Hello from the middle of a rainstorm in Belize

I'm sitting here in my little thatched-roof bungalow in Belize, looking out the window at the rain and mysteriously named jungle plants, waiting for my husband to wake up.  The locals are saying the rainy season started early this year, the result of global warming and an angry Mother Earth.  I'm starting to get paranoid about the world ending in 2012.  I've been hanging out in the center of the ancient Mayan civilization after all, and they're the ones who started the rumor.  All signs...