Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally getting up at 6:45.

Teresa was already gone so I took my shower to be ready to leave after breakfast.

It’s 7:30 and it started raining again. I hope Teresa brought an umbrella. By 8:15 the rain had finally stopped.

At 9:15 I took a Didi to the mall. I recycled several plastic bottles then made copies of our epm bill and Teresa’s cedula in Auros. I made an ATM withdrawal. This is what the new back room looks like in Starbucks.

I made a stop in the restroom then had a latte in Urbania. Glenn posted on Facebook that Davivienda is now charging a 26mil transaction fee. Unfortunately, I didn’t print a receipt and I had already comingled my cash. I left at 10:30 and made another restroom stop and realized I no longer had the plastic envelope, containing Teresa’s cedula and the copies I just made, with me. ☹

I took a quick look in the restroom but of course it wasn’t there. I stopped at the information desk and they had it. 😊 Whew! I wonder if I should alert Teresa I might have a memory problem. For now, I’ll just try to be more careful in the future.

I went upstairs to Fotomilenio where I had a visa photo taken and was told it would be ready in 30 minutes. I went to Exito and picked up a carton of eggs. I was waiting in a short line but 2 of the 3 cashiers were otherwise engaged. (I saw one customer run away with what looked like a head of lettuce and a couple minutes later return with another. Another cashier was waiting for something with a customer and a third woman soon joined them so there was only one cashier available at the moment.) Next door was self-service checkout with no customers. They only have one machine for cash but the cashier invited me over where I checked out faster than if I’d still be in line.

I went back upstairs and after a 5-minute wait they gave me my photo, informed me they sent a copy to my email and she copied it to my USB drive.

I returned to the apt by taxi.

About 2:30 the sun came out but it only lasted for a few minutes.

We left the apt at 4:15 and took a Didi to Torre Medica in El Tesoro. I paid 223,300 ($52) for her mammogram then I went across the way to O’Cake to have a café con leche wait for her.

She finished about 6:45 and we went to find somewhere to eat. She mentioned something about where we had a sandwich with her gf Vicky and when we got to the area it wasn’t Santa Lena but next door at Chef Burger that she meant. We sat down and started looking at the menu. I had just noticed something on the menu called Chicago Meatballs when she decided she’d rather go to Valentina’s. When we arrived, we found they are out for today. We headed down the escalator to have quesadillas at a Tex-Mex restaurant when she changed her mind to El Corral, the burger place. This surprised me but we went back upstairs and took a table in what looked more like a restaurant than a burger place.

We each ordered their La Original burger and a Coke. We were told they had Pepsi – surprise, surprise – so Diet Pepsi for her and Regular Pepsi for me. It’s been a while since I’ve had a Pepsi but it tasted strange to me. I took a closer look at the bottle

and found it’s a Pepsi Black. I googled it and found this:

I tried Teresa’s and that’s when I figured out they mixed up our drink orders. I switched our drinks and we were both happier. I paid the check and we quickly caught a taxi back to the apt and traffic wasn’t too bad.

A few of my lesions have returned: one on my right wrist, one on my right calf, and one on my left side. ☹

Even thought it was 8:30pm, we finished episode 3 of Monsters that we had started the other day. I read a few pages in my book and went to bed at 10:30pm.

 

IN HONOR OF IKEA