Lucy informed me that her sister "Manice" is going to do something so folksy, I don't even know were to start. Manice is going to blow cigarette smoke in order to open the child's tear duct. I know, I know this sounds stupid. It's hard putting it into words. The doctor said that the baby will grow and her tear duct will open. However, her friend "Tulip" told her that her grandmother did this procedure with a cousin and it worked. "What the Hell!!" SO Manice is going to try this. When I asked Lucy if herm Manice's husband knew about this she said yes...he's the one going to do the puffing. When asked by Lucy about the harmful effects to the infants lungs, her response was "she lives in California, there is smog here already."

sigh

Okay, I know I'm on vacation, but things need to happen whether I'm swimming and sipping a nice margarita or not. I tried to contact that co-worker of mine and he won't respond back. I called his office, and left a message with the secretary... called his home and left a message on his machine... sent an e-mail that was sent back- to much e-mail in his in box... all on Wednesday the 29th of June. Yesterday, Thursday, I called his house and ... well... left a message with his mom. I now have sent an e-mail today. Hopefully he has emptied some of it. Hell, that was one of the things I left in his messages... clean out that mail box.


5 attempts of contact in 3 days.
Contacts back 0
Priceless


...UPDATE...............UPDATE...........UPDATE..........

He called. He was busy with his son's swim meets. I received my answer, not what I wanted to hear, but damn it, I was answered.

Okay, I'm on vacation... for a month. I'm supposed to be relaxing near a pool with an umbrella or something sticking out of my drink. Right!?! Here we are, saving money for a trip to Mexico that won't be here until Christmas, My husband is working but will have some time off and here I am, checking my computer for e-mail that concerns DIVA or SMB for that matter. I think that I need to let go of it all for that matter, however karissa, who took vacation time too, is still working from home. I know this because she sent me an update on the RSS project. Payday is in a day... I can have fun money again and then the rest of it... bills, savings, the responsible things in life. Cash for everything. We paid off two "college" credit cards and I refuse to use plastic this summer. The upside for checking my e-mail constantly is that I get to blog since I'm sitting here already. Must go... breakfast is ready. Does any of this make sense. I think I'm rattling on. I have been down... not enough to do the last two days. I need to stay busy. My husband calls it being "bluesy". I'm going out side to fine tune my yard. That will keep me busy. I love that he knows right away when I'm having my little episodes...He cheers me up... I think overall I know that I'm not alone and can't fall into my little world because he knows where I'm at. I can't hide.

I don't think I liked my history teachers throughout Middle and High School. Just some random thoughts again.

History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John Leonard
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. ~Mason Cooley
The historian amputates reality. ~Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
~George Santayana

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He who controls the past
commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
~George
Orwell
History
is written by the victors.
~Winston Churchill
History is a myth that men agree to
believe.
~Napoleon

"Juan" informed me today, via Instant Messaging, that he and Jennifer are expecting a girl and boy. I'm so exited for them. We talked about their potential names. At the top of the hypothetical list was Jack and Jill or Julius and Ethel (Rosenberg) . We also received a book from him yesterday that was published out of his Ethnic Studies Program at San Francisco State. He was the Editor in Chief as well as a contributor of it. It was very professional. It brought back memories of College. Yo soy... Chicano.