A Day for some Musical Therapy!!

What another strange day in paradise!! Started out the day at 6am with an amazing sun-rise, to then spending the next 40 minutes contending with bank bureaucracy in the UK. Don't you just love the way the banks are so good at taking peoples' money, and not so good at caring about how they can blatantly be so uncooperative.

After a glorious pink sun-rise, the morning was cloudy and overcast. Nick beat me at scrabble today, although it was a much better game than the attempts at scrabble we played with Jan......

Family Friction!

Yesterday was an up-and-down kind of day, emotions running a mock and hormones raging!! I took the leap and emailed my mother the long letter I had composed, with the intention of trying to honestly and openly express many of the things that have always been left unsaid. BIG mistake!!!! Within minutes of sending it the phone rings and I am talking to my Mum....who has already read the 4 page letter......and is on the defensive and lashing out back at me.

I try and talk and explain that I am not interested in dredging up the past, that I am merely saying things to get them in the open but I end up in the place where I always do.......wishing I hadn't said anything as my Mum doesn't listen but attacks with her "poor me" guilt invocations!

I manage to lift my mood by chatting with Nicole for a good couple of hours in the afternoon, she can go from too-wise words to complete 'blond' moments......but certainly gave me the right 'fix' to get me smiling again.

With a large rum and orange in hand, Nick and I sauntered over to the BYC Happy Hour at Ann's. Boy what a lively one it was tonight, and we got our first 'formal' invite to visit some folks in Canada........so this created a good buzz!!

Nick has almost finished all the work setting up the new funeral company, and Paul has already expressed an interest in a joint business venture and extended an invite for us to visit again........so things are cooking!!!!

And talking about cooking.........shrimp BBQ tonight!! Ohhh big juicy shrimp cooked ala Nick style!

Coconut Juice for Inspiration!!

There is not a breath of the Caribbean breeze stirring tonight, and we are out on our veranda sprayed up with bug spray, red candles flickering and BBQ a sizzling. “Wild Thing” weekend so far has been a blast…….relaxing and enjoying sun, sex, smoking a little weed and sleeping!!! I do enjoy the decadent sensual pleasure of being numb, of just feeling so relaxed I am not stimulated to think about anything. I embrace the Rastafarian rhetoric and let go of the feeling that life should be anything but about purpose and pace. 

We have inspired our “excellent adventure” Canadian friend Al to read Napolean Hill’s ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and the cogs are now turning in terms of how we can truly make the right connections here to make our new funeral company a reality! Re-visiting ‘Think and Grow Rich’ [T&GR] has also inspired me somewhat, as I hunger for that buzz of making something happen! It is strange to see how so much of Nick’s philosophy is underpinned by T&GR yet how he can waiver from the self-discipline to absolutely focus!

My stoned realization has been that I should focus my energies on my own goal (if not dream) and that is to write a novel about our rekindling story. I know that I sometimes get frustrated with my lack of my own goal (baby) and can often take out these frustrations on Nick. I therefore want to empower myself, and see the ideal way to do this as writing a book. This also fulfils my burning desire to write, and a secret ambition to become a writer! Alas, my stumbling block is my writing skill and style, and writing a novel requires a mastery of novel-writing.

The Lebanese continue to press us for developing their web site, but we are still wrapped up working on our new funeral empire!

Barracuda Fishergirl!!

The other night I caught my first Barracuda of the Yacht Club pier. Now don't get excited.....this was only a baby but a little fighter none the less. Considering that it was my first cast of the evening....I was pleased as punch with my baby Barracuda. He is nicely frozen in our freezer now awaiting BBQing!

Saved from Yoga!!

Saturday 6^th February

Yesterday evening I caught a snapper off our pier, our biggest catch so far, much to Nick’s exasperation! But we paid a price in that we got eaten alive by bugs just as the sun went down!

Today we decided to take a walk to Ak’Bol for a day out partaking in yoga, snorkelling and Belizian lunch. Our grand design did not quite work to plan….as the weather was much cloudier and cooler (not great for snorkelling) and the yoga class was not running! Still we enjoyed our walk!

Things Can Only get Better!!!

Well it appears that our corporate funeral company in Canada, Arbor, are not going to seize the opportunity we offered them for the Canadian web site. This has fuelled us to go back to our previous design, which was to create a funeral services network using the directory site to drive traffic to the business. Nick is now at work designing the template for the site. In addition to this we have identified further web design work something we are told “you can make a fortune doing” here. The global recession is certainly taking its toll here, and therefore effective internet marketing is now fundamental to being successful in AC. Four Lebanese families own all the stores and a number of other businesses here, and by good fortune Nick has got a meeting with them this morning to discuss web site design and development.

Added to this plus, is the fact that we have finally got Skype working via a VPN, and at long last are able to make calls. Nick is just now chatting to his Dad back home. Setting it up last night was a complete buzz, putting us on a high, laced with frustration as with the time difference we could not actually talk to anyone until this morning.

We bought our first fishing rod yesterday, and did our first exploration into sea fishing last night. It was amazing to see so many different fish coming out, although only small, they were all colourful, feisty little fishes. We found out that the ‘stick’ fish is actually a Needle fish and has the meanest mouth I have seen on a small fish.

Good Samaritans from Calgary!

Today has been a GOOD day! Our shoestring issue was so wonderfully resolved by our good Samaritan Calgary neighbours, Burl and Jenny, who wonderfully subbed us $100 just as we were down to our last few dollars!! And our ‘clever’ Texan casket seller actually paid up early…..so we should have the funds available to draw on Tuesday. We enjoyed a pleasant day round the pool being extremely sociable. Strangely enough just the day after Nick and I discussed going to Austrailia from here…..who should we meet round the pool but a couple from Sydney!!! Oh but for coincidences!!!