Cuerito...

 Cuerito done! I separate the fatty skin from the meat of the pernil and roast it on a sheet pan, this makes it crispy and soo good! 

 

Anyway Happy New Year everyone! May the New Year bring us health, happiness and love!

Well, what else can go wrong? Lemme shut up...

 The great singer and musician Tito Rojas has passed. He died of a massive heart attack Saturday after coming home from a family get together. He was on HBP meds, heart meds, had some blood sugar issues as well but was stable.

On the way home he said to his daughters that he didn't feel well and asked to go to the hospital. He never made it, they went to change cars where he dropped on his porch. 

It's sad,  if he woud have gone to the hospital earlier he would be alive today. They would have administered blood thinners, cathed him, meds, shocked him what ever it took but there's a good probability they would have pulled him through.

So...farewell Tito, you always chose your songs carefully and they always held meaning and emotion, you were a great showman and will be sorely missed...au revoir my friend....

My daughter and grandson

 

It Was A Pleasant and Happy Christmas...

The four track works it just didn't have enough charge. The baby loves it but he still doesn't  know how to push the go button, but he'll get it eventually.

Bath time for me and then sleepy time, til tomorrow God willing...

 

 

The Gingerbread House...

                       

 

                             

There weren't enough candies in the kit but everything is closed so she made do with what we had from my cake decorating supplies.

My son and wife gave me this lovely Three Kings votive candle holder with a battery operated votive candle, Love it! and these cozy socks as they know I have to sleep with socks on :) My daughter gave me money.

 

 Zekes Four track, and it doesn't seem to want to charge. My oldest son is coming down from San Juan tonight and he'll check it...

Santa was here...

 But they get opened tomorrow! and the gingerbread house under construction, continued tomorrow...

 

 

A Small Town Funeral Service In Pandemic Times

https://www.facebook.com/FunerariaSanFranciscoPR/videos/543729413249931 

This is the small town of Aguada on the west side of the island. 

The funeral is held at the Catholic Church and is by the funeral parlor of my grandsons father in law. at the beginning of the priest sevice he walked off to the right and his daughter, my grandsons wife right behind him, and at the end of the service they walk back in and take the casket out to the hearse.  It's always been a family business. 

She got the idea to make and sell gingerbread house kits for Christmas, and she sold a whole bunch of them, my daughter helped her sell a bunch to the nurses at the hospital, now they're having a contest for the prettiest one, they get decorated tonight!  I'll post pics. So quaint, but I like it like that. 

Just a taste of small town daily life...

  

I want to go shopping ...

so bad!  Just go to the stores like before with my daughter and do a little window shopping and try on things and buy a couple things... but with the long waiting lines I just can't do the standing for so long anymore... But I miss it, especially now at the holidays. I guess it's also the communicating with others, mingling with the holiday crowds, the happiness, the excitement... I miss it so...

It's just not the same, when, oh when will this end??? 

I haven't even done food shopping since this all started. My kids do it all, I write a list and they get what I want. Which is the best given my conditions, they protect me...just about the only place I go is to the doctors appointments :) those are my 'outings' xD  But I so enjoyed going shopping with my daughter...

Oh well some day... But this is sooo bad. 

And now my daughter will have to work Christmas Eve and probably Christmas Day because the second batch of vaccines will arrive at the hospital on the 24 exactly and they have to be used immediately there's no keeping them or they lose potency. So vaccinations will continue then until they're all finished. And not only that, but the second dose is scheduled for January 6 and 7 Three Kings Day! It also has to be administered exactly on that date!!! 

Ce la vie! 

But Sheeeet!

The stores are empty...

 The stores are empty and Amazon has developed a sudden allergy against shipping to P.R. and Walmart charges more for shipping that the price of the item! :( and the prices for everything including food have skyrocketed!

Thank God a couple of days ago my daughter was able to get into Walmart early before work and they at least had left a go cart or rather a toy four track I think they are, it's small and age appropriate for Zeke, and just $59, and in the pharmacy a puzzle with large pieces for the great granddaughter. I am broke ass with all the medicines I've had to buy and sadly I can't buy anything for anybody this year.We have been in a cloud of Saharan Dust for the past two weeks and of course I'm on medicines and nebulizer therapy again.  Even as I write this I am on the machine with an Albuterol and Ipratropium therapy. 

                                                                         Zekes Toy
 

                                                                     Toys for Kamila

The other day I slipped and fell in the living room and and landed on my back on my grandsons toy wagon, wow the back pain! Then my old, old dresser broke a leg while I was opening the drawer and it fell right on top of me, took a couple of pieces of skin off the top of my hands as I tried to hold it up so it wouldn't land on my legs, as well as plenty bruises. Yesterday I had to go to the pneumologist and the elevators weren't working, which happens a lot there. I had to walk up to the fourth floor with asthma! A bunch of older ladies who'd had to do the same were complaining their legs were trembling! My legs just about gave out on me, and last night and today the pain from my waist to my ankle is fierce. He's a great doctor but dayum...I actually asked him why he doesn't move from there to a first floor and lo and behold I saw something in his face, eyes, almost as it he's been thinking about it...he was looking at my record on the computer monitor so I only saw the side of his face but I saw something...but I believe he's under contract because it's a group of pneumologists and perhaps not able to yet...but contracts don't last forever!

                                                              Trying to fix the elevator

So now there's an even more restrictive order in place with stores not being able to open on Sundays until January after Three Kings Day because the Covid cases have shot up dramatically. And so here we are, not many people have decorated, everyone seems to be a bit depressed and fearful of course with everything that's going on. But at least we have life and for those that have health or relative health, they/we are blessed.

Oh man I'm just so tired mentally as well as physically, everything is so difficult, it's worse than after Maria I swear! 

Lord keep us safe, heal the sick and please end this horrible pandemic. In the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost,  Amen and Amen.