Someone in the last couple of weeks said to me "you guys live quite a social life down here don't you?" I immediately said 'No', but then I started to think about it. I'm pretty sure both of us think of ourselves as bordering on hermits, we spend a lot of time traveling and mainly just with each other. We're happy with that, but I wonder if our belief in how we live is really valid. If I use the last couple of months as an example, then we are far from hermits. I actually had to start writing engagements in the calendar so we wouldn't forget somewhere we said we'd go. On top of that, This Is Mexico and that means that things happen spontaneously a lot; you run into friends and end up going to dinner, people drop by and it turns into a whole afternoon, you stop on the road and chat for an hour when you pass a friend's car... you see where I'm going here? We are pretty damn social I guess. Why am I so shocked to figure that out?

Last week we drove back over to Akumal to get ready to go to Isla Mujeres for the Blogger Meet. I tried for the 2 days we were here to upload a post on our fast trip to the big Mercado the day we left. No bloody joy! Blogger would not let me upload more than one picture before it stalled and spun endlessly. I'm stubborn though so I managed to get 5 pics up before we left. I'm going to put that post up now, finally I seem to be able to upload. It's all out of whack on time though, just deal OK?

So, then we went off to Isla and had a fantabulous weekend hanging with the funniest and most creative people I've met in a long, long time. It's intimidating, you know? Most of these kids are young enough to be my kid and some my grandkid and they can write like Hemingway and should really be screenwriters making huge money in LA. It's odd, I adjusted pretty easily to being old (except the vision thing, hate that) and fat (well, not really adjusted but resigned) and yet, I cling stubbornly to my sense of smartness and wittiness and coolness - I'll have to work on getting the ego to let that go too. These are some seriously talented, witty, funny, and incredibly hip/cool people! It's good for me. I consider it yet another milestone in my goal to be the poster child for growing old graciously.

In fact, here is a picture of me about a half hour after we returned from Isla. It's the only nap I've had for weeks, really!


Not that I'm trying to out-Mexico anyone or anything, but I'm really late in posting about the weekend and then the hellaciously busy week that followed. I have an excuse though, I hit the ground running on Monday and had another blogger guest and a 3 day solo trip to Mérida and only internet cafes and major work and drama about our condo in Akumal and ... did I mention that my computer died and I've only got Mimi's to use? and no access to my old email or addresses or pictures? I think I've got the excuse bases covered here, you hear me Wayne?