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Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

The rumors about accomplishing tasks in Mexico are essentially the reality. Your first appearance at Telmex for any given problem is a preamble. You will have to make a follow-up trip to the bank. One visit to any office or place of business is basically a dry run, a dress rehearsal, a learning experience and [...]

15Sep2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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Buenos Carnes at La Recova in Merida

First of all, you must know that when I die I wish to be interred in a vat of chimichurri sauce. As my devotion to meat intensifies so naturally does my interest in Argentinian steak and accompaniments. We have been to El Argentino many times and have enjoyed the earthy food and wine but were [...]

13Sep2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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A Night Off

You would think that at the Altabrisa Mall where everyone is so busy being fancy and consumerish I could have a break from being gawked at. I know I have retardedly blond hair right now…but other than that I am doing my best to be inconspicuous and blend. And while I wasn’t wearing high heels [...]

12Sep2008 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued
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We Are Pioneers

Malcolm and I moved far away to build a better life. While we do have family they are scarce and scattered and most of those individuals do not perform traditional roles in our lives. That’s ok. We’re a family now, the two of us; I am in the process of becoming a Bedell officially and [...]

12Sep2008 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued
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What’s Ike Go To Do With It?

A friggin lot, I hope. Waves are crashing furiously and the tide is super high. I’m considering growing gills. The storm appears to be just Northeast of here, hovering over the Gulf. I hope it moves along quickly and we can end another hurricane season unscathed. Since I don’t like Ike, let’s celebrate his passing [...]

10Sep2008 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
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Softie

Colloquial: a person who appears gruff and or cynical but in truth is sensitive, bordering on saccharine. As in, “Mr Davies, our taciturn math teacher, proved to be an old softie when given a chance to hold the class puppy.”
There is a new baby in the family today and, as it turns out, new life [...]

9Sep2008 | Jillian | 1 comment | Continued
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A Sad Day for Side Show Beauties and Freaks

It’s an end of an era.

8Sep2008 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued
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It’s 115 degrees in the shade and you know what I’m thinking?

Stroganoff!

8Sep2008 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued
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Choices, Travel and Change

Even when you aren’t a kid anymore and don’t yet have kids and aren’t a teacher or a lunch lady or a bus driver or a crossing guard or that kindly older lady who helps out the slow kids at lunch and makes bulletin board announcements out of construction paper and macaroni, September feels like [...]

8Sep2008 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued
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A Good Time Was Had By All

Last night at La Playa de Chelem more than forty Yolisters met up for night of merry-making. We were finally able to match members’ names and faces with their online avatars, learned more about our neighbors and spoke not a little bad drunken Spanish. Typical snacks were served, as well as fajitas and Mayan pizzas [...]

6Sep2008 | Jillian | 1 comment | Continued
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We’re Havin’ A Party

Come one, come all. Tonight at La Playa de Chelem, the newest and coolest little restaurant on the beach in Yucatan, Yolisto is hosting its first ever soiree. At least 40 expats are expected to attend. The party starts at 7. Be there or be square.

5Sep2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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Vault Over Country

If the corpse and the baby maker are proffered the White House this November , as it looks likely to happen since the hot grandma to be hit the ticket, I am considering defecting to Canada. I know, I know, I already live in Mexico and threatening to move to Canada is one those those [...]

4Sep2008 | Jillian | 25 comments | Continued
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