Its a Boy


For those of you who don't know.

Happy Birthday ELIEL

It was my friends birthday yesterday. Love you man.

Debating on whether to create community or not

Both my wife and I think about that. Coming from tight knit Latino families (hollar at mi gente)we are used to it. The only thing is we haven't decided if we are going to be here for a long time, in this apt. complex that is. We met a couple that just moved in that seems to be interested in building community. They were drawn (Spll) by The Smiths, well, not literally but by their music. I play it a lot. Anyway we are praying about how involved we want to get in other people's lives here. We talk to people when they walk by and carry on quick conversations as we walk pass them but will see.

I dig MTV's Run's House

I think i've share before I way into reality TV. Run's House is the new reality tv, about the great Reverand Run from Run DMC, produced by Diddy. If you are a reality tv aficionado and enjoy hip hop you might enjoy the show check it out. It airs on Thursday nights. If you missed it you can catch it all week, because MTV plays the latest episodes all week.

Indentity
Thats what the sermon was about at church on Sunday. Its a series Pastor Terry is taking the congregation through. It made me think about me leaving Harambee, the ministry I used to work for. Leaving wasn't tough, realizing I should of left a long time ago was and I didn't know why for a while. Through hearing the sermon I felt God answering a lot of self question I had of why I felt the way I did. A lot of it was realzing I should of had left Harambee a long time ago. Way back when Derek resigned.
A lot of questions where answered during that sermon.

After realzing Gods hand on all the different disputes I had with the leadership the last year there I saw some light. My future was clear, it seemed my desire to go back to Washington for a couple of years, finish my BA, team up with the center for sharing to do ministry and then going to rediscover my roots traveling through Mexico was going to happen. God had other plans.

All of that its going to have to wait. I'm still going to move to WA but with my BA already, and i'm still going to go play Jesus there, maybe not with the center for sharing, and i'm still gonne go and rediscover my roots in Mexico but by that time, its going to be with my wife and kid or kids by then.

Blessed be God for loving and caring for me so much. Today I feel my spirit liberated. Maybe not tomorrow but today I will soak in the joy of the Lord.

I like it when it rains...

One of the walls in the bedroom has a huge sliding glass door that leads into our 15 by 15 back yard that makes hearing the rain drop enjoyable.

I'm In

So, they called on thursday from Starbucks Coffee Comp. to tell me I was hired. Sometime this coming week I'm doing first impressions and from there I get my schedule.
There is more I want to write about but i'm too lazy to do it so it will have to be on a different day.

Inlfultrating Starbucks

Today was a good day for me. I was able to get enough sleep, had breakfast with my wife before she went to work and got an interview with Starbucks people. The interview went rather well. One of their stores manager and a district manager interviewed me, both hard working moms. They asked me about 10 questions which were relatively easy to answer. Towards the end they asked if I would be interested in managing or if I would rather stay as a barista. I told them about my wife and I's dream about owning and managing our own esspresso and tamale shop and my desire to learn management. They were excited to hear that. After the interview was over and I shared my dreams and goals, my interest in forming a foundation to teach reading comprehension to children, both were very excited. They asked why I was interested in working at Starbucks. One of the answers I gave was how I like going there getting an iced coffee and reading. I think it helped that I brought a book with me and they saw me reading before the interview. As we said our good byes, one of them said, "Oh! look he has a book, thats so cute." I wished them good luck with the rest of their interview and went on my way. I pray they call by Friday. That how I'll know if i'm hired or not.

Living in So Cal as an ilegal alien is hard

On many different levels. It wasn't that bad when I had a legal driver's licence from Washington. But after I went to renew it and they discovered my social was fake guess what? if you guessed they rebuked my drivers licence, you guessed right. So, some of you are problably wondering how i'm working and living in los estados culeros. Well, like the smart mojado that I am I made myself over to one the many locations you can get paperwork.
The bad thing about this is that the places where I have a chance of getting hired is places that suck and have nothing to do with some of my best skills.
This week though i'm going to be braved and apply for a city job. I used to run a program for parks and recreation in a different state so I figured why not this one. The job pays 13 an hour which is way better than 6.75 an hour.

If am posting from TJ within a week you'll know what happen.

Pinche spammers de blogger

What is up ya'll? I'm in Seal Beach hanging out at my bro-n-laws house.
A very nice area but too expensive for me to live here. Work is getting more interesting, in the sense that i'm getting to know more peoples lives better. This past week talking to one of my co-workers, an older hispanic women name Paulina shared about her life. I was at the right moment at the right time I guess. She was venting about how life was hard, her husband has Schitzoprenia(spll?). I felt bad for her, it seems that she has a lot of weight on her shoulders. The end of my break came too quick and didn't leave me enough time to offer prayer or anything before leaving the employee lounge and going back to work. Later that evening I got a chance to encourage her to pray and ask God for what ever she needs.
Through out more interactions with other employees, I've come to the conclusion that about 90% of the work force there is illegal. It makes me feel right at home, specially with the little pay and hard work. I'm praying the Hispanic work force gets more recognition as time passes, it deserves it. The work I do at my night job is very hard, for 6.75 p/h. At least is better than what my parents make, my mom makes 7.65 p/h and my dad 10 cents less after 12 years on the job.

Keep me in prayer. I been feeling like quiting my night job. Part of the reason is I feel its unfair sometimes, since i'm the only male working in the kitchen. A lot of the time I cover 4 grills, 5 fryers and on top of that I have to bring up boxes of meat, fries, veggies etc.

Life is good regardless of all of this. My wife's belly is growing big, we were both laughing at how she feels she has a watermelon in there. Just 7 more weeks, wow!

Sorry, to my peeps in Pasadena that want to see me. We plan on going up there soon.