vendredi 4 février 2011
Here is a picture of my beautiful sister Leah and me. This was summer of 2003 or 2004, age 23 or so, when I went out to visit her in California (before she moved to Thailand).
Can you tell we are sisters?
PS The correct response to yesterday's name guessing game was:
Aloysius
It is an old German name, pronounced (get this) Al-o-wish-us.
My grandfather promised his fortune to whichever of his kids named a grandchild after him. Nobody did. Probably for several reasons:
- There wasn't much fortune
- He was probably joking anyway
- Who wants to name their kid Aloysius nowdays?
I remember once we were having a family reunion when the phone rang.
"May I please speak to Mr. Smith?"
"Which one?" (there were about 10 Mr. Smiths present in the room)
Hesitant pause. "Al-oy-seee-us?"
"Dad, it's a telemarketer for you!"
So congratulations to chcmichael from Our House in Provence !
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Hi! Stopping by to see if you're surviving the winter. I can see your thoughts are somewhere warm.
My motivation for blogging has gone down the toilet for now. Hope to talk to you again in the Spring.
Thanks for the congrats! I have to be honest...Google is an amazing tool...just Googled "German names starting in AL and up popped a dozen or so. And yes, there is a big family resemblence between your sister and you.