read to me dianna

this is how i felt most of the day. haven't been to see it yet, but will get there some day soon.

looks like we got the house. i don't know if that's good or bad yet. hopefully good. steve flys out on the 14th to los angeles. we have to deal with our storage unit and truck. how to get it down here, cost, dealing with my FM3. i may or may not have to get an extension because i'll have been here 6 months on the 15th of april. we won't be able to move the stuff down until may or june at the earliest. it's a drag to have to deal with all of this. the laws changed recently and every single person you talk to has a different story on what's going on. it takes days to get anything processed. otherwise, life is good. it wasn't quite as hot today. shepards pie for dinner (courtesy of sam's friend from london). delicious.

money's a little tight...thank go we're used to that. have a couple of jobs lined up back in the states. we still haven't figured out how to make money down here. so far, we've been surviving on our disability checks. but the savings are dwindling and credit card nearing max. so we don't have the luxury of just sending for our stuff like most gringos. they just have it all taken care of. if we had and extra 3000 or 4000 thousand dollars we'd just have all shipped down and that'd be that. the moving company's take care of all of the paper work, which is the biggest hassle. oh well.

it's hard to get too freaked out about money when the coolest things here cost nothing or close to it. so...we have it better than most. it beats the hell out of starving in the states. i haven't bounced a check since i've been here. in the states i was over drawn every month just trying to float us through the month. it was bounce a check, or not eat that weekend. that hasn't happened here.

on a lighter note...we've heard from john. i'm going to see if i can get a new link up to BORDERSTORIES. i'll do a separate post after this break.