Testing again. photo shows up online but not on my computer. Thank you Nancy for the help. I might keep working at it.

Night thoughts

I have been trying for hours and hours to get my blog to work again. Photos won't show up as anything but computer language. And now the writing part is messed up. It looks to me like I am not even on the blogger program and I can't get them to give me any feedback. So this attempt at reactivating my blog looks like a failure. Again. Maybe it just isn't meant to be. Life goes on and others have blogs to inform people about living in Mexico. I try to be upbeat on this blog but it is four am and I am discouraged. Being discouraged often isn't allowed in the cyber world. Someone always wants to rescue or beat a person down for having anything but the most positive of feelings. But there is a real downside to living as an expat. That is isolation. I do not have the resources where I can get help. Add to that isolation is my own inability to get around like I did just a few years ago. I have physical problems. Getting old isn't easy. And it is especially difficult living alone in a foreign country. So many people I have met through the years went back to their home countries because of missing their families, especially their grandchildren. I don't have any. I am just alone. This covid made a huge blow to my life, just as it has to everyone else in the world at this time in history. I need to quit fighting the inevitable. We all have to get old. We all have to change. We all have to eventually die. Everything eventually comes to an end. So enjoy your life while you still have it. I enjoyed doing this blog while it worked for me. I thank everyone for their love and concern and attention. Otherwise it can get awfully lonely here.

Laguna Mall supposedly photo, three year old was busy doing something else.

This is what shows up when I try to put a photo onto the blog. Anyone out there know what to do about it? I finally gave up after many many tries.

Afternoon walk with Chico to the Laguna Mall

It was another beautiful sunny day here. No extra humidity. Perfect. No wonder this is touted as the second best weather in the world. I don't know what could be better than this, at least for my taste. Thinking about taste, I had lunch at Subway Sandwich shop in the Laguna Mall. I am just getting over a cold but the longer I stayed at home the worse I was feeling. All I needed was a brisk walk, a sandwich and a chocolate chip cookie. Chico got to walk with me. He enjoys getting out as much as I do. Fridays and Mondays are the worst traffic days, so it was busy on the road. Thankfully, we were just walking and that didn't matter. People were relaxed and friendly and even the dogs. I took a few photos of the mall, just to try to get back into the hang of things. I also paid my internet bill while at the mall. 400 pesos and two hundred pesos more for my cell phone. Not bad. I don't know how I could tolerate so much isolation without my laptop and cell phone now. I am spoiled. Sorry.the photo program isn't working. I have no idea of why. Guess I will have to get a three year old in here to help me.

New Laptop

This is a test to see if my blog still works. I now have a laptop and I can write again. It is such a pleasure. But it is still covid time. Not much happening in my life or in the area. The events and parades have come to an end for awhile. So even with having the ability to get back online it doesn't do that much good. I have very little to share. Just like everyone else, I am spending most of my time alone. I am still swimming three days a week. I go to the grocery store. I sit in my back yard in the sunshine. Today I am paying my electric bill which is 280 pesos for two months. That comes out to about seven American dollars a month. My son and his wife paid 500 dollars for one month for their electric bill in Kansas. My garbage pick up is free. My water bill is paid by my landlord. My propane bill is about twenty dollars a month. My rent is 250 dollars, by American currency calculation. All of this makes me happy to be living in Mexico. I can no longer afford to move back to the United States, even if I wanted to do that. Which I don't But yesterday I saw a program on you tube about why some people live into their 90s. They did years of scientific studies on hundreds of people and it was surprising what was discovered. Relationships, friendships, was the main reason people live longer. Friendships are more important to one's health than smoking fifteen cigarettes a day, or bad eating habits, or heavy drinking, or taking vitamins, or exercise or anything else we do. Isn't that amazing? And mostly because of covid I am sitting alone in my house with no close friends. They have all drifted away. Friendships have to be maintained. If not, they die. Most of the people I knew here and thought of as friends I met through this blog. So, since that was the case I decided to maybe pick it up again. Something good might come out of it. I doubt if anyone even bothers to look at this anymore since it has been such a long time. But it is a risk i am taking. I will see if I actually can get this onto the blog. What a surprise that would be.