… Between this and my next blog will be my mother’s birthday on August 24 – my mother would’ve been 69.
It’s been four months since her death and it still has not been easy for my family. I’ve talked with some of my siblings and they have told me they didn’t really know to what lengths this would have affected them.
We all agree, however, we do have someone looking after us. A few of us has some sort of story of some kind of help that we can’t explain, including me.
Since Mother’s Day, I’ve been to church on a regular basis only missing once when my family didn’t go when I showed up expecting to. I go back every time because, in a way, I feel close to her.
I did pray to her once to help me out. Usually, I never pray for help because I always felt that “powers that be” always had more important things to do. Not only that, I believed they gave me the power to do what I could on my own without any extra help.
So when I prayed for help to my mom, she did answer and bless me for a short time with something I had been missing.
As that happened, I also thought to myself that my mom also gave me those gifts of coping and realizing my own potential. Since then, I haven’t prayed for any personal help. I do ask her to watch over my father and to not worry about me as I’ll be fine.
I will be fine. My parents raised me right.
… This coming Monday, I take my father to Las Vegas for the first time in his life. The room and the rental car are all booked up.
Going to Las Vegas had been a routine for me since I was able to go to UFC fights. During one span, I went six times in seven months. But since I’ve done that less and trips have been few and far in between, well for my standards.
I look forward to this trip. It’s not often you get to take someone new to Las Vegas. I’ll also get a chance to do some things I’ve never done: a trip up the Eiffel Tower, Hoover Dam and we are going to see family that lives in town (I’m meeting more family all the time).
It should be a fun time.
… The flights are all but booked to Mexico. After talking with two of my sisters that are going to Mexico and my dad, we have the flights selected.
One of my other sisters that went with my parents to Mexico City before said they enjoyed touring her around. I’m look forward to that with my dad, but I have an idea of something else to do.
I found out there is a World Cup qualifying match while I’m there. I’ve been to a World Cup semifinal but I’m looking forward to this because it will take place at a stadium that seats 105,000 people and it will be the faith and pride of an entire nation on the line. That will make for an amazing experience at Estadio Azteca.
… It turns out I was the big winner in the most days driven to Torrance for work after the transfer a year ago. I went to work for 209 days, two more over second place and about 10 more days after third. So this means I also get the biggest mileage check. I won’t get the biggest settlement check since I don’t have child care.
But I’m getting closer to free money.
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