job

so i hear tonight that my boss fired me, actually i'd had enough and i chose to quit, i stopped going to work for him staurday morning, the man can't accept the fact that someone that worked for him chose to quit, this is the truth, dude smokes way too much pot,can't i find someone on this island to work for that is normal.troy

books

i'm reading a really good book about the early 60's that takes place in jackson mississippi,it's about the black housekeepers that worked for all the white families, and i tell you what those women basically hated all the white women they had to serve, it's a fascinating book and i really think all you southern women need to read it, it's a first novel by Katherine Stockett called "the help"she's a white women who grew up in jackson,i read it once and turned around and started to readit again and i'm almost done with it,i also just read dan browns new one called the symbol and thats typical dan brown blah blah blah,i'm bring the bible as history with me and dreamland and blaze,the bible as history is great because it shows the archaeology of the bible,dreamland is manhattan in the 1910's and blaze is good murder

hey

well i go in at 9:30 tomorrow morning and i'm really looking forward to this, i just finished packing,i cleaned the house for the tim and did every piece of laundry in the house,showed him how to take care of the papayas and pineapples,picked a bunch of sugar apples to take with and a bag of my papaya seeds, there is enough land up there i figured i'd start an orchard while i'm there,i really hope the tim uses the time i'm gone wisely and stops doing drugs and booze,he's not going to be able to afford alot of either now that he has ALL the bills,i left my aa/na books out for him if he so chooses and he's always known where the meeting house is in town, he's also been told that he's going to have to come up once a week for "therapy" and if my father and oldest younger sister decided to show up as well that would be fine too,lots and lots to talk about.

can't sleep

lol same old same old can't sleep so i cruise the internet, i go to the site i used to post on all the time and i see now from a distance it's the same dumb ass people posting the same dumb ass questions, the why why why questions that have driven me up the wall for 10 years or so,read people, read the old posts before you ask the same dumb ass questions, READ, how many wish they want to livehere and then bore us all to death with their questions that they never took the time to search on and then never move here?

hey

i just switched back the blog comments,i'm not sure what i was doing wrong

hey

well everyone if you followed me on the relocation message board you are quite aware i've been in meltdown mode for the last year and i've finally reached the end of my rope so i leave for rehab tomorrow or wednesday,i decided not to leave island but to go into the village here for 3 to 6 months,i need to cleanse my mind body and soul so i'm looking at this as a spiritual retreat so i can get on with the last half of my life,i need to work through my anger and rage, and i need a break from the tim,lol i'm gonna miss the muscular puerto rican tatted construction worker though,he told me last night that he's probably going back to PR at the end of the month,oh well bisexual puerto ricans are a dime a dozen another one will come along,anita you once said i was a tortured genius not i need to see if i can be a genius without being tortured,the only thing i worry about as i embark on this new adventure is that i'll lose my cutting edge wit,humour and panache,god forbid i should end up boring

love and lust

LOL i'm in lust with a 20 something year old PR construction worker with tats that i think is as dumb as a box of rocks but he's hot and i'm in love with the mind and intellect of an 81 year old man,such a quandry, the 81 year old told me tonight when he gets rich again which he will he's retiring to the south of france and i said will you take me with you and he said without a beat yes,lol we've developed a really good friendship over the years,he has the best stories,he's living history and i just want to be around him all the time,oh he's a str8 guy don't get me wrong,lol is it possible to fall in love with a mind?

america

i have to wonder whats happening up in america lately,2 weeks ago or so we had the little 7 year old girl murdered in florida,then we had the gang rape in oakland,then yesterday the fort hood thing and today again in florida a guy going postal in his old office, we had 11 bodies in a house in cleveland,the craigslist killer and the janitor at yale,the kids killed in chicago,what is going on up there,has the water been poisoned? the food supply?i'm not sure i'd ever want to live there again,it's happening on puerto rico as well a bunch of people were killed at a bar a couple of weeks ago,it really makes you wonder whats going on,for the most part our crime and murder here on stx is drug related,i have to wonder what a sociologist would have to say about all this

hey

a few years back my father offered to pay off my mortgage and sell the house if i'd dump the tim,and then when i was in omaha he kept harping on the fact that i need to dump the tim,everyone i know including tim's family says i need to dump him and move on,no one realizes that he's the great love of my life,good or bad,you see he came along when i was alone,he understood me,he got me,he figured out my walls,he knew when to leave me alone and when not too,he just knew all this shit and thats why i can't leave,i've been seeing someone lately but it'll never work out,oh the sex is good but there's no connection other than sex,oh he's great looking, you know in the puerto rican construction worker with tats mode but thats it,i don't even like the guy,he justs looks good,lol ok he looks great but still all i can think of is the tim and how we used to be before the drugs took over our lives and i keep thinking we can somehow get back to those days,i'm so fucked up right now my mind is a mess,i'm lonely,scared and confused

music

the song that best defines my life is "disarm" by the smashing pumpkins, i can listen to this song over and over,followed by "hunger strike" by temple of the dog

hey

well he's got some crackhead over there with him now and the guy keeps coming over here and asking me through the window if i want to party, i keep telling him no go away and he keeps coming back,my nerves are about shot at this point,i'm actually shaking,i need to get off this island for awhile

hey

well i'm watching movies on my side and he has himself barricaded on his side watching porn and smokin crack,i could hear the dogs trying to get out so i went and looked,i know he'll quit when it's his time but jeez it's just so hard to know what he's doing,lol we used to be a really good team, i figured thats why he wanted to go over there,lol so he could smoke crack in peace

hey

well tim is in the process of moving into the 3rd of the house that was just painted,it has a greatroom a bedroom and a bath,so i guess the separation is complete,oh we'll still share the kitchen but at least i won't have to watch him get drunk all the time,i'm also on my second week of being vegetarian, that all started a week ago when i ordered a club sand to go from a downtown restaurant and i got it home and took a bite and the ham was sour, that was the last straw for me,so no more meat and that includes fish,chicken and turkey,it was a little had at first because i wanted to fill up on bread all the time,i still indulge in cheese and eggs,lol i am from minnesota after all.to my sister have you registered with the derpt of labor yet and have you gotten a voter id card yet, if you want an office job with a edc company you need those 2 things,my papayas are thriving as are the pineapples,work is really slow right now and i'm down to 4 shifts a week until things pick up

hey

i have alot of hate anger and rage built up inside of me,all i ever wanted was a normal boring upbringing and life, a stable relationship,knowledge and love,instead i had a drunk violent wife and kid beater father that literally tried to kill my mother with his car,i had a stepfather that took joy in trying to beat the "ladlie" out of me,too many drunken fucked up relationships to count,crack addiction,all of my friends and ex lovers from the 80's and 90's are dead from aids,the big man has to have a plan in store for me, i try to go to aa and na but jesus fucking christ i get so tired of it

hey

hey rotor,how you doin,the family finally left thank god for small favors,if i never see them again i'll be a happy homo,and then i came home from work friday night and the painter dude and the ex were all coked out and asked me if i wanted to party,lol how do i answer that one so i just said are you gonna get naked and painter dude looked at me and said no and i said get the fuck out of my house then,and now one of my "friends" from aa has been over smoking crack with the ex,you know it just never ends,i need to move

music

i'm old enough for elton john to have written the soundtrack of my life,then trent reznor and nine inch nails and the cure came along and made me think and now i'm watching pink floyd's "the wall" movie on vhi classics and i tell you what,i'm crying my way through it,my god what an eye opening and depressing movie,truly fucking brilliant,my little sister worships eddie vedor but you gotta listen to elton john,trent reznor the cure and pink floyd if you want brilliance

thoughts

i have analyzed every member of all 3 sides of of my family in search of a family member that has done anything for the greater good or for change, i came up with 3 out of the hundred or so i looked at,the first was my mother because she was a teacher of special needs students and loved her job and basically worked for free in the catholic school system, the second is my cousin brenda because she brings abojut 30,000 books to africa every year and the 3rd is my brother because he turned his back on our father and our whole families addiction issues and chose a good woman for a wife and has 3 kids that he worships. i ache and yearn for some way for myself to help or change the status quo, i really want to make a difference,i want to leave my mark when i'm gone

local stuff

i've come to realize that i am more comfortable around blacks now than i am whites,is it because i've been here for as long as i have,i grew up with mexicans,the last time i was back in mpls i chose to live in basically non white neighborhood and when we bought the house down here it was in a non white neighborhood that is now slowly being taken over by whites,they buy it up whenever anything comes on the market,strange

family

i asked tims sister and bf to move here and stay with us the bf got a job offer last night as a construction supervisor,told them they could stay with us till they got settled, i also told the painter dude he could live here in exchange, he does 40-50 hours of work on the house a month and we don't charge him rent, they are all at bogies right now eating the mexican thing they do on monday nights

painting

well they are still painting away,doing a really nice job and i guess they'll start on the roof tomorrow,with the power washing when they get down powwer washing the roof i'll do the house and then paint it if it stays dry for a couple of days,things are finally looking up,.lol

family

i just had the strangest experience, i calledthe tims mother to complain about him his sister and her boyfriend and she agreed with me for once, in years past she has refused to take sides or even acknowledge problems with us, well not today she agreed with me , that yes they are all drunks and she actually ended the convo with ther fact that she loves me, a first, the last time i heard that was when my grandma was in assistant housing and she told me she loved me and ignored my big little sister, lol you know the fat one with 2 boyfriends and a husband

family

well the painters just left and the lovely family is still out drinking,i was against this from the start but once they got here i thought ok i can work with this, they might be a good buffer for me and tim,maybe show us again how to get along,well i was wrong they are just as fucked up as he is but only without the drugs,he never came home the night of his bday and i know for a fact he was up doing coke all night cause i know who he was with and where he was at and i guess i'm fine with that or don't really care anymore,i just wish he'd leave his anger outside, thats the part of all of this that gets too me,his anger when he's all fucked up

books

i've read about a dozen books in the last week, i went through 6 books of gay fiction short stories that were written in the early, mid, late 80's and very early 90's,maybe 150 short stories in all,really good for me to reconnect with that era, hiv/aids was just starting to spread and regan was president and ignoring it and so all the activist groups were forming, and i mean really radical gay groups it was a great time for young fags like myself, by ignoring aids regan really restarted the gay liberation movement so for that i thank the idiot, you know everyone i knew from the 80's and 90's are dead now all of them except me,tim and my friend veronica in san fran and she has hiv but not aids, ialso just read the lincon lawyer, and some trash by evanovitch and grafton and then a book on munchousins by proxy and i can't remeber right now the other books, lol i read them and just pick up the next one, oh i finished the book about the presidental marriages and history and the one about washingtons presidency and now i'm on henry the 8ths 3 sisters

local politics

one had to wonderwhy the ex senator jones and malcom,one of the current gov right hand men spent so much time together the other day, was it because jones is the front man for golden resorts and malcom represents the gov and we also found out that the woman that owns an upscale "boutique" is a big financial supporter of this administration which we figure is why the taxi vans were shifted from the downtown post office over to gov parking lot when dropping of cruise ship passengers, makes sense she does not want them anywhere near company street with their money,lol ya gotta love sneaky but then this is the same woman that ran a downtown groups finances into the major red and everyone pretty much despises her and her "facelift" employee

family

well his sister has been a falling down out of control drunk at night since they've been here,i worked 32 hours in 2 days and i came home tonight and went to bed only to be woke up by the 3 drunks coming home and her screaming that someone had been in their room while they were gone because the door was open and because i was the only one home when they got here she started in on me, lol i just told her her she was a fat drunk pig and closed my door on her face and then she started yelling about how the drugs from her room were missing and i took them, lol as if i needed old lady menopause drugs,lol and then i told her that if you did not actually lock that door the dogs always pushed it open to sleep on the bed but nope it's my fault after all those hours at work i came home and stole her menopause drugs, god why can't these people just die and leave me alone, on a brighter note the brother in law is paying a contractor to paint the ceilings in the rooms where the new kitchen and entryway are going,just went over to watch the guys painting,looks really good these 2 are doing a great job,the color is a real pale yellow

rowdy joes

went to rowdy joes thursday night, 4 of us, we had dinner,they had a cubano,a turkey pot pie and the asian ribs which they all liked very much,i had the blackened fish tacos and i swear to god it was my best food experience since cafe christine shut down for summer, i had them served with green papaya slaw and i could have eaten them all night long,lol a mouth orgy of flavors. I was the only one that had dessert so i had the key lime ice cream in a cone and once again a mouth orgy of flavor, much better in my book than the mass produced "gourmet" products,i'm going back tomorrow for the same,lol when i get burnt out i'll go over to the other "new" place up here and try them out, the owner started us out and then a young woman named marinly or marion (by that time it was kinda loud and well my hearing is shot from all the concerts i went to) took over and she was a breath of fresh air,lol not "jaded" like the rest of us old timers in this business

prosser article from stx source

this is complete and total bullshit, because i waited on him so many times over the years will i get sued for all the tips he gave me?

Prosser Case Leaves Some Local Businesses on the Spot

By Bill Kossler — October 14, 2009

Though you did real work or sold real goods, if you are one of the dozens of Virgin Islands businesspeople served papers demanding you return ICC money spent on Jeffrey Prosser's behalf, get an attorney; the law may not be on your side.
ICC, which used to belong to Prosser, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. ICC owes its creditors the better part of a billion dollars. Required by law to try to recoup millions of dollars of company money misspent by ICC's former owner Jeffrey Prosser for his own personal use, ICC's court appointed Chapter 11 Trustee Stan Springel filed a slew of lawsuits in July and September. Of $35.8 million being sought for ICC's creditors, $14.4 million is from companies, stores and individuals with V.I. addresses.
In many cases, money is being sought from banks and former employees. But Prosser also spent gigantic sums of ICC money on all kinds of ordinary goods and services, and the trustee is seeking those too.
Those in Springel's sights include contractors paid by ICC for work on Prosser's personal residence at Shoy's Beach on St. Croix. Roofers, painters, masons, cabinet makers, pool contractors, air conditioning contractors, landscapers, plant nurseries, flower shops and drinking water trucking companies are all being hit up to return money given them by ICC for goods and services they provided Prosser.
One of those contractors is Carl Christopher, proprietor of Natural Builders and Quality Developers, whose company did work at Prosser's Shoy's Beach property.
"If they want their money back, they should take it out of the house," Christopher said. "That's where it all is. We had a contractual arrangement for some of the concrete and masonry work, so whatever funds came through us, we can justify what it was for. It went into the building, through materials and wages and taxes we paid. It's not like the money is still around. It is in the building now."
He said it's offensive that the creditors are going after people who just performed work for pay.
"The suit makes us look like we are co-conspirators with Jeffrey Prosser somehow, with a plan to misappropriate funds that were allotted to him, when all we did was honest work for honest pay," he said.
Christopher said the creditors gave Prosser half a billion dollars without knowing what he was doing with the money.
"You'd think there would be some kind of expenditure plan before they handed over the first $100 million, how are you going to invest it, how are you going to pay it back."
Most of the other contractors being dunned would not speak for attribution but said off the record they basically agreed with Christopher's assessment.
Yet, though it may seem unfair, the law may not be on the side of those contractors. Two independent bankruptcy law specialists, both with no prior knowledge of the details of the case, painted a fairly dire picture of the legal situation.
"This is a classic Dickensian example of when the law is an ass," said Jason Kilborn, assistant professor of law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. "The trustee can say that regardless of their intentions, if the company gave you money and you gave nothing back to the company, and the expense … deepened the insolvency; that is what lawyers call 'constructive fraudulent conveyance.' That's in lawyer speak of course, for it isn't really fraud, but under the law it is. And the only defense that can really be put up is to challenge whether the company was actually insolvent at the time."
New York bankruptcy attorney Myles Alderman Jr. gave much the same bleak assessment.
"Say, if you were hired to do work for the president of a local business, to paint his house. And you're given a check from not him but his company; do you say wait, this isn't the right person?" Alderman said. Legally, to be safe, you should ask for payment from the person or business that is receiving the work. And a business owner has a fiduciary duty not to use company checks to paint his house.
"The reality is of course if you have someone who is going to defraud creditors, they aren't going to care about their fiduciary duty," Alderman said. And many a contractor isn't going to question when the owner of a company gives him a company check for private work.
Unfair as it seems, the trustee is legally bound to go after this sort of money.
"The law imposes on the management of an insolvent company a fiduciary duty to the creditors," Alderman said.
If the trustee chose not to file these claims, ICC's creditors could actually sue the trustee and potentially go around the trustee and sue these contractors themselves, Kilborn said, echoing Alderman.
What should someone do? Get a lawyer, Kilborn and Alderman both said. One can sue Prosser for the money, they said, though that may not be very effective at this point. Those who performed work on Prosser's property may be able to attach mechanics liens against the property for their costs, they said, recovering their money when the property is sold.
"The most likely resolution is the trustee will be realistic and settle on many of the smaller cases," Kilborn said. "He has to sue, but may not have to drive for every penny. So if a shop owner is able to offer something that isn't laughable, there will be a settlement."
If it is likely to cost more to sue than the trustee is likely to ever be able to recover, he may allow some to be dismissed too, Kilborn said.
Bankruptcy judges have some leeway to decide what is equitable too, and there are many defenses against this type of claim, so it is very much in the interest of those being sued to get a lawyer and dispute the claims, Alderman said.
"What good judges do is basically act as circuit breaker," he said. "Equity courts give judges a fair amount of latitude."
But get a lawyer.

child support

the marshalls down here finally arrested an asshole down here that was wanted in maryland for 200,000 in back child support, the fuck got extradited, he needs to die, we get so many of these assholes down here, i have no sympathy for these pricks, either keep it in your pants wear a rubber or pay child support, there is no excuse

restaurants

so the tim took them to normas today, they thought there was a ship in and i kept telling them no no no but of course i'm wrong so they went saw no ship and went to normas to see the beer drinking pig and well every knows how i feel about normas,shithole dump in the woods, they did have lunch there tho and liked it and then they went to bogies for lobster, they had nachos and a huge salad for apps and then all 3 had whole lobsters for dinner, tim and his sister loved theirs but bennet said his tasted old and like iron, so i'm assuming he got the one leftover from sunday i do go there because i like michelle the owner, she really is sweet,thursday was tims 50th and his sister gave one of the waitresses there money to go buy tim a cake for his bday the nextday, she did it was a ggreat cake from the pastry hut over by fsted

family

well they've all gone to bed now and i need to be up in 4 hours for work, the sister has an architect coming over at 9am to design a new kitchen for us over in the old carport where we want to move it too,lol i'm working like 40 hours in the next 3 days so i won't be here all i said was get rid of most of the windows cause that side of the house is too damn hot and this is where i want the new entry way and get rid of the tub in the extra bathroom,lol my requirements are so simple oh and here's a pic of the cabinet system that took us 5 years to agree on and floor tiles, hell it took us 7 years to agree on wallpaper in minneapolis,you have no idea

welcome

welcome wreggie, i've read alot of your posts on "livin on st croix" and trip advisor so i'm somewhat familiar with you after all these years, glad to see you here

family

well the tim and his sister are yelling at each other right now over past history,she starts telling him about current family drama and he keeps telling her he doesn't care about them, he loves them but doesn't care about them and doesn't want to hear it that it's no longer a part of his life and thats why he left minnesota to move here and she's all offended,lol it's pretty funny cause they've all been drinking since 2pm, when we lived in minnesota we used to plan out of state trips so we would'nt have to spend xmas with them but then they wised up and changed xmas,it's odd when tim came out his dad and brother beat the shit out of him, when i came along a few years later i was such a no nonsense crabby bitch that his father realized he'd never be able to intimdate me and so latched onto me whenever we came over and i was his best friend for the day, the brother tried once to beat me up because i called him golden boy when we were all drunk in his garage watching nascar when the earnhart guy died and me being me just told him to go ahead do it and well he thought he was going to get a screaming scared queen but he did'nt and so he sat down and shut up, now understand i really like this family,they've been my family as well for 17 years but i don't want to hear the family drama or have to take sides

comments

i like hearing feedback here but because so many people have posted comments without a name i have limited them to only registered readers of this blog, i feel it's too easy to post negative things when you don't have to leave a name,plus it weeds out certain people and you know who you are

restaurants

good to see you sean, we went to lobster reef for dinner last night and it was good,i was craving white trash deep fried popcorn shrimp and fries and so thats what i had and tims sister had a cajun fish sandwich and tim and bennet had porkchops and they liked that,frankie is closing the place for good sometime in november,the landlord jacked up his rent and in west indian wisdom would rather see the place empty,producing no income,so frankie is either going to alaska or over to the 19th hole at carambola golf resort,then we left there and the only place open was the waves restaurant so we went and sat with carl the hippie for awhile,he's a nice guy,lol another loud one from the upper midwest

rain

it's been raining for 3 days now more or less non stop,my papayas and pineapples are loving it,we spent 2 days cleaning the house before the arrival of tims sister and boyfriend and well the dogs have mucked it up already,i tried explaining to the tims sister last night that yes i like dogs but to me they are employees which is why the patio door stays open at night,so they can go outside and bark and do their jobs and she just could not understand that we'd leave the door open at night and then i had to tell her to leave the lizards alone as well because they too are employees,lol honey this is not minnesota,8:15am and well all 3 of them are still passed out and the days half over already

piercings

yes and i took mine out once the straights started doing it, because once straight men start emulating gay men you know it's all down hill after that,i took my rings out after 17years because i saw so many straight guys wearing them and well it just wasn't unique anymore, david i took them all out except for one nipple ring, lol i had to have something

family

you know why is it that boring white women wear white bras and panties, i just saw the sister in law walk to the bathroom, dude it was gross she was in white panties and white bra, it horrified me too some extent, ghod it was awful and now the brothe rin law is out of bed and roaming

family

well the house is passed out now, thank fucking god, i wish i could get fucked up like that again but i can't, when i drink i want to do coke and crack and then i get really paranoid and hide in the bathroom with a baseball bat and call the cops on my hallucinations, so no more drugs for me, but really the whole passed out thing is rather interesting

family

well i had to make up a bed on the computer room floor,when i went to bed he threw an arm over me and well i hate being touched when i'm trying to sleep, it's too damn hot down here to sleep with someone touching you, people animals same thing, the dogs never come into my room at night because they know better by now, i have one cat that will sleep at the foot of my bed but never touch me, she knows she gets the boot if she touches me, so the hairy hobbit kept trying to touch me and well i left

family

lol i have a drunk straight guy passed out in my bed as we speak, he and tims sister got into an argument and he left the bedroom and went to my room because the tim is sleeping on the couch,lol so now what do i do it's not like he's good looking or anything i'd want to wake up next to he's kind of a hairy hobbit with beer gut, nice guy and everything but not someone i want to wake up to,lol just really trashy with gaps in his teeth like my oldest sister and the sperm donor, oh what to do

family

ok so tim's sister and her boyfriend are here to celebrate the tims 50th and her 51st, she's a worker busybody type of gal,already cleaning the house and working on projects and generally being loud from the country in minnesota, lol my god but they are loud people and somewhat boring, the tim at one point rolled his eyes at me and said i don't think i can take this for 2 weeks and i said oh yes you will you invited them without asking me,i've never liked your white trash loud family, never wanted to be around thwem at all, i was raised different, your family is too loud for me, to crude and too drunk and so you WILL deal with their asses and i get to work doubles at work so i don't have to spend alot of time with them, it really is like spending time with my birth father, too goddamn loud and obnoxious, at least she has house projects and wants to clean

men who don't pay child support

so i knew a guy down here that came from wisconsin, he left behind 4 kids and an ex, he refused to pay child support,which if you know me is a killable offense, so he'd sit at the bar and brag about this so one night i decided to kill him, i gave him many shots of yager so he'd get so drunk and drive and then i gave him hits of crack and because he was so drunk he had no idea what he was smoking and then i hooked him up with an hiv positive hooker to finally kill him,it's a slow kill all the way around and he ended up leaving island, not paying child support and bragging about it is a bad thing,and i happen to love stx lol i still love to read the comments on this thread, you know my mothers sperm donor never paid support and eventually had his parental rights stripped from him and thrown in jail on work release and then the sick fuck asked me a few years ago to take his name back, lol as if, dude you had your chance and blew it

local stuff

ok here on stx we have 3 resort projects that have made it through czm and are onto the next steps,if only the tree huggers and do gooders would leave them alone stx might actually be making some forward progress,diegeo will make captain morgan rum here for the next 60 years here starting in 2012,cruzan and ronrico rums will also be made here for 30 years,we have a home depot breaking ground on the 2nd of november and an ihop opening soon at sunny isle, things are looking up for the "red headed step" child of the usvi and it's about time. Alot of the problems here on stx stem from the fact that alot of stx politicians here are the "whats in it for me type of people" corruption is the main game here, recently is was published in the paper that the usvi generates 19 billion in yearly revenue and 16 billion of that comes from stx and we receive the least amount of service our 2 sister islands get everything because that is where the capitol is located, we've tried to breakaway in the past but it won't happen anytime soon, we want self rule here,we may be one territory here but we are 3 very distinct and separate cultures and islands, stj is like newport RI stt is like manhattan and stx is like the midwest, we have alot of really fucked up politicians here that want "native" only rule but they know longer have the majority,lol i'm tired of this rant so i'll stop now, more later

general stuff

nice and breezy today,a week ago sunday i planted about 50 papayas and 20 pineapples,they seem to have adapted to being in the ground,now i need to fertilize them, we have a well so water is not a problem,i just read a book called called "brooklyn" takes place in the 50's in brooklyn and Ireland,a coming of age story about a young irish girl, really good book, now i'm reading "await your reply" a really really good book about identy theft by dan chaon

general answers to the why why why questions

i get asked alot of questions about why i moved here, we first came here in april of 1994 to visit a couple that had moved here from minneapolis,i loved it the minute i stepped off the plane and knew that i was finally "home",it took me about 6 years to convince the tim that he wanted to live here as well. When we stepped off the plane the first thing that hit us was the humidity and the smell of the ocean,it was great after the coldness and sterility of minnesota,it was so green and overgrown here,flowering trees ,shrubs and palm trees, the dumpy little airport was great,they push the stairs up to the plane and you exit onto the tarmac, our host met us and took us to his b and b in the hills above fredriksted,back then it was clothing optional and that was why we chose to stay there instead of with our friends from minnesota(not too many clothing optional places in minnesota you know). We ended up staying for 10 days,just exploring the entire island and in the end we decided it was the weather that appealed to us the most,not the beach, the ocean,the people or the culture it was the weather,it really is perfect here weather wise,no blizzards,tornadoes,just an average temp of 85 year round,if you're going to get hit by a hurricane you know at least 3 days in advance and we've only had 3 good ones in 15 years. More later

hey everyone

today i start writing about my life down here on st.croix,i've been here on and off for 14 years,bought a house here in 2000 and moved here full time in 2001.I'm a waiter/bartender in my 40's,live with my ex outof financial necessity,have 3 dogs and 3 cats. Our house is in the country about 3 blocks from the beach and about 25 minutes to either of the 2 towns here or the center island shopping mall,more later.