holiday greetings, allies, commrades and people so good looking that i overlook your dreadful personalities and include you among my friends! i love you all.
2010 was indeed the year that God Himself took a big steaming dump on my pretty little face. although you know my tale ends with the glorious rapture i deserve, it took quite a journey to get here. i've been quiet about it for the most part and i think it's one of those things that you can't really ask someone about but enough is enough, here is what went on, grab a mug of mountain dew and sit down in your favorite club chair by your roaring fire and enjoy the tale i present to you now:
on a late spring evening, i was standing in my mother's kitchen making hamburgers. they were going to be delicious, i had some grass fed ground beef and i got an excellent idea to finely chop up some butter while it was really cold and mix it in with the beef. it was the good europeon butter too. i was making the hamburger patties and suddenly my phone went off. it was noneother than my husband at the time, one
phil garcia. he was clearly in an intoxicated state, as he often is, but this time instead of going on about radiohead or the greatest failure in sports history that is the houston astros, he demanded i come home and have a talk. i put the hamburgers away, with much regret, and went to go see what his problem was.
when i got home, i found a drunk slob draped over my patio furniture in the back yard. phil had spent the day drinking with his sleaze of a friend mike padilla and had clearly had a few too many bud lights or whatever similar crap they drink. i don't understand how anyone gets drunk off of that unless you drink like twelve of them. i suppose that's just what he did because then and there he announced that he wants to take some time apart and only a true lunatic would ever want such a thing. i asked him why and after literally hours of prodding, i found out my husband was slutting himself all over town with albuquerque's most demure and elegant beauties...
angelica cordova spells las vegas 'los vages'. no lie.
this is angelica cordova. i wish i had a better picture so you could appreciate her teeth and jowls for what they really are. phil said he was having an emotional affair with this one, which is what set off the red fag (that's a typo but i'm keeping it).
i understand affairs as well as the next creep but angelica cordova (when i say her name i pronounce it 'an-hell-ee-ka cor-th-ova' in a really funny accent) is no angelina jolie and i am by no means jennifer aniston! i discussed it with phillip and he told me that it has reached the point where he can only get off while wearing a diaper and talking like a baby and he knew i would NEVER go for that, which is why he sought out less discriminating women. he had to scrape the bottom of albuquerque's disgusting barrel to come up with these enchantresses who were willing to play mommy and the bad, bad baby. he fell down weeping before me and begged for my forgiveness, his tears of adultry stained my pucci palazzo pants. i simply crossed my arms and kicked him away by my stilleto heel.
as the night progressed, i found out phil had several other side pieces. this one's name is
kirsten ramsay and she and phil had been scissoring their taints together from the time we got engaged:
the holiday inn express's finest and nothing less!
and there were at least four others, i'm sure all with more beautiful facial features and bone structure than the last, including his ex-girlfriend, shannon duffy (now shannon payne- good luck with that marriage when karma pays you a visit):
beautiful!
i had heard enough. phil's confessions poured forward, but i stopped listening when he said he wanted nothing more than to be suffocated by an elderly woman in glasses and lipstick. at this point i wrote him off as a total creep. although i had invested my entire life into our marriage and family, i realized this was something that could never be salvaged and more importantly, i didn't want lily to grow up thinking it's acceptable for men to wear diapers and be smothered by the elderly.
i filed for a divorce immediately. it was something else to have my entire life crapped all over in a matter of a few minutes. can you imagine waking up one day without knowing a thing and going to bed that same night knowing your husband is a pervert of the worst kind(scroll back up if you need help imagining.)? it is an unnerving experience, and i needed to get my mind off of diapers and lipstick so i emptied out phil's nose-job fund and booked myself a luxury safari.
i flew in to nairobi where i met my guide, ree-o nairuumbu. during the long jeep ride to the chimpanzee institute, i told ree-o nairuumbu everything that had happened to me. he shook his head and said this was no time to be looking at a bunch of filthy chimps. he then said i needed to give into my bloodlust and took me instead to amboseli, where i would experience my first kill. i had no idea what i was in store for. he said goodnight to me under the moonlight outside of my exquisitely appointed tent. in my hands he placed the very rifle his father had given him before he made his first kill. it was beautiful, i didn't think guns like it existed. the end of the barrel flared out like a trumpet. the butt was laden with the finest ivory i have ever seen. as my fingers traced the beautiful carvings on the ivory, i felt compelled to thank ree-o nairuumbu for everything. when i looked up, he was gone. i retired to my tent with my gun.

ree-o nairuumbu, shortyly before his untimely death.
as the dawn broke the next morning, i was awoken by his familiar and comforting voice. i quickly got dressed in my finest balmain safari-inspired outfit, which i thought would be entirely appropriate by was not well received by ree-o nairuumbu. we are going miles into the brush, don't you realize? he asked, wildly gesturing to my five inch heeled safari boots. i gave him a smug smile and climbed into the jeep. when he had found just the place- a pristine watering hole surrounded on one side by a lush group of thick trees, we got out. as we got ready to set forth into the thickets, we heard the crunch of leaves before us. i panicked and grabbed my beautiful rifle but it was too late. a single shot rang out and ree-o nairuumbu fell to the ground, dead, the bullet going right through him and hitting the jeep behind us.
someone had shot him and clearly they were going to do me in next. i pointed my rifle towards the general direction the shot came from and closed my eyes. i aimed on instict and fired on passion, passion for my dead friend and passion for life itself. i was not ready to die.
my shot echoed off the water. i heard a grunt and a thump. i had hit my target. i pushed forth to investigate, against my better judgement. the first thing i had ever killed was a human being and now i would see what i had done.
i saw his face, turned towards me as he fell. his eyes were open, staring forward, his mouth open as if he was angrily yelling at someone. as i reached forward to close his eyes, the least i could do for him, i heard something moving towards me in the brush not three feet before me. my rifle had been left beside ree-o nairuumbu's lifeless body and now it was clearly my turn to die. i looked up in terror at my soon to be murderer as he came through the bushes, showing himself to me. i gasped in shock.
the man who stood before me was noneother than my oldest and dearest friend, doctor david storch! before i could process what was happening he yelled at me, angrily, 'you shot my guide!'. i looked down at the man i had shot. he had no gun anywhere near him. i looked back to david who was holding a large rifle across his chest and said the same thing to him, 'you shot MY guide!'. he looked at me, puzzled. we roared with laughter and shared a long overdue embrace.
we headed towards ree-o nairuumnbu's jeep, laughing and talking like not a day had gone by. david was on his annual safari to bag himself a black rhino, which he was certain he was shooting at at the time of the terrible mishap. we climbed into the jeep and doctor storch turned the key. the engine revved then gave out. it was then that we realized we were stuck in the middle of africa with no guides and no jeep. i covered my face in horror, but david simply chuckled.
back at camp, after the double murder/accident
it turns out he knew this land well. as we trecked through the grasslands towards the camp, david told me everything that went on in his life and i did the same. he was shocked to hear about phil, who happened to be his fraternity brother and best friend from college!
the dusk fell as we reached camp. david lit up a cigar and leaned over the deck outside my tent, looking down upon the plains. as he spoke of the vastness of the serrenghetti, i noticed the air of regency about him. i saw the moon glow in his beautiful brown eyes as he smiled at me. i never got my rhino, he said, and with that, i pulled him into my tent. we made passionate love until we were interrupted the next morning by the authorities in regards to the double murder at the watering hole.
as is true in america is also true in africa, there is nothing a little bit of cash can't cover up. deals were made and we were advised to leave kenya as soon as possible. we were flown home in a gulfstream jet, where david and i discussed our future. in that twenty-one hour flight, we decided we must combine our lives into one.
when we returned home david moved in with me in my albuquerque palace. the divorce was finalized, i got full custody of lily, all the property and the entire collection of gold bars, pizza rolls and doubloons. after hearing of phil's misadventures, the court immediately deported him to texas. he currently lives in houston and is never on time with his child support. he has gained no less than thirty pounds and has aged about ten years. his face is etched with a duality of the sadness of a man with nothing who once had anything and the satifaction of a pervert finally satiated.
dr. storch and i are getting married in may. we will take our honeymoon in kenya and maybe this time get a rhino. we have been traveling all the time, something i have always wanted to do. we are going to sell our house in albuquerque and move to santa fe. dave's parents gave us some land granted to them by noneother than the king of spain, on which we will build a house and have no mortgage at all. david is working on writing a sitcom and i am just basking in the glory that is my new life.
sometimes when God takes a dump on your face you think oh gross, someone just shat all over me. it's even in my mouth and stuff. but then you realize that the feces of God are far more glorious than the finest gold of man and you rub them in your hair and all over your body. this year, i was truly blessed with God's excriment.
i hope your adventures this year were equally grand.
LOVE,
mr. and mrs. dr. david storch, esquire
lily, callaway, and dupree
a closing thought from dr. david storch...
i was assured by my guide, mambazo nguili, that the black rhino i was in search of had roamed in the black of night to a group of small lakes like watering holes approximately 55 kilometers from our camp. it was crucial that I find this beast and take from it his treasured horn, an item most necessary for me to lure what I had secretely traveled to amboseli for.
you see, as a doctor of cryptozoology it is my life's ambition to prove once and for all that the prehistoric beast known as mokele mbembe was indeed real, a fact that i knew all too well. one year prior to the fateful trip in question i was on safari with my apprentice, young roman wolf-cecil, a squire that proved his worth the year before while we treked the wilds of panama in search of the legendary chupacabra, but that is another story all together.
i remeber it as if it were yesterday, we were deep in the swamp when we came upon the massive beast, finally i would have the evidence necessary. before i was able to get what i needed, mokele mbembe caught young roman wolfe-cecil's scent, which was rather pungent after spending so much time in the swamps. in what seemed an eternity, i saw the creature consume the entirty of my young lad and i pledged that i would return to avenge his death.
unfortunately before i had a chance to whisk bonnie into the swamp and come face to face with the man eating mokele mbembee, the authorities were escorting us out of the country only to return as fugitives with a price on our heads... but we will return, regardless of the price.