I'm still here... the last week has been a bit crazy catching up on things.

We've got a church leaders retreat thingy on this weekend too...

Hey, there was a blog party on at tink's site...all for me.

Check out the cake...

According to Wikipedia this is what happened January the year of my birth...

January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance.
January 2 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
January 2 - Castro's troops approach Havana.
January 3 - Island of Addu in the Maldives declares independence.
January 3 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
January 4 - In Cuba rebel troops lead by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter Havana.
January 4 - In Léopoldville 42 people killed during clashes between police & participants of a meeting of the Abako party.
January 6 - Fidel Castro arrives in Havana.
January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
January 8 - Charles De Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic.
January 13 - Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista.
January 22 - Knox Mine Disaster - water breaches River Slope mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania - 12 miners dead.

pretty momentous january ... NOT!!

ALTHOUGH...

February 15 - Mattel's Barbie doll goes on sale in the USA. AND...
January 21 1793 - After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.

Other 21st of January babies:
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comic and singer (d. 1992)
1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1924 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)

... can't quite work out the connection!!