Laughter and Forgetting

There's a book I read, "The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting". There's a lot of laughter in life. And a lot of forgetting. But how is it that we come to forget the things we forget? Or remember the things we remember? I like laughing. Depends on what I'm forgetting if I like forgetting it or not. Funny thing huh?

Anyway....Central America and all of its peculiarities don't cease to amaze me. I'm made fun of for lawn furniture in my bedroom and suicide showers. Today at my old apartment, where friends of mine now live, there was a nasty sounding snake found in the doorway, literally of their apartment. Black with yellow or red or yellow and red diamonds on it. Small head. Literally between the wooden door that gets shut and the iron gate that sits outside of the door. I've found large frogs/toads in my kitchen sink and under my sink, I've had cockroach madness, and I've seen stingrays in the water, hell, I've even seen a snake on the beach and in the rainforest, but never in between my two doors at my apartment. Creepy. Last night I was sitting in my bed and I saw an ant carrying a small (but bigger than the ant) dead black crunchy looking spider across my wall. The circle of life won, I killed it with my shoe. That won't stop more from wandering around in my house in the jungle.

My favorite store, wait, no, my favorite two stores here are the Libreria and Gollo. The Libreria is kind of a mix between a toy store, a paper store and a craft store. But you can get all sorts of stuff there if you know what they have. Backpacks, toys, games, wrapping paper, notebooks, coloring books, crayons, erasers, drawing paper, paint, glitter, learn Spanish books, Costa Rica hand held flags, memory sticks and SD cards, adapter for international plugs, pens, graph paper, music paper, all sorts of fun crafty stuff. Gollo is magic. I bought a mirror for $8 where the hardware store (Ferreteria) wanted $40 for a cheap flimsy mirror. Gollo is the answer to every cost effective person's dream in Jaco. Ashtrays, makeup, dog beds, closet organizers, candle holders, towels, linens....i guess it's just like a walmart or target but cheaper and smaller. Hard to explain, kinda like a dollar store.

Yep, now I lay in my bed and look at my beautiful green surfboard and hope that I can get all my work done so I can go surfing soon. It's very interesting to reflect on how I felt when I left Jaco and how I felt when I arrived in Chicago and how I felt when I left Chicago and now how I feel upon my arrival in Jaco this time. I've met new people, got to know others that I felt farther away from before whom now I am closer to, both here and back home. Life is so interesting isn't it? Kinda had a doldrum day but thinking about how weird and fun life is makes me remember, and laugh. :)