Wednesday, April 23, 2008

BEACH GIRLS GONE WILD!!

So last weekend, my 3 friends and I had our twice yearly beach outing to Pacific Beach. Sue, Linda and Virigina and I leave at noon on Friday and stay until Sunday. There is alot of irreverant talk, laughter and all manner of ill behavior (still tame :( by most standards). Anyway, the girls get wild by going into Aberdeen and shopping at WalMart (we don't have one near us). We separate and tell everyone to meet at the McDonalds in the store when done and then we go and see how much damage we can do. Usually, Linda & Virginia win but this year Linda and I won the contest. Virgina wasn't on her game. Then we had lunch at Duffy's....yahoo! We had a favorite gift shop we usually stopped at but unfortunately it closed. Then we go to our favorite clothing store but alas, they were closing too (not much good about the economy in Aberdeen), so everything was at a discount! Virginia & I made out like bandits. Its alot of fun to be with my friends and act like we are 20 again.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Monday, April 21, 2008

Layne's Clever Words- Sent to his Diamond Parking Associates!


Hola my muchachos and muchachettes,

So okay, we’ve got Sinco de Mayo coming up here in May or June, and I think Jessica has some plans in the works for a traditional Mexican feast with lots of hot sauced goodies and the such. Sinco de Mayo falls between Sinco de quatorso and Sinco de sixo and is the celebration where the snakes were driven out of Ireland by Saint Vidas after which they had the annual dance in remembrance of the event. It is also a celebration of when Montizuma forced the Spanish conquistadoors out of South America and set up a lucrative business trade with Irving Starbucks, who late in life became famous as the urinal cake king. Historically, the ousting of the Spanish is know as Montizumas revenge and is still celebrated with must gusto, just not in Spain where it is knows as the Montezuma Police Action and technically is still going on. Anyway, what with the traditional big hat things that they wear down there and the lovely scarves and sandals, we should have a great time. Of course Kelly will be in charge of the prize shelf and picking the best costumes... This year we have in addition to the lovely paper clip and cough drop, a wonderful all plastic Chevron Gift Card with a nice picture of the Chevron logo. It has no dollar value but can really perk up and add character to an otherwise dreary wallet or purse. We also have a lovely rubber finger thing that you use to separate checks and mail and stuff so you don’t have to keep licking your finger all the time and possibly contracting a nasty bug. I’ve heard we will be having sopapilla or maybe polio con carne, and maybe one of those fancy desserts like flan for flatus. If anyone can play the guitar or maybe the trumpet we could put together a marichacha band and circulate around the neighborhood for a few minutes singing and dancing with a happy Latin beat. Also, if someone has one of those Pineyauhta things that are stuffed with Twinkies and cupcakes and dingdongs, we good get a bunch of sticks and have a Pineyauhta smashing event where all the sineretas (girls) gather about and bash the thing until the cream filling comes gushing out of the cup cakes and such. Way back in the olden days before they had the cream filled food group they used to fill the Pineyauhta with large stones and the idea was to hang it in a tree and try to bash it till it opened and then run away to avoid the rocks before you got your head bashed in. We’ve come a long way baby. Sinco de Mayo comes from the Latin verb Sincus which means “go below the water,” as in a ship sincus; and, de Mayo coming from the Egyptian for Mayonnaise which was and still is a creamy white sandwich fixin best used with bolognie or maybe thin sliced ham and a mild cheddar with a chunk of pickle. .We translate Sinco de Mayo in English to mean “time of great blessings when the infidel Americans and French where forced to take their evil ways and depart hence into the wilderness like a plague of locusts sweeping through the village like a great rushing wind that was hot like the breath of heck, or something.” Anywho, lets all get gussied up for Sinco de Mayo. The holiday used to be called “Slinko do May” and involved a snake on a stick, but that is too difficult to say five times in a row, so it was shortened. Have a mucho grade day.

Mochas Gracias,

Francois Coupe de Ville, Prof.
Historiano de la casa por la Mexicano stuffo.
125 1/2 Calle de la Cucaracha
Margaritaville, MX 25478935651245-B

Friday, April 11, 2008

Funny little story

As you may or may not have heard, the Dalai Lama is in Seattle for a "Seeds of Compassion" conference. Anywho...I had a client lunch with one of my associates and we were meeting the client down south. When we were on our way back, we exited the freeway and had to stop at the light and the end of the exit. I happen to glance over at the white chrisian church across the street and could see a person in orange (I thought he had on robes) and this person appeared to be waving his arms up and down slowly. So I told Tracy (my associate), "Oh look Tracy, there's the Dalai Lama". Tracy took a look and said, "Ahhh, Lorraine, it seems to be a maintenance worker, power washing the church." Oops, they say that sight is the first thing to go, (or is it memory?) anywhooooo, when we came upon all the cops in the city, Tracy said, "Oh my gosh, these guys are totally missing the boat, they need to head up to the Christian church to protect the Llamha!"
To those reading this, may I say, "Have some seeds of compassion here!"