Yesterday was my first day back to Zumba. It was pretty painful but I huffed and puffed my way thru it. My hair was soaking wet, and it was really cold outside so that sucked. The cement was hard as.....well cement and my feet ached last nite. I think my body atrophied, I mean I can't reach or stretch...or basically move much more than from bed to couch to car to leaning on the shopping cart to car, well you get it. I mean I take the dogs to the beach but it's easy for me not to walk much and let them run around.
So today I took Sam & Hazel down to the new place and measured the bedroom and I think that carpet is going to fit perfect, so I have my fingers crossed (ok not literally) that it didn't seel yesterday afternoon or today and we'll go back tomorrow and try to get it. Well Sam was really bugging me to go down to the beach, and I had lots of doggy guilt cause yesterday we were gone almost all day and they only got the walk around the neighborhood walk, and I didn't really have anything else I had to do, so we walked down to the beach. I brought a plastic chair I saw outside and my book and stopped just after the end of the path. Hazel ran around like the crazy puppy she is. Jumping straight up, digging holes, running in circles...but Sam stayed by me. Sill dog- he won't walk down to the water unless I go as well. I hope to teach him that he doesn't need me to go down to the water's edge and have some fun. I sat there reading for almost half an hour, and it was so cool. A couple walked by down by the water, and of course Hazel the welcoming committee ran down to them and then sprinted back up, but Sam stayed close. They waved and I realized I was that person I envied when I walked on the beach, that person sitting under a floppy hat (which I was wearing by the way), reading and watching my dogs play, watching the waves, no hurry, not long hike back to the car or the house. I felt very cool for a minute there ha ha! Anyway I'm hoping f I keep sitting there that Sam will start to see he can venture down on his own. I did give and walk down to the water before we left, and he ran around and got all wet, so then we stayed at the house for another half hour so they could dry off a little. It's only about a 5 min drive from the new place back to the current place. Hazel was digging holes in the sand and knocked over my water bottle a couple of times but it was closed so no big deal.
Ok skip ahead to day 2 of zumba. Almost harder than yesterday, except I did not try to keep up as hard as I tried yesterday. But the warm up song was long and I was really breathing hard by the end and I reached for my water bottle, unscrewed the cap and gulped....sand! Not a mouthful but enough to have crunchy-ness in my mouth and in my teeth. I silently cursed Hazel and jumped into the next song. And it was cold again but tonite I had on a pull over sweatshirt with a hood so I wasn't as cold. In a couple of weeks I should build up some wind, and maybe get some movement back, then I can push harder and really dance thru the class, then I should stay warm....but for now....ow! Tonite there was only about 6 women, and really 2 of them had to be under 16. The rest were 20-30 and of course there were sevearal toddlers (maybe age 2), and a couple of dogs running around during the class. But I learned about that and got used to it in Penasco so it's really easy to just ignore. But I remember in Penasco when I joined the class and these kiddies would run up to their moms or try to dance it would bug me, but slowly I got over it. I do still think though, that Mexico could really benefit from birth control. These gilrs are so young having kids- babies having babies. I'm so glad my Drewy waited, she's 28, and as for my younger daughter as far as I know there's no kids in her near future plans. Kids have to grow up so fast here; you always see the older kids taking care of the younger ones, and everybody has at least 4 kids..ok maybe that's not true, but it's at least my experience. I have a feeling that maybe those who are better off, (richer- the upper class) have fewer kids, but that's just a guess. But I like the class so far, I like the steps and as always after exercising I always always feel good...feel up- those endorphins kicking in.
It's still dark at 6pm, so coming home from zumba is a short drive, but both nites I had cars coming at me with their brights on- I hate that! But here, lots of people may only have the brights, or they have only one headlight, and one tail light, and maybe or maybe not, brake lights. There's no laws about smog and so some cars smoke like a chimney, some are super loud, and the way people drive is nuts! I think in Ensenada, in the city, people drive better. They obey the stop signs and kinda obey the lights, it's like if you were waiting but it changes to red as you're getting there- well you still get to go (ha ha). So you have to be really careful, but out here, people just go, they come into the road from a side street without even looking...it's tough to drive here. The one thing I do really like is how the stoplights work (semaforo) Before a green light changes to yellow, it starts blinking- it blinks 3 times then hits yellow, then red. So you know yellow is coming- I like it. In Penasco people obeyed the lights but ran all the stop signs. In Ensenada the stop signs are obeyed, but people are not much on blinkers. The middle lane is the safest on the main road we drive on, and on other roads, when there's only 2 lanes people make extra lanes and go around you so you always gotta be watching.
Ok about this house. Couple of things. First, apparently Irka came by yesterday when we were not here planning to show the house to potential renters. I don't like that, don't just come into our home when we aren't here, please give us advance notice- and ASK us! A neighbor told us she came by, but she didn't call or anything- so this morning I received an email from her telling me she brought people by but our dogs were out so they were unable to view the house. Then she did ask what time Friday afternoon would work for us so she could show it and would we please restrain our dogs or take them for a walk. I was pissed so I didn't reply for a few hours. In the end I merely replied with "Ah good to know our dogs are doing their job! Friday at 2 will be fine." She's just such a bitch. But I don't want to spend too much time talking about her because she's a bitch and will always be a bitch and we will just avoid her in the future. So the next thing is- Felipe Sr is back. According to all the talk he is one of the thieves. He was also a problem when we first got here by parking his truck in front of the gate and telling is we had to pay him to use his road. Everardo came inside and cooled off, then when the guy approached him again he just talked to him and then they guy said ok well since you paid my sister. Yeah a family of crooks. I think he may be hiding from the cops or the feds because he's parking his truck by our gate but living down by the entrance to the beach where his evil devil sister lives. If we weren't moving this would be upsetting news. And when he chatted Everardo up yesterday, Everardo did not tell him we were leaving, so he will think he has lots of time to rip us off.
Then a couple of hours ago, right before I left for zumba some other ruckus started down by the devil woman's and cops showed up and arrested somebody. It was not related to the return of Felipe Sr, Everardo found out while I was gone that it was something about a land/house feud; a woman who boyfriend (I think) died and he owned the house, she went to court to get the property and lost...but how Laura thought it is now hers is a story I don't know. So there were a bunch of people and some cops, when Everardo was watching Laura (the devil) was screaming at someone and got in the face of a guy in a truck and he threw a punch at her, and the cops did nothing. They are all crazy! Did I say yippee we're leaving? Anyway I guess the guy who lives in the house by the entrance to the camp got arrested- I have no idea why he was involved, I assume to be on the lady's side because he hates the devil and her family. Last year he got into an argument with Felipe Sr and Felipe jr snuck up behind him and hit him with a shovel! And they all got arrested and the victim was forced to apologize in order to be released. Did I say they are all crazy.
Now Everardo is thinking about asking the new place if we can move in a few days early. Yippee again- that's what I want! Maybe we could move in this weekend, which would be 5 days early if we move in on Sunday....but we still have to get the dish and phone/internet moved over, but we're planning to call them on Friday. We need some paint, purple and red I think to start, but I think we're ready. Oh boy, new adventure.
Viva!
So today I took Sam & Hazel down to the new place and measured the bedroom and I think that carpet is going to fit perfect, so I have my fingers crossed (ok not literally) that it didn't seel yesterday afternoon or today and we'll go back tomorrow and try to get it. Well Sam was really bugging me to go down to the beach, and I had lots of doggy guilt cause yesterday we were gone almost all day and they only got the walk around the neighborhood walk, and I didn't really have anything else I had to do, so we walked down to the beach. I brought a plastic chair I saw outside and my book and stopped just after the end of the path. Hazel ran around like the crazy puppy she is. Jumping straight up, digging holes, running in circles...but Sam stayed by me. Sill dog- he won't walk down to the water unless I go as well. I hope to teach him that he doesn't need me to go down to the water's edge and have some fun. I sat there reading for almost half an hour, and it was so cool. A couple walked by down by the water, and of course Hazel the welcoming committee ran down to them and then sprinted back up, but Sam stayed close. They waved and I realized I was that person I envied when I walked on the beach, that person sitting under a floppy hat (which I was wearing by the way), reading and watching my dogs play, watching the waves, no hurry, not long hike back to the car or the house. I felt very cool for a minute there ha ha! Anyway I'm hoping f I keep sitting there that Sam will start to see he can venture down on his own. I did give and walk down to the water before we left, and he ran around and got all wet, so then we stayed at the house for another half hour so they could dry off a little. It's only about a 5 min drive from the new place back to the current place. Hazel was digging holes in the sand and knocked over my water bottle a couple of times but it was closed so no big deal.
Ok skip ahead to day 2 of zumba. Almost harder than yesterday, except I did not try to keep up as hard as I tried yesterday. But the warm up song was long and I was really breathing hard by the end and I reached for my water bottle, unscrewed the cap and gulped....sand! Not a mouthful but enough to have crunchy-ness in my mouth and in my teeth. I silently cursed Hazel and jumped into the next song. And it was cold again but tonite I had on a pull over sweatshirt with a hood so I wasn't as cold. In a couple of weeks I should build up some wind, and maybe get some movement back, then I can push harder and really dance thru the class, then I should stay warm....but for now....ow! Tonite there was only about 6 women, and really 2 of them had to be under 16. The rest were 20-30 and of course there were sevearal toddlers (maybe age 2), and a couple of dogs running around during the class. But I learned about that and got used to it in Penasco so it's really easy to just ignore. But I remember in Penasco when I joined the class and these kiddies would run up to their moms or try to dance it would bug me, but slowly I got over it. I do still think though, that Mexico could really benefit from birth control. These gilrs are so young having kids- babies having babies. I'm so glad my Drewy waited, she's 28, and as for my younger daughter as far as I know there's no kids in her near future plans. Kids have to grow up so fast here; you always see the older kids taking care of the younger ones, and everybody has at least 4 kids..ok maybe that's not true, but it's at least my experience. I have a feeling that maybe those who are better off, (richer- the upper class) have fewer kids, but that's just a guess. But I like the class so far, I like the steps and as always after exercising I always always feel good...feel up- those endorphins kicking in.
It's still dark at 6pm, so coming home from zumba is a short drive, but both nites I had cars coming at me with their brights on- I hate that! But here, lots of people may only have the brights, or they have only one headlight, and one tail light, and maybe or maybe not, brake lights. There's no laws about smog and so some cars smoke like a chimney, some are super loud, and the way people drive is nuts! I think in Ensenada, in the city, people drive better. They obey the stop signs and kinda obey the lights, it's like if you were waiting but it changes to red as you're getting there- well you still get to go (ha ha). So you have to be really careful, but out here, people just go, they come into the road from a side street without even looking...it's tough to drive here. The one thing I do really like is how the stoplights work (semaforo) Before a green light changes to yellow, it starts blinking- it blinks 3 times then hits yellow, then red. So you know yellow is coming- I like it. In Penasco people obeyed the lights but ran all the stop signs. In Ensenada the stop signs are obeyed, but people are not much on blinkers. The middle lane is the safest on the main road we drive on, and on other roads, when there's only 2 lanes people make extra lanes and go around you so you always gotta be watching.
Ok about this house. Couple of things. First, apparently Irka came by yesterday when we were not here planning to show the house to potential renters. I don't like that, don't just come into our home when we aren't here, please give us advance notice- and ASK us! A neighbor told us she came by, but she didn't call or anything- so this morning I received an email from her telling me she brought people by but our dogs were out so they were unable to view the house. Then she did ask what time Friday afternoon would work for us so she could show it and would we please restrain our dogs or take them for a walk. I was pissed so I didn't reply for a few hours. In the end I merely replied with "Ah good to know our dogs are doing their job! Friday at 2 will be fine." She's just such a bitch. But I don't want to spend too much time talking about her because she's a bitch and will always be a bitch and we will just avoid her in the future. So the next thing is- Felipe Sr is back. According to all the talk he is one of the thieves. He was also a problem when we first got here by parking his truck in front of the gate and telling is we had to pay him to use his road. Everardo came inside and cooled off, then when the guy approached him again he just talked to him and then they guy said ok well since you paid my sister. Yeah a family of crooks. I think he may be hiding from the cops or the feds because he's parking his truck by our gate but living down by the entrance to the beach where his evil devil sister lives. If we weren't moving this would be upsetting news. And when he chatted Everardo up yesterday, Everardo did not tell him we were leaving, so he will think he has lots of time to rip us off.
Then a couple of hours ago, right before I left for zumba some other ruckus started down by the devil woman's and cops showed up and arrested somebody. It was not related to the return of Felipe Sr, Everardo found out while I was gone that it was something about a land/house feud; a woman who boyfriend (I think) died and he owned the house, she went to court to get the property and lost...but how Laura thought it is now hers is a story I don't know. So there were a bunch of people and some cops, when Everardo was watching Laura (the devil) was screaming at someone and got in the face of a guy in a truck and he threw a punch at her, and the cops did nothing. They are all crazy! Did I say yippee we're leaving? Anyway I guess the guy who lives in the house by the entrance to the camp got arrested- I have no idea why he was involved, I assume to be on the lady's side because he hates the devil and her family. Last year he got into an argument with Felipe Sr and Felipe jr snuck up behind him and hit him with a shovel! And they all got arrested and the victim was forced to apologize in order to be released. Did I say they are all crazy.
Now Everardo is thinking about asking the new place if we can move in a few days early. Yippee again- that's what I want! Maybe we could move in this weekend, which would be 5 days early if we move in on Sunday....but we still have to get the dish and phone/internet moved over, but we're planning to call them on Friday. We need some paint, purple and red I think to start, but I think we're ready. Oh boy, new adventure.
Viva!
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