The Unbearable Lightness of Being

On Wednesday I woke up at 8 am, I took a shower and I went to the restaurant for breakfast. I spent the morning looking for a place to print a label and looking for a post office to ship something that I sold in the auction website. Because someone asked me last Sunday if I had the product in stock I knew that this person was going to buy it where I was traveling, so I took it with me.

I designed for a while then we had lunch. At 2 pm we went back to the hotel to get ready for the trade show. It started at 3 pm and we were a little delayed because we stopped to buy coffee. We got the place and walked in, and instantly we started to sweat... even me! I hardly ever sweat, maybe because my slow and lazy heart, but this time I did. I was wearing a undershit and I had to go to the restroom, take it out and just wear the shirt of my uniform. My two coworkers who have overweight were dying because it was so hot. There was not air conditionar nor fans in he place and everyone was complaining about this. Really the organization of the trade show was terrible. By 5 pm I was fine but the other guys were still suffering because the heat.

The seller, who joined the company a couple of months ago, has not confidence yet to talk to people so the other coworker and I had to support him. I talked to people and explained to them how our tools work, and I also did live demonstration more than once. This always works... when a man see a tiny woman like me doing using a tool to do the work that a muscle man does with a hammer this take all his attention. Anyways we did a good team and everything went well.

The trade show ended at 9 pm. We drove to the city center to buy empanadas in a place that the seller knew and I took photos in the way.

Next to the legislature building there is the public library then one of the museum that I wanted to visit but I could not because it's far away from our hotel and of course it was closed at night.

Hello guys, I'm still alive. Last days I had no chance to update my journal so now I'm sitting in the rstaurant of the hotel drinking coffee and ready to write. On weekend I was busy packing clothes and everything what I needed for the trip. I bought a new keyboard for my tablet and shoes very comfortables because if my foot hurt I wont wear high heels the 3 days.

On Monday I got up at 5 am after just 4 hours of sleep. It supposed that my coworker was piking me at 6 am but he arrived at 8 am. I didn't complain because he took a shower before left his home so that was a win. We drove for 14 hours and he didn't smell so I'm right when I say that his smell is because lack of hygiene. I have to say that he did his best not to be creepy. The driving tok so long because one of the routes was losed and we had to take another route, and because I drank 5 cups of coffee and so much water so I had to use the restroom every 1 hour lol.

We arrived to Mendoza at 10.30 pm. The hotel was fine, simple but very clean. My coworker who already know the employees from the hotel becuse all the previous trip that he did, asked to the girl for a room for me with view to the mountain, so I got a room in the 7th floor. I settled then we went to eat. Dinner was burgers, I'm not fan of eating out but nothing that I can do about that. We came back to the hotel at midnight and I went to my room very sleepy wishing can rest but I had to work in some designs. Because I forgot to ask the wi-fi password I had to connect to my computer at home using my iPhone so I designed in the screen of the phone :(

Oh while we were driving, all my customers were mailing or messaging me to give me more designs to do. Also my hosting went off for a while and emails were not working. When I tried to send a ticket to my provider for he fix this, I entered to a zone without signal so I had to wait to get connection again and send the ticket. It was so stressful! That night I designed until 1 am then my mind stopped working and I decided to sleep.

Next day I woke up at 6 am and open the window to see the mountan, it was still dark. I ook a shower, get dressed and I went downstair to ask the wifi password and work in th designs. At 8 am I went to my room and I could see the mountains. Then i knocked the door of the room where my coworker slept, not signals of him. I went to the restaurant to have breakfast. My coworker came 1 hour after. We waited for another coworker who lives in that province for he come to the hotel to joined us then we left to our final destination.
 

Last month I've been helping my sister to do my niece's 15th years party, something similar to the Sweet 16 or Quinceañera. The topic was the ocean and we decorated everything with blue and white colors. Because my sister paid everything herlsef we tried to do as much as we could do. She rented a house that was perfect for this, and they decorated it. Then we did all the decoration for the candy bar, the bottles for the juice, bread boxes, souvenirs, decoration for the sweet table, etc. She bought the cake and the food and mom helped with that because she has a restaurant.

She bought the dress which was not the typical princess dress, and she hired a photographer who did very good job! She took a lot of pictures before the party that are great, very adequate for a teen. I don't like when they try a teen look like an adult sexy woman. My sister wanted I do the makeup because I have a lot of good products for this, so I did although I never did a course for that (I just watched some videos on Youtube). I am pleased with the results! The photographer and the hairdresser said that I did very good job, and my niece and sister loved it. I was so afraid to ruin the makeup because I never tried before colors like blue for the eyes. It surprised me to see that I have more skills than I know. I was preparing her skin with treatments and creams the previous days, and also her hair, so she really looked beautiful.

On Saturday after left work on the way home I realized that my niece didn't have jewelry to use that day in the party, so I bought a ring, earings and bracelet for her. I came home, took a shower then I went to the salon with my sister and mom to bring everything for the party. I did the candy bar then I came back home to makeup my niece. When she left to go to the hairdresser I did my makeup and get dressed. My sister was delayed so I went to the salon alone to welcome the guests while she got ready.

The people were punctual and almost everyone respected the dress code (dressing white). When my niece was ready to enter, there were 15 person that she chose to give to her a heart plated balloon. We did a line, I was the last in the line because I had to organize it for the music starts when she enter. My niece enter with my sister and started to walk and get the ballons, she was so nervous!!! They both were holding tears until they got me in the line, then hugged me and let dropped some tears. My sister was not able to say a word but it was not necessary at all and I didn't say anything for not to ruin their makeup lol :)

Everything was fine. People loved the party, my niece was so so so happy and surrounded by people who really love her. Two friends and her boyfriend said some words to her in front of everybody, it was emotional. We worked harder but it worth, I've never seen my niece so happy before.

The photographer told me that I should study photography and be her partner. She says I've good eye to take photos, I wonder why she thinks that, my photos are pretty normal. She also wants Martu and I go to her house to do some shots, she likes when I smile.... I hate smiling for photos!!! I wish I could see myself through the eyes of another person to know what they see when they look at me, I don't think they see anything special. She took Martu and me like model to take photos in the party and as I could see there are 1 or 2 photos that I liked, so I'll share here when I get the photos.

I went to sleep at 4 am, very tired but full of love. It was a beautiful and emotional day