Happy Halloween!

This is quite an old video from Homestar Runner but I laugh every time!

Let's see if this works!

I was informed that the last time I posted this video it was set to private viewing. So I think I've fixed it and now you can see it!

Not sure if I've posted about PS 22 on my blog yet but I should have a long time ago. I heard about this school a while back and the recently again. They are so fun! And they're on Staten Island!

Laughed my butt off!!

My cousin Marta is visiting me this weekend and she showed me this video. It is HILARIOUS!!


I hope you find it funny too:)

This also makes me happy

This make me happy.

The Big Knit is Back!

It's that time of year again! Time for the BIG KNIT! I did it last year and I'm doing it again this year! So if you're into knitting for causes, try out this one out for size. It's simple, small and so easy you'll fill a box so fast that you might not be able to stop! So check out The Big Knit!

And here's my post from last year!

Happy First Day of Autumn

The Fall reminds me of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Here is a short video I made when we crewed for Becky back in 2007. I think I've posted it every year so far. The experience of that week is like nothing I've ever done before. When I get back to the States that is one thing I would like to do every year. I really loved Albuquerque in the Fall. It had such a wonderful flavor, you could taste it. I think it tasted like Frontier cinnamon rolls.

This is my second fall in England and I haven't had one of these since 2004 when I lived in Berkeley. The seasons don't really change in Berkeley like they do here, and they really didn't change much in Albuquerque. So I'm looking forward to the colors again. I've always loved the colors of a true Fall. The sunsets just seem to reflect what's going on with the trees.

Time wasted?

I just spent an hour catching up on other people's blogs and have no desire to update my own. Did I waste my time? Maybe next time I'll update mine first.

It's been an interesting year

I love this country but sometimes.....

For the most part, I love living in the UK. Actually for the 99.9% part, I love living in the UK. There is only one thing that drives me crazy. There are very few moments when the cultural differences between the English and the Americans actually gets in the way of having fun. It usually revolves around words and the way they are pronounced. Like when I say, "I'm eating tomato soup" and someone says, "oh, tomato soup". Ok that doesn't really translate on print, but maybe you get the point.

One word in which I've had trouble saying the English way is aluminum. And that's because it's not eve spelled the same. You see there is a history to the word in which I will inform you of now by way of the Online Etymology Dictionary:

Aluminum
1812, coined by Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), from L. alumen "alum" (see alum). Davy originally called it alumium (1808), then amended this to aluminum, which remains the U.S. word, but British editors in 1812 further amended it to aluminium, the modern preferred British form, to better harmonize with other element names (sodium, potassium, etc.).
"Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." ["Quarterly Review," 1812]

So there you go. There is no "right" way. There is the American way and the snotty British way.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like all people are this concerned about how different we are from each other. It's mainly a few people at work....ok, one person at work.

One More Month!

Here's a trailer for you from Japan...just in case you are there

65th Anniversary of D Day

Again, just a few of the photos we took when we went to Normandy. This might have been the most amazing trip I've had since moving to England.

Honeymoon Photos

Just a few photos of our honeymoon in Spain! And when I say just a few I mean just a few. But if you're my friend on facebook I'll put more in an album.

Hands off Ladies

Just a typical day

Cordoba had a giant festival that words cannot describe! Ok, it was sort of like a State Fair minus the livestock and plus 100 Flamenco tents

These next two photos are the view from our top balcony in Gaucin


That's Victor pointing over the gorge in Ronda

At the Alhambra in Granada

Gibraltar rock and one of the monkeys

It's that time of year

Kids all over the US are graduating from High School. I highly doubt any of them are reading my blog but I thought I would post this video I saw on YouTube from a comedian who gave the address at his old high school this year. I don't remember a thing from my own ceremony but maybe if this guy was there, it would have made it more memorable