It’s almost Christmas!

And while I’m not the biggest fan of this holiday for multiple reasons, 1 thing I do like is the River of Lights here at the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens.

I went last night with my boyfriend,Wayne, my Mom and aunt.
Wayne had never been there before so he was like “Oooooh.” once we got there because there’s millions of twinkly, sparkly lights everywhere and reflecting in the water and IN the water. It’s beautiful.

I know they do a similar thing in Tokyo this time of year and since I can’t be there right now, this is the next best thing.
And I was with my boyfriend so we had a blast (although it was FREEZING).

We hit up Old Town, which is down the street, before the sun went down to buy some presents for my friend that is coming into town and I made nice with the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Bear who was dressed like Santa.
That seat was metal and as soon as I sat down, all my genitalia froze.

My Mom kept telling me I looked like one of the characters from Andrew Lloyd Webbers’ “Cats, so I kept threatening to break out singing “Memory” in the middle of the store.

When it got dark, we met my boyfriend at the Botanical Gardens and proceeded to have lots of fun and took about a million  pictures. Here’s a few of them.
The funniest picture is me and Wayne going down a slide meant for little kids and he came down behind me and almost knocked me off it so my limbs and his limbs are flying everywhere and I’m almost on the floor. But it’s on my Mom’s camera so god knows when that picture will surface.

There was a lovely snowman neighborhood full of glitter and fiber optics at the entrance:

Here’s Wayne and I being attacked by a giant spider inside of a giant pumpkin.

There was a pegasus outside…

I LOVE these pictures by the river, I love how they reflect in the water. And I like the yellow submarine, that was a new addition.

This “wind-up” T. Rex was my favorite new thing.

I challenged him to a duel.

Then Wayne and I posed for some lovey dovey pictures at the request of my Mom.
Our 8 month anniversary is January 2nd. That makes me happy:)

Then she made us smile.

As you can tell by my red nose, it was soooo cold. But so fun:)

So, I don’t know if you all know this, but being I have their lyrics tattooed across my chest, you should.
30 Seconds To Mars have been very good friends of mine for 7 years and their new cd, “This Is War” came out this paast Tuesday.
There’s 2,000 different covers with the faces of tons of different people, including yours truly.

Apparently, all the cds with pictures of me and all my friends have NOT been sent to anywhere in the US because all o fus who are friends and who are on covers have been looking for eachother and NOBODY can find eachother. It kinda sucks. I would like a copy of a cd I’m on the cover of.
But nonetheless, I’m super happy to be on there.
Oh, and when you listen to the song, all those voices singing in the background? Yeah, I’m one of those voices too.
I was at the bands Summit they had in Hollywood in April and my voice (and thousands of others haha) is on all but 3 tracks.
Pretty damn cool, huh?

So being that these fools are my buddies and I needed to get the fuck out of ABQ (due to being sick all the time, I haven’t been out of town since the late summer) I flew out to Denver November 30th (fittingly enough) to stay with my friend Maria, our friend Tonya came in from Nebraska and I got to see all my wonderful friends from Denver at Dave and Buster’s that night, then even more AND my buddies in 30STM the next night at The Ogden.
Pictures, you ask?
Oh, indeed.

After taking about 5 double and over or whatever they’re called shots, Maria and I had a Dance Dance Revolution competition rematch. Thing was, we were both kinda a tad drunk and neither of us could keep up and we were dying by the time the first song was over, haha.

Then I discovered how much I suck at Guitar Hero (I had never played it before that night).

The concert was the next day but before that was the fun part, which is waiting in line with all my friends (for those that don’t know, we all happen to enjoy waiting in line together and being silly, even in freezing temperatures).

Tonya and I went own the street to Rave’s clothing store where we purchased our matching kitty hats and then we hung out and got snockered until the show started.

Once inside, Tonya and I went on a photo taking spree of eachother.

And yes, there is concert pictures. There all belong to Tonya (TongaLH) who graciously let me steal them, hehe.

Jared was complaining it wasn’t snowing, then after the show it was snowing like madness and the guys turned into pussies and took off for their hotel without talking to anyone because it was too cold.
And we laughed.

So then I flew home the next day and here I am.

This Christmas will be insane, my brother will be here from Portland, OR in less than 2 weeks and so will my friend, Mie (my good friend I went to Japan with last year and who I’m going with again in May of 2010). She’s coming to visit from from New York City.
So I’m excited!

Unfortunately, Wayne has to work on New Years Eve , but my good friends Anna and Toby are having a party at their new apartment so I get to be around good friends at least.

I will for sure update with a video journal before the new year!
AND some new photosets!
The reason for the lag in this is because all my local photographers are either out of town, their wife just had a baby or are, like me, having health issues.
But they’re coming soon, I assure you…I need to dye my hair first though, my roots are ridiculous.

But until then, Love and Bunnies!

**Vanessa**