From the top, left to right: Theo as an 80's Rapper (look at all that bling), Rob as a Guy with a Cheap Ass Halloween costume (literally), Kevin as Borat! (accent and all), David as a member of Team Zissou, Leticia as a Witch, Stephanie as Meg from Family Guy, and me as Frida Kahlo.
Nathalie as a Gypsie is missing and Megan just sucks cuz she didn't dress up.
I don't know what's going on with the HTML that causes my fonts to keep getting bigger.
Anyway, if you were wondering what some of the pictures below are, go here.
But not exactly. I remember her doing this not too long ago but I don't remember the specifics. Here are the things about October 21st (from Wikipedia) that caught my attention:
EVENTS
-1805 Battle of Trafalgar (Napoleonic Wars) is won by the English
-1854 Florence Nightingale and 38 nurses were sent to the front of the Crimean War
-1945 Women in France are allowed to vote for the first time
-1945 Juan Peron marries Evita
-1959 The Guggenheim (Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) was first open to the public.
BIRTHS
-1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-1833 Alfred Nobel
-1917 Dizzy Gillespie
-1924 Celia Cruz
-1956 Carrie Fisher
DEATHS
-1969 Jack Kerouac
-1995 Shannon Hoon
-2003 Elliott Smith
HOLIDAYS
- Saint Ursula, patron saint of Students. She decided to go on a pilgrimage around Europe before being married off by her father but fatefully massacred by the Huns in Cologne along with her 11,000 virginal handmaidens. In 1969 she was taken off the catholic cannon of saints and replaced by Saint Hilerion (a man of course) because who could ever believe that she traveled with all those virgins.
-Diwali the Hindu/Buddhist (as well as Sikh and Jian) Festival of Lights. Which represents the victory of good over evil and lamps are lit as a symbol of hope for mankind.
The rest is all here.
It took me a while but I finished it in time for Kevin's surprise baby shower.
I can't guarantee that it will look that good once on the child.
We'll be seeing baby Simon sometime around the 29th of this month.
It's so exciting!
So now that fall is here to stay, it's perfect timing to long for those beautiful days at the beach. I finally uploaded the pictures from my trip to Massachusetts.
I'm not as bad as Michelle, but still.
So, I'm currently at work with a pretty bad flu and can't bring myself to go home even though two of my superiors have told me to go home. Talk about guilt -- but then again writing on my blog doesn't really count as work. I've decided I'll probably go home after lunch. Philly is having a weird weather pattern and as sick as I am I'd like to have some of it. Mid 70s in October? Who can help but be outside? Besides, tomorrow it's back to the cold rain and Saturday the low is 35!
Speaking of the weather, I've noticed that I can't get dressed in the morning unless I see a weather report. I've also noticed that I get really annoyed when the news anchors blame/praise the weather reporter for the temporal state of the day. I thought it was a network thing but it's rather prevalent. Not to mention idiotic.
In the news, although it's died down a bit, I can't stand how some think the public is stupid enough to think that pedophilia equates to homosexuality.
I'm really excited that ABC can torture us once more with scant episodes of LOST but a little disturbed by lostpedia. It looks innocent enough at first. Maybe a product of ardent fans. But it's an abyss you can easily get lost in (no pun intended). If you look up Rachel Blake or Joop or The Valenzetti Equation it starts to get kinda creepy. I know it's all a gimmick of the "lost experience alternate reality game" but it's very close to what could be reality, hence alternate reality I guess.
