Mom and Alison visit Mexico

Yeah! Tomorrow is May 1st, a holiday here in Mexico, and I am so ready for a long weekend. 1. it's been a long week here and 2. I have visitors coming!

I will be hosting mi madre y mi hermana this weekend here and we have fun, activity filled weekend planned. I am only hoping that the weather is nice for their visit here...

Happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone if I don't talk to you before then!

Apartment saga continues

Well.... the apartment saga continues.... I was away for the weekend and expected to come home to a clean apartment with the things finished that I had asked to be finished. oh no. that would be too easy....

apartment is still dirty - I will have to take the cleaning lady by the hand I guess and show her step by step what I think needs to be cleaned. also now the wood floor in the apartment is starting to come up.

the towels were washed like I had asked for however the dryer is not working so I came home to a load of wet towels.... (dried off with damp towels this morning). The sheets were not washed like I had asked, but in light of the dryer not working I guess I am glad?

I have been sick for a week with a chest cold and it is making me very irritable. I just want things to be "done right" without me having to hound people to get things done, and that is just not the way it works here in Mexico. The end result of all this is that I am finding it very hard to hang onto my sense of flexibility and sense of humor about all this....

Valle de Bravo

I had one of my favorite weekends in Mexico this weekend. I was invited to Valle de Bravo with a friend from work and his family. It was a beautiful weekend and great company, so all in all a fabulous time.... the pictures that follow are from the group of us sitting in front of the lake at a little outdoor cafe. We were waiting on our assigned time for our boat ride around the lake.

Mi primero temblor (my first earthquake)

I experienced my first earthquake yesterday in Mexico! I was in Valle de Bravo over the weekend and the earthquake came while we were at dinner last night. It lasted about half a minute and was pretty significant. I saw the lights swaying, the trees moving, felt the ground moving even though I was sitting down... I felt like it lasted a long time but later read on the internet that the duration was only 25 seconds. The epicenter was near the west coast and it measured about a 6 on the Richter scale... pretty crazy stuff. It made me have weird dreams last night

further thoughts on karma

Been thinking today about karma and why I posted that posting on karma last week.... Found an interesting quote on the internet today that relates to karma

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer

I agree with this comment. Which is why I don't wish ill on anyone who has done me wrong... I don't need to expend any additional time or energy on that. I really want to rise above it and move forward, and spend my time and energy looking forward and not back...

44 hours in Cancun

I took a quick flight over to Cancun this weekend with Yvonne and another lady she works with. We had a great time - nice weather, free drinks, a beautiful hotel, etc... Only spent 44 hours in Cancun but we packed a lot of fun into those 44 hours...

Pic of us on the balcony - look at that incredible view!

let there be light

I had electricity when I got to my apartment last night! Yeah! And there was great rejoicing!

I am SO GLAD it's Friday, it has been a really long stressful week. I am thinking about taking a short flight to the beach and just chilling out this weekend.... I don't care where I go, as long as it's sunny, warm and there are drinks available!