Cranky Saturday

I was seriously cranky yesterday afternoon. The disappointment of the Cablemas saga really made me sag, and then when I took my almost new DVD player back to the shop where I bought it, they told me they wouldn’t do anything, I would have to phone the company myself and arrange to send it back to them. But they are only open Mon-Fri and of course Monday is a holiday so it will be Tuesday before I can even talk to them. Which means I’ll be without a DVD player for about 6 weeks because the guarantee says the turnaround time, once it gets to them, is within a month.

I went to talk to Manuel at the furniture shop because the guys had inspected my damaged TV unit and promised they would speak with him and arrange a new one. No, he tells me, nobody has spoken to me. But he knows I’m a good customer as I have already bought 6 pieces of furniture from him, so he has promised to phone me on Tuesday and let me know when they can deliver it.

As if to add to my mood, there were no interesting specials at the supermarket and even the coffee machine had disappeared. I collected the movie program for that week and was pleased to see some new offerings, bought myself a chocolate cone from Maccas and headed over to Sam’s Club to check out the price of DVD players, thinking that it might even be worth it to buy a new one. At the moment I’m totally without entertainment - no TV connected, no internet and no DVD, and I’ve read all my books. Even though I hope it’s only a few days until Cablemas comes through, the evenings can be long twiddling my thumbs!

I’ve been trying to organise a visit to Puerto Vallarta, and even the flights are proving bothersome. There are no direct flights from here so I need to change in Mexico City, but the one daily flight to Puerto Vallarta with the low cost airline leaves an hour before my flight from Cancun arrives.

Dolce the Chihuahua was as usual very pleased to see me when I got home - nice to know someone cares! I cooked myself a delicious dinner of baked chicken breast with potatoes, garlic and rosemary and had an extra glass of wine.

Sunday dawned warm and sunny and after squeezing my orange juice I headed to the beach for my swim and walk along the sand. The beautiful turquoise Caribbean made me remember how lucky I am to be living here. But it was quite windy which blew sand everywhere so I only stayed about an hour, then back to a small café for breakfast. 38 pesos bought me scrambled eggs and bacon, sliced banana, watermelon & papaya, orange juice and coffee (or something resembling coffee but tasting of cinnamon). Home for a shower and try (unsuccessfully) to get the sand out of my hair and ears, and now I’m listening to music and relaxing with a real coffee and donut, and planning my afternoon movie which will be either “the Rite“ with Anthony Hopkins or “Unknown” with Liam Neeson. I’m particularly looking forward to getting some new books, think I’ll choose 4 this time just in case Cablemas doesn’t come through. I need to remember that my having TV and internet is not life and death. I might start the latin dance lessons tomorrow night, that will occupy my nights for the week. Plus I have my date with the Canadian now I’m feeling better.