I was checking the mail today and just guess what I received? The proof copy for my new book came to my door! I am speechless and elated and I had to share with you how the book will look. The process is nearing completion folks. I have 30 days to run through my book with a fine tooth comb and weed out any more typos. So far so good; my girls volunteered to lend me their eyes and so we have 4 pairs of eyes looking through it. Do you think we’ll miss anything? I hope not 🙂 Thankfully they all love to read! Oh yes, the ones I still home school will receive school credit for having helped and of course a big hug, kiss and many thanks for their time goes to Elena, Esther and Raxy!!!
Hey everyone! Please check out my blog page https://evasantiago.wordpress.com/books-friends-for-life/ You can get some ideas on what to get your hands on to read this summer as you head pool side 🙂 Have a GREAT week-end friends!!
I am just about done with my first edits for my up coming book, Salsa! The Taste of Life. I didn’t want you my dear reader, to think I fell off the apple cart 😀 So to celebrate Hump Day I leave you with smiles!
MOTHER’S DAY FUNNIES. I’m posting these fun pics up to liven up your day. I’m taking the day off from blogging tomorrow…I’ll see you back here bright and early Monday morning. Enjoy your day Mamas! 🙂
Reasons for why people run in different countries 🙂
It’s Tuesday and I say we all need something to smile about these days. I hate hearing the news lately so I’ve shut the idiot box off. If I need to know about anything important I know I’ll hear about it on Facebook or someone I know will tell me. My husband is usually good for that; he’ll come home from work and tell me the latest news headline he heard while eating his lunch. In this age of information at our fingertips it’s hard not to keep informed, whether you like it or not.
So I challenge you today to focus on the GOOD that is happening and part of doing that is on purpose tuning out all the negative voices that try to drown out the good ones. Life goes on in spite of high gas prices, high prices for everything in fact. Life goes on in an election year. Life goes on and bad news reports can do nothing to stop the marching of time. Take life and enjoy each day because I ask you, can anyone of us add a single day to our lives by worrying? And isn’t it true that MOST of the stuff we waste our time fretting over never really happen?
Today’s picture took me several tries to shoot it the way I wanted it. The wind was blowing hard that day and I wanted to capture our flag waving in the wind to remind us all that though the winds of adversity are upon us we WILL come out of this because we are a people who’ve never quit no matter how hard things have gotten now and in the past. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Have you ever felt like you’re the one everyone depends on for seemingly everything? You’re the one people try out their best and worst lines on. You’re the one they leap, twirl, tip-toe, prance and dance on. You’re covered will all sorts of scuff-marks and scratches. There are days you don’t feel special; in fact you have days when you’re so exhausted that you just lay there.
Welcome to that part of life I’ve come to embrace and dubbed “The Stage”.
If you’re a parent you’re acquainted with being the stage for your kids. You’re the one they try their best and worst lines on. You’re the one they try their firsts on; from crawling, to first steps, then jumping, running and eventually dancing. You’re covered with all sorts of scuff-marks and scratches but you keep going nonetheless because out of those, you know dreams are launched. And, as parents we all have days when we feel overlooked, ignored and forgotten. The activity continues though because you know the show must go on.
You know that at the end of the performance you’ll get no credit. The actors will be lauded. The director and his crew will receive pats on their backs. The lights will shine but you’re underneath it all. Still you don’t care because when you’re called to be the stage, you know that without you, they won’t have a place to stand on. Without you dreams won’t come true. Much is said about great performances; little is ever mentioned about the stages they played on. It takes great confidence to be a stage. You must have a firm grasp on yourself; a knowing that you are a vital part of the show’s success.
When the lights go out and the audience goes home, you’ll just lay there, quietly fulfilled, resting for the next performance.
Day 26 Question 26: What is one buzzword or phrase that was highly popular during your teen years?
Answer: I’m not going to mention one phrase but several because how can we forget the 80’s were all about excess right? My favorite 80’s phrase was …No Duh! That sums it all up for me 🙂
A kicker is a hick; a cowboy. they drive trucks with grill gaurds and wear wrangler jeans
Head Banger
Fan of heavy metal music
Hella’
Jams (Songs, Music)
(1)Noun. a collection of songs. ie. “That radio station plays my favorite jams”. (2)Noun. a collection of music cassettes or albums. ie. “Are you brining your jams to the party”?
n/a
Jam
(1)Verb. To leave, usually abruptly. ie. “We’re running late. Let’s jam now.”
Bitch’n (Bitchin’)
Like rad something very cool, “That Cyndi Lauper Record Is Bitch’n!”
Fave
Short for “favorite”.
A teenage girl’s term. Used in teen fan magazines and magazines for teen girls (i.e. “Seventeen”, “‘Teen”, etc.)
Fine
(1)Adj. Cute or a hottie. Used like, “He is so fine.”
See Bodacious
Hardcore
Has 3 different meanings Hardcore punk. The punk of the eighties associated with mohawk haircuts and apocaliptic lyrics. – Extreme
Couch Potato
(1)Noun Someone who sits in front of the TV on their couch or sofa. With the boom of cable, MTV and home video, more people parked their butts on their couches. Hence the term couch potato.
Doy (Doi)
(1)Interj. Short for “No duh” or “no doy”.
See: No Shit Sherlock, Duh
Eat My Shorts
Phrase used as a comeback. Heavily in use in the 80’s and also used on TV’s ‘The Simpsons’. If someone was to put you down in anyway, you can reply with this phrase.
Phrase gained earlier popularity from it’s use by John Bender (Nelson Judd) in ‘The Breakfast Club‘ (1985) ~Editor
Butt Ugly
(1)Adj. Unattractive to the sight.
CD
Abreviation for “Compact Disc”. A disc that stores and plays audio information, music, or video games.
These came out in 1983, but really took off in the late 1990’s. Today, 2005, almost everything is on CD.
Chonies or Chones
Underwear. Short for “calzones”
Spanish origin
Big Time
As in “Did you get that raise you were looking for at work, Dude?” Oh yeah. Big Time! Also the title of a Peter Gabriel tune from that era.
‘Bag Your Face!’
whatever! Shut up!
I own a retro wholesale company and I recently came across a button that said this. It was definately from the 80’s. Thought you might enjoy!
Boy Toy
(1)Noun A word to describe a cute guy used as a toy for older woman. Madonna invented this one with her “Boy Toy” belt on her 1984 Like a Virgin album.
Burn/Burned
“Burn” is synonymous with “face”. “burn” was used to apply dramatic emphasis to the fact someone was proven wrong on an issue that had been hotly debated and contested. it was also used to annoying and harassing effect over trivial matters of the day to the point where it lost all meaning.
Usually preceded by “you got” as in you got burned or by “ooooooh” as in ooooooh, burrrrrn!!!
B.F.F.
Best Friends Forever.
How you would sign a note to a girlfriend. B.F.F
Airhead
(1)Noun A stupid or unaware person; moron, dim-wit.
Origin: term implies that there is nothing but air in the subject’s head. (“He’s confused again. What an airhead!”) Unrenounced to popular belief, Valley Girls did not invent this word. It was used to describe them.
Space Cadet
One who’s not with what is going on. Disoriented. Their head is in space.
See also: Airhead, Ditz.
Bite Me
Means buzz off or go away, ie. “You’re such a geek!” “Like, bite me, dude!”
Heard it the first time in the eighties, but then again, was a teenager and learned a lot of new expressions obviously…
Who Can Forget John Bender from The Breakfast Club?
Eva Santiago 