Uh oh.
I found these in the back of a cabinet.
Hidden away.
Should I worry?
Should I eat one?
I don’t see organico written on the bag anywhere…
|
|||
|
So Xavier goes to the grocery store last night and comes home with 30 different kinds of organic chocolate. This morning, Mo and Ryan and I pile it all on the counter so we could point and laugh. X says: "You know, wanting to choke certain people makes my blood pressure go up." Yesterday, he was looking for the chunk of organic chocolate and couldn’t find it. He was in a PANIC. When he found it, he said, "Hey, I don’t like people moving my stuff." What people would that be, . . . → Read More About My Name is Xavier and I’m An Organic Choco-holic PRE-PROLOGUE: During our 24 hours of hell, the only thing we discovered is that Xavier’s blood pressure is in the high range of normal. Not high blood pressure, as he is quick-like-lightening to point out, just in the tippy-top limit of normal. "Which is still normal," he says, "not high." Proof that denial affects even the sane. PROLOGUE: A few days ago, I stumbled onto an article making the startling revelation that cocoa – organic, sin azúcar [seen ah-SUE-car, without sugar] lowers blood pressure as well as makes you smarter, happier, sexier… the list goes on ad . . . → Read More About Takin’ The Cocoa Cure 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!!! I like to sit up at night after everyone has gone to bed and read blogs or surf the tv or watch Weeds (downloaded from iTunes). Just sorta hang-out "alone" in the house. It’s winter here in Costa Rica and up here on the mountain, it’s cold. Like REALLY cold. We’re talkin’ in the 60′s. The low 60′s. You laugh… after living in the tropics for 30 years, our blood is thin. At 70 degrees, we are wearing long sleeves… So by the time I . . . → Read More About Icy Toes That about sums up the description of Hal’s gastointestinal tract, all of it. Frankly, it looks just like his colon. No, we didn’t try this at home! They don’t sell those fiber optic cameras to just anyone, you know. Besides, I just like to watch. Today, we went back to the doctor for Hal’s last preventive medical checkup. We could have had this done at the same time as the colonoscopy, but didn’t know it. So back we go. Let me tell you, Hal is sick of all this medical stuff. He only . . . → Read More About Pink ‘n Slippery Hal, my handsome husband, has quite the handsome colon. Who knew??? I got to see the whole thing. Now we are really really married. It is perfect: pink, healthy, just a smashing colon. I could go on and on about the health care you get here in Costa Rica. It is everything you could ask for, and more. We arrived a few minutes late – rush hour traffic in San Jose is intense. The minute we arrived, they whisked Hal in, put him to sleep, then came and got me! I . . . → Read More About They Let You WATCH! If you’ve ever had, or are thinking of having, a colonoscopy (which should include everyone I know) read this. Jal is having one Monday (no photos, you can relax). So far, the colonoscopy news is all great. I’m hoping on Monday I won’t be reporting any bad colonoscopy news. Praying, in fact. But we won’t go there. Past age 50, a colonoscopy is simply a fact of life. And Jal is great. He looks great, acts great. . . . → Read More About Costa Rica Colonoscopy |
|||
|
Email Webmaster | Buy Costa Rica Gifts & Tees here! |
|||
