Reflections

my mirror reflection with belly--I'm so tired of wearing my Birkenstocks but all my cute shoes don't fit right now.

I was feeling really out of sorts the other day when I wrote the blog post about Seb's company. They are being pains in the butt about pretty much everything but I think my bitchy morale is more about us being trapped in the hotel for so long, people constantly in and out of the room. I don't know if it's particular to Mexico but in the hotel where we are the maid is constantly coming to the room --to bring bottles of water, the towels she forgot or to vacuum to the carpets. Then there is maintenance for the phone and cable. Then people knocking or calling to ask if we need any laundry done--one knock and then they just open the door before I can get out of the chair or off the bed. I am aching to be settled and in our house where we can be free. I know our outlook will change once we can have the privacy and our home life back.

Yesterday Little S and I spent the entire day in the new house waiting for the sofa. The house is lovely, wonderful and liberating, but it's a little too empty right now and it feels like a mausoleum. Little S loves running through the house screaming and listening the sounds of the echo of his voice which drives me completely mad. He never seems to tire of this fun sound. I have to play trains with him or else he never stops.

The furniture delivery never did come and later when we called they said they had some problems and would come on Thursday instead. I didn't exactly expect that they would come the first time. I'm getting all too used to this. I even considered not going to the house at all but we've been leaving our cat there so I knew she'd need the company and I wanted to water the grass which is slowly dying. It's crazy but you have to water every single day. The desert atmosphere sucks all the water out of the air. We'll have to find a way to recycle the washing machine water for this.

The hotel is setting up for another of their big events. This one is also right under our window. This time they're building two huge stages about 25 meters square and they're also erecting this giant tent with all these different runways. It looks like fashion week might be coming and I can just imagine these surly faced Mexican chicks stomping their way down the catwalk right under my window. At least that's my preferred scenario. Seb just says "ugh, another corporate convention" which is what it probably is. The sad part is that they have totally blocked our window view of the courtyard greens and swimming pool and Little S can no longer play outside of our room's back door (ie. get rid of his excess energy). I'm sure this one will be another noisy thousand person event, eek. I hope they aren't at it too late in the night. I'm sure the hotel will pass out earplugs again this weekend.

These past few weeks I've seen lots of signs of the preparations for Halloween. All of the store are selling costumes and tons of houses are decorated. In our neighborhood there are lots of kids and nearly every other house is decorated. Some of them have even made scary fun houses and have put cobwebs in the trees and tombstones on their front lawn. I had just figured with the huge celebration during All Saints on November First the Mexicans would skip Halloween, but it seems instead to be a prelude to the long celebration. I'm excited for Little S. I think We'll even have Trick or Treaters because I saw lots of candy and plastic pumpkin container being sold. Yay! Most of the costumes are of the scary witch, skeleton, werewolf, devil variety though. I'm not sure what costime we'll choose but it will be great fun to let him dress him up for once.

I don't know why France doesn't embrace Halloween. They have to get over the whole sacrilegious-it's-too-commercial-thing. Let the kids (and parents) have some fun! I guess it is because it´s so close to All Saints Day but historically it´s all the same holiday anyway. My other theory is that carnivale replaces Halloween for the French. Poo on that because I like both holidays.