Okay this is the SECOND time I'm trying to write this blog!!!

I totally finished it last night and it just DISAPPEARED!!! WTF???

ANYWAY ahem...here we go...

This is Darwin he is a fabulous artist and brilliant photographer...OH did I mention he is my baby bro!

Well recently as most of you know I was on vacation in San Francisco...which btw is where Darwin lives!!! I was there to visit my niece Mandi ( not his daughter) and of course him!

Well let's see on Monday evening we chat and decide we will meet up in the city Tuesday after he is done at work...sounds easy...very easy...at least I thought so. SO the next day (Tuesday) I decide to go into the city a little early...to just piss around till it's time to meet. So I get on the bus to San Francisco from Petaluma...( that's where I was staying with my niece Mandi)...it's just over the Golden Gate Bridge aka Sherry's Bridge...

(okay there is a story here...briefly...when I was three I saw the GGB on tv or something...not knowing it's name...just seeing it and being entranced by it...thinking how much I love that bridge! That I'm gonna live where ever that bridge is...it's my bridge. )

ANYway....oh I forgot to mention when I woke up Tuesday morning my eyes looked liked I'd been punched out by some big ass boxer...allergies I guess...who knows ...but vanity was NOT stopping me from getting to D.

again... ANYway it's a lovely ride over my bridge...spectacular!!! And when I hit the pavement in SF... I had PLENTY of time to just goof or whatever...so I stop in a Walgreens of all places just to get some gum etc...then mozy on over to a Starbucks for some latte...plop down with all my shit...OH forgot to mention AGAIN...I'm carrying a huge ass shopping bag with a BIG BELLE of the BALL kinda dress in it...for Darwin of course!

(side story again...on censr we had a group...6 degrees of connection...I started a crazy ass thread called 6 degrees of the travelin dress...me first in this dress, then my daughter Sarah, then Mandi, now it was Darwin's turn...so yeah I'm startin a blog here with it so anyone interested in it let me know )

OKay SO I'm sitting there havin a tall cinnamon dolce latte...and textin D that I'm here and all...he's textin back tellin me where to meet him when work is done...cool no prob...I can find it! I'm a big city kinda gal. So eventually I start on my journey to Van Ness and Market...YEA!!! About to see my bubbie...and btw Van Ness is the windiest damn street on the planet...So... wind blown and walking...walking to my baby bro...I've got PLENTY of time...will just window shop when I get there...till D. shows up...lala lala lala la ... well hmmm...as I'm walking I feel something strange on my shoe...like I've maybe stepped on something weird...feels weird...so I check it out...lift my little right foot up and WHOA!!!! I didn't *step* on nothin...The top half of my shoe is tearing away from the bottom half...okay...okay...no problem...I'm just a few blocks from our meeting spot...okay...this is San Francisco...there's gotta be a shoe store on every corner right??? okay...it becomes VERY apparent that with each step I take the tear is worsening...to the point of barely hanging on at this point...and it's too chilly for me to just take them off...but in retrospect WTF was I thinking...I SHOULD HAVE just taken them off...such a loser I am !!! ANYway...FINALLY I'm at the corner of Van Ness and Market...still alot of time before D is supposed to be there...Okay...shoes...shoe store...shoes...shoe store...looking....looking....NOTHING...So I ask a girl that is crossing the street with me (desperately trying to conceal my flailing about shoe) where a shoe store is??? she replies "oh there is a mall just a few blocks down, can't miss it".... A MALL, A MALL , A MALL !!! YES YES YES!!! Salvation is at hand...mall/shoes they are synonymous!!!! So I set out on my quest...just a few blocks...I can handle that...just a few blocks...GO Sherry GO!!! So as I'm "walking" I use that term loosely now, because since my right shoe is hanging on by a thread...my gate has turned into a kinda limp/slide, limp/slide, limp/slide...I guess the best way to envision it is something like uhhhh the Hunch Back of Notre Dame...yes that would be an accurate depiction of my walk (and don't forget I have Darwin's huge ass dress bag...plus my own purse/backpack) you get the picture I'm sure. So as I'm determinedly limp/sliding my way forward...I start to notice that people are well staring at me, not just a few, but everyone I pass...now this is SF at rush hour...so that is ALOT of people...slowly it dawns on me...it's not the ridiculous site of me ( a limp/sliding/bag lady ala Quasimodo) that is making heads turn, although I'm quite sure it secures their attention once they look...it's the SOUND!!! OMG...imagine if you will...San Francisco...BIG buildings ALL around, cement sidewalks, GREAT accoustics!!! In my fervered focus to find the MALL MALL MALL, SHOES SHOES SHOES, I failed to hear the cacaphonous sounds eminating from my feet! Pretty much sounded about like hmmmm giant ass Clydesdale horses, galloping across cobble stone streets! Yep that would be it!

Where's that FUCKIN MALL????? A few blocks MY ASS!!! Okay I can no longer endure the shame...I spy...what else....another Walgreens...I hobble over to it...praying to every deity known to man that they have SOMEthing, ANYthing to put on my feet!!! I peer inside...FLIP FLOPS!!! THANK YOU WALGREENS THANK YOU!!! I purchase the flip flops, take off my broken bitch platforms...and put those precious, precious flops on my feet. Feeling just like Cinderella donning those beautiful glass slippers for the first time. I gaily flip flop out of Walgreens aka Utopia in my book...and start to slam dunk my broken ass platforms in the nearest trash can...THEN WAIT...my good senses come back...you GOTTA show 'em to D and take pics later...okay good put them in the huge ass shoppin bag w/Darwin's dress. OKAY...check my watch...hmmm still some time here...I can't meet D. with flip flops on...gotta get somethin cute...okay...head for the ellusive mall again...off I go. Nothing NO where...finally I spy a....(drum roll) a PAYLESS SHOE STORE!!! YES!!! I flip flop in and say I'm just gonna find something kinda cute and comfy lookin...and GO!!! So I do...I find some slides...with just a little wedge platform...nice...comfy...yes SOLD!!! I sit down...remove my *glass slippers* and slide into the comfy cozy lookin slides...and BTW STILL NO SIGN OF A MALL...But who cares...I am NOW on my way to our meeting place gotta hurry...times gotten away from me now...so I speed up abit...it doesn't take TOO long... when I begin to realize my comfy cozy slides are anything but!!! At this point they feel like they have built in razor blades slicing the flesh of my toes with every step I take!....I DON'T CARE!!! Nothing is stopping me from getting to my bubbie!!! Around this time D texts me..."where R U"... I text back LONG STORY...I'm on my way!!! He tells me to stay put he'll come to me...I say okay...but I keep trudging ever foward...to hell with the pain...AND in the midst of ALL of this...some brutha asks me "hey hook, wan me ta carry yo dress in dat bag fo you??" HOOK???? HOOK??? like in HOOKER???? I say "that is MY BROTHER'S dress in that bag, thank you very much! AND I'm NOT a HOOK you DICK!" Pressing on...WHERE'S DARWIN???? Then I see him!!! I see my bubbie....he's waving at me from across the street!!! I start jumping up and down and screaming...oblivious to any pain now... He runs across the street into my arms and all my shit goes flyin I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!!! I'm huggin him so tight and won't let go...I'm sure he cannot breathe! ( oh I also gave him your hug at this point as well Kees) When he finally pries my arms from around him...we hop on a bus...I tell him briefly about the shoes...he's worried, because we still have alot of walking to do...so we get off the bus...and spy...what else...a Walgreens...we run in I get some band aids and patch up my mangled feet as best I can. Then we head off to the venue of D's art show...I was sad I couldn't be there for it....but HEY I got a private showing then after a brief shopping for a sweater...(it's bustin ass cold in SF when the sun goes down) We head off for one of Darwin's fav mexican restaurants for dinner we take pics of the broken bitch platforms (more on D's Ipernity stream as well)...THEN I get to slam dunk those whores in the nearest trash can YES!!! then off for ice cream...sharing an INCREDIBLE chocolate, caramel, brownie sundae DELICIOUS!!! ...next... okay...I'm gonna bawl...the painted ladies couldn't believe I was actually in front of them, taking pics of them, taking pics of them with my baby bro.... AND he LIVES right by them!!! OMG!!! then we just goof playing I squish your head...then off to D's flat and lookie lookie I'm at a COMPUTER that WORKS...not a offspring of Lucifer!...

then Mandi comes over too and we hang out laughing like crazy...and no matter what D. said on his stream...I WAS NOT hittin on his roommate...errr let's just say I'm NOT his type OKAY!!! ... THEN....MUCH, MUCH, MUCH too soon...it was time to go...

I love you D! And it was worth every second of *mis* adventure I went through to get to you!!! I miss you already...come home for a visit with Mandi SOON!!! We gotta do our re-make of your pic "Why am I Gay? " (it's on censr) 35 years later okay??? LMAO and cryin at the same time D!!!!! here is what I see when I think 0f us... sweet huh???

AND scene!!!