Day 8

So this morning after taking my IDS protein shake and my IDS supplement mass tab capsule I fixed up a delicious peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich. I placed it into a sandwich bag and tossed it into my work bag. I turned on my Microsoft Zune and flipped some music while on my bus ride to the train station. The day was beautiful and the temperature was perfect. When I got to work I immediately began to work on projects and cases. When I had a moment I took a walk with Ricky for some coffee. I thought about what type of coffee I wanted from dunkin donuts, caribou coffee, ROM coffee, Starbucks coffee or McDonalds coffee. I stopped into caribou coffee and saw that a medium coffee cost $2.00 dollars which I thought was rather expensive. I decided to go to ROM coffee and paid less than $2.00 dollars for the same size cup and the coffee was good. It went perfect with my P&J sandwich. At 10:30 I went to a meeting dealing with a product that we are considering purchasing and within the meeting there were several product specialist that explained technical diagrams drawn on a whiteboard. If we decide to move forward with the new technical solution we will be spending about $70,000 dollars. It is steep but will be well worth it and will allow our technical services to be moved to another level of professionalism. For lunch I went across the street and entered the “Willis Tower” formerly known as the “Sears Tower”. There is a restaurant called Venice Cafe within the lower level that serves Italian food such as pizza, pasta, salad and sandwiches. I chose to have clam chowder soup and on my way back to work I got an email from someone where I work that had chicken tamales so I picked up 2 of them. I had my IDS creatine lemonade as my drink of choice. Throughout the day Ricky, Johnny and I lifted the dumbbells which allowed us to get some exercise.

When I got picked up at the train station Andrew told me he had purchased a nacho platter which is made with cheese and barbecue beef and that he was only able to eat ½ of it. I warmed it up and ate it knowing that I shouldn’t but it was too good to refuse. I rested for about an hour and prepared an IDS BetaNOX drink and got ready for my workout session. Yolanda and I decided to drive instead or riding the motorcycle since it looked like it was going to rain. We got to the gym and immediately began the intensive workout. I like to take my Friday workouts and hit it really harder then the Monday and Wednesday workout sessions. I was sweating a lot and didn’t take many breaks in between sets. Prior to going to the gym my brother Julio called and said that my other brothers Daniel and Pablo and their family were going to the park to play softball. After the gym session I went to the park and played a game of softball then went to my brother Daniel’s house and sat around the kitchen table drinking coffee with a piece of coffee cake and we had great conversations. At the end of the night we picked up our daughter Jazmin at her friend’s house and I heard her sing the national anthem several times. She will be singing tomorrow for the Chicago Mustangs Football game at Morton West high school football field at 7:00 in the evening.