Hi everyone, it’s Amy. I’m not sure if you know this or not, but my Mom and Dad divorced when I was 3 (which totally worked out because I have a really awesome Dad now! ;-D)Anyway, after the divorce, we (Mom, Adam, & I) moved in with Mom’s parents who lived in Anaheim. Anaheim is still where many Orange County Cubans ...
Archives for March 2008
For Uber-Geeks only
Today is Albert Einstein's Birthday. Happy Birthday, Al! Albert Einstein's name seems to always be connected with the word, "genius." Would it surprise you to learn that Einstein was educated at home? He couldn't make it in public school. He was just (by his own description) "too curious." (I can't help but ...
El gato y la computadora
The computer printer is on my desk and it networks to the rest of the pc's in the house. It will sometimes crank up (seemingly) out of the blue and start printing history pages or marketing files or math printouts (depending on who's doing what around here). I'm kind of used to it now as it starts to make the familiar wind-up noise and I casually ...
Never let ’em see you sweat
I complain a lot about how much I hate to exercise. Okay, I complain, but I still go regularly to the Y and ride the stationary bike, and I don't complain if I've got a good book to read to distract me. (I know. Slacker. Shut up.) But I have been going faithfully and I never love it any more than before. I have no clue where "the zone" ...
Time warp
I know this clock says it's about 11:18, but I can't help thinking it's really 10:18. Or at least it was three days ago. Before Daylight Saving Time. Now when I look at the clock I have to do the mental gymnastics it takes for me to adjust to today's time. SIGH. This whole time change thing makes me crazy. Seriously. Certifiably. Do you know ...
What’s that smell?
Alina, my mom and Me. Miami, Florida. 1963 Havana, Cuba. Late 1960. Word was getting around that the new self-appointed governors of the island, those bearded rebels led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra were now planning to take away parents' authority over their own children. The parents would no longer have any say as to where or when their ...
Finding Nemo (and everything else, too.)
It's not like I don't already have enough projects going on in my life. But this one I couldn't resist. If you're the holder of a Disneyland Passport (which we are) this will be as familiar a sight to you as it is to us.Most of our friends are also passholders and Lovers of All Things Disney.So last week Helen (my niece) calls me: "It's ...
Accidents will happen. . .
I've been blogging about Cuban food over at Babalú for a whole year now. A WHOLE YEAR.That's a lot of Cuban Food.That's a lot of cooking.That's a lot of pictures.So I made a Panetela Borracha to celebrate.It's basically homemade pound cake soaked in a sugar/rum syrup.I'm talking SOAKED.And I had a bit of rum left over.So I grabbed a Coca-Cola and a ...
Standing room only
There were about two hundred people at my brother-in-law's memorial service. I've never seen a chapel so packed out for a funeral. All of them came to the reception afterwards.I took this photo after about half had already left.Yes, that's Shawn Green, the baseball player, in the middle of the room. Who didn't Rafael know??More importantly, ...
Tormentillo turns 30!
Aren't they adorable?This is my favorite group of girls EVER.My daughters and their cousins, my nieces. My dad used to say, "I always thought my daughters were the most beautiful women in the world . . . until they had daughters of their own." I often think of him in relation to these girls. How he was so proud of each one. How he loved ...