Unwrapping my first Christmas present of 2023

In this first picture I am opening my new fur coat for Christmas. Here’s to a great holiday season of great gifts! Starting off strong with a fur coat! You know how it is. That’s how I roll! I guess the rest of you need to step up your present giving game now! Just kidding! It’s a cozy faux fur blanket.

Maeve: In Santa Cruz, we just call that roadkill. That’s simply an animal carcass wrapped in a pretty paper bag. It’s  actually giving frenemy vibes! The gift bag is nicer than the actual gift, but have fun with that!

Christmas time in San Diego is nice. I haven’t had a bite and sip at Las Olas in years! It was a good time with my friend.

Heaven! I’m in heaven!

 No I’m not in Italy. I’m at Fashion Valley, San Diego. I got a little sidetracked while Christmas shopping today. I walked right into Dolce & Gabbano and I wasn’t even checking the prices! I also didn’t buy anything there. The personnel working in the store were super nice. If you can’t tell, I am posing next to a sheer black mesh shirt with an image of the Virgin Mary on it. I don’t know who in San Diego would actually wear any of this stuff or who can afford it but certainly not me! This is the closest to Italy that I have ever been and I know that true Italians and “fashionistas” would probably scoff at the clothes I was wearing.  I didn’t even know these stores opened at Fashion Valley until today. Anyway I had fun!

I love that she keeps bringing him up!

 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/minnie-driver-admits-matt-damon-100003744.html

I have to laugh over Minnie Driver continuing to shade Matt Damon over the way he ditched her in 1997! I mean, she is in Hollywood and the stupid press continue to ask her about it, to have a story that will get a lot of views,  but please! She keeps shading Matt Damon. It’s hilarious! Does it make her look bitter? Yes, but it’s also hilarious. He seemed like a young jerk at the time anyway. He was overhyped and I was not attracted to Matt Damon or Ben Affleck anyway, so I never even watched Good Will Hunting..

I am not the one to judge Minnie Driver, who is simply sharing her truth. What she is saying resonates with me because I keep ruminating over a man I met in 1994, I got Minnie Driver beat! If you think that there should be a time limit for remembering certain men who you fell in love with and who broke your heart, then I don’t know what to tell you. I feel your pain, Minnie Driver! I feel your pain!

Repping Arizona State

 I did not end up attending Arizona State as I have mentioned many, many times. I can’t seem to forget or actually remember accurately my college years at UCSB.

Tripping out on this email!

I have a realtor friend who may be reading this blog but I am not sure. She was a neighbor who sold our house in 2015. Anyway we keep in touch via social media and she just sent me an email that felt so random. I don’t know that much about her besides she loves healthy food and possibly a bit bohemian. But this struck me as extremely hippie. I mean I think I am a hippie until I encounter someone who just completely out hippies me. I mean what have I been thinking? I always talk about how my parents never allowed me to apply to UC Santa Cruz because they said I was leaning “hippie.” I always regretted not even visiting there. What were my parents scared of and why did I listen to them? Well moments like this help me understand that it probably might have been too much of a culture shock anyway. Smoking a little reefer does not a hippie make, nor does it make you a dancing Deadhead. When I went to my one Dead concert in 1994 I felt out of place. I didn’t feel a sense of community. I felt peer pressure to take mushrooms and the girl who I drove to the show in Las Vegas was being super bitchy and this might have been the last straw in our friendship. I mean our friendship definitely splintered here and we “lost touch” as they say. I thought she was a super poser anyway so good riddance to her but you know at almost 49 years old just coming to terms with how square I really am and probably always was. I definitely don’t spend a lot of time walking around outside barefoot and I don’t think that would honestly help me in any way shape or form. But honestly my partner for so many years has been a scientist who would ask first, “Is there any scientific evidence that there is any benefit to doing this and who is actually doing the research? I mean this is kind of hogwash but I don’t live in Northern California or Santa Cruz so I can admit how feel and not play along with them in order to fit in. I mean whatever floats your boat but I am not going anywhere barefoot except on the beach maybe because I don’t want to look crazy here either!

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