Monday, January 15, 2007

No Such Luck

So I heard back from the Critical Mass folks - the one's who I submitted my photos to. "I am really sorry to let
you know that your entry did not make it into the group of the top 150."

Ah well....

Monday, January 08, 2007

My Sick Twin

After a month and a half of being ill, after two dozen different types of medicine, after injections of penicillin and eucalyptus oil, after unknown amounts of snotty tissue, after pains in my head and pains in my chest, after losing faith and thinking that I would never get healthy again, I have finally kicked whatever illnesses have been attacking me and am solidly on my way to being healthy again.

On January 4th, I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. As I stood up from bed I felt my twin, my sick self, fall away from my body. I knew at that point that I might still be sick, I might still have to take medicine, but that was the turning point, it is all uphill from now on.

Home sweet home?

There is another house that is for rent. It’s on the edge of town in a quiet neighborhood, close to the main road that runs by Tuxpan. It looks to have three bedrooms, probably one bath, and a huge kitchen. We haven’t been inside to see it yet, but our friends Joel and Miriam took us by it to check it out. Unlike the majority of houses here, it actually has space – a yard if you will – around it. There are a bunch of houses in that neighborhood that are built the same, so it’s like a little neighborhood of American style houses. The owner is the grandmother of our current cabinetry client. And she wants to rent to people without kids.

So in theory we should be a shoe-in to rent it.

But the reality is that anything could happen. We went by the rental office to inquire about the house yesterday. The rental agent – the mother of our client – wasn’t in her office. But a security guard relayed our interest to her, and she returned a message via the guard. The house was still being fixed up after the last renter and wasn’t ready to be occupied yet. However, as soon as it is ready, she will give us a call.

Great, right? Maybe.

For all we know, she said that the house wasn’t ready because she didn’t want to rent to us, not because it really was still being fixed up. Or maybe she said that she would call us and will conveniently forget when the house is ready. We met her one time when we were talking to our client, and she seemed distant and cold. So it’s hard to tell what she thinks of us. And that is the main issue here. Not whether we can pay the rent reliably, or whether we are clean and responsible people, it’s all about whether she likes us or not.

But at least she is aware that we are interested. There isn’t anything else we can do, it’s all in her hands at this point. So we will wait.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Feliz Ano Nuevo!

Happy New Year to everyone out there! We had a low key evening, wrapping it up around 12.30 am. Now it's back to work, although we have a trip to the beach planned for later this week. I'll be happy to go as it might help my continuing illness. I'm currently taking two injections of medication per day, and they seem to be working. Hopefully I will be back to my robust self by the weekend.

Hope you all had a great holiday season and are happy, healthy and relaxed for 2007!