Missed Calls
Yes I know, I have not returned your calls. I forgot my phone yesterday. So I was phoneless. It is sad that it was so hard to go without it for a whole day. It was a relaxing break though from pestering calls about nothing, or wondering if Hermen called and I missed a chance to run to Burger King to get a whopper with cheese, diet coke (cause it offsets the fat in the burger), and onion rings. Don't forget the zesty sauce, extra zesty sauce... yum.

This morning I was at work bright and early again. I get so much done early in the morning, but I drink so much coffee my hands shake uncontrollably. Either way I like being here and I am starting to get all caught up with everything. Feels good. Back to work with my shaky hands.

Question
I am going to start doing some new things on this blog to get people to discuss a little. So today I pose some questions, these are from Hermen. He came by my desk to take a mint from the jar on my desk. I told them those are mad old and they are no good. So...

Do mints, the red (or green) and white ones in wrappers, ever go bad? Do they loose their mintiness? Will it still make your breath nice and fresh? How long do you think they last?

Saturday Night Live.
My younger brother Andres and Saloumeh came to visit on Saturday. I had a busy morning of running around Holland getting some stuff for my car. I cleaned the house and waited to see what was up for the night. I decided I would meet them downtown at my friend Heather's apartment... it is the first left, not the second left. No really, the first left comes right away, you went too far.

The group headed to my favorite place in Grand Rapids, the San Chez Bistro. It is a Tapas restaurant, which means you order lots of small sides and everyone picks from different things and tastes everything. A family style meal, very Spanish. The place has a calm atmosphere, great sangria, close to other nightlife and beautiful art inside. They have art from Jose Narezo, some awesome paintings on walls and some very authentic Spanish tile work around the walls. We had a great time, Andres got all excited over the Paella, I ate most of the Yucca Frita, Heather was brave and ate some calamari tentacles.




We ate for hours, and talked all night. References to TV shows, discussions about school, stories about being a server, and the age old question; When you go on a date, and sit in a booth, do you sit on the same side or across? For me, across. It just makes sense.

It was great, and we made it through everything we ordered. Calamari, yucca, paelle, patatas bravas, banderillas de pollo, and some bistec. Everything was awesome, even the bread and lemony butter. Then we took a walk.

The next stop was Bar Divani on Ionia Street. This is a classy place to relax, talk and try some great wines and drinks. There some more friends joined us, Andrea, Amanda and Paul. This place has a great wine list, and as Paul learned a beer list that was three pages long. When he asked if they had Molson, the waitress politely said, "No but we have some 'fancy' Canadian beers." He ended up with a Samuel Smiths, nothing like a beer with gold foil on the top. Then he found his beer, the McEwan. We had a great smooth bottle of Pinot Grigio.




At this point Andres and Saloumeh took off, they had to drive back to East Lansing. Thanks again you two for coming, it was a lot of fun. Paul walked home as well. The final four (three CMU grads, and one from WMU) decided to stay out a little longer. A short stop at Taps Sports Bar ran us into some people from GVSU. We lost the football game to SVSU that day, our rival school. So some talk about football ensued. We danced a little, Heather got picked up by some super stud with the, "You have nice hair" pick up line, come on guys we need to be more original than that.

Fun night. Glad to see my brother. Nice to chill with some GVSU folks. Today, got to catch up on school work and fix Ramiro's honda. Adios.