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i am thinking about the lines to the song from sugarland.....SETTLIN' ......i feel over the limit. i am tired of accepting fate.

i feel on overload from recent events. some that are inevitable others that are still making me scratch my head because i feel like i was blindsided by a football team.

they say when life gives you lemons make lemonade......and BELIVE ME i am trying.

in this past week alone i have witnessed and experienced so much stress and mistrust and down right malevolence.....my shoulders feel as if they will break from the weight of it all. i wish i could say i see the light at the end of the tunnel. but i fear this is only the precursor to the storm ahead.

words of wisdom?
solemn advice?

haiku?

(in the middle of the night i posted on fb.....then realized that perhaps i had mimicked the ancient japanese art of haiku....what do you think?)

Middle Night
Nowhere Flight
Insomnia Invades My Universe

updates from

....wherever you are.

i signed off of FB on Ash Wednesday. i also turned away from Starbuck's Chai Tea........on
Easter Sunday i returned to FB for a few hours to wish some folks 'happy birthday' and poke around a bit....yet i think that the allure has disappeared i find i really have no reason to go back....no need to create a running commentary of the dull uninspiring moments of my everyday life.  i did go to Starbuck's and had a long awaited CHAI...but that, too, has lost its appeal.

nothing definite yet. but i think i have turned a corner and headed in another direction.

my knee is still injured. i am still an out of shape junkfood junkie. i still work in the same office and live in the same house. but something has changed.

trust me

i want to know why the people you love the most have the ability to hurt you the worst?

i am feeling actual nausea and distress over things that should never have turned into issues. today is friday it should be a good day. instead it is full of hurt and heartache. it is not my nature to be vengeful & argumentative. i rarely say things out of spite or anger, am quick to apologize for any wrong i commit. go out of my way to please others. put others needs before my own.

i used to think i was a pretty descent person.

NARA

National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
(from Wikipedia)
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives.^[5] NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and executive orders, and federal regulations.

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Along with the multitude of historical government documents, including but not limited to things such as the United States Constitution. The NARA also is the guardian of public records that hold a much more personal value to genealogists and family historians.....ORIGINAL records of ancestors who immigrated to the United States and/or travelled between the US and foreign countries. These records include interviews with the person as well as 'witnessess' for the person, official US forms that the person had to complete, possibly court records regarding the person, military records and quite possibly a photograph or two.

And while I am discovering that my direct maternal ancestors on my father's side (that seems very convoluted.....basically - my dad's mom's family) seem to have all been born in California. My grandfather was born in China (but that is another story!)  Quite a number of them seem to have made trips between California and China.  Because they travelled during the years that the Chinese Exclusion Act was being enforced there is quite a bit of documentation to prove there US citizenship!

I made my very first trip to the NARA, San Francisco last Saturday, 25 Feb 2012.  Two very exciting things happened. First, of course, was getting to look at some of these records and secondly to meet one of my cousins for the very first time. We are second cousins once removed to be specific.

Because we attended a special event at the NARA there was a 1.5 hr powerpoint  presentation giving an overview of  what the NARA is and what it does.  Then we had 1.5 hrs to research and view records. During pre-visit emails with Marisa, the archivist at NARA, we had already requested six files to be pulled for us to review.  There was so much information to absorb in these files.  We could not even begin to read them all.  We tried to scan as much as possible, but in 90 minutes we only managed to scan 20 pages and one picture.  BUT this picture is truly a treasure!!! I had seen photographic reproductions of it recently, but this was THE REAL PHOTO.  It is a picture of Mary Siu and her seven daughters and two sons and a mysteriously unknown older gentleman.......



center & seated: Mary Seu Lowe;
from left to right: Frances, Jane, Jessie, May, Georgia,William, Unknown,
Arlene, Harry, Jewel (Pat)



I plan to go back to the NARA as soon as possible to finish scanning all of these files and perhaps locating other files related to our family.

vacation #2

.....we were sitting around eating chilaquiles at breakfast......our tummys were all full. and the question comes up. .....what to do today.....SNOW TRIP!!!

...we cleared our schedules, packed snacks and overnight bags.....and AWAY WE WENT!!!

tommy cleaning the windows before we left....



he shoulda waited...they were way more filthy when we got back!



the price of gas when we left town



George Edgar & Luke READY to play in the snow





and he LOVED it!





George's first trip down the hill.....



Luke's first ride!



TIME FOR SNOWBALL FIGHTS............. 

                           

.....AND more SLEDDING

...UNTIL Tommy tangled with the Charlie Brown Tree.....

eating snow

The anatomically correct Snowman.........

Building Captain Jack Sparrow....the Snowman



...ok the snow is fun....but I COLD....CAN WE GO INSIDE NOW .....please?!

 



and after a night of FARTING....we went home :)



Judianne & Sylvia

THE END.

 

i am researching and documenting the story of my family.  if you want to share my journey check out www.judianne-islandgirl3.blogspot.com

one person that i would truly like to find is my grandfather.

he was a 'paper son' with 'bought papers' that my grandmother's mother provided for him to make the journey to america and marry her daughter.

because of this, and because rumor has it that he jumped ship when it made port in San Francisco, it is extremely difficult to find any documentation of his existence prior to finding him in the 1938 phone directory for san francisco.

the things i do know about him:
he was kind & caring
he took care of his family, and his extended family of nieces and nephews
he did not speak much english

his REAL name was KU FON
his name in america was PETER FON DONG
he died in 1980

he jumped ship when he arrived in San Francisco
he worked as a long shoreman where he fell off the side of a ship and broke both his feet
he worked as a private chef in several white families homes
he named my father after commander kirby, one of his employers, whom he greatly admired
he had a restaurant on california street and divisadero called kay's fountain.

this last little tidbit has always puzzled me as i did not know 'who' kay was.....but tonight i may have found an important piece of the puzzle.  while flipping through scanned documents related to naturalization on the familysearch.org website, i came across two documents naming the persons as KAY DONG. at first i dimissed this information as i immediately thought it was a female.....but then i remembered the restaurant...and wondered what if?

i flipped over to ancestry.com and found a number of records referring to KAY DONG and lo and behold.....KAY DONG was a male.  i need to do more research as the birthdates and the arrival ports don't seem to match up......but MAYBE just MAYBE i have found an important clue as to what his paper name was.........

....stay tuned as i continue this sleuthing.

LIFE

The adventure of life is to learn. ♥ ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ ♥The purpose of life is to grow.

The nature of life is to change. ♥ ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ ♥The challenge of life is to overcome.

The essence of life is to care. ♥ ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ ♥The opportunity of life is to serve.

The secret of life is to dare.♥ ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ ♥The beauty of life is to give.

The joy of life is to love. ♥ ♥ ♥

 

(i hi-jacked this from my dear friend.....it sums up the purpose of my life.....i live it ~ do you?)

go NINERS!!!! that was one NAIL BITING game!!!!

had a very nice day all around. woke up to beautiful Lukey sayin' it's light outside...no more time for sleeping....and we watch Capt Jack Sparrow kill Davy Jones while Rob slept.

then we went 'home' (their house) cuz Georgie was waiting for me to help him bake a red velvet cake....

sylvia made enchiladas mas buenos!!! y salsa & chips.......IT WAS FREAKIN' ONOLICIOUS!

and we watched the Niners BEAT the Saints in one of the best nail bitin' play-off games I've ever seen!!!!

the highlight of the day ..... spending time with good friends and making memories.

warm and toasty morning comfort

.....venti......extra hot......n-fat....CHAI TEA LATTE....oh how you make mornings bearable....please do not desert me.....never turn your back on me....even tho' more efficient peoples say i am wrong and wasteful to spend my $3.95 every day on your lucious creamy goodness.....

your cinnamon-y pepper flavored steaming liquid is like gold showering down from the heavens wrapping me in comfort and security....preparing me to face the cold faceless day ahead

donations to the CARING FOR JUDIANNE'S CHAI TEA ADDICTION FUND can be made via starbuck's cards in your locality.

SUNDAY .... and a SUNNY DAY

well - i had ONE comment so at least i know that ONE PERSON is listening to my ravings......

for you MY ONE PERSON i will keep my promise and answer my own questions....

i TRY not to have expectations - overall, my tendency to build something or someone up to larger than life can prove disasterous --- who can possibly live up to all the perfection that i project out there into the atmosphere?!?! so in my own twisted thought process - it is better to have no expectations than to expect and be disappointed - cuz then, heck, if you are some how surprised by someone or something doing or being more than you expected then BONUS RAINBOOTS!!!

i have a difficult time setting goals (and i see resolutions as goals) so i am trying babysteps.....i want better health. i am approaching that on many different facets......i am conciously trying to avoid foods made with HFCS, i am trying to eat more fruits vegetables, i am trying (not very successfully) to get more sleep at night.....and the hardest one of all. i am TRYING to find time to go to the club and workout.

this last one proves most difficult because it relies on scheduling my life around others needs.

as to the future of 2012....it's a brand new year, full of hope. anticipating new adventures and revisiting family and friends to make memories for the days ahead.


ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE?!?! i'd LOVE to hear from you!!!!!

first friday of 2012

has this year lived up to expectations so far? have resolutions been put into play? how is today different from the one 365 days ago?

i'm curious to know how you would answer these questions.

leave me comments with your answers ........ if you do, i will answer too! (otherwise i'm just sitting here talking to myself....and that will only serve as a basis for me to check into the looney bin!!)

yesterday was a totally ungrounded random day.

the lack of family is most significant from thanksgiving through to about superbowl.....

reminiscing about the 'good ol' days' always reminds me of all the parties we had......any occasion was a good occasion for everyone to come together and celebrate, but ESPECIALLY on holidays.....decorations and food & drink & togetherness.  playing silly games and telling funny stories.....and always with the new recipes to try PLUS the family standard favorites.

now we just don't have that anymore....family is all gone. friends have their own families to celebrate with it's just me and sometimes haoleboy - if he's not working...no reason to decorate, no reason to cook fun foods. empty echoing walls.

i don't want it to be this way........not forever!!!







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from the bowls of the abyss
there came a deep and
gutteral growl...................
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follow me....where i go....what i do....who i know...

....won't you take my hand and come and follow me?

lol...'course on the flip side of this coin.
if you DO follow me.......
i have to have something profound (or inconsequetial) to say to you on a fairly regular basis......

which IN TURN means you NEED to give me comments. i CRAVE the unadultrated attention!

day 4

....new for 2012. i will try to keep my randomness incheck by placing it all in this spot.
if you want, join the ride.......i PROMISE their will be ups & downs.....possibly sideways twists & turns too