My Spanish language book and its accompanying 30+ CDs follow-along arrived in the mail today, and I’m already on page 13 and through the first lesson. So far, I’m doing very well. My Spanish lessons from high school fifty years ago, along with my infrequent use of DuoLingo over the past few years, have […]
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Yippee skippy, I’m making great headway. There are just eight hardbound volumes to preserve (you can see them, in the photo below on the left) and then I start on the remaining stash, which are stored in folders of various sizes, some of them just a quarter of an inch thick, others 2″ thick, as
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WOO HOO! My niece Sirkka solved my journals’-preservation dilemma! She told me there are scanning apps available that turn written journals into PDF files so they can be saved in Dropbox or on my PC. So, I got Genius Scan and tried it out. I was able to scan and save four (4!)
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There is sooo much good information coming in from Costa Rican residents Margaret Aliff, Bev Berry and Terry Young. (Carolyn Kelley was right: “If you don’t ask, you don’t get!”) I’ve joined several Costa Rica Facebook pages and reached out to their members to ask questions. I’ve contacted Pet Lounger CR to
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My immigration attorney tells me that I will need to get myself to the Embassy in San Jose to have my paperwork accepted and my fingerprints taken. No way do I feel comfortable taking public transportation or renting a car that soon after my arrival, so I’m reaching out to private drivers to see what
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Here are the links to them: Floating Around Hollywood https://www.facebook.com/KristineMSmith/videos/612881434512125 Get the book at this link: https://amzn.to/3VzuxHp Let No Day Dawn that the Animals Cannot Share https://www.facebook.com/KristineMSmith/videos/1120783589714892 Get the book at this link: https://amzn.to/3OTHeJJ I’ll do more excerpt reading as the days pass… I need to drink soem lemon water
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This move is going to take months! I work at least four hours every day, five to seven days a week, going through my belongings to decide how to part with 99.99% of it. I want to take fewer than six suitcases when I go, so I’ve been cleaning out every crevice and orifice
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Lisa has me hooked on her Intricate Mandalas coloring book, now available at Amazon. I’m a big convert now. It is so relaxing and meditative… Here are the links to get the first of her offerings (they won’t be the last!): Intricate Mandalas: https://www.amazon.com/Intricate-Mandalas-Adults-InlandPac-Publishing/dp/B0DNRC57VX/ Simple Mandalas for Kids and Adults: https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Mandalas-Adults-InlandPac-Publishing/dp/B0DNTDC2C7/ I’ve been
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Here is some of what I’ve been learning about moving to Costa Rica. I want to keep it handy so I can review it as the time to go approaches. I don’t need a visa to visit Costa Rica. All I need is a passport that is good for at least two years beyond the
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I’m proactively looking for part time writing gigs again. Got a two-week trial subscription to Flexjobs to see if there’s anything there, but it’s slim pickings unless the applicant has agency experience, which I don’t, unless I can claim my own company as being an agency, but I don’t think I can. A friend
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