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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Feeling lucky 🍀

 I am grateful today that I never removed all of my clothes, making international news, the one time I took acid at Disneyland. #Blessed

Many people are judging and pointing the finger at that man for removing his clothes at Disneyland and calling him a sicko! Other people (like me) are sitting back reflecting on the time(s) they took drugs at Disneyland and thanking their lucky stars their trip didn’t end up the same way! I am so grateful that it didn’t turn out for me, as it did for this young man. The aftermath of taking drugs at Disneyland is for him, sobering up in a jail cell and realizing the huge amount of trouble he is in. He might have possibly messed up his entire life! I empathize with him and I am not judging him too hard here because it could have been me!  I remember walking around Disneyland on acid thinking that Disneyland was so different than how I remembered it as a child! I mean how much plastic was used to build Disneyland? Is everything in Disneyland made of plastic? It just looked so fake, cheaply made, and bad for the environment! I was tripping outside at the Small World ride like this guy did too. It was my favorite ride growing up but it just looked so trippy from the outside. That huge cuckoo clock! I mean, come on! It was very Alice In Wonderland for me. I wondered if they built the outside of The Small World ride to make it look trippy on purpose? I am glad that what we took was relatively mellow and it didn’t give us the loss of self control that this man had.  We left there early, heading to Venice Beach, which was better for us in that moment anyway.

Mama said knock you out!

 Yup that boy in the background didn’t know what hit him! Watch out world! Here I come!