I love my camera.I take it with me wherever I go. (Except for that whole incident when it crashed and burned and I was going to go meet Desi (*sigh*) and I didn't have a camera so I had to get a little pocket size one because of course I just had to document that particular meeting and now I carry the little one in my purse most of the time ...
Archives for April 2009
Hunting and Gathering
My internet connection is out again. (And so is my back, but that's not important right now) so it works out that I'm not sitting at my computer today. That's right... I'm Mobile Blogging once again. =) But in spite of my own personal discomfort, I still have to go out and procure provisions for my family. (it's part of my job description as The ...
Let the Cuban Festivals Begin!
Hola, hola, Coca-Cola!Kikita here, reporting live from . . . ok, not live. But here comes the full report! This may get a bit convoluted, but it will still be fun, I promise! Last Sunday, April 19th, a new Cuban Festival was being held in downtown LA. Of course I had to be there.Mami & Dad were excited to go, but I knew they would probably get ...
Best of Both Worlds
WARNING: A little bit of a homeschool rant coming up.... I'm always a surprised that when people discover that we homeschool our children they ask two primary questions.You would think the questions would have to do with the actual mechanics of doing school at home, but they don't. (I know. It's shocking to me, too.) If you ...
Testing..1…2…
No internet connection today. It's either a problem with Cox or with our router. (so says Tech-Guru husband) *HEAVY SIGH* But. if you're reading this, it means I have figured out how to post from my phone...and this might be sort of accidentally cool, no? =) Anyway...I found this on the shelf of my local Target today and I wanted to share but ...
Coffee Talk
How I chose a winner: I entered all the names of the commentors (commentators? except for those names that were entered more than once and you know who you are, in which case I only entered the name once to keep it fair...) into a list at Random.org and hit the Randomize command. The winner of the got milk? kit is: Tamara said... ...
Café con Leche y Pan Tostado – Breakfast of Champions
Growing up in a Cuban household means drinking coffee. A lot of coffee. And it means learning how to make coffee at an early age. For most of us Cuban kids our first words were, “Mami. Papi. Café.” We’re not just talking about any coffee here. We’re talking super-sweet and tasty espresso. In fact, recalling my early childhood, I think Cuban parents ...
Picture perfect
Okay. So I know this photo is completely out of focus. And I know my hair looks witchy-weird (it actually was performing really well, but you can't tell from this picture. *sigh*) But in spite of all that, I love it. I love that we were caught by our neighbor practicing our salsa dancing on the front lawn. ("Those Darbys are at it ...
Attention: Lovers of all-things-Cuban
A little Cuban history..... Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (April 18, 1819 – February, 1874) was a Cuban planter who freed his slaves, and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War. Céspedes was a landowner and lawyer in Eastern Cuba, near Bayamo, who purchased La Demajagua, an estate ...
A Good Man
Today is Eric's birthday and I want him to know that he's loved and valued and and respected and cherished. This seemed an appropriate tribute. I seriously LOVE this man. He just makes me happy and I intend to love him for the longest time...Enjoy. ...
Spring-Breaking
We're Spring-Breaking this week. I'm pretty tired from the whirlwind of just-before-spring-break activities We attended a Passover Seder at the home of some dear Jewish friends... And, of course, participated in the traditional Egg Dyeing Ritual at my niece, Helen's house on Sunday... It seems most of our activities last week ...
Feliz Pascua
I wish you all a Happy and Blessed Easter! (You can ignore my earlier post....Thanks, TypePad Help Desk! =D) ...
Picture this…
[TypePad, my usually extremely reliable blogging software, won't let me insert any pictures today and I'm extremely frustrated, but I decided to go ahead with the post I was planning and let you use your own imagination.] =( So, just picture this... I created a cute "Happy Easter" graphic using my Wacom Tablet and ...
Always an Adventure
When people ask about my family of origin, I always explain that I am the youngest of six. We are five girls and one boy. (Technically, it's nowhere near accurate to call any of us "girls and boy" anymore, but that's not important right now.) My point (and I do have one) is that when I give that tidbit of family history, ...
I Called My Mother OR Terms of Endearment – Part Deux
I would like to take the moment to announce that I, Kikita, am alive and well. Feel free to call off the search. I appreciate your concern. I have called my mother. The questions remaining are as follows: 1. Where have I been? 2. What did I call her? 1. Work has been busier, so I am not as readily availabe for a chat in the middle of the day and ...
How to Cha-Cha
You know those uber-dorky people who have a dictionary and an atlas sitting near the dinner table so that they can look stuff up when they start arguing during dinner about ways to pronounce words, or the capital of someplace, or what exactly a rhombus is? We are those people. By the way... In geometry a rhombus or rhomb is a quadrilateral whose ...
