i received an email from my sister this morning.
it’s wonderful to be able to see some kind of history of your family.
it’s difficult to find anything on my family from both sides because of immigration and well let me just say it —WWII.
anyways, back to the email. my sister found an article that was about my grandma and her family. this is what the article said with the pictures below:
After a day of office work, the Oda sisters like to play their record player and try out the latest swing records. Ariye (left) is selecting the disks she wants to hear, while her sister, Sumi, is turning the machine on to one of the songs on the Hit Parade. Ariye and Sumi work as cost accountant and stock clerk respectively in Rockford, Illinois, a city of some 90,000 people, 90 miles northwest of Chicago. They formerly lived in Sacramento, California prior to evacuation to the Tule Lake Relocation Center. —
In their smartly furnished upstairs apartment in the Rockford residential section, the Oda family spends many pleasant evenings together. With her three daughters working all day, Mrs. Oda is happy when evening comes and the family can gather in the living room to read, study, or just to talk and listen to the radio. Left to right are: Sumi, a stock clerk and a student at the Rockford Business College; Fumi, a bookkeeper; Ariye, a cost accountant and also a business college student; and Mrs. Ariye Oda. Ariye and Sumi attend business college two nights a week for advance study. The Oda family is formerly from Sacramento, California and the Tule Lake Relocation Center. Mrs. Oda has two sons, Philip, a sergeant at Camp Shelby, and Hiromi, a shipping clerk in New York. The Odas have been in Rockford several months and have found the city much to their liking. They have made many new friends and have found their new jobs interesting. In the picture, Sumi is studying her homework, Ariye is looking for her favorite continued story, while Fumi and her mother are looking at the newspaper. By the lamp in the background is a picture of Sgt. Philip Oda.
looking into the past and seeing your grandma when she was our ages is just wonderful. not to mention, as my sister said, their style was so “donna reid”. haha.
my grandma’s even got the “S” on her sweater. haha. this was waaay before laverne & shirley. :)
thanks jessica for this awesome email today. oh, and HAPPY 50th Hawaii! :)
4 years and counting…
i cannot believe how fast life can go by when you’re insanely happy.
people asked me “what’s the secret to making a relationship last for so long?”
i responded that it all depended on the people in the relationship.
that it’s a matter of knowing how much you’re willing to work at keeping it.
it was quite strange because after this conversation that i had,
i went onto my twitter and saw that @mrskutcher had RT this quote:
”You learn 2 love, not by finding a perfect person, but by learning 2 see an imperfect person perfectly.“ :)
this year we enjoyed our anniversary with dinner and a couple of games of bowling.
it was a wonderful day — not to mention the fact that i played the best i have so far in bowling than i have for a long time.
it's my sister's birthday. :)
last year she wanted a birthday party like we had when we were kids,
and this year she wants it at INDIGOs.
it shall be fun. :)
So my sister's been hounding me to read this book. So much so that she forced me to take her copy home and read it.
I started reading it with no intent on getting sucked in. I read half a chapter here, half a chapter there. This way i couldn't focus on how great this vampire love story that everyone was raving about.
Yesterday after work and studying i sat at our desk and started to read it. I felt okay i'm going to commit to it. The movie is going to come out soon, so if i want the full effect of what the book can give me, i must read it now.
BAD IDEA! i spent the rest of the day reading the book and was able to finish half of it. If it wasn't for my boyfriend telling me to go to sleep, i wouldn't have put that book down. I totally understand the hype on this book...and the series. It is just so damn interesting. My oldest sister read the first and second book in a weekend. geez!
So i was reading it today after work but got side tracked. I couldn't stop thinking about making a some kind of blend with Edward and Bella. So i put down my book, and created this simple picture. I guess i got excited when i found the twilight font thats used on the book. :)
I hope you all like it.
(click on the image to see the enlarged image)
-jackie
-jackie
Today i can proudly stand and say, "IM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!"
I know that change is upon us, and im embracing it with open arms.
I voted, and is damn proud with this country and its decision. :)
President Obama's acceptance speech was moving and inspirational so much so that it brought tears to my eyes.
Today will go down in history and i can finally breathe a little bit easier now knowing that there's hope for a better country for my kids than the one "we've inherited".
"It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America."
i'm so happy that i haven't stopped smiling since the news of our elected President.
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