Jill In Brazil: Making Lemonade... Again!

Jill In Brazil: Making Lemonade... Again!: I was chewing gum yesterday and my crown popped off. Oh my god!!! Now not only are my glasses broke and duct taped, it also looks as if ...

Making Lemonade... Again!

I was chewing gum yesterday and my crown popped off.  Oh my god!!!  Now not only are my glasses broke and duct taped, it also looks as if I am missing a flippin tooth.  Not to mention today our electricity was cut off.   We were only like 5 days late waiting payday… Come on already?  But, it just so happened that the owner didn’t make a payment in 2010 that eventually caught up with US!  Truthfully, I was thinking… this could be my bottom.  J  

However with all things in life…there is a fix.  For instance we actually got the light problem solved in a few hours and the crown didn’t break, it just popped off.   I went by a dentist and the fix will only cost me $30… that’s savings right there.    Now the glasses… I guess I could call Sam’s club and have a similar frame shipped, but actually after living in Alaska for 8+ years, I learned that duct tape is really cool… maybe my situation is just bad in the mirror. 

I can’t complain though, today was a marvelous day.  I went to the Market with Gabriela and bought beautiful fruit and veggies to make my salsa.  We had the best pastel I have ever eaten for breakfast with fresh squeezed orange juice and then my car actually started every time I got in.  Oh, and then there is the car thing.  I guess when life gives you lemons…you try to make lemonade and just pray there is sugar in the cupboard. 

I didn’t say living in a foreign country was easy, but I am sure to be a different person when I return. 

Beautiful Day at the Truta Farm!!!

Today a return trip to the trout farm with Tiana, Jen, Nicolas & the family.  I am on another one of the many Brazilian holidays from work and so we definitely made the most of it, but this time I have pictures. 

Nicolas & Tiana

Bananna Tree

Benny Tired

Last night my son was determined to sleep with me.  He came into my room 4 times and finally at 4:45am I let him into my bed with me.  I am pretty sure he was up all night because when he climbed into the bed he was asleep before his head hit.  Now for sure…. He will go to school today, it will be a grand teaching moment!  Poor little guy.

I also had a great day yesterday, at first I had some free time so I was going to listen to a little American politics and once it was on it was soon a terrible feeling.  Why do I listen to such shit?  I want to be aware but I guess I don’t want to watch hour by hour the leaders selling us off bit by bit.  This isn’t what life is about, is it?  I turned it off and turned on a book called “The Power of Now” and I was at peace again.  I then spent the rest of my day at peace.  I went to work and had a nice day but then I started to think about money and again I started to think very negative, damn it!  I give it so much power; I tried so hard to stop but the worst part was that I didn’t choose to.  What will happen if one day I actually get this down?

Good Ol days

Saturday was marvelous.  We went with a couple of Rodrigo’s school friends to a very small town about 40 minutes outside of town.  We parked at his uncle’s house in the country changed into warm clothes and then walked down this hill to the party.  The party was a festival for a saint.  There was the village church and a stage connected with a few other small buildings, it was an old Brazilian Festival and very traditional.  It kidn of reminded me of a barn dance like you would see in the movies, but outside the church.  When we got there church was in session, so we waited for them to pay tribute to the saint and then the party started.  Music, food, kids, drinks… it reminded me of a cross of Nebraska land days in North Platte and then spending time with Mike and Tanya in Alaska at the Talkeetna bluegrass festival.   This was one of those forgetful experiences and the feeling will stay with me for ages… sorry no pics, darn it!