I took these pics when I moved to Austin in '03. When I found them today it gave me a chuckle. I watched Clueless this weekend, and the scene where they accidentally get on the freeway and all start screaming in panic reminds me of this.....I was always SO scared to get out and drive when I first moved there. Inevitably, I would always either get lost, end up on one of the freeways and be unable to exit due to our horrible traffic, or some other eqully disasterous weiner shrinker would occur. My first night in Austin, just such a thing happened. My mother and I were trying to get back to my apartment from the airport. Somehow, we ended up on the East side.....if you know Austin, then I don't have to tell you about the East side! I pulled in to a convenience store that looked like it was going to erupt into a war between the Bloods and the Crips at any moment. Anyway, I locked my mother safely in the car and went to get directions. The guys I asked were very friendly and nonthreatening......we made our way back home 30-45 minutes later.....Austin is really the friendliest city I've ever been in....even in da HOOD!

Happy Memorial Day GW!

16 years old




From my hippy stage in college.




Trailer Trash!

AJ

My great nephew AJ and I. Last time I saw him, he was five. Now he's a tall, goodlooking seventeen year old.
Getting little brother Dillan ready for his first grade Christmas program.

Posing next to a hot ass at the Balloon Fiesta, Albuquerque NM....it was about 7:00 in the morning and I was already drunk! At one point, I just sat down on the ground and wouldn't get up...lol...I'd give anythiung to be able to find that pic!

Manny Garibay

These are pics of Manny....one of the three great loves of my life, actually my first boyfriend. We met in Las Cruces...he was just turning 19 and I was 28. I miss him still. It's so very hard for me to deal with the loss of those whom I've loved. I have many more pics I took during the years we were together, but I've moved so many times, I can't seem to find them.



These were pics from a camping trip to the Gila we made the summer we got together.



These are a couple years older, when he came back to NM from Vegas to visit me.

My parents and I getting ready to go to my brother's wedding.

Two years old....nice cat eyes!

If I hadn't censored this one, it could've landed me in jail for distribution of kiddie porn....OF MY OWN SELF!! Seriously! This country's gone crazy over stuff like that...

I was a VERY photographed child.....I used to come up with all sorts of cute little poses.

A pic of my little kinder class...I am the sassy looking little boy second from right!

My first grade school pic. I used to hate this picture, but now I think it's really cute.

This was Phillip, my best friend and neighbor. Sadly, Phillip died when we were second graders.

Third grade school pic.

More cat eyes!

Christmas eve....1975 I think.

Wearing horrible plaid bellbottom Brady Bunch pants on Easter Sunday....

One of our trips to my Aunt's beach house on the Texas Gulf Coast.

A couple of college friends, late 80's.

A previous incarnation......Teaching

It's hard for me to believe that these kids are in their 20's now. I'd give anything to see them. I hope they all graduated high school and are going to college...or at least doing something positive with themselves and are happy. They were a smart, great bunch of kids.












I got sprayed with projectile brown vomit on this bus ride.


Girl POWER!!!! LOL...check out the little boys laughing at me cheering!