At home relaxing

hey, how about that, almost the end of April already. Last Tuesday was Administrative Professionals Day (what we used to refer to as Secretary's Day). On this day the company takes us out for lunch and gives us a little something to thank us for the millions of dollars we make for them on a daily basis. This year they took us to the Omin Hotel. We had a three course meal, salad, main entree and dessert. The salad was good, and the entree was steak and chicken stuffed w/spinach and cheese and dessert was cake. It was pretty good, at least we got a two hour lunch and that made the day go by quick. I know it's not a really good picture we we snapped a quick one before leaving. That's Monica, sylvia and me. the three musketeers.

This last 10 days was FIESTA time here in San Antonio. Basically, it's just an excuse to get drink and party masked in the guise of celebrating the history of san antonio. At Joel's work they gave out a pair of tickets to NIOSA to each employee and we decided to make the most of it and go check it out. Hey, it was free, so why the hell not.

We boarded the VIA park and ride over at the Crossroads mall for $5 round trip each and avoided all the hassle of parking. We got there at about 7am and only lasted for about an hour. By the time we left we couldn't even walk because of the crowds. It's basically like the texas folklife festival where the have different food and beverage booths along with bands or dancing from different cultures. the only one we saw was the polish square dancers. they were okay, i guess. got fed up with being all crowded and stuff so we just left w/out buying anything to eat or drink. We did go across the street to the Hemisphair Park cuz they had live music. Bought a glass of watermelon water and strolled around the place for a little bit, relaxed, it was a pleasant night, not too hot or cold.

Hopefully this will be a short week for me because mom and dad might come over on Thursday and Friday cuz dad has a week off. Asked for those days at work but i still haven't heard anything yet but i'm pretty sure it'll get it.

Yea, tomorrow is Friday!!

The week is almost over and here i am doing some more updating. Tuesday we went to the Nickelback concert that we were so looking forward to. Well, mostly me, but....anyways, what can i say, it was awesome. Well worth the money spent because there were two opening acts and they started promptly at 7 and played until 9 when the main event started. They in turn played until 11. By the time we got home and got settled in it was one am and boy was i sleepy the next day. not too much because i'm used to not getting enough sleep anyways. took plenty of pictures and a couple of videos. here's a few of them pictures:

Lazy Day

This morning it was cold and windy (wow, huh?) and since i barely got any sleep last night i decided to stay in from work. Damn allergies are keeping me up at night because all that wheezing and shortness of breath make it very hard for me to sleep so here i am.

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversay and we're going out to dinner after work but we're going to go see Nickelback next week to really celebrate. Last year we were here --at the Juanes concert--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTeQ0vqWLfA for the occasion. Talk about fun. Nothing says celebration than a live event and i LOVE concerts. I'll be taking lots of pictures so i'll share a few here.

Busy April ahead

Well, the start of another month. Just got through another brutual week at work and lived to tell about it. well, not really but you know what i mean.

we recently watched "knowing" and i thought it was pretty good. kinda like deep impact where there was some big life ending event coming up and there was nothing to do but let it come. it turns out that aliens had "chosen" a few to come and take away so that they could begin again somewhere else, another planet, because earth was going to be destroyed completely by a solar flare. it did and they did. at first it was kinda creepy because of the whole numbers deal that predicted future disasters that already happened since it was written fifty years ago but at the end it was cool. well, earth got destroyed so it wasn't that cool.

tv saw the end of "life on mars" and as it turns out the "real" time was the year 2035 and sam and the rest of the cast were actually astronauts on the way to an expedition to mars. the reality he thought he was experiencing was actually just a simulation to pass the time because the trip there took two years so they had to keep their minds busy while they were in stasis. cool, huh? too bad the series had to end to make room for stupid chic shows....such is life...

in real life, mary and clan are coming over next weekend for their trip to fiesta texas because of alyssa's 15th bday. it's on the 12th but they're spending friday and saturday here and going back sunday morning to be back in time for the easter pageants at church. just told her to call me friday or saturday night and we'll drop by for a visit since they're traveling in a big group. she's bringing 11 of alyssa's friends along with some of tony's family. mom and dad are coming over, supposedly, on the 30th and 1st to take advantage of dad's time off. i asked for those two days off to spend some time with them. god help me.

this tuesday is our 8th wedding anniversary. my, how time flies when you're having fun. one of the gifts for this anniversary is pottery so we went out to get a chimenea for the backyard. Looks cool, huh? we've already broken it in but had to be careful because it was kinda windy. still is, so we can't use it right now because it can be a fire hazard. but we already have the firewood ready.

the roses in the front yard are finally starting to bloom. we pruned them in the fall to get them ready and if the deer don't get them, they will turn out really nice. here's the first one, a real pretty white one. we'll see how long it lasts.

Finally, the nickelback concert is this month i'm so excited. we need a night out like this to just let loose and have a little fun. the bad thing is that it's on a tuesday and i gottta go to work the next day. i was gonna ask for the day off the next day but that would have been something an old person does. i can stay up and party late and still show up to work. maybe not as alert as i usually am but it'll be fun to say, sorry, i was out late last night. that would make me look cool, wouldn't it?