The Fortune Cookie and it's Consequences

It seems that the "Fortune Cookie" is more than just a cookie. I say this because of a recent event that occurred.

Before I get to that I was curious about where the cookie came from so I Goggled it like any good blogger would and this is what I found..........

" Chinese or Japanese, Angelino or San Franciscan?

One history of the fortune cookie claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, invented the cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets. Each cookie contained a strip of paper with an inspirational Bible scripture on it, written for Jung by a Presbyterian minister.

Another history claims that the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco by a Japanese immigrant named Makoto Hagiwara. Hagiwara was a gardener who designed the famous Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. An anti-Japanese mayor fired him from his job around the turn of the century, but later a new mayor reinstated him. Grateful to those who had stood by him during his period of hardship, Hagiwara created a cookie in 1914 that included a thank you note inside. He passed them out at the Japanese Tea Garden, and began serving them there regularly. In 1915, they were displayed at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco's world fair."

Read more: The History of the Fortune Cookie — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#ixzz27xorJZ00  "

The reason I even bring up the fortune cookie is because a year ago my daughter and son in law finally had the opportunity to adopt a baby boy.  They had been trying to have kids for years and a couple of times even had chances to adopt but all failed until recently.

With out going into great detail the adoption agency found a young women who was putting her unborn up for adoption and my daughter and son in law were picked to be the new parents.

Now to the point of the story.  

They met with the mother and offered to take her out to dinner and asked where would she like to go and she said she liked Asian food so they went to an Asian restaurant and with their food of couese they got fortune cookies.

My daughter opened her cookie and read the fortune. It said something along the lines of " What you have been wishing for will come true soon" and the next day the baby (his name is Lukas) was born.  The adoption went through with no problems and now he is one year old living with my daughter Stephenie and her husband Chad.

So say what you will about fortune cookies but be careful what you wish for when you crack it open. 

That fortune in the cookie may just come true.


Thanks for reading

Brooks

What's on my brain today?

I was thinking the other day ( which is a bad thing sometimes for me) about what to do this year about all the projects I have started and never finished or no desire to participate in.

I have Facebook I totally don't need anymore, too much advertising and games and just way too much b#@%$h%t, I have long ago got rid of MySpace so that's one thing I don't have to worry about. Google + is starting to get like Facebook.  I have Picasa for my pictures but now it's attached to Google+  photos and I don't know how to upload direct back to just Picasa anymore.

My real website is just no fun anymore because I am not in a band and no one has a need to go there. I do like having that site though but I can't really figure out what to do with anymore. Maybe I change it to a photo site or something. Hey how about porn? No that ain't happening. I could start a trucking scrap book but I really don't go far enough to make really interesting.

At least I have this place. Plain and simple to use, people check it out, it's free which is always good, so maybe out of all the project's have I'll just keep this one and maybe goodbye to all the rest, except http://www.utcrockandroll.net because one day I may learn how to be a webmaster put some real content on there.

So I guess for now I'll go take an aspirin,drink a beer and wait for the football games to start.