What in the world is going on??????????????

OK time for me to get on a soapbox!!!! This is a very serious subject. I want to bring to your attention the Jena 6. I know you have not heard of them. They are 6 young black boys in LA..sitting in jail facing 22 years, for attemted murder. OK I am goig to make this brief. It all started over the "White Tree" at a school in Jene, LA. It is a tree that only white students sit under during breaks from school. One day a black student asked the adminstration if he could sit under the tree, they told him sit where ever you want. The next day nooses hung from the tree. Later, a white man pulled a gun on 3 black boys and they went to jail for taking it away from him, he walked away with no charges. Then a black student was beaten at a party, and later a white student taunted him about it and was hurling racial slurs. That same night the white student was beaten...and released from the hospital within hours and went to a social event the next day. The 6 black students who beat him up were charged with attemted murder!!!!!!! The all face 22 years in jail!! It is outragious!!! Please take some time to look at these videos and read the stories!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY&mode=related&search=

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/11397/1/141/

Hey all!! I had a great weekend

I had a wonderful weekend, I went to a crop at my new fav Lss!!! It is small and the lady who owns is wonderful! I finnaly have a home! Let me give you a brief in why this is so important to me. I had a Local scrapbook store 2 summers ago, and it closed. I was so hurt because no one called to let me know I just called to sign up for the crop and no one answered, so I called another lady from there and she told me it was closed! Well, after that I went to the mall and found a huge chain scrapbook store named Archiver's! I thought I was in heaven! It had everthing imaginable, but, it still was not my store yet! I signed up for a crop and it was a 12 hour one, it was $50 which was a lot for me, I was used to paying $15-$20. Anyway, I wanted to go, so I assumed that after sitting with 3 other ladies for 12 hours I would make some new friends. I was saddly mistaken, I tried and tried to get a conversation started with them and nothing! They treated me like I was not even there, So, I went to my car and got my IPod and listened to it for the rest of my time there. So I was done with them. So This weekend I went to a LSS and cropped. It was so much fun it was only 3 ladies and it was great! We talked and laughed and just had a great time! I am happy, I did these 2 pages there...tell me what you think!

I love Shopping

I am in a shopping mood but I want to save my money for a scrapbook convention I am going to in OCT. But then again that is a while off yet, I just don't know what to do, I want to buy some clothes on ebay. I have been reading to many fashion magazines. Anyway, I am getting my hair done next week by a new hair dresser, so I hope it al goes well. I have a very interesting type of hair. It is very curly when curly, but when I blow dry it straight it wil not hold a curl! I have been to many different shops and they are ok, but I found a new lady named Mahsa and she is Irainan and has hair like me, so I hope she will do a great job. Anyway everyone have a great day!

A new day

Well I had a long weekend. It all started on Thursday when I went to a friends house to help her with her final wedding touches. And that night turned into helping with the decorating, and the rehersal dinner...but it was a lot of fun! The wedding turned out so lovely!!! Her colors were black and white, and the wedding was a mixture of all races. The bride is biracial and the groom's Mother is married to a white man, so we were the embodiment of what america is today, a mix of everything, there was not a race that was missed. There were Aisians there and Hispanics, and Iranian! It was really cool to be there! I will be posting pics of the wedding later.

Have'nt Done much!

Well I have not done much scrapping lately, it has been so hot I just want to lay in bed and watch TV! I am watching CNN and maybe I should'nt, they are talking about those men trapped in the mine. I feel so much for those families and hope that they are still alive! Also, they are disussing the hurricane and much more. OK That's it I can't take anymore! Off it goes!

Let's see what else can I talk about? Oh my workouts have been going good! My abs hurt, and that's a good thing, I am tryin to get the eating thing better, I have not done too bad, but I am drinking lots of water which it is easy these days it has been so hot! I watch the biggest loser, and other diet shows to keep me motivated! Oh yeah did Star Jones think she was fooling anyone??????? I mean you don't lose that much weight that fast and have it not been some kind of surgery!!! And you know what I am not mad at her! I mean, if I was that big I would do it too, sometimes extreme measures are all you have left! I understand because I have been on every diet known to man! And sometimes I wish I had someting to make me not eat! I have no self control, and just feel like a drug addict...oh well wish me well!

Quote of the day

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
~ E. E. Cummings

I realize that this statement is so true! I am struggling to be a grown up and my idol (Mom) is not here to help me! She showed me a lot but not the step by step details. So I am now becoming the person that I want to be, I Have different beliefs than my Mother, and my own ideas. I am now able to tell people who I am. Thanks God!!! I am getting courage everyday...

Here is a LO I did for my friends!

OK So you have now seen my babies

Well if you are looking at this post you will see I am so proud of my 3 babies. They have come such a long way. When I first got the baby and the now 7 year old, they were not to happy about my oldest dog (Lopez, he's the one laying down in the pic). But, now as you care see we are one big happy family! Other than that, I am tryin to stay cool, I have not ben feeling to well lately and not sure if it is due to the heat that we are all feeling!

Well it is raining here now and I am about to have a glass of wine and got to bed. Thanks for stopping by!