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Scheduling on Belize time 2008-04-30 17:44:07 Still trying to get organized for Cinco de Mayo - yay and ugh at the same time. Always fun to throw a huge party in the name of a good cause. We keep simplifying to make it as easy as humanly possible and it is still a huge amount of work. Thanks goes out to anyone who has in any way helped.I have decided this year to just keep doing the best I can and not let frustration set in - which is quite a feat when all things are considered.Scheduling is on the menu today and thanks to Chris at Casa Picasso and Barrington and the islanders, I have 2 spots out of 6 filled in. I hope to do better after the meeting.Lara just coconut phoned me and offered a ride to Wet Willy's noon meeting. Hooray - that means I will run over to Sol Spa now and get their gift certificates.Meeting was all over the plac Read more:Belize
New Evening Line up 2008-05-02 14:08:03 Events Schedule (Inside Wet Willy’s) Derby ticket sales - Marilyn Marx2:30 pm to 3:00 pm - Music Time Slot Zac: Drum? Jon: Didgeridoo? Justin: ? 3:00 pm to 3:15 pm – Introduction/Opening Speech Sari & Lara 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm – Music Time Slot Gino & Drummer Jim Any other musicians available to play 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Live Auction Time Slot 1 Auctioneer/MC: Sari and Lara 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm – Live Auction Time Slot 2 Auctioneer/MC: Sari and Lara 5:30 Derby winner announced6:00 pm to 6:45 pm – Music Time Slot Calvin’s Band 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm – Live Auction Time Slot 3 (Last Chance) Auctioneer/MC: Sari and Lara 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm (or beyond) – Music Time Slot Barrington and the IslandersPlease note this is a floating schedule
Counting down 2008-05-02 13:35:46 The count down is on and I can honestly say what is keeping me the busiest right now besides making lists and digging up stuff for the yard sale is scheduling all our food invites.Last night at Changes in Latitudes was such a good thing. We kicked off with Mango Margarita's then moved onto delicious skewers, salad hot tortillas and fresh made brownies.Today I am off to breakfast with Courtney Ken and Martha at Monkey bites and then we have 2 evening engagements - Quicksilver Dianne is hosting bring an appy and drink night and Ken and Martha are doing a bbq. Good thing they live in the same neighborhood.11:55 amTQ is on her way here and she is due in sometime around one. She will get a good surprise when she arrives as we are on the guest list for 2 food events - yum. DCG thanks for getting Read more:Counting
Cinco 2008-05-03 08:53:43 It's finally here the day of the big Party. We are in pretty good shape for being ready - just minor things like making sure the decorating basket has enough supplies and cutting Paul's signs.(more pics on yesterday's post.)
2 miles per hour 2008-05-06 10:21:23 I am moving 2 miles an hour.Party was great and lots of people are sending in their pics for me to post which I will get to after we go to Island Perk.3:22pmI am still moving slow. Chatting Laura on coconut phone and saved a bunch of pics that TQ just sent me of the party.We decided to go for a visiting walk - first stop was O'farrell house to pick up the other Paul, then we went to Changes in Latitudes, next up was Ken and Martha's and then we were off to Pedro's for bowling and pizza. Scottish JD and Walter kept us laughing all night.Face painting - by Sherah41Raffle - by Sherah41Steve doing chip sales - by Sherah41Pinata by - Sherah41Marilyn - by RLDHappy by RLDEnjoying the party - by RLDKaren Francis Laurie and Quick silver Dianne - by RLDSinging by RLDSari - by RLDGarrick - by RLDKris
One of those days... 2008-05-08 11:42:30 Ever have one of those days where you have so much you could be doing it makes you not want to do anything?That is where I am at right now to the point of not even wanting to update my to do list for today ha ha. So far it consists of call Capt Jeff.I did just talk to Kra-z-k to see how Carmen was doing and so far so good. She managed to get her another vitamin k shot but is still looking for a bottle of vit k pills not so easily found here. For those of you who do not know, Carmen is Keli's dog and she got into something she should not have hence needing the vit k to help sort her insides out.I am going to go make some toast and partake in a time waster (computer game)
travelqueen does Cinco De Mayo 2008-05-08 08:25:02 Holy Cross Extravaganza numero II! Written by travelqueenWhat a fun-filled event that is such a great cause for the kidos of SP! Here are some pics I took through out the day! Hope you enjoy! Mr. Tillet “gambling” with the kidos. Note to self: do not choose numbers 6, 3 or 1! The house took my money!!! Karen - one of the volunteers came to help.Steve and a HC teacher, working hard to sell chips! NOT!Mr. Noel, do not give these lovely ladies a hard time! Mrs. Carole’s face painting table was a hit! Kids, changing out the trash bag! Excellent!The yard sale was a hit!I love these two pictures! The kids are having a blast on the “jumpy thingys”!Pinata time! I spy Mrs. Laurie!!Alright, everyone stand back and give the lil guy some room!Mr. Freddy makes it right
Gone for coffee 2008-05-09 12:27:44 9 amFine time for a coffee break.Been chatting on the message board and working away on my computer chores (sorting, writing and deleting emails)10:35CindyC at perk is helping me get healthy, she has got me drinking soy milk in my frappes now - I do not mind it but she could not sell Paul on the idea so now she makes ours separately. Somehow I lost my momentum on what I was doing before we left, so now I will pick a different task and see how long that keeps my attention for ha ha - will clean inside and wash my plastic set of office drawers and get caught up on school blog.Once again I am cursing internet explorer cause I have not downloaded a replacement browser yet. Today it will not let me rearrange pictures I uploaded on school blog by cutting and pasting then in correct order - talk
Gone fishing 2008-05-11 18:15:28 It is 5:30 am and we are getting ready to meet up with everyone at Estel's for breakfast before we go fishing with Peter Graniel.Fishing was great - caught loads of snapper. There were 6 of us fishing so we had 4 on at a time and did the catch 3 fish and pass your rod on rule. Today I practiced taking the fish off the hook - it can be a bit tricky as the fins are sharp.When Peter and Lionel started cleaning the fish, a nurse shark came around to have a bite to eat.We are all going to meet up again later to enjoy fresh fish bbq at Dick and Carole's.Side note - today is first day of rainy season, so make sure to have your wet gear handy.Heading for Peter's boatFixer upper with waterfront viewCapt Jeff caught a big oneGray skies - fishing was greatPaul got a bitePeter G doing filletsCaught s
Beach time 2008-05-11 06:35:07 After waisting to much time playing gold miner, I am going to move onto something more productive - resubscribe to coast to coast and pack a pic-nic lunch for the beach.Was chatting with Stacy yesterday, she sent me an e-book and it made me think to tell her about Coast to Coast am radio which is a late-night syndicated radio talk show in the United States and Canada. They feature a wide variety of interesting topics, most frequently ones that relate to science, the paranormal, or alleged conspiracies - a great alternative to tv or reading. Paul and I have been listeners since long before we moved here. If you do not get it live near you and do not want to subscribe, you can listen free online at am 640 website week nights. Any coast fans out there? Give a holler.Sandwiches are made, coas Read more:Beach
What's next 2008-05-13 10:39:56 Was chatting Bobber in mini chat this morning and he said Life is what you make it. I replied back something about how I was figuring out what to make next.It hit me as I was cleaning house - getting a bigger place has been on our minds lately and that is just want I am going to make next. I thought as I was cleaning about how I will get rid of stuff I do not need, organize, clean and physically p
Craving Belize from afar... 2008-05-14 21:07:45 I would like to take a moment to introduce you to C (for Cindy), you may remember her from a couple recent post about sunset cruise and Holy Cross School. We had the opportunity to meet her through our friends at Changes in Latitudes - they often invite us over to meet people who are staying there that they feel we would like and C was one of them.Craving Belize
from afar... by CAfter spending t
Sidetracked 2008-05-14 14:29:51 I was up early (just before 7) and making my to do list for the day in my head. I decided that after having my coffee and uploading yesterdays pictures on the blog, I would make my way down to the school early and have plenty of time to come back and get school stuff ready to send to the news papers before meeting Colomojo. Some days just do not go according to plan and life sidetracks you in a go
Pezzi ball office chair 2008-05-15 17:29:47 I just inflated my pezzi gymnastic ball today so I could try using it for an office
chair - figured cannot be any worse than the hardwood kitchen chair I use now.I am a sloucher by nature so I was hoping that using the pezzi ball even part time might help me sit up straighter and benefit my back and help me get a bikini belly at the same time.I checked out the internet to see what info I could fin
Breakfast meeting 2008-05-18 10:09:56 Cindy decided we should get a bunch of us in on a booth for lobsterfest this year. We are heading over to Sharon's house for a planning meeting
over breakfast.Going to do a pass by Stacy's on the way as Tai Chi classes with Zac start this morning and I thought even though we can't do the class we could stop and say a quick hi.Our meeting was a success - we came away with lots of great ideas and fu Read more:Breakfast
Special Delivery 2008-05-16 21:08:42 We were enjoying our usual morning iced coffee's when Josimar turned up with a special delivery of elephant ears fro RLD - Yum.Since last night I have been going through and cleaning up my computer so I can finally back everything up - a long overdue and very important thing on my list. For all the hours I have put in I am almost finished the folder of pictures from my old camera. That leaves 2 mo Read more:Special
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Million Dollar Experiment 2008-05-18 13:32:36 I recently mentioned re-subscribing to coast to coast am radio. The first show I downloaded and listened to was on Intuition and Synchronicity. After listening to the show I noticed a few synchronistic events happening in my life and knew I would eventually pick one and end up blogging about it.So here goes....It all started last week after I met Boreas - we were talking about blogging as an inc Read more:Dollar
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Changes 2008-05-20 19:24:18 As always lots of new changes going on around San Pedro. Caliente has a new deck and new owners - congratulations Kelly McDermott. There is a new restaurant called Hidden Treasure in Escalate area - Cindy gave it rave reviews over coffee at perk this morning said the food and prices were both excellent.Sometimes amidst all the change it is nice to enjoy familiar places and faces so off we go to
Happy Monday 2008-05-20 09:58:26 Last night the girls popped me on the coconut phone with an invite to go on a catamaran trip with tradewinds today. I told them I was not sure and would let them know in the morning and went back to watching tv with Paul - I got to thinking that I would be silly not to go. Never pass up an opportunity to go on a boat ride - that is unless it is in big waves outside the reef. I decided I could get Read more:Happy
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Spur of the moment 2008-05-22 17:46:57 One if the things I like about San Pedro... it is easy to make spur of the moment plans.After an afternoon of being in procrastination mode I decided we should go for dinner so I checked who was online and popped Carole. She was into the idea and said to meet her and Dick in an hour. We picked Blue moon as they are both on a time schedule and so it is easy for a quick reasonably priced meal.Even
Discovery Zone 2008-05-22 12:45:21 A couple of years ago, Ed and I were at a grand opening for a friend’s business that is housed in a local warehouse space. In the corner of the space, utilizing about 4 bays, was a playground that had previously been used in a local indoor play-land for children, called Discovery
Zone. We both immediately thought of Holy Cross and what a nice addition this would be for the kids. We made an in
Day off 2008-05-23 21:42:09 Took the day off except for deleting 10 pages of emails.Won bid on eBay for a nice blue bikini tonight - the bottoms have ruffles on the butt ha ha. Surprisingly for living on an Island there are not a lot of good womens swimsuits that I have seen.Dick got of early and just popped me on the coconut they will be here any minute to pick us up to head over to Paul and Cindy's.Wish I was that curvy in
Sunday Brunch at Rico's 2008-05-25 11:44:30 We are off to meet the brat pack and give Sunday
brunch buffet at Rico's a try.Last weekend was their first one so we figured let them iron out the kinks and then go.
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Off we go 2008-05-25 11:37:15 What a night last night - got to Cindy and Pauls and we just missed Mark and Paul.Mark was not supposed to arrive till the 22 but he turned up early and everyone was in the mood to let loose. To make the night even more interesting. the power kept going out for short bits all night.My wii bowling scores of the night - played first 2 games by myself190183169 - Pedro 181After that no scores - every
Space clearing 2008-05-27 18:39:55 Last night at Hideaway Sharon mentioned that there was a family in Belmopan area of Belize that needed help - they had a house fire and lost everything. She is organizing a stuff drive to send things over there this weekend and collecting anything that people want to donate.Luckily I did not go through my things as well as I could have for the stuff swap so I am sure I can find more to clear away Read more:Space
Going Green 2008-05-27 16:41:00 Last night went to see Lara Paul h and Jim doing fire show for a wedding at Ramon's. Was a great show they were all in sync and the wedding party loved it.Afterwards Lara, Tim, Tina, Derek and I went to Fido's to watch Gino and Jim play.Got into some great conversation with Jim and Derek on marketing and going green. Found out that Derek met Donny Deutsch one of my favorite people for inspiration. Read more:Going
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Moving Sale 2008-05-29 10:37:48 The Macgaunt family is moving and has some good stuff for sale. If you are interested please contact Bonnie @ 626-1137Stuff For Sale: Iron $10 US (Never Used)Toaster $10 USRice Cooker $10 USPopcorn Maker $10 US2 Single Beds $100 US for BothMagazine Rack $4 US2 Cell Phones & Card $75 US Each1 Golf Cart $6,250 USSmall Items (dishes) Various Prices1 Plastic Table $10 USSpeakers (o Read more:Moving
No title 2008-05-30 16:22:55 I just got back from the store - spent $16 Belize for 1 green pepper, 1 yellow pepper, 1 bag snow peas and 2 stalks of celery. Ouch! If it were Saturday I could get 2 bbq chicken dinners from John in the park for that price.I even checked through the peppers for light ones so that I would not wind up paying for a heavy seed packet inside (our old roommate Jerry was very specific in teaching me tha
Less is more 2008-05-29 21:25:47 Coleen at Island Perk turned me onto Dr Bronner's soap a while back. I mentioned the liquid soap briefly in a past post this week, but I got to thinking it needed a post of it's own. We all need to start thinking little things we can do and products we can use that help keep the natural beauty of Ambergris Caye.Where to start?After looking up the 18 uses of the soap, I found out through various pe
Game night 2008-05-31 18:05:12 Been raining off and on all morning - short heavy bursts. That did not stop us from going to perk for a morning coffee. Drummer Jim and Zippy were there - Coleen said she is fighting a loosing battle in wiping down the counters.I am totally wanting to get a camera set up like Mark now as he is fully waterproof and has no worries for rain or boats. Unfortunately my camera starting to show minor eff
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