(25)Jeanette Santiago

Hi everyone! I hope you are all good as I am for week 25, which is really week 26 but because of several things going on in my life, it's the 25th installment. It has really been a hard week but also one in which the Online Spice Girls came through for me.

I had a week of pain, dehydration and heat due to the fact that I was living without a proper air conditioner in the middle of 110-degrees on average. This is what we call Phoenix heat and why our professional basketball teams are named the Suns (National Basketball Association) and the Mercury (Women's National Basketball Association)

And no, Mr. Monty, you still cannot marry Diana Taurasi. She is a lesbian!

But I want to dedicate this article to a very special man in my life. No, its not Monty Don, and it's not Jizzy, although both are special indeed. Monty Don Ince took his suit off and flew naked, turned into Jizzy, as I fell off the Empire State Building. I grabbed his penis but it was so strong and virile that it was enough for the both of us to fly to my apartment and the rest ism as they say, ,..well, not history..out story,. Oh gosh..its not even our story,..its my fantasy story!

It would have been marvelouuuuusss! Sat it again girls, marvelous!!!

But the real story I want to tell you about is that of my dad. I was told --and this is, obviously, very hard to write and think about-that he has months to live last week. We are thinking about putting him in hospice care. Let me tell you about my dad: He was born in the USA and joined the Young Lords, one of the toughest and most brutal gangs during that era. The Vietnam War was raging in Southeast Asia so he joined the world's most brutal army, the United States Marines, and went to Hanoi and fought and killed-we don't talk about this but his family knows this for a fact- many enemies to defend his country.

As a United States Marine, dad realized that there was still a lor of racism in this country, so he and some Mexicans and Black soldiers reunited and made their own group, This was part of the beginning of a journey that led him to become a fervent supporter of Puerto Rican Independence from the United States, and a legend that even has an article about him in the world famous online encyclopedia, Wikipedia!! The -page is named Tony Santiago,

He went to Puerto Rico on a vacation, and there, he met the woman of his life, my mom. She was his neighbor. She looked like MariluyMonroe and my dad, while not the Puerto Rican Elvis Presley as he likes to claim, was a dead ringer for Al Pacino, whose movie "The Godfather"had just come out, so I can 't complain! On one side I had the looks of Michael Cor;eone and on the other hand, I had the looks of Marilyn Monroe!

Soon, they got married and then, their first daughter was born=me, although whether they accept me as a daughter or not is still debatable )they call me wen bags have to be lifted forezample, and say 'your sister cannot lift those, you are stronger, you can!- But I was born a sickly kid. My dad, having seen violence like he did in Vietnam and in the USA, met my mom and had a kid that had heart problems and dystrophy too, he wanted to change and did! He became a family man as quickly as you could say family man! He took me to the movies every Friday ni9ght ans we saw, among others, Rocky, Rocky 2,, Rocky 3 and Rocky 4, and Grease, and he Mickey Mouse Movie and Saturday Night Fever, and Star wars, Bronco Billy, Urban Cowboy, Every Which Way But Loose, Star Trek, Star Trek 3, Ghostbusters, Beatlemania, Hair,, Stir Crazy, The Toy and Una Aventura Llamada Menudo. Seeing Una Aventura should have alerted him that I am a woman since this was when Menudo was the Puerto Rican and Latin version of The Beatles, but alas, the theater was sold out when we got there! But he took me to the movies, bought m every toy-except the girl ones, darn it!- every album including a few Menudo ones, he helped me build models of Eastern, Western, TWA, Japan and American airlines and taught me how to box so I could defend myself from a bully, eventually leading to a short-lived boxing career.

Later on, we worked on an ice cream truck which in turn, paid for my modeling career and led to us hanging out with famous celebrities of all walks of life. We met Princess Anne, Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, Sylvester Stallone, Dennis Rodman, Kenneth McClintock, Alice Cooper, The Beach Boys and many others. Although he was not, obviously, a member of our party clique, dad knew how to meet famous people.

And he never abused my mom, he never..in fact for 30 years, I hid my bisexuality from him because he said some things that seemed homophobic to me, but when I came out to him, all he said was he wished that I had come out to him earlier! He hugged me and said I'm still his son which bothered me a bit but I knew what he meant. I love this man like no other man on Earth! (Sorry Don, it's true!)

That is my dad! A marvelouuuuuuuuuuuussss man in every sense of the word! And with that, I want to close this edition of my blog.Me, Don and the rest of the Online Spice Girls are still touring, having hit Spain this time, Don opening for us. And when he gets drunk, he can get kinky in his openings! Oh, I wish, I wish!. Viva Ibizaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

God loves you and so do we all! See you la Proxima semana!!!!