thursday

sup yoyoyo. the power has been out in our cabana since yesterday at around fourish, we were out of water for a while. now i think we have water but no electricity. and we are totally into big love, the hbo show about polygamy. i love emily muskrat. i miss her and am thinking of her often. she and i shared some incredle times before i left the states. and i am looking forward to sharing new experiences when i get back with her. so the store i am helping out with, i am going to go to nicaragua and probably panama and pick up interesting art and handi-craft and resell it here in guiones. the shop looks so far very new age and asheville-esque. i will be adding something that is not there yet. and hopefully making some fun money to pay for my travels and maybe a bite to eat here and there. i am going to be learning henna as well and maybe doing that outside the door on morrocon mats with sytarist around, and incense burning, and people chanting and dancing with hoolahoops. international worldwide. so just a heads up, please everyone who reads this, go to youtube and type in hormel peta video and watch it. i have stopped eating pork. it is sad and scary but recommended viewing. peace be with you. dmob supreme

wacky wednesday

so things here are fine for the moment. it is beautiful and i slept like a bear last night. almost ten hours. it is sort of unheard of that i sleep that much but i guess i need it. i do not work again until friday night and saturday day. it is a light schedule but one that i dig. there is little to really post on. i started eating prunes regularly, i made a really yummy gingerbread with dark chocolate chips bread, i am going today to help set up the little store i will be selling stuff in. things are very chill here. noone is in town and it is extremely nice. seeing what is happening in the u.s. makes me want to try and stay here longer. who knows. if i could move my mom here i probably would. anyways, gotta sing gotta dance. bye for now. dmob supreme

monday monday

what up. so yeah, the election is freaky deaky and palin is a weird bot. it just freaks my mind that people are willing to sign up for more or what the past eight years have been. same crap different package. anyways, it is independence weekend here and they love a holiday. they get paid for it, get off early and extra, have parades and mucho cervasa. i have connected with a set of female twins here in costa rica and to the day reconnected with my high school bff's kelly and april who are also female twins. too crazy. it is very tranquil here right now. so few people are here that my boss is going to start closing on saturdays, and will close for over a week in october. exciting. i am looking forward to the rainy season but on saturday it rains crazy style, the power went off and we read and played solitaire by headlamp for hours until we went to sleep. i felt odd doing it but it was not unbearable. we will leave this property in january and step out and live elsewhere for a few months before our return to the states. what a trip it has already been. i have already learned a lot about myself and about the world and my world and friends and family and acceptance and my relationshiop and so on. oh, i love to shop. i know this now. regardless of how much older i get, i still enjoy shopping and to some extent will always enjoy it. whether it is for plants, or groceries, or art, and so on. have been watching big love and loving it. also, saw factory girl with sienna miller which was an excellently done movie that was pretty much overlooked completely. ok, share with me people. let me know what you are into so i can stay connected.

pop pop pop culture

ok, so i have been checking up on the pop cultre celeb world and i have some things to share. first off, i am incredibly happy to see anne hathaway looking incredible and together and with it on the cover of w after the recent scandals she has been linked with. news of the weird, pamela lee and micheal jackson friends. new kids album is a huge hit. nsync might follow their lead by getting back together. rhiannan did a cover of madonnas vogue for fashion rocks. and so much more. just a thimble full of fun and interesting info on what is important in todays world. i am already worn out on politics and it has not even gotten going really.

thursday morning!

good morning to all, i am up on a hilltop with views of the pacific ocean and jungle a plenty, writing a little update blog. all seems to be going well. i am waiting tables which is less than prosperous during this rainy season. the area seems like a ghost town with virtually noone here. the owner of the restaurant said it is mostly locals that live here all year that still come in. every year there are a few more. i feel certain the state of n. america is the reason why. anyways, my ebay head of buy and well has been ticking and i feel like i am going to venture back into nicaragua and buy up some handicrafts and sell them in a store here or/and back in the u.s. at christophers studio shows. there are so many unique items that we do not ever see for sale. odd. keeping my fingers crossed. the rainy season has been less than rainy for the last few days allowing christopher to go where he loves to be, playing and planting in the gardens of the villacortez. it is looking quite beautiful and just keeps on getting prettier. i am feeling more at ease and less neurotic. thats good news as well. things seem to be going well. i am feeling like there are two people that really read this so i love you moms, and emily i love you too. i just got back in touch with kelly mccall. so sweet she is and am enjoying writing to her and hearing from her. more later. for now....bye.

blogtastic

so our family is officially gone back to asheville, and it is officially raining a lot. combining the effects of the tropical stormshitting the coasts of the united states and the stuff going through cuba, and the fact that we are in the deepest part of the the rainyseason, where it rains so hard you think the roof is going to cave in, we are in a wet wet way right now. i am having little issues getting to the office to use my computer because it is a twenty minute walk and one drop of water on the laptop could endanger its livlihood.today i think we are going to do arts and crafts. there is really not a lot to report on except that i feel that i initially thoughti would be a new person when i came down here with new outlooks and no issues or hang ups. wrong answer. i am the same person with the same idiosyncracies that i had at home but here, i walk through the jungle feeling neurotic. i am what i am. that is a powerful lesson on its own i guess. the waiting tables gig is going slow. there is almost noone left in the little city we live in. most restaurants and even hotels close down during a large chunk of this time and reopen getting into high season which is november. our job on the villa cortezhas changed a bit in that it will end on this property in january. then we will find a place to stay for a bit longer, christopher will go back to the states, then i will probably stay a little longer till april, then head back to stop in atlanta hopefully for a few days, thento high point, then to asheville. we are already planning stuff to do when we get back like rehab our living area in christopher's studio,rejoining the y downtown, riding bikes more and walking more, and taking a trip to new york to see my life long friend emily spivey who i love and miss. enuf for now, breakfast is almost ready and i must eat and craft. bye for now.

update

so here i am in costa rica, i have been here since june 30th. it has already been quite the whirl wind experience and it seems like it has only just begun. i just started my job at marlin bill's, waiting tables. i am saving money to take our passport requirement trip in november. i am thinking we will go to panama. looking forward to that. it has begun to rain lots and lots here. i sleep like a baby for hours and hours and hours. i think sometimes that i would be able to sleep all day and night here if there was not interuption or the need for food. christopher got stung by a baby black scorpion. sounds scary but it is actually very common. we have seen lots of different sizes of them from tiny to fairly large. the sting only lasted a few minutes but it was scary. i dreamt last night of a black jaguar/panthercoming into our living area and chasing after us. breaking through windows, and climbing walls. it was wild but oddly not scary. i am definitely getting used to things hereand very much so enjoying my time with christopher. i have just begun reading his dark materials by philip pullman. it is the trilogy that begins with the golden compass.i saw the movie a few times and am looking forward to more detail of the worlds visited. the family we work for will be leaving costa soon. it has been an interesting and at times tense time for them and hopefully when they visit again in january, it will be more relaxed and pleasent. we will surely miss them, especially mia, the daughter. i have thouroughly enjoyed our time, learning dance steps, swim lessons, marco polo, watching movies, and playing different games. she is certainly a sharp tack.