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in no particular order. Learn conversational spanish Run a 10k Cook more Save and Invest (more?) Paint my apartment Lose at least 15 pounds Get to work on time Return to playing tennis Listen to my Personal Trainer Stop Procrastinating I know there is more, but i will add them as i remember them...or i will never get this post off!

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2010 was a particularly trying year for me.  Initially i requested a do-over, but i think it's best to put it behind me and look forward to 2011.  Listing all that went wrong, or all that i did or didn't do would be way too painful and so i won't attempt it, except to say that my purse was stolen with ALL my stuff and i gained 5 pounds. There were high points however, i became 'owner' of my first

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Sometime in August, I 'bought' a car for the first time in my life. A nice car. Nice enough that I have been allowed into VIP parking a time or two with nothing but a smile and a request.  The car purrs when the accelerator is engaged, leaving those around me in my dust ( i choose my targets carefully..lol).  I also get a lot more respect on the road.  Taxi drivers who used to dare me to continue

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There are two sets of people I envy: Writers and Long Distance Runners. Being very left brained (let's save the left vs right discussion for another post), i have always looked with awe and great appreciation on those who can weave words together that mesmerize; be it a line, phrase, poem, song or an entire tale. My aunt, a great english teacher, once told me that my essays were pure bones, no

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heard this song for the first time today....and it is so how i am feeling right now!!enjoy!

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At first there is a sinking feeling..unless u have felt this u probably cannot imagine what the feeling is..but literally it feels as if your heart drops to the very bottom of ur stomach..it then begins to beat so quickly, u think u may be having a heart attack..your whole body becomes weak, u want to move but u cannoteven to lift ur hands to brush away tears requires what feels like a superhuman

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I think i will be back to blogging this year....i hope all those who have expressly stated that they missed my blog will be happy..Originally this blog was started to focus on the normalcy of life in Jamaica amid the turmoil (crime stats indicate that we MUST be at war), now it shall pretty much focus on anything that i am focused on.It has not been a particularly happy new year for me thus far,

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I read an article in one of our daily newspapers that compared Jamaica to a country at war. It reminded me that this was exactly why my blog was started...hence the name 'On the Edge of War'. At some point within the almost two years of the blog, life has been so normal that i almost forgot about the war that was brewing. This sense of well being was jarred over the past two weeks when almost

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And i feel really bad..No folks...i did NOT cheat on the love of my life.....so banish those thoughts from your heads right now!!! I cheated on my hairdresser with my pedicurist...*Sigh* The story goes like this: I was planning to wash my hair today...no easy task with more than my share of hair and loc's that almost unravel as soon as water touches them (hence my propensity for only washing when

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Where do we draw the line? At what point can we take no more? When should we just say enough is enough.....stop now!well it has been raining almost continuously for the last four weeks. I think there was a three day break at one point, but that occurred while i was off the island, so as far as i am concerned, the rain has not stopped. Now i love rainy weather, i love the overcast skies, i love

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After a fellow blogger made underhanded comments about my tardiness to update my blog, i decided to do something about it today. I was actually surprised to see that i haven't written a post since July!!!!Since that time, I have been on vacation...TWICE, received an increase in salary, received a promotion; Jamaica has had a general election, a change in ruling party, a hurricane (sideswiped,

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So i finally went to the orthodontist after repeated urging from my dentist....I decided to get the assessment done and move from there. Afterall i had what i thought was a slight problem - my top and bottom teeth meet edge to edge instead of the bottom ones being slightly inside of the top ones (a slight under bite?). I also have an inherited condition that results in a hardly noticeable

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So my blogging stopped as suddenly as it restarted..lol; had something to do, i imagine, with the fact that i had cable tv and internet installed that very week. The phone people (cable and wutless??) originally told me 20 days to installation, when i checked back two weeks later they told me another 5 weeks...i however got a voip phone (for international calls) installed the very same day i

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When it rains, it certainly pours. Here i am again, just one day after writing my last blog entry. As unbelievable as it may seem, the reason is very simple. Having just moved house, i have yet to receive cable, internet, or phone services. I am like a ship without a captain, an aimless wanderer in the sea of life. I went and paid for both cable and internet services today...cost me a tidy

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Now anybody who has ever moved house before knows that this is not merely a one or two day affair, but more of a gradual process that can take up to three months. Well I began this process on friday and given how the apartment looks, i am estimating a six week journey (it could be worse huh?).Now if you are young and spry moving is a breeze, otherwise, not so cool. All that tugging and hauling

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But hey! I am not a writer and i writer i shall never be..i don't even feel bad about my lack of blogging...a fellow blogger even threatened to remove the link to my blog...but still i am unmoved...a writer i am not. That said let me get right into it. I expect to move into my own apartment before the month is out. I am hoping this will be a defining moment in my life as i really cannot

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He was my cousin, but more like a brother to me...my formative years were spent in his presence. He is probably the reason i can be described as a tomboy, or am quite comfortable in the presence of men, though i had no true father figure. Though he couldn't teach me the intricacies of romantic love, he certainly was able to impart brotherly love. He fed me bird peppers once, not even tomato and

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Everybody who knows me, know that mosquitoes don't bite me...somewhere somehow in some conversation it will come up and i will make it known. If i am standing with a group of people and they are all being bitten, I am standing there quite calmly, accusing them of lying because i feel nothing. Of course, the general consensus is that i have 'bad blood', because it seems mosquitoes only bite those

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Tourists love Jamaica. I know its not the sand, sea nor sun...quite a few places have this - extremely beautiful beaches, and a lot of them have better infrastructure - roads, airports, transportation......but still tourists love Jamaica. Now the Spanish (Spaniards, Mexicans, Dominicans) have realized this and are literally taking over the North Coast, our main seat of tourism; and when the build

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I had a dilemma.I am attending a wedding on Saturday in Montego Bay, the wonderful second city where I attended high school, and i have a beautiful outfit in black and white that i am planning to wear. I however mentioned it to my mother and she was mortified about my choice of colours. I then polled the opinions of my friends and the people on a message board that i frequent. Thank god the

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Though i hate to say it, life in Kingston seems to become more hazardous as the days go by. I still have to give thanks that i have never had an incident (knocking on wood), however the caution with which one must approach everyday life must only be exceeded by that of someone living in a nation at war.The headlines this week were dominated by stories in which journalists featured prominently.

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This title is very apt for a number of goings on in the society today.Lets start with the most interesting......The People's National Party (PNP), the governing party in Jamaica are being accused of taking 'gifts' from a multinational company with which the country does business. Now in my opinion, no matter how u look at it, acceptance of such a 'gift' was inappropriate for a number of reasons

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Ahhhhhh the silly season is here again.....no, not christmas! GENERAL ELECTIONS!!Our system of government, handed down by the british, consists of an upper and lower house. The lower house is elected by the people in a general election...there are some sixty constituencies and at the end of voting, whichever party wins the most seats, put forward their leader as the next prime minister. The

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Ha! and u thought i wouldnt be back for a while.....Well i was encouraged to write about the trials of home ownership in JA....I was asked to do an entire blog, i compromised and decided to dedicate an entire post..in this blog.I have started the ball rolling towards ownership of a largish (by jacan standards) one bedroom apartment in Kingston. I wasn't really seriously house hunting as i had

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Is it a blessing or a curse?I swear I think i am superwoman, three jobs PLUS trying to purchase a small apartment...which is why i need the three jobs in the first place!! The initial stages of making a home purchase in Jamaica is STRESS!!!! Right now i am not sure just how to describe my feelings, i think i switch regulary between excited, worried, elated, stressed, scared........afterall

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I haven't blogged in a while mostly because i have been extremely busy. Busy with work and busy falling in love. I can admit that part of what has kept me from posting is selfishness....I did not want to share my joy with the world (lol). This may sound strange since you would think that with all these wonderful emotions flowing through me, i would be anxious to share my good fortune, but it

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Yup, that i am. So i drink coffee to get me through the day. Unfortunately this also seems to affect my sleep at nights, and therefore, the earlier i go to bed, the earlier i awake. I am definitely gonna have to stop drinking coffee. My tiredness is as a result of increased work pressures, generated by an overabundance of overseas clients. I know these people are used to having someone

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Procrastination - The art of needlessly putting off for tomorrow what you could have done today. I have mastered this art. They say it's as a result of habitual carelessness or laziness. It is therefore a habit that i need to break especially since i do not consider myself to be either careless or lazy. However i Procrastinate. I now have so much work on my desk that it is going to take at

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So i am still single and on a quest to find true love....uhmmmmm or something like that. I have met quite a few young men who seem interesting enough and though my extremely busy schedule has prevented as much face to face interaction as i would have liked, i figure there is always the phone. The only thing wrong with that scenario is that i really am not big on the phone thing.So i met a young

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Wow.....i haven't been here in a while. This is mainly because the move described in my last post resulted in me having no phone and therefore no internet, dialup, dsl or otherwise....i am now working on getting wireless broadband so hopefully the drought will end soon.So many things have happened since my last post........Jamaica has since gotten its first female Prime Minister - she will be

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My christmas vacation was quite tiring...I spent it in florida, lyming shopping and having a general good time with friends!! I visited the MGM studios in Orlando...what a colossal wsate of time.....only two rides of any note, and we could only get on to one of them - The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror- and a terror it was...i may scan a picture of what i looked like during that ride!!!So i

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Welcome to the Silly Season in Jamdown....aka the party till you drop season....Christmas in Jamaica is not only a time when families come together, but because family members come from all over the world to be here, it is also a time when parites (sessions) abound. In the world of reggae/dancehall music, Jamaica is the place to be during the christmas season, many overseas based performers and

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My Trainer and I got to talking while i was at the gym and he told me a story about a young woman (she had just started university) from out of town who he has been dodging. They were introduced through mutual friends who jokingly made reference to his sexual prowess. Well the young woman showed up at his apartment for a bath presumably because there was a water lock-off at her place. She had

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SO i have embarked on a weight loss project in which i am attempting to lose a relatively large chunk of weight and so I have began "dieting". This word i put in quotations because it is actually a misnomer as i am more attempting a lifestyle change in eating habits as opposed to a short term change solely for the purpose of losing weight. I am of course, also hitting the gym! My new eating

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Wow, its been quite a while since i have written anything to these pages and there are no good reasons or excuses either...i have just been lazy.Well life continues amidst the violence that surrounds us everyday. Though life may be relatively normal for most of us, we cannot continue to ignore the plight of our brothers and sisters that have had their lives turned upside down because they have

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Wow...more rain. Kingston has been getting daily showers of rain for what must be at least a month now. Its almost impossible to believe that earlier in the year we were worried about drought conditions. Since Dennis and Emily did their sideswipe of the country earlier in the year, we have probably only had two weeks in which there was no rain. I cannot take it anymore. The worst part of the

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I celebrated my birthday this saturday...and yes i am thirty something. I had an interesting day, no cake, no fanfare, just a little pampering and a couple of friends who were going to try and get me drunk since i have never experienced that state. I really tried, but you get to a certain stage and you just cant go anymore, how do people do that to themselves? I mean, the bed spun for about a

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me on my way to play some pool 

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So September will go on record as one of the bloodiest month's ever..... It can also be highlited as the month when we realized that Jamaica now tops the world in murder per capita, with some 60 murders per 100, 000 people, beating out Colombia and South Africa who were once ahead of us, but whose murder rate have been steadily declining, while ours steadily climbs!! It seems we are under the

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Not that i wasn't concerned about this before, but there is a certain comfort that comes with being in a long term relationship. I no longer have that. I have actually battled weight issues since my university days when i went from 'chicken back' to a full fledged 'chicken'. Unfotunately my five month sojurn into pregnancy didn't help either and i put on more weight which had seemed impossible

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I am approaching the end of my second month as a single girl and what have i learnt? The bills are a lot bigger when you no longer share them. Though the utility bills are reduced somewhat, the sum total is a whopping increase in living expenses..mine has actually more than doubled. But what the hell, at least i am happy right?And happy I am, I cannot remmeber a time when i have enjoyed myself

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Last week the dominant topic in a weekly magazine was "Are Jamaican Women Demanding?" I read the comments with interest and found of course that the men all agreed and for the most part the women disagreed. People's definition of demanding didn't coincide either and i would have loved if the originators of the feature had included a definition of "demanding". I must say we are NOT demanding......

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Having embarked fully on my new single life in Kingston, i set out to thouroughly enjoy myself. I envisioned many nights of partying, movies, plays.....really everything that the movers and shakers enjoy. I was however brought crashing back to reality when i was informed that there is a serial rapist on the prowl in my well to do, right smack beside the Prime Minister, Uptown Kingston

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I just read through my last post and realized that i was planning a special home coming for my boyfriend.......how fast things can change in the space of a few days!! Well i did have a special day, but by wednesday of that week, we decided to go our separate ways...strangely enough, though i was upset for like 2 days maximum, i was really upbeat afterwards....it seems there was a lot of stress

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Life continues as normal here in Kingston....Murders continue, police corruption continue, domestic violence against women continue, and lo and behold our debts are still here!! When I first heard that the G8 was considering debt relief for the poorest nations of the world, I was sure that Jamaica would have been included! Yes I drove through Norbrook last week and yes i saw the FABULOUSLY

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This between the Private Sector and the Government/Police. Why? There are accusations of hypocrisy, among other things, being slung by both sides, all stemming from the private sector led move that i mentioned in the last post. In my opinion, all parties mentioned must shoulder some of the blame . The government of course has a responsibility to ensure that social mechanisms are in place to

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So I thought i would be here alot more, since i was home and doing nothing anyway...but it seems that if you do nothing, then you have nothing to talk about. Well yesterday the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) organized a work stoppage to bring attention to the levels of crime in our society. For the most part people complied but there were also some hostility to the move because

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1115263153264624052005-05-04T21:56:00.000-05:002005-05-05T17:18:14.313-05:00

So i had this plan to make a post entiled "Are The Peacekeepers Here Yet?".....that should have been done like 2 weeks ago, but i was lazy as usual. That would have been when we were sure that all hell had broken loose and we had the highest number of murders in any one week, not to mention the west indies cricket team were making us feel like fools against the very last bastion of organized

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1114181534803166762005-04-22T09:42:00.000-05:002005-04-22T09:54:22.456-05:00

So...i think when last i was here i mentioned that i had surgery scheduled for monday morning. Well thats done, things went well...so far, and i was back home on Wednesday, a day earlier than planned. I will now be at home for the next 5 weeks recuperating. I woke up this morning feeling almost as good as new. There was absolutely no pain, i could stand up straight instantly and walk around

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So today is the day i am to be admitted to the hospital. I think i did mention that i am having surgery tomorrow morning. I am a little nervous, but i have been there twice before, the only difference is that the times before was at the hospital that my mom works...so i KNEW that EVERYBODY was looking out for me. Anyways, i wont be able to blog for maybe two weeks....but thats nothing new huh?

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1113060547300178542005-04-09T09:58:00.000-05:002005-04-09T10:32:43.716-05:00

So this week had one of the most interesting events that i can remember. The police and soldiers carrried out a sneak operation in one of the most violence ridden communities in Spanish Town. They went in at about 4 am in the morning and imposed a 96 hour curfew and is doing house to house searching among other things. Students and workers with valid ids are allowed to enter and leave, everbody

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1112454735621684502005-04-02T09:35:00.000-05:002005-04-09T10:31:12.023-05:00

The past week was an interesting one to say the least. On one hand there is all the revelry that comes with Jamaica Carnival and on the other the violence that continues in sections of our society. There were some interesting statistics in one newspaper this week and i will quote it unchanged. The following can be found at the following url:www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20050331/lead/lead6.

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1111767136879036672005-03-25T10:46:00.000-05:002005-03-25T11:12:16.883-05:00

Well hello again!Today is a public holiday in Jamaica and so is Monday!!! Yes, you calculated right, a four day weekend! Most kingstonians are gone to different parts of the country for this weekend - Negril, Mobay, Ochi!! Its a big lime! I happen to still be in kingston but should be headed to Montego Bay on saturday afternoon. I will hit the beach on Sunday for the entire day. The beach at

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Ok...I know, I really should come here more often!!! I am really just very lazy!!! Spending all my internet time on some arbitrary bulletin board!!! LOLSeriously now, in keeping with the title of this BLOG, we are in another state of anarchy...or it certainly sounds like it... Six people died in gunfights in Spanish Town, four died in another gunfight in August Town; a funeral which was attended

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Hi...I have not been around this side for a while. Just put it down to my being lazy.I spoke about the murder statistics the last time i was here, I really must admit that they were so depressing that i stopped listening. There has been some decline in the weekly figures but it is still hovering in the high 20's weekly. Thank god the promised war for the murdered entertainer did not

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1107606094855217522005-02-05T07:02:00.000-05:002005-02-05T07:21:34.856-05:00

Good Morning all! I am up early this morning because i have my tennis lesson at 9! It's a strange saturday morning, we feel that we are on the eve of something, not because tomorrow is the super bowl but because its the funeral of a dancehall "icon", a dancer called Bogle. He was killed almost two weeks ago at a gas station...and his friends have vowed revenge on all who they think killed him.

Kara - Jamaican Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753203773470218564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10497281.post-1107066732609878022005-01-30T01:24:00.000-05:002005-01-30T01:42:33.120-05:00

This is my first ever BLOG. I decided to create one after reading of life in Iraq on other blogs. I am female civil engineer living in Kingston, Jamaica. I sometimes wonder if we are at war too? The first month of the year has not yet ended and there are already more than 100 people who have died violently at the hands of their countrymen. If this aint war then what is? Strangely enough life,

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