Life is an Encanto.
Hey you!! Happy Easter/Holy Week!!
Man, this has been a hell of a month and there's more to come. My life has turned upside down completely, for the better in a way, but man, I've had no rest whatsoever, not a single day. While everyone was praying and beaching around, I was working, I'm currently working, look...
Of course, I'm happy with it but I want to rest for a bit, my brain is dried, I can't come up with anything good to write so, I'm here just to ramble. And it's funny, I didn't payed attention to that kind of stuff before, but man, one can ramble a lot, every day, any time, it's common, get I still find it a little bit uncomfortable, maybe it's because I don't like to burden anybody with my stuff, good or bad.
But hey, keeping it all inside isn't good either, like the anger I felt last Monday when we found our main gate stolen. God, that was unbelievable audacious and just plain mean, it was done with no other intention but to hurt us in a bad way. However, we focused on the things we could control, so I went to work and that same day we found someone to make a new gate for us and with payment facilities. 150$ was the price of the job, and by Thursday we had it installed. Thank God Almighty for all his blessings!!
That same day I had a big meeting with the high authorities of the Foundation, and it went splendidly! I was congratutaled for a good job on this last five years, not that I like that, I felt uncomfortable because maybe at first it was just me, but in the last few months I did my job alongside my friend and boss Jemi, who was ratified as President of the Foundation. They even wanted me as a member of the board of directors but I said hey, I'm already managing the staff and all financial matters, it would be unethical for me to accept a spot on the board, statement to which they all agreed on. It was a good meeting indeed and after we went to celebrate with a few beers.
Now, that meeting, the stolen gate, my illness, the heat wave we've been having this last few weeks, it all sums up onto a very exhausted Rebeca, one that can barely stand up without getting dizzy, but I'm strong and I'm standing up for what I believe in and for what I love. So, although I need to rest, I know I do, I'll keep trying my best for me and for my family, all of it, my birth family and my music family.
Speaking of my music al family, like in every family, we have the In Law's, and our Foundation is not the exception, and like a very toxic mother in law, we have a few who don't like us very much. I have never known why though, I mean, we haven't done anything to them but they seem offended by our existence, of course, when they need us they call us, but they take advantage of every chance they have to reassure that they have more power than us. Like today, my sister was excluded from an audition to be a part of a regional state orchestra; we got the requirements and they said "You must have participated in the previous encounters..." and she couldn't go to them because they didn't invited her, but always said she could audition later, and now as it turns out, she can't. She's not missing much though, hours on the road, sleeping in hammock's or on the floor, showering with buckets and eating not too well, but the musical experience, the most important part, that's the one that matters, and the one she's been denied off.
Well, we need more facts before blowing all our of proportion, but it has bothered us very very much. But hey, the work must go on, the music must go on, our lives must go on, with the hope that tomorrow we can be ready for bigger and better things, like the Cherry filled Chocolate Cupcakes I made yesterday, yum!!
In the mean time I'll keep singing to the soundtrack of Disney's Encanto, because despite all the hardships, life is a true Encanto.
Sorry for my rambles, see you next time!!
April 18th, 2022.
Despite all the difficulties I'm glad you have the front door back, I hope it's more secure this time. Try to somehow secure it a little more so that they don't take it away again. Oh, the orchestra, what happened to your sister has also happened to me, so much so, that never, in 10 years that I was in the orchestra I did an audition as such or I was invited to one, I have never played a solo, even though in those moments I got to play better than my classmates, because they were new they never let me be first oboe or play a solo, they preferred to put the boys and leave me always in second place.
I really liked your dessert
Oh, months ago I spoke a little bit bad about that movie "Encanto", I don't like it at all hahahah but I haven't published the article yet, I'll publish it today tonight