Now every one gather around...closer...closer..STOP! I have a yummy blog 4 y'all this fine Christmas Evening. Excited? Well, you should be because this is a traditional Mexican American feast for the gringos out there, :). I mean it in a good way, ok? Good. Before the mental eating begins, I'm going to tell you some of my back round. This explains the food & customs. Firstly, Iam half white (dad)/Mexican American (mom). I don't live with my dad, but me and my both live with her mom, my grandma in the barrio. I have relatives that live in Mexico, and they are all fair skinned people w/black hair and light colored eyes like my grandma, mom, & me. Now, I don't normally embrace my Mexican hertiage, but since I am in a website filled with intelligent and great people, I am going to share w/you Mexican foods, so you can pass it on! :) Ready? First, lets start with the TAMALES! Those tasty corn "egg rolls" (they look like egg rolls) stuffed with meat, beans or suger are wrapped in corn husks. Then set to boil for about an hour. I actually don't like them, but I do have a soft spot for spicy chicken, beef, and bean! Then I top it all off with green chile...mmmmmmmmmm. Meats used: Pork, Beef, and Chicken. In some places, goat meat is used. I have never tried the goat, but the sound of it is just gross! More Stuffings: Bean. The desert Sugar tamale stuffed with sugar, cinnamon, and raisins. How do u make one: First, you need masa. Masa is wet flour doh with lard & some spieces. Save your self the time, buy it already MADE*! When the doh is ready, add your stuffing, such as above meats. Make sure the meat is cooked, use fine shreads of the chosen meat and mix it in with doh. Then you'll need corn husks*. Fill the stuffing 3/4 of the way of the corn husk. Fold the remaining half of the husk up ward. Boil in a large pot for about an hour. Its done when its soft. Spices: Salt, pepper, red smoked peppers, all mixed in with the doh. LIKE THAT! You can just smell the heavenly aroma. SNIFF. *Up north, I don't know where you would get these items. Sorry. NOTE: This blog is to long, so i made to parts for it. I'll post resapes in the next blog.

Santa Spot is gearing up right now to go deliver the Christmas gifts wif the real Santa! He has on his widdle hat and is licking up hot chocolate. Hopefully, he won't get the urge to go and leave an extra present in Santa's gift bag. :? It is going to be a warm Christmas day tomorrow in my home town. The weatherman predicted 80 degree weather, which is unusual because this time of year, the weather is chilly with temperatures in the 40s-50s. I do not mind the warm weather, in fact, I don't care. I get to wear shorts tomorrow and open gifts that my aunt shooed me away from. Yes, I was hovering around her mountain of gifts, when she saw me, and ran me away! lol. Are those fireworks I hear outside? Yes, the ppl in my area are playing with those things, and it sounds like bomb went off out side..which reminds..buy tonz of fireworks, when my younger cousin comes down. I am such a pyro when it comes to these things. *sigh* one 4th of July, some friends and myself had our own bondfire..but is a diffrent story! Have you guys had any partys yet? My family had a Posada last nite. A Posada is gathering of ppl singing and praying the rosary in spanish held at night. A pray and party kind of thing. The church folks came over and we all sang & prayed for 2 hours. The everyone gathered around the table and gorged on cookies, cakes, hot coco, sodas, sandwiches, and candy. It was great. My work schedule keeps me from going out, but this made up for that. ENJOY THE ART :D Tomorrow, I will blog about traditional Mexican Christmas foods, such as, cookies, & tamales. :D Stay tuned! Note: to all visitors..post at the blog below about the Santa Spot cat wish list. just go along with it. :)

Santa Spot told me to rely this message in spanish. Why? Because we are both from the barrio and he only meows one language. This is what he said: Spot: El gato le está mirando. English: The cat is watching you. Spot: ¿Cuáles son sus tres deseos de Navidad?: Me: What are your 3 Christmas wishes? Spot: Usted puede preguntarme en inglés. Me: He says u can ask him in English. My wishes: 1. TO GET MY WISDOM TEETH OUT!!! 2. A new headset for the N-Gage. 3. I want a Plasma Purple, Alienware Computer. Complete with: Intel® Pentium® D Processor 830 Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 PC-5300 SDRAM 667MHz 80GB 7,200 RPM SATA w/8MB Cache NVIDIA GeForce™ 7800 GT 256MB DDR3 Integrated High Performance 7.1 Audio. Me: :D Spot: Oh mi dios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! meowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww lolololololololololololololololololololololo. Note: Plz post..& have fun wif this post ok?

ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS...REMEMBER SANTA SPOT IS STALKING..I MEAN WATCHING YOU! :D meow....

Yes, ORANGE! Why? Well read & find out! :D. The cold wind is screaming at your windows, jack frost is slicing at your nose with an axe, snow is piled 8 ft thick almost devouring the house, and the heater is turning triple shifts to the point where it could burn the house down... Ohhhh...but not here in sunny ol Texas. Nooooooooo! In fact, in my neck of the state, its barely fall. YES FALL. Acorns are raining terror over people heads, pecans are shooting themselves all over the sidewalk. Its a wonderful site for sore winter bitten eyes. Delicious: There is this orange tree in my backyard that supplies the juiciest, most fat, most sweet, most tantalizing oranges this side of the Rio Grande. Yummm... Not those nasty wild orange trees that smell nice, but are the taste of death. More on the Oranges: I eat about 2-3 of those beasts a day. I grab a small knife and peel the skin away. Then it's 3...2...1 BLAST OFF! Its a party in my mouth when the juice hits the taste buds. Citrus flavor like no other. :D Moving on: Iam dedicating this weeks Wild & Crazy animal blog to my very own cat--Spot (Spotty Pie). Doesn't he look so cute wearing his lil Santa Hat? Awwwwwww. He goes around stalking! Errrr, eying inside peoples window checking to see who has been naughty or nice. If they have been nice, he will pur, and if they have been naughty--lets just say he should have done that in the toilet..LOL. Info: I took this picture when my cat jumped on the window a/c of my room. At first, I heard a loud thump and saw a orange lighting flash before me eyes. Then I realized it was Spot spying on me though the window. This is the best picture of the 6 that I took him. I have photoshop on my computer and did some minor photo editing & added a hat and some wording. Bam! There you have it Santa Spot! Cat: Spot was actually an alley cat that started coming to the backdoor and meowing for food during the summer time. I don't know where he came from, or who left, or even what his age his, he just came to my house.Every afternoon, he would appear at the door and me or my mom would feed him scraps from the fridge. After a while, my mom started to buy real cat food and feed him pellets & was given a name--"Spot" after Data's cat, Spot from St: TNG. Now he is a member of the family, and we have not looked back since. There u have it, this weeks animal blog. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww PS: Enjoy the Banner!

:D. a new x-mas banner right off the press, folks. i made it, and it took 6 hours! *ben stein voice* deanna t's new banner IS awesome. *ben stein face* :|. *me face* :D title A Very Viking Christmas ENJOY! PS: ENJOY THE PIC ALSO!

The left bottom tooth is stuck or "impacted". That part of my mouth is swollen and is making very hard for me to eat any thing! no bread, fruit, candy! I was eating some chips right now, needless to say the food is trapped! >.< gross, i know. but, thats nothing. sometimes it will bleed and i end up not being able to eat, AT ALL! to make matters worse, food is all stuck in the right bottom tooth. soooooooooooo nasty. i have been to 2 docs & they keeping saying to get them out. but noooooooooooooooooo my mom wont listen to my cries 4 help when they start bleeding or become swollen. she just changes the subject or ignores me flat out. its all "you should have drank more milk, blah blah blah", or "try some tooth medicene, blah, blah, blah". nothing works. i think its a power struggle. i don't know i just live there. >.< my teeth right now (just an example): THATS THE TOOTH! PS. i wanna change my user name!

An FYI for all. The lovley pic you see before you is a USB drive and it connects to a thing that looks like this: To the front or back of the computer. Back-for any older model computer. Front- for any newer model computer...hint a Dell. Which all connets to the front of the computer. My 'puter has 4. 2 in the front and 2 in the back. More Examples: It connets right there! Nice, huh? :) Wht they do: It is a moveable storage device that connects to a drive, called the USB drive on a computer. They can hold pictures, music (mine has some songs on it), any word processing work (Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, etc). They are able to hold lots of info depending on the MegaByte memory, such as 64 MB (like mine) and how much memory a file takes up. Pin Drives small litte wonders that do not take up much space, and more economical then a floppy or a burned CD. More info: according to OfficeMax.com: Prices: $23.88-$99.99. (Pin it self, not the external drives). Memory: 32MB-512 MB, 5 GB! Places to buy them at: Amazon.Com, Office Max (store or web), any place that sells computers and supplys. Brands: Seagate, Verbatim, Lexar, etc.

i will be posting another strange animal blog soon. :D

Every one look I have a total of a 100 posts! To top it all off, I'm even a Super Friend @ Level 8...Yay! What was my 100th post? It was at the General Discussion board, on the "Your First TV Show CRUSH (Puppy Love)? My response: Tommy the Green/White/Red Ranger. Awwwwwwww. :D Enjoy the pic.