Not much going on...

I've basically been trying to get rid of this cold I have had for the past week. Just a simple stuffy and runny nose, sore throat, and cough, but it won’t seem to go away. As if I would be doing things anyway right!


Most of my time has gone towards a new Sudoku Puzzle I found at Daily Sudoku's. It is called a squiggly. It is the basic 9x9 design but the boxes within are misshaped (see pic), there are several different shapes that they use. I don’t like to do any other ones, they are boring. Try your luck!

Karin busted out a bunch of pic’s she had and I scanned a bunch of them and posted them at photobucket. Check under Family, High school shizzy, old school rugby, self portraits, and also from the feria (fair) last weekend.

I am going into The Wall Street institute on Friday for another interview or whatever you want to call it. They wanted me to come in to discuss what they have available and what not so hopefully that will go well and I can start earning some dinero!

My good friend Heidi just bought a ticket to come down from June 14th-20th. It will be way awesome because Pat is coming down during that time as well. We can “double date” where ever we go instead of me playing the role as the third wheel. I’m excited to finally get a visitor.

We’ll see what’s up.

Nothin' like gettin' buzzed when you don't plan it!

Nothing like getting buzzed up when you don’t plan on it.

Karinski and I went to the fair that is really close to our crib (for those c-towners that know where our house is, its about from our house to 7-11, maybe closer), so we walked. It was tight, there was soo much going on but the first thing we did was find some beer! They had a Bud tent set up right by the entrance… one beer was 15 pesos, but if you bought three you got a free t-shirt… so we got three, two for me and one for Karin.

We walked around a market type area and found some shizzy for gifts (basiclly for our nephew Austin) and then headed to the food part and then to the rides. As we passed the food part I noticed several “full bar” places. And one in particular had HUGE plastic bottles of Corona. Karin wanted to get one, while she was getting her pored (they pored two 32 oz. bottles in them with lime and salt, also known as “michelada”) I couldn’t resist so I got one for me too. I didn’t know if I was drinking slow of Karin was drinking fast but we were head to head (I think she was drinking fast ‘cause I was buzzed and I couldn’t imagine how she felt).

She got some pics on a bull of sorts and rode a mechanical bull and we saw the famos dudes that swung around a pole (see pic). We got some food and then it started to rain and it was also time to go home to se the Pistons…

We watched the Pistons lose and then Karin went to bed. I went outside to have a smoke and heard the music playing from the feria and REALLY wanted to go back there to party since it was only like 11pm. But, number one… I don’t have the balls to go by myself and number 2 I think Karinski would not approve, so I chilled and watched X-Men II on TV.

I’m still havin’ a couple beers ‘cause they’re tasten good, and I smuggles a pack of Black and Mild’s across the border so I’ll have one or two of them (can’t find them anywhere down here… only straight up Cubans, which aren’t so bad).

Hope you enjoy the pics, there are more on the photobucket link to the right, as well as some video clips… ENJOY.

Be cool like me!

Shopping and Returning and why I am Proud of It

Hey… What’l ya know… I actually did something today to be proud of!

I woke up a little earlier than my usual, 10 am, due to a stuffy right nostril and a semi sore throat. It’s kinda weird because I am not one to get sick but not too long ago I had that 24 hour thing and now a cold, I usually only get sick or have a cold once or twice a year, but twice in the last two months… it’s just weird. Maybe I’m getting old.

I chilled out for a while on the internet and watched some TV in Spanish, I like to watch Spanish shows to try and train my ears, but I usually don’t really pay attention to them. Karin came home for lunch and I was going to drop her off for a trip to Mexico City for a meeting. Karin gave me a shopping list and some cloths to try and take back and said that if I felt adventurous, to take on the task. So I did.

I went to Wal-Mart and got everything on the list and a couple extras I needed (razors, deodorant, frozen pizzas). That was easy, not much communication except for when they as you if you found everything you were looking for, but I can recognize that by now.

The real task was to try and take back some shorts my sis got at Sam’s Club. That was going to take some communication. I looked up some key words I wanted to use, like to return for example and just went in. When I told the door lady I wanted to return some things, she told me to go through the exit and then to the service counter. Now… I didn’t understand every word she said but I got exactly what she was telling me. I was proud, proud to be able understand and not freak out at the first work I didn’t know. So, I had to go in the exit and have that door lady check my bag and give me another piece of paper that said I got it checked. But it took forever because she was the one who checked everybody’s carts and what not against their receipt, and there was a super long line. I had to wait a few min. At first I didn’t know that I had to get checked and she looked at me and said something that I thought was go ahead, but it was not. When I was walking away she was calling me back. Anywho, at the service counter I told them that I wanted to return these, then he asked if I want to exchange, and I said no. I gave him the credit card and then he asked who Karin was. “ella es mi hermana” I said. Then the dude said that he could give me store credit but he cannot credit the card that was used because they needed her signature, then I was like, no problem we’ll come back. I had to go back to the counter because there was still a security tag on one of them, so there was more communication to deal with.

Now, why is returning something sooooo important and exciting… I DID IT ALL IN SPANISH! I was super happy, I didn’t get confused at all. I totally got what they were saying and they understood what I was trying to say. It was just a little step in my not feeling like a dumb ass trying to speak Spanish.

Wall Street Institute sent me an e-mail back and are supposed to get back with me for a time to come in and see what’s up. I hope I can get hooked up with a job. To help my sis out and have some cash to do cool things when Karin is at work. I.e. buy lots of stuff at the market like bootleg DVD’s and go to taco stands every day, oh-yea be able to buy plane tickets and a lot of them to visit friends all over the world. OK, maybe country, but I do have friends in Europe and down under through rugby. But I don’t think I’ll have the funds for that for quite a while, due to the beer taxes that they have… AKA boozing all the time!

So now I’ll be taking a couple swigs of Nyquil Kyle style (when he is sick he keeps a bottle close and hits it all day), ya know… the nighttime without sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, sleep better to feel better medicine, and hopefully pass out!

Peace out!

Atempt at the dance sequence from the movie "Teen Wolf"

At the wedding last Friday, my buddy Inferno and I had this great idea to get the whole place involved in a recreation of the dance sequence from "Teen Wolf."

So he requested Thriller by Micheal Jackson and when it played we tried to tell everybody what to do. We thought that it was super cool and everybody was doing it... Untill I saw this picture and we were the only two doing it.

Oh-well, it is still super cool. Check it out!

Last weekend in town

Thursday night I finally got another shift of work in, the last one. It was another 3rd 11-7am shift on an assembly line, I didn't get any naps in before and I thought it was going to suck but it went by fast due to keeping busy. There was some sort of employee appreciation set for that night as well so they served us a huge lunch (3am). There was butter soaked sweet potatoes, veggies, bar-b-q chicken, steak, and ice cream and fruit. It was super good too because they hired a caterer to do it. The bad thing… we had to go back to work with a super full stomach and tired, but it was a lot better than the two bologna sandwiches I brought.

Friday - I went to bed after work and slept until about 1pm, I had my last Plasma donation appointment at 2pm. It was super busy, it took me like 2 and a half hours when it usually takes between and hour and 90 min. I was kinda pissed because I had a wedding at 5:30 about 45 min. away, so I had to rush home, attempt to Iron my cloths. Kyle didn’t have a iron and told me to use the dryer, and I told him that I wanted to look good and not like some hippy with nice cloths… I was mad. I planned on him not having an iron and was going to go to Inferno’s house to do it but I was running too late. I ended up using the drier and my shirt was still wrinkly, but oh-well. Inferno got caught up in traffic coming home from work and was late as well. Needless to say we didn’t get there until about 10 to 6, but no big deal because the best man forgot his tux so they started late. The reception was nice and again open bar, for some crazy reason I was all about wine, so I drank that all night. I don’t know what it is but earlier that week I was digin’ some wine too. I suppose I’m becoming a wino.

After the reception we went out to the bars in Grand Haven (that’s where the wedding was), but I didn’t get to enjoy most of that because I was witing outside for inferno and the bride’s sister (weddings make it too easy sometimes) to get there. Their driver got pulled over on the way and got into some trouble so they were waiting for a cab to get them on the side of US 31. They never showed up and I waited outside forever, then we were leaving and told them to meet us at the hotel. There were there when we got there. We got a free ride because my date and another girl were flirting with some dudes at the bar and got them to give us a ride, then we kicked them out after a little bit because they were weird and I didn’t like them. I told the girls to get rid of them or Inferno and I would, and they didn’t want that to happen because the wine gave me a sense of hostility and I had to itch to punch somebody in the face (which is not me).

Saturday we went to breakfast and then headed home. We passed a small flea market and HAD to stop. I found a set of 1989 Topps baseball cards for $12 and bought them. The album and the pages are worth $10 alone. I was geaked, I thought that they would say it was a set but take all the good ones out but they didn’t they were all there, Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson Rookie, Nolan Ryan… and many more.

We were still kinda buzzed and were in the mood to drink so we decided to go to Inferno’s house for beer and movies (he just bought a 51 inch TV and some new couches and we had a lot of beer leftover). We had a couple but then proceeded to fall asleep and we slept all day and all night.

I was supposed to go to a graduation party in Saginaw for my cousin Will but there was no way I was going to make it. I really wanted to go too.

Sunday – We (Heidi and I, more on her later) took off to my parent’s house in Saginaw. I had to get my vehicle back to my pops and I wanted to see then before I took off. We watched the Piston’s game and had dinner and took off. Inferno and another buddy Garrett were getting drunk that afternoon so we went to his house for a last night of drinking in the states.

My train left GR for Chicago at 7:30am and my plane left Chicago at 5pm. I am back in Toluca now and will be chillin’ for a while. I am trying to get in contact with the school I was trying to work with before to see if there are any possibilities and also planning my trip back in July.

We’ll see what’s up.

Great Wedding Nate and Jackie!

I went to a very fun wedding last weekend. It was my good buddy, former teamate, and former roomate Nate and another friend Jackie. I think it was really fun because the bride and groome share several friends. The ceremony was good (not too long!), then after that we had a sweet pre-reception hotel party with several friends drinkin' and sharing old stories (it seems that the older we get, the better we were).

The reception was great, good food, open bar, and a halfway decent DJ. Usually I tend to totally abuse an open bar policy but this time I was trying to controll myself at least until the end of the reception, which worked out very well. I wanted to make sure I remembered everything! After we partied at the hotel and had to move the party to several different rooms due to niose complaints. It was at a super 8 and there were like 15 rooms that were taken for the wedding parties. The crappy thing though was that the beer store on the way from the reception to the hotel was closed so we couldn't get any more beer and nobody was in any condition to drive to Meijers, so we made due with what we had. I resorted to drinking Captain and Coke that Miles had stashed away for this exact reason, the problem with that was that I ended up mixing it half and half... Oh-well.

As the morning came a bunch of us headed to Denny's for breakfast, it was the BOMB! Too bad my buddy Inferno had to stay in the car due to projectile vomiting in the parking lot as we were walking up, he decided that he wasn't hungry and wanted to sleep. My other buddy Fraggle was left in the hotel room after Miles checked out because he wouldn't get up, he called as we were leaving Denny's asking where Miles was and if somebody was going to pick him up, the maids went to the room thinking that there was nobody there only to find a half naked little hairy guy sprawled on the bed! They told him that it was time to go.

I got some good picks up at photobucket under the Gillespie wedding.

I am hangin' with my friend Heidi at her place in Dundee for a couple days, I was supposed to be working this week (Not in trouble for not working because I just call the day before I want to work and they tell me where to go). Heidi is heading to GR on Wed and we have another Rugby wedding this Saturday in Grand Haven. Should be other great stories after that as well.

I bust out of here on Monday the 22nd, back to Mexico. I'm ready to go back and I miss my sis. I will be flying back in July, more details on that when I buy my ticket... oh-yea, I no longer need my sis to front me the money for tickets because when I opended up a new checking account at Chase they gave me one! I've been trying to get one for some time, so I will just use the money I saved while working and giving plasma here to pay the minimum, and hopefully I can get hooked up with that teaching job when I get back as well. That would be tight.

We'll see what's up.

Done Entertaining

I belive that Fernando and Hector had a great time. We ha a lot of fun, from going out on the town in Chicago, playing pool and schuffel (sp) board in GR and a wild Cinco de Mayo celebration win DJ Frank Medel (my cuz) at Don Pablos in Saginaw (the best cinco de Mayo I ever had!).

I picked up a third shift job last night and am still up chillin at my buddy Inferno's house because Kyle house lost power last night and it wasn't on when I got home, so I went to Inferno's (where I used to live) house to watch movies and sleep.

I have a wedding in Jackson, MI this Saturday and another in West MI on next friday. I also plan to work all next week to make money for my plane ticket back to the states for family canoe trip/reunion/BJ's Wedding in July. So I will be busy. It has been a trip being a poor kid again. My only income has been $50 a week from giving plasma because I havent been able work due to my buddies from MX being here. Nothing but cheep Natty Ice beer and belogne (sp) sam-itches, than is just nasty thinking about it.

It feels good to check in, I finally got a reliable internet connection at Inferno's house so hopefully I can hook it up more often.

Peace and Bootie Grease!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo

It's been forever since I posted. I am now in Saginaw with Hector and Fernando and we are about to go out for Cinco de Mayo. A lot has happened since my last rant but I don't really have the time to go over all of it.

Lets see, we had our 4th annual GVSU Rugby Old Boy's Game, where again the Old Boy's were vistorious in a close match 43-41. I came out with about 10 minutes left due to a blood gushing head (not really that bad, no stitches involved). I really didn't do much during the game due to Mr. Tequilla still hanging around my head and stomach areas from the night before. The Idea was to get the current team really drunk off my 3L bottle so they would be hung over but just the opposite happened.

I started working for Manpower (a temp agancy that my buddy Inferno works for, he places people), but I only worked two days because I picked up my buddies from Mexico in Chicago on Tuesday and we have been slowly making our way to Saginaw and then slowly making our way back to Chicago on Sunday (to GR on Saturday, then Chicago on Sun).

After my amigos mexicanos leave I plan on working as much as I can untill I leave to save up money for a plane ticket back here in July for my family camping trip, reunion, and my cousin's wedding. I also have two weddings on the weekends. We'll see what's up.