I wish this day would never end...Costume #3 for this week...For you, Mae, I was attempting a White Witch from Narnia look...and hey, Erica looks like La Llorona! SpOOkY!
And if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, we had an office pizza party...
Well...I am off to San Francisco for the work week, so I am going to take a quick blog break to bring you this...
please enjoy more adventures in The Land of Enchantment...
We start the day at Starbuck's...every day must start with Starbuck's...Violet, I did notice they had blueberry muffins, but I got pumpkin...
Wowzer...Check out Camel Rock...awesome...look at his humps. I said humps. His lovely camel humps.
Next...We went to Chimayo, New Mexico, to the Santuario Catholic Church, a popular place known for its healing dirt...Go google it, I don't know anything more. I attended mass, so leave me alone...
Any church that has a horse that likes me is my kinda place... Extreme closeup! This dude liked me...
This is one of two rooms in the church that has shrines for people to pay homage to their sick or deceased loved ones...
This is the healing dirt, with a scoop so you can take some home...wonder if it clears acne... Three random crosses in the church yard.
Next...We went to Abiquiu, New Mexico, a Spanish-grant-owned town in which my paternal great grandmother and aunt and her family lived...while there, we visited the local historian...this place is also the home of the famous artist, Georgia O'Keeffe... Here is a spooky graveyard, and a few long-lost relatives of mine... The one with the cross and overturned flowers is actually unmarked...how sad... Poor Billy Lopez...too bad I didn't get a share of the inheritance. I might have scored a free horse or adobe shack... The storyteller guy shared his version of La Llorona. A tale that still haunts me from childhood...however, his was a tad different from the one I heard from my maternal side of family...Enjoy!
My version of La Llorona (as told to me years ago by my late uncle Jim):
There was a beautiful woman whom was married to some guy. He adored her beauty, and kissed the ground she walked on. Then they had a baby girl. After the baby was born, the husband's attention drifted to the baby, and soon she was not as important to him. She drowned her baby in the Rio Grande, and then the husband left her. Now at night, she walks along the river crying for her baby, feeling sorry for herself that she can't find her baby so she can win her husband back...
Welcome to the State of Enchantment...Would you like Red or Green?
The highlight of my visit to Albuquerque...lunch with my parents at Neil Patrick Harris' parents' restaurant, Perennial's...
The anticipation builds as I run towards the door...I am totally in love with Doogie Howser...
Lookie! Doogie's dad is the General Manager. His card is located at the cash register...Ronald G. Harris...Owner,General Manager...*sigh* Choosing just one item on the menu is tough...its a smorgaboard of tantalizing treats... I wonder if the rest of these guests ever saw Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle... MMMMM....a Rueben with sweet potato fries....delish
Meet Mr. and Mrs. Seahag...they are fans of Doogie, too... Now you know where I got my sense of humor...
And guess who comes over to our table????? Yesirreeee...its Doogie's dad, Ronald!!! He was really awesome, friendly, and told me Doogie lives in Studio City...guess who I wanna stalk when I get back to LA???
My dad flirts with a lady twice his age...probably trying to get free pie...
Long Beach, California: Jinx got a package today...Wonder what it could be? Perhaps a sweet little mouse toy?
Jinx: Hey, what is this? Jinx: I didn't order this stupid red thing...
Jinx:Yo, I ordered dis here, fool!
Jinx, this is a gun. We don't allow guns in this house...are you in a gang?
Jinx: I be a Cat wit a Gat....Bee-otch...
Jinx: Which one of you pussy cats wanna get capped first?
Jinx: Woke up quick, at about noon jus' thought that i had to be in Compton soon i gotta get drunk before the day begins before my mother starts bitchin' about ma friends... about to go and damn near went blind young niggaz at the path throwin' up gang signs... ran in the house, and grabbed ma clip wit the mack 10 on the side of ma hip bailed outside and pointed ma weapon just as i thought the fools kept steppin' jumped in the fo' hit the juice on ma ride i got front back, and side to side then i let the alpine play pumpin' new shit by NWA... it was gangsta gangsta at the top of the list then i played my own shit and it went somethin' like this... cruisin down the street in my six-fo' jockin' the bitches, slappin' the hoes went to the park to get the scoop knuckleheads out there cold, shootin' some hoops a car pulls up, who can it be a fresh El Camino rollin kilo G he rolled down his window and he started to say its all about makin' that G.T.A. cuz the boys in the hood are always hardyou come talkin that trash, we'll pull ya cardknowin' nutin in life but to be legit'dont quote me boy cuz i aint said shit...