So, once again I failed to post anything last week...my excuse this time is that i went to oregon. Flew up for 6 days to help my daughter with some wedding planning.
I had an 8 hr layover in Houston. This frequently happens on the way up or the way back, sometimes both. I've logged a lot of hours in that airport. i've thought about getting a part time position at the L'Occitane shop because I go in there at least 3 times during my "visit" to put on hand lotion. I could be making some pocket money while im there. I will say, you can get a great egg,bacon and cheese breakfast sandwich on a lovely fresh roll for around $3.00. For airport food thats a steal...They still inform you the color of the days terror alert there. they did away ( since bush is out ) with saying if you talk badly about the president you may be arrested or detained. Honest to god they used to say that. I'm sitting there reading a New York Times someone had left behind (if i'd have gotten that job at L'Occitane i could have bought my own...). Article after article involving bad economies. A country...in the Ukraine? can't remember...is running out of hard currency, old people may have to pay their own medical, even china is having finacial problems, Portugal may go under because they are not getting a bail out from some other country....article after article...then there's the article about how the rich will not get their taxes increased and as i flip the page there is a department store add for a pair of "peek-a-boo Chanel booties" for $3600.00....THAT IS NOT A TYPO!!!! $3600.00 for a pair of shoes. Does anyone else find this grotesquely offensive!? And if not, WHY NOT!!!Ahhhh...it's a mad, mad world we're living in.....I have two words ...SALES TAX. Its really the only fair way to make the rich pay. They find loopholes in everything else. If you are out there buying $3600.00 shoes then by god you can pay a heftysales tax..what's that? Then you can't afford the $4500.00 matching hand bag? You poor thing,,how WILL you survive...i think people who buy hand bags and shoes that cost that much should be made to eat them...and I think we should form a task force of people to do it..lets say..people forced to mine diamonds, people forced to sell their daughters so that the rest of their children can eat, people who spend their whole lives on a piece of cardboard in India, people who have to walk 10 miles a day to get water. We'll be humane- we'll give them condiments.....OK, OK...I'll stop......
On to the heat...luckily, we don't have any jokesters around asking "hot enough for ya?!" with a big dopey grin on their face. It was 111 degrees yesterday. That was in merida and we are at the coast so we were a bit cooler. All i could do was lay in a hammock in the bedroom. It was too hot to lay on the bed. Unfortunately, the pool is not done......sometimes work here is a slow process...could have something to do with it being really HOT! Just a guess...it's probably pretty hard to see what you're doing when sweat is rolling into your eyes. Or possibly your focus is being disracted by the idea of "I wonder if I could hook up a water I.V. ?" As we headed into merida today ,the temperature in the upper 90's, we drove through Cansahcab. Its a village of maybe a thousand people. Little old ladies wear traditional, embroidered dresses. Trici Taxis (3 wheeled bicycles) line up around the square, the drivers swapping stories while they wait for their next customer. Folks of all ages on bicycles ride here and there with little bags of tortillas on their handlebars. As we round the bend, we see -what?- a zebra. Tied up next to the road eating grass. Not what one would expect to see along the road in Cansahcab. It was very surreal. As we drive by, I see horses and...a camel...a baby elephant...curiouser and curiouser...then i spy ( just after wiping the sweat from my face with a kerchief) a reindeer....a young, very thin reindeer....in cansahcab...in the Yucatan....I'll tell ya, very little really shocks me anymore. I must be getting to the point where the bizarre is the norm. i'll tell you what though, if one of those animal handlers would have been wearing a pair of peek-a-boo chanel booties, i would have totally freaked out.......
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