Please Help Treasure!

There is a little girl from my school district who needs surgury and the state is not doing there part to get the funding in time before she loses most of her tongue. Please visit the website for the whole story and please consider making a donation! Our school has raised thousands of dollars in just a couple of weeks! It is so good to see the kids do something philanthropic!

Oh-read the Mother's letter on the website-it will touch your heart!

http://www.friendsoftreasure.com/home.html

Footbinding

I am currently reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
This is a novel about the life of a chinese woman I believe in the late 1800's or early 1900's. It tracks her entire life, talks about the customs and traditions of her region, explains different rituals, ceremonies, festivals, etc. It is extremely interesting and a great story. I highly recommend it!

Anyway, the book details the custom of footbinding, which I knew little about. I find it a horrible, painful, and unnecesary custom. I am wondering if this awful tradition might have been invented by a man. Here is why (a quote from pg 37 of the book):
" 'The cleft is as deep as this inner girl's folds. She will make her husband a happy man.' ... 'The way her heel curves dowm like a sac with her forefoot pointed out just so will remind her husband of his own member. All day long that lucky man will be thinking of bed business.' "
Reminds him of his member?

Ummmm-phallic looking feet...sounds like it was invented by a man.

Here is a site that shows more about footbing. WARNING: Graphic Pictures!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
OR
http://www.sfmuseum.org/chin/foot.html

Oops-I may have caused deaths?

Apparently my rage against the shorts may have caused some overseas tragedies. Here is a post from my friend Aileen's blog:

Did you hear this story: "An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts." See, k144, your animosity toward shorts has resulted in an overseas attack. Muslim extremists? Or passersby tired of pasty cheese thighs?

Shorts or die

I am not a shorts person. I hate wearing shorts (don't really like my knees). I think I have worn shorts more times in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 5 years! I am going to die being pregnant in July and August!

Nonnor

We have been trying to get Connor to say his name for a really long time! He's over 2 now so we thought he should be able to say it. Anyway, he finally said it today!!!!! Yeah!!! We are so excited!

We asked him his name and he said "Nonnor". Close enough!

Three outfits a day?

I have gone through three outfitstoday and I don't even have a newborn spitting up on me!! The day is not over-I could end up going through more!

I went to school lookin all cute (ha ha) and made it through the day without incident (although I'm sure if I had taken mac and cheese I would have gotten it on my shirt or my expanding belly).

I went to Costco and as I got home chicken juice leaked out all over my pants and shirt!!!!! So I took my clothes off put them in the washer and proceeded to the fridge.

As I checked the steak purchased last week for freshness the thick, brown juice/blood leaked all over me as well!!!!!!! What is up??????? It also dripped all over the kitchen floor and a little on Connor's head. OH well, it is a bath day today anyway... Needless to say, the steak is no longer good. Luckily I bought the yummy rotissiree (sp?) chicken...

Great American Brown Out...

Well, today was "A Day Without Immigrants". So many people on the radio said they had a great commute or half their class didn't show up to school, etc. It took me forever to get to work (accident on the 210) and I had a couple of kids absent - almost all white kids. Not a major impact in Covina ...

Then we go out to lunch-we had to go to 4 places before we found a place that was open!!!!!! We finally chose Terriaki Bowl because it is owned by an Asian guy so we figured he would be there. Needless to say, by the time we drove all over Covina, got to Terriaki Bowl, ordered and got our food, we had to scarf it down in record time to make it back to school before the tardy bell! I guess Covina was impacted after all.
(I hope I am not offending anyone with my subject line-that's what KFI was calling it today.)