Happy Birthday, Lacey!!

On This Day:
Wednesday December 13, 2006

This is the 347th day of the year, with 18 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: St. Augustine

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest permanent city in the United States; the Spanish established the first European settlement there in 1565. St. Augustine was founded 42 years before Jamestown, Virginia, and 55 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.

Holidays

• Feast day of St. Lucy, St. Aubert of Cambrai, St. Othilia or Odilia, St. Eustratius of Sebastea, and St. Judocus or Josse.
• Malta: Republic Day (1974).
• Sweden, St. Lucia: St. Lucia Day/Luciadagen.

Events

• 1474 - Isabella and her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon, were proclaimed Queen and King of Castile.
• 1577 - Sir Francis Drake of England set out with five ships on a nearly three-year journey around the world.
• 1621 - The first American furs to be exported from the continent left for England aboard the Fortune, under the care of Robert Cushman.
• 1642 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand.
• 1769 - Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, received its charter.
• 1862 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's vastly outnumbered army defeated Union General Ambrose Burnside and his troops in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
• 1903 - Molds for ice cream cones were patented by Italo Marcione of New York.
• 1928 - George Gershwin's musical work "An American in Paris" premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
• 1937 - The Japanese army occupied Nanking, China -- the beginning of the "Rape of Nanking."
• 1973 - Great Britain cut the work week to three days to save energy.
• 1978 - The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
• 1981 - Poland's Communist government declared martial law, arrested Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders, and declared the Solidarity trade union illegal. (Martial law formally ended in 1983. )
• 1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National
• Congress leader Nelson Mandela, in Cape Town.
• 1991 - North Korea and South Korea signed a treaty of reconciliation and nonaggression, formally ending the Korean War 38 years after fighting ceased in 1953.
• 1998 - Voters in Puerto Rico rejected U.S. statehood in a non-binding referendum.
• 2000 - Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency 36 days after Election Day; Democrat Al Gore conceded defeat.
• 2001 - President George W. Bush formally announced the United States withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2001 - The Pentagon released a videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaeda leader said the September 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations.
• 2003 - A tip led U.S. soldiers to a farm outside Tikrit, Iraq, where they found Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole and arrest him; the capture is announced to the world the following day.
• 2004 - A jury in Redwood City, Calif., recommended the death penalty for Scott Peterson for the murders of his wife and unborn child.

Births

• 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet, satirist, and journalist.
• 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady, wife of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
• 1838 - Alexis Millardet, French botanist who developed the first successful fungicide.
• 1903 - Carlos Montoya, the Spanish-born flamenco guitarist,
• 1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American Emmy Award-winning actor/comedian.
• 1948 - Ted Nugent, hard rock guitarist from Detroit, Michigan.
• 1967 - Jamie Foxx, American comedian and actor.
• 1982 - Lacey my giggle gal from ISR!!! WHOO! The Fairies let us keep her!!

Deaths

• 1466 - Donatello, Italian Renaissance sculptor.
• 1784 - Dr. Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer.
• 1961 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses), American folk painter, at age 101.
  

Life and Mists

Work has been helping me to get through every day life very well it seems. Without the internet at home, work is the only place where I can actually have my online life anymore. I’ve been able to check e-mails and have a few conversations through my FaceBook (thank God for FaceBook since no one really e-mails me that much). I’m very grateful that we’ll be serviced by Com Cast soon, but I still worry over poor AMOS being so slow and degratitated (if you’ve seen Little Women you’ll laugh at that). I’m fortunate to be blessed with coworkers that are as fun to be around as any whom I’d choose to hang out with. They may not all be like me, but none of us really condemn each other for that sin. Each new story is so fun and delightful, it’s as if I’m learning something new of myself when they tell me of their lives. So today, I have to bits of Lacey.

Lacey is my giddy, girly buddy at ISR. The two of us rant, ramble, babble and giggle on about the silliest of things. But there are many times when Lacey tells stories about her home life that make my sides hurt from laughter. Two cases in point for yesterday.

1) Lacey told us about something her son Trystin did over the weekend. She said that he told his dad that he was writing a letter ‘to the fairies’. Of course, the kid had me at ‘a letter to the fairies’. But it gets better. Evidently, Trystin had a cat named Milo some time ago. And this Milo went missing. So Trystin had thought up this idea to write a letter to the fairies and ask them if they would mind checking on Milo wherever he was. He wanted to tell Milo that he missed him very much and he hoped he was happy and not dead. Ok, now this is a kid that I could really get along with.

2) Secondly was the cake. Ok, so not only are we (evidently) throwing Lacey a party, but she’s gonna be having one for herself at home. So, her hubby, Justin, tells her to go ahead and order her own cookie cake because he’s gonna be on his motorbike so he can’t very well pick it up or anything. Of course, Lacy thinks this is kinda …’frou-frou’ but it’s not like there’s anything she can do about it. So, Lori and I hear this and we tell her, “You know what? Since you’re ordering the cake, you should put something like ‘All Hail Queen Lacey’ or ‘Happy Birthday Queen Lacey’ on it!” She loved the idea! So now she’s gonna have a cake at her party tomorrow (at home at least) that’ll be all ‘happy birthday Queen Lacey’!

What else is there to talk about…? Oh yes! I almost forgot. I watched The Mists of Avalon the other night...gotta say: didn’t love the whole mover over-all, but there were several interesting spots here and there. For one thing movies full of gloom, despair, agony, arranged loveless marriages, incest and other such things are not my cup of tea to start out with. Though I do like the way the movie showed the original Christian, Pagan and Catholic religions. Especially showing how the Catholic religion was a lot like mixing Druid and Christian religions. Maybe I haven’t grown up enough yet, but in any movie in which there are more than a handful of characters and only one or two live (and even then do not necessarily live happily) is not a movie in which the ends justify the means.

Each day that passes, I try to clean a bit more than the day before because I know that ComCast will be coming in here on the 14th and I really want my room to be at least partially decent...which is quite a feat, I can assure you. But, alas, I don’t seem to be making much of a dent. Aye, there aren’t pillows and books and blankets all over the floor anymore, but all the tables and everything look just as bad as they did before. The down-side of picking stuff up off of the floor is you have to put it somewhere...and that’s what tables and such are for right? I’ll really crack down on it tomorrow. For now though, I’m just too tired.

Oh...I’ve such a sinus headache. What with the weather’s constant change, I can’t seem to get inoculated. Last week were in the mid 50’s. Then Friday we were in the 40’s. Saturday saw the 50’s again, Sunday it was in the 60’s and now we’re in the 70’s! Honestly! And they wonder why people can’t seem to get well =_= Oh well.

That’ll be all for now. We’re about to have Lacey’s birthday lunch and then have her surprise cake. I brought my camera, so I’m hoping I’ll have pictures up on my FaceBook later. Ja!

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