Thanksgiving 2006
Dinner with The Sporks - Dinner with Syd and Julie - Dinner and dangerous karaoke with the Gigsville Orphans at Kat's
(More photos from Kat's by Josh)

Thursday November 23 - 2006
by kmo

GIGSVILLE

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The statue of Vanessa's cousin "Shaker"
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His sale into an Indonesian drug cartel to pay off a family debt was finalized just this week and apparently now days the new "owners" give the family these statues to show how happy they are in their new life.

He liked golf.
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Look....
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very...closely...
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Though I was here three years ago, I again managed to stay away from the forbidden subject list which included but was not limited to: Burning Man, Gigsville, motorcycles, religion, atheism, pornography, drug use, boobie ambushes and the color mauve.

In trying to navigate this beforehand we settled upon a safe conversational parameter:
"Talk about things that float"
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BuBu did this to me all day.
It kept staring at a point three inches down from my neck.
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Vanessa starts the meal with the traditional toe sucking of the 2nd youngest child.
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Anticipating this, they have covered his feet with Vanessa's favorite cheese product.
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I didn't cause this...
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They break out the old family photo they had colorized from last year.
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It was also her sister's birthday and she gets her an antique necklace.
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"What does 'LA County Morgue: #DA-7856-2B' mean" she asks?
We chuckle, say it's a joke and move on to another subject.
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Now no one seemed to notice this but me.
It was horrifying. The dog got her the whole way into a corner of the backyard when she was saved by the sprinklers coming on.
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STOP IT!!!
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Vanessa's childhood bed.
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Syd and his mom.