Well, I have returned, in time for the New Years Eve festivities at ManRay. Besides another lost luggage fiasco with American Airlines, the trip was wonderful, and it was so nice to have my whole family together in one place. It's nice to be back though, and I did miss my fianc and little doglets something terrible.
There was so much to do, and not enough time...went hiking in the mountains with my dad, niece and nephew, and also took the little ones to see the new Lemony Snicket movie. It's fun being the ooky-spooky "funny uncle". Also took another trip to the Air Museum and airplane graveyard...that place always impresses me...miles of dead airplanes perfectly lined up and left to bleach in the Arizona sun. We did the Italian "7 layers of fish" xmas eve dinner (it took about 6 hours to eat...and...YUM!) and my job every year is to kill and stuff the lobsters, and stuff the calamari. I figured it out...we actually had eight kinds of fish: shrimp, smoked salmon, crab, clams, oysters, calamari, mussels, & lobster. Leave it to the catholics...the way to penance is to deprive yourself of meat on holy days, and make up for it with a feast of astronomical proportions. It's one of the reasons I'll eat the food and look at the pretty pictures, but run screaming from all of the religious hoo-ha.
On xmas day a bunch of my family went to the border of Mexico, where we volunteered to help at a yearly event thrown by an amazing family to bring poor Mexican children over, feed them and give each of them a couple of presents. I've heard that they usually feed about 2000 children, and I think that from now on I'll be helping out whenever I'm in Arizona for the holidays.
Hope you are all in the midst of festive times, and I offer my biggest wishes to all of you for a New Year filled with peace, prosperity, productivity and much happiness.
xoxo
There was so much to do, and not enough time...went hiking in the mountains with my dad, niece and nephew, and also took the little ones to see the new Lemony Snicket movie. It's fun being the ooky-spooky "funny uncle". Also took another trip to the Air Museum and airplane graveyard...that place always impresses me...miles of dead airplanes perfectly lined up and left to bleach in the Arizona sun. We did the Italian "7 layers of fish" xmas eve dinner (it took about 6 hours to eat...and...YUM!) and my job every year is to kill and stuff the lobsters, and stuff the calamari. I figured it out...we actually had eight kinds of fish: shrimp, smoked salmon, crab, clams, oysters, calamari, mussels, & lobster. Leave it to the catholics...the way to penance is to deprive yourself of meat on holy days, and make up for it with a feast of astronomical proportions. It's one of the reasons I'll eat the food and look at the pretty pictures, but run screaming from all of the religious hoo-ha.
On xmas day a bunch of my family went to the border of Mexico, where we volunteered to help at a yearly event thrown by an amazing family to bring poor Mexican children over, feed them and give each of them a couple of presents. I've heard that they usually feed about 2000 children, and I think that from now on I'll be helping out whenever I'm in Arizona for the holidays.
Hope you are all in the midst of festive times, and I offer my biggest wishes to all of you for a New Year filled with peace, prosperity, productivity and much happiness.
xoxo
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as for The Adicts/Adverts issue: "gary gilmore's eyes" was released by the Adverts in 1977...
so far, i think the two coolest Adicts songs to dance to would be "chinese takeaway" and "who spilt my beer."
if you send me your email address i can send you mp3's...
i bought an adicts collection for x-mas... it never ceases to amaze me how much good music i am still discovering from that brief three to five year period in england (1980 - 1985 or so)...