31.10.2006
Hola, buenas tardes!
I hope you're all well, happy & coping with spring & winter weather.
Spare a thought for me this week. I'm exhaused already and it's only Monday. I didn't actually attend any of the parties..I just sat up all weekend trying to cope with the phenominal clamour! Parties started on Friday as a warm up for Halloween & The Day of The Dead (Dia de Muertos). The celebrations are combined here, so instead of celebrating 2 separate days, they celebrate for 10 days in a row (What the ...? :-O), with the biggest nights being Wednesday and Thursday, but continuing on through to the end of next weekend.
My alcohol intake will increase dramatically this week just so I can get some sleep!
The noise is especially bad in this apartment because I'm on the corner of a T intersection. Cars and buses coming from every direction, and they're all either V8's or have those stupid stereo's that vibrate your windows out of their frames! The buses start at 5:30am & finish at 10:30pm. The cars thunder past 24/7! I think I'll boost my friend Manuel's annual sales by purchasing all the nails and tacks from his tapateria (hardware store) and sprinkling them across the 4 roads! Do you think the police will trace all those nails to me?
The local kids (aged from 10 - 25) have decided the best pot-hole in the road for playing marbles is directly under my living room & bedroom windows. They start playing at around 8pm & usually finish up at 1am. More screaming from them than you'd hear at the Super Bowl on the biggest night of the season! I'm tempted to invest in some flour and water bombs..do you think that'll deter them? Or will it earn me a few nights in a Mexican jail?
Then there's the 'tomales' truck that cruises by late every night. A wonderful set of loudspeakers on the truck roof blast out "Tomales, tomales, your kids need tomales before they go to bed! Tomales, tomales, YOU need tomales before you go to bed! Tomales, tomales, everyone needs tomales right now!!" I want to run down the stairs & kick his tyres in! Another couple of nights in a Mexican jail!
Lastly, the girls that live in the apartment on top of mine get up every morning, put on their noisiest stilettos & start dragging their furniture across the tiled floor at high speed and in multiple directions. Don't ask me why..it's a mystery to me! Then at night, they run up and down the stairs as daintily as a stampeding herd of African elephants drunk on fermented amarula berries They have a penchant for starting up their incredibly loud blender at all unpleasant hours of the night and morning. Yesterday they ran out of gas before finishing cooking their afternoon meal 'knock, knock on my door' ... "Can we finishing cooking our meal on your stove with your gas?" They're lovely girls, but I want to lubricate their stairs with an oil slick! Oh lord..I'll be in jail forever! Hey, the bright side of that is that you get conjugal visits 'inside' here.
Add to this intolerance ...
...aaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhh! Here comes the tomales truck!
... I have a temporary flatmate/room-mate. Dominique from Canada. He's 23 years old. I'm his surrogate mum, he's my surrogate son. He's driving me a little crazy. He's a messy little blighter in the kitchen, he has no idea how to replace the empty roll of toilet paper with the full roll sitting next to the toilet, and is quite negative..but he also has a really dry sense of humour..luckily for him. He has me on the verge of biting his head off, then he hits me with something really witty and I find myself having a great laugh! He is very good at making sure the water is hot for my shower.
Having dropped my good cellphone into the toilet & drowning it to death, I'm back to the one I had when I first arrived here. I think it's about 100 years old! It's been rebuilt 4 times this year, but I think it's finally on its last legs. Last night all the text on it turned upside-down and inside-out. If I want to read a message or look up a number I have to go to the bathroom, turn the phone upside-down and read everything through the mirror. I'M NOT JOKING!
Tonight, the vibrate mode died.
I think I'LL be mourning & commemorating my cellphones on Wednesday and Thursday!
On a more serious note..everyone please give a thought and toast to my sister, brother-in-law and their gorgeous boxer Shady; Shady went to sleep forever today (Southern Hemisphere time).
I'll be dedicating a flower & a few marshmallows to Shady this Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Light..light, I'm racking my brains for something light to sign off with.
Ok..maybe more vacuous than light..my stolen plant cuttings are starting to take root & flourish!
Daylight saving here kicked out last night..I was shocked by how dark it was by 6:30pm tonight!
The crazy supermarkets here have no change in their tills. Tonight the 'check-out Chick' asked the customer behind me for change! Bless his handsome skin, he tried but couldn't help. It was ok, because I was able to make the change myself. Both he and the guy customer behind HIM bade me a fond farewell, & raced to get through the check-out to escort me to where-ever I was going. Not a chance..I walk way too fast for everyone!
Which reminds me..you know how we all hate small change? Well, here in Mexico I hoard it because it's the only way to pay for things!
Mexican Madness! It frustrates the life out of me, and I love it..all at the same time!
Sorry to my Russian buddies for this very long English message.
Has this been a 'trick or treat' message?
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