September 22
I officially got confirmation that we’ll be working from home until at least January and it got me thinking about the last 7 months or so since I began working at home.
I started wFH sometime the week of March 9th. Wild to look back at the HR e-mail that says there’s a possibility we’ll be working from home that next week, and if so, it will be temporary.
September 9
back from labor day weekend and a few days off. we went camping over the long weekend. T made a special lobster dinner at the campground friday night for my birthday!! it was so fun, i sure am spoiled sometimes.
hate to make another post about the smoke but its getting crazy, the west coast is on fire. we thought antelope lake might be clear prior to the weekend but then two more fires,
September 1
So I just found out two days ago that smoky is only spelled Smokey if you are referring to the fire-prevention bear. I was wondering why my phone kept making it a proper noun, haha! I don’t know why I think it’s so funny that they added an “e” to his name to humanize it – why not just name him Smoky the Bear? (No weed involved in the making of that observation.)
Smokey has come up a lot with some crazy wild fires rolling through the area.
August 31
Well, I’ve decided to pick up the blog again. We aren’t traveling at the moment, but I’ve been meaning to write more. Plus it’s fun to look back at some of the day to day. My birthday is coming up on Friday and I’m going to make it a goal to write weekly (ideally daily) for the next year. I’ve tried this goal before and never stuck to it. I don’t know what is so difficult about keeping a daily journal.
Well, it happened….
I cried.
I know, I know, it was bound to happen and quite honestly, I’m impressed I made it three weeks before I did.
I love it here and I love the new/interesting/exciting things happening every day. But it’s also challenging. Namely because I am not a fluent Spanish speaker.
Don’t get me wrong, I get by, but there is a certain level of understanding that takes you from merely accomplishing things to actually interacting with people.
We’ve officially been in DF for two weeks!
Over the weekend I saw a Lucha Libre show, which was everything I wanted it to be! It was campy, so entertaining and, honestly, pretty impressive. Think large men, doing acrobatics in tiny spandex. Plus beers the size of my head! What more can I say? Totally worth going at least once.
I also took a tour of the Merced Market,
People say you know a language when you start to dream in it…Well, I’m not there yet, haha. I did have a dream (nightmare?) that I got turned away from Panaderia Rosetta for ordering a German croissant alemán instead of an almond one almendra, so that makes me like half fluent, right?! I know, I know, so bad and trust me asking for a German pastry is the least of my language worries.
Well, after some unnecessarily long travel (thanks American Airlines) we’ve arrived in Mexico City!
Between catching up on work and unpacking there hasn’t been time to explore much, but we have managed to have two delicious dinners and some great Tlacoyos and tacos. We have a few good street stalls dangerously close by 😉
