here until I thought about how I would really need to categorize each family line separately. And I don’t know that I want this blog to have all of those family [...]
May 11 2008
I’ve decided that since this blog is all about me and my life, it would be the best place to post all of the genealogy information that I’ve gathered.
In the past few weeks I’ve visited relatives and gathered a wealth of photos and information about my family (and I still have more people to contact [...]
May 09 2008
Ok, I don’t know how normal this is - but I was tracing a line of my family tree back and got to the name “Plantagenet,” at this point I was thinking “huh, that’s interesting, I wonder…” So I kept going back and I ended up reaching Henry I and William the Conquerer among other famous royal figures [...]
May 04 2008
A week ago I found a new obsession - Ancestry.com! I decided to start working on our family tree and signed up with them because they have massive amounts of records scanned and added to their database - census records, immigration records, birth and death records, and much more. So I decided that getting a [...]
Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for. I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow.
1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter. I’ve been ‘in love’ [...]
10 Wolf Parade + You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son
09 Wolf Parade + Grounds for Divorce
08 Sunset Rubdown + Us Ones in Between
.:*Spencer Krug gently singing in the lamplight*:.
07 Sunset Rubdown + For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
A great glimpse into Spencer Krug’s show intensity!
06 Wolf Parade + This Heart’s on [...]
I couldn’t sleep this morning - I was wide awake at 4:00 and couldn’t get back. I tried the usual plane crash daydreams but to no avail… so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to start my new regime.
I’d been planning to make some changes this week anyway and was falling behind, so really, [...]
if you’ll believe in anything.
I took a rare week night out with my sis and her husband to go see Wolf Parade at The Marquee in Tulsa tonight - it was the best show I’ve seen in years.
First we stumbled out of the T-storms & tornadoes into “Lola’s,” a dia de los muertos themed tapas bar [...]
It felt like my family and I spent the whole of October celebrating Halloween; or at least celebrating the cool weather and the orange backdrop of fall, as well as out-of-town family & friends coming and going.
Our family loves fall anyway and we always get an early start on the festivities… this year it started [...]
Well - I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office.
So here’s what I made - three tree-themed smalti [...]
The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town. While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass [...]