Well it is time for a catch-up.

Best friends come and go,  we keep them in our hearts when it is not possible to keep them in our arms.  Nora and Ron who we met the day we arrived in Quito, after 2 years were throwing in the towel and heading home to California.  I got to buy great things from them that they were not able to take back.  I love them for that opportunity.

We decided to move to Cuenca, Ed was not going to learn Spanish,  so to not speak for him for the next ten years like I did for him in Japan I decided it was better to to accept defeat and just move than spend the next ten years talking for my husband.  

We had my best buddy come to Ecuador but forget to keep paying me for Nora's wonderful things I bought, because she got angry that I couldn't meet her for ribs and cole slaw at Sunrise Cafe while I was running our first restaurant.  (in my defense I did offer to take them to go and eat them at the restaurant). I miss her, although I shouldn't.

I had a expat come to me and ask for help advancing her business,, I did help her and after investing time and money, got told that it was not what she wanted.  I respect her telling me this, but not not locking me out, offering the business that I invested in, if I pay her 11,000.00

Yes my faith in human kind has been shaken, I actually don't know if trust is in my vocabulary.  I trust myself.  I know that I take the higher ground.  I am not ready to crawl in a hole and give up.  I will have success.  I am a successful person.  I refuse to believe that everyone is just in it to screw me.  Well,,, on Monday I will walk into the business we had as a partnership and make it mine.  I have the opportunity to give it another go.  I will.

 I will succeed.  Wish me strength.