Had a migraine today. They take me down. I threw up. I can barely see. However down here, for about $10, I got a shot this afternoon (when I couldn't take it anymore) that starts working on it right away. Of course then I slept away the balance of the afternoon and had a 'cup-a-soup' (noodles) for dinner. I barely woke up before 7pm, so obviously didn't go to Zumba, and now I won't go for at least a week cause I'm leaving for California on Sunday morning.
We turned on the mini split last nite in the bedroom last nite- that's an air conditioner-and it's the only place we have one in the house. The problem is I don't like the ac shooting air down on me while I'm sleeping. I laid down and Everardo was out like a light- which is funny cause I always go to bed around midnite and he comes later, or in this heat, alot of the time he stays on the couch with the overhead fan- cause our queen size bed is too small when we are sweating, tossing and turning....but he was very happy about the ac in our room so he went to bed before midnite. I came in and it's on my side of the bed so I felt like it was blowing on me. I even tried putting the sheet over me for the first time in about 2 months...so I slept on the couch, and woke up with a migraine...aarrgghh.
Ok now different news. We went to see the lawyer this morning that our friend Mike gave us the name of. Looking for Everardo to be able to return to the United States legally. We decided that our best bet is to apply for a visitor's visa (6 months) and then when we're up there, we can go see an immigration lawyer about residency. I hope it will help that we're married. I think you have to be married for more than 2 years for it to be a helpful thing in our favor...and we have. This guy told us it was much better to be wanting to live in Calif than Arizona- that Arizona is really hard to deal with for visas or residency. I had a feeling that would be the case, which is why I told him we wanted to live in Calif.
So- he is going to help Everardo with the visa petition process; filling out the paperwork. Once you submit it, it takes up to 20 days to get an answer. 20 days- that's pretty good. Everardo got in some trouble when he was younger living in the states, so we gotta keep our fingers crossed. I think they'll be able to get it all done next week while I'm gone, but whatever it takes. We'd been waiting for that 2 year marriage mark and we hit it in July.
So I leave 7:30 am Sunday morning for the Phoenix airport. Haha my flight isn't until 5pm, but they were saying it takes 5 hours to get up to their office, then I take a cab to the airport, and I'd rather sit in the airport with a book for a couple of hours than anx't over getting there like last time. That was the other shuttle company and they are the ones who got a flat tire in the desert with no spare, left the border 2 hours late....yeah they told me I'd get a $5 discount next time- when I stopped laughing I said- you think I'm gonna ride with you again?? I'll be up there for a week and a day, and the girls are coming back with me, but until Friday...so I hope I remember tomorrow to stop by Portugal Insurance down at the corner to see if they have the one day insurance for me to drive in the states. Their return flight is a 1pm so there's no way they'd make it on the shuttle. I asked them to get a flight as late in the afternoon as possible, but apparently Halla didn't get Friday nite off, so will fly into San Francisco and be at work by 7pm. I find it kinda puzzling that she couldn't get a nite off when she asked 2 weeks in advance....don't know what's going on there....oh well maybe my friend Pam will be back by then and want to take a little road trip with me. It's about a 4 hour trip each way...so boring as hell coming back I guess. However I've never driven it so I'll have to pay attention on the way up in the shuttle van.
We took the dogs to the beach for a quick jaunt this evening, as the sun was going down and the sky was stripes of pink and blue. There were all these different flocks of birds, pelican, sea gulls, and another bird with a long thick round beak- but not like the pelicans. I tried to take some pictures, but only with my phone so they probly won't be too specific. Ha ha at one point a drop of moisture, I wish it had been rain hit my face...and I was not close enough to the water for it to have been the surf...so what was it? Bird pee? Bird spit? Ah well, I carry hand sanitizer in my purse (ever since I had cancer and had to worry about every germ while I was in treatment), so I kinda washed my face in it. I love to sit and just look at the ocean. Here there's not the amazing waves that we had in Guerrero cause we were on the open ocean, but it's still mesmerizing. It reminded me why I love it here. And I need reminding. I know it is no time for decision for us when I'm worried (and pretending not to be) about this up coming procedure and what the results could be. I miss my daughters, I miss cool green grass, I miss redwood trees, I miss living on a paved road. I miss the control I don't have by not being fluent, I miss my daughters. I miss big AA meetings; here out English speaking meeting is very small, and all the Spanish meetings are small as well. They usually have 10-15, which is much bigger than the English meetings that are 4 or 5, but that's how they do it here. There has to be 20 different groups here for the Spanish speakers; they like smaller groups. Maybe it's cause of how their format runs; you get to talk for 15 minutes and the meetings are an hour and a half. In the bigger English meetings (not here) you are asked to speak only for 3-5 minutes. I tried to talk my gal pal Pam into going up to Phoenix once a month for a bigger meeting but so far she has declined. Partly cause she has been going on her own road trips; to see family, to see friends, to escape the heat, and I'm not comfortable driving 4 hours each way alone for a meeting. Ok- did I say I miss my kids? Poppi told me the other day he misses his uncle, and I know he's worried about that old man. He was so happy when his cousin Anna and her hubby Carlos came to visit. He really loves his family. So he's ready to go back as well, but we both want to wait for about a year- sell the Playa Ventura house, go thru the next "season" for him working on the beach which starts in October...and just keep deciding not to decide....for now.
I've been looking at rents in northern Calif, Modesto is 2 hours from Everardo's family in one direction and 2 hours from mine in another direction, but it's hot there, and dusty, kinda like here. So I looked at Willits, which is almost 2 hours north of my kids, so almost 4 to Poppi's family, but he was good with that. In fact he wants me to look at Eugene Oregon...but he did like the idea of Willits. Now we believe that any move is 6 months to a year away, but if he gets a visitor visa, what will we do? I don't know. I do know that this is not the right time for decision making. And we still want to sell the Guerrero house before we leave as well. We did just get a long term renter, so that's something. And he's a Fed, just got transferred to the area. If we move back we can't afford to live in our house, we need the income, and will I have to get a job? I'm 6 years away from social security- I heard you can start to collect at 62...and then maybe we'd go back to the house. Right now we love out renters and they love the house. If they read this- don't worry, even if we came back in 2014, we won't ask you to move...ha ha can't afford it!
Sometimes Poppi talks about selling it and buying something smaller, but it is small, less than 1300 square feet, and I do love that house more than any other house I owned, and it's the smallest by far. The first one was 1600 sq ft, then 2050, then 3800, then back down to about 2400 I think, then this little house, across the street from a big park. Yeah I love that house. For some reason it always made me think of my Grandma G. She must have lived in a little house before she lived in the trailer, cause why else would it make me think of her. That house gives me serenity.
The hurry up and wait here, for everything is tiring. Driving is tiring because people treat the traffic rules as recommendations. And the damn water truck that drives slowly thru the neighborhood with his horn blasting by 8:30 every morning, he is tiring. The problem there is that our bedroom wall and window is right on the street. No yard or fence whatsoever. Our little yard is on the other side.
I love teaching, but that comes and goes as well. Now I'm having just 4 or 5 people, and 1 will be someone who's been coming and the rest new. So I'm back to just teaching the same stuff over and over. I miss all my students that were learning ordering in a restaurant or at the drive thru McDonalds. Maybe this new group will get there. The directors tho' are saying they want to charge people to come to my class- that if they pay they will be more consistent. But I say- hey these are people who need to come here to eat- how much money do you think they have? Everardo then said- then teach them here at out house for free. That I can use the exercise room. But the problem there is, how would they get here? Most of them walk to the center...and I have a feeling I'd have the same issues with inconsistency. And again, as I said- this is no time for me to be making decisions, about anything. They would be out of fear- no matter how much I might deny it. So this writing tonite is merely venting...oh wait - isn't that what it always is???
So I'm feeling much better. My next post will probly be from northern Calif. I am head over heels in love with my husband, and we will do whatever the next right thing, for us, is. Our 2 doggys are crashed out, Lucky puppy is about to hit 9 weeks and is still sooo tiny. Sam turned 6 on 4th of July and is panting in front of the fan.And we just started watching a Batman movie, so it's allll gooood!
Mexico fun fact:
The Chihuahua is the world’s smallest dog and is named for a Mexican state.
We turned on the mini split last nite in the bedroom last nite- that's an air conditioner-and it's the only place we have one in the house. The problem is I don't like the ac shooting air down on me while I'm sleeping. I laid down and Everardo was out like a light- which is funny cause I always go to bed around midnite and he comes later, or in this heat, alot of the time he stays on the couch with the overhead fan- cause our queen size bed is too small when we are sweating, tossing and turning....but he was very happy about the ac in our room so he went to bed before midnite. I came in and it's on my side of the bed so I felt like it was blowing on me. I even tried putting the sheet over me for the first time in about 2 months...so I slept on the couch, and woke up with a migraine...aarrgghh.
Ok now different news. We went to see the lawyer this morning that our friend Mike gave us the name of. Looking for Everardo to be able to return to the United States legally. We decided that our best bet is to apply for a visitor's visa (6 months) and then when we're up there, we can go see an immigration lawyer about residency. I hope it will help that we're married. I think you have to be married for more than 2 years for it to be a helpful thing in our favor...and we have. This guy told us it was much better to be wanting to live in Calif than Arizona- that Arizona is really hard to deal with for visas or residency. I had a feeling that would be the case, which is why I told him we wanted to live in Calif.
So- he is going to help Everardo with the visa petition process; filling out the paperwork. Once you submit it, it takes up to 20 days to get an answer. 20 days- that's pretty good. Everardo got in some trouble when he was younger living in the states, so we gotta keep our fingers crossed. I think they'll be able to get it all done next week while I'm gone, but whatever it takes. We'd been waiting for that 2 year marriage mark and we hit it in July.
So I leave 7:30 am Sunday morning for the Phoenix airport. Haha my flight isn't until 5pm, but they were saying it takes 5 hours to get up to their office, then I take a cab to the airport, and I'd rather sit in the airport with a book for a couple of hours than anx't over getting there like last time. That was the other shuttle company and they are the ones who got a flat tire in the desert with no spare, left the border 2 hours late....yeah they told me I'd get a $5 discount next time- when I stopped laughing I said- you think I'm gonna ride with you again?? I'll be up there for a week and a day, and the girls are coming back with me, but until Friday...so I hope I remember tomorrow to stop by Portugal Insurance down at the corner to see if they have the one day insurance for me to drive in the states. Their return flight is a 1pm so there's no way they'd make it on the shuttle. I asked them to get a flight as late in the afternoon as possible, but apparently Halla didn't get Friday nite off, so will fly into San Francisco and be at work by 7pm. I find it kinda puzzling that she couldn't get a nite off when she asked 2 weeks in advance....don't know what's going on there....oh well maybe my friend Pam will be back by then and want to take a little road trip with me. It's about a 4 hour trip each way...so boring as hell coming back I guess. However I've never driven it so I'll have to pay attention on the way up in the shuttle van.
We took the dogs to the beach for a quick jaunt this evening, as the sun was going down and the sky was stripes of pink and blue. There were all these different flocks of birds, pelican, sea gulls, and another bird with a long thick round beak- but not like the pelicans. I tried to take some pictures, but only with my phone so they probly won't be too specific. Ha ha at one point a drop of moisture, I wish it had been rain hit my face...and I was not close enough to the water for it to have been the surf...so what was it? Bird pee? Bird spit? Ah well, I carry hand sanitizer in my purse (ever since I had cancer and had to worry about every germ while I was in treatment), so I kinda washed my face in it. I love to sit and just look at the ocean. Here there's not the amazing waves that we had in Guerrero cause we were on the open ocean, but it's still mesmerizing. It reminded me why I love it here. And I need reminding. I know it is no time for decision for us when I'm worried (and pretending not to be) about this up coming procedure and what the results could be. I miss my daughters, I miss cool green grass, I miss redwood trees, I miss living on a paved road. I miss the control I don't have by not being fluent, I miss my daughters. I miss big AA meetings; here out English speaking meeting is very small, and all the Spanish meetings are small as well. They usually have 10-15, which is much bigger than the English meetings that are 4 or 5, but that's how they do it here. There has to be 20 different groups here for the Spanish speakers; they like smaller groups. Maybe it's cause of how their format runs; you get to talk for 15 minutes and the meetings are an hour and a half. In the bigger English meetings (not here) you are asked to speak only for 3-5 minutes. I tried to talk my gal pal Pam into going up to Phoenix once a month for a bigger meeting but so far she has declined. Partly cause she has been going on her own road trips; to see family, to see friends, to escape the heat, and I'm not comfortable driving 4 hours each way alone for a meeting. Ok- did I say I miss my kids? Poppi told me the other day he misses his uncle, and I know he's worried about that old man. He was so happy when his cousin Anna and her hubby Carlos came to visit. He really loves his family. So he's ready to go back as well, but we both want to wait for about a year- sell the Playa Ventura house, go thru the next "season" for him working on the beach which starts in October...and just keep deciding not to decide....for now.
I've been looking at rents in northern Calif, Modesto is 2 hours from Everardo's family in one direction and 2 hours from mine in another direction, but it's hot there, and dusty, kinda like here. So I looked at Willits, which is almost 2 hours north of my kids, so almost 4 to Poppi's family, but he was good with that. In fact he wants me to look at Eugene Oregon...but he did like the idea of Willits. Now we believe that any move is 6 months to a year away, but if he gets a visitor visa, what will we do? I don't know. I do know that this is not the right time for decision making. And we still want to sell the Guerrero house before we leave as well. We did just get a long term renter, so that's something. And he's a Fed, just got transferred to the area. If we move back we can't afford to live in our house, we need the income, and will I have to get a job? I'm 6 years away from social security- I heard you can start to collect at 62...and then maybe we'd go back to the house. Right now we love out renters and they love the house. If they read this- don't worry, even if we came back in 2014, we won't ask you to move...ha ha can't afford it!
Sometimes Poppi talks about selling it and buying something smaller, but it is small, less than 1300 square feet, and I do love that house more than any other house I owned, and it's the smallest by far. The first one was 1600 sq ft, then 2050, then 3800, then back down to about 2400 I think, then this little house, across the street from a big park. Yeah I love that house. For some reason it always made me think of my Grandma G. She must have lived in a little house before she lived in the trailer, cause why else would it make me think of her. That house gives me serenity.
The hurry up and wait here, for everything is tiring. Driving is tiring because people treat the traffic rules as recommendations. And the damn water truck that drives slowly thru the neighborhood with his horn blasting by 8:30 every morning, he is tiring. The problem there is that our bedroom wall and window is right on the street. No yard or fence whatsoever. Our little yard is on the other side.
I love teaching, but that comes and goes as well. Now I'm having just 4 or 5 people, and 1 will be someone who's been coming and the rest new. So I'm back to just teaching the same stuff over and over. I miss all my students that were learning ordering in a restaurant or at the drive thru McDonalds. Maybe this new group will get there. The directors tho' are saying they want to charge people to come to my class- that if they pay they will be more consistent. But I say- hey these are people who need to come here to eat- how much money do you think they have? Everardo then said- then teach them here at out house for free. That I can use the exercise room. But the problem there is, how would they get here? Most of them walk to the center...and I have a feeling I'd have the same issues with inconsistency. And again, as I said- this is no time for me to be making decisions, about anything. They would be out of fear- no matter how much I might deny it. So this writing tonite is merely venting...oh wait - isn't that what it always is???
So I'm feeling much better. My next post will probly be from northern Calif. I am head over heels in love with my husband, and we will do whatever the next right thing, for us, is. Our 2 doggys are crashed out, Lucky puppy is about to hit 9 weeks and is still sooo tiny. Sam turned 6 on 4th of July and is panting in front of the fan.And we just started watching a Batman movie, so it's allll gooood!
Mexico fun fact:
The Chihuahua is the world’s smallest dog and is named for a Mexican state.
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