Mad to the rescue and in action!

Today was fairly quiet in many ways, but exciting in others. I helped two ladies in distress, and I stepped right out of my electronic comfort zone.

I haven't yet received the refund for my timeshare mess. Fortunately, both VISA and Profeco keep telling me to relax since I have the letter from Royal Holiday telling me that they cancelled the contract and will issue a refund. Visa said they would give Royal Holiday 30 days to issue the refund then begin a dispute, and Profeco said they would make them pay at a "hearing" if I email Profeco and give them an update. Either way, it should turn out OK for me.

But, I wanted to double check with Profeco about their process, in person. So I went back to their office this afternoon to do that. They were very kind and told me again I should email them. They explained why. Their process makes sense, so I'll follow their instructions.

But while I was there, I met 2 very upset ladies from Winnipeg who also made the timeshare mistake. They were at Profeco to ask them for a letter that tells their timeshare folks to cancel the contract and issue a refund, like I did. I chatted with the ladies, told them what I know, gave them advice, and helped them with a bit of English/Spanish translation. It felt nice to be able to reassure them at least a bit. Poor ladies, they're only here for 7 days and this will have gobbled up about 2 of those days! And get this, they were actually being hassled about the timeshare while sitting around their hotel pool, by their own hotel staff. That really sucks!!!!!

Then, it rained again. So I stayed in and worked on building the website for my painting business. I'm so proud of myself. I created a draft version using the Google Web site function, which is what Andre and I learned in a class we took this fall. But Google Web sites has very functions. So I actually spent the last 3 hours finding other website creation software, downloading it, and using it!!! This is very out of my comfort zone, but its exciting and it needs to get done. Yeah!!!

Pictures: Some pretty petals on teh sidewalk; a man scraping old paint of the outside wall of a shop, some kiddy costumes outside a cute store; and a pretty window on an abandoned building.

I went to meet the ladies

I met 2 ladies who also feel into the time sha