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Caramba! The end of the contest is almost near! But don't worry, it just means that the beginning of the new MAS BOOK CLUB discussion is also around the corner! So have you bought your book yet?
What is the MAS Book Club? It's a new ON LINE book club. It's a great way to network and make friends. We will discuss a book a month. No rules other than be nice, don't spoil the ending and no name calling.
The types of books we will be discussing will be mostly Chicano literature but we are not limiting ourselves to only that genre. How can you participate? Look out for any articles with the words MAS BOOK CLUB on the title. Read the article and join in on the discussion! January's book discussion will be Caramba! A Tale Told In The Turn Of The Cards by Nina Marie Martinez. This discussion will take place from January 11th, 2007 to February 11, 2007 at which time I will post the next book open for discussion. BUY THE BOOK AT AMAZON.COM, CLICK ME!
*WIN A FREE PERSONALIZED SIGNED COPY OF Caramba! A Tale Told In The Turn Of The Cards by Nina Marie Martinez by leaving a comment on Nov/Dec MAS BOOK CLUB book of the month Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. *Deadline is January 1st, 2008 so hurry! CLICK THE COVER BELOW AND ENTER NOW! Happiness is family! And your silly crazy kids because of the way they communicate with you! Scenerio #1: Last night Annequin and I are cuddling and watching Dreamgirls when he says, "mom will you serve me some cereal?" Me: "Ask your daddy, baby, he's downstairs." Annequin: *hesistates then says: Yeah, but mommy.. I want YOU to do it!" Me: "Why? Daddy is downstairs, and I'm too lazy" Annequin: *with a pleading look says, "yeah, but it tastes better when YOU serve it because you serve it with a little bit of love!" Me: laughs and says, "It tastes the same no matter who serves you." Annequin: *we're watching Hannah Montana and the dad pours the son some cereal and so Annequin says, "Nuhu! LOOK see how he pours it? With NO LOVE! Mommies always pour their kids cereal with LOVE and it makes it taste better." Me: *melts like always, gets up and serves him his cereal. this of course makes him happy because he got what he wanted. The thing is, I actually believe that he means it. Moms DO pour their kids cereal with a little bit of love, don't we? That's why it always tastes better!
Scenerio #2 My friend Crystal sends me a Christmas present. Two ornaments and a box of my favorite chocolate, TURTLES. Unfortunately, they are also Big Mickey's favorite chocolates. Last year, my friend Debbie sent me a box for my birthday and all I got to do was smell the box, basically. I woke up the next day and guess what? ALL GONE. Yup. So this year, I wake up and Big Mickey says, "Hey mommy. Let's play a game!" He decides to play hangman. Here are the results. Hmmmm IMAGINE THAT????
hahahahha TERDLS? Oh wait, you mean TURTLES???? hahah... ok ok OK Bad mom for laughing. Isn't that what we have kids for though? For our own amusement? hee. HEY wait a minute? Who REALLY won this game anyways???
The thing about Vegas is that there is so much to do it's NON STOP FUN! I've had such a hard time trying to pick what adventures to share with you and what pictures to post. Where should I start? Well, let's try from the beginning. Here's Teen Barbie's and mine traditional picture of us drinking *ummm... sodas in the back seat on the way to Vegas.
See this is us last year doing the same thing.
- As soon as we got there we stopped at Gardunios and had a light lunch and some drinks. Cabana Boy ordered a Pina Colada. The server naturally assumed it was for ME and I giggled and pointed at him. No ma'am. The BEER is mine, the fruity drink is for the man. I don't know WHY we think it's funny but we do. Moving on.... That evening Mr. Twinkie and I met up with another couple for dinner at Smith and Wollinsky where I had the biggest Prime Rib EVER! It was so big I was almost embarrassed. Well, kinda embarrassed but mostly I thought it was funny. I felt like I was Betty Rubble from the Flinstones or something. ha. Not only did WE think it was funny, so did the few tables around us. The Prime Rib was half my size, GEEZ! OK I exaggerate. Maybe not? Judge for yourself, folks!
On the way the restaurant something kinda crazy happened to us. We took a cab, right? Well at first when the cab driver asked us where we were going he said he'd have to drop us off at the casino across the street. My friends asked him if he could please drop us off in between the two casinos, since it was closer. He said, "no, sorry. It's illegal for me to drop you off like that. I have to drop you in designated areas." We said OK! No biggie! All of a sudden the cabbie STOPS. In the UN-designated area. An alley of some sort? And says, "OK QUICKLY! JUMP OUT! QUICKLY!" At first we're like, "COOL! He's saving us a bit of a walk." Then we smelled it. THE FART FROM HELL! We start asking each other, "DUDE was that YOU?" They all got out of the car first. I was the last one in. My door wouldn't open. Oh MY Gaaaah! I thought I was gonna pass out! "HURRY UP MR. TWINKIE," I gasped, "get out.. GET OUT!!!" He takes his sweet time. I struggled to breath and gather my stuff and jump out as soon as possible when he says it again, "GET OUT! HURRY! WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!" I said, "OMG! Was that YOU?" He says, "YES AND IT'S A WET ONE PLEASE GET OUT FAST!" I trip over myself trying to get out as soon as possible and tell the others what he said. We had the best belly laugh after that. I don't know WHY we think farts are so funny? But we do. The next few pictures are of my friends at I at the Ghost Bar where Mr. Twinkie and I tried to take a sexy/romantic picture outside but it was so damn cold and windy that we didn't stay out there very long.
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The following group picture was taken at the Wynn Casino where we witnessed either the funniest thing or the saddest. This man and this boy (about 7 years old? Maybe and older looking 5 year old?) were going up the escalator. Well, apparently the kid had never been on one so he panicked and started screaming and trying to walk down the stairs/escalator. Of course it's moving faster than he can walk so he keeps ending up on the same third step. In the meantime the dad is laughing his ass off. We giggled a little at first like, "awww how cute! His first experience with the escalator." But later we thought, "you know, that's kinda effed up, us laughing at the poor little traumatized child." and we felt soooo guilty that we decided to stop at the bar and drown our guilt over a few cocktails. - - After the Pina Colada and Coronas (the pina coladas were not even close to being as good as the ones at Gardunios at the Palms) we walked around a bit more, considered having a $20 sandwich for lunch at this fancy deli for about five minutes until I realized they were SERIOUS and quickly blurted out, "I don't even LIKE sandwiches. So if I have to force one down my throat I'd rather it NOT cost $20.00" and we moved on. But not before Cabana Boy proudly proclaimed after coming out of the bathroom that he "Took handled his business in the same place as millionaires have." and took a picture of it for my blog. Gotta love your friends right?
The next few pictures are at Club Moon where we had our V.I.P. table for my 6th anniversary of my 30th birthday. And of course, Teen Barbie's BIG 30!
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I vaguely remember thinking this girl had a lot of confidence in herself. You know, dressing like that, showing off her hot body and then getting up on side and dancing like that.
- Turns out there was more than one ... and they get paid to do that. Go figure. ha.
- This picture here pretty much sums up my overall mood that weekend! -
- Here's most of our group. The rest are out dancing. -
OK well that pretty much is our Vegas adventure 2007. I have a gazillion more pictures but I won't bore you. oh OK OK! One more picture! This was our very own cocktail waitress. She was AWESOME. And also the reason for my hangover the next day. As soon as she saw our drink half empty THERE SHE WAS pouring another one. Even in between all the pouring of the cocktails.. she still took the time to enjoy our night with us and dance and just have a great time! There were about 24 of us in all and we all did our own thing and hung out together in groups from time to time but Saturday EVERYONE was there and we had BLAST!
Ok, that's really it for now! Hope you enjoyed my Vegas adventures! Happy Holidays! I hope you all have a great new year full of love, family, health and lots of fun! Love you all! ~Twinkie
My son Josh was interviewed for an article in MAS Magazine. He's not the "main story/subject" or whatever but I'm still proud of him! The funny part (TO ME ANYWAYS) about the article is this sentence: When Joshua Rico,17, was handed a shovel and a bag of seeds in his ROC Business Enterprises class, he began to scratch his head. And I'm sure it's only funny to me because I'm his mom. Or maybe it's because I can't get THIS picture out of my mind when I read that. "Wait a minute! I gotta do WHAT now?"
"oh wait, we get to sell it later and make a profit? COOL!"
- Right now he's going to High School in Bakersfield and taking that ROC class. His plans for the future are big. He wants to own his own business. He'll probably start off with the clothing line thing in which him and his partners are doing good at right now. But there's so much more he wants for his future. I guess you can say he's got BIGGER FISH to fry?
And there is no doubt in my mind that all his hard work and dedication to his studies will someday pay off!
I LOVE YOU SON!
*I know I sound like a broken record... but just wanted to remind you all.........
*WIN A FREE PERSONALIZED SIGNED COPY OF Caramba! A Tale Told In The Turn Of The Cards by Nina Marie Martinez by leaving a comment on Nov/Dec MAS BOOK CLUB book of the month Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. *Deadline is January 1st, 2008 so hurry! CLICK THE COVER BELOW AND ENTER NOW! What is the MAS Book Club? It's a new ON LINE book club started by MAS reader, Twinkie. We will discuss a book a month. No rules other than be nice, don't spoil the ending and no name calling. The types of books we will be discussing will be mostly Chicano literature but we are not limiting ourselves to only that genre. How can you participate? Look out for any articles with the words MAS BOOK CLUB on the title. I will post the chapters you are allowed to discuss and then we'll just see how it goes from there. January's book discussion will be Caramba! A Tale Told In The Turn Of The Cards by Nina Marie Martinez. This discussion will take place from January 11th, 2007 to February 11, 2007 at which time I will post the next book open for discussion. BUY THE BOOK AT AMAZON.COM, CLICK ME!
*WIN A FREE PERSONALIZED SIGNED COPY OF Caramba! A Tale Told In The Turn Of The Cards by Nina Marie Martinez by leaving a comment on Nov/Dec MAS BOOK CLUB book of the month Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. *Deadline is January 1st, 2008 so hurry! CLICK THE COVER BELOW AND ENTER NOW! What is the MAS Book Club? It's a new ON LINE book club started by MAS reader, Twinkie. We will discuss a book a month. No rules other than be nice, don't spoil the ending and no name calling. The types of books we will be discussing will be mostly Chicano literature but we are not limiting ourselves to only that genre. How can you participate? Look out for any articles with the words MAS BOOK CLUB on the title. I will post the chapters you are allowed to discuss and then we'll just see how it goes from there. January's book discussion will be Caramba! A Tale Told In The Turn Of The Cards by Nina Marie Martinez. This discussion will take place from January 11th, 2007 to February 11, 2007 at which time I will post the next book open for discussion. BUY THE BOOK AT AMAZON.COM, CLICK ME!
My daughter wrote this for her english class. The subject was people that we look up to I thought she did a really great job and wanted to share it with you all. I hope you like it as much as I did! ------------ I was about 7 when my parents found each other. it was just my mom, my brother and I for years until they met. They both worked at the same place. They fell in love the moment they met. And two weeks later they were engaged. Some say it was love at first sight. I say it was fate. I call it fate because not only did it make my mom happy to know that she had finally found her soulmate, but beacuse it introduced me to one of the most beautiful and remarkable woman I have ever met. My grandma, Cynthia Melton. She was the center of my new family and always found a way to bring us all together under one roof. Holidays were just another excuse to reunite the family. Everyone always got birthday cards from her, blood relatives or not with the sginature "LOVE YOU MORE THAN LIFE." Those that didn't know her could tell that she was a kind woman because she never left the house without a smile on her face. And to her, there was no such thign as a stranger. She helped everybody and talked to just about everyone. She considered most of Porterville to be part of the family no matter who they were. My grandma enjoyed having all the grandkis around. She would do anything for us matter what the situation was. Not a day went by that we didn't see her or get a call from her. Some days she would call just to let us know that she "LOVED US MORE THAN LIFE" and missed us. She spoiled us all, if our parents liked it or not. Never in my life have I met a woman like her. She taught me to never take things for granted, and to enjoy every moment of life. Also that just a simple smile to someone you walk by could make that person's day. Her impact on others as well as myself has lead me to establish a solid outlook on life and it's journeys. The day my grandma drove off to the hospital no one would have ever thougth that was going to be the last goodbye said to her. All the days and hours spent by her bedside praying and hoping she'd wake up were worth every moment. She was worth everything in this world. When we finally came to realize she wasn't coming back to us and that God had other plans for her, we said our real goodbyes. The last thing we would ever say to her. The last time we would ever see her. It's only been a little over a month since she passed away. I can stlll hear her inside my head telling me what's right from wrong. My grandma will always be in my heart as the most respectable woman I've ever known. If I could just talk to her one more time I'd say thanks for everything she's done for this family and for me. So in conclusion to my grandma coming into my life I would have to say that she's changed me as a person. She's taught me to be a friendly and outgoing person just as herself. I am so excited. Tomorrow morning we head out to my (and Teen Barbie's) annual VEGAS BIRTHDAY TRIP! We don't have much of an agenda other than Thursday night Mr. Twinkie and his friend reserved a table for four for dinner at Smith and Woolinsky. It's a bit pricy but we hear it's totally worth it. I guess we'll have to wait and see, right? Mr. Twinkie and I always make it a point to go to at least ONE nice dinner every time we go to Vegas. I guess you could say it's our very own "tradition." Mr. Twinkie wants to go to the brewery we went to last year for lunch again. But it's not set in stone. The only other thing we have on our FOR SURE list is that Saturday night we reserved a V.I.P table at Club Moon/The Playboy Club at the Palms. That's our birthday celebration night. Other than that it's just WHATEVER. That's the great thing about Las Vegas. There is so much to do that you don't have to worry about running out of things to do or places to see. Mr. Twinkie asked me if there was anything specific that I wanted to do (other than Club Moon) and I really couldn't think of anything other than this: Mr. Twinkie laughed and said, "Well, then... ok! You're easy to please." This of course is directed towards the girl that HAS to go to Vegas for her birthday every year. Heeee! A few months ago my son came home very excited about a project he was involved in for one of his high school classes. He had to go to a City Council meeting, take notes, then write a report about what he heard and how he felt about it. He looked forward to it all week. The day finally came and I was as anxious as he was. I was curious to see what a 17 year old boy would get out of a City Council meeting. Would be bored to tears? Would he think it was lame? Or would awaken his senses and maybe open his eyes to the real world and politics and learn how to make a difference in the real world? Well, this is his report! or just click here: *On our way to get our Christmas tree this weekend. Setting: 4 miles of windy road towards Balch Park in Springville, above Porterville. We always go to the tree farm up there to pick and cut our own tree. Of course my husband seems to be driving like a maniac and it's scaring me, PLUS it's making me car sick. He says, "Are you okay babe?" then he laughs, because he KNOWS I'm NOT OK. So I tell him, "Yeah, I'm fine. I just feel a little queasy. But don't worry. If I throw up, I'll just be sure to turn YOUR way." Then I turn towards him and pretend like I'm about to throw up. The kids laugh, I laugh, he laughs. We all laugh at my silliness. Then he continues to drive like a maniac. I guess he didn't really believe me. He should. That's the same road he had to stop about 7 times once on our way to go camping so I could throw up and in between my throw up I was yelling at him, "If you weren't driving like a maniac I wouldn't have to throw up." Of course the fact that I was about 7 months pregnant MIGHT have had something to do with it too. |
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