3.23.2006

the boys are so cute!

late in the local albuquerque wal-mart, buying scattergories and ginger ale (for some whiskey time!).

bat-boyz
anthony, ramon & saad.
nice, saad, real nice. he's rather fond of his middle finger. ;)

bat-ramon
bat-ramon

bat-saad
bat-saad

bat-anthony
and i had to save the best for last - bat-anthony. check out that collar!

so we had a really excellent time in albuquerque! some notes:
  • everything is spicy. red or green chilies are put on everything, including mcdonald's hamburgers (but, strangely, not used at taco bell).
  • i heart breakfast burritos (no beans! egg & hash browns - *DROOL*)
  • albuquerque is very dated. lots of old signs and really cool independent shops and restaurants.
  • santa fe - not that impressive. unfortunately, it was cloudy 98% of the time we were in new mexico, so the brown burnt sienna landscape didn't get a chance to contrast with crystal clear blue skies. instead we got lots of grey skies with muddy browns. alas.
  • tumbleweeds! i saw tumbleweeds on the highway! a woman was driving with one on the front of her suv. apparently, they aren't fun to try and get out from under your car, since they are really thorny. they also grow like snowballs, bouncing around the landscape getting bigger and bigger. they are also fast on the highway, so i didn't get any pictures of them. : (
  • i can smell the litterbox as i sit here blogging and drinking my wine. this is not a good sign. need more litter; noted.
  • on the way to yanni's (a greek-ish restaurant), ramon got the chance to practice his paramedic skills at a hit & run. saad helped by holding the woman's head while ramon made sure she was ok until the ambulance arrived.
  • this was also the night it snowed! didn't stay on the ground, but it was on the mountains the next day.
  • alexis's car was broken into st. patty's night. (jesus, that litterbox smells bad.) the idiots broke her window and stole a cd walkman (old enough not to have anti-skip protection) and a roadside assistance box (like, with flares and stuff; according to ramon, valued at $10 from wal-mart). impressive thieves.
  • this reminds me of a time that a woman that worked at my parent's chinese restaurant had her car broken into and nothing was stolen, even though her trunk was FILLED with chinese ginseng root (valued at around $500). hahaha! stupid thieves.
  • once, in elementary school, i stole a lip gloss from a store. i felt so guilty, i threw it into the gully behind our house w/o using it.
ok, i'm going to clean that litterbox now. oi! and read some of the artist's way. i'm trying to be more creative. oh, do wish me luck. i did finish my lace scarf and have begun knitting a red scarf w/ blue beads. mayhaps pictures shall follow. and i did tell baron baronet that i'd have sketches up sometime soon... let's say, by the end of the month! yea!

8 comments:

Willie Baronet said...

I'm so happy to hear about new sketches! :-) And by the way, you've probably seen them, but I have at least 2 drawings on my blog that reference cat litter. It is the great equalizer. :-)

Sleep Goblin said...

I wasn't all that impressed by Santa Fe either, over all. Did you see the church with the spiral staircase? I went to mass in the really big church near the square. And bought a fossilized dinosaur bone (a pretty brown stone, not bone shaped!) necklace from the N.A.'s that sit in the square.

However, we also went to Taos, and a lot of the other little reservations with cool adobe churches, and they were way cooler.

fb said...

Hahah, boys will be boys...evry boy wants to be Batman or James Bond at some point...

The trip sounds like it was great fun.

P.S. I'm an Aries borin in the year of the Rat.

Bee said...

Okay, that does it. You are having way too much fun!

I love the Batmen!

FRITZ said...

Those pictures are a hoot. You are like me with the catbox. Wait, wait, wait! And then "POOF" the evil genie arises and chases your cat's ass around the house, stinking up every corner.

Sounds like a good time in Albequerque. Except for stupid theives. They blow.

Anonymous said...

I can't get over that they put chilis on hamburgers at McDonald's! It's like when I went to Taco Bell in San Diego and they served french fries... or something.

I went to Atlanta with a friend and her family when I was 13. I stole a Metallica button from a music store and some plastic Lion King figurines from the hotel's gift shop - I'd pick one up, retract my hand into the sleeve of my Billabong jacket, deposit the stolen goods, and then put my hand back through the opening. Good old elastic around the cuffs.
I am so going to hell.

(And you don't have to try to be creative - you just are.)

kimberlina said...

rrramone - ok, one week, one week, gotta get them up..!

sleep - hey, we did go there! that was kinda neat. even if the "as soon on unsolved mysteries!" sign was super cheesy.

fb - good thing that wal-mart can satisfy such boy cravings. :)

bee - i love the batmen, too! we have fun, which, you know, is a plus.

fritz - totally! not to mention if i leave it alone too long... our clothes on the floor become the new litterbox...

virginia - you are such a rebel! you look all innocent and sweet, but it's all a facade. you evil-doer!

madge said...

Thug Batman Nation!

4-eva!

Ummm...I think it's cute that you never used the lip gloss you stole.