Friday, March 30, 2007

New Beginning

So I'm moving, finally I'm moving out of my house. It's been a year and 3 months having to handle one of the most unbalanced persons I've ever met, my landlord.
My roomates are great, the house is big, great light, with deck, insuite laundry, has so many good things, not expensive, money wise, but talk about paying in person.

This woman would bitch about everyone (including you when you are not around) and has such negative energy that everything sucks, she would complaint about the most unimaginable things, the most stupid things.
She stops by the house every frikin week, and when she does, nobody would leaves their room, just because we can't stand her and we don't want to talk to her, talk about feeling looked down in your own "house". And I say 'house' because thaks to her we never were able to feel at 'home'.
But the good thing is that all that is over, I'm moving in with Kookie.
I'm really excited about it because even that at first we only knew each other from salsa we have found out that we have more things in comon than most of people would think, of course, always keeping our individuality.
For both of us our home is our sanctuary, we might love to party and go out, but when we are home we like our down time. I'm doing this move with a positive attitud, hoping that this is only a new beggining in my life.
Also it can't be worse than where i've been before, so i have nothing to worry about.
I really need this change. In Vancouver I really feel the weat season and how low my stamine is. But spring is coming, more sunny days and new perperctives.
I'm hating the actual move (eventhough it won't happen until sunday) but just thinkg of it, and having to organize things and put it all together is stressing me out, good thing that Raf, Laura and a friend of hers are going to help me.
Well, what stresses me the most is not having my own vehicle. I've always been independent in that matter, and i was able to get and move anything i needed too, but now i have to ask friends, and you must understand that everyone has their own life so you have to organize things around their schedules.
Well, we are almost their, is almost over and it will be only a couple of hours (I hope it will be less) and afterwards we'll go salsa dancing, and afterwards i will play my last game of my volleyball indoor season.
Beach, here I come!!!!!!!


Wednesday, March 7, 2007

A good weekend

Last weekend was a good one.
The schedules were different for a change and I managed to keep myself pretty busy.

On Friday i had my drop in volleyball session. I really like this one. I'm trying to make it a regular, the level is pretty high and becomes a challenge playing with guys. I love it, I always have, really good competition.

Last weekend they changed the salsa night at the LawCourts and they did it on saturday instead of friday. On the fridays i usually have to make a choice between voley and salsa but this time I was able to do both. It was great and being able to sleep in.

On the sunday we had a special occasion organized by Jennifer Perry and Stephen Dancey, you can see their site at http://www.salsavancouver.net/ and we had an extra salsa day, sunday afternoon at the Heritage Hall. It was really good, nice place, not too pack with nice dance floor and good music.

You can see more photos and videos in http://www.salsavancouver.net/photos/sundaysocial1.html
You can see me in 3 videos, 1 with Rees and another 2 with Choco.

The rap up for that weekend was my volleyball league game, where we managed to win our 2 competitors, so i must say that felt pretty good, although on Monday i could feel my legs when i was walking.

Monday, March 5, 2007

Life is very fragile

I just got news from Spain.
I was gonna talk about the coincidences that happen in my life but this matter will have to wait.

My girlfriend's husband died this weekend and she is in the hospital.
They were just walking on the street and this car that was being chased by the cops hit them and killed the husband.

How fragile is life.
You wake up one day and you have your coffee, you are reading the paper and thinking, today is a nice day.
Maybe you decided to go for a ride with the bike, or watch a tennis match. Your day is going nice and easy.
The temperature is so nice today after dinner you decide to go for a walk with your husband/wife, just enjoying the freshness, looking the stores and there, crossing the street, suddenly everything is over, a car hits you and your life is gone.
No 'tomorrow I'll call my brother' no more 'tomorrow I'll start dancing classes' none of that.

This made me consider again that we should enjoy lot more our current life, not only is important to reach our goals but to enjoy the ride. What is the purpose of using all your time working to make money if when you look back there nothing that is going to make you smile, those shared moments with friends and family... oh! they are gone because you were too busy working.
Don't get me wrong, work is important, is an investment for your retirement, everyone needs money, but all within reason.

Anyways, to all of you, remember to do those things that you've been postponing for a while, who tells you you will be around tomorrow?