Category: mi familia

Cheney ‘the black sheep of family’

From the AP/NPR:

Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin.” Eighth cousin, that is.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.

Apparently Cheney’s wife discovered the link while researching her memoirs.
A spokesman for the Obama Presidential Campaign said, “obviously Cheney is the black sheep of the family.”
Gotta love family history. I’ve had a lot of fun tracing our family history back using Geni and other online services. I’m interesting in finding out more about the Pendleton pedigree, which is on my mom’s side of the family.

According to her spokeswoman, Sen. Obama, D-Ill., is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650’s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.

Got any interesting history in your family tree?

The weekend

a. I can’t remember much about Friday night. I know we did something but I don’t remember what… ah yes. Subway in Waxahachie and the “wonderful smiling faces of the employees whom you can just tell by watching them love to be there” – yeah right. There’s just something about many of the folks who work at local fast food places that annoys the heck out of me. You can obviously tell they don’t want to be there and they don’t want you to be there either. I do believe there are 3 exceptions though – Chick-Fil-A in Waxahachie, What-A-Burger in Red Oak and Subway in Glenn Heights.
b. Slept in on Saturday
c. Laurie went shopping with her mom for goodies for the house
d. I was worried when I got the text message, “I’m spending all your hard earned money” knowing we had just ordered three more pallets of sod for our backyard.
e. Luckily my life is a great shopper and purchased over $300 worth of stuff for around $50
f. I stayed home and watched UT loose to OU and listened to UMHB cream HSU
g. My sister Kara and her hubby Tim came for dinner
h. Our dogs enjoyed chasing each other around the living room over and over again
i. Some mysterious poo ended up on the kitchen tile while we were all playing a game at the kitchen table
j. Went to encounter Sunday morning – enjoyed Brian’s message about the masks we wear and how they keep us from Godlikeness
k. Went to Mesquite and enjoyed Olive Garden for lunch with family for Laurie’s brother’s birthday
l. Had brownies for dessert at Laurie’s parents
m. Came home and got really mad at the dog for not listening and constantly needing to run and jump and lick and claw
n. Feel like I took it out on Laurie not the dog
o. Left for entry and felt really bad for being short with Laurie – made sure to apologize via text messaging and when I came back home and will admit here publicly that I’m still sorry for taking anything out on her
p. Enjoyed entry, came home, blogged and went to bed
q. Woke up this morning, still frustrated with the dog but feeling better about the week ahead
r. Still madly in love with my life and that just becomes clearer and clearer everyday

Bragging on my life

My wonderful life, Laurie, just got responses back from her professor on her Photoshop class.
I had to brag on her a bit.
If you haven’t seen the work she did, visit: www.casadeblundell.com/laurie/photoshop. More projects coming soon.

Unit 1 Project:
Good use of emphais (sic) of upper picture plane to articulate gravity and freedom. Very strong image and very creative use of drop shadow and outer glow to activate the elements.
Excellent experimentation!

CORRECTION
Good example of before/after

LAYERS
Great experimentation. Very strong effects

BASICS
Good use of relative size to imply physical space. Funny image.