Baby Birds

I live on 5 acres of lusch gorgeous property, complete with flowers and gardens. This bird about four weeks ago we noticed decided to build a nest in the only plastic ferns on the property right by the car port.



About two weeks ago we noticed these gorgeous speckeled eggs. Four of them. SUPER TINY. About the size of a dove chocolate easter egg. Guess what, two of them hatched today. I've never seen something so tiny in my life. They are breathing and doing well. It is incredible! They are the cutest ugliest things I have ever seen in my life.

Hallelujah!

This is my new computer. Sony meet Blog. Blog meet Sony.

Oh how joyous this occasion is.

From a Mac to a PC isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. Of course, I haven't even started taking my 10,000 plus songs yet and transferring them to Sony. Good luck me.

Discovering Diamonds

Who knew looking for engagement rings would be so exhausting? I'm not engaged but we are looking at rings. The picture shows just a handful of jewelry stores that Jim and I have frequented in the past two months, from Eugene to Portland to Seattle. I am down to three and Jim can make the final decision whenever that will be. Don't hold your breath friends. He wants to surprise me so it could be tomorrow or it could be like a year from now. From Tiffany's to Fred Meyer I am picky. Who knew? All I know is that diamonds are sparkly and I like the ones from Canada.

Kelly

So Jim and I went to Eugene to visit my brother and his fiance this past weekend. It was beautiful and 84 degrees. Something I have not felt in about 9 months.

We sat outside and barbecued one night telling stories while warming up over their fire pit. My brother told me this really funny story of a time when he practically beat up (by beat up I mean he stuffed the ball in his face, elbowed him in the eye and mouth, pushed him against the wall, etc.) a kid in PE his senior year while playing basketball because this kid had really creeped me out and stocked me the past weekend. I had never heard this story and my heart got all warm. I don't even remember telling my brother about this dude. I felt sorry for the kid but at the same time, my brother said "it was the only time I had to really stick up for you because you were completely shaken by this kid." And I totally remembered it. We didn't remember the kids name but my brother got totally in trouble from the PE teacher because he was protecting me. Needless to say the kid stopped bothering me but I never knew why. Thanks my brother!

PS-this picture is four years old due to the fact that I can't upload pics anymore to this computer. New ones will come soon once I get my new computer and can upload the ones for the Eugene weekend. Sorry!

Let's see how far we've come

So last night on my commute home from school I was listening to Rob Thomas's "Let's see how far we've come" song (Thanks Carren). And I had just watched the film "Milk" for a social justice club meeting. And so I really started to ponder how far I've come personally and how far we've come in the world. IN my short thirty years on life I have seen the Iron Curtain fall, a great feat. I have seen a part black man be voted into the highest position of power. Whether we are on either fence of politics it still is fascinating to me. Hate crimes laws have been passed in all fifty states.

I remember in Romania after one of the members had treated quite rudely a gypsy and I called him on it he said "It's just like how you treat the black population in America." And I said, um yeah like forty years ago (not to say that it still doesn't happen). So honestly when Obama won I thought of how much hope that might give the gypsies and I thought of the Romanians and how there view might differ of the gypsies.

We have HD and TiVo and DVR. We have the Internet and computers. We have cell phones. All happened in my thirty years of life. WOW

Anyway, just thinking about things a little. We've seen a lot of things happen in the world for the better and I'm excited to see what the next thirty have.