Monday, March 28, 2011: Good Morning Beautiful! Its Monday morning. I am on the 3rd day of a self-imposed mini-vacation. A 3-day weekend to save my sanity and recharge my batteries. It’s the first time in almost 3-years that I took time for myself. No work, no emails, no computer.
One my goals this year is to take these 3-day weekends every month. In order to survive the economic meltdown the last couple years and pay for all the work that has been done to try and bring this situation with Adriana Coronel Tenorio (AKA Adriana Howitt Coronel, Ari Coronel, Ari Coronel Tenorio, Ari Howitt, Ari Howitt Coronel) to a peaceful conclusion, my work days were 16+ hours long, 7-days a week. Literally. Its impossible to keep that pace up without it affecting my health. The 3-day weekend is a great stress relief.
The weekend started with you on Saturday. I had bought you Velcro catching gloves and ball set, mainly for the beach but it can be used anywhere. The Velcro gloves make it easy to catch the special ball that comes with it. We had a blast with it. Playing for hours. Then it was off to “Tiana and Princess Frog”, which reminded me of your birthday last year. I brought the CD Storybook version for us to do together even though you have other books with the story.
Oddly enough, I was able to see the new house you will be moving into. Its right down the street from the first place you were in when Adriana first abducted you. I am concerned because this is the 5th house you have lived in since 2008. That is crazy! It’s indicative of the chaos Adriana has created for all of us.
Sam, you are a trooper. I know this is so confusing to you. Adriana and everyone else involved on her side is completely oblivious to how this affects you. I see it clear as day. I have missed so much these last 30-months and even still 6-hours a week is not nearly enough time with you. This has not been by choice as you now know. I think I have done a good job keeping the fight away from you as best I can. I will always hold out hope that Adriana will come to her senses someday. As each day passes her real intentions become more and more apparent.
Very rarely do I ever have anything going on Saturday outside of spending time with you. Traveling to and from Mexico makes it virtually impossible to plan anything so I have hold out hope to spend more time with you than the allotted 6-hours. We are usually denied by Adriana unless she needs me to spend money on her behalf. This is where I get the perpetual sales pitch from her about what she wants me to pay for. She hit me up for money to pay for your school. For next year, not this year. When I gave her the usual rhetoric about these cases, she told me she would set up a meet with our attorneys. Who is she kidding? It’s just one in a long line of empty promises.
What is disturbing is how the conversation ended. Adriana told me she will not allow you to ever see my family or friends. She went as far as to tell me that even if she loses the court cases she will take you away from me again. Irapuato, Puerto Vallarta, who knows. All’s I know is that she abducted you once, she is more than capable of doing it again. I don’t think she cares about the consequences. Nobody is surprised. It fits all the chaos she has put us through.
It’s pretty clear that Adriana does not respect the father-daughter bond. This kind of influence comes from Maria Guadalupe Tenorio Toledano (AKA Lupita Tenorio, Marsha Tenorio). When Maria Guadalupe’s own father passed away, she made zero effort to go to his funeral. Sick.
So I am off to Los Angeles with this on my mind. At the very least this will get my mind off things for a couple days. I spent some time in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. The movie making and movie star capitals of the World. On the Hollywood Walk of Fame they have stars dedicated to people to made big contribution to Hollywood. In the center of it is the Chinese Theatre which has feet and hand impressions of the stars too. I found Shirley Temple’s impressions from 1935 and took a picture of them for you. One time you saw a TV commercial for a Shirley Temple DVD set and thought she looked like you. You are so adorable.
Beverly Hills is interesting. It’s the most prestigious city on the planet. The stars mansions are huge and beautiful, yet there is no character there. These massive homes have no land and sit right on top on their neighbors. I know if I had the money to live there I would rather have a beach home. For you Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive in particular, is heaven to a woman. Shopping galore.
Next, the Staples Center. Home to the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, where 2 tickets just happened to be waiting for me verses the New Orleans Hornets. The night before Lady Gaga was playing there. That brought memories of you singing her song “Poker Face” to me awhile back. I was not there but I hear the show was pretty good.
Day three. Time to go home but not before I took the Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Monica to Redondo Beach. Santa Monica has the best pier on the planet. It’s like they put Mundo Divertito on the pier over the ocean just for you Sam. I noticed that there were an unusual number of people on the pier for a Monday morning. It turns out 90% of the people there were actors/actresses. They were filming a scene for a TV show called “Castle”. Nathan Fillion, the lead actor, was filming right in front of us. Pretty cool.
Someday we will have a weekend like this Sweetheart. It’s surreal that I have to actually wish for this being your Dad.