No hay plazo que no se cumpla.

This post dates way back in March, below you will read some of the thoughts I had back then, as you read the text, it will transition to 5/2/09.

(April)

Hello friends and family,

As I sit here in bed and enjoy my last three days of Spring Break, I think of the things I accomplished and the things I did not this week. For instance:

Accomplished

The past weekend Norm (Calia's Dad) came to help me change two windows in the house. The windows look great and now I think I can change any window in the house. Also this week we worked in getting the baby room ready, hopefully soon I will have the crib and baby changer built.  

Not accomplished

I didn't finish, not even started,  an assessment project I need to present at work by the end of the semester. I'll get to it this coming week.  

...Every time I say to someone that Calia and I are having a baby, the first thing they say is: "Oh man, your life is going to change" ...well, I know that, but here is the thing, I don't like change, it's uncomfortable, and overwhelming. However, whatever the change is, I still do okay. ...I came to the US 9 years ago and that was a big change, today I am okay, I adapted. 

When I go to Mexico, I adapt there. I can go to Mexico and return to the US or the other way around and I feel equally comfortable in both countries. ...well, I still complain a little bit about the american "life"; there is so much wealth in most places here that I just think is wrong. I know I need to change this way of thinking.

Having a baby in the house is going to be a big change too, but we will adapt.

 

Today is May 02, 2009 and I am at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Calia is laying down in bed sleeping. I can hear a little heart bit through the speakers in the room, woom, woom, woom! Our daughter is about to be born,  she has decided to come early and not May 14 as planned. I don't have a problem, let her come that I want to meet her. 

This is a very very cool experience, I'm excited. I can only think of the following  verse:

O LORD, you have searched me  and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; 

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down; 

You are familiar with all my ways.  ...

...For you created my inmost being; 

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. 

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. 

All the days ordained for me  were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Salmo 139.

This Blog

Does anyone actually read this blog?

Acaso alguien lee este blog?

Current Music: Ahi estas tu-Chambao

26.2

Tonight I was supposed to be eating several pounds of Calia’s home made pasta, but instead I am here at a Starbucks coffee shop typing this blog. Something that I wanted to become a tradition will not happen this year. Last year on the Friday before the White Rock Lake Marathon, Calia cooked a delicious pasta to get me packed on carbohydrates ready for the race, but as some of you might know about three weeks ago I suffered an injury while training for the WR race, my left leg became numbed and eventually started to hurt, soon my doctor diagnosed me with a moderate mode of sciatica that has stopped me from participating on this Sunday’s marathon. So, there is no pasta, no excitement and no 26.2 miles of fun and pain (good pain!). 

This is not the end of my running days though; I’ve changed my exercise routine to yoga and stationary biking, supposedly this will help me recover in a few months. I must mention that I am planning on running a 5K in February 28. It’s my prayer that I can be well by then.  

They are about to close the cafe, so I need to stop this. Now something very funny about Starbucks is that they never get my drink right, Calia has a theory and I have mine, but this is a whole new topic for another blog.

Current Music: Paul Van Dyk- Haunted (Feat. Lo-Fi Sugar)

Bilingüe

Desde hace algún tiempo, ciertos pensamientos me han cruzado la mente que me han dado ganas de escribirlos; tales como algún recuerdo de la infancia, de alguna otra época de mi vida o algún otro acontecimiento . Nunca sentía que tenia el tiempo para hacerlo, sentarme y escribir por algunos minutos no parecía tener espacio en mi agenda, y aun ahora, no tengo el tiempo, pero creo que he decidido organizarme un poco mas para así  iniciar este “blog” , el Cual he llamado Factores de 3.  En este “blog” intentare hacer escritos bilingües, para aquellos que hablan ingles y/o para aquellos que hablan español. Espero hacer escritos por lo menos dos veces al mes, y si no, por favor recuerden me hacerlo.

-Las Cosas de la vida-
-The things of life-
Cunado estaba en la primaria, recuerdo que en alguno de los grados estudiamos “el ciclo de la vida” hasta esta fecha recuerdo que decía: “La vida tiene cuatro etapas; nacer, crecer, reproducirse y morir”. Creo que entendí estas etapas bien en aquel entonces, pero una de ellas es de la cual quisiera escribir hoy. “Reproducirse”, …cual interesante es la vida, que hoy me da el gusto de decirles que he completado una etapa mas del ciclo de la vida. Así es mis amigos, se me ha informado que para Mayo del próximo año voy a ser Papá. No hubo sorpresa, puesto que Mi esposa y yo lo platicamos, sin embargo la noticia si me cayo de sorpresa que no tuve tiempo de alegrarme. Ahora ya lo estoy y es mi oración a Dios que sea un(a) bebe saludable y que yo sea un buen padre. Los dejo con esta noticia, por el momento, pero espero seguir escribiendo de esta interesante etapa de la vida. Bendiciones.