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FOUR May 9 - I can't believe I am finally making a post. My last post was on July 20th of last year. Wow! that was a long time ago. It was at that time I thought we were imminently leaving the Philippines to spend some time in the Canada and the States. Joe was supposed to be starting school in September and there were thoughts of perhaps buying a place in Florida and spending upwards of six months between there and Canada and the rest of the year in the Philippines. Alas, it was not to be. Instead a nightmare started to unfold. Lynn had failed to renew hers and Joes passport. Since 9/11 some things had changed and it wasn't an automatic process as it had been. Furthermore, she and Joe had also not reacquired her Philippine citizenship so in a sense they were without a Country. What sucked for me is I had already planted a seed in my head that we were leaving like any day and when it didn't happen I would get extremely pissed off and Lynn and I had some real fallings out over the course of her "Honey, the passports will be coming tomorrow" which basically went on for most of the rest of the year. On the positive front, Alex continued to grow and become more of a delight each and every day. In September Joe started going went to a special tutorial to keep him in line with his class level despite being out of school from March of 2008 to September 2008. I continued to play lots of golf and I seemed to maintain scoring in the low 80's. I got fitted for Ping G-10's and I am excited to order them whenever we get out of here FINALLY LOL.
Lynn and I made a trip to Manila in early October that was technically supposed to be a final wrap of things with the passports and we ended up staying until January and accomplished absolutely nothing except spend a pile of money. From October to the almost the end of December we stayed with Georgie at her invitation. She wanted to spend time with Alex so she said. I enjoy staying there but this trip just didn't feel right. Toward the end of December Lynn asked for us to please leave Georgies place and go somewhere else and we did a few days later. I didn't ask why but I completely understood as the vibe was just not right staying there. I don't want to dramatize this as what happens next was all very ugly and a real shame it had to happen. I know Georgie and the whole Diaz clan for that matter and they are experts at this. What This is, is GOSSIP!!! But to be fair to the Diaz family, Filipinos in general tend to have a big mouth and use it to gossip about anyone, anything, anywhere at anytime. The Diaz family just seems to have taken it to a new low level of absolute disgust and it makes me sick. As it turns out the reason Lynn wanted to leave was Georgie apparently started blabbing negative things about Lynn and me behind our backs. She even called up a nephew to bad mouth me and suggested he not do any business with me. I also noticed Georgie enjoyed lecturing me about this or that and tried to undermine the overall enjoyment of life I am having with Lynn. It almost seemed like Georgie was jealous and taking the misery in her own life and trying to make it mine at Lynns expense through her gossiping. So we left. However, we had left some bags in Georgies house which we need to come back for. Two days after we left I went back to Georgies house to get something out of one of the boxes we left there. I had a spare set of keys to Georgies condo as Nina was on her usual Sunday leave. Georgies computer was sitting out open on the desk in the small room we had stayed in so I decided to check my e-mail. After I finished I turned the computer off and left it exactly where I found it. I then left the house and locked the door after me. I couldn't leave the keys as there was no one home at the time. What happens next is a real disaster. Later that day I get a call from Georgie telling me that her computer was missing. I told her about my time there and how everything was ok when I had left earlier that day and then said I was coming right over. After I got there we went over what happened and then out of the blue I get hammered by Pempi about how I now owe Georgie a new computer and it's my fault and la di la di la. I got pissed and in my Corey way told Pempi to go fuck herself. I then got the rest of our remaining bags and left. I mean I was absolutely shocked Pempi would say such a thing. We have had a wonderful relationship for over 29 years and I really liked her. However, at 62 she I see has become a cranky, bossy bitch who thinks she is the matriarch of the Diaz family. First off, I know I locked the door. 2nd there was another computer right under Georgies and that wasn't taken. 3rd when I was at her place to talk with them, I noticed the charger and bag was still there so I was wondering why those important items were not taken as well. Also nothing else was taken in the entire house. It just seemed strange.
Now I could understand that Lynn might have a motive to screw Georgie "hating her guts and all that" and take her computer for a little while just to piss her off but, that would have been impossible as I had the key and Lynn didn't and there was absolutely no way she could have gotten in to do it. So now we are gone from the Diaz household. During the next month we stay at a hotel a few blocks away and life goes on and I find peace again. I tell Lynn I would like to look at some ridge property in Tagaytay to buy as I am not terribly happy living in Davao and really want to build a house of my own design close to a big city yet in the Province/Country.. 2005 Home, 1a,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, |
