New Year's Eve

Well, time sure does fly. Went down to the valley (unfortunately) for Christmas. Did the obligatory Christmas Eve stuff w/the family and ran out of there as fast as i could. Made it back safely to San Antonio by Christmas evening. Had a four day weekend so that in itself is awesome. Luis and me
Joel and me

Susan, Mary and me
Overall, it was okay.

This past Wednesday we headed over to Sam's Burger Joint http://samsburgerjoint.com/ for the very first time to see Deadman http://deadmanonline.com/ perfom. They are this cool rock/blues/bluegrass type of band from Austin.

This picture is from their performance at the Botanical Gardens http://sabot.org/ last summer. Didn't take any pictures this time, i was too busy enjoying the music. The place was small and seating was limited but we had fun. Left at 11:00pm and they were still going strong, but we had to get up early the next day for work. If it had been a friday or saturday we might have stayed longer...but...maybe we wouldn't have, people were already drunk and acting stupid....so maybe we left at the right time.

Had plenty of plans for tonight, but in the end i think we'll just stay home. and get drunk. and greet the new year w/a hangover. Yeah, that's a better idea.

This is the picture we ended up using for our Christmas card this year. Much better.


Best wishes for everyone for the upcoming year. May it be filled with love, happiness and endless possibilites.

Monday Night

One more full week of work and it's Christmas vacation time. I have next Thursday 23 and Friday 24th off. Yay! This Thursday is the Christmas luncheon at work. It's no big deal, most of the time we don't even eat there, maybe this time we'll make an exception. Last Saturday was the company's christmas party but as usual we didn't go.

On Sunday December 4the we finally were able to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra perform. Every year they come around this time and i never get to go, for one reason or another but this time we were able to go. It was alright, it was too long and some parts were boring as hell, but the good parts were really , really cool.

THIS past weekend we went to the first annual Tamales! At Pearl 2010. It was an all out tamale festival, with all kinds of tamales on sale, cooking demonstrations, competitions, live music and a fireworks display to end the night. It was okay, it started at noon but we didn't show up until 4:30 or so because we had other stuff going on. We sampled some tamales and i had my very first dessert tamales--chocolate chip, raisins and pineapple. They were soo good.

We took the annual Christmas pictures yesterday and this is one of the best ones i could find:

It looks alright, maybe we'll try again in a couple of days.

Have the Bon Jovi tickets ready for the 17th of March and now Juanes is coming to town on the 25th of March. Have those tickets ordered too. Too funny. One week it's Bon Jovi and the next Juanes. How awesome is that?

See how the rest of the week goes.