Over the past 10 days or so, we’ve all been noticing aloud how normal our lives seem these days. Even though every single solitary thing about our lives has changed dramatically since January 28, 2006. Right down to the weather. We lived at sweltering sea level for 30 years. Today we live at a chilly sweater-wearing 3900′. The only wildlife we saw in Key West was marine. Unless you count scorpions, palmetto bugs and mosquitoes. OK, the occasional key deer, but they are hardly wild, living as they do fed, fenced and followed. In fact, . . . → Read More About Suddenly So Normal
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That would be me. Just barely… My play opened last Friday and we’ve been working our butts off the last week getting it together. I’m exhausted! It’s a funny play: Strawberries in January. A romantic comedy, very fast-paced, I LOVE my fellow castmates and my director (at this link, click the "Up Next" button). We’ve had packed houses for all three shows so far and the audience has laughed and laughed. Heck, we still laugh backstage! Very fun. It runs for two more weeks, Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday matinee. Then we’ll bring . . . → Read More About Alive! In our frenzy of packing to move here, we sold and gave away most of our CD/DVDs, bringing only the essentials, thinking we could replace what we wanted once we were here. Bringing them was just too much: we had hundreds! Sorting through them would have taken too long – we only had 30 days to pack. And they are heavy to move! That would have required a heavy suitcase over our limit of 16 bags or the shipping of a very heavy box. Add to that the very likely event of paying duty on them, no . . . → Read More About Music in Costa Rica Big news in the papers today: your Costa Rican debit card will now work in the U.S. And, the rilly rilly big news, is that internet funds transfer between banks is here!!! As of today in Costa Rica, you can transfer your money between banks inside the country. Actually, it’s been around for awhile, but it didn’t work. NOW it works. (This is SO Developing Nation!) People don’t write checks here and you do not want to carry wads of cash. You especially don’t want to make a big withdrawal from your account, then walk out the . . . → Read More About Costa Rica Joins the 20th Century …was Babel. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t seen it and you plan to, stop reading now!!! But I couldn’t wait for it to end. We couldn’t walk out until I knew the kids were safe. Not because I cared, but because I couldn’t stand to think a film maker would kill them off for the message. Whatever it was. Xavier says a perfect ending would have been for the red cross helicopter to have been shot down by a stray bullet fired from a celebratory pistol. On the bright side, the subtitles for the . . . → Read More About A Torment… Yesterday was Xavier’s 57th birthday so we celebrated the night away. It was a pretty wild night, dinner and a movie, we were out till almost, I don’t know, 8:30? It’s going to be a pretty quiet Valentine’s Day around here while we recover… Mostly we are going to recover from spending the $12 (including a popcorn) and 84 minutes spent watching Borat. Ironic that Cinemark would not let my teenage boys in to see this as they are part of the only age-group who would LOVE . . . → Read More About Borat Thank you for all your emails and sending the white light. It worked: Xavier seems fully recovered. He must have strained something working out. There is simply no other explanation. It’s completely gone now. Still mystifying… I owned an aerobics and strength training business for 17 years in Key West and never saw anything this extreme (and, honey, I hurt some people). My students called me Sergeant Sally. Haha… just made me meaner! But an extreme muscle strain is the only explanation left… he feels great now. Pura Vida!!! OK, now I’m pissed. They’ve messed with my movies and I don’t like it. We went to the movies tonight seeking a little comic relief from the past two days of hell. Borat is here and sounds like just the ticket. We drive to Cinemark at the Multiplaza. As I’m heading to the ticket window, Ryan leans in to me and whispers that he and Mo are both 18. I don’t understand this… Mo and he are with their parents. What difference could it make? I wave him off because I’m . . . → Read More About Rude Awakening 11 February 2007
 4 comments - (Comments are closed)  Criticia Voluptua Right-Right, Culture Shock, MoviesJack Bauer has nothing on me. I can top any of his 24 hours. 48, for that matter. The past few days, I’ve been a little under the weather, nothing serious, somethin’ I et. I was feeling better on Thursday when suddenly Xavier took ill. X is a guy’s guy. A regular guy, never hysterical. He leaves that to the experts (me). So when he came down the stairs at 10:30pm Thursday night with his shoes in his hand, complaining of chest pains and extreme shortness of breath… well, you take it pretty frickin’ seriously. When he . . . → Read More About 24 Hours Of Hell |
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