Thanksgiving 2012

I got invited to spent Thanksgiving in Chicago. My cousin Irma invited to visit them. I was excited. I made all the arrangements at work to leave Wednesday early. I bought the Amtrak tickets online. I prepared everything. I have a lot of experience traveling so I knew what I needed. I made the laundry and got books to read on the way. I recharge my ipod battery and checked the weather at my destination.

My cousin picked me up at the Chicago Union Station. I met her husband. I arrived at midnight so we went straight to a bar in the mexican district. I spent the night at her place. Next day I met my cousin Joe and his wife Eligia. On the same house that he just bought were living my aunt Irma and his other son Raul. I was really nice to talk to them. They were asking me a lot about my brothers. They told me several stories about them when they were living in Tampico. Schools that I didnt know they existed.

Chicago is a really interesting city. Thats where they filmed the Batman movies. I could recognize the scenes from the movies. Irma took me to Millenium Park. I really like the mirror bean attraction. We also saw part of the thanksgiving parade. We arrived late so we saw part of the ending.

Thanksgiving dinner was good. Irma's husband prepared the turkey. He brought a special "thing" to cook it outside. It was a lot of food. They all say thanks to several things before eating. That was the special ceremony for them. I ate a lot of food. Everything was really good.

Dulce wanted to go for black friday but nobody else wanted. I wanted to go since it could be my first time. But she was drinking and went to sleep early around 7pm. I went to bed around 11am. She tried to call Rosario and me to go to black friday around 2am but I was sleeping already. No way I will change my pijama and go out in the middle of the morning with that weather.

Chicago weather is similiar on temperature to Detroit. The only big difference is the wind. It is windy so the temperature feels worst.

Uncle Joe took me to best buy. He wanted a new laptop but it was so full and with big lines. I hate crowded places. I prefer to pay more and to avoid people. Dulce took me to Navy Pier. I liked there. It was beautiful. I just love cities that have water shores or attractions. Based on my zodiac horoscope I am a water sign. Probably that is the reason I love water.

I called aunt Perla to make arrangement to visit her. Everybody was surprise. Apparently my aunts dont get along that well. They avoid each other or at least that's what they think. We went to visit Aunt Perla. I met my cousins from that side. It is funny how I have blond/white relatives. As a mexican everybody expects me to have brown relatives. I was happy to have blond relatives. I was thinking that maybe I was born on the wrong side of the family. My life would be much better if I was blond with blue eyes.

Chicago was a good experience. I love to travel and to learn about my roots. I have so much family that I still have to meet again. A few cousins are in New York. I should travel again there and see if I can meet them.

I am glad that technology like Facebook exist so I can keep in touch with them. It is much easier to learn what are they up to and to share pictures with them.

I am thinking that maybe I should organize and put more pictures. I was hesitating to upload pictures regarding the stupid facebook privacy policies. But I learned about the filters and sharing only with family. I will select the best recent pictures to upload.

I hope I can visit my relatives more often. Maybe work from home and go to Chicago for a full week.

Living in Michigan USA

So finally Accenture gave me the opportunity to come on a project on the USA. I was given the opportunity to work and live in Southfield Michigan. The difference between Accenture and Focusframe will be the payroll. Now I will be living with american payroll and benefits.

My journey began with a 4 day road trip. Traveling from Monterrey, Mexico to Southfield Michigan took me 4 days. My mother wanted to come with me. It was a good trip. No problem at all. The first day here was difficult. I couldnt find a good apartment. I was so worry about that. Next day God heard me and I found a good studio at a really good price. The manager at the building made everything easy and in the first 30 min I had my first US apartment. My first apartment.

I had to register for the utility bills. I had to go to each company and put everything on my name. I felt like a real american.

I didnt like my first week of work. The senior manager was on vacation and nobody was expecting me. The company didnt know what to do with me. So I was sitting alone doing nothing.

I met Ryan, the canadian lead. He was working on my previous project but I never met him. It looks like I was following him to this project. He was really cool and we hang out a lot. He had to leave the company and a new lead will replace him. I still keep in touch with him through facebook and cellphone sms.

My new lead is also technical but kind of old. It is difficult to deal with old people. My senior manager left the project and a manager replaced her. So far it was a good change.

I do like the american living. I just hope I could have a nice girlfriend to hang out with. I was lucky to meet Armando, my neighbor, in the parking lot. He was wearing a mexican jersey and that's how I knew he is mexican. Since that day we were hanging out. I met his roommate, Eli. He is cool too. He invited me to his mom's wedding. I went to his hometown and I met his whole family.

Armando and Eli now leave somewhere else. I was able to convince them to join my gym so I see them almost daily there. I also see them on the weekends.

I found a kickboxing gym. Although is not the same as the Box Evolution in Monterrey is still good. At least I can do cardio exercise and keep not gaining weight. I am still around the 69-70 kg weight.

Disney Client

So I am finally out of the Bank. I am really happy to leave the bank. I didn't like the restrictions that I used to have. The only thing missing is the people and the time over that I was charging.

My current project feels like a pilot. It is not mature yet. There are a lot of good things that I like from my current project. I have a laptop so I can apply working from home. I did it on December to stay longer with my family. Accenture just gave me 1 week vacation and I stayed another one working. I may apply more to visit more often my family.

I have open network so I can check my personal emails while I am at work. Also I can stay at my apartment if there is bad weather. I can bring my ipod to the office and listen music while I am working.

It is nice to have all this benefits. Although I dont really like the project. I might have an opportunity to leave the company with a former executive that is recruiting mexican and canadians.

I will see how that turns out.

Soccer at Office

This year I was invited to a Soccer Team. Eleven players all from the Office. I did liked the uniform. So far we have being losing. I like the location where we are playing.

I have being invited to other office team to play soccer. It is nice that from one team I can play on others. Sports is a really good way to make networking with office colleagues.

Semana Santa 2011

So I took a week off from Work to go on Vacation. I decided to go to Guadalajara & Puerto Vallarta with coworkers.

It was really amazing vacations. On Guadalajara we went to almost all interesting places. Victor has a brother there (Arturo) and he took us to Chapala Lake and Tequila. Tequila is the city where the Tequila drink was born. It was amazing that they have all the Tequila companies there. Lake Chapala is really big. It seems like an ocean since you cannot see the other end.

Every single day I saw beautiful ladies in Guadalajara. It was amazing that they have beautiful girls every where from all social status. I really like the mall Plaza Andares. It is the fanciest mall in Guadalajara. It seems like an American Mall, I really liked it.

Puerto Vallarta was awesome too. I really like that the nightclubs were all among the malecon. So at nights all the party is in the same block. I didnt like the tours that they offer in Puerto Vallarta. They are kind of expensive and are not worth it.

The only thing that I didnt like from the vacation was the road from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta. It has a lot of curves and you can get sick. It is better not to eat before traveling.

I really want to visit Guadalajara again. Maybe to live there for a few years. They have BestBuy there.

April 2011 News

the first news is about Renee who got married. After meeting a guy for a few months in Texas they got married on February. Now they are living in Dallas, Texas. I still can believe how some couple can marry in such a short time. I guess this is the reason United States has the highest divorce rate in the world.

At work is almost the same. I started to get along with several girls but I dont really want to get involve with girls at work. I think it is such a bad idea.

I went to BioParque Estrella this past weekend. It was amazing. I had a good time. I have the chance to go to San Antonio Texas this weekend. I am not sure if I should go. I really want to see this city but the condition is that I take my car. I dont really want to risk my car. I dont want druglords to steal my car. I dont understand why the other people that want to go have a higher role than me and they dont have a car.

I believe they want to take advantages from me. Also I am traveling next week to Guadalajara and probably I should save money for that travel.

Lets see what happen.

My Mistake

So I talked with my brother and now he is saying other thing. "He never told me that nicky's father didn't approve that I was dating her". For now on I will never take decision on what other people say. I think trusting other people as gossip is really a bad idea.

Now I lost the opportunity with a nice girl. Well anyways she didn't want to know about me.

Renee is engaged. That really freak me out. How americans go really fast on relationship. I am really surprise.

I hope someday I can find true love.

Wedding in Tantoyuca

My brother invited me to a wedding in Tantoyuca Veracruz. If was the brother from Rene (Julieta's father) who was getting marry. I traveled to Tampico on friday. We drove to Tantoyuca on Saturday.

The town was nice. They have a lot of flea markets around the city. We arrive to a hotel which was good. For my surprise it had wifi connection. The lunch at the hotel was really nice. I had "empipianadas with carne". It was really good and cheap. That kind of meal in Monterrey could cost a lot.

The wedding was good. I liked the church. I saw Julieta and all her family there. They seem happy that I went. It wasnt crowded the church. But the party was. It was a normal wedding. I get bored when I go to weddings alone. I dont really like to go without a date. Although you can meet a lot of girls there. I had an opportunity. I just get tired to meet new girls when I know I will never see them ever again. I dont even like to waste energy when I know that is going to happen.

Maybe next time I will have someone that actually want to hang out with me.

I lost another girl

So I screwed it all again. I made the stupid decision to listen to gossip. I though her father didn't approve that I was dating her. I told her and she said that all that was gossip from her relatives in Tampico.

She got so mad at me. I dont think she is going to forgive me that. I hate that kind of reaction from girls. Once they have a profile from a person they never change it. I guess it was going to be impossible anyways. After her parent didnt approve that she was coming to Monterrey, she looks like she didnt care anymore about me. I guess at the end I was her rebound.

I dont think I will ever see her again. Even if she goes on Holy Week to Tampico, I dont even know if I am going to be there or if she wants to see me. By that time she will have a boyfriend. So it is only Holy Week and christmas time when she goes to Tampico. Now that her father knows she was dating me, he will never allow her to come to Monterrey.

It really sucks. When am I going to learn the lesson to only date local girls. I am not planning to investing in dating again. It is a total waste of money and time. At the end they always dump me for stupid reasons. They never give me a real chance to know me.

I deleted her on facebook since I didnt want to see how she makes males friends every single day and when she might change her status to "in a relationship".

I understand when a girl doesnt want to know about me anymore. I just got tired on trying to reach her. I used to send sms but she never replied. Even my emails she didnt replay. I guess I looked needy.

At least I am learning and I have to work on not to fall in love so quickly. I just keep getting hurt.

New Person in my Life

I met a new girl this past holidays. Her family has being long friend with mine since time ago. My brothers studied with her parents. We spent one christmas together 10 years ago. I met her when she was 10 years old and I was 18.

10 years later she is 20 and I am 28. I spent a great time dating her. It was almost a week. The last day I kissed her. She really like it. But now she went back to her current city. Although her family is from my hometown, they actually live in another city due to work.

I might receive news from her in the future. For now she is having personal problems that she needs to take care of. I hope I could start a relationship with her. I do consider her special.

Let see what happen in the coming months.