My brother sent me this picture and Im not sure but I think he found this when we're preparing for our family reunion.

 

I totally loved footie pajamas as little kid.  I can't figure out why I'm flipping thru the pages of a book, I COULDN'T read.  :?  At that point in my life I most likely knew more Spanish words than English words.

 

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres toddler MTS, circa 1969

 

I don't have any baby pictures, my mom has them all.

 

Growing up with both languages do you ever think in Spanish??

Growing up with both languages do you ever think in Spanish??

Everyday.  I speak both languages fluently.  I speak w/family members and staff members in Spanish, as about 20% of my staff is Latino; and living in NYC you can't help but speak Spanish.  Since three of my moms siblings on the west side won't venture into the suburbs, when I go there I speak Spanish.

 

My Grandparents speak and understand English, my grand mother more so than my grand father. Prior to leaving PR, my Grandmother, Mother and Aunt learned English because of they were in pageants.  When my grandparents decided to come to Cleveland a few years after my mom and Aunt we're relocated from Miami to Cleveland, they moved to the Clevelands west side, as that section of their neighborhood spoke Spanish.  My moms youngest brother is the only person who grew up totally bilingual.  When my Grandparents came to the States, my moms siblings were all in their late teens early twenties, except my uncle who was 4 or 5, so the older males were forced to learn enough English to find work.  They only time they didn't have to speak English is when they went between the barrio on the west side and the barrio on the East side (Broadway & 70).  All of my cousins are bilingual as well.

yeah yeah, cute...and from the peabody generation no less. what strikes me most...

"When my grandparents decided to come to Cleveland a few years after my mom and Aunt we're relocated from Miami to Cleveland, they moved to the Clevelands west side"

You have had your Prada clad self on the west side?....no way.

 

 

yeah yeah, cute...and from the peabody generation no less. what strikes me most...

"When my grandparents decided to come to Cleveland a few years after my mom and Aunt we're relocated from Miami to Cleveland, they moved to the Cleveland's west side"

You have had your Prada clad self on the west side?....no way.

 

 

 

As the pope would say, "that made me giggle" :-D  I slum on the west side occasionally!  LOL JUST KIDDING.

 

Its funny most of my moms siblings, their children (my cousins) and their children all live on the westside.  My Uncle is worst than you, when it comes to patronizing businesses in the suburbs.  When my grand parents moved from the westside to Cleveland Hts., he swore he would never set foot in Cleveland Hts.  Over the years, he's soften a little and comes over on a special occasions, but he hates the suburbs, especially CH, SH & Beachwood.  The only time he leaves Cleveland is to go to Lorain since that is where my Aunt's (his wife) family lives.

The only time he leaves Cleveland is to go to Lorain since that is where my Aunt's (his wife) family lives.

 

as i was reading that i was wondering when we going to get to that part, you kept me waiting papa - hehe. nice fam story!

The only time he leaves Cleveland is to go to Lorain since that is where my Aunt's (his wife) family lives.

 

as i was reading that i was wondering when we going to get to that part, you kept me waiting papa - hehe. nice fam story!

 

Yeah I thought you'd get a kick out of the Lorain connection!  lol

 

please, my family is like the black and spanish version of "brothers & sister" meets the Jeffersons & Cosby's and we all live in knots landing!

 

OK folks...where are you kiddie picks?!

Rockin 89 maybe?? i dunno i was either two or three so 89 or 90..

 

I'm the smallest person in this picture...my grandpa is on the left (greatest man who ever lived, just lost him in February), my oldest brother is next, then me, then my namesake, my great-uncle Ethan, all on my grandpa's farm in Norwalk, in 1977.

 

 

lawd, so many good pictures today.

lawd, so many good pictures today.

 

I know, right.  You have the HBIC, who looks all innocent, who knew?!; DJ Orion as super mario infront of a MC Hammer poster in '89; and Riverview with a classic 70s snowman, wearing those boots with the snaps that I hated with a passion.

 

All we need know is someone to post a picture wearing Granimals or the dreaded "naked in the bathtub" picture that everyone parents thinks is oh, so cute!

. Prior to leaving PR, my Grandmother, Mother and Aunt learned English because of they were in pageants..

 

So thats what all the Amazonian-esq chicks in your family have been up to.  Now all the crowns at are you aunt & uncles house make sense.

Rockin 89 maybe?? i dunno i was either two or three so 89 or 90..

 

I think I had the same outfit. I loved Super Mario Bros.

^ Yeah I don't even remember that at all... When I was a little older I had all power rangers and thomas the tank engine pj's haha...

Nintendo. It's a cereal now. Nintendo. It's a cereal, wow!

I grew up on Mario Bros, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Duck Hunt and all those Nintendo games. Some of my earliest childhood memories include me blowing into those giant cartridges trying to get the game to work.

Some of my earliest childhood memories include me blowing into those giant cartridges trying to get the game to work.

 

LOL, I'd forgotten about that.

Here I am circa 1977 or 1978 rockin' the Pooh.

I grew up on Mario Bros, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Duck Hunt and all those Nintendo games. Some of my earliest childhood memories include me blowing into those giant cartridges trying to get the game to work.

 

I tended to throw mine around the room as well, which often got them to work oddly enough.

The very picture of sweet innocence...

:roll:

 

ome of my earliest childhood memories include me blowing into those giant cartridges trying to get the game to work.

Hell i used erasers to clean the contacts..lol

The very picture of sweet innocence...

:roll:

 

You and Rob with this "innocent" stuff.  humph!

Everyone seems to be posting young photos of themselves, but I don't have any online, save for a few from when I traveled to France 8 years ago (age 17).  I'll post one and it's from the top of the Eiffel Tower:

 

 

 

Otherwise, here's a recent photo taken last month while getting drunk on Appletinis in Cincy: :D

 

^It looks like you've really held onto your eyecolor.

Haha.  I'm always stuck with red eyes in photos.  Unless it's a professional photograph, such as school pictures, I will 99% of the time have red eyes.  Not sure what it is that causes it to happen.

It's light reflecting off the backs of your retinas, common among blue-eyed people and/or the damned.

LOL ... KOOW, where the hell do you come up with this stuff?! Damn ... funny as hell.

 

I credit the lingering headcold. Thanks, though.

Kingfish at work, 10/31/07:

 

 

I don't EVEN want to know where you tucked your tail!  :-P

^Between my legs, as usual.

THAT was stunning.

 

What a fashionable devil!

^^Even more stunning, I lost out in the company costume contest to two coworkers dressed as the "D!ck in a Box" guys.

 

^That's as stylish as this guy gets anymore.

funny, in my mind, i had envisioned larger horns and slightly less flamboyant.

The horns were temporary, but the flamboyance is forever.

We would have never suspected that from any of your posts...

The horns were temporary, but the flamboyance is forever.

 

Don't even THINK about trying to muscle in on my turf!

 

ILMAO! Mayday, rest assured no one has come close to your "phase" picture on Urban Ohio! Classic.

We would have never suspected that from any of your posts...

 

It's not so much flamboyance as flamguyance. Far be it from me to horn in on anybody's kingdom... 

Kingfish at work, 10/31/07:

 

Thanks. Nightmares for me tonight.

 

Randomness.  I'm on the left with the Texas shot glass.

Yes I know this is your typical "Myspace mirror shot" but there is more to it haha.

 

My girlfriend straightened my hair on NYE.. go figure haha and I really like it straight...  I miss it straight...

 

This was taken about a year and a half ago but first person to guess my age gets a quarter

I wanna say 22. Btw, Eminem's last album was terrible. It was all downhill after The Eminem Show.

I'm going to guess 20.

This was taken about a year and a half ago but first person to guess my age gets a quarter

 

A quart of what?

^^^21

We need the one with Mayday in swimming trunks on the sandy beach for polar bear swim!