Last night I went to bed at 10 pm, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 6:45.
The Apprentice (7.2) opens today in Cine Colombia
with early showtimes at 12:20 and 3.15.
At 9am I was getting dressed to meet Marcos at 9:30. (I thought I’d stop at $efecty on the way to pay the Tigo/Une bill.) Marcos called and informed me that yesterday he went to the emergency room with pain in his arm. (One sign of a heart attack.) It turned out to be arthritis and he’s taking medicine for it but he’s in too much pain to leave the apartment.
I emailed Angie in Inter-Col asking if the Sura form
I found from 11 years ago was what I needed to satisfy the requirement of “Certificate
of affiliation to Colombian eps”.
I left the apt at 9:30 and stopped at Gana to pay the
Tigo/Une bill. The only, but most important, thing I understood was “afuera de
servicio” aka “out of service”. So, another time.
I had a latte in Los Portenos for a couple hours
before returning to the apt.
Angie replied that I have to sign into the eps website then
I can print the document. I tried filling out their form for a userid and
password but the field “landline number” is required and we don’t have one. ☹ I was about to email Angie about this problem when I
found another email she sent where she found my Certificate so I’m good. Still
waiting for that apostilled SS Benefits Letter to arrive.
I left the apt at 1:30 and took an Uber to the mall. (For
some reason Didi’s interface wasn’t working correctly.) I recycled a Canadian
maple syrup bottle, printed my eps certificate in Auros and went up to
Cine Colombia. I bought a preferred seat to the 3:15 showing of The Apprentice
(7.2) for 15,300 pesos ($3.50). I had over an hour to kill so I went down to Urbania
for a latte. At 2:55 I paid for my
coffee, made a last trip to the restroom, asked for my free platinum popcorn
and bought a small soda for 8,900 pesos. I took my seat and counted all of the
people in the audience and came up with a count of one (1). Yes, I was the only
one there but then again today is the premier and tickets are cheaper the other
days. I thought the actor who played Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) really nailed
the facial mannerisms. Jeremy Strong was also very good as Roy Cohn as I
remember him playing a pretty despicable character in Succession.
After I left the theater I bought a medium size pumpkin in
Exito for about 34,000 pesos. I would have liked to buy a slightly larger one
but I took the one I thought was freshest and nicely shaped. I returned to the
apt, in heavy traffic, by taxi.
Teresa can’t get her doctor to answer so the plan for tomorrow
is we go to Arkadia mall where her doctor is and ask in person. As long as we’re
there we’ll have lunch in Crepes & Waffles then go across the street
to buy individual turkey breasts in Pricesmart before returning to the
apt.
IN HONOR OF IKEA
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ReplyDeleteTerry, from the time stamp It looks like you were up early this morning. I had not realized I have read 11 years of your blogs. Time does move rapidly through that hour glass!! During that time I was my Mom's care companion and care giver. Reading about your life was a relief from my daily life. If only for a few minutes I was able to relax while reading them and envisioning my life after her death. She died on July 7th this year. Due to you I have decided to move to Morelia, Mexico. I thought about Columbia but I have a very extensive family in the US. I plan on making a trip home every 3 months.So that was a big part of my descion.
ReplyDeleteTerry, thanks for being there for me, your blog realy helped me.
Your virtual friend, Jack Williams