Christmas is weird here, and there are so many holidays, and that is another blog all together. I don’t like Christmas here, I would rather be in the states or at least some were cold, or some where, were it wasn’t about getting all fucked up. Don’t get me wrong I like getting all fucked up every once in a while, but I have young kids, so it is just different.

Since I had Tarzan we have only been at my moms for one of his four Christmases and up until this year I haven’t really even gotten him any presents. I also asked my mom instead of giving me money if she would buy Tarzan presents if I could find someone to bring it down.

So my friend Joe that lives here in Zihua went to San Diego for Christmas to be with his family. So I asked hi if I give you a piece of luggage could my mom mail Tarzans Christmas presents to your place in San Diego and you bring them back. I was like it shouldn’t be a big deal the package will arrive then you put it in the suitcase and just bring it back.

I told my mom what piece of luggage I had send with Joe and I thought she understood that everything had to fit into that suitcase to get it back to us.

So the package makes it to San Diego and I get an email from Joe explaining that my mom has mailed the largest package he has ever seen and a wagon is in it. It is the chigon of Radio Flyers; the motherfucker has seat belts and cup holders. For Tarzans chelas or something I don’t know.

So I call my mom and ask her how big is the package? Her response was “It is fucking huge, there is know way it is going to fit in a suitcase!” Then I need to know how much it weighs and I have to ask her to send Joe 50 bucks because for sure he is going to have to pay to get this monstrosity on the plane.

Joe didn’t fly in and out of Zihua because during the holidays it is like 800 dollars round trip and you can go to Uruapan which is just a couple of hours away by bus and it would cost around 300 dollars.

So packages keep showing up at Joe’s house the entire time he is in the states and this has now become the largest pain in his ass, so TML offered to pay for his travels back from Uruapan.

So this Radio Flyer…. My mom paid for it, she paid to ship it to San Diego, then she send Joe 50 dollars to get it on the plane. Then I paid Joe another 800 pesos to get it from Uruapan to Zihua. Still allot cheaper then DHL

Now Tarzan is the owner of the coolest toy the kids in Zihua have ever seen and I am the envy of every mother in Zihua. So Thank You JOE!!

So Beny is on the verge of being 4 months old and Tarzan in almost 3 1/2 years old. Because of where I live there isn’t very much to do with the kids as in parks, play groups, or a general type area of where the little tikes meet up to play. There really isn’t any suburb type areas were there are kids outside to play with. So I send Tarzan to school a little bit each day. He likes to go to school, so I feel like I am not sending him there too much. He likes to go and play with the other kids, and he likes to come home, I think I have it balanced out really well.

With the arrival of the new baby I have stopped teaching. I went back to work for 2 weeks with the baby in tow, and it just didn’t work out. I am spending a lot more time at home, and I enjoy it for the most part. It is hard sometimes, but mostly when I feel lonely. I am trying to figure out ways to stay busier when Beny is taking a nap and Tarzan is at school. I don’t sleep well at night I am awake at least 2 hours in the middle of the night for really know reason at all.

What I would like to start doing is working from my home a little each day it doesn’t really matter what I would be doing as long as it isn’t slinging crack or making it in my kitchen. The only thing that would matter is that I am able to work when Beny is sleeping or in the middle of night, when I am awake and no one else is. So if it be data entry, online surveys, or any job that you can do from home, as long as I get paid I would be happy to do it. I digress I have very young children so something kind of respectable. Are there entry-level telecommuting jobs?

I have needed a new radiator for my loyal 1997 Acura Integra for quite a few months. So every morning before I take Tarzan to school I pop the hood and fill that motherfucker full of water. There has been more then one occasion when the car has overheated and I have had to call someone for a ride.

So the other day the kids and I had a play date and there was one of those small battery powered Barbie jeeps there and Tarzan was cruising around and the battery started to die and then eventually it was over, a dead jeep. So Tarzan being the kid he is gets out of the jeep and looks under the hood. The jeep was lacking an engine so he just looked at me with a puzzled expression on his face, closed the hood and found his bike.

I am pondering the idea of returning to the states, many things play into this. Well mostly TML and his lack of papers, but that isn’t anything a coyote can’t take care of. I miss Oregon, and after so many years here in Mexico I am fed up with the life style. I am just over it! I just have too many kids now.

If I do go north I will be headed first to Smith River CA. Then to Portland Oregon FOREVER! The other day I heard some chisme about Portland and I hope someone can tell me if it is true or not. If you drive an electric car you get free parking downtown, and while you are taking advantage of the free parking you can some how refuel your car. I just want to know is this true or false?