PLAYA NEGRA

I am still here in Costa Rica. Yeah!!!! I have been here for over two weeks and my sister arrives on Sunday for eight days. I thought that I would be going home with her, but now I am not so sure. Why, you may ask, but then again you may not, I will tell you anyway, the deal I struck to buy property here in Playa Negra the last time I was here, was changed by the seller, unilaterally. Therefore; I may need additional time to find, contract and close on a different property. What I find most distressing is that the seller did not inform me prior to my arrival of any such changes to our agreement. He also did not inform me when we were together just shooting the breeze. And he did not inform me before I spent money doing due diligence needed to purchase the property. To make matters worse, he decided that it was a good idea to leave for over a week on vacation while the deal was pending. I was left to believe that I was closing under the original terms when he returned. But no, he left it to a builder who I was considering using for the construction of my residence on said property to inform me of the changes while he was gone. The same builder he was now insisting that I must use to build on the land. The man has absolutely No Cojones!! What a dishonorable and despicable person!! Such is what I said to him, plus a few other choice words, when I told him the deal was off.

I was disappointed and irked. How dare he have me come to Costa Rica, spend money, have my sister come, have soil reports prepared, and to have an arborist come to check out the trees at a cost and not to inform me of an integral change to our agreement. Did he really think that I would just go along with his demand to dictate who I use as the builder and how and what was to be built. That was not the deal. I was to buy land and he was to sell said land. Nothing else. Once the land was mine, he was to walk away with the money and I do with the property as I wish. He said during our last conversation that he wanted to help direct me in the process of the build. As if I was a uncultured, ignorant girl that he could take by the hand and guide me in this most complicated endeavor. What sheer and utter nonsense!!! Most of all I was infuriated with his arrogance and down right stupidity. No one is going to tell me what to do and how to do it. And surely I would not stand for any requirements associated with the purchase of the land. Is he nuts?

However, I want to buy into this neighborhood. I will say I have been continuously looking to buy an already existing home in this vicinity even after making the deal to purchase the land. It would be so much easier to buy a home already constructed. And I considered this pursuit as part of my due diligence to know what is out there. But unfortunately there appears to be no homes that I would consider buying. So after the fiasco with the Seller, (lets call him Seller A, for asshole). I started to look for land in this community. It is not easy, because Seller A owns all the land here. He bought a very large tract of land and had it platted out into smaller parcels. Most who bought from him built homes on their land. But what I did find, was a seller who had bought a large parcel of land from Seller A many years ago and who is now selling off smaller parcels. One of which is 2000 square meters, the same size I was going to originally buy.

So I am going to buy from this nice, easy going female seller at a better price and with no strings attached!!!! And let me not forget to add, an even nicer piece of property. It is surrounded by beautiful trees on the periphery of the land that sloths and monkeys inhabit. Take that you condescending piece of turd!

So everything happens for a reason!! I feel I am in a better place mentally and physically. Oh, I forgot to mention, I have had absolutely no pain in my stomach since I have gotten here!!!! Also the hole in the roof of my mouth is slowly closing. Hence, I am back to where I use to be: only being aware that I have cancer when I am talking about it or when I am taking my pills!!!! And even when I do take my pills, I do not acknowledge the reason why I am taking them. My ability to not dwell on my illness allows me to live life fully. I can buy land, plan to build a house and not stop to think, hey will I be alive when this house is finished? I just believe I will be, just like everyone else, an illness does not guarantee an early death, same as health does not guarantee that you will not die early! So live, enjoy every day!! Find a project, because it has been proven that if you have a project your mind will not allow your body to die, at least not until you have finished that project. So pick something that never ends; like traveling, decide that you must see and experience every country in the world before you expire. I now have chosen two projects; building a house and traveling. Find your own project, find that which makes you smile and smile as often as possible!!! Find your happiness and go for it!! Life will not always be fun nor will it be easy, but at least you are living!!

Life is not merely surviving!!!!