I’ve stopped asking my Costa Rica helpers for anything more. I’m prepared as best I can be on this side of the borders (this has been confirmed by everyone in CR), and over-thinking/over-questioning is unhelpful busy work to keep me from going stir crazy. So I’m going to do other things instead. What […]
I hate waiting. (Not as a general rule. Just right now.) I’m ready to go, to fly away — mentally, emotionally, physically, financially. But flying away is still four weeks away. Four more weeks is going to feel like an eternity, waiting to get on the plane… My Future Awaits 3,373
I totally packed and weighed my luggage today to make sure it will all fit while remaining under the 50 pound weight limit per bag. It does! WHEEE!!!! I’ve been concerned about that. Now I’m not. One bag weighs 49.5 pounds and the other weighs 40 pounds. By the time I fit the
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Today I have a rare, spare day off. I have ZERO plans today, so what the heck am I going to do with myself? Maybe I’ll go kayaking again if my kayak buddies are available! I’ve texted them to see if they are… (Update: Judi isn’t but perhaps Jessie is, so I have texted
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What an amazing relief to have the garage sales behind me. Today I took all remaining garage sale items to two different thrift shops. All but two items were accepted. I’m footloose and fancy free now. I can concentrate on the remaining tasks (getting prescription refills and getting written scripts to show in CR;
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God willing and the creeks don’t rise, one month from today at this very moment (4:56 pm) I will be sitting at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with Charli waiting to board the first leg of our flight to Costa Rica! Gadzooks! After years of imagining and planning — and months of hard work —
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In preparation for tomorrow and Saturday’s garage sales, I sorted and organized all of the freebie stuff so rifling through isn’t necessary: And… my fish were re-homed today so I put my 55-gallon aquarium and accessories/accoutrements up for sale for only $75 or best offer. There will be a lot more
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What a wonderful afternoon I spent with three of my best “forever friends” on Enchanted Island in Lake Spanaway. I don’t know which of these photos of all of us together is best, so I’m posting all of them! Which one is your favorite? Pictured left to right: Jessie Richards, me, Judi Cooper,
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Today I took the files I need to keep (tax returns for the past even years among them), placed them in a smaller filing cabinet, and put the filing cabinet in a new location outside my abode. Then I rifled through the remaining filed stuff and shredded what needed shredding (ancient tax returns, etc.),
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I just got my Covid booster and a pneumonia prevention vaccine. Two weeks before the flight, I need to call back and see if they have the updated 2025 flu vaccine available; they don’t have it yet. I want to be super boosted when I get on the plane, because those things are
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