Oh the pressure! Blogging becomes a little mother in the back of your brain telling you to 'clean up your room' or 'do something about your hair' but this little mother tells you 'it's been days and days since you posted to your blog, don't you care about those 4 people who read it?'. Then, because it was international outing of lurkers day or something, I actually put a comment on one of my favorite blogs and now I have to worry that she will come here and see that I haven't posted in a week and go 'phooie' and leave... or something. Bottom line = Guilt! I'm really good at acquiring guilt, I do thank my mother for that.

So, we arrived in Akumal and our condo is all akimbo, all the furniture is stacked in the bedrooms and there is concrete residue everywhere and evidence of crack repair on the walls. I think this is how it looks when they prepare for a hurricane, plus some construction work. Since it is all torn up anyway, I went and picked out new floor tiles and they will replace the white tiles there now. I really hate white I've discovered, I have gotten rid of every white wall and now the white floor. I picked out a fairly dark tile and I'm now worried that I went too dark, sort of a reaction to the glaring white. I got a couple samples of other tiles to cover the top of the built in couch, not sure about that though.

Anyway, we are living in the RV parked across the street. It's not bad, once again we're living on the road in Akumal. I kind of missed the gossipy parts of living on the road, everyone stops and we get to chat. If we are up in the condo I get stuck in recluse and don't see people as often.

I've had 2 root canals in 2 days - a record you don't want to beat. The first one was fine, I even fell asleep during it. The 2nd not so great and the pain when the novacaine wore off was unsettling. We ended up stopping at the beach bar on our way home and happy hour turned into midnight and lots of tequila and the pain of the tooth kind of got lost. It came back yesterday and I slept most of the day with some chemical aids. Today, pretty good. I can touch the tooth without unexpected moans and yelps. We were going to head over to Merida today but the dentist wants to add a post to this latest root canal and, because he knew something he wasn't telling me, he said it would not be good to add it for at least 3 days. Yea, he knew there would be pain from this one. So, I get the post on Monday and we'll head west either that afternoon or the next day.

I think we are all happy to be back home, I've had fish tacos twice - maybe 3 times if you count the one that I think I ate during the great tooth+tequila episode - we've had our favorite tamales, we've had our favorite arrechera, the dogs have chased a couple of motorcycles and 1 VW bug, there is sand everywhere in the RV and ... life's good.