Christmas day

Do you remember waking up at the butt crack of dawn on x-mas day soooo excited? I mean as soon as there was even a hint of light in the sky, your eyes popped open and you snuck out to the tree to peek? Then that annoying wait for your parents to wake the heck up so you can tear open the rock em sock em robots or the easy bake oven? That Looooong painfully tourturous wait as they woke up and slowly (so very slowly) got their robes and slippers on and HAD to have a cup of coffee (postum)? Then they slowly shuffled to the room with the flippin x-mas tree in it and then decided who went first to open gifts? Remember being so annoyed when you got practical gifts like socks, and underwear and the dreadded dress shoes that you knew just by the looks of them would eat at your heals and be unconfortable for the next hundred years because they are slightly too big so "you can grow into them."? Ahh thoose were the days. I remember my pink huffy bike, my glow in the dark globe and the doll house my dad built with his own two hands and my mom decorated herself. (it's in my closet awaiting the little girls I'm expected to produce..oops) I kinda miss those days. It seems that the older my parents get, the earlier they wake up. They were dressed and ready for gifts and waiting on me when I pulled into their drive way on x-mas. It's true, I was excited, for one I knew there was chocolate under that tree, my p.m.s radar located it a few days ago. X-mas was lean this year, I'm sure it was for us all. But since I'm not 7 years old and my easy bake oven has givin away to my easy microwave meals, it's not that big of a deal. Plus I just wanted to play scrabble with my parents like I do eveyday. LOL. When i walked in it smeled like lighter fluid, normaly I wouldn't ask questions, but it was also dark in the house. Having as many nut job ex boyfriends as I do I was on high alert for my parents being held hostage, dipped in flamabal liquid with an angry mexican holding a zippo near enough to them to make me agree to marry him so he can get a green card. But It was just a power outage. There went my theory. The power had been out since 8:00, I arrived around 10:00 and the hurrican lamp oil is what i was smelling. Why we have lamps for a hurricain, i'll never know but there they were shiney and stinky. Karen and Ashley were due to arrive for our x-mas lunch around 12:00 and mom was getting worried that she couldn't cook. I figured we would fake like we were jewish and have chineese food on x-mas, but no one was too hip to my idea. So we opend gifts in the dark, it's been cludy and rainy so the sun wasn't bright. We can still see what we got though. Dad got mom a new old lady robe (the robe that screams don't touch me, i'm crabby and cold) I got mom Wall-E and a new scrabble game called scrabble upwards that requires people with much higer i.q's than dad and I have to play (we gave up in the middle of the game and curled up and cried, mom however had no problem playing). Mom got dad the dreaded underwear and socks and I got him a belt and a movie...the crystal skull one. I got a lot of bath stuff (sniff arm pitts) and clothes. Books (yes!) and gift cards (always good) Dad's home teacher Von, came by with cookies, so that was our snack since we still had no power at 11:00. Mom decided that I needed to call Karen and let her know that food wasn't gonna happen and to just come by for gifts since we would be having to haul all the fixins to my place (gulp....so haven't clean house) or have some ally cat liver and tuna with the cats. I called Karen to let her know that we had no power due to the wind storm the night before and then the lights came on. I was so happy that dinner wouldn't be at my place. The last thing I wanted my mother to find is the tupperwear that still contained the green bean cassoral she sent home with me on thanksgiving still in my fridge covered in a healthy white fuzz sitting proudly in my fridge and nothing around it but root bear and taco bell sauce packets. I rarely have food, not cuz I'm that poor, but I'm not cooking a meal for just myself, when I can just make top raman or microwave dinners. Honestly whats the point? I consider myself well fed when I have cheezits and coffee. I mean I can survive on my my upper arm fat for months alone if need be. people think I'm fat.....what they don't know is I'm just prepared. When a disaters happens, it's the skinny people who will parrish first. Thats my theory at least. So mom managed to get dinner on the table in nothing flat. Karen and Ashley arrived and they opened their gifts and we opened the one they brought. Then we ate Ham and all the fixins. Then Karen and Ashley left to Karen's parents house for more festive food I'm sure. We watched Wall-E and then I packed up my haul of gifts and went to Natalia's house for wine and scattergories. Rodrigo finally decided to give me the c.d.'s I asked him to burn me seven years ago....yeah I am not kidding 7 years ago, I gave this guy a list of songs I wanted him to burn for me. Better late than never I guess. F.y.i Scattergories is an awsome game sober, but when your friends are three sheets to the wind it's flippin outstanding. Case in point I rolled the letter E one of the things that we were suposed to come up with was a holloween costume begining with the letter E.....The answer our friend elisa came up with was eagel. Really....need I say more, I think not. I got home at 3:00 a.m. I had to go through 4 soberity check points, I got 2 police offercers phone numbers (so wearing the tight black swearter again) and fell asleep dreaming of elisa dressed up as an eagel for halloween. Hope you guys had a great day as well. Love you all.

Mom's Martha stewert tree, I have learned that I decorate it all wrong so she should just do it herself.

mom opening a book from auntie Elaine. she already started reading it. LOL

Daddy opening something, I can't remember lol

Peaches, ignoring the festive new cat toys, and waiting for what he really wants

he really want the stupid box.

Peaches and punkin, ignoring you though cyber space.

Ashley looking sooo thrilled with a 3 pack of tinkerbell panties from me....yeah I suck at being an aunt I know. I did promise her a tattoo when she turns 16 Imean 18.
Karen and Ashley (a.k.a my fake wife and kid)

uuuuggghhh x-mas eve

sorry guys, I have been so lazy and boring lately. Nothing too exciting has been going on. Friday was our last day of school/work till Jan 5th. I need the break. I wanted to sleep in, but so far I haven't had the chance. Between my doctors appointments, hair appointments, Mom's eye surgery, various parties and celebrations including birthdays I have had a non-stop week. I don't even have kids to chase after! I'm super tired. I ended up getting the flu shot yesterday at my doctor's appointment. I never had one before, usually they have a shortage and say kids and seniors first and my age range misses out, but this year I guess there was enough to go around. So My doctor knows what i do for a living encouraged me to get it. I'm not affraid of shots or getting my blood drawn, after 9 or 10 tattoos you tend to loose your fear of needles, but I'm affraid of what I hear about the shot. I heard that most people get sick when they get the shot so I asked my doctor if I would get sick. She promised me I would not get sick, but would have a sore arm for a few days. I belived her and she shot me. I woke up feeling like poo today. If I didn't like my doctor so much, I would poke her in the eye, but I have the chills and I feel weak. And to top it off, my sholder still hurts and it's got a lump in it. I just don't want to be sick on x-mas vacation. Since I started this job 9 years ago, I have managed to be sick every single x-mas break. If it wasn't the flu it was a cold or tonsilitis or strep throat. Last new years I spent the count down passed out in my bath tub in ice water trying to bring down a fever. So I 'am hoping that it's all in my head this year, and I'm really fine. LOL. I still have several fuctions to attend and a date with a father of five next week. So I kinda need to be at the top of my a game. I can't let a guy actually catch me cuz then I loose the thrill of the capture and release program I started when I became a cougar. I'm already getting rusty at it, this guy is actually 35! A whole 3 years older than me! and employed and stuff. It's just a date, so I should be okay, as long as he doesn't bust out pictures of his five little ones to try to win me over. I tend to fall for the kids and ignore they guy, thats why I like em young....I can have both. LOL

Mom and dad are doing fine, Mom had eye surgery to get rid of some glacoma. It's cool, they shoot her in the eyes with a lazer, the whole process takes like 5 mins, the waiting room takes two hours. Then she has to put drops in her eyes and junk, but she's totally fine. Dad Made mom a laundry line to dry the clothes with out the dryer. I thought it was a cool idea since they are trying to save money, till I tried to wear a pair of extreemly cold and stiff undies, now I'm not so sure, I like fabric softener. Also it's been raining on and off, so now we hang up the laundry and go for coffee and it begins to rain and we have to get home fast to take the clothes off the line. We have to race the rain clouds.

Since today is x-mas eve, we got to open one gift. It's a tradition in our little family since I can remember, I'm not sure if anyone other than us do that, but we each opend a gift. Mom opened the coffee cup I made her in class (oh yes, I make the same gits as my students and give them to my parents) That way they still get the cute kid gifts no matter how old I am. LOL Dad opend a world map I bought him from office max. he likes to watch t.v. and when he hears of a city or country he doesn't know about, he likes to locate it and tell us whats around it. I always open Auntie Elaine's gift to me. I can't help it. I know what ever it is, I'm going to be happy. I don't know how she does it, but i'ts always my favorite gift and she did it again this year, a drop your jaw neacklace! I wore it all day. If only I had 1/2 her tallent for gift giving, my poor mom wouldn't be drinking coffee out of a mug with dorky flowers drawn on it. LOL

On that note, I better get to bed, I have to wake up early again for x-mas tomorrow. Hope every one has a great x-mas. Love you.

the black sheep

LOL, sorry I forgot to rotate the pic. LOL

Natalia ans me at the ruby room in Oakland

Natalia, d.j. Elisa and D.j rigo at the ruby room

Natalia cutting her birthday cake, it was guava cake...yummmm, and wearing the dress we got her.

Natalia, her grandma,her mom, elisa. rigo, the back of teresa's head, and me in the black and white sweater....yeah we are gambling for dimes with a kids toy. LOL

Rodrigo and Ziggy (both single, both have fleas)

Teresa and natalia (both single and prefer it that way)

snow boarding earphones, cuz we have no snow in the bay area and rigo has never even seen a snow board.....lol ( still single)
Natalia's grandma (87 years old, single and makes a mean pesto sauce and what we call grandma bread. No english spoken here, just pure guataneese (wha-ta-knee) quick to hit your hand with a wooden spoon when you reach for food thats not ready...I have the scars to prove it.

Thanksgiving

Thanks giving is always an amusing time for me. Mom does all the cooking, cuz lets just face it, no one wants food poisioning during the holidays. She's in the kitchen for hours and hours cooking this and that, stiring and mixing, basting and all that jazz. As we sit on our butts smelling the yummy smells as our tummies rumble. I arrived a bit later than usual and missed the light breakfast that she lets us have in the morning. Since we usually eat dinner super early on thanksgiving thats all we get till dinner. She went to the bathroom and I snuck into the kitchen and stoled a few black olives to tied me over, since we still had an hour or two to go. I ran back to the couch so she wouldn't catch me. About an hour later she opens the fridge and says "who's been eating the olives? there are 3 missing?!" seriously, the woman counted the olives in the glass dish. Who does that?! This is why I could never cut school or sneek out at night, sh'e knows everything. It's soooo creepy. I didn't get in trouble at least, but she never left the kitchen again dangit!

We finally sat down to eat at around 2:00 p.m. yeah it's kinda early, but we were starving. The turky was small, which was fine, it was enough for us, plus, we had all the sides too, green bean casorol, bread, cranberry crud (eww), stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and our neighobr's famous broccoli salad, she left my mom the recipe before her unfortunate car wreck a few years back. We clinked glasses and hoped for a better year, because one of the chairs was empty. Feeling the absence of my brother is daily, as we have all lost someone we loved no matter how long ago, or how stressed the relationship was we still feel it. But it was a knock to our hearts and will be for every holiday I am sure. I'm reminded of him daily, I have his things, I have his pictures, I have his ashes, but I can't seem to bring myself to erase his number from my cell phone. Go figure. It was odd, not having him there, but not uncommon, somtimes he wouldn't come to spend the holidays with us, prefering his friends and their family's over ours, but we knew where he was, that he was safe and fed and that was enough. Usually i would get a phone call. But when I got home, I listened to a message he had left me on my answering machine a 8 months ago and felt better. His happy and carefree voice wanting to meat up for coffee and how insted of calling me alison he called me alisinner, and I refered to him as foofoo or foofanew so thats how he would start his messages. :"hey sinner it's foofoo...". I know I miss him, But I am also happy that he isn't sad or in pain anymore, and I know where he is at all times and I don't worry about him at all anymore. And that makes me happy again. I hope I didn't bum anyone out with this post. I'm fine I promise. I just know that I haven't talked about him at all, and I'm not sure if you all knew we had lost him or not.( I know Britt knew) Mom's not up to talking about it, which is understandable, so I haven't mentioned it. But thats what a blog is for right? I figured it was time. Hope you guys had a great feast as well. I miss you all and love you lots. Here are some pics for you to laugh at:

MMMMM, the turkey, in all it's juicy gooness.

But the turkey was no match, for dad's skilled hands carved it up, the only job he gets on this day.

so gonna dig in!

Our dearly missed FooFoo.

the old people

Okay I am excited about worlds deadliest catch again. Yeah I need a life. They are running the seasons over again, Like I don't have them all commited to memory already. It's sad that I am so hyped for this show. I don't know what kind of hold it has over me, but I love it. The guys arnt cute at all, they never shower and they curse.....oh wait I get it, they remind me of all my dates. Mystery solved.
So today since I have no life, I hung out with my parents playing scrabble as per usual. I did however show my parents our blogs, in hopes they would think it would be a great idea to start their own, in essence getting auntie Elaine and Janet to blog as well.....no such luck. As I tried to show them how to navagate through my page and meeer's to get to britt's and Crazy family's I watched their eyes, glaze over with confusion and desperation. They started to humm show tunes and rock back and forth. When they started drooling I just gave up. "what would we blog about?" "we have no life." "we don't do anything." was all I heard. So I just closed the tabs and signed out, thinking they would forget about it in a few weeks and I would try again. I wont hold my breath though, new things scare them. they don't even have cell phones. I'm thrilled that they have indoor plumbing though.

ehhhh aaron didn't make the cut.

Okay maybe I'm picky, maybe I just like to torture myself, maybe I am just hard to please or maybe I am scared to commit, but I had to cut it off with Aaron cuz his car smelled funny. I know it's a stupid reason, and it's not like it actually stunk, it just smelled diffrent. It smelled of expensive calonge and odd afgan spices. And yeah.....thats all I got. Plus he wore a suit and tie to work....I don't know what to do with a white collar guy, I like the blue collar guys, they fix things and move furniture so I can vaccumme underneith. Okay I suck, he was great. I just didn't care for the car smell thing. But I do have a few more in the wings I need to date. I shall sniff test their cars first though.

cougar status-- upgrade and Twilight movie

So I have to upgrade my cougar status a bit, my latest vict.....man friend is 28. So I still get the younger guy, but he actually can grow a beard, and his voice has already changed. Score! I happened upon hium at starbucks. It was Monday and I was already at home watching my net flix of the muppet show cuz I'm a dork. And for some reason or another I was hit with the overwhelming urge for a peppermint hot chocolate. It was late, around 9, but I was still dressed from work and had my face on so I figured I would jump into the car and brave the starbucks in my ghetto neighborhood. I figure the thugs were all outside my apartment complex so there wernt any left to compeet with the yuppi scum that usually hangs out at starbucks. So I hopped into the car to score my hot chocolate. I get in-line behind a rather dashing guy, he's a little taller than me, brown, and is wearing a white jacket with a rhinstone design on the back in the shape of a crown. I found the jacket amusing since by all other appearances, he smelled hetrosexual to me. I happen to have an uncanny gaydar sense. It's one of my lesser known yet handy dandy tallents. He looks over his sholder at me and I grin, mostly because he is wearing the most feminine jacket I have ever seen and I kinda wanted it. He places his order of a vanilla bean frap and then tells the barista that he is buying mine as well. Hummmm. I tell him that I have my money out already and that he is super sweet for offering but I couldn't accept. He says he isn't offering he took out a credit card and asked me if I wanted anything other than coffee. I said I want your jacket. I'm quick to the point I guess. he says, have coffee with me. and I ask why. He says because He noticed I was alone as was he so by all accounts it was meant for us to have coffee together. I figured what the heck, I was armed with various instrments to keep me safe:millitary issue mace, a switchblade givin to me by my brother and an enya c.d. I could take over the world with my arsonal of tourture. We sit down and he tells me his name is aaron. I tell him my name is Pandora. He says thats funny, whats your real name? and I say you have to tell me your real name first. He looks at me for a full min and asks how did you know my name isn't aaron? I tell him that his name isn't aaron because he has an accent and it isn't american therefore his name wasn't aaron. He says he would buy me dinner if I could place his accent and culture. I tell him I want olive garden and he is afgan. He darn near spits out his frap on me and asks how I knew. I told him it was his accent. I then speek farsi to him. I only know a little farsi but it was enough to earn a dinner. score! We talked from 9 ish to 12 ish then parted ways with eachothers phone number. We have seen eachother almost everynight since then. He did take me to olive garden last night. It was yummy. So far I haven't scored the jacket, but he did want to buy me an i-pod thingy, but I don't even know what one is so I said no. He works as a finace guy at auto west toyota. He has a nice car. He wore a suit and tie to dinner.....yeah. He did tell me his real name, I can't pronounce it unless I have 4 marbles in my mouth, but I just call him aaron. he calls me pandora even though I did tell him my name. I don't know if it'll work, the diffrence in culture and religion may prove to be too much for him, I don't care but I'm sure his family will. My family just likes that he's employed. anyway so heres his picture, sadly I didn't get the back of his jacket.

he's pretty cute in a suit and tie too. But whatever, I'm sure it's destin to fail. LOL

So On to twilight. Natalia couldn't go on opening night due to some wedding she had to attend. So we had to wait till today to go. Rodrigo is still reading the book but he is almost done so he wanted to see the movie. And of course, d.j. elisa came with us as well. Although she hasn't read the book yet. I made rigo fandango the tickets yesterday cuz the movie sells out pretty fast. We went to a 5:55 showing but got there at 4:00 and were the first in line to get into the theater....further proving out dorkiness.

So freekin thrilled that we are first in-line. LOL

our huge bucket of popcorn that ended up ruining our appitite for dinner.

Many things were said while we were in line for the movie. I mean we had over an hour to kill. so while there was a lul in the conversation, Elisa decides to tell us she had her dog nacho nutered. Elisa didn't take in account that while she said this Natalia was taking a rather large swig of coofee, which she spat all over me. and then colapsed on the floor in a fit of laughter....and we are the mature ones.

coffee spittle, complaments of Natalia, yet Elisa's fault for nutering Nacho

Natalia's fit of laughter after hearing of Nacho's...emmm missing parts, and spraying me with snot and coffee.

So after we stood in line forever and made total dorks out of ourselves, they actually still let us into the movie. Poor Rigo had to listen to us swoon and giggle over Edward. But he puts up with us a lot. Natalia and I ended up holding hands at the romantic parts, squeezing the life outta eachother like little chool girls. It was sad and pathitic.....we are so doing it again. I have a week off for thanksgiving, and although the movie wasn't up to par with the book and so much was left out, we still enjoyed it fully and will see it over and over, much like we did with interview with a vampire and the crow. The only diffrance is, this time we arnt using our allowance to see movies and our parents don't have to drop us off. LOL. I thought it was so funny that all the kids had to call their parents to pick em up after the movie was over cuz it reminded us that when we were their age, we had to do the same thing, only from a pay phone cuz cells wernt in exsistance, only our sad little pagers were. LOL. After the movie, we went to eat, but had to share food cuz we ate tons of popcorn. Of course there were drinks involved, I was driving as per usual so I had an iced tea. But Natalia had to fine the largest most obnoxious alcoholic bevrage in exsistance.

I mean honestly it looked like blue toilet water and the glass was bigger than her head! LOL But never the less good times were had by all. and on that note, enjoy the next picture.....*Swoon*

Oh yes I bought an edward poster and hung it in my bedroom and took pictures of it. Oddly enough I think he's hot and he isn't even brown...go figure.

love ya! The black sheep

Kittahz

Okay I swear I don't like cats, But Natalia forced me (really) to look at this website called:www.icanhascheezeburger.com. It's so funny I had to share. On that note, i'm sorry to report, that apparently since I could not catch little grey kitty, she is knocked up yet again. *sigh* great. I thought I would get her in time, but when it rained a few weeks ago she didn't come around. Now I know why.