How Much Water Should I Drink?

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MY anatomy teacher told me our body is composed of 60% water, that is hard to believe, I should be walking like a noodle.

Seems like every time I drink something fifteen minutes later I have to go to the bathroom. I’m not big into drinking water, in fact you probably not going to see me drinking water unless we are in a desert and we come across the last oasis for hundred miles, then I may pour some of that water in my whiskey flask and call it a day.

The fact that we have to urinate after we drink liquids makes me question the theory that we are composed mainly of water, It doesn’t add up. First of all I’m a Coca-Cola drinker and everyone tells me that is not good for me and I should be drinking water, and since I don’t drink water I should be peeing all that coke, but when I go to the bathroom is doesn’t come out dark it comes out clear, so I figure my body is retaining the coke and disposing of the water.

I’m peeing almost as much as I drink, and if I drink beer I pee more than I drink, you know what they say when you drink beer, once you open the tab you can’t stop going to the bathroom, and that is so true, you drink three beers and you pee four, since I weight about 175 lbs, I made some calculations and came out that my body contains about 42 liters of water.

Total body water

So, a beer bottle contains 0.355 liters, in new years I drank about 20 beers, or 7.1 liters, it will take about 6 new years parties to drain my body or 7 days if I was a freshman in college. These are scary facts, but it does make a lot of sense now.

Beer Pong rules by Sam Vickars

As the new year came and went, some of my friends were more drunk than others, the line to the bathrooms was endless and while we played with fireworks on the streets, I noticed a lot of friends skipping the bathroom line and opting to water the neighbors bushes. Our friend Bernadette could barely stand and Jack the neighbor kept insisting to play another round of beer pong. At 2 am on the new year, Bernadette was sitting on the curb and everyone kept telling her to drink more water.

Happy new year! you could still hear people shouting on the streets, Bernadette had completed drinking about 3 litters of water while she continue to get in line to the bathroom, she was not getting any better despite all the water, her second language or lack of, became her primary speech, I already noticed her walking like a noodle and I knew sooner than later she will be horizontal on the floor.

It’s a fact, as we drain more of the water in our body, the more we walk like a noodle and sooner or later without any water we crumble and end in a horizontal position. Bernadette is a prime example. Hours later we bounced back, barely, the water content is at it’s lowest levels, about 30% , our eyes can’t barely focus, every door knob and every wall becomes walking crutches, the first language start to reappear but with limited vocabulary, usually just a few words like ” I can’t remember”, “where my shoes”, “who are you”, “can I have some water”

What happens with 40% water content

If you make it pass your freshmen year, you start to manage better your drinking habits, first, you are a better player at beer pong and therefore, your life span increases as you win more games, second, you don’t party seven days a week and gives you a chance to celebrate more new years, and third, as you grow older the water content increases, and you can hold you pee for longer periods of time until one day you can’t no longer hold it, you drain all your body, you start walking like a noodle again and sooner or later you crumble back to a horizontal position for the last time.

Santa Claus Is Not Going To Make it To My House

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How does Santa Claus gets down the chimney? I was preparing my fireplace for his arrival and I couldn’t figure out how he was going to get in, the opening of my chimney is about 2 feet by 8 feet, not a very large opening, so I went to the mall to take a look at Santa and I believe I was correct, he is not going to get in.

I asked Santa what kind of food he likes and he told me he loves all those cookies and milk and the gingerbread he gets in every house, no wonder I can’t get my arms around him, it’s not the meat he is getting from the misses but the sugar he is getting from the kids, if he’s going to fit through my chimney he is going to have get into some weight loss program and I’m not sure he has enough time to work on a fitness plan before Christmas.

I left the mall slightly depressed, there was no way Santa was ever going to go through my fireplace which means there is no point in leaving any cookies or any milk. As I walk outside the mall I noticed a skinny Santa coming out of a Fiat 500, imagine my surprise since I just left Santa inside the mall 5 minutes earlier, not only Santa travels at the speed of light on a Fiat but he can shed some pounds on the way.

Christmas Stockings For My Cold Feet

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When I was a kid we pull out our Christmas stocking after Christmas, we were told that the three wise men will fill them up when they arrive on January 6. Originally the day of Christmas was January 6, but someone on the fourth century decided to change it to December 25th for some odd reason, my guess, his birthday was on January 6 and he was not getting enough stuff in his socks.

According to Wikipedia, “A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives..” Have you seen the size of a Christmas stocking? Where is St. Nicholas going to stuff any toys in there? He is lucky if he can get the Halloween candy to fill any sock.

My Christmas Stockings

These are my Christmas stockings, they showed up before Thanksgiving, I was grateful because it gave me something to be thankful knowing I didn’t have to wait until after Christmas to hang them up, which meant St Nicholas will be coming around the 25th, two weeks earlier than expected, and I will have something else to celebrate on January 6 with the arrival of the three wise men hopefully with more presents and the birthday of that Pope that changed the celebration few centuries ago.

Does anybody actually puts anything inside those socks? I’m guessing, no, after all we put a Christmas tree which by the way I’m not sure either where it came from because when I was a kid we didn’t have a Christmas tree either. It was popular in other countries around the globe but it wasn’t until Hallmark introduced St Valentines Day, Father’s Day, Grandparents Day, the Easter Bunny celebration and all those other celebrations to buy more celebration cards did the Christmas tree arrived in my country at the same time Hallmark open its doors at the shopping centers. So getting back to the socks, the other night was so cold I light up the fireplace, I was trying to warm up my feet when I noticed the Christmas socks above the fireplace. I already purchased a Christmas present for my wife and it looks like it wasn’t going to fit in any of the three socks, if my wife had already purchased my present that I asked, it wasn’t going to fit in any of the socks either, the other sock was for our dog Café, he didn’t asked for anything but he was probably the only one that could actually get something in his stocking, a bone to chew, a flip flop, toilette paper, a leftover leather piece from our couch, the toiletry bag, or anything in the house that I can’t either find the matching pair or it’s already partially destroy and we don’t know how it happened.

Christmas Stockings with money

I have not been in any of my friends houses yet to see what their stockings looks like, but I have been in my favorite watering hole and they do have their stocking hanging by the window, they don’t have a chimney for Saint Nicholas to crawl thru to leave some presents, and my guess is that if you don’t have a fireplace you have to hang the stockings by the window so he can see them and not skip your place, you also need to leave some money with the sock, obviously he didn’t count your home since there was no fireplace, therefore, he is going to need the money to buy more presents. By the look of these stockings, I’m going to bring mine from home and hang it by the window as well.

If you don’t live in Houston you need to understand that in the winter time we switch between the air conditioning and the heater weekly, every time a cold front comes thru the temperature drops and the heater comes-on and three days later the temperatures goes back up and the AC comes-on. Today it’s heater time, as I sit here by the fire place continue to ponder on the reasoning why we hang stockings by the fireplace if we are never going to stuff anything in it. As the evening got colder I finally came to the conclusion that it was for days like this we put those socks by the fire place, without hesitation I took down two and put them on my feet, they were so warm and cozy we have been trying to stuff them with toys instead of cold feet.

Christmas Stockings
Why are stocking for right footer people?

In Fashion, Putting Holes On My Jeans

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There is a trend in fashion today specially in jeans with holes, I noticed women in the department stores looking at jeans and trying to decide which ones to buy, it is a mystery to me, if you are going to buy defective clothes what difference does it make where the holes are?

I was looking around to see what jeans they were buying to see if there was any pattern between what each one picked, however, I couldn’t find one, sometimes the jeans are ripped in the bottom, sometimes on the top, sometimes they are ripped on both sides, or there jeans with tears and holes.

I was pretending to be the president of one of these companies and I could see myself saying something like: Paul, what was our profit margin this month? after getting an answer I would say, …Why don’t we add couple extra holes on the back and save ourselves couple million dollars on material? And get with the marketing department to create a campaign called “Our Jeans have more holes” and price them with a 20% mark-up, that will increase our revenues as well by another 10%.

How many jeans with holes have you thrown out in the last few years? A fortune I’m sure, you didn’t realized they were going to be popular, just like the vinyl records, you threw them in the garbage and now they cost three times as much, you continue to tell your friends that you had the whole Beatles collection and threw it away, just like I had the whole Kris Kristofferson collection.

What is the appropriate age to wear jeans with holes? I was sitting in an airport chair looking at all the women going by and there were none pass the age of 40 with holes on their jeans. One thing i noticed is the size of the holes, the women arriving at the airport had jeans ripped with small slits above and below the the knees while those arriving by air had full size holes by their knees. This observation seems so odd, not only because I noticed some of the women but some men as well.

My sister, my wife and my mother, RIP, Sorry I embarrassed you on the Latin Grammy’s

i have to say that the whole experience left me really puzzel. I could not continue my observations as the loud speaker announced the departure of my flight, people started lining up by numbers, on line 1 all the people flying on first class were ready to board, you may think that this are all the people with money, in fact they are the people who earn the least but travel the most, like the salesman and consultants. On line 2 you have the travelers with the airline credit cards, they walk slow but never look back at those with boarding groups beyond line 2, they feel important because they know they will be the first to fill the economy section of the plane and have plenty of room overhead to put their carry-on and their backpack. Lines 3 and 4 is a mixture of those who booked late or are on their yearly vacation, if they are heading south they are wearing flip flops and Caribbean shirts and if heading north they all wearing jeans with holes.

People on Line 5 are a special group, they book so far in advance they did ‘t really get any deals, they normally never travel by plane, it’s probably their first trip, their carry-on bag is bulging out of the seams, and their backpack is so big it doesn’t fit under a seat. They are constantly looking around to see what everyone else is doing, some of them you recognize immediately as they were the ones holding back the security line in front of you, the kids had backpacks full of candy and soda drinks, the dad with the bulging carry-on had to open his suitcase to pull out the computer buried underneath all his underwear, and the wife was wearing fashionable boots laced all the way to the knees, and when they finally passed thru the scanner they were returned to empty their pockets of the nail clips and the Pocket knives.

Finally I boarded the plane, this time I was sitting on row 17 economy class, window seat, my backpack used to fit underneath the seat in front of me, this time was not the case, why was my backpack so big? did I overfill it? Should I have been in group five? I finally managed to put my backpack underneath the seat, there was no room for my feet but even if the backpack wasn’t there it didn’t seem to be any room for my feet, my legs were pressed against the seat in front of me and the kid from group 5 behind me kept pushing my chair forward.

A 5-hour flight is an eternity, anything more than that is torture unless you’re a Salesman or a consultant, when I finally managed to relax and I was almost asleep my fellow passenger decided to recline his seat, I was licking the top of my knees, I tried to push as much as I could against the seat to no avail. By the time we arrived my legs have turned into a noodle knot, my back was pulsating from the instant massage I received from the five year old and my knees were sore and wet from all the liking I have done.

Finally we arrived and I deplaned, once we entered the departing lounge I noticed a lot of women with fashionable jeans with tears and holes, as I walk passed the passengers in the opposite direction I received constant smiles and heads of approval and then I realized that the crunch against the seat in front of me had made a hole on my jeans, you know were, right by my knees, now I’m as fashionable as you are.

The Latin Grammys Invitation

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Tuxedo, short dress, sneakers, high heels, clown suit, red suit, parachute pants, hoodies, flannel, ties, no ties, press shirts, wrinkle polo shirts, dresses with a slit so high I can see the belly button, dresses with so low cuts I can see the belly button, just bras no shirt and shirt no bra. No reading glasses but plenty of sunglasses.

Las Vegas has it all for the Grammys, but then again it’s Las Vegas, I started desperate to find what to wear for this occasion, should I wear my tuxedo? No, I’m not getting a Grammy so I’ll look out of place. Should I put a tie? No, it’s for musical awards, who is going to wear a tie. May be just my jeans and a t-shirt, no, they probably won’t let me in. I know this moments of desperation when you get an invitation to the Grammys and you need to find out what to wear, you probably all being there; your heart starts beating faster, you can’t hardly speak and you don’t know what to tell your wife since the invitation doesn’t say you and a guest.

That is the time to throw the; Remember when you went to see your aunt Ruthy and the seven kids and I didn’t go? The response you are going to get is probably not what you expect, you may try to guess what your wife is going to say, but from experience I can tell you that when I knew all the answers, they changed the questions. You must remain calm and think clearly what you are going to answer regardless what your wife says, if you can block your ears, concentrate and what your answer is going to be and ignore everything you are hearing is going to be to your advantage.

I waited patiently for my wife to return from grocery shopping, I rehearsed my lines well, no matter what she was going to tell me my answer was going to be clear and to the point; “Honey, I already call the promoter that send me the invitation and asked him if I could take you to the Grammys and he told me that the numbers were very limited and since I was a friend of the Grammy Foundation they could offer me one ticket but, if you prefer I can stay home and I can introduced you to John and foundation group and you can go with them”

As soon as my wife arrived I couldn’t wait to tell her the news, the first words out of my mouth were, honey, I don’t know what to wear! I got an invitation to the Grammys! She immediately replied, I’m so excited, I’m going to wear the black dress I got on sale last year during black friday and you ask me why I was buying a dress just because it was on sale and I told you it was a real bargain and it was 50% off and there was only one left, remember? Yes, I think I remember, but the thing is……she interrupted, “and I can wear the black shoes with the gold laces I told you I bought in Macy’s during the president’s day shopping marathon, remember? I totally lost my concentration, the point was about what I was going to wear, I inhale deeply, I pause, inhale again, my wife continue to murmur something about her jewelry and finally I said, honey I only have one ticket, I exhaled. Without any hesitation from my wife all I could hear her saying was, don’t worry I’ll take a lot of pictures.

I exhale more than I could inhale, all the speech preparations for this moment became completely out of content, it didn’t matter I received a ticket to the Grammys, somehow I knew that it was her going to the Grammys. The moment of panic turned into a cold sweat, forget it all, I turned around, stretch my feet, I was in total silence and then I make another sudden turned and I hit myself really hard, my wife jump, my back hurt and suddenly the lights came on and I was flat on the floor, wake up my wife said, I open my eyes and inhale deeply, in and instant I smiled and realized I was not going and my wife was not going to the Grammys either.

Las Vegas

All You Need is Your Pajamas to See a Concert

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When was the last time you went to a good concert? Remember how much you paid? The cheap seats were $150 and you were sitting so far and high, like the elevator lady said, “you are closer to Jesus” that you needed binoculars to see the performer.

Most of the time I can’t afford the good seats, when I was single I was broke and now that I’m married everything cost twice as much.

Adriana is all about going to concerts, normally her sidekick is one of her friends who owns couple sets of binoculars so they don’t have to share while they are sitting next to Jesus, however, I was inform this week that she was taking me to see Maná, one of my favorite singers. My excitement, or lack of it, was obvious.

I knew what to expect, my worry was I don’t own any binoculars. So I prepare myself for this adventure, the start time according to the tickets was 8 pm, I figured we needed to leave the house by 6:45 in order to get there by 7:30, park the car and walk to the concert hall.

At this point my wife had spend $150 for both tickets, a real bargain, we left the house at 7:15, don’t ask why, and I was all stressed driving to make it on time, we arrived with time to spare but the first parking lot was $30 so I drove another block and found one for $20, I figured if I keep driving it would get cheaper, I was right, 5 blocks away I found one for $10. If I drove any farther like back home it would have been free. We parked and started walking to the venue, it was cold and damp, my jacket, a wind breaker, the only thing it could do was keep the wind of my body but it was not even blowing, so by the time we arrive at the concert I was cold, my feet hurt and it was past 8 o’clock.

The lady at the gate said take a left and use the elevator to the 4th floor, I figured if the elevator was available everyone is probably already sitting watching the concert. We entered the elevator and a nice lady driving the elevator, it was probably an union job, asked me for the floor I was going to, I said, the top-one but I didn’t bring binoculars to see the concert, and she replied, “but you are closer to Jesus” I didn’t have anything to say, I thought, should I tip her or ask for a blessing. The door open and thousand people around us hog the beer and chili counters to buy some food, it was already twenty minutes passed eight, hurriedly we went to our seats and the lights were on and the concert area seems empty.

Let’s get something to drink and eat my wife said, I already imagine the 20 minutes lines at the food counters, I was certain I was going to miss half of the concert, however, I was willing to endure the wait rather than to hear the complaints later. Fifty dollars later we returned to our seats, it was already 8:45.

A concert schedule for 8 pm that doesn’t start until 9 pm only means one thing, you didn’t spend enough money. By nine o’clock I was already $100 in the hole, Adriana had spend $150, the concert had no started, I didn’t have any binoculars and I was sitting next to Jesus, Jose and Maria and wishing I was hundred dollars richer sitting at home watching the concert on my TV, just like I was at the concert, except I could be watching on my pajamas.

Banderas, Texas

The Point System Between a Man and a Women

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When I first got married, you know, when you are so madly in love you can’t see in front of your eyes, I send my wife one hundred roses, we had just started dating, she was in Colombia, I was here and it was her birthday.

This is where the point system starts. I was very proud of myself, as you may know, most roses your purchase originate from Colombia, therefore, a bouquet purchase from a flower shop in Colombia is very inexpensive, $25 for one hundred roses delivered.

Anyway, getting back to the point system, I received one point for the gesture, now, must guys would have expected to get about fifty points, but the reality is you only get one point.

I know what you are thinking, but believe me, it’s fair, you see, as everyday goes by you are accumulating bad points that you are not even aware you have. Sooner or later you say the wrong thing and your wife throws out the “Remember couple years ago when….. ” you don’t remember but she does, so now you are in the dog house and you just scored 20 bad points, 1 point for what you just said and 19 for all the other things you did bad the last two years you didn’t know. If you had the same retentive memory a woman has you could be scoring points as well, but, you don’t even remember your anniversary, so here is my advice, there are certain dates that can help you score more single points than anything else, so take note, first you have to find out these dates from your wife, that is a big challenge, and once you find them you can’t use them for three years, or she will throw it back at you. So here is my list.

  • Your wedding anniversary
  • The name of your song
  • Where were you on your first kiss
  • What did she tell you after that kiss
  • The color of the dress she wore on your first date
  • And finally what happened on May 11th of last year

I know finding out what happened in May 11th may be more difficult than anything else, you can always pick any date she throws at you and use it in the future, you can quote May 11th, she will tell you that is not correct, but you can claim you confused the date, however, at that time you need to change the conversation into something else, do not let her ask you what date you were thinking off because you will be throwing yourself under the bus trying to quote any date which you don’t really know, but she can quote for the last two years.

If you can get these information and know how to properly use it, I guarantee you will score more points in a year than you have since the beginning of your marriage, keep in mind that not following these directions and trying to use any of this information before the three year term can land you in hot water, not only you will get a lot of bad points but expect to sleep in the couch at least for one night. and the pets, they will be sleeping in your spot.

PS: I don’t know anyone who has successfully accomplish this task, personally, when I finally got all the answers, she change the questions.

This could be your bed

Do You Wear Your Team Shirt The Whole Series?

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If you spend $130 on a team shirt for the world series and it drags to 7 games, do you wear it everyday?

i know you thought the series was going to be over yesterday , you were ready to put that shirt in the laundry bag and celebrate the rest of the week. Sorry, it didn’t happen, so what are you going to do tonight?

I’m willing to bet there are plenty of smelly shirts tonight, if you are planning to join the crowds to watch the game, I suggest you pick a place with plenty of ventilation, if the smell of sweaty shirts don’t knock you down, certainty the visual appearance will put you off; shirts no longer properly press with stains of ketchup, mustard and tartar sauce. If you are a guy hoping to score a beautiful girl, forget it, the only thing you are going to pick up tonight is an Uber ride.

I’m not wearing my shirt tonight, it has been too long of a series, I’m ready to celebrate with whoever wins the series and start looking for my team shirt for the superball. If I guess the right teams now, I could get the shirts for half price and since it’s only one game I don’t have to worry if I spill ketchup or mustard.

Dressing Up for your Team

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Today may be the final resting place for the Washington, Nationals. Baseball is what I’m talking about, for some of you that only follow soccer.

If the Houston Astros win the game today they will be the 2019 World Champions

What I don’t understand is how they can be the World Champions if no other country participates in this championship, unless they call it the world championship because few players are actually from this country.

I was looking at the roster for both teams and I found names like, Correa, Altube, Álvarez, Osuna, Toro, Días, Valdez, Martes, Rendon, Parra, Gomes, Barrera and Sanchez. If my memory is correct it takes 9 players to make a team, so we have plenty of outsiders here to make another team , probably a winning team year after year because these coaches seem to rely heavily on these names to make it to the World Series.

I wonder how much I can offer these guys to come and play in my team, if I pay them in Colombian pesos they will be instant millionaires and it won’t break my bank, They will feel right at home, they don’t have to learn another language, or survive on hot dogs and hamburgers, their diet could be full of rice and beans, yucas and plantains; curfew won’t happen before the bars close and instead of Gatorade at the games they can have cerveza fria.

I’m going to throw my offer here so they can start planning to move to team GUACAMOLE for the 2020 championship. As an added bonus they will not be expected to show on time for the games, the fans pay enough money as it’s to see the games and we should make it worthwhile so they are not having to be at the stadium only four hours but they can actually enjoy more than one meal at the stadium.

With all that said, some of you are probably having seizures because you don’t know what to wear for the game tonight, not that you are going to the ballpark, you are probably staying home like many of us but will go out and spend hundreds of dollars on team jerseys you will only wear tonight because you don’t really follow baseball the rest of the year. So do as I do, put a safety orange t-shirt you can purchase at Walmart for seven dollars and call it done. If your wife insist on purchasing a $130 shirt to watch the game, ask her to bring few bottles of wine, few cases of beer, some chips and salsa and order pizza to be delivered around the fifth inning, and when she asked what is all that for, you tell her that you are inviting some friends to come and watch the game with us, then she will say, that is too expensive when there is a chance the Houston Astros won’t win tonight; at that point, you say, yes dear you are correct, why don’t you just buy another t-shirt at Walmart and we can save that money as well.

Xavier with orange t-shirt
In team colors and ready

Nothing to Write About

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There come some days when I have nothing to say

I’m not going to talk about politics, otherwise I’m going to have to climb that wall to get out of the country.

I’m not going to talk about religion, all I know is that there is Mohammad, a Jesus and a Buddha, so whoever you claim to be yours, send my regards and I promise to do whatever I supposed to do to make it to their afterlife.

I’m not going to talk about your kids, you can raise them anyway you want, I don’t care if they have no manners, they shouldn’t if you don’t, I don’t care if they turn alcoholics, is not your fault you only drink on two occasions, when it rains and when it doesn’t.

I’m not going to talk about you, I have enough listening to everyone else talk about you because they have nothing else constructive to embellish this conversation.

I’m not going to talk about me; my ears ring loud every time I leave a room full of acquaintances. Anything I could say will be just hot air because I can’t talk about politics, religion or your kids.

Since I have nothing to say, I say good night.

Sissi feeding Melissa
I leave you with my nieces, they have a lot to say