Off to Mexico Again!! Year 2

Okay so life is so strange...maybe it's just our lives but I don't think so. Life is just that! As the saying goes, Sh_t happens! (I try not to swear, because of Angel and other personal reasons, but it's sort of appropriate here!)

Bad things happen for a reason. That's my Life's Philosophy, or it's become that. I don't know why things happen sometime...and you walk around banging your head against the wall, going "Why me?" "Why me?"

I have just come to know that while I don't understand it at the time, something good will come of it, and I have made that my Life's Philosophy...because truthfully I'd go crazy otherwise...who knows, maybe I already am...but that's for another post :) ha! ha!

Last year, when we returned from Mexico we couldn't get a housing subsidy because we had been out of the country more than 3 months. The only way to get one would be to stay home for another entire year and then apply. This really screwed me up, because really we were homeless.

We ended up staying with a close family/friend for the entire summer, which definitely wasn't the plan, as it was a cramped one bedroom.

Then the fire happened. It was on the 10th floor. Angel was the first to smell it, I phoned it in...and as we rushed down the stairs, 15 flights...I was freaking and saying OMG, "Why me?" "Why now?" "Why is this happening?"

Luckily, no one was injured and nothing of ours burned but the apartment did suffer smoke damage. It was such an awful stinky toxic smell, there was no way I could let Angel stay there.

We temporarily moved to another friend's in the same building, where I housesit, while the tenant works out of town. We could only stay for a bit as he was coming home soon.

Long story short, my mom had passed away, it's just over 3 years ago now (that's another very sad "Why Me?" Why Moma? story) and she had left me a small amount of money.

I had just enough for plane tix. I had created a website for the Fogg N'Suds http://www.foggnsuds.com and so with the meager savings I said "Let's blow this popsicle stand!!"

With my dear friend Sean's help...(I had build a website for him the year before http://www.stampslanding.com) he helped me with the tickets and that was it, we were off.

And so join us now..For year two...formerly Adventures of Angel...now the more focused, bigger and better than ever AdventureZ in Mexico!!