Happy WW!
And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:
Homer: D´OH!
Jul
11
Jun
13
Thank you all so SO much for your lovely comments, emails, shout-outs, phone calls, greeting cards, presents and visits. I´m amazed how many wonderful people thought of me and celebrated my 33rd birthday with me. So please take this as a small sign of my love and appreciation to all of you:
It seems I´ve been a good girl - my birthday was a blast… and I´ve done my homework, too. The (little late) Wiki Birthdate MEME is brought to you by courtesy of the one and only Captain “Give me 5″ Lifecruiser:
Go to Wikipedia and search for your birthday. Pick 3 events, 2 births, and a death to share in your blog. Let your readers know why you chose these.
3 Events that occured on June 11th:
1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy was sacked and burned, according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. - LilSanni loved to read Greek myths when she was a little one, especially those ones dealing with love and romance.
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to apparently successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. No conclusive evidence has ever been found that they survived the escape attempt. - Visiting San Francisco is one of my dreams. I´d like to visit Alcatraz Island when I´m there, especially after watching the movie “The Rock” about 107 times. Do you remember this movie? It used Alcatraz as the base of hostage situation, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, with Ed Harris as a renegade general controlling the location of the rockets and renegades?
“Vaporized… blown to the sea…”
Hope I´ll be allowed to leave “The Rock” in one piece ;)
1985 - A Fabergé Egg was sold for £1,375,00 in New York. - It´s obvious: I´m a huge Simpsons-Fan. Fabergé Eggs play an important role in some Simpsons episodes. Mr burns has about 12 Fabergé Eggs stashed away in a vault in his basement and Marge steals one to help raise money for charity, by hiding it in her trademark blue hair. ;)
2 Births on June 11th:
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
- Who could resist to inform the Blogosphere about being born on the same day as Nosferatu? Me? No way! 
1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)
- Just 2 words: SCUBA diving!
1 death on June 11th:
1979 - John Wayne (Born Marion Morrison), American actor (b. 1907)
- Oh… tripping down memory lane… When I was a little one I sometimes was allowed to watch a movie with my daddy. I so loved to watch a “Western” with John Wayne, sitting on the couch with my dad. R.I.P., Mr Wayne!
So… when´s your birthday?
Did you wiki your birthdate already? If not, feel free to play!
Thanks again for enlighting my birthday,
xoXOxo,
And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:
Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
Jun
4
“Please give peace a chance!”
Special thanks to Mo, the brilliant force behind Manic Monday, for choosing “PEACE” to be this weeks theme and for the pretty cool MM Peace globe, which I “borrowed” from him - and to Mimi for creating the 3rd Blogblast for peace. Get your Peace Globe today!
Back in 19something…
School was out 4ever… we were celebrating our very last day at school. The Abitur (diploma from German secondary school for university admission or matriculation) exams were about to start the next week. It´s a German tradtion to celebrate this very last day @ school with a blast. The graduated plan this special day for many many weeks. They make plans to disturb the lessons, so the other little students will get a day off to celebrate with the seniors.
We´ve been a class of rebels. The teachers were full of fear. They trembled with fear, racking their brains about what our plans could be. MUAHAHAHAAAA!
Well, what can I say… our last day at school was a huge surprise for everyone (especially the teachers) .
Our last day at school was a blast. A blast for peace - themed:
“Please give peace a chance!”
“Two, one, two, three, four
Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism,
Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, That-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying is give piece a chance,
All we are saying is give piece a chance
C’mon
Ev’rybody’s talking about ministers,
Sinister, Banisters
And canisters, Bishops, Fishops,
Rabbis, and Pop eyes, Bye, bye, bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance,
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Revoluton, evolution, masturbation,
Flagellation, regulation, integrations,
Meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations
Ev’rybody’s talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan,
Tommy Copper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Allen Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare
Krishna”
You see, even the worst rebels were longing for peace… and they still are ;)
Today, I´m a lucky mommy to Luis, many of my former dreams came true - many others didn´t. But one of my dreams is still up-to-date and will always be:
“Please give peace a chance!”
xoXOxo,
And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:
Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals … except the weasel.
May
4
Welcome to SPSH 56 - Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt #16 for me, Ladies and Gentlemen!
This week´s theme is “CHILDHOOD“.
Yes! I´ve installed all pictures on my new hard-disk - I´m happy to be participating in SPSH on a regular basis again. I missed you all a lot =D
I considered the theme a tough one on first sight, but digging deep in my archives I found surprisingly many CHILDHOOD photos of mini-me. I ended up deciding which CHILDHOOD picture to post by drawing lots.
The winner is a picture taken on my Daddy´s birthday - Sept. 17th, 1974. I was a busy baby - a wild one, like our son Luis. So it was very hard for me to hold out patiently until my auntie Christel had taken the picture. Just for the record: That´s what my parents told me when we were having a look at our family photo album some time ago. I was way too young to remember this myself…
I adore my Mommy´s dress… and Daddy´s totally seventies hair-cut. Amazing to see my Daddy´s had HAIR in the past. I guess he lost it during my CHILDHOOD. Don´t worry, nowadays I´m not known for making people bald*LOL*
I hope you liked my CHILDHOOD picture. Did you participate in the Interview thingy making the rounds through the Blogosphere yet? No? If you are interested in a 5-question-interview or if you like to be interviewed again, please leave a comment at my latest interview - I promise I won´t bite =D
Thanks for stopping by - happy weekend ya all!
And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:
Homer: The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication.
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