An Honorary Spanish Diva, I am

Hey folks


I haven't written in a week, I apoligize to all my fans! It's been crazy. First there was my sickness, then I had severe back pain and could barely stand up...then I had chronic nose bleeding for 2 days..and then I had 2 days of 12-13 hour shifts at work. So there was little time for a mind check, let alone net time.

Everything's been cool. This next week, Salvador is coming to visit us all the way from the West Coast. Hope he enjoys us and that we don't scare him off. We have so much junk in the house that we are planning on having a yard sale. I have a feeling that most of the shit I'll sell will be CD's and vinyl. I'm sure some neighborhood hipster or random Mexican familywill buy it.



This reminds me of my childhood. I think that it's a family activity that every Mexican household engages upon and that is GOING TO GARAGE SALES. Guys, my family would wake up at 7AM every saturday and DRIVE to the suburbs looking for people who are getting rid of their junk. I think about 70% of my clothing as a kid came from garage sales...so u may have seen me wearing some old ass T-shirt from some Glenview, IL grade school's logo. It wasn't just my family, it was my whole hood. It seemed like it was the common every week thing. They even had a term for it.."Garacheando". Obviously u can tell that it is neither a word nor a real term, it's a Spanglish play on the activity. But the only good thing that I liked about garage sales is that it would be the only time we would eat out. Most of the times we'd go to a Ponderosa or a steak house, as my father is (or was, who knows about now) a hardcore steak lover.

So yes, when I have my yard sale, I will look out towards that bored little boy coming with his family of 12 looking to find this year's school uniform or Christmas present among my junk, just as my family and many other Mexicans did too