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I have recently decided that we are superstars. I work full time as an ABA Consultant and am a full time student working toward my psych degree. I have the most amazing man in my life - Rob is every dream come true that I have had. He works hard, plays hard, and we are making our dreams come true one day at a time. We are the proud parents of 6 cats and 2 dogs. Ya. It is a circus but I love every minute of it!

Monday, February 21, 2011

Photo a Day 2.6.2011- Robots!

This is a picture that I got from my friend Brian. He works with robots!! This is one of them! I am not sure what this one does, but I thought it was pretty cool!!

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Photo A Day 2.5.2011- Turtle Soup

Turtle Soup!!!

I was not a fan of this soup and neither was Mom- But Rob liked it! I will stick to the Crawfish Bisque that I had the other day! YUM!


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Monday, February 7, 2011

Photo A day 2.4.2011- Froggie Love


Today I saw this on a shelf and had to take a picture of it. First it reminded me of my mom - who is obsessed with frogs and second it is all about Valentine's day. I have mixed feelings about this holiday. I know that it celebrates love and romance but as with other holidays now it is so commercialized that I feel the true meaning had been lost.

For those who celebrate this holiday humbly- I love it. But IMHO the more money you spend the less the actual meaning is there.
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Photo A Day 2.3.2011- Dinner


Today's picture is my dinner. Now at first glance it may not seem like it has great (or any at all) cultural value in America. BUT- I would like to point out that this is salmon, rice, and broccoli. To me, this is a combination of a few cultures into one meal that I consider pretty American.  Seafood and rice usually comes from coastal cultures and while I lived in California for over a decade I very rarely had seafood. It just cost too much. Now that I am here in The Gulf Of Mexico seafood is crazy cheaper and there is so much more of it to go around. The fish is fried in Italian dressing which kind of caramelizes and then is used as a sauce for the rice as the salmon. I had never heard of cooking fish with Italian dressing until I moved to Louisiana and lived next door to a professional fisherman. (A little Louisiana culture). The Rice is balsamatti rice which was recommended to Rob by a friend a work. So yummy!! Not sticky like some white rice and it doesn't take as long to cook as brown rice.  We eat a lot of broccoli at my house and I attribute it to growing up on a farm where vegetables were the cheapest food to eat since we grew them right out front. (A little farm culture for ya!) See! I told you that there was culture in my dinner!!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Photo A Day 2.2.2011- Pledge


Well, I figure it doesn't get too much more American culture than elementary school children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at school. This is one of the classrooms that I work in and every morning these kidos stand up and recite the Pledge. Each child gets to take turns holding the flag during the pledge and it is very exciting to be that chosen child! While you can tell there are some distractions going on here- remember that this particular classroom is ages 4-5 so they are still pretty young. :)

Photo A Day 2.1.2011- Homework Helper

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Today's picture is of my kitty Figaro. I am a short person with short legs. So sitting in chairs for long periods of time usually ends up hurting my knees (as I can not usually rest both of my feet on the floor flat) and the back of my thighs since my feet are typically hanging and therefore putting constant pressure on the edge of the chair.  With that said, I do most of my work, homework, reading, laptop computing and really anything else I possibly can on the floor.
Now- Having 5 cats, three of them being kittens- as much as I protest, the floor belongs to them and they make sure that I remember it.  I am never left alone. Between curling up in my lap, on my keyboard, chasing the mouse or cursor on the computer screen, biting my pencil as I write, chasing my paper as I turn pages in any given book or simply sitting in front of me watching unblinkingly I am constantly reminded that I have invaded their territory. So I thought that while this might not be a universal cultural view of American culture, it has certainly become part of mine and fellow cat owners I know.

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SO I have an assignment in my Cultural Anthropology class to complete a photo journal. I have to make an entry  every day with a statement about why I took the picture and it's possible relation to the American culture.

Since I have to do it anyway- I thought I would include it on my blog! Woot!!

So I started Monday of this week:



Ok- so I didn't take this picture on Monday- But I still think it holds importance and should be included.
When my mom was here visiting Rob and I took her around to see some of the neighborhoods that had been impacted by Katrina.  My mom made a statement that even though Katrina had happened 5 years ago there was still such concrete evidence that the city is continuing to rebuild.  Many of the houses we saw were repaired and people were living in them. Even those houses though still had sign of the evacuation X on them faded as they were from scrubbing on brick and siding. It made me sad to think that the people in those homes were trying their best to recover form such devastation and yet they had this constant reminder staring them in the face. No matter how they scrubbed, the spray paint would not relent and return their clean brick.