2011 Ju-Ju

We rang in 2011 with friends P. & D. at their Nuevo Vallarta resort - lobster tails, champagne, a disco dance show, and a huge party with hats, streamers, noisemakers, and balloons galore was capped by the enormous fireworks all around the bay at midnight. We were in thick of it, with the resort's fireworks exploding right over our heads (I moved a bit out of the way!).

There were no beach bonfires in Nuevo that we could see, so we saved our written wishes until we got back to Bucerias. We went right down to the beach where there were lots of fires burning, and threw our scraps of paper onto the flames and released our wishes for 2011. That's one step toward improving our "ju-ju" from 2010 - which sucked.

The other "ju ju" improvement plan was to get rid of the devil's mask that John bought last Easter on the beach in Puerto Vallarta. We feel our luck really turned bad in 2010 as soon as we took possession of it.

We were going to release the devil to the deep blue sea if we went out fishing this season, but it doesn't look like we'll be going (no good fishing, apparently). We didn't want to burn it because we want that bad energy contained, not released to the atmosphere!

So, we thought, let someone steal it. If we leave anything outside our front gate it is gone in mere minutes. It's a bit unnerving, actually. Even things that are attached to the gate get ripped off (like the metal bell we installed so visitors could ring it to announce their arrival - gone, with big holes left in the wall where they tore it out).

We put the devil mask out on the gate early on Dec. 31st - and, as of mid-morning January 1st, it was still there. That tells you something! I was all the more determined to get rid of it - but how?

Just as we were silently pondering this, one of the renters vacationing in our building said he'd take it if we didn't want it. We told him we felt it had brought us bad luck, and that it also has teeny little wood-boring bugs in it, but he still wants it. John doused it with pesticide and handed it over. The renters, and the mask, depart today.

I am going to post fast this as internet access has been intermittent since Boxing Day - the internet is down more than it is up. Aggravating. Maybe that will improve when the mask leaves.

Todo bien. (It's all good.)