(It’s July 2023 and I’m backdating a post for each month that I have not blogged.)

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June was a bit of a write-off. I worked six weeks in three weeks in May, so I just wanted to chill with my girls and get caught up on my fun reading.

I’m still going to the dentist regularly, Dr. Javier wanting to perfect my bite. One of those visits coincided with a day off so I decided to go to Altabrisa mall across the street and treat myself to a mani-pedi if anyone was available. I can’t remember the last time I did that!

I don’t remember why I picked a food court lunch, but I probably just wanted tacos and those from La Parilla are as delicious as they are beautiful!

I’m still working on sorting out my kitchen and it was time to tackle the freezer. I wanted some plastic containers for my most-used items as bags just get lost and often open. So I searched for a Tupperware rep in my neighbourhood, got a catalogue, and found what I needed, and on sale to boot. It took a few weeks to get my order, but it was worth it.

What a thing of beauty. I can find everything and I “shop” from the deep freeze.

A huge treat most evenings is to go up to my air-conditioned room around 9PM and read a few chapters of a novel. I’m currently working through the C.B. Strike detective series by “Robert Galbraith” (actually JK Rowling). Here I am on page 100ish of 650ish. It’s been about two months since that photo and I’ve finished that book, read the 1000-page next book in the series, and am 200 pages into the book after that. It’s true that the only way to eat an elephant is a bite at a time!

I had a day off with only some PDF work to do and no Pilates, so I went for a long bike ride, then ended up at Ritrovo for brunch and to do my PDF job.

My bike was wobbly and the brakes almost non-working, so after eating I dropped it off at the shop for some much needed maintenance after all the kilometres I put on it! I’m so grateful that I can bike again! The bike shop owner would, at pickup later that day, inform me that my rims were bent, my brakes were completely shot, and my handlebars were unaligned! He was going to ask where I’d been biking and then remembered where we live! LOL The cost of the maintenance was only 100 pesos.

In addition to biking and Pilates, I’ve been doing some virtual The Conqueror walks to keep me motivated. My big project is walking virtually from Lands End, at the very south of England, to John O’Groats in Scotland (am currently between Coventry and Leicester just east of Birmingham), but I’ve done a couple of shorter walks that have earned me surprisingly beautiful and hefty medals. Here’s the one I got for virtually walking from Tulum to Chichén Itzá.

I wish I could say I do a good workout every single day, but even though I don’t I’m happy with my daily average over these past six months!

Here I am at the dentist yet again at the end of the month receiving yet another new retainer! I don’t pay for these and I pretty much only pay for every other visit, so it’s not like I’m being bilked out extra money for my orthodontic treatment! I was amused that my current colour obsessions are pink, purple, and turquoise and he found me a turquoise box to follow the purple one.

Finally, Xtiga is really coming out of her shell and is the only one of the girls to ask for my lap when I’m working, a rare treat, but it does happen sometimes. Here I am teaching her how to type. 😉