It´s here. The raining season has officially started. And no one needed to tell me, ¨Gringa, es invierno. Va a llover todos los dias!¨ Instead, the clouds have dumped bucket upon bucket for the past week and there is an ever present puddle on the left side of my fridge. Those misty mornings turned into torential (why can´t i spell anymore?) downpours, washing away my poetic moments of cloud watching at 6am.
You can compare the sound that echos in my cement house with tin roofing to 50 drums being banged simultaneously, inches from your face. Its loud. Anyone who has tried talking to me on the phone while its raining can guage for that.
Besides for the hours I go questioning if I have lost my hearing, the only other major downside of the rainy season is the fact that your clothes don´t dry. I urge anyone down here NOT to wait 2 weeks to wash nearly all of your clothes...its a struggle to find something to wear right now. My clothes have been on the line, inside my house, for 3 days, and show no signs of drying.
So, being that I have to pack all these clothes to go to San Vi for the next 3 weeks, I decided to lug them into the nearest town to find a drying machine. After much skepticism from everyone in my canton, I finally stumbled upon a Lavanderia. With a drying machine!! I was shocked to see it. After 4 months of handwashing, I had begun to believe the whole world used a stone and their strong hand to clean their ropa. I shall head back there shortly, to see if it is true. That clothes CAN dry in the rainy season.
Besides for the rain, I´d just like to reflect on Awkward Moments. Is there every a day without them?
My counterparts granddaughter decided the other day, that she was craving some milk. Breast milk that is. And after much whining, her mom finally gave in a whipped out her right side. Mind you, the little girl is 3 years old. But she was satisfied when she soon realized her mom was not lying. ¨Y Usted tampoco?¨ She asked me. No, me neither.
I have given in to spitting on the floor. I brushed my teeth the other night in my bedroom. I brushed and I spit toothpastey water all over my floor. It was kinda nice. Liberating.
Vendedors on the bus can sell ANYTHING. I giggle to myself everytime they come on and I hear their pitch. ¨Think 1 dollar is too expensive for this pen, well I will give you 2 pens. Still too much, well I´ll give you 3!¨ But nothing excites the ppl more than when he brings out the highlighter.
And now I head back out to get pelted by the rain.
heyyy jaimm
ReplyDeletewhatss up? i heard u got a few packages...im soo happy we have off for 5 days, but i know itll end toooo quick. so ya the end of the year is coming, and i reallyyy dont wanna have finals for the first time. :/
is raining season better than the really hot season, which do u like better??? i hope barros doing better from his sickness..thank god for that chicken egg
i taught dad how to comment, but a few of them got deleted and i felt really bad...but at least i think he knows how
i was in town yesterday with caroline all day and we walked around like ALLL day and went to the field to play bball and soccer and run the track. and then we went back again later and mr and mrs lynch was there. so we talked to them
i went to the movies friday night (yesterday) and we were looking forward to seeing this one romantic, peaceful movie Letters to Juliet, and so we were waitin awhile for the previews to end. and we were wondering, geeze, why is this movie starting a half hour late, and then caroline (who i went with) was like, uuh i think we're in Iron Man 2. im like omggg!. cause we really didnt wanna see it. and it ended up being like the worst movie, i wont recommend it. and so when me and caroline went up to mary and tom (who also came with us) their faces were sooo funny. they were like "kill me now" an carolines like THANK GOD ITS OVER when the writing came up on the screen. and then when mary and caroline were dropping me off, nobody was home when i got home! sooo we ended up waiting in the driveway for foreverrrr because the spare key wasnt where i thought it was. soo after awhile we are starving..and then mary turns the car back on, and it wont start!! so we were like stranded in tge driveway for like an hr and a half just sitting in the car and talkin with me caroline mary and carolines brother, tom. and so mr kavanagh had to come and jump mary's car. but while this happened, the tenant pulled up the driveway, so there were like 4 cars in the driveway. it was an interesting night :0
soo i hope ur doing good, and i also hope Black is okkay-aww. so call meee, and tell me what u do each day :D
i miss !! love u xooxox
<3333 amanda posa
hey jaim, this weather doesnt sound so great. i could only imagine a person like mom there right now, "Everyone in the basement!! Vin!! Wheres Amanda!!" Your facebook said you have to leave barro? :( i hope he's doing better. I'm going to rhode island with my friends tomorrow. were staying there till tuesday, then thursday is prom, then fri-sun is afterprom, then monday is dourney park.. so my schedules pretty busy for a while, luckily its all fun stuff and not running from cyclones. be careful with everything youre doing. we miss you, I love you! xoxo christina
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ReplyDeletetoday i changed 3 door knobs- 1 that the previous tenants epoxed shut,installed new closet doors that misteriously dissapppeared, fixed an outside light that they tampered with and left hanging, reinstalled some moldings that were damaged while my helper caulked a bunch of cracks and touched up some spots all around the place to make it look a little better. an outside window was broken and off the track ceiling fans never bin cleaned. chips and scratches all over the tile
ReplyDeletehe painted and cleaned while i did the mechanical stuff.mind you they only lived there 4 months and broke the lease and there deposit did even cover the damage yet they want ed it back. went to home depot 3 times. miss the van i sold which was fully equiped with every gadget tool and supply possible. meanwhile i remebered the unit next door needed a new tub spout ( how that could break i will never know)so i changed that. then the people on the other side that just moved in reported a stopped toilet luckily i had the right snake for that then they showed me a leak in the kitchen sink drain so i took the pipes apart an repacked that with putty. a whole in the wall behind the door knob was fixed with a protector plate that sticks on becauce thats common to slam doos into walls and the toilet seat was broken.so i changed it and added a door spring to the front door to keep it from blowing open in the soon to starty hurricane season predicted to be the worst in decades which will cause a million fun calls from all theses people wanted shutters put up
ReplyDeleteduring all that my a/c guy showed up to repair two units and requires a crane to put them on the roof so 4,000$grand and all that which i probably missed a few things sends me home to a night where i cant sleep and havnt since the night in that miraculous hotel may of last year in gainsville. when i did this stuff in ny it was never this bad and i went home my family. now i come home to a unique house that i will miss greatly as its sold and will be greatly missed and impossible to replace. im not looking forward to moving and the down time it will cause. so thats the second reason i cant sleep besides thinking of 2 or 3 leaky roofs vacant apartments, lost business, broken marriage and coming from alife of being semi retired. was it worth it so i askmyself why a thousand times a day that i had to get into this like so many other people in the same boat around the world.
ReplyDeleteim preping another unit that has 4 holes in the ceiling - i think some body was walking up there and put there foot in the wrong spot. a couple holes in the walls and doors, a broken stove, door knob, filthy as hell tons of junk left behind and a refridgerator full of magots becaus ethe power and water were shut for none payment. needs a complete paint job .. and this is what happens to people who loose there job in these hard times and take it out on each other. luckily the left only owing a couple months and the costly eviction process was avoided
ReplyDeletei put most of the stuff on the curb and the scvangers took some . may put more out tomorrow, the other day for no apparent reason or perhaps there was the mail boxes and post were ran over and broken out of the ground.??????? this stuff has been going on for the past past 6 and half years and this is the life i roped my self into while missing my two little ones grow up . i am happy i had time with my two older ones . last week i got to fix a dishwasher which really needs to be repalced and an a/c problem some stuff i can do . i cant imagine playing with my train set or cooking around the house which i now do on a irregular bases. id love to shovel snow ( 4 times a day after the plow comes by because its on a main road and eating 3 bowls of moms chicken soup covered in cheese and passing out on the couch. last week i wrestledwith a stackable dryer on top of the washer by myself that was e real test of my endurance patinece abilty and improvising where i found the problem and cost me nothing but 3 hours free labor. people always say hire someone but thinking about all the stuff i do for my cost would be a fortune if i farmed it out to a painter, electricion, carpentor, plumber. rental agent lawyer, accountant delivery agent., realestate agent, roofer,house cleaner etc. sorry about the spelling an grammer but i am doing the best i can 2 fingers at a time. with every thing down in value i cant get out with out further financial losses or should i say ruin. if i hang in there long enough it may turn around. my plan was to sell the p,ville home and retire here but now evrything has changed. three different therpist say i need further help
ReplyDeletefor all of the above i missed so many events up north,including amandas birthday chris prom etc. cant imagine how much more i will miss in the future in fact its ripping me apart. how i thought this would work is beyond me. thats why i am glad mom insisted on getting all you guys so educated.if i was smarter this may have been avoided. i just worked and payed the bills. now i get to do only that now and for ever. how i wish things were different. the depression and sadness are over wellming i made such a mess . so much for all the advisors.
ReplyDeleteread about the storm down there and everybody was nervous. i was on the phone with daniele and mom cut in to say she herd from you. and it was releiving. that was monday while she was driving back from the beach. i remember how nervous she was threw out the years and wish i could have calmed her down more. but instead we made each other crazy. stupid. tried to fill you in about stuff but always lead back to.........your blogs are great but i still ask myself why.........it gives a good veiw of your life ........i want to wake up and be on the boat with my family again.......
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