“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson
Hello Everybody! How are you all doing?
Today is the life post! I want to talk about all the things that have happened during this month. And I can assure you that things have been crazy. I don’t even know where to start from. This month has affected my blog. It has made me realize so many things.
I am going to start with something positive. My savings are going great. In no time I will have enough funds to go and live in Canada. Saving money for 40 weeks is very tiring. It has been a huge sacrifice so far. But I can not complain about it. It was my fault. I should have saved my money the moment I got my first paycheck. Instead I spent and spent and had fun and bought all the things that I wanted. In the end I didn’t had a significant amount saved. Well, I have learned my lesson. I could be saving money right now in a more relaxed way. But I can’t. I don’t mind that anymore. There are only fifteen weeks left.
What else has been going on?
It isn’t very positive. To me September is month of tropical storms and hurricanes. It has always been since I was very little. I experienced hurricane George in 1998. I was only six years old back then. For years a storm hasn’t come as strong as Maria or Irma has. And I can say that I am very impressed on what it is going to do to us. Like hurricane Irma it will be a miracle and a blessing to go against this storm without being harmed.
I don’t know what will happen in the future. As of now I am writing this post a week before. So the hurricane hasn’t passed yet. Like normal I am preparing this post in case the power goes out for a long period of time. The only way I would be able to use WiFi would be at work. Unless something happens with all the phone signals. I am not going to let a storm stop me from publishing my posts. Now that I won’t have much to do I will be working on my art. Well I can only do it during the day because at night is as dark as a shark’s eye. Less than two weeks ago we went through hurricane Irma. Nobody here has gone back to their normal lives after that. And now we have Maria. I pray for our safety and every other island that is going through this hard time.
Well I stand corrected. This is one of the hardest things that I have ever faced in life. I didn’t know that something like this will ever happen. Hurricane Maria was a very terrifying event. I couldn’t sleep through the night. I have read all my Wimpy Kid books. I’ve finished my CC Characters. But waiting for things to get back to normal is going to take a long time. And I am tired of waiting. Days become weeks and soon weeks will become a month. Now I write my posts waiting for the day that I can upload my posts again.
There are so many thing that I have started to appreciate. I am safe and also is my family. My house is alright and nothing happened to it. We don’t have power, nor a generator. There is no signal where I live. Good thing I still have a job. I get paid some amount each week. It is not enough for my savings, but I am not allowed to complain. The water came back days later. But our days are short and hot. Some nights were so hot that sleeping in the balcony became an option. Now I sleep in front of the window in the living room. After dark it gets very boring. At 8 pm I am already getting ready to bed. Then at sunrise I am getting up.
I do miss my life. It was boring, but it was better than this. I would practice Italian and French each morning. Write some posts, draw and watch YouTube on my TV. The internet has become a treasure to me. I need it so much. My world has become so narrow. It feels like the world does not exist outside of Puerto Rico. My only entertainment is the people around me, the radio and the newspaper. Thank goodness that I planned to start preparing for my trip in November. Better yet, I am glad that I applied for the working visa back in April. If I had done it now three months before to my departure date, I would have missed out on so many email.
So there you have it, a brief detail of what has been going on with my life. I miss my blog so much. Publishing my drawings, writing posts, updating on Instagram. It has become part of my life. How do I feel when it is suddenly taken from me. I hope things go back to normal soon. We even believe that Thanksgiving and Christmas are going to be spiritless.
Do not forget to give me visit at my new website The Senspirational ArtRoom. All I need is your support and now you can do so by going to my Patreon page. Or go to see my older drawings at DeviantArt. There are also many other sites that I am currently active. Never forget to add me at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and on Pinterest. Well I’ll leave now. Be nice to others and have a nice day!
See you all later, take care and Happy Holidays,
from Ijiserure.