Shiny

Did you all have a good Christmas? What did you do? Mr. Moc and I had a busy Christmas. For the past week Rocketdog, Pigpen, the Shongsters and the parental units were here in town staying with us. I feel like all we did was eat, sleep and shop! Although occasionally, we stayed up late to talk and play board games! It was a lot of fun and crazy to have everyone over but I'm exhausted right now.

So, did you all get what you wanted from Santa? I got some cool stuff but my faves are the diamond earrings, my mocs from Ugg (well, when they arrive), and a beautiful white tablecloth and matching napkins from Syria*. Well, I won't be blogging again until the new year so I hope you all have a wonderful new year. Happy New Year!

*edit* Oh yeah, and a subscription to Cooking Light (which is arriving later)

Merry Christmas

A bit belated but Merry Christmas!

This is for Rocketdog...where is Kitty? --MM

Mocmoc's Travel Profile

	Your travel type: Jet Set A visit to a museum or an art gallery in the morning, an afternoon of shopping, dining out in a good restaurant and some drinks and a little party to end the day, the Jet Set traveller likes a full day. Although he is quite active he is not the type to do any outdoor sports. When he has to walk a few blocks, he takes a cab. The Jet Set traveler is not much of a nature lover. "You mean the green stuff my parents have in their backyard?"
	top destinations: New York Paris Tokyo	stay away from: Hampi Ciudad Perdida Darien Gap

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I think they have nailed my travel profile! What do you think?

arizona

they put out giant chess/checkers at the resort


The past couple days I spent it in Arizona. It was a lot colder than I thought. But we stayed at the Arizona Biltmore, it's a beautiful resort that was built in the 1920s and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. All these movie stars (Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gables) and every president since Hoover have stayed there. We also got to go to Sedona and see the Red Rocks, very pretttty =)

ill meet you in milan

	Your travel type: Jet Set A visit to a museum or an art gallery in the morning, an afternoon of shopping, dining out in a good restaurant and some drinks and a little party to end the day, the Jet Set traveller likes a full day. Although he is quite active he is not the type to do any outdoor sports. When he has to walk a few blocks, he takes a cab. The Jet Set traveler is not much of a nature lover. "You mean the green stuff my parents have in their backyard?"
	top destinations: Amsterdam New York Venice	stay away from: Kashmir Ciudad Perdida Darien Gap

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so um, i think this is so wrong - "he is not the type to do any outdoor sports" and the answer is NO! What other kind of sports are there?! that thing doesnt know me at all! and the part about the nature lover? i am one i just can't keep plants. i admire but dont handle cause ill kill it.

--RD

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Ok, so once again not as impressive as MocMoc's, but she does have 10 years on me. But I bet I have her beat on both states and countries lived in!!!!

--RD

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not quite as impressive as MM

U.S. States that Mocmoc has visited

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39 (76%) States Visited

Countries Mocmoc has visited

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Still SOOO many countries to visit!

--MM

Chronicles of Narnia

Chronicles of Narnia
This post is for rocketDOG...look who I saw at the movies tonight!?! Shong!

For those of you who haven't heard yet, rocketDOG thinks that our family dog, Shong, looks like the Lion in the new movie "The Chronicles of Narnia". What do you think? --MM

Shong

no name?

I have a very hard time finding those souvenirs with my name. Take a look..they even have Guadalupe and Graciela...

toure de LA

This past weekend a couple of my friends came in from North Carolina to visit. They've never been to LA before, or at least not in a long time, so of course they wanted to see everything. We did the Grove, Venice Beach, Malibu, Hollywood, USC/UCLA Football game, Lakers/Bobcats game, and Disneyland.

We had to sit in the UCLA section but it's ok, we creamed them! All the UCLA fans were very angry at me for wearing my USC Girls ROck t-shirt. Several of them heckled me and some wouldn't even let me get past them (jokingly of course). That was my first USC football game besides the Rose Bowl two years ago!

At the Lakers game we had seats at center court, 9 rows back on the camera side. We got on TV a couple times. I saw some old friends but from far away, I didn't get to go down to say hi. But we saw Jack Nicholson, Penny Marshall, the judge lady from Ally McBeal, and Jessica Alba. Plus from across the way I think we saw one of the Olson twins. Oh and Shaq was at the game!

Disneyland was awesome, they had everything set up for Christmas and for their 50th anniversary! Space Mountain was so fun, I don't ever remember it being that dark or fast or COLD! brrr... Of course I had junkfood, but i only had a cheeseburger, fries and a churro. It just wasn't the same without Mocmoc my eating buddy. I am still craving a corndog...mmm...

Mexico

So pictures from our trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico have been posted to my website. If you're familiar with my website, go check out the pictures when you have time. If you don't now my website, email me and I'll send you a link.

We had a wonderful time on our trip and I wish I could be there now! It's 8 degrees outside. No, that is not a typo - there is only a single digit! It is only 8 degrees outside and with the wind chill factor, it feels like -1 degree outside. :(

In addition, there is snow on the ground - only about 6-8 inches or so but the forecast for tonight is more snow - possibly a foot or more. I can't wait until my trip to SF next week! Woohoo, the 50 degree weather there is going to feel like a heatwave to me!
--MM

Winter is really here!

I took this picture from my balcony about 2 hours ago. It's been snowing non-stop since and now there's about an additional 2 inches of snow on top of what you see. It's still coming down pretty quickly...maybe I should go outside and make a snow angel in the front yard. Anyway, there's no denying it now...winter is definitely here! Time to head south!