Today I was without a car and without electricity all day. The guy I scolded for making kissing noises at me on the street the other day is one of MANY working on the power lines along the main highway by my house. They are taking out the wooden poles and putting in cement poles, which is good because the power lines here hold an insane amount of cables.
So that is why we were without power all day. Fany got out a tiny grill and cooked us a full dinner of fish, broccoli, rice and veggies. We felt blessed to be eating so well when nobody else had power.
Laura is changing every day. She is much more outgoing. She skips instead of walking. The volume of her voice is enough to break your eardrums and when she is not talking she is singing. She is bursting with joy and excitement because she is so happy to finally be in school. She's wanted to go since she was 2 & 1/2.
The bus comes at 7:30. At 6:45 she starts telling her mom that the bus is late. She likes to be one of the first to arrive.
Every day she comes home with stories about Josef, the class troublemaker. Yesterday was the first day he didn't have to sit with both hands up in the air as a consequence for negative behavior. And of course there is Angel, a boy who has buddied up with Josef and gets into trouble too. There is one boy who cries a lot. His parent live in about four hours away in a different state. He moved in with his Grandfather in order to attend school. Laura used to look down on him for crying, but I talked to her about how sad she would feel if she couldn't see her Mamí or her Papí at all. Now she is more sympathetic.
I didn't hear from the mechanic until after 5 pm today. I originally took the car in weeks ago because it needed an oil change and was making a funny noise. Now I have new brakes and new parts on my suspension (struts, I think?), but it still makes a noise. It took him all day to figure out what is making the noise. My gut says he is still off, but he is the best mechanic there is, and sometimes it's hard to figure these things out. I hope he's right. He said he can buy the part tomorrow and get the car back to me by mid-day. I hope so! I have plans with Erika and Karla tomorrow. And I am a little stir crazy after spending the whole day with no lights and no car. I got a lot of reading done, cleaned the house and watched a movie on my computer.
Last night we got a little bit of really loud thunder. Fany and I were hopeful it would rain. It hasn't rained in months. But the rain never passed over us.
Fany spent the day today washing clothes by hand. She says she likes to do it that way. I think she's nuts. It is good exercise and both of our washers are on their last leg, so she's probably prolonging the life of her washer. She's been struggling with her fibromyalgia lately. The way she handles it is to stay really busy. Every single crevice of her house is spotlessly clean right now. It's normally really clean, but today she did things like pull out the stove and clean under the burners. She says if she sits down she'll sleep and never want to get up. Fibromyalgia is tough, but Fany is tougher.
