soon come, 11 sleeps and a nap

I've just now realized, once my friend Pheeny told me she booked for MoBay that I haven't updated since before the last time I went home. Time flies.

Last trip was fabulous, did some work for Bev, made a couple new friends, heard some great music, enjoyed the sun and found out that Novemeber is mosquito season ;)

Love the Canoe bar. Stop by and say hi to Patty and Kirby and the rest of the good folk there.

Got back Nov 21 with holiday season in full swing and have barely had a chance to catch my breath.

I am now packing for a 3 week visit and can hardly wait. Taking a large portmanteau in which to store my stuff that I leave there when I come back to Canada eg: electric kettle, coffee press, toiletries. beach towel, extra shoes and wardrobe to last 2 weeks, a couple of good knives, a can opener, foldable cooler and the ocean noodle. That way I only need to take 1 suitcase. Thanks to Doc & Anette and Ivan, who store my stuff.

The boyo is coming for the 2nd week too, which is fabulous, and Kory & hopefully Bgirl, with the growleys and entourage coming the 3rd week. The Makays had to fold this year but Kerry & Beff will be there as well, and maybe the Pooles. Wish the Rasta girl could make it same time but she has all of March ;)

So the clean sweeping continues as I whittle away at a lifetime's worth of stuff to get it down to necessities and won't let go's. Wish me luck and hope everyone's holidays are faBULOUS WHEREVER THEY ARE!

BLESSINGS ALL.

been waaay too busy soon gone

birthday razzle dazzle was phenomenal and with no shots to boot ;D  The wedding was fab and the dotter felt like a princess all the day long, the soninlaw was lookin' pretty fine as well. Even made the annual house of pain party after the wedding shindig. I have a great family.

Took till wednesday for the feet to forgive me though. Finally catching up at work. New main shut off on the toilet and the rad vents are fixed.  Laundry almost done.  Suitcase mostly packed and still have room to stuff more stuff in the suitcase. Kids has a great hallowe'en and the boy is looking at new digs et al.

 6 more sleeps and a nap and I'll be home again for 11 short days.

can hardly wait.

catching up

crazy busy. the dotter is getting married in a week, my 50th is in 4 days and Home is 19 sleeps and a nap away. More of my friends are visiting this year than ever before and I can only hope they have the best of times! Enjoy enjoy!

weather map working

yay  finally got the storm map working as well as a link to the actual page ;)

54 sleeps and counting till I get to go home. seeing if i can get one of the one room cottages in Jah B's yard. Leanne stays there all the time. It's your own likkle yard, hotplate and small fridge, Double & a single, tv and your own porch to party on. You can hang your laundry to dry, and use the wireless at the road end of the yard. Good food in the restaurant and lovely fat ass chairs in the bar.  The ocean is across NM Ave and it's only $40 US a nite.  They also do some long term but not sure the cost. Waiting for Miss Joyce to email me back. cross your fingers. soon come.

the countdown

Seems like my life is full of countdowns these days.   2 weeks till bGirl's new show opens, 48 days to half a century, 50 days to my dotter's wedding, 62 days till I'm home again, 113 days till I get more vacation time, and 145 days until my son gets to visit my new heart home with me and the ever expanding crew.

Still haven't heard back from PICA about my immigration questions, not surprising really, soon come. Storms are bracketing the island but crossing eyes fingers and whatever else will cross, they've not done any major damage so far this season. It sure disrupts the fishermen's livelihoods though, and cell connections.

Tomorrow is a foray into paid photography which will hopefully roll over into enough moola to pay for my plane tickets home on a regular basis. We'll see how it goes.

And this weekend is attack the closet and get rid of anything that I haven't worn in a year, or that's too big. Get the room sorted. A little bit of autumnal clean sweeping;)

Have a great weekend y'all.

midweek

Seems Wednesday is becoming post day perhaps. Message board up, pack my suit case well on it's way, and the health insurance info is there too.  Still waiting to hear from PICA from my email, but like much else that'll run to island time. soon come.  have been catching up on my photography and 3 weddings and several bday parties and seem to be getting some sleep at least every 2nd days - so that's a huge relief.  Deb, my flatmate will be home tomorrow YAY! it's a big condo for one person. Oh, I bought some groceries.

small progress

So I'm getting everything sort of mapped out in my head though there will be a whack of juggling and jiggling around until I'm satisfied with it. Got some more pictures uploaded and I'm trying to so some every other day. The links in the sidebar are still mostly empty, so full of potential. So hope all y'all had a good hump day and blessings one and all for tomorrow.

insomniac.

At least I used the too many wakeful hours of the last week or so in a productive manner. Voila - this little space, did some but not all of the laundry, progress made creating wedding flowers, caught up with bushel of friends and harvested the bountiful hugs offered with sheer glee. Spent some time writing - and did quite a bit of research re: bbs etc on the whole govt requirements to move to JA. Made new friends, people fed me delicious food on 3 separate occasions, inherited new clothes, my flat tire was only out of air, and found the impossible blue satin platform shoes for Amanda for her wedding (thanks zillions Brenda). AND my flatmate stopped by for a visit in her very busy summer as she gears up to teach flour classes next semester (What was she thinking?). LoL

Let us all hope that this phase has ended.

However it is a quarter of twelve on Sunday nite and here I am with shower & shampoo still to complete and tomorrow's attire to lay out in case of over sleepage.

On that note, see all y'all later.

Work in progress

Alright - got some pictures, straightened out some technical difficulties, easy to contact me now and we even have a guest book.  Working on the travel and moving links, there's a crew of us going first two weeks of February 2012. Hotel, flights, etc. Maps when I get them posted. Small but important things like what to bring with you. Along with suggestions for places to go and maybe a more grounded view of what to expect if you don't stay on the "resort" your whole trip;)

the new adventures of jacadians

I am just getting this together, but eventually it will be mi spot for all things intercloudwebby. The blog, a place to gather up all the info that may come in handy to those travelling or considering a more permanent move to Jamaica (* process in it's infancy), examples of my photography, maybe some tailoring info and definitely a place for my online designer/writer persona which will hopefully carry me through my move and help support me in my never before dreamed of early semi-retirement. I also want it act a contact place for all my crews who may or may not be invested in crackbook, twitdom, or any of the steadily growing plethora of social media. Personally I prefer face to face and the phone but this works for the widely dispersed jacadians, we even have a converted American ;)