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Now I'm catching up....
You are sweet to still count your blessings....I know if it were me, I would be grateful, but somewhere inside of me there would be a little girl stomping her feet about that car, too. :) I'm glad your Mommy is okay, I like laughing in Spanish.....I like learning from you, too.
posted by
Temple
on November 25, 2004 at 11:21 PM
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Geez, Abuelita....
I don't know how it happened, but I got really behind with you. I'm so scattered lately. You should see my apartment, it looks like the bumbling professors with papers everywhere. I'll catch up this weekend if I'm well enough (I've been sick for two weeks and I just keep getting sicker). I've missed your writing, too. I hope you are well. Thinking of you.
posted by
Temple
on November 11, 2004 at 10:18 PM
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Sorry about the rain thing
..but it is called a "desert" for a reason...just not this persistent.
Your mom's bruises will fade faster with sunlight or a little tanning booth, UV breaks the pigments down faster.
Good luck on the holiday season sales.
posted by
majroj
on October 20, 2004 at 10:48 AM
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maj, those wading in just the shallows of my life would feel the strong
undertow, pulling them dangerously seaward.
We are experiencing our next year of drought right now. Not enough rain to sustain life. We are promised rain tomorrow, but these promises are the kind that soon make you roll your eyes and say, "Sure, oh let me run and get my umbrella, batten down the hatches and turn off the irrigation system!" Not.
We had, what I consider, one day of rain this year, one day. Adding all the others together, the tiny cloud bursts which lasted fifteen minutes each time over the year, I might just add one more day to the count. I will see tomorrow, just what predicted rainfall really means this week. I have prepped nothing for it, not even covering the kiln with a tarp.Harumph!
There are children in this city who don't know the meaning of the words, "It rained all day." Especially if they didn't see that one day offered this year.
My sister is house hunting in Rocky Point and Caborca and dragging everyone along inside her dream. They all claim to be having fun there, so things are good.
posted by
benzinha
on October 20, 2004 at 10:15 AM
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the_loanlady, I loved your grandmother stories! Our family says, "Fight
the good fight and Gang Furd and Up the REbels" toeach other, to keep the forward movement going. The visual of your Noni in a bikini had me smiling. Life is to be lived and she appears to have eaten up life in big bites and finished by licking her fingers!
My sister called Mexico and Mom has not even stayed in the resort's rooms reading as planned, she has been driving around town and even went up the beach to the town of Caborca for one day with the sisters and husbands. She said that she was having fun and that's what counts, like those blessings, one, two, three and four.....
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
posted by
benzinha
on October 20, 2004 at 10:06 AM
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B, as the Harvard Lampoon said in Deteriorata
if you were to wade in the ocean of my life, it would barely wet your ankles.
We're getting wet-down pretty well here, hope your neck of the desert is getting its share.
posted by
majroj
on October 19, 2004 at 12:01 PM
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Your writing touched me in such a beautiful way. Reminding me of my Noni, who lived with us until she passed at 91. Noni worked until 89. She dared to wear a bikini on the beach until 90 and would sneak out in anyone's car long after she could not pass a driving test. Your Mother's gift for joy of life seems the same.
posted by
the-loanlady
on October 19, 2004 at 11:20 AM
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oh, thank you, benzi
Prayers are the best gift one person can give another, especially by one so connected to the universe. I am humbled by your kindess, and return your blessings to you.
posted by
LadyKenobi
on October 18, 2004 at 10:45 PM
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maj , your "I awoke from three nightmares" feels like an epic novel's
first sentence to me, old Arabic tales, or ancient Chinese fables or Japanese Seven Gods of Happiness stories.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 3:48 PM
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Lady Kenobi, some days, it's all a body can manage...light candles, laugh
and count blessings, whether things are going well or not.
Your name is all over the candle for Most Worried Over Blggers, LK and jemz......and the flame never goes out. You two are on one Guardian Angel candle, may she guide you through the storm, both of you......though, as life is going this week, she'll probably lift your, LK's, grief and find jems a fabulous, well paying lifetime job in Florida, between the tracks and the rocket launch pad.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 11:32 AM
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Pecan, thanks for stopping by. Mom might get some money, but nothing near
it's real value. My brothers and sisters, not I the impoverished one, paid Mom's car payments each month since 1999 and I think, that she'll just divide the money up between them and thank them for the use of the car all those years.
Maybe they could sponsor a new cmputer for me!! Just kidding, I'd never tell them how bad it is, unless I've told them already with my constant whining about it, oops.
Thanks for commenting, Pecan. Must go read you and see how you resolved your pesky love problem, love.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 11:27 AM
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ca88andra, I put the candles on top of the stove for overnight safety
and the kitchen glows as though someone is reading a book in there, it's so bright with them nowadays.
Mom tried to make my sister stop being funny and pointed her finger and tried to look stern and the whole family broke out in laughter and Mom laughed and suffered, breathing deeply and coughing, hugging her huge soft teddy bear and accepting a pain pill after 14 hours of 'no thank-you's'.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 11:23 AM
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beachbelle, we Would be like that, too, no? If your family were going to
some fabulous beach and you were broken somewhere or something, you'd still want to go, I'm sure. Let us die in lovely places doing delicious things. To heck with new cars, overrated, full of dangerous airbags and incomprehensible computer chips.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 11:18 AM
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maj, may all life's outcomes end as this one has for me, for us, for you.
Adding another candle for Others, as I forgot them these past five days....are your circumstances so very similar ? I hope not. Were your nightmares in Japanese or is it more blessed to count in Japanese? Shall begin using it for counting if it helps to multiply blessings.
Charley, my homeless, toothless gardener has no son nor stepson, so, if he retired, I'd be out the joy of his destructive and secondary blessings gardening techniques....and counting.
Hope that all is well with you and yours. No med evac choppers called into Mexico as yet, so all must be well.
My one sister left in town and I, are usually the ones being called and not the ones calling. I'll have to call her today after work, she probably called down there. I have no long distance carrier and so rarely call that far away. Though 1010987 has been good to me....within the US.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 11:15 AM
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wiley, funny how falling into a messy week can fix things for a whiner.
I loved your photos of the family. That ball game looked like fun. I'd be on oxygen in the outfield, but I'd be there!!! Thanks for counting with me.
posted by
benzinha
on October 18, 2004 at 11:07 AM
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I needed to read this right now
Laugh, count blessings, and light candles!
Hope your mama is feeling better and I'm glad everyone is OK.
posted by
LadyKenobi
on October 18, 2004 at 7:38 AM
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At least you guys are laughing
Another blessing to count...if the car was totaled and still insured...Your mother should get a nice chunk o change to play with.
posted by
CatLadyintheAttic
on October 18, 2004 at 6:52 AM
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Hope your mother can survive all the laughing! I'm a candle burner too, so I know just what you are talking about! *hugs*
posted by
Ca88andra
on October 18, 2004 at 3:10 AM
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Benzinha,
Thank goodness your mother lives another day to enjoy her guacamole. You are right. Let her choose what she wants. A mother is better any day than a car.
posted by
beachbelle
on October 18, 2004 at 12:25 AM
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Ju-ichi, ju-ni, ju-san, ju-shi, ju-roku...
I awoke from three mightmares to read your story, which parallels one in our family.
ju-hichi, ju-hachi...
Good outcomes to you, and may your gardener retire so his handsome stepson takes over the business.
posted by
majroj
on October 17, 2004 at 11:16 PM
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Benzinha
eight, nine, ten, you bet I'll count with ya luv.
So sorry about your mom but happy she has survived.
Wonderful to read of all the family and the happiness.
Especially wonderful to see you joyous my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 17, 2004 at 9:23 PM
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