About
Welcome to cindigodotcom. It’s the home of nothing exciting in particular. This used to be the domain of a way cool webpage that I started back in 2001 when no one was really doing this sort of thing. Now, since everyone is doing this sort of thing, I’ve come to the terms that this is one of a million blogs and not only am I not on the cutting edge of the web any more, I am on the outer limits with a page that is half broken at any given moment.
Andy, is my husband, he’s a pretty constant character that you’ll hear about often. Andy is a professional gambler….yes, just like on tv…he’s cool like that. Except not on tv like a big, fat, sloppy poker player wearing a stupid visor and smoking a cigar. He’s cool like a rock star, and uber smart. We moved to Vegas to test out some magical voodoo software that Andy wrote to win millions upon millions of dollars betting baseball.
We grew up together (It’s a .gif animation, you have to wait a few seconds). It’s a cute story told in these pages somewhere.
Sometimes we live in Vegas, other times we travel around the country like hobos. But wherever we are in the real word you can be sure you can always find me here. Seriously, I think the domain is paid up for something like 20 years.
If you just want an ongoing summary short form that over the years has turned into a long form, you can read it below. Or, for an even longer form, click on the month to see it in it’s entirety.
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2008
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| July | My awesome Kindle is found. Macbook Air arrives. A flying piece of metal crashed through our kitchen window. I go to San Diego to dog sit and watch enough television for a lifetime. I go back to Vegas and then fly back to San Diego for my second year of Comic Con and the epic X-Sanguin party. |
| June | Mika goes to the Boxer Rescue in Utah and has a new home waiting for her. We get a praying mantis as a pet. It was rescued by our roommate from the bathroom rug. Another roommate’s car gets smashed on the street by a drunk driver. My awesome Kindle is lost. |
| May | I go camping in Sequoia National Park. We move into a house with crazy room mates. One room mate who wasn’t even supposed to be living there has two dogs, takes off for a “business trip” to New York and decides not to come back. We take on the responsibility of finding Mika the boxer a home. |
| April | We move into our friend Tim’s house. He traveled to Europe for six weeks while we watched his place. We have upstairs neighbors that continually flood our apartment. I’m in Chicago for for the last few days of April and the first few of May helping my mom with a garage sale. |
| March | Amazing fun in Mexico for Fuete Eterno. We leave San Diego to go back to Vegas but take a trip to Brian Head Utah for some snowboarding before baseball starts. I am in love with snowboarding. We stay at the Four Queens for a few weeks. | February | Andy visits his parents in Florida. We sail more. We go back to Vegas for a week to scope out places to live for the upcoming baseball season. I go to LA and take some pictures. We go to the San Diego zoo for Andy’s birthday. |
| January | We hang out in San Diego and don’t do much. Andy buys bunches of components from Radio Shack and builds some stuff. We sail around San Diego bay for awhile. |
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2007
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| December | We finish up our cross country trip….so much fun. We stayed at a cabin in Pagosa Springs Colorado because an avalanche was blocking the road. 80’s New Years party time again in San Diego. We stay in San Diego for a few months. |
| November | We fly to Chicago and then drive my mom’s car back across the country so she can have it in San Diego where she’s staying for the winter. Indianapolis> Nashville> Memphis> Kansas City> Oklahoma City> Albuquerque> Farmington> Las Vegas. |
| October | We move back into the RV for awhile. I almost rip the roof rack off the top of the Element at Planet Hollywood. A last minute weekend trip to Baja. A separate trip to San Diego where I get stuck because of the wild fires. |
| September | Baseball season comes to an end. I get my ears gauged. |
| August | Can’t sleep. Meteor shower and traffic school. |
| July | I hike the narrows in Utah with a friend, go to LA for friends and a beach party and end up in San Diego for my very first Comic Con. |
| June | I go to Ensenada (Baja) Mexico for a week long Spanish immersion school. When I come back, I’m sick for a week. |
| May | Teeth Whitening, bad Sci Fi, junk food and lazing around. What a silly life. |
| April | Baseball season begins and I hang out in the condo and do a bunch of nothing While Andy drives around town all day placing bets. |
| March | We come back from Vegas and immediately have to fly to Florida to see Andy’s parents. I left a day of rest between flights, but a unexpected layover in NC got in the way. I think I’m better from the giardia, but get sicker and by the time we get to Florida and pick up Andy’s sister, brother-in-law and niece, I’m asking to go to the emergency room. A very funny story of being left at the Tampa airport sitting on a bench. I quietly got out of the car to throw up and everyone thought I was under a pile of blankets in the front seat. We decide if we have to live in Vegas again for six months, we might as well swank it up at The Signature Towers. |
| February | We scramble to get passports and take a trip to Costa Rica to see if we can somehow get set up to make bets there. It didn’t work out and I get giardia and am the sickest I’ve ever been. We take a flight out of the rain forest because I’m too sick for the bus. The trip is ill planned and it doesn’t look good for living there for baseball season. I begin to come to terms with Vegas again. |
| January | THE MAN freezes everyone’s money in Net Teller (the gambler’s equivalent of Pay Pal). This is due to the ridiculous anti off shore gambling laws passed attached to a port security bill. It was shot down on it’s own merit several times. Most of the month is spent writing about a sickeningly large amount of money that we were trying to get unfrozen. Thanks to the international gambling community, we got it back. FU MAN. Also, Dr. Laura calls Andy. It’s funny, but to tell the story, I have to out myself as a Dr. Laura listener. I have a new niece. Elizabeth Mary Larsen. |
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2006
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| December | The best, amazing, most wonderful place and time. Hawaii, we love you long time. What do you do after a month long vacation? Go to a awesome 80’s themed party in San Diego. Andy stayed in Vegas to recover. |
| November | We finish up our trip from last month and head back to Vegas so we can park our home at a friend’s and fly to Hawaii. Also, how could I not write about the infamous “Hate Sweet Potatoes” incident causes by cousin Alex. |
| October | We drive the RV to Chicago to help my mom move out of Bob’s house and back into my childhood home that she rented out and had to move back into for two years for tax purposes. We also do a few fun things while we’re there. We visit Andy’s parents in Green Bay, his sister in Kansas City and friends in New Mexico. |
| September | THE MAN passes a ridiculous law that makes sports betting outside of Vegas hard for baseball seasons to come. We hang out on the shores of Clear Creek. I take a trip to LA and get some Lexapro, which turns our great. |
| August | This month is about being in Chicago with family for the last weeks of Bob’s life. |
| July | Jason the cat, Andy’s cat from college, dies. We check into a RV park in Golden Colorado. Colorado is amazing especially after being in Vegas for so long. Trees! Grass! Water! The Jeep breaks down catastrophically. I get an emergency phone call from my mom telling me that the RN has said that Bob, my step dad, has about 48 hours to live. I immediately get on a plane and fly to Chicago. |
| June | After a bunch of run around from the RV places, and the insurance company not knowing that there was no lien on the RV, we figure out we can fix everything ourselves. Buy “ourselves” I mean Andy. Andy gets a hockey injury. Swimming with the fishes in Laughlin and taking off into the dark night for breezy and happy Denver. Bonus |
| May | I go to my step brother’s wedding and am so violently ill on the plane they put me in a wheelchair for the connecting flight. The house is officially off our hands. The absence of a window in the RV is causing problems on getting out of town. |
| April | The RV gets broken into and all of our important documents, the ones that I specifically put into one place together in the safe so they would be…safe, are stolen. Good thing the thieves didn’t find the spare set of keys that dopey 1 and dopey 2 left in the ope glove box. We hang out in Mailbu in the RV. I tell a creepy story about being a child and almost getting shot by a gun found in a playground. |
| March | We finally sell the house (but don’t close until May) and move (halfway) into the RV….with kittens. Fortunately, they get adopted this month, but not before “toiltetpapergate”. Rock Climbing at the Red Rock Rendevouz. |
| February | I get LASIK. Toonces the cat I had since college, being cared for by Troy and Heather, went into kidney failure and had to be put to sleep. Also, Murphy the dog dies. Seriously, we had nothing to do with it. I know it looks fishy, but we’re not killers. I swear. As we try to finalize everything and leave with a clean break, we rescue two more kittens from the storm drain. |
| January | We run around in San Diego. Come back to Vegas and pack more. Take a side trip to Mesquite and then I go to Chicago to help my mom. Cake: the best live show I’ve ever been to. |
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2005
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| December | Nova and I get peeped in the shower of 24 hour fitness. I continue to clean out the house of junk in preparation of selling the house. Murphy the dog goes to live with our life saving friend Nova Bella.. We take Nova and Murphy to San Diego on the maiden voyage in the RV. Murphy would not have fared well being dragged around the country in an RV. More packing and cleaning of the house. |
| November | I go to Chicago and Andy to Green Bay to visit our families. I have to help fire the incompetent Polish care giver. Bob steadily declines in health. We buy a Jeep to tow behind the RV. |
| October | We rescue a cat and some kittens from a storm drain and start to revamp the RV in preparation for selling the “investment” and living in it.. |
| September | I think I see a UFO. We sell the Eurovan and buy an RV. A story about my blankey. |
| August | Murphy the dog gets her eye taken out. I go to Chicago. My step dad declines in health. |
| July | Camping in Malibu. I finally get to see Andy’s pinball wizardry skills. More journal entries from the 80’s. |
| June | A trip across country through Denver to Kansas. Lettucegate 2005. I throw a bag (not a head) of lettuce at Andy in two seconds of furious anger that dissipated when I got the joke. The best love letter in the history of all love letters written to me, of all people. |
| May | It was a pretty boring May. It was hot and I got my hair dyed. |
| April | Murphy the dog almost dies. I go to Chicago to help clean out my mom’s basement. I spend alot of time trying not to bug Andy who has to program. Baseball season begins. |
| March | Andy drives to Colorado to play a slot machine. I paint our incredibly high walls attached to a rock climbing harness. Our crazy neighbors and their kids who I had become quite attached to, move away. A re-post of an email that Andy sent me about the beginnings of his professional gambling career. |
| February | Hanging out in Florida and a angry letter to T-Mobil, which you should never use. In the letter, I told them if the issue wasn’t taken care of, I would forever tell people in whatever form I could, not to use their service. |
| January | Embarrassing Jr. High stories that I had completely forgotten, brought to the forefront of my mind by a friend from that era. A annoyed entry about the interesting lady that I call mom. |
| 2004 | |
| December | The sickness from last month pours over into this month and gets a worse. We sell the trusty brown van and drive around LA in the new Eurovan. |
| November | I’m a little sick, complain about football and Ellen DeGeneres. I don’t write much, and seem to be cranky. |
| October | Andy finds out my hairloss is from my crazy diet change months ago, and it will all come back. We fly to Detroit to buy a Eurovan and drive it home across the country. |
| September | My hair mysteriously starts to fall out. Baseball sucks and we quit early, but poker seems to be a good way to make money (most likely because of my excellent supporting). |
| August |
We go to LA again for the BEST VACATION EVER (v.2.5) and then Lainstar and I go on to Seattle where we party like all rock stars should. I loose my job at the spa because of WHEAT….the grain of the devil. But, I start my job as "poker support" |
| July | Andy (Mr. X) and Vlad go to Reno. We come back from LA and San Diego, although I never write about going. I complain a lot. |
| June | I write about being married. Mr. X gets a hockey puck to the mouth. A special bonus pic of the bride and groom. |
| May | I complain about food, and write a weird uncomfortable letter to my bio dad and X and I get married. | April | general ramblings about the upcoming wedding, hopefully winning millions of dollars at baseball and other dumb stuff. |
| March | The best vacation (v.1) ever to LA with Lainstar. A thermos of scalding hot tea pours down my boot while taking an on ramp too fast. The front of my calf is ritually scarred by the elastic from my socks. We decide to get married in May. I decide to take my allergies seriously and eleminate almost every tasty food known to man from my diet. |
| February | we take a trip to Florida, don’t get married there and hang around the house for the rest of the month. |
| January | European strangers stay at our house. We buy perfect wedding rings of perfection. Our garage gets hijacked. A short trip to San Diego where we stay with strangers and hear a fantastic fight, complete with crashing furniture. |
| 2003 | |
| December | I announce our engagement, but more shockingly, abandon my titanium mac laptop and buy a pc. We move into “the investment”. I get water in my gas tank and we get a “step cat”. |
| November | I wrote about three sentences this month. We are beat down and tired from driving a breaking down van with bedraggled animals around the country.We come back early and live in the Budget Suites “luxury” weekly hotel until “the investment” is done. Mr. X asks me to marry him….only I don’t tell you about it until next month. |
| October | My step dad tries to bribe me into marriage. THE MAN tries to hold me down. We put all of our things in tempory storage and start on a month long camping trip (with a cat and dog in a failing brown van) while “the investment” is done being built. Wildfires in California and a stop in Colorado, Chicago and New Mexico. Hilarity ensues. |
| September | We start to pack up our stuff in preperation of taking a month long road trip before we move into “the investment”. Murphy the dog gets broken by her very negletful owners. |
| August |
I have a small medical emergency at the El Cortez casino…hilarity ensues. Mr. X murders a stuffed toy. I pass my national certification test. What do you do when you find a place that you don’t like and want to leave as soon as possible? Buy a house. |
| July | I start to hate Vegas. I put “black girl braids” in my hair and look stupid. Parents come to visit. |
| June | X and I drive around town. I get a job and start to fall out of love with Vegas. |
| May | The Detroit house sells and we pack up and offically move to Vegas…Beverly Hillbillies style. I didn’t write about the trip across country and should have. Everything we owned was packed into a conversion van and the back of a pick up truck and driven all the way across the coun | April | general ramblings about the upcoming wedding, hopefully winning millions of dollars at baseball and other dumb stuff. |
| March | My grandmother dies. I unceremoniously graduate from massage school. X and I go to Austin and decide that it isn’t the right place to move…we consider San Diego. The Detroit House is officially up for sale. We decide to take a side trip to Vegas for “the baseball projec |
| February | The January Project has come to a quiet end. The vow to live away from snow begins to be realized. |
| January | Back in Detroit. Transcriptions of a paper journal that I kept when I was twelve. |
| 2002 | |
| December | X and I drive across country to Colorado so we can win a bunch of money at a casino and get his things to relocate to his rightful new position as my personal supervisor in Detroit. Plus a bonus random story about a senile old lady at the drug store and some info about Mr. X. |
| November | I go to Austin and storm the UT tower dressed in a burlap sack carrying a pitch fork, get drunk much and parade around in a big foam pickle costume. |
| October | Blendy the Blender gets replaced *sniff*, Mr. X shows up from Colorado and stays…although, I didn’t mention that on paper either. |
| September | I explode my blender, tell a story about drugs, had some minor Internet drama and talked about myself…you know…what I’m doing, how I feel, things I like and don’t like….. |
| August |
stories from my trip to Austin….a few throwing up incidents. I get creative with the scanner. I don’t really know exactly what I wrote about….but it was a lot. |
| July | someone (not cindigo) commits (justified) neighborhood vandalism. I date a boy for about a minute. I accidentally expose myself to my quiet suburban neighborhood. Mr. X writes me the first email (Hi this is Mr. X, we went to school together, remember?)….but I don’t mention it. |
| June | A very funny email from a guy who didn’t get the joke of the very basic requirements. I complain a little, talk about boys a little. A trip to Chicago for Father’s Day…hilarity ensues. |
| May | I want to punch the mower man. Some haiku. I venture out of the house some, drink coffee and go to the morgue on a class trip. The back of my head appears on CNN. | April | back to home (Chicago) for Easter and a short quicktime rock out movie. I finally figure out how to set up wireless internet and tell some stories about volunteering at the hospital. |
| March | A quiz, some links and my favorite poem at the time. |
| February | Sid the cat and Harry Sr. meet their creator and I am sad. |
| January | The start of “The January Project”. I give myself from January 02 to January 03 to clear my head and listen to what the universe is trying to tell me. I register for a year long program for massage therapy. I vow after I graduate, not to spend another winter in the snow. Also, a very funny bonus “drunken gus” story. |
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2001
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| December | I hang out in Atlanta a lot. Come to terms with babies. Try out embedding livejournal into the page….and other dumb stuff that you might or might not be interested in. |
| November | Thanksgiving at the parents, some haiku’s, quizzes, lists and rambling. |
| October | I talk about being unemployed and some evil corporations that I’ve worked for in the past. Murphy the dog gets 200 tennis balls. I get a particularly nasty (and rare) strain of anthrax. |
| September | We get attacked and go to war. I’m in Atlanta again. The art project that will go down in history…grass box. |
| August | If I hadn’t saved over this archive, with no back up, you would have heard about the birth of my niece and some really funny falling down bar stories. |
| July | I hang out in Atlanta and Jane has a baby. I try to come to terms with the fact that my biologial clock might never start to tick. |
| June |
tthis month is about being depressed, living in an anarchist’s collective and working in a basement. |