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Zucchini Bisque 5月25日 Russian Zombie Chickens revisited...Apparently, there is a film festival in Moscow where Zombie Chickens are being featured in TWO, yes TWO seperate films. From the Mixed up files of Mr. Thomas A Wicker:
The first chicken-zombie horror comedy and the latest film from notorious "Kids" director Larry Clark, "Wassup Rockers," will be among the oddball offerings at the Drugoye Kino film festival, which opens at Rolan (in Moscow) on Thursday.....
That film is followed by "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead," a spoof horror movie set in a fast-food restaurant. Directed by Lloyd Kaufman and produced by Troma Entertainment, a company that specializes in gory low-budget movies, "Poultrygeist" was shown out of competition at the Cannes film festival this month. It has yet to go on wide release.
So I am beginning to wonder what was really in those drinks at Ruby Tuesday's in Mebane that night in March. 4月27日 JCICS & BBWMy company has several charitable ventures throughout this year. For the month of May, there are 2 things going on. First we are doing our annual "Stuffed with Hugs" event. Our guests are welcome to come in and stuff 200 bears in each store for free and the bears are donated to a different charity (last year, kids with parents serving in Iraq, 2 years ago, kids effected by the tsunami in Southeast Asia, in 2002, kids of first responders in the NYC area, etc). They also sell purple satin hearts for $1 and the proceeds go to different children's charities (cancer research, diabetes, research, autism awareness and the like). This year the proceeds from the hearts & the bears are being distributed to the JCICS (Joint Council on International Children's Services). One of their main functions is to oversee international adoptions, educate adoptive parents, check up on orphanages, etc. So obviously this is going to be near & dear to my heart.
For more information, check out www.buildabear.com or http://www.jcics.org/babw.htm
Heather 3月21日 Russian Zombie Chickens?!OK, so after a consensus of our closest friends, here's where we stand:
Jenn is unemployed, Thomas is unemployed, Christina is a perpetual student (and therefore underemployed), Stephanie is unemployed, Lenise is about to be unemployed, I'm underemployed, our friend Tony is about to be unemployed, Bob and Scott are both close to getting their bachelors and are therefore job hunting. So after some alcohol and a long rather bizarre conversation with Lenise, Thomas and Christina, here is what we are proposing. We're starting our own form of a crime syndicate: the Russian Zombie Chickens....our main source of income would be counterfeiting Russian Rubles, converting them into Euros and buying up property on the Italian Riviera which we could then rent out to the newly minted Russian Billionaires. But we would also have legitimate ventures in retaurants (The croak 'n cluck: southern, french & russian fusion cuisines (fried chicken legs, fried frogs legs and vodka), a craft gallery (Jenn's beadwork, Christina's jewelry, Stephanie's pottery & my whatever) and then as a fall back plan we'd be professional guidance counsellors, since, as Christina put it, we may not know what we're doing, but we're damn good at telling everyone else what they should do.
The name comes from Thomas' attempt at sounding like a Russian chicken that has just been strangled. The noise was so hysterical that we asked him to do it again but after we resurrected the chicken and strangled him anew, he didn't cluck as well the second time around (per Christina "He needed more croak in his cluck" {hence the name of the restaurant}).
Also apparently, it's not against US law to counterfeit foreign currency and as long as we're not converting it into American dollars, the US government won't come after us. I will admit that I am suspicious of this piece of information, but since Thomas is our regulatory affairs guru, Lenise is the economist and Christina is working on dual degrees in Russian politics and bio-terrorism, I will defer to their judgement.
I strongly recommend that if you have any talents you would like to add to our burgeoning enterprise, please feel free to drop us a resume. However, we will only be accepting candidates that are strange enough to fit in with our crowd, but not so strange that they pose any real threat to anyone or are on the verge of being committed to an insane asylum. 1月7日 The ever changing world of adoptionChina has made some pretty major changes in its adoption policies lately. Fortunately, we should not be affected by these, our dossier was in before they go into effect.
To read all the latest, try this website:
Also, these changes have a lot of people talking. including Paula Zahn (http://transcripts. cnn.com/TRANSCRI PTS/0701/ 05/pzn.01. html)
However, her panelists were apparently rather uneducated about the families adopting. So let me clarify here and now: we are not looking for a 'china doll' nor are we adopting from China because we are under some delusion that Asian children are smarter than American children. We are adopting from China because they have one of the more efficient processes with low occurence of corruption. We attempted to adopt through US channels and, for those of you who know us, know it was a complete disaster. We also have family who are Chinese & Chinese-American, so while our daughter will not look like Mommy & Daddy, we know Hope will look like cousins Grace, Christopher & Sam and Uncle Shao-Min. We are confident that she will feel like family throughout her life as much as any biological child would.
We are very much looking to 2007 and this should be the year where we receive our referral, and hopefully this time in 2008 is when we will be travelling to China.
I wish you all happy, healthy, peaceful and productive 2007!!
HLM 9月21日 LID - Logged in date
Well, we got official word that our dossier is in China. Our LID date is Sept 12th. It's a little later than I thought it would be, but at least it's there. The down side of all of this is that the referral wait time is now up to 14 months. That means we'll get our referral in November and we'd travel in late December (not likely) or early January 2008. The wait just grows and grows and grows!!! How aggravating! Considering that we started this in October 2005, having to wait until January 2008 (27 months) is not a happy thought. Keep us in your prayers, maybe China will speed up their review process and we'll actually have Hope sooner rather than later. Ciao
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