geography book

every once and a while i take a peek at some of my old college books. tonight i picked up "The Geography Coloring Book" [yes, my college teacher had us work from a coloring book, and do the coloring...eh, i enjoyed it]. i went to the United States section and read about Pennsylvania, then moved on to New York.

image from amazon.com

this is what New York's blurb had to say:

"The Empire State Building, built in 1931, was again New York City's tallest structure (1,250 ft) when the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed in 2001 by airliners hijacked by terrorists."


ok, so, i know this is "what happened" and all, but does this statement bother anyone else? maybe it's because it's the first time i've read it out of a "history" book...maybe because it seems so blunt and unfeeling...just a fact, not an awful event that i can remember [what do i remember? oh, that's right, our high school teachers turning off the TV's because our principal "didn't want us" to see it. i don't think to this day i've ever seen any more than 10 seconds of the event]. or maybe i'm bothered because some people don't believe that's what happened or because i feel that "they" have no right to write about this history that's still so fresh. maybe because these "terrorists" are still a "threat" to us, or maybe because we're still fighting "them" 7 years later. or maybe it's because "terrorist" has begun, to some people, to mean anyone of Mid-Eastern enthinicity...



i used way too many quotation marks for a post about our nation's history.
i'm not sure what i really wanted to say with this post.
maybe i just want to know if reading that rubbed anyone else the wrong way...

weekend update!

this weekend was busy, crazy & awesome.

here we start out friday morning with lots of trucks and construction in front of my neighbor's house. her mum wanted me to get a picture of it i think...

we continue on to after work, when i baked cupcakes for Josh's early birthday present, and put the carrier to use!

saturday Kristen & I went to Pittsburgh to see and paint Nikkie & Matt's new house! no painting took place, however, we did pick out all her colors [except for one]. i'm very excited for her to get the colors on the walls and all the furniture in! housewarming party is scheduled for June.

Saturday night we had dinner at The Church Brewery and met KT & Mike out. it was awesome, but very dark, lending to no food pics [sorry!]. here's some shots of the girls at the brewery [er, ok, it was formerly a church]. we had spinach, feta & smoked gouda dip plus 3 pizzas split between the 6 of us - Pierogie pizza, Four Cheese, and Spinach, Artichoke, Feta and some other yummy things Pizza.

returning home Sunday included wrapping Josh's birthday prezzies...which, um, the paper i bought was absolutely amazing, so of course, here's some pics of that. oh, and if you care as to what i got him, it was some Wii accessories and the Star Wars Trilogy [as in, the first three made - 4, 5, 6]!

Josh & his sister share the same birthday, which we celebrated at his gramma's house with some yummy food and even more yummy desserts.

awe, and here is Josh enjoying himself after taking some non-flattering picture of someone...


the rest of the night was spent hanging out with his family and playing his new wii!

i'd say the weekend was a success.
i hope you had a great birthday Josh!!

another post!

i know, it's so soon! but i was looking at this site again [which i plan on posting some of my fav comics from at a later date] and i found this sketch, and thought it was totes cute. it describes kt and i. oh and look...

it comes in mug form!


also, rachel just said this to me:
"sometimes i just feel like wearing glitter on my eyes. like now"
and i just thought it was funny.
edit: my dad just said THIS:
"flip get home and have a kip"