Number 5 off my to do list. The BFF's

Who said you can only have 1 bff? I have more then one. I have 2. And no one isnt my husband. Why does everyone say you have to marry your best friend? I think that is completely incorrect. I love my till death do us part man but its not the same relationship i have with my bffs. These 2 are freaking awesome! No I'm not sayin my hub isn't but it's just a different relationship friendship. I wanna cuddle and grow old with the hub. I wanna grow old and have my bffs around but I don't wanna cuddle with them. Haha! Anyways enough of that. Back to the bff's , Judy and Norma. Girls I love you more then you will ever know. Even though I'm 4 hours away I miss you both everyday.


When I was in second grade at Liggett elem I had a friend named Elizabeth, she introduced me to a girl named Judy. We didn't really hit it off at first. But then once we discovered that our moms went to the same church group every Tuesday we became friends. We would hang out together in the church outside lunch area while our moms prayed inside at the church group. Some weeks she wouldn't go and I remember being so bummed and bored without her. Years went by and once it came time for me to pick a middle school to go to I picked Holmes in Northridge because that's where Judy went. I didn't know anybody else but Judy my first day there since all my friends from the elementary school I went in Sylmar (I left Liggett in 3rd grade) went to other middle schools. I remember being so sad when I got stuck in all honors classes and found out I had not one single class with Judy. I went to the school counselor and lied and said that honors was way to hard and had them transfer me so I could have a chance of having a class with Judy. I think that semester we ended up with computer class and p.e together. Middle school was a trip together for sure. I was more a KROQ girl and Judy was more a Power 106 girl. The first time I ditched school was with Judy...shhhh don't tell my mom. Ditching was one thing she never caught me doing no need to tell her now..lol. We would spend hours on the phone together, anyone remember 3 way calling? When we would go to church retreats we always had a blast. Remember when we got lost in Whitter? Good times. Our times at the church fair were always fun. The sleep overs we had were the best. We should have a sleep over soon by the way. You down? High school had it's good times too. We had English class together and there was never a boring day. I miss all our talks and all the good laughs and scares we ever had. I'm sorry for the time me and April made you sit in the middle of the truck. Lol. I miss her all the time especially now that we have kids i wish we lived close to each other so they could all be friends. By the near end of 10th grade we parted ways. I decided to take independent studies since my dad had moved to Vegas first I figured it was best so my mom wouldn't have to worry about dropping me off to school everyday. Plus I had also heard that doing independent studies was faster and it was I finished a semester by April instead of June. Sometimes I think we would both just love to have one more day of high school or Middle school together.


When I was 14 I started dating the father of my son. He came from a big family that was different then my lil family. One of his sisters Norma became my best friend. It wasn't right away. But as I started coming around more we became closer. While I took independent studies I had a lot of free time which I spent with Norma. I would go over and go to the cemetery with her to visit her mom and just talk about life and have lunch. Now on the most stressful days I just wanna drive to the cemetery and meet her there. Once I became pregnant with my son she was there for me all the time. Being that I couldn't drive and my parents had moved to Vegas by then she would take me to my Doc appts when her brother couldn't. She would take me to school too. When ever I had craving and her insensitive brother didn't care much she would make sure I had it. She makes the best ceviche ever. I learned a lot of things from her. She is like a big sister to me. We tell each other everything. Her coffee is way better then any starbucks coffee. Plus good conversation doesn't come with starbucks coffee. She taught me lots of things on how to be good mother. I'll never be as good as her but I try. Even after I spilt from her brother she never judged me or treated me bad. She's been wonderful with my daughter Mia who isn't her blood niece but will grow up calling her Tia Norma and she been excepting of my nerdy clumsy husband. I wish she lived down the hall like she use to when I was pregnant with Bryan. She gave me the courage to have Bryan with out a epideral. Lol ouch. She called me today and I wish I could have been there for her to give her a big huge hug because she needed it.


To my 2 bff's I would love for both of you to please move to Vegas. Please!

Myspace, Facebook, no it was called Inkednation.

In 2007 I discovered a website by the name of Inkednation.com. At that time Myspace.com was popular. Now it's Facebook. Inkednation was like myspace and facebook but for people with tattoos. When it came to myspace I never added any friends to my friends list if I didn't know them in person. But inkednation was different, I didn't know anybody. Mostly due to the fact that I hadn't finally acted on my dream of getting tattooed till the year before. This was interesting and because of it I have made a couple good friends. I even married and had a baby with a guy I met on there. Yes we are still happily married. But I wanted to make a little list of some of the other great people I met on there.


First we will start with Johnny Fever. He is a custom tattoo artist here in Vegas and if it wasn't for his Inkednation profile I may have not found him. I set up a tattoo appointment with him and the rest is history. He is the man behind my valentine candy tattoo, he's done all the work I have on my right leg and the flower tattoos on the side of my boobs.

Next on the list we have "Moocher" Omar. He's from Anaheim and turns out he would come race his motorcycle in the small little town I use to live in and invited me and my son to hang out with his friends one day when they came out to race. Technically he should have the same last name as me but his mom gave him hers instead. We've been friends ever since. He went to my little girls first birthday party and he has even came over just to play video games with my son. He calls my son his godson.

Don't think I only made guy friends off Inkednation. I also made girl friends. Rosie was the first one I met in person. What can I say she's pretty awesome. We both share a love for boys with tattoos and Sailor Jerry rum..mmmmmmm. I got to meet her in person one day when she came out to Vegas. After that I would try to see her when ever I would go out to Cali. It's always a good time when we hang out.

 

Inkednation friend number 3.. Bruce... Bruce dangerous. Don't let the mean face scare you. He does smile. Bruce is actually really nice and sarcastic. On one of my many California trips I had so free time and met up with Bruce at Starbucks. Man did he share some interesting stories with me that day. He didn't even order coffee. I think he drank water. He even put up going to my very Hispanic baby shower. He's a good guy. Looks very mean but he's harmless..

Now for my next Inkednation amigo. Marcos of the great Burque NM. We had been friends on Inkednation for a while and one day he came to Vegas with his bff Adrian who by the way is also cool and I got to hang out with them at Studio 54. As me and Marcos say " not everyone can have famous blood like us " hahaha. He is the one that gave my husband the nickname of "the boytoy". Even though he lives so far he is still a awesome friend. If you text him he will respond. Thank you Marcos.

Then we have Lucky. His real name is Jose. He's the the Piercer with no piercings.. and owns his own tattoo shop. I got to finally meet him in person at the Pomona Expo. I even got a free shirt...lol.

 

The same day I met Lucky in person I also got to meet a girl from NM. Her name is Scarlet.. or EviL Cherry. She's got the most awesome hair and is a kick ass hair dresser who now owns her own shop out there.

The last friend off Inkednation that I met in person was Andrea. It took a while because she's from the great awesome Canada. So she's pretty far from Vegas. But I finally got to meet her in person last year and she even came this year too. I wish she did live closer. Maybe someday we can move to Canada. But we still have facebook to keep in touch.

Saving the best for last. Usually when I eat something I like I save the best for last. I met Carlos on Inkednation. He lived in California and one weekend while I was out there for Warped Tour we agreed to meet for the first time the next day after Warped. Warped tour ended around 10 so we changed our plans and met that night. He picked me up and we drove to the beach. We talked about music, our kids, relationships and that night I told him if anyone ever wants to have a long distance relationship somebody would eventually have to move. After a good night of conversation he dropped me off and I leaned over to HUG him and he stuck his tongue in my mouth!! Omg so was not expecting that! I thought he was cute but I wasn't expecting to make out with him. It was a awesome kiss. We ended up dating and he eventually moved to Nevada, we got married and had our pretty lil Mia Monroe. At first he didn't like telling people we met online but one day I told him it's not a big deal tons of people meet online. Geez it's not like we might on some creepy site like "craigslist" lol.