Feliz Cumpleñaos a ti, chica! Ella es un muy precioso y simpático para mi. I met her online through flickr.com, and we’ve been good friends ever since. On this day, I wish Carol a lot of blessings and presents!
Carol is from Lima, Peru and if you haven’t already, visiting her site is a must. I am proud to call this excellent web designer my good friend. One of these days I might have the pleasure of meeting her and her handsome husband and and adorable cat Anakin. Otra ves, Feliz para ti!
After some much needed pampering on Thursday, Kris and I decided today to go to the National Buffalo Soldiers Museum. The museum was absolutely outstanding. It not only displays artifacts from the era of the Buffalo Soldiers, but it is a museum of African-American soldiers from the colonial days up until desert storm. Since most of you will not be visiting Houston any time soon, I thought it would be nice to take you on a little tour of what Kris and I saw.
Below is a copy and pasted short histoy of the Buffalo Soldiers.
The Begining
African Americans have served proudly in every great American war. In 1866, through an act of Congress, legislation was adopted to create six all African American Army units. The units were identified as the 9th and 10th cavalry and the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st infantry regiments. The four infantry regiments were later reorganized to form the 24th and 25th infantry regiments.
These fighting men represented the first Black professional soldiers in a peacetime army. The recruits came from varied backgrounds including former slaves and veterans from service in the Civil War.
The Nickname
The nickname buffalo soldiers began with the Cheyenne warriors in 1867. The actual Cheyenne translation was Wild Buffalo.
The nickname was given out of respect and the fierce fighting ability of the 10th cavalry. Overtime, Buffalo Soldiers became a generic term for all African American soldiers.
Today was the most relaxing day I have ever had in a very long time! Needless to say, I spoiled myself today like you wouldn’t believe. Kris and I went to the Galleria (the most expensive mall in Houston) and bought a microphone for my computer; we went to sephoria and bought tons of awesome makeup by smashbox, fresh, shiseido, and Nars; we went to Chilis and I had a presidente margarita and I got pretty damn tipsy at the mall of all places (ha!); and finally, I did something I’ve never done before: I got a pedicure!!! Yay!!!
It made me feel so good that I was so pampered. The makeup on my face looks absolutely stunning. I had a professional makeup artist get exactly what I needed to cover up my acne scars on my face, which in turn, seriously helps my self esteem. I’ve had acne problems since I was 11 years old and now I’m 25 and still breaking out like I’m a teenager! Ironically, the makeup is actually very light compared to other makeup I’ve had before. I never spoil myself, and after six years of college, it’s about damn time.
He sure was a pain in the butt this past Winter break, but I miss the hell out of my little brother. On Monday, mom called us and told us that he got into a fight. Yeah, he ended up getting into one because this kid on his bus kept on trying to pick a fight with him. Mind you, my brother is a lover and not a fighter, but this time, this guy punched my brother in the stomach and instead of crying, my brother ended up tackling him on the floor, grabbing him by the neck, and punching him on the face.
I have mixed feelings about the whole situation. I mean, on one hand, I’m proud that my little bro kicked this guy’s ass, because the little turd deserved it, and Shaq usually lets bullies pick on him. On the other hand though, when mom told me that he held this bullie’s throat while punching him, I knew immediately that my brother was trying to choke the guy to death… now that’s where I have problems. It’s perfectly legitimate to defend yourself, but to the point where you could possibly break someone’s windpipe… I don’t think so.
I talked to Shaq on Monday and told him how I felt. I told him that it’s okay to punch someone if you are trying to defend yourself, but do NOT end up trying to kill someone. That’s just messed up. Mind you, this was the first time Shaq ever got into a physical fight since pre-school. I got into so many fights in elementary I cannot even remember. I was always called a nigger in elementary, and so, I ended up either 1) crying or 2) fighting. My bro receives about the same racial slurs and bigotry I received as a child. Things have changed a lot, but not everything.
Another great post by the Black Informant. I read his blog on a regular basis for news from an African American independent-thinker’s perspective. Below is a link and excerpt from his latest post I found quite concerning.
The silent screams of the modern slave trade movement (Part II: Are some black politicians on the take by Arabs?)
(please note: The reason why I am “calling out” our black politicians on this issue is because if they can give voice to issues like Haiti, Iraq, AIDS and hunger in Africa, and blame America for not doing enough in the process, they can certainly give a greater voice to …
Muhahahahah! After two days of tons of homework, I finally had the chance to work on the comments section, and it works! Yay! I’m absolutely thrilled. Now, since for the past couple of days all I’ve talked about is the layout (I can’t help it, I think it’s so gorgeous) …okay, just ONE more thing about the layout. I can’t tell you how often people ask me to do templates for them, but I have NEVER had anyone EVER give me a template before (not that I don’t like to make templates, because I do). Carol was so kind to hand over a gorgeous template like this to me, and for this, I shall be eternally grateful. Something tells me that with all the hell it took to have this template up and running, that the only thing I’ll ever change for a while on this skin is the content. Ha! One of these days I’m going to make some typepad skins so people have kewl skins to work with now that I know how to work with the typepad tags. Again, they are very similar to movable type, but not exactly the same.
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It would appear that no one is able to comment on the system yet. Oi! I’ll have to fix this when I’m done with my homework tonight. In the meantime, feel free to tag me a quick one!
Yes friends, you read correctly. It took me a total of 12 hours to get this template right. It’s not that I don’t have a life (because I do, but I love my blog that much) but it’s because I can’t stand leaving my template incomplete. It took me so long because it is a lot harder to do a Typepad template (with six different templates) than it is to do a Blogger template (with only 1 template to adjust).
If you don’t know anything about Typepad (my host), here is the deal. Typepad is owned and operated by the makers of Movable Type (Six Apart, Ltd.). In sum, basically, the typepad format is almost exactly like movable type. The tags are almost exactly the same! Thing is, is that I would get my own server, but it takes skills just to install movable type into the system, and I would rather not worry about that. I like typepad because it has everything in one. The most important part, is that I can email their staff any time of the day and they respond pronto! Excellent! Okay, it is 10:15 PM and I seriously need to do some algebra homework.
I hope that you guys love the new look. Again, I thank Carol a whole bunch for this gorgeous theme. In the next couple of days, I’ll be adding the “recent comments” and “recent entries” tags soon. I don’t know where they are yet (been looking for it on the typepad main site) but to no avail. Love you all bunches and bunches. Hope all of you had a wonderful weekend!
I am bigtime under construction right now. Carol hooked me up with this lovely template, but since I don’t know html or css, I am having a hell of a time installing it into my typepad system. I’ve got half of it done, but there is still lots more to do. Unfortunately, I still have homework to complete, so it’s going to be a little slow. Sorry about that everyone.
Carol: I absolutely love this template! I don’t know how knew my fave colors are purple, etc.
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