Have you ever wanted something for a really long long time?
Have you ever thought something was cool and then years later had that belief validated not only by your grown up personal set of weights and measures?
I used to subscribe to car magazines constantly as a kid. Seriously I can actually never remember not being into cars. I am still to this day very into cars. And not just one type or one aspect of cars. It is not like Racing is “IT” for me or off-roading or no one aspect. I love it all. There is something cool about every genre of the automotivation. So get to the point car nerd.
I have this little cut out from the back of a car magazine for a Ayrton Senna Nacional Hat.

I have this clipping. I cut one of my bibles for the hat of my favorite race driver. Shortly after this he died of course as a young fan I read all about it. No one asked me to be “fair and balanced” but I read many opinions of him that were negative. I still considered myself a fan but since he was gone I never ordered the hat, and lost interest. Attention span of a gnat, I know. The Oilers left Houston and changed their colors and ehh, I gave up on NFL football.
Something as a kid I didn’t really get was the idea of memorabilia and something being sentimental. That is a disconnect too because my parents were always dragging us through flea markets searching for old stuff that I saw no use for.
Well I do get it now and I repeat I never ordered the hat. But I kept the ad for it in a box with some foreign money my grandfather gave me.
The OCD is strong with this one: I’m going to have to have one.
I know it is trivial but I have wanted this for a really long time. Also it was cool and then and years later my grown up personal set of weights and measures says it is super cool. Ayrton Senna was legendary and yes now as he rests in peace lots of people think this.
He was the very definition of “Club Brown” good looking, cool as it gets and full Latin emotion.
Yeah I’m gonna get this hat.

and speaking of the 80′s being awesome.

OK so this year bought my own Christmas.

I have wanted driving mocs for like 6 years. Break down and buy them, I know I know.

SO I made my selection and purchased on line. These to be exact!

Today I get an email “track your package…” don’t mind If I do. It’ll be here tomorrow. Yee haw. “Watch this video …” ok I love these handy suggestions. WHAT IN THE WORLD? I could write a better song or better yet what came first the song or the slideshow. This is embarrassing but funny as all get out. If you have time and only ONLY if you have nothing else to do.  Too bad stranded UK airport people don’t read my blog.

Merry Christmas

moccasin soul

watch this amazing footage shot in Honolulu on August 14, 1945. Greatest generation was also the coolest generation and they didn’t even know it.
Maybe that is one of the main reasons they were so cool.

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

I have always liked an old series Landy.

It helps that the godfather of all things American cool had one.
I’d take one like this right here.

I have always loved a man’s Rolex’s on a female.

A quick Google image search returns …

A lady asked me how many pair of shoes I have; she proceeded to tell me what I had worn over the past few days. You wore Brown chords and grey vans Monday and you wore boots yesterday and to day you have on penny loafers, I wanted to say um mind your own business and these are driving shoes of sorts, bugger off. But in stead I said thanks.
Speaking of what one wears on their feet. Or just feet actually (horrible segue) Jade has found her feet! The other night she was sucking on her toe so hard it was red. Crazy kiddo

maybe in 20/20 hindsight she should have went with this dress more often.

so i am so glad this is all over. Zach we can take down the banners now the quiet protest is over.

now i am have to worry about the Christmas tree and getting it up before the family comes for Thankschristmasing. i have like 20 other things i want to get done between know and then too i need to wash the house and the fence and stain and seal the fence. Get the Honda out of the garage and into the shop to get fixed and tagged and rolling. and get the Mini back, maybe buy a used Saab and give the Tank back to its owner and get Gus into the garage for an oil change and the lights on the house and i have 20 days to do all this in. OK it might not all get done. First things first. i wanna get something done to the fence. this week. Hear that babe? ok and i wanna stop drinking soda. except when i NEED it.

CHEERS!  and dont grieve to much, my dear republican friends, nothing is ever gonna really change, that is just the way it is somethings never change, (insert bruce hornsby piano riff) and it dont matter if we have a black man or an old man a chick, or a chick with a gun on the run in the big house we are supposed to pray for them just the same.

Thanks to gmail chat i can keep in constant contact with my defector friends who have left the bowels of hell for more temperate or oceanic climate-ry. this morning with Phillip:

me: hey friend how are you this morning?

why? I don’t know i have a friend in CA that i am always asking the most naive -est of American, republican, southern of questions of. “Hey Christine, don’t you just laugh when you hear the American dad theme song?” Jeez Louise, i mean think Daine, of course she doesn’t she is in Canada.

Josh and i left the country but not far enough. i mean the only way we knew we were really out of the US and into Canada on our trip is they have some different rules and let private land owners live in or on some of the small islands in the boundary waters, or they would call that Quetico Provincial Park. We were lost and had paddled too far and we could have been shot on site but ok whatever. the one island we saw had more “no trespassing” “doughnut-ent-ry” signs than it did anything else. my point is i feel the need to get out of the USA for a second. even if it is just to one of our un-taxed outlying islands that i don’t need a passport to go to but that are way too Caribbean and trade able for something we want in exchange for oil. I need to get out and see people driving crazy. and that might just be it. i need to see different ethnic groups driving like maniacs. Maybe i should just go to Houston or a quick hop down to the border. This might be all the perspective straitening i need.
I watched my show last night, Anthony Bourdain’s No reservations, and he went to Saudi Arabia. Ok i would so go there and get myself all suited up in the normal mens garb. I should; I should get one to wear around town with my Mexi-Melt in her strappy tank tops. ha Ham sandwich in a Synagogue. Ha ha and that is even funnier in light of the context. it left me wanting to eat lamb and rice and hummus!

Brown went camping and is home now.
I sun kissed my knees and the stress of getting there made my face break out like i rubbed up next to the wrong girl.

Super Josh and I went for a paddle and ended up in OH CANADA! Why why why every time we want to refer to our pals to the north do we over pronounce all of our “A”’s and sing “Oh Canada” as a funny tribute. Well get in a boat and brave their rough waters and you’ll sing my little jingles.
I’ll write more about the trip later Pictures and Videos and all sorts of fun I promise, it is coming as soon as I have a second.
Right now I just want to get all of your feed back on a fun deal Zach and I (original brownies) have been kicking around. Zach has a way of taking something I say and making it real. If I were president He’d be vice or at least king of literature or something. Any how with no further Adieu I present to you a Club brown tank top sporting the new club-brown logo Zach whipped up.
Lemme know what you think. And better yet where you would not wear this I would wear it almost anywhere but seeing  as the shirt is a females and a slim fit I realize we are going to have to come up with some maternity sizes for me and Mexi Melt!