Hi all.
Ok so here a few new pics I slected from the photos I took last friday. All of the pictures are from the strees of downtown Merida, and not exactly the best part of it exactly. A couple of the photos are a bit harsh, but then again so is reality. Anyway as always I always apreciate feedback. (sorry about the low rez, blogger does not like big files)
- Carlos Rosado
By the way, this is my 100th post! horray!
So this morning Jeanette and I went over to the imigration offices to have her tourist visa extended, this ofcourse is a good thing since this way she will not be deported from the country or anything nasty like that. Anyway Things are going pretty good, I am currently looking in to airplane tickets to Norway for Xmas. I am probably gonna be flying out of cancun and in to amsterdam... so if at all posible I would like to spend a couple days in Holland on my way up, horray for the mother country! Anyway this ofcourse has me very excited... you all know how hard it is for me to stay in any one given place for to long... but fortunately I never seem to have to, so that works out well I guess. Anyway things in Merida are good, although its been really really hot lately, even more so than usual I think... its getting really gross and I am very tirred of it... a couple weeks in europe will do me good and cool me off (probably to a chill since I dont really have much winter clothing anymore). But other than the heat things are going well, work is alright, although I often find myself quite borred with this... but ofcourse everyone gets borred at work. Blarghhh ok I dont have anything else interesting to say... so thats all for today
Well as you may have (or not) noticed, I have not really been posting that much lately. As you probably know Jeanette is now here in
And oh, Feliz fiestas patrias!!!
Look it up you lazy jerk, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Independence_Day
So last year I was still bumming around Europe… actually I think I may have been in
In a way I guess maybe all this is good for me, and hopefully by the end of this year I will have a better idea of were I am at not only with Jeanette, but professionally, economically and all those other “allys´s” which grown ups have to worry about. The problem of course is that I am not quite yet a grown up. You may think that sounds obvious, or maybe silly… or perhaps just downright pathetic, but alas… it’s the way it is. LOOK AT me GOD… I used to hate people who would post BULLSHIT like this on their blogs…. As if anyboby other than like 5 or 6 friends actually took the time to read it… and of course they all know this anyway because I am constantly bitching about these issues at them personally. So on that note… sorry for wasting your time. Maybe in my next entry I will have something a little more fun like a picture of a cute wet kitten on a water slide, yes… that would be good
- Carlos
Well the summer is all but over. I cant say it was particularly exciting or eventful… but it was not that bad. I went to the beach a few times, headed over to Cancun/playa 3 times… so I really do not have any reason to complain. Mike and I had a pretty good time in
Jeanette will be arriving in
This dolphin wants to straight up murder your ass … the image really makes me not want to cut up those plastic net thingies on six packs…
I have never really thought of myself as a particularly healthy person, but neither am I slob…. Sure I have a couple light vices…. And sure I don’t always feel as good as I would like to physically, but if I was to have to decide how in shape I am, taking in to consideration most of the people I see on the street every day… I am a freaking Roman god. Seriously, people are getting fatter every day… it blows my mind! And I am not just talking about
Wow…ok that kind of spun out of control, all I wanted to say is how fat people are getting, but anyway I digress.
So in the last few months I have been doing quite a bit of excersize… I have been running quite intensively (which I really enjoy) and a couple weeks ago I started going to the gym again (which I do not enjoy nearly as much). The nice thing about my new gym is that it is right around the corner from TTT (the place I work)… so its convenient, although the gym itself is not that great since everything is squashed in to a fairly small area, but oh well… it does the trick.
People at the gym are really annoying… there are the jerks who hang out there all day and just socialize. You know, the huge jackasses who are sitting on the machine you want to use…. And when you get close to ask them to please get up because you want to use them give you a look like they are gonna murder your ass... but oh well, you get them to move regardless. Then there are the really out of shape people who swear by god they are there every day when you are not, and excersize so much, and eat right… but they are for some astonishing reason immune to the laws of thermo dynamics and can therefore can not loose a pound. One of my favorites are the cardio queens, they are peppy and annoying as hell…. They yell at each other across the room and are constantly bitching and complaining about something, but at least some of them are alright looking. I really hate the really huge guys who use about 4 or 5 machines at a time…. And make sure to leave their towels and stuff on them so that you do not go near them. Of course when you do they kind of growl at you and much like the socializing jerks threaten to kick your ass. Anyway the point is that gyms are usually if not always mostly populated by amazingly annoying people who think they rule the world and don’t pick up after themselves or clear their gross sweat of the machines after they are done using them. Maybe part of the reason there are so many fat people in the world has something to do with how unappealing gyms usually are. Of course this is just my opinion and I am sure there are some great gyms out there which have music playlists that consist of more than a loop of tunes by Bannarama and that god awful song by Roby Williams (actually I think that covers most of them)… but regardless, in generally the gym is an annoying place to be… best you can do is practice the stoicism you learned from Spock and really crank up the volume on your mp3 player.
Wow, that was quite a rant… and I did not even get started with the stupid jerks who inhabit the magical land of the “track”….maybe some other time. Oh and by the way if you think you are one of those jerks I was talking about… errrr…. Ofcourse not, you are neat (please don’t kick my ass).
Well this last week was quite crazy, there is so much going on its really hard to put my finger on one single thing and think about it... things now a days just seem to really all bloob together in to this weird hermoneutical goo.
Last weekend was a realy good time, soples and I headed out to playa del carmen for a few days. We drank lots of beers and got lots of sun (have a nice tan going on), also we had lots of time to catch up on stuff since we are both quite busy these days and although we do get to see eachother fairly often its not for very long and we are usualy pretty hammered.
Anyway we stayed at this little hotel I always stay at, its really nothing fancy at all... but since I go so much the people there know me and always give me a really good rate... so really it works out great. Playa del Carmen is lots of fun but I kinda feel like its getting a little to snoby for my taste. It used to be that playa was really relaxed... you could just chill out and do what ever, wander in and out of bars and just enjoy the music... but things are getting to trendy now, lots of people seems to be way to over dressed for being at the beach, the clubs are starting to charge crazy cover charges and the drinks keep getting more expensive... but still, its a good place to hang out.
Fortuantely there are lots of other places to go hang out at the beach... Tulum and Puerto Morelos seem to be picking up the slack from playa del carmen... so lots of people are starting to flock to places like that. Also Ironicaly, having received a more than healthy dose of humily... Cancun is really starting to shape up again, and yea ofcourse its still partty central... but when I went there for a few hours this weekend I really got a very different vibe from the place... I dont know, maybe Cancun is turning a new leaf... but then again probably not. One thing I was hoping to acheive this weekend that did not really pan out was getting some rest... my body i so sore... my ancles and feet still hurt from all the abuse they have undergone at the track lately... so I think I should maybe go to a doctor and have them checked out... because I really want to get further with my running. Anyway now I am back at work, but fortunately I know I will be getting away again soon when mikes comes to visist... I am sure we will have a good time, but we are not yet sure were we are gonna go... cancun? tulum? playa? cuba?... I guess we will just have to wait and see. It is really amazing how fast this summer is going... although it has really not felt like much of a summer to me.
The good news is that Jeanette will be back in merida in a month.... so I am ofcourse quite anxious about that. I have really missed her and it ofcourse really sucks to feel lonely.... so I am pretty much counting down the days. Well I think thats all for now.... I will get thorough the rest of the day and then try to have a nice long nap... and if my feet allow me to... ill go for a run. Hopefuly next time I post ill have some interesting photos or something.
So in my last entry I was complaining about how this blog does not really seem to have enough direction... well, ok, lets try to give it some. I am gonna try posting some photos uphere of what ever I happen to be photographing each week... chances are we are gonna get some really lame entries... since its not absolutely every week that I manage to take a pic that does not absolutely blow chunks... but oh well, its worth a shot. Anyway as you porbably know you can find some of my stuff up on my website (carlosrosado.com). There is tons of work to be done on that site.... but thats another project all together... however feedback is always apreciated, maybe some of these pics will end up on the site... oh well who knows. ok so lets give this a shot.
This cactus looking... well cactus was taken just about 1 km away from the little blue flower above (in the same field). I think the image itself is pretty interesting and I like the way its cropped... also I was pretty happy with the way the light came through from the trees behind the cactus... it kinda looks like moisture, but they are actualy just little beams of light making it through the folliage. I think it was the best pic I took that day...
U took this photo a few days after my little trek to the fields outside Merida. Somebody told me that this looks like a lily-pad... and I guess it kinda does, but as you probably guessed, its actualy a couple eggs shells. I was making an omelete.... so I craked the eggs and I got distracted with them, there is just something kinda cool about egg shells (says I)... I have always been kinda interested with they way they respond to light... so I went to go get a lamp, put it over my cutting board... tinkered with the light color settings on the camera and got this shot. It was just a little experiment, but I think it looks kinda nifty.
