Foto Friday

This is the only picture I have of myself with my Mom and Dad. I'm not really sure how old I was when they split, but I'm thinking about 3-4. My mom was 16 when she had me. Not really sure how old Dad was. Growing up, I didn't have any contact with Dad and didn't remember him, but after mommy died, (a couple of weeks before my 16th birthday), I got to know my dad again. It all started with a phone call a few days after Mommy died. But, that's a story for another time, when I don't have piles of laundry waiting for me, or dishes waiting to be washed or beds to be made, or fish tanks to be cleaned or, floors to be vacuumed, or bathrooms to be cleaned. I'm getting tired just thinking about it all......

NaBloPoMo

It's November and according to the blogging world, it's NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) This is the month where you promise to post an entry every day. When I started blogging in March, I said to myself I was going to post everyday. Uh....yeah OK. That didn't happen, so now is my chance to get started on posting everyday. So far, I'm doing a good job. I posted yesterday, and now today. WooHoo! I'm on a roll!

Fired Up! Ready to Go!

Presidential candidate Barack Obama was here in Durham, and you know we were not going to miss that. Here we are waiting in the stands for Barack, holding our Obama sign. He was suppose to be there at 5PM, but he was running on CP time, and didn't get there until 5:30PM.

We were at NC Central University....a HBCU(Historically Black College/University) Luckily it was nice out, because Barack's speech was held outside on the football field.

Secret Service agents were everywhere. Barack is the only senator who is protected by the Secret Service. I saw one of them listening into their earpieces and the movie "The Bodyguard", with Whitney Houston(before she was a crackhead) and Kevin Costner, flashed into my head. Don't ask me why.

Here they are walking out before Barack.

And in the press box, watching over the field and the surrounding areas.

And here's the man himself, giving his speech. Of course this is not my picture. All the pictures I took of him were sorry, so I took this off the net.

His parting statement: "Are you fired up, ready to go? Now let's go change the world!