Family Holiday Traditions

We were asked to share some of our winter holiday traditions at work. Heres's what I shared:


My Family Holiday Traditions are celebrated at my Grandmother's house in Mexico. Some of the traditional family celebrations for the winter holidays that my family takes part in are:

- Piñatas: Both on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, our family will have piñatas in the shapes of stars. We fill them up with candy and sometimes add some dollar bills. Both kids and adults partake.

- Gift Giving: Gift giving in our family is mainly for the children. Only some adults, aunts mainly, are the ones that may give gifts to their brothers/sisters and are usually handmade items like scarfs, hats, buñuelos, personalized/embroidered items like towels or jars with trinkets in them, etc.

- Loteria: Because we do not do big gift exchanges, on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, we get together and play loteria(Mexican bingo). Some family members will bring wrapped items that vary from chocolates, Avon, house items, etc. Some years we have had just one big loteria day on New Year's Day.

- Corsages: A variety of handmade corsages are made by my mother or one of my aunts and everyone gets to choose theirs on Christmas Eve. Aunts, uncles, children all get one.

- Traveling Canasta: My grandmother started this tradition of filling up a huge basket with snack items from soda, chips, cookies, etc. I couldn't tell you when but definitely before I was born(1980) as we have been doing that for as long as I can remember. She would stuff the basket with as much as could fit in it for Christmas. Then everyone's name is put in a bowl and one person wins the basket. The person that wins the basket on Christmas then refills the basket with new items for New Year's and again the names go in a bowl for a winner. The winner then returns the basket to my grandmother for the following year. My grandmother passed away in 2007, so now the traveling basket is continued by my aunts.

- Posada and Rosary: Christmas Eve is the day my family gets together to celebrate begin the Christmas celebrations. It starts with a praying the rosary and then we do the posada. The men go outside with candles and a sheet with the verses to sing and the women stay inside. We do the different stages starting on one door and ending on the other. Once we are let in then dinner begins. 

- Nativity scene: The nativity scene is finished by the youngest member of the family. The youngest person carries the baby Jesus and everyone gives a kiss to both. Once everyone has done this then the baby Jesus is placed in the Nativity Scene.

- New Year's Eve and Day: On New Year's Eve, our family gets together for a late dinner. When the clock strikes at midnight, we all cheer to each other and drink our Champagne. We also eat 12 grapes, each symbolizing the coming 12 months, and make a wish for each of those months as we eat each grape. After this, we all hug and wish each other a Happy New Year.  

- Dia de Los Reyes: On January 6th we celebrate Dia de los Reyes(Kings Day/Little Christmas), although most of the family is back to their routines, there will be a Rosca de Reyes(a sweet bread) that everyone can come by and get a piece of. A baby Jesus is baked in the bread and whoever gets the piece with the baby is supposed to do a dinner/celebration on el Dia de la Candelaria(Candlemass) which is on February 2nd.

11 of 12: If you can't volunteer...

If you can't volunteer, whatever the reason, you can always donate. Throughout the year there are many opportunities to give back by donating. I personally have donated food and clothing items throughout the year. Now, whether you participate in a food or clothing drive; a blood drive, etc. and regardless of how much you donate, it will make a difference.

Heres's a short list of places that can benefit from your donation:

- St Mary's Food Bank Alliance

- United Food Bank

- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

- American Red Cross

- Arizona Humane Society

- Arizona Animal Welfare League and SPCA



Although I may have volunteered for several events throughout the year, the nearing of the end of it makes me reflect back on what all I have done to give back; and there's always the feeling that I could have done more.

9 and 10 of 12: Christmas Tree at Phoenix Children's Hospital

Ornament Extravaganza!!! That was the title I created for a series of volunteer events at work to create ornaments, leading up to the setting up of a Christmas tree at the Phoenix Children's Hospital.

Several weeks back I received an e-mail from the PCH who was looking for groups or companies to help decorate a number of Christmas trees. The groups would donate the decorations for them and decorate the tree on the first Saturday of December, with a special request, if able, to donate the tree to go along with the decorations, as some of the current trees they have were starting to look old.

 After bringing up this event as a volunteer opportunity to my work group, and with budget to spend before the end of the year, I was given the green light to make the arrangements to participate. In addition to this event, we decided to create an on-site volunteer event tied to this. So up came the 'Ornament Extravaganza' to create handmade ornaments that would adorn the tree.

With the help of a few people I was able to get everything needed for the on-site volunteer event; from the  supplies to sending out communications in addition to getting the needed conference room booked and secured for three days. And so, from November 30th to December 2nd, we handcrafted, from kits, some of the ornaments for the tree.


On Saturday, December 4, 2010, a team of volunteers from work got together to help setup one of the many Christmas trees that are set up around the Phoenix Children's' Hospital. It was a great turnout and we had a great time decorating the tree.

Here's Some more photos:

8 of 12: JDRF Walk To Cure diabetes

Last Saturday, October 30, 2010 I helped out at the 2010 JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes that was held at the Tempe Town Lake.  I got to help sell tickets for a raffle they were doing. It was a huge event, lots of people and companies, great turnout.

7 of 12: Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes

This past Saturday, September 25, 2010 I helped out at the Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes event. This was a two part event as there was a rally for the event on the Thursday of the previous week. In that rally some of the volunteers had the opportunity to meet, share their story/reason for volunteering, and go through the assigned responsibilities for the day of the event. I was assigned to the Food & Beverage tent.

On the day of the event, I arrived at around 6:30am, signed in, and headed to the Food & Beverage tent. Responsibilities for this included, pre-walk food and beverage set up, prepare food, set up cold drink area, keep supplies replenished, post-walk food and beverage set up, and cleaning the food area after the event.

And almost as quickly as it began it seemed to end. It was a fun event. Check out the Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes website for event dates,  volunteer opportunities, how to donate, etc.

6 of 12: Mission Sack Meals

This past month, mid-August or so, we had a volunteer event at work to prepare 400 sack lunch meals that were donated to the Phoenix Rescue Mission. I had but only a few minutes to help out, however in those 15-20 minutes, I helped put together maybe 70 or so sandwiches to be included in the sacks. Bonus was that I encouraged at least 2 people to go with me to help. It truly only takes a few minutes to make a difference.

Pizza Hut Dine-In

I grew up in small town in Texas where we had 2 dine in Pizza-Huts. They were always great. I even had one of my b-day parties at one of them as it had an arcade section in it. I think it was my 12th or 13th year b-day. Pizza and arcade games, what else could a young guy want at that age right.

Anyways, I am much older now of course and although prefer to support the local Pizza places, I still on occasion order from Pizza hut and the likes. I had not seen a dine-in Pizza hut in Phoenix in the longest time. So when I drove by this one, I made note to stop by in the next time the mood for Pizza would strike.  So visited this dine-in Pizza hut yesterday.

Although our waitress was nice, she wiped off our table from whoever ate before us with just a wet paper towel, rather than with something that would sanitize the table. The crumbs she wiped off went onto the carpet/floor and left them there. There were only 2 other parties at the time, yet the all the remaining booths hadn't been cleaned and the menus were sticky.

The restroom was a bit unkept, by this I mean there was urine left from whoever used it prior and a dirty toilet brush with no holder towards one corner. I did like the self shutting off faucets, they save on water, however I would prefer if both the faucets and soap dispenser were on sensors.

It is clear that this dine in is in need of repairs as the booth seats were deeply torn, almost like they had been slashed open.

On the bright bright side the pizza that we ordered was good, hopefully the kitchen does a better job cleaning.

If you want to know the location of the Pizza Hut that this speaks to, look over to my yelp review of this.

5 of 12: Supplies 4 Students

This past Friday, I got off work early so I could go help Communities in Schools Arizona sort and stuff backpacks. We did not get to the stuffing as the supplies got stuck in the freeway because there was an accident. So our volunteering time was reduced however, we did get a whole lot of sorting done.

4 of 12: PBS Pledges

Haven't done a PBS Pledge since 2008. Today, I'm going to be a telephone operator from 11:30am - 4:30pm AZ Time. It'll be my first time in their new studio at ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus. Tune in and you may see me taking pledges. It should be fun.

Casual wear, business wear, what to wear...

Although I have enough clothes to go around, I tend to stick to the same tops and bottoms. I even have multiples of the same tops and bottoms so even if I am using different pieces they are essentially the same. Like superheroes who have the same repeated outfit to wear everyday.

So I started thinking the other day, maybe I should write down what I am wearing with the hopes of being more conscience of what I am wearing to change it up a bit now and then.

Also, I seem to be missing the "gay fashion gene" so I do not pay much attention to clothing labels and do not get the urge to buy the latest and greatest. This means the brand names will range from the Discount Stores to Department Stores to On-line stores to Outlets and so on...For now I'm sticking to the top and bottom. Maybe later I'll expand to shoes and what not. :) Also most days I have a wardrobe change from my day outfit which is usually work outfit to my afternoon/evening/after-work/home outfit. For now this will be for my day outfit. :)

2010/06/01 - Top: George Long Sleeve Shirt Bottom: Concepts by Claiborne Black Slacks

2010/06//02 - Top: Ten West Short Sleeve Shirt Bottom: Concepts by Claiborne Black Slacks

2010/06/03 - Top: Eighty Eight USA Short Sleeve Shirt Bottom: Concepts by Claiborne Black Slacks

2010/06/04 - Top: Champion Black Polo Shirt Bottom: WRG Blue Jeans

Hmmm...  see a pattern here... Should try to wear my other brands of slacks, Friday's are always casual... No work today so of course it was a jean day. Really if it were up to me it would always be a jean day... so...

2010/06/07 - Top: Cherokee Short Sleeve Shirt Bottom: Lee Dungarees Jeans

3 of 12: No Sew Blankets

I usually help at events that involve walking here and there and setting things up putting packages together etc. This time was a crafty sort of volunteer, making no sew blankets. I was only able to squeeze in 30 minutes, I got to finish one someone had started and half of a second one. The blankets were donated to the Arizona Humane Society. Didn't have my cameras so no photos. This was the only volunteer event I was able to help with during National Volunteer Week back in April. But even a little bit counts yeah... I really need to kick up my volunteering...

 This is Spyder. No longer with us, he left to be an outdoor cat and never came back.

It's been a while

It's been a while since I updated a blog post here... not because of lack of topics I could have blogged about... So let's see here's a quick catch up... I'm now in my thirties... yuck, but you know what I decided that i should be 25, so every new birthday from now on I will be 25...What else.. got a mini raise at work, still it was better than most got so can not complain, too much anyways... I have a job and it's what counts at this time right?! On the subject of work, I started a new work-blog in the companies intranet... They have this thing where you can create your site through sharepoint, and it has of options to share documents, photos, blog writing section, etc...

I have some tomatoes growing in containers. Like last year, not sure they will make it since I started them from seed a bit late. We'll see. I got some flowers from Lowe's, to at least have something blooming. :) I did put some sunflower seeds and bachelor button seeds in some small terra-cotta containers on the window sill so that once the Lowe's flowers die I have something to replace them with. They should be transplant ready by the end of the week, and lucky the Lowe's plants aren't dead yet...

Oh yeah, my Ma visited for a week for my b-day. So much fun. Shopping, dining, and we even took a mini trip to through Pine, AZ and got to see the last bits of snow...

And yesterday... took a trip to Ajo, Az and had a picnic in the middle of the desert with family/friends. A pre-Easter day celebration of sorts. Hamburgers, hot dogs, beer, etc... It was fun...

I crack myself up

Just a super brief note to say, I crack myself up... Ha! I was going through a box and I found a notebook that, although I had forgotten about it, it looked very familiar. So I opened it.. The headline on the first page reads, "Welcome to KIRBY'S STORIES." and it goes on... I started laughing as soon as I read that, you see I was if I remember correctly 18 years old when I wrote that and when I did the plan was to fill up the notebook with short stories. Of course I only wrote one, because like everything else that I get into I get bored with it.

Other things that I wrote in the notebook were a list of passwords to websites that I used back then... Wondering if any of them still work. Several blank pages then a page than contains brief notes to self for a job interview.  More blank pages then an entry for my diary that I kept back then. I can only think I put that entry in this notebook because I could not find my actual diary notebook. The entry is dated Aug. 24, 1999 3:53 pm and I wrote it in Spanish. Then a vulgar re-writing of the Ricky Martin song Livin' La Vida Loca. More blank pages then a list of things that I would like to do, most if which I have attempted and either failed at or got bored with them and moved on. Then more blank pages.

Matsuri a Festival of Japan

The 26th annual Arizona Matsuri is this weekend, February 27th & 28th. The festival is from 10:30 am - 5 pm both days. There are many vendors of food, crafts, travel, etc. Also, several stages with performers and since it is at the Heritage and Science Park which is right by the ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus, there is also an ASU stage.

I went there yesterday, and if time permits I'll go there again today.  There was a parade on Saturday at 10 am, but I did not make it in time for it.

Many people dressed up in Anime costumes. There was also a group who among them had one dressed up as the Joker and another as Harley Quinn. So, feel free to dress up in your best Anime character.

feeling better...

just a quick note to say feeling better now, still have a little cough... haven't focused on adding updates. was being sick a reason or an excuse ? don't know... just need a kick start... this is so short i could have tweeted it... here's to better days... :)

A place I like

I still have this minor cold that is not letting me think clearly to write about what I wanted so this time just a photo of a place I visited once that I really like. I should take a trip up there again. It's been too long..

 

 From July 2003

re-blog

Before blogger I was at the now extinct yahoo 360... so I am thinking of re-blogging or more like adding those older blog posts here somehow. I enjoy reading my old posts, they crack me up sometimes... wonder if I can put a way older post dates here on blogger, so they stay true to when I originally posted them... hmmm... and before the myspace, blogger, facebook, etc. I had a geocities, didnt update it much but from time to time added stuff... I think eventually I want to to have just my own website... hmmm....

I have been a bit sick these past couple of days, although still managing to go to work. I do like my job. A minor cold, but each day is a different symptom. I never get colds with all symptoms at once. One day it will be aches, the next fever, then sore throat, etc. I guess I'm lucky it doesn't hit me full blown. I think Monday I should have stayed home if not left early, but I do like my job. Enough that I prefer to work than go home. Weird never had that for a job before. I do wish I'd get paid more, but doesn't everybody... hmmm...

Well that's why this post is posting today with yesterdays date, the cold part was not to be here just the blogging part... no photo.. really need to take photos.. Maybe I should take photos of everyday things... hmmm...

Just a photo

Just a photo...

 

Phoenix Pride 2009

Full Month

Yay to me, and a full month of blog posts. A couple times there I had to play catch up and some were just random photos and others just my random thoughts, but still I did it. Plus that's what to me this is all about, just writing down whatever comes to mind. However, it really takes something to do this daily, I still want to go back and update/add some labels and maybe also make banner image for the top. We'll see... Oh yeah a photo :)

 

March 2004

2 of 12: Childsplay

Earlier today I was at the Tempe Center for the Arts. Me and a few other volunteers helped the Development Director for Childsplay, Melia Dunn, stamp and hand out a children's book to the attendees to the preview of musical of Peter and the Wolf. The musical runs from 01/30/2010 to 03/13/2010.

If you read either of the previous posts (Theatre for Everyone, Childsplay Brief ) where I volunteered to help with what I did today, then you know that this is one of the volunteer events I really enjoy. The volunteers get the opportunity to watch the play or musical afterwards. Everyone of the plays or musicals I have seen are just amazing. The actors are great, I specially like Michelle Cunneen.

Don't miss the chance to see any of their plays or musicals.

Posts with no Photos

As you saw, or didn't, the past several posts have no photos. I'm not a photographer by any means, but I always feel each post should have a photo, image, etc., and although I carry my Sony Cybershot camera in my bag the majority of the time, I still need to be more proactive in taking photos. So I will attempt to be more photoy(?) this year and hopefully there will be posts with photos rather than not...

 

This post was to also be a no photo post, but then I decided I should probably put a photo on it since that was the whole point of this post right? So I searched back to some fairly old stuff, memories.

This is a photo of when I was learning to use markers 1998 or 1999 I think. The outline was first made with pencil, then continued with markers, and a bit of blending with a paper stump.

Left and Right

I don't follow politics except for listening to left and right radio shows most mornings and evenings on my drive to and from work. The bottom line I get from the left is, let us help people by whatever means even if it means government helping. The bottom line I get from the right is, let us help our businesses however we choose and get out of the way government. Of course there is much more to get from each side, but it makes me guacala. I'll stick to listening to the crazies on each side, it's entertaining..

Rainy Days...

These past couple of weeks it has been cloudy and rainy. I really enjoy rainy days. Coffee tastes that much better on a rainy day. Although rainy days in Phoenix are nothing compared to the rainy days from Eagle Pass, TX, where I grew up in, and definitely can not compare to Seattle of Memphis, but still it was enjoyable. There are still a few clouds here and there with scattered "showers" however I wish it would last longer.

Labels

I read somewhere that blog labels should be kept to a minimum. So, I had narrowed my labels down to Family and Friends, Garden, Just Because, Photos, Reviews and Recipes, Travel, and Volunteer and Diversity. I think those are good main labels for what I mostly write about here, however I have found that I miss having the smaller narrow it down labels. Plus this blog is turining into sort of a timeline journal of sorts for me. I have found myslef coming back to reference old posts when I am trying to remember what I did and when. Anyways, this just means I am going ot update my blog to add or re-add  some of those narrow down labels.

Daily Blogging...

Blogging daily is something I am trying to do this year too. I have found that it takes true dedication to do. You have to really take and make the time for it otherwise it is not going to happen. Kudos to those who can keep up with blogging. Anyways hopefully I can keep up with it.

Car wetness

Yesterday's morning wetness on Car

 

Group Photo

Group Photo from the voluntering at/for the P.F Chang's Rock 'n'n Roll Arizona Marathon & 1/2 Marathon 2010...

Photo taken by volunteer, not me...

sometimes

sometimes me pregunto el porque seguir con este ya que casi nadie lo lee. Pero yo creo que es mas como undiario que no? Algo para deasahogar un poco de vez en cuando...

¡Pero Que Sera Esto!

¡Pero que sera esto! No, no es un UFO, es la Torre De Las Americas en San Antonio, Texas, United States. La fot es del 2004.

Una foto..

La entrada de la Iglesia de Guadalupe en Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. La foto es del 2004.

Plastic bags...

Although I am making a point to carry at least one reusable bag wherever I go, I still find myself getting too many plastic bags. Even on volunteer events we get plastic goody bags. I wish I was crafty enough to re-purpose them, but I would just end up accumulating more than I would ever need and then get bored with whatever I attempted to make with them. So I'll just continue using the small/medium ones as small trash can liners and the bigger ones to put items that need to head to the Goodwill. And really, I should just use reusable bags instead of "trying" to use reusable bags.

Check out this photo of a dress made with plastic bags by an artist at the Roosevelt Row Harvest Festival 208. It's a bit fuzzy 'cause I took it really quick as I did not know if photos were or not allowed.

A Volunteering Bonus

A bonus to yesterday's volunteer event was getting a goody bag with coupons, samples, water tattoos, etc..

 

1 of 12 : P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon & 1/2 Marathon 2010

One down and eleven to go. This year, aside from being less hoardy, one of my goals is to volunteer at least 12 times. So hurray one down. Today I woke up at 3:15ish am to get to the water station our company would be manning for the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon & Half Marathon 2010 by 5 am located at 7th Ave and Pierson. We were about 100 volunteers. We set up tables with cups of water to then give to the runners as they passed by while cheering them on. It was much colder than in 2008, but so worth it. The runners were very excited when they ran by our water station thanking us for being there, the water, and cheering them on. I didn't take my camera, so hopefully later I can get a copy of the group photos another volunteer took. If I do I'll post it later.

The back of the t-shirt we received.

Another Volunteer Photo..

At St. Mary's Food Bank in 2008 after helping sort out and weigh donations from various stores from around the valley...

Another Diversity Photo

From Thai Cultural Days in 2007...

 

Old Diversity Photo

2008 Photo from Native Trails at the Scottsdale Civic Center

Other things I like to do

Other things I like to do is go to diversity type events. From the music, food, culture, traditions, etc., there's always something new to learn.

Photo from Asian Festival 2008

Old Volunteer Photos

Putting fliers at the Chase Field for MDA. This was back in 2008.

Rocio was there.

and Aaron too.

Volunteering

Another thing I want to do this year is volunteer more often. I have always liked volunteering, and I have done it since I was in Junior High. However, the years 2007 and 2008 are the ones I was full force volunteering. This past year, 2009, I feel like I let it slide a bit and only participated in a handful of events. I should be able to at least volunteer once a month. That's only 12 times in a year of 365 days. If you think about it it's almost nothing. I'm not counting donating my hair to Locks-of-Love since that was a long time coming...


Photo from Light the Night Walk 2007

The Last ones

This is the one photo I took of the magazines. It might have been a more dramatic photo to have piled them all, but I might have not gotten ride of them if I did that. Best to have done it quick and with not much thought. The magazine even went through a name and format change from What's inStore to RED in 2005...

Little by little

Little by little I am making progress. I got rid of a huge pile of magazines that i have been accumulating for a little over 9 years. The magazines I got rid of are the monthly magazines that my work gives us.

At first I saved just the copy that I received to keep my own records of the times with the company. Then, I decided that two copies of each issue is what I should really keep in storage. So when I asked co-workers if they would give me their copy instead of tossing it, I ended up having anything from 5-30 copies of each issue. I thought to myself I will keep the two best copies of each and use the rest for crafts of some sort. I did babble here and there trying different crafts, but I am not patient enough.

So out they went in the recycle bin. Hurrah, progress! Although, I keep finding extras that I had stored in various other places, but their time has come...

Have a great weekend!!!

Documentary Weekend...

Yup, this past weekend I watched some documentaries. 

○ Wal-Mart The High Cost of Low Price - This one makes me want to buy less goods made in China, and solidifies why I prefer to not shop at their stores.

○ King Corn - This one makes me want to keep away on the lookout for products that contain corn syrup and avoid them. Also makes me want to avoid grain fed beef.

○ Welcome to Macintosh - This one makes me want to buy an apple product. I have none.

○ Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders - This one makes me think about the way I spend my money and better understand the nations debt.

Deb's Glazed Ham

Here's a recipe a friend game me. I typed it exactly as she wrote it.

Deb's Glazed Ham

               Boneless Ham
               Cloves
               Dijon Mustard
               Brown Sugar
2cans      Chunk Pineapple w/juice
1 1/2 c    Orange Marmalade
1c           Dark rum - Bacardi

Preheat oven to 350°. Cut all excess fat from ham then score the top and place cloves on ham. use spatula & spread dijon mustard over the top. Put brown sugar over the mustard. Bake for 1/2 hour.

While ham is baking mix the remaining ingredients in saucepan over low heat. Bring just to boiling then pour over top of ham. Bake for an additional 1 1/2 hours, basting frequently.

*Before pouring mixture on top of ham take toothpicks & stick pineapple chunks all over the top of ham.

Dia De los Reyes

Back where I was born(Eagle Pass, Texas, USA border with Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico) the X-mas decorations stay up until el Dia De Los Reyes. So I am keeping my holiday decorations up too. Should take them down this coming weekend.

No snow just ice

No snow just a bit of ice on X-mas Eve 2009.

My new short hair

Day after the cut...

maybe a little ocd

Over a year and a half ago, or maybe closer to 2 years, I decided to grow out my hair to donate it to Locks of Love. The original plan was to grow it for a year, however it did not grow as long as fast as I thought it would.

So I just let it continue growing with the intent of cutting it sometime in 2009. However, every time I thought I was ready to get it cut and send it to Locks of Love, I really wasn't. Turns out having long hair started feeling like a security blanket and something I could hide with. Weird.

I have a thing(maybe a little ocd) about keeping things longer than I need. Then I end up keeping stuff that just piles up. Not like those hoarder crazies that keep everything. It does not bother me or pain me when I do get rid of stuff; and I can do it in a whim without second thought.

Mine usually starts with an idea of how I can reuse, re-purpose, recycle, or up-cycle something. So I accumulate the things needed for whatever idea I had. Then, after having way too much stuff for that project. I start it, Get bored with it; finally tossing out the stuff I accumulated for it.

So this year my main goal is to be less hoardy. I needed to start somewhere, so the first thing to go was my hair A friend made pony tails of my hair, cut them and then used clippers for the rest. Felt so liberating once it was done.

I probably should have taken before and after photos.

 This is the hair.

Just a random photo

Welcome New Year 2010!

Welcome New Year 2010! Do you make new year resolutions? I don't know that I'll be making resolutions per say, more like keeping things in mind. Maybe just the typical stuff like being a little less whoardy, eat better, be happy, less credit cards, volunteering, etc... There are also things that I would like to do online and offline but then I get too many ideas that then I don't know where to begin. No matter what I am as ready as ready can be to ride the 2010 year!