Can you believe we are already in JULY!? July of 2010, wowzers! Mom was right, the older you get the faster the years fly by, scary!
I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend! Today is the first day of the week for me since I was off yesterday... I had a nice weekend relaxing, on the fourth my boyfriend and I went over to my mom's house for an amazing barbecue! Ohhhhh... the homemade coleslaw and potato salad, the baked beans and the burgeeeerrrssss.... Darn, it's 8:00 am and I'm starving! It was all incredibly delicious - thanks again mom!
Anyway, my man and I managed to roll each other home (like stuffed piglets) by ten o'clock or so, and that's counting the extra 15-20 minutes we spent inching along in Sunday night Fourth-of-July-in-Miami-traffic! There were so many people flooding into Downtown Miami and over the causeway to Miami Beach (at 10pm) that there was bumper to bumper traffic as far as the eye could see, creeping allllll the way over the causeway. It took us a couple of minutes to exit into downtown along with all of the club goers and then to make it through the few "Wild Wild West" (see this article) blocks of clubs and busy parking lots bustling with annoying men waving flags risking their lives in the street of crazy Miami drivers, competing with each other to try and lure the most clubbers to their parking lot! These lots jack up the prices according to the events that are going on that day or night.... sometimes as high as $40 (that I've seen)!
So whatever, we endured a lot of traffic before finally getting into our building, then we plopped onto the sofa and soaked in the rest of the night with some Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (love that show, love Guy Fieri! Is it just me or is that guy always stoned? I swear he is!). As for the rest of the weekend, it was a combination of: being lazy, cooking, cleaning, Law and Order, doing laundry, HGTV, sorting through boxes of stuff separating things to sell in an upcoming garage sale (more on that later), folding clothes, Law and Order, watering plants, Food Network, surfing the web and so on. As predicted by the abominable weather on Friday, most of the weekend was dark and rainy - like most Fourth of July weekends in Miami. My theory is that these days Mother Nature is not about to let us enjoy perfect weather on holidays, oh no, why should she? What have we done to deserve it? Hmmm...
On another note, today is Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's birthday - she would have been 103 years old today if she were alive, hehe! Born in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico city, Frida Kahlo survived polio at fifteen and soon after began a premedical program at Mexico City's National Preparatory School. Unfortunately, a few years later her training came to an abrupt end when she was terribly injured in a bus accident. For the rest of her life Frida Kahlo endured agonizing pain and multiple surgeries as a result of this accident, however it was during this difficult time that she began oil painting. Most of her art consists of self-portraits and still lifes which strongly reflect her personal struggles, including her love for and tumultuous marriage to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and especially the pain of her injuries.
Despite her many hardships, Frida Kahlo was a strong and beautiful artist whose passion transcended overwhelming pains and struggles and flourished in the world of art. Like many artists, Frida Kahlo's success and popularity has grown enormously following her death in 1954. It's sad that a talented and vibrant person like her passed away at such a young age, but we will always remember Frida for her colorful and creative artwork and for the strong passion that propelled her through seemingly insurmountable troubles! Cheers Frida Kahlo, you are an inspiration!
For more information on the life and artwork of Frida Kahlo check out FridaKahlo.com or watch the 2002 movie 'Frida' with Salma Hayek.
"Personda en la Muerte"
Self-portrait with Monkey and Parrot
Self-portrait with Monkey
"Autorretarto con Collre de Espinas y Colibri" 1940
I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend! Today is the first day of the week for me since I was off yesterday... I had a nice weekend relaxing, on the fourth my boyfriend and I went over to my mom's house for an amazing barbecue! Ohhhhh... the homemade coleslaw and potato salad, the baked beans and the burgeeeerrrssss.... Darn, it's 8:00 am and I'm starving! It was all incredibly delicious - thanks again mom!
Anyway, my man and I managed to roll each other home (like stuffed piglets) by ten o'clock or so, and that's counting the extra 15-20 minutes we spent inching along in Sunday night Fourth-of-July-in-Miami-traffic! There were so many people flooding into Downtown Miami and over the causeway to Miami Beach (at 10pm) that there was bumper to bumper traffic as far as the eye could see, creeping allllll the way over the causeway. It took us a couple of minutes to exit into downtown along with all of the club goers and then to make it through the few "Wild Wild West" (see this article) blocks of clubs and busy parking lots bustling with annoying men waving flags risking their lives in the street of crazy Miami drivers, competing with each other to try and lure the most clubbers to their parking lot! These lots jack up the prices according to the events that are going on that day or night.... sometimes as high as $40 (that I've seen)!
So whatever, we endured a lot of traffic before finally getting into our building, then we plopped onto the sofa and soaked in the rest of the night with some Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (love that show, love Guy Fieri! Is it just me or is that guy always stoned? I swear he is!). As for the rest of the weekend, it was a combination of: being lazy, cooking, cleaning, Law and Order, doing laundry, HGTV, sorting through boxes of stuff separating things to sell in an upcoming garage sale (more on that later), folding clothes, Law and Order, watering plants, Food Network, surfing the web and so on. As predicted by the abominable weather on Friday, most of the weekend was dark and rainy - like most Fourth of July weekends in Miami. My theory is that these days Mother Nature is not about to let us enjoy perfect weather on holidays, oh no, why should she? What have we done to deserve it? Hmmm...
On another note, today is Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's birthday - she would have been 103 years old today if she were alive, hehe! Born in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico city, Frida Kahlo survived polio at fifteen and soon after began a premedical program at Mexico City's National Preparatory School. Unfortunately, a few years later her training came to an abrupt end when she was terribly injured in a bus accident. For the rest of her life Frida Kahlo endured agonizing pain and multiple surgeries as a result of this accident, however it was during this difficult time that she began oil painting. Most of her art consists of self-portraits and still lifes which strongly reflect her personal struggles, including her love for and tumultuous marriage to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and especially the pain of her injuries.
Despite her many hardships, Frida Kahlo was a strong and beautiful artist whose passion transcended overwhelming pains and struggles and flourished in the world of art. Like many artists, Frida Kahlo's success and popularity has grown enormously following her death in 1954. It's sad that a talented and vibrant person like her passed away at such a young age, but we will always remember Frida for her colorful and creative artwork and for the strong passion that propelled her through seemingly insurmountable troubles! Cheers Frida Kahlo, you are an inspiration!
For more information on the life and artwork of Frida Kahlo check out FridaKahlo.com or watch the 2002 movie 'Frida' with Salma Hayek.
Some black and white photos of Frida that I love.....
A few of Frida's self-portraits...
"Personda en la Muerte"
Self-portrait with Monkey and Parrot
Self-portrait with Monkey
"Autorretarto con Collre de Espinas y Colibri" 1940 ~*~*~
I love this gorgeous vibrant oil painting of Frida Kahlo by artist Jerrold Carton, you can buy a print in several forms or even the original painting here.....
(All images via a Google image search unless otherwise noted. All information from FridaKahlo.com and Wikipedia)
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