I've been more and more interested in trying and making Indian food lately. I make Mark Bittman's dal and even the neighbor kids like it. But I don't know much about the cuisine and all of the recipes I've cooked actually come from old white guys (Bittman, and Andrew Weil.) Indian ...

My oldest little sister (when you have a big family, you have lots of convoluted relations) is

TWENTY FIVE

today!

Happy Birthday Rosy!

A recap of the year you were born:

Stamps cost 20 cents.

Ronald Reagan was president, and he was sworn in for his second term in 1985.

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the USSR.

Amadeus wins the Oscar for Best Picture.

What’s Love Got to Do With It was album of the year.

All was not good in 1985

We learn of the Infamous Hole In The Ozone Layer. AquaNet will never be the same.

New Coke. Enough said.

No homage to 1985 would be complete without this! This is the “new” version.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ZKyYFyiFA[/youtube]

Some personal highlights:

When you were 2, we moved to Colorado. You got to eat your own mini-box of Cheerios, incurring the ire of the sibs.

One day, you decided to take a walk – up the busy road with the yellow stripe down the middle. The police brought you home.

When you were 3, we moved to house we all grew up in, more or less.

I can’t believe you talked me into taking you to a Backstreet Boys concert. Was it Backstreet Boys? I don’t remember. All those boy bands kind of blur together in an angsty fog.

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Kaira May 11, 2010 at 9:35 am

Backstreet Boys… lol… but that Justin Timberlake sure has brought sexy back!
.-= Kaira´s last blog ..Neither rain, nor wind, nor cold… =-.

Genevieve May 11, 2010 at 3:25 pm

U know ur oldest lil sister is twenty five, ur youngest brother is 29, and ur baby sister is about to turn 18….where have the years gone?

mary alice May 11, 2010 at 6:55 pm

yes it was the BSB.

Rosy May 11, 2010 at 9:38 pm

I remember that walk ending with the cops taking me home. I was angry because you and our older sister got to go out -selling Girl Scout cookies if I remember- and I didn’t get to go out. And thanks again for going to that concert with us – we had infinitely more fun with a laid-back chaperone than we would have with one more strict!