June 2, 2010

The following are all the posts from my old blog, miamitocostarica.com .
I'm keeping them to remind me of the whole moving-to-CR thing.
;-)

February 4, 2010

This.

"...better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there." - Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

Oh, and Happy New Year! ;-)

November 4, 2009

Taxis, still nasty.

The other day India (age 7) and I decided to take pictures of stuff we thought was gross (her idea). I had an appointment at the hospital and she hates going there. She says people catch diseases at hospitals. She asked for my camera at one point and took a photo of the thing she was most grossed out by.
A used band-aid, stuck to a wall in the lobby.

The band-aid was kinda gross...however, later in the day we took a taxi back to our house and I saw this on the back seat:

Boy's underwear. Yeah. I won.
I seriously need to think about getting a car.

October 2, 2009

Lobster Babies

The fish at my local grocery store sucks, so I was really happy when my doorbell rang one day and I met The Fish Guy. The Fish Guy has fresh corvina (bream?) and pargo (snapper) and pulpo (octopus) and camarón (shrimp) and, every so often, langosta (lobster). He calls once a week and if I'm around and in the mood for what he's got, I place an order and he delivers later that same day.

Last week he had lobster and I ordered 2 kilos. It was fresh and smelled great, but I was a little taken aback by how small they were. Really small. Like, taken from their mommies, small. I'm willing to bet that if you got caught with these in Florida, they'd fine your ass.

I don't know the laws here - if there are any - so I'm wondering if I should continue to buy them. Until I get an answer one way or the other, I'm going to continue to eat them. Small or not, they were fantastic.

October 1, 2009

Tico Drivers

Hey, this guy can't be any worse than most of the drivers on Costa Rica's roads.

September 26, 2009

Yogurt

I'm thinking about getting a yogurt maker. The kind that heats up, because that's the only kind that will make Greek-style yogurt. If you don't know the difference, you don't know what you're missing. If you're somewhere you can just go out and buy it, do so, it's delicious.

Buying yogurt here is a pain. If you want fat-free, day-glo pink or green yogurt with artificial fruit, as much sugar as a regular coke and enough preservatives to last 6 months, the choices are endless. If you want full-fat, plain, unsweetened yogurt with no preservatives or additives, choices are slim and sometimes, none.

I can get the yogurt I like at the weekly organic feria - as long as I'm there early and the supplier has more than 6 liters of yogurt. Often, I'm not quick enough and I get zip. Also, the yogurt is made from goat's milk and, while I like it, I like the milder cow's milk for certain recipes.

So, I have to decide if I'm going to have my husband pick one up in Miami. I'll order it and have it sent to my mom, I can't make T pick one out, the only thing he wants to do in Miami is eat a cheeseburger and buy a new 'Canes t-shirt.

If you have a yogurt maker, how often do you use yours? Any brand to recommend? Anything I need to know?

However, if you know where I can buy some plain, full-fat, unsweetened, Greek-style yogurt somewhere in the San José area, let me know and I can just forget all this. Every time I bring home a new kitchen appliance, I have to hear T's speech about how I got rid of his juicer and the run-down of all the wonderful things his juicer did and I have to listen without rolling my eyes and saying anything mean and, honestly, it gets tougher every time.

September 18, 2009

Need new contact lenses.

I was typing up the last post at 11:00 last night and, as I waited for the photo to load, I read the options on the toolbar. The word that caught my eye and made me gasp and blink was the font choice "Arial", in the left-hand corner. I would have sworn, for just a moment, until my brain assured me otherwise, that the word I was looking at was "Anal". I actually wondered if that was some new font. I wanted to click it and see what an "anal" font would look like. I need to change my contact lenses. Either the one week variety really can't be worn safely for a month or I need to update my prescription.