I am an old bed mattress...
Congratulatoins...
...to my coworker Paul Navarro and his wife Jennifer. They had a baby boy the other night. John Patrick was born at 9:20pm at 6lbs 14oz., 19 1/4 inches.
London is too funny...this is an excerpt of an e-mail my sister sent me. We were talking about stuff we need from target cuz we're supposed to go today, and here's what she said...
"I need...
...A toothbrush for London b/c I caught her using hers to clean the sink.
Ewww!
Then she started crying."
-How sad that she started crying, but I could totally picture her doing that.
Seriously, what is up with the weather lately? It was Africa Hot up until about Monday, where it got pretty darn cold and cloud cover seemed to appear at about 5-ish. And now it's hot again. What up w/ that yo? I know I used to want to be a weatherman, and I even took a meteorology class, so I should know...I guess I can look it up on WHY, but it's still weird. Summer seems to have been quite short this year, unless things really heat up again...
Let's boogie
Btw - 9 years ago today, the Number ONE song in the US was the MACARENA. Here is some info about the wonderful song many of us might not have known:
* The Macarena is a song by Los del Río, about a woman so called. It was originally released in 1993, as a new flamenco rumba pop fusion theme with fully Spanish lyrics, with a significant success in Spain. After being remixed by the Bayside Boys and having English lyrics added, it became a worldwide summer hit in 1996. It was associated with a distinctive fast dance. The song originally had no dance, until a Venezuelan Flamenco instructor created it for her class to dance to, and it eventually caught on with the rest of the world. During its heyday, it was played incessantly at professional athletic games, rallies, the United States Democratic Party's National Convention, and other places. The Macarena remained popular through 1996, but by the end of 1997, its popularity had diminished greatly.
* The Macarena dance is performed in time with the refrain of the song. To perform the dance, one places one's arms out, palm down, right arm, then left arm. Then the dancer turns his arms over, right, then left. The dancer puts his hands on his shoulders, first right hand on left shoulder, then left on right. Then the dancer puts his hands on his head, again right, then left. The dancer then places his arms on his hips, right hand on left hip, then left on right, places the hands on their respective hips, right then left, and finishes with a pelvic rotation in time with the line "Hey Macarena!" Then the dancer turns 90 degrees clockwise and repeats the same motions throughout the whole song. An alternative version of the dance replaces the pelvic rotation with a series of pelvic thrusts, as shown in the video for Los del Mar's recording of the song.
* In VH1's documentary 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders Macarena was ranked as number one.
* On a different VH1 documentary, titled 40 Awesomely Bad No. 1 Songs, Macarena was ranked as number one.
(Courtesy of wikipedia)
All hail the Macarena. Thank you for almost a decade of this wondrous dance :)
...to my coworker Paul Navarro and his wife Jennifer. They had a baby boy the other night. John Patrick was born at 9:20pm at 6lbs 14oz., 19 1/4 inches.
London is too funny...this is an excerpt of an e-mail my sister sent me. We were talking about stuff we need from target cuz we're supposed to go today, and here's what she said...
"I need...
...A toothbrush for London b/c I caught her using hers to clean the sink.
Ewww!
Then she started crying."
-How sad that she started crying, but I could totally picture her doing that.
Seriously, what is up with the weather lately? It was Africa Hot up until about Monday, where it got pretty darn cold and cloud cover seemed to appear at about 5-ish. And now it's hot again. What up w/ that yo? I know I used to want to be a weatherman, and I even took a meteorology class, so I should know...I guess I can look it up on WHY, but it's still weird. Summer seems to have been quite short this year, unless things really heat up again...
Let's boogie
Btw - 9 years ago today, the Number ONE song in the US was the MACARENA. Here is some info about the wonderful song many of us might not have known:
* The Macarena is a song by Los del Río, about a woman so called. It was originally released in 1993, as a new flamenco rumba pop fusion theme with fully Spanish lyrics, with a significant success in Spain. After being remixed by the Bayside Boys and having English lyrics added, it became a worldwide summer hit in 1996. It was associated with a distinctive fast dance. The song originally had no dance, until a Venezuelan Flamenco instructor created it for her class to dance to, and it eventually caught on with the rest of the world. During its heyday, it was played incessantly at professional athletic games, rallies, the United States Democratic Party's National Convention, and other places. The Macarena remained popular through 1996, but by the end of 1997, its popularity had diminished greatly.
* The Macarena dance is performed in time with the refrain of the song. To perform the dance, one places one's arms out, palm down, right arm, then left arm. Then the dancer turns his arms over, right, then left. The dancer puts his hands on his shoulders, first right hand on left shoulder, then left on right. Then the dancer puts his hands on his head, again right, then left. The dancer then places his arms on his hips, right hand on left hip, then left on right, places the hands on their respective hips, right then left, and finishes with a pelvic rotation in time with the line "Hey Macarena!" Then the dancer turns 90 degrees clockwise and repeats the same motions throughout the whole song. An alternative version of the dance replaces the pelvic rotation with a series of pelvic thrusts, as shown in the video for Los del Mar's recording of the song.
* In VH1's documentary 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders Macarena was ranked as number one.
* On a different VH1 documentary, titled 40 Awesomely Bad No. 1 Songs, Macarena was ranked as number one.
(Courtesy of wikipedia)
All hail the Macarena. Thank you for almost a decade of this wondrous dance :)
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