Month: September 2024

…good lesson to learn. We must learn to live each day to its entirety – actually to live each hour to the fullest. Time passes so quickly and then it is gone. The day before yesterday is gone, yesterday is gone and today is almost gone and I am not happy about it. But how do we take control of our own time?  EDIT HERE : I wrote this last evening and then Colin insisted I stop so I could eat dinner. So here I am taking a wee break from packing to finish this post. 

The past three days have mostly been devoted to the transfer of my old iMac desktop to my new iMac desktop. You likely will recall that we purchased 2 new desktops computers this past July, one for each of us. Hopefully they will our last major computer expense. Colin set his up in August, it took a long time. Therefore I kept putting off the transfer to my new computer. Well here we were with just a week left so it had to be done. Long story short I/we spent three full days online with Apple techs.  They do a great job but only do what you ask. So you need to keep calling back to get it done. Today I realized that my Mail had not been transferred. And just now in really time Sunday morning, I realize that half of my mailbox folders are missing. Just another task I have to figure out later today.

I thought I was done midday today. Turns out that a previous FaceBook issue had resurfaced. So the new computer is operating a non functioning FB account on one email address and the old computer ( about to be killed and sold ) is using a fully functioning FB account with all my accounts and marketplace information. sadly I went down the dark road today of getting help from a FB ‘fixer’.  I fear I have been scammed $30.00 USD. He did fix it but says that he needs another 16.00US to delete the bad account so that I am good to go. Well we spent hours going head to head with neither of us giving in. He would not take 50%. I told him that I had trusted him with the 30.00  ( 45.00 CAD ) and that he had to prove to me he could do the job before I gave him more money. So at this very moment we are at a standoff. The major issue is that it is the new computer that I can’t use my correct FB account in.  The one where I have all that I am selling on. In fact that  email account will be cancelled this next Friday. I finally had to say enough and move on to writing this blog post. And again in really time Sunday morning I caved and send him another $16.00 USD. I think that he is working on it now!  I had no choice.

Yesterday we  officially cancelled our MLS listing for the house. We will re list in early 2025. Difficult decision but it needed to be done.

So I saw my eye surgeon this past Monday ( the 23rd). My eye tests were done and the doctor told me that all the “numbers” were good. He decided I have dry eye ( probably from being on the computer so much )and now has me doing different eye drops 4 -5 times per day. He is confident that I am fine. He did suggest that I lower my readers from 2.5 to 2.  Hard to say how much of a difference it is making. He did say that the humidity of Mazatlan will be of help to my eyes. However I have another appointment on Wednesday to pay to have my eyes tested by their eye glass selling division and to give me the numbers I need for readers. Maybe I should order sunglass readers??

Next is my root canal. For the first time ever I asked to be sedated 😎  Definitely the way to go. I have no recall of the 3 hour procedure. However I still have pain today…supposed to get the new crown Tuesday.  I recall having pain for a full month this past February when I got my crown done in Mazatlan. I guess my teeth are sensitive.

Only 5 sleeps to go and still lots of work to do. So I best be off and get it done.

I have no idea where to start. We plan the day and then it goes 10 ways sideways.  So much I want to share with you but things change 4 – 8 times or more per day. My mind is a few days behind. I have not kept a list as the time is passing too quickly.

For instance we are in the midst of our……….. – I wrote the above about 10 days…….

I wrote the following this past Wednesday the 18th of September.

Right now today ( the18th ) I am sitting at the airport in Edmonton waiting for my flight back home to Kelowna.  Colin left home yesterday @ 4:30 am to drive with the twins to Vancouver to do some must needed errands before we leave.  I left home at 8am. At least we were gone the same day. I flew to Edmonton to see my chiropractor.  Good thing I did as I had quite a few issues directly related  to my fall this past July when I broke my nose.   I needed more intense treatment today, hopefully that is all the I will require.

 

Meanwhile Colin got his two major errands done and my two smaller ones. He says that the girls travelled well and despite all different people he met and going up and down elevators three times that they never barked once.  Sadly he never got home til almost 11pm. I was already asleep in my uncomfortable hotel bed. But I was on the 8th floor, top floor, and kept getting up to check on the Northern Lights. Despite having been out the past few nights they were a no show last night – much to my dismay.

So que pasa? The house has not been sold. The very original plan was to sell the house and upgrade our 2001 RV – probably in the spring of 2025.  But as the house never sold Colin started to look at options. He found a lovely 2006 Marquis in Langley, B C. However he discovered that we would have to pay a $25,000.00 luxury tax to register the RV.  Well of course we would not do that.  So then we decided to drive our original RV to the USA to trade it in. First of all they would charge us $5,000.00 USD to register it in the USA so that they could sell it. Plus they would have only pay us 50% of what we could sell it for here.

So it became a bit of a game. Colin who gets up a few hours earlier than I do would wake me up with the “new plan for today” about 8am.  So almost every day we had a new
direction to plan for.  One morning he had yet another plan. We should sell our RV here in Kelowna and to drive to the USA and purchase an RV there. I simply glared at him and said no way.

The next day he had a solid plan. We would unload the RV – which by now was fully loaded and only needed the rest of our clothes and bathroom items to be loaded.  My quick reply was asking how the $400.00 worth of special frozen food that I had already ordered would be transported. In the end we ordered two freezer/fridge coolers. Click here to see them.

So you now are starting to understand how each new day had special challenges.  In addition to that I was able to shut down Colin Jewall Photo Studios Inc.  the end of August. The final final year end will be done the end of February.  However I am done and so very happy about it. The last six months balanced to the penny – of course it did.

Meanwhile every day poses new challenges. A few are solved quickly but most take more time which changes the course of our planned day. Of course we are behind schedule. The last two showings we had were canceled at the very last minute. Oh and due to a multitude of factors we are now leaving a day earlier.

At this point we plan to take the house off the market the end of September and relist in the spring. We have arranged to have the house winterized as usual on Friday the 4th of October. Plumbers don’t work on the weekends so we’ll have to leave a day early.

Everyday Colin is working at packing things as well as planning for the weeks ahead. Our motor home sold in two days site unseen for full asking price. We had hundreds of inquiries. My job was to sort out the buyers while Colin cleaned and unloaded it. We had literally just finished loading it. What we found sad was that most of the inquiries were from people wanting to live in it full time as they had no home. A couple and their two kids were renting one room in a house. They were so hoping to get the financing to make our RV their forever home. Sadly they were unable to get the financing. We felt so badly for them.

…..and now I am continuing in real time today, Sunday the 22nd. 

So we got back from our mini individual travels and hit the ground running. Well not quite, I was exhausted, I went to bed without dinner that first night back. I have been having a tooth ache off and on for a few days. So a few days ago – Thursday past – I went to the dentist. Very bad news. I have a hidden cavity under my gold crown. It is a big deal, crown has to come off, clean out the infection, kill the three roots and and prep for a new crown. Three hours in the chair. $3850.00!!  I am on antibiotics. And for those who will tell me to wait and do it in Mexico, I can’t wait because of the pain. Also it would probably cost more or the same as here. You may recall that I had that root canal just this past February and then Colin had one, same price as here. So this is an expensive year for teeth.

As well as expensive in getting my cataracts removed, I think it was about $3700.00. I still am not seeing clearly. There is no way I can drive as I can’t do anything using my readers and a magnifying glass. I see the eye surgeon tomorrow. It looks like I will be going back to eye glasses.

We have also put a deposit down on a new to us RV in California. We did a FaceTime video walk through. However it has now come to our attention that in order to do all we need to do ( register the RV in Montana, get an LLC and the plates and have everything legal – including no paying California taxes ) we now have to pay for the RV in full this coming week.

Things would’ve been much easier if we had sold the house. Also if we did not have that deadline of renewing our Mexican Residency paperwork I Mazatlan by the end of October. We are being pushed in both directions.

I am in the process of changing my Facebook information. I have changed it to Contessa Jewall from Connie Doxie but am having  a load of trouble changing my email address with FB. Don’t even ask.

Colin is like the energizer rabbit. He just keeps going and going and going and packing and packing even more. Thus far we have 40 bins full with many more to come. The final ( at least I hope it is ) plan is that we will be pulling a U – Haul trailer, probably 6 X 12 or 5 X 8. We don’t actually have a plan because we don’t have time to talk about it but I think we will be on the road for 3 nights hoteling it. Traveling to the Sacramento area where the new bus is waiting for us.

That is all I can give you today folks. Yes we know about the cartel activity in Sinaloa but I can’t even think about it until we get into our new home. we will have a week or so in Las Vegas to get settled and sorted out. I refuse to think ahead about all there is to do. Enough to do at this very moment. My desk is sold and goes out this afternoon.  I am sad about that. I also need to get my new iMac set up before we leave.

Thank you for all your thoughts and comments.