Is is just me, or does this title fit a good portion of the people that post in the Rant & Raves? Personally, I am a Heterosexual Conservative, God-fearing Christian, but to each their own. Before you get all froggy & jump, I have many friends from all walks of life & that includes homosexual liberal.....well, I don't know any atheists.

Basically, I just wanted a reason to post this pic. Ya'll can Rant & Rave about it. Have fun & I'll enjoy reading.

Airway: It seems that he will be working in Santiago which is about two hours drive from Mexico City.Further grief is that I will have to postpone my plastic surgery! :paranoid

Go to Mexico, you won't get many chances like this. Scew the heat, it's bad but you can handle it. There's more people in Mexico than there are in Canada...should tell you something. Many Mexicans speak limited English....they ain't stupid...they know you got them pesos. The tummy tuck and boob job can wait. Oh, and mail me five dollars for the advice, I don't make house calls.

BJean: Thanks for this post. I always enjoy hearing from you and this post was most timely because Mexico is very much on my mind. Over this past winter there has been a number of Canadians who have died while vacationing in Mexico. While the number of people who have died has not been large these are individuals who have died violent deaths while they were staying at high-end luxury resorts. This has been disturbing for Canadians for of course these deaths have been widely reported; but the reason that Canadians remain deeply disturbed is that the local Mexican authorities have badly botched the investigations into these murders.

In the case of an older couple who were found with their throats slashed in their five star resort room - they were down there for a family wedding - the room and environs were scrubbed down by the hotel staff before forensics had a chance to do their crawl.

And then the local cops decided that the persons of interest were a couple of mums, friends who were taking a week's break from life in northern Ontario. One of them was going to a northern university, she was in med school as a matter of fact.

These two grrlfriends had returned home the very day that these murders were discovered, exactly one whole week after their week in the sun had begun, you know. Green saw their photos in all the media. They had to hire expensive lawyers, you know, after those allegations. The women, a couple of women who were wives and mothers who were in their early thirties, were understandably absolutely freaked out.

Now, I am someone who has done a fair amount of travelling and I do believe that it is sometimes true that tourists reap what they have sewn. My mate and I travel fairly attitude free and we are curious people. This has stood us in good stead up to now. Nevertheless, sometimes an innocent and open heart may not be enough.

I was talking to my physiotherapist about the possibility of my mate moving to Mexico for awhile or for an even longer while and of course I have mentioned the possibility of my joining him for part of his stay. My therapist is Nicaraguan but he is my age and thus he has been around for quite awhile. He told me that he lived in Mexico for four years and while he made friends with many of the local folk he personally found the establishment to be corrupt and he was glad to leave the country. In fact he told me that he told the Mexican authorities as he was exiting that they could destroy his version of the American green card; he had no intention of returning!

While I have no intention of ruling my life by anecdotes, I do find them of enormous value. It is through marrying up statistics and anecdotes that we can best sense what is happening around us, doncha think?

Go to Mexico, you won't get many chances like this. Scew the heat, it's bad but you can handle it. There's more people in Mexico than there are in Canada...should tell you something. Many Mexicans speak limited English....they ain't stupid...they know you got them pesos. The tummy tuck and boob job can wait. Oh, and mail me five dollars for the advice, I don't make house calls.

I do have ta say that I love Mexico, the culture, the food, etc......... As for the plastic, it was gonna be on my already fairly good face. Boobs are okay and only my man can see my tummy. Now the face, that is up front and central, eh!:faint: :paranoid Big thanx fer the advice. Keep it coming. I need lots of input right now. I am kinda blonde and I am Canadian.

I am kinda blonde and I am Canadian.

I personally like both of thos attributes. I don't remember the last canuk I didn't like and I'm partial to blondes having been married to one for 35 years. When Sharon Stone crossed her legs and the man world went ga-ga over blonde hair. I went "what's the bid deal.

airwayman: should you ever decide to make house calls, please let me know.

BJ

Green: There's adventure and then there's Wild and Crazy Risky Adventure. Just know what you're getting into. Life is too short as it is.

Furthermore, I'd take my risks with the knife of a good plastic surgeon over that of a murderous skank in a foreign country.

Well, I have moved my face restoration/renovation project to the early fall, to September (lapband month) in fact. So much for looking just like Laura Bush! LOL My kinder, gentler, nicer half will be spending June in Mexico. I am pondering spending part of the time down there as well.

I figure that I will have to buy myself a laptop and I have been planning to get myself a digital camera for sometime now. Oh yah, I'm gonna need an English-Spanish dictionary. And of course I never travel without a crate load of books! I will need all these toys to entertain myself while my fine man is off teaching others how to do our highly paid unionized jobs for he will be working long hours and 6 days a week.

While we earn close to 30 bucks Canadian/hr plus drugs, dental, and eye glasses, etc, our new partners will be earning the equivalent of 8 Cdn smackeroons for doing the same work. As for benefits and overtime premiums? who knows....

And Airwaydude, I felt exactly the same as you did with respect to Sharon Stone's blondieness. I said to myself, so.........??? :bored

And Airwaydude, I felt exactly the same as you did with respect to Sharon Stone's blondieness. I said to myself, so.........??? :bored

Yeah, but you said "so" for a different reason than I said "so."

LOL Oh, you are so right! In my case it was that I was wearing the same T-shirt, er, um, or whatever.......

While I have no intention of ruling my life by anecdotes, I do find them of enormous value. It is through marrying up statistics and anecdotes that we can best sense what is happening around us, doncha think?

Well stated

evilah

Hi all, just wanted to let you know that I'm official now! I got my band yesterday and came home today. Check out the new signature...

Hi all, just wanted to let you know that I'm official now! I got my band yesterday and came home today. Check out the new signature...

Totally awesome, Dude! Congratulations!

Hi all, just wanted to let you know that I'm official now! I got my band yesterday and came home today. Check out the new signature...

Whoohoo! You go, baby! Congratulations:clap2: and how are ya feeling?

Congratulations indeed, MsDad!! :nod:

Way to go! How are you doing?