forgetting

I keep forgetting about this blog. Well, not so much forgetting, as I know it is there, but forgetting to write anything in it. So much has happened since I moved to Mexico. I don't regret my decision, not even a little bit.

I need to try and remember the little funny things that have happened. On the way here, and once here. I keep putting it off. Do I put it here, or on my mac.com website? (okay, it's now called me.com, but I think that sounds absolutely idiotic, so I still call it mac.com.)

For now, I will start with the current, and hopefully go back and tell the tales of the move.

Yesterday was a very long day at work. I was busy, which was a good thing, but having had a bout with anaphylactic shock the week before, my body is just still not up to par. I get worn out easily. I'm told this will lessen soon. The medicine I was allergic to, Metronidazol & Diyodohidroxiquienoleina, used to fight off amoebic dysentery, is a really harsh drug to begin with. It is hard on your body, and you absolutely cannot drink even a drop of alcohol, as the ingredients work a lot like Antabuse does (the med for alcoholics) makes you very ill. So, I was about 4 days into a 2 week dose of this stuff, when I just wasn't feeling all that well. I was achy, and had a horrible headache, which I blew off as reaction to the typhoid vaccine I had also got at the same time. I had a little rash on my chest, but I had just washed my sheets, and used a new fabric softner. I have sensitive skin. A couple more days go by, and I'm not feeling any better. In fact, the rash has gotten worse, as well as the aches and pains. I finally call my doctor, at home, and she told me to get some Supradol for the pain and come into her office in the morning. I woke up the next morning, and it took me 10 minutes to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. Every part of me hurt. I couldn't grab hold of anything, I couldn't lift my arms, my ankles were in pain. Luckily, I am still living with my parents while saving up for a place. I had to have my mom help me get dressed. All the while, I was in tears. It was worse than when I had viral spinal meningitis.

By the time I got to the doctor, and she looked at me (which was immediately), my throat was almost all the way closed off, and I was really out of it. I got a couple of shots in the ass, and after a couple of hours, started feeling a little bit better. I've been getting better every day since.

So, yesterday being my first busy day since back to work, was a bit tiring. I was in bed and asleep by midnight. On a Saturday night! I slept for 10.5 hours, with only a small wake-up at 6am when the fireworks for the fiesta patronales were going off.

It's beautiful outside today. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping. It's 24°C (75.2°F) currently. Going to get to 27°C (80.6°F)today. We seem to get warmer than the weather forecast, so I'm sure it will be more like 29° or 30°C (84.2°F or 86°F).

I am going to go look at a place to live in Chapala. Two bedrooms, 1 bathroom. 2500 pesos ($200 USD). Hopefully it works out. Right on the bus line, next door to someone I have already met. The guy who owns the building, owns a restaurant here in Ajijic.

Later tonight, I am going to the plaza for the fiesta! Really looking forward to that. Hopefully some of my new friends are going.

For now, I will try and remember to write here, and to fill you in on the past couple of months.