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Wednesday 13 August 2008

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Significant changes have been happening in my life lately. More importantly, significant changes have been happening in my attitudes, self-esteem, vision, deep thoughts by Jack Handy, etc. And most importantly, especially for readers of this blog, significant changes will soon be happening here at isahrai.com. How significant, you ask? Significantly significant.

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Monday 07 July 2008

I'm Still with the Band

For the past 6 months, a major source of sanity, craziness and major happiness has been La Boquita, the world music group I formed with Silvia, Paolo and Mauricio. I met Paolo & Mauricio through Daniel, the man who briefly invoked Fever but ultimately proved to be just a little too sick in the head himself. Despite our disastrous ending, I'm forever thankful to him, though, for getting me back on the stage, getting me back in the saddle of love, and getting me to be more open to all sorts of possibilities, musical and otherwise. When Daniel and I fell apart, Maurico & Paolo were literally right there, sitting just a few feet away in the audience, ready to scoop up the pieces. A week later, Silvia (who is Paolo's girlfriend) moved from Queretaro to Zihuatanejo. One day after that, the four of us performed together for the first time.

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Monday 19 May 2008

Legalese and Medical Jargon

For legal reasons, several major events in my life in the past 6 months were un-bloggable... a few were even un-speakable to friends. These legalities ranged from difficult trials in both my life and the lives of loved ones, really exciting turning points in my life that needed to be fully "turned" before I could speak publicly about them (almost completely revolved! stay tuned!), and, most recently, one bizarre day that can only (legally) be summed up by saying: "It involved an eye patch, feathers, a confidentiality agreement and half a dozen cases of grappa."

And now, I'm simply blogging to say... I won't be blogging again anytime soon. I am headed into surgery in almost exactly 36 hours.

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Wednesday 23 January 2008

Why I Live in Zihua

I had just left my office downtown to head home for a few hours of work on the computer before my band and I went to Ixtapa for an audition. My cellphone alerted me to a text message from Sylvia. She was in full on work crisis mode and needed to vent. I quickly checked my email to make sure I didn't have any pressing matters to attend to and made a detour for Sylvia's apartment. 30 minutes later we were at The Pancake House ("The only pancake house in Zihuatanejo with a cocktail lounge!") working through our first round of bloody marys and coconut mango muffins.

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Sunday 20 January 2008

I'm With the Band

Our name is "La Boquita" which means "Little Mouth"... you know, because I'm so quiet and demure. (2 photos)

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Sunday 16 December 2007

Jump! For my Love!

another photo from Sanibel Island...

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Saturday 15 December 2007

Greetings from Sunny Sanibel Island

a photo from Sanibel Island, Fort Myers, Florida

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Tuesday 27 November 2007

Fiebre

The first song that Daniel and I sang together was "Fever". We sang it before we even had one conversation. I felt the song was extremely cheesy - beneath me even - but it was a song we both knew the words to (albeit in 2 languages) so we tried it. We sounded pretty darn good.

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Thursday 25 October 2007

Splish. Splash.

It's so difficult to get back into the swing of blogging once life has interrupted me.... Do I do this huge recap to try and explain why I've been so quiet? Do I tell you about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the oh quite so lovely? Do I offer up mea culpas alongside a bunch of "it's not my faults"? Or do I just pretend like nothing has happened, that I've been here all along, skipping all the technical difficulties, medical snafus, career epiphanies, multiple relocations, 4-star dinners, musical numbers, and kissy-face nonsense? What's a repentant blogger to do?

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Monday 17 September 2007

It's Official

After quite a few hours of searching flickr and photobucket for examples and 3 trips to the hair salon, I am officially not missing my dreadlocks. For the past 5 months, I've desperately missed the locks every time I did my hair or saw photos of myself. I was determined to have long hair even though it resulted in either an extremely straggly ponytail or unbalanced, sparse bedraggled curls. But with some serious soul searching, I finally accepted that no matter how much I want long hair, I am now a short hair girl. I searched and found something I can live with -- girlie yet sufficiently quirkly. Wonders of wonders (and with the grace of a patient hairstylist), the short 'do looks good.

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