too much time because not enough time

Costa Rica was delicious but not as delicious as Hawaii, so we are going back to Hawaii in Feb. 2012. First trip to the big island, so that will be a trip.
Bullet point catch up and it may seem a bit insensitive...

• trip back to l.a. in april - went well
• went to oakland to see mexico vs. paraguay. mexico wins

• paola and daniel break up
  
• mother's day at the giant's game
• louis suffers a cardiac arrest and passes away may 17
• i see miriam, kat and sharon, brian and tessa
  
• hang out with s and her kids
• wine tasting with kc and charli, meet lars ulrich, r is ecstatic
• t has aiden and they are both living with her parents
• i'm into image transfers and string medium
  
• no gym today
• tai chi at 7pm
• yoga on the ropes is pretty cool
• it's been raining too much
• sun is out right now
• been dizzy, contact dr's office for appointment
• paola is looking at potential apt

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Organized, disorganized, planed, unplanned, prepared, unprepared general chaos in a controlled setting abounds.
Did activate new atm, did lower credit although they didn't go as low as I wanted them to go - who is in control here? I'm just trying to prevent the crooks from getting their hands on my cash, you know? Like the last time. This is probably what's blocking the excitement I should be feeling about the forthcoming trip. The attempted fraud, the burglarizing of my account and identity. It all had a nice ending to it but the stress involved was not welcomed. You know what else? I didn't get much sympathy either, that bothered me. I need to get a painting to my Uncle T, he was the only one that asked me about my art, THE ONLY ONE - amazing, innit? My Aunt did comment about my painting I gave her a few years ago - that was sweet!
I have 3 weekends before the trip, this weekend I would like to find some sunglasses to take and leave there; already planning to leave old hiking boots there and maybe my flip flops - I definitely need to practice pack. (I hate leaf blowers) I wonder if I'll be a happy traveler with that rick steves bag I have, R has already tried it and likes it, I haven't - we'll we're taking the roller too so if I hate it perhaps I can trade, right?
My list of things: 1 board short, 1 bathing suit, 1 dress, 3 tanks, 1 convertible pant, 1 poncho, 1 white windbreaker, 1 kick back short, emily strange shirt (pj), 1 baseball cap, 3 bandanas, 1 flip flops, 1 amphibians, 1 hiking shoes (check in bag), chonis (10), brrrs (3), socks (4), 1 yoga shirt (plane), 1 yoga pant (plane), 1 Giants shirt (plane), another tank (plane), 1 spf shirt (plane), deep blue jacket (plane), keens w/socks (plane).
I like that list, will practice pack this Sunday mayhaps.

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Get the Balance Right.
5x7 acrylics on canvas.
My cousin Jaime threw me a curve when he asked me how to say canvas in Spanish, the closest thing we could come up with is "tela" (cloth). Babel Fish wants to use "lona" and I suppose that's close too. Webster's New World Spanish / English Dictionary has it at "lona" too, so I guess we have a winner!
Yesterday was my D's birthday, and the yang in that yin is that it also marked the 5th anniversary of my Uncle G's death.
J's daughter is heading to France for a year as an exchange student, that so rocks. Family members are already planning a visit. Some family members come into money a lot easier than others. I'd love to head to France but I think I'd want to hit Spain and Italy first, so don't try to look for me in Europe until 2020 or something. I still have to do my skydive next year, remember? Nuts!
So I'm listening to this 70s radio station on iTunes and they are playing songs from every decade, who do they think they're fooling? KUSF has died, bought out by KDFC, well, KUSF is going to continue online so that's a bit of good news. A San Jose classic rock station is moving to SF and Big Rick from KFOG is heading over there, Greg Kihn in already there.
I think my career as a 80s dancer is over, I saw a bit of the show and I hated it, really did. It's true you know: "don't look back, you can never look back." All traces of evidence have been erase from the dvr so don't ask for copies.
Need to check the travel inventory to see what else is left to buy for the trip to CR. I suspect more insect repellent is needed. I received the diversion safe and it's hilariously too big!! It's NOT going on the trip with us - too funny! I also have the waterproof casing for the FLIP hopefully that works well, it's kinda bulky!!
Need to practice pack and then cut my clothing in half!!
See ya, creature!
Always follow your sueños, k?

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Janaury - a Thursday

Approximately 40 days until CR - working on this to be 100% prepared. Looked at the travel vouchers and found out that the transports are already paid for, well, actually I knew this already but wanted to confirm; felt tons better afterward. I need to stop the unnecessary mini freak outs, truly. The only things we need to pay for at the cruise, the rain forest hikes and the trip back to Liberia. All of the companies we are going with have high ratings and the folx at Pura Vida, eh?, have been delightful. Which is a breath of fresh air after the horrid experience with Xplore and their lot of crooks - the credit card fraud chapter that took place soon following their "help". Still going to post that only after we come back...no need to stir up the ant hill before we go.
Also planning an LA trip and hopefully attend a taping to the cheeky monkey's show, thing is the tapings aren't planned too far in advance so who knows if they show will be taping while we're there. CJ said he'll go, need to ask MSR if he's in.
Going to my second DP taping on Saturday, should be fun then the museum on Sunday, we were shut out last Monday because they were closed, matter of fact they're closed on every Monday. Yeah, I should know this stuff...bah! Going to dinner with Mark and Victoria on the 29, and I just received an email from Sabrina stating that she and her husband may be in SF late, late January. Ha! That'll be a kick, a nice Argentinean kick, bárbaro.
The Churchies are hitting the GAMH this year, and I'm so happy it's before the CR trip. I hope Pao has RM's phone number so that if we get there late she can call him and come get us, c'mon man I have a Trader Joe's bag of goodies, sheesh!
TH has Aiden Bear and he likes to scream!! He arrived on December 9th and is taking his time gaining weight because he's too busy driving his sweet mum bonkers! I'm sure he will find his groove and become a cooing, lovely little baby - he just needs time to adjust to this world. He's super cute and has many of TH's features!
Have some books on order from the library, some cd's too: Juan Luis Guerra for example, JLG is a recommendation from my Pappy. Will definitely burn the cd for him and Mum.
That painting above is called: Greens on Blue, 5x7 acrylic on canvas.

Mariachi Monday - épale!

Yo soy tu Mexican Cracker! (tm)

For the Giants

Because they won yesterday and they need to win today.
I'm glad the game is at 4:30 our time, it was a bit challenging to wait until I got home yesterday to watch the game, all the time making sure I didn't hear anything about the outcome. It worked and fast fwding the commercials is key; although I did let them run a couple of times so I could put some metallic purple paint on one of the ongoing pieces, fix the pirate pumpkin, re-charge double A batteries, stretch and other things.
I made veggie tacos for myself as R had made himself a monster beef stew (ick). Today, he did call to let me know that there is a crock pot going for dinner tonight. Huzzah!
I have the visit to Toyota after work, they are going to put things right, and this will be the end of the hatchback drama. I need to make sure Erik Durazo sees that there is nothing else wrong with the hatch except the shocks and the one panel that's broken. I don't want to lift up that hatch and find anything else wrong with it. So, I need to open the hatch with Erik standing right there and acknowledging all of this.
The Church are being inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame - go Steve, Peter, Marty and Tim. What a great moment for them.
Oh, look! Here comes the sun, kind of.