Unfinished Business

Melinda and Ivy have enjoyed the sounds of central coast 60's style rockers "Unfinished Business" for a couple years now. They have a reputation for playing tunes from that era that get people out on the dancefloor, which is certainly something those two ladies love doing. Last year we went to their new years eve bash at St. Patrick's school and we'll be back again, as the guys were nice enough to give Ivy, Melinda and Frank free tickets this year! In fact they've been concerned for Ivy since she was at French. They've sent a couple shirts, CD's and a DVD while she was in the hospital. Thanks Fellas!
So if you'd like to party with the Alvarado's on New Years Eve go here. I think they still have tickets available.

Red: The New Blue

Ivy changed it up a bit. She's abandoned her trademark color, but we think it looks great. Grandma likes it too, but isn't ready convert her solidarity streak to red just yet.

The ladies enjoy some veganism!

Happy Holidays!!

Merry Christmas Ivy!!! I hope you have a wonderful day and get lots of presents. Love you!

Jessica, Kim, Chip

Have a wonderful Christmas!

To all of you in Ivy's family and to Ivy too, of course. We love you!

Lynn & Russ

Merry Christmas Ivy!

You've given us all the best gift we could hope for with all your progress.

Big hugs and lots of love,

Amanda

Big Thanks

Thanks to everyone at SLO high school for all your help and concern. As we've mentioned before they've been working hard to find ways to help with Ivy's recovery. That work has manifested most recently in the form of t-shirts and hoodies that they printed up to raise money for Ivy. Thanks to all the staff and students who worked so hard to make this happen. If anyone would like to purchase one of these items, please contact Jenny Macartney at: jmacartney [at] slcusd [dot] org, and please put Ivy's name in the subject line so she knows you're not trying to sell her discount pharmaceuticals or infect her computer.

There may have been some confusion regarding recent posts. I mentioned that Ivy went "home" from the hospital, but I failed to mention that she came to my "home" in Burbank. My apologies. However as I write this, Melinda and her are on their way to their actual "home" for the weekend. First stop: SLO High to visit some friends. This is her first time back, out of the hospital in five months! The days leading up to today have been exciting, and she gets emotional just thinking about it. If you don't get to see her this time around, don't worry, she'll be making frequent trips back until she's well enough to move back permanently.

Side note: This is the 100th post on Ivy's corner!

MOCA

Ivy decided (quite out of the blue) that she wanted to go to the Museum of Contemporary Art. She had been there once before to see the Masters of American Comics exhibit. It must have made an impression on her because she wanted to go back and see what's being exhibited now. Currently they're showing work by Martin Kippenberger (Paintings/ Installations) and Louise Bourgeois (Sculpture). We weren't at all familiar with the artists going in, and it seemed that Ivy didn't really care for the work, though we all had a fun outing (Mom, Ivy and I). Ivy mentioned that she preferred the sculptures overall, with a certain fascination with this eerie piece:

Outside the museum they were shooting a movie or a commercial of some sort. We didn't wait around to see if they dropped the cars, although it would have been a spectacular sight!

Strange Stranger

A guy came up to me and "mommy dearest" on the street yesterday and gave us two tickets to a museum called "Psychiatry: Industry of Death". He bragged about how it was a multimillion dollar facility and it was built by a "non-profit" (Didn't actually say "Scientology" though). In with the tickets was 20 bucks. Mom tried to give the money back, but he wouldn't take it. I kept the money and left the tickets in case someone else wanted to go to the museum. When mom noticed the tickets were gone, she went back and grabbed them so we'd have proof of our creepy story.

Me, home with my loot.

My loot.

Love you Ivy!

Hi Ivy and Family!

I wanted to check- in with you to see how life is going.  Ivy, my thoughts and love are with you always.  

I have a small gift to bring by; if someone (anyone) could let me know the best method by which to get it to you, I would be appreciative.

Cheers to a speedy and well-rounded series of improvements, my dear.

Love to you and your family!

Hi Ivy!

Hey, Ivy (and of course everyone else)!

Just checking in to see how things are going now that you're finally back home? I'm sure Biscuit is very happy to have you back!

Hi from SLO

Hi Ivy. I just wanted to say hi and tell you I was thinking about you all day. So there you have it.