Hurricanes and Tropical Islands

The family and I went to Jamaica for 2 weeks, and it just so happened that we were there when hurricane Dean decided to stop by for a visit. It could have been worse, but having a category 4 hurricane coming over our villa was really scary to my mom because of the kids. We went 5 days without electric, and 3 days without water pressure or hot water. It wasn't really that bad about the water, because it was so damn hot that you WANTED to take a cold shower.

The unbearable part was thew lack of electricity. We had to sleep with the windows open because it was so hot, but in Jamaica they have some vicious biting flies and a hell of a lot of mosquitoes that found their way through the holes in the window screens. FUCKERS!!! I remember trying to go to bed and I kept slapping myself to try and kill those bastards. I remember one night my mom and I slept in the same room and we were up at 4 in the morning talking/ hallucinating about what we could do to prevent those fuckers from getting to us. Mom came up with the mummification idea. Her thoughts were to get a whole bunch of gauze and wrap it all over out entire bodies. We went through 3 tubes of anti-itch cream. 3 TUBES!!!! Mom sat in her bed with a bottle of Raid in her hand and I sat there with a lantern and a Citronella coil that the bastards were immune to. We cussed them out like it was going out of style, and I still have marks from those fuckers!

Not to mention the damn biting assholes, My dad and I went snorkeling the Thursday before we left. A massive fucker of a jellyfish decided to attack me and stung 3/4 of my body, basically everything that wasn't covered. I was stung all up and down on one arm, some on the other arm, and all around both of my legs. Needless to say I was done with the ocean at this point. I have been back a week now, and the scars are just now going away!!

Other than that, everything was awesome. I need to go back to get the negative parts out of my mind.

Good Friday: In God we Trust

I work in an Italian company, where most people are predominately Catholic, myself included, but we do not have Good Friday off like most companies. When I asked if we had Friday off, the technicians started laughing. I was told by the Italian-Venezuelan that our company is only religious when it comes to the dollar bill. The dollar bill states "In God We Trust", but for this company, "When there is money, we work." I was also told by the techs that the owner once made people come in on Christmas and New Years one year because someone had asked if they were getting off early on Christmas Eve. Apparently if upset him for someone to ask "such a ridiculous question." Not only are we working today, but tomorrow as well. Saturdays is the slowest of all days and there is really no point in being open, but We only get Easter Sunday off because we don't work Sundays and he doesn't have to pay us. I think it is somewhat odd, because the main company located in NJ is off today, all weekend, and Monday. I am not too concerned because I do not anticipate being here much longer. I received an email yesterday with my job offer in writing. I just need to book the flight!