New Years Party Report

Good sign to arrive at 9:00PM and everyone is already dancing.  We hear Michael Jackson’s Thriller from a quarter mile away – lots of cars.  A friend once said, look in the window first when you if you arrive at a party. If you don’t see anyone you know, or if no one is dancing, don’t bother going in. In this case, we knew almost everyone and everyone was dancing. And it was very cold out there looking in the window.

Good sign also when you enter and everyone starts cheering.  Entering behind me was a guy holding roasted meat on a platter.

Someone greets me and asks how the alpacas are.  She has a thick European accent and it's very loud and takes several tries for me to understand her.  It sounds like she's shouting “apuckas! ”   When I told her don't have any alpacas she asked about llamas and insisted that I had once given her a business card for my ranch.  She eyed me suspiciously the rest of the evening like I'd eaten them maybe.  I'm thinking it's prophetic and I should consider small livestock for 2008.

My used clothes collection comes in handy for these parties. Dressing to impress – if dog hair, moth holes and safety pinned lining in 60 year old mink coats are impressive.   Nothing  better than disco moves in patent leather cowboy boots.   

::Raised eyebrows, shaking heads::

I must look like an alpaca rancher.   

Happy New Year!

(updated text and photos 1/2/08) 

Comments

[Torrey Baird]

Hey Coco:

Sounds like someone got you confused with Leslie Stoddard and her alpaca ranch.

http://www.albuquerquealpacas.com/about.html

Take care,

Torch