A while ago, when I wrote about healthy living, I had not idea what’s going to follow. OK, I want to live a healthy life, to eat only good food, with less chemicals, to practice a sport, to be active… However, this doesn’t mean that I want to do all these 100% of the time I’m going to exist on this Earth. Well, my wife took it literally, so she started to cook only vegetarian meals. So, I had to say goodbye to those amazing fried pork chop recipes she used to cook on Sundays, to all those deep fried potatoes and to those tasty salad dressings with lots of mayonnaise.

Now I just hope she still reads my blog, so maybe I’ll have the chance to meet those tasty pork chops again in this life. They were good and I believe they were healthier than many other foods anyway.

Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Life.
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I was never too concerned with healthy living. That was until recently, when I had to give up coffee and smoking because of some condition doctors told me could severely damage my well-being. So, I thought it was better to listed to those professionals and tried to cook only healthy recipes, based mainly on vegetables, fruit and fish. After two months of eating like that, I discovered lots of benefits, so I’m going to stick to this kind of diet, although I might skip it during holidays and immediately after, because II just happen to know some great leftover ham recipes that I love to cook and eat after Christmas.

First of all, I feel more energetic and my depressions are gone, hopefully for ever. Then I see that I’m always in a happier mood, I feel lighter, it’s like I’m living a new life. I would have never imagined that some tiny pieces of broccoli, eggplant, pepper and tomato could produce such changes in a man’s life.

Posted: November 18th, 2009 under Life.
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If you’ve been wondering why I am not writing anything in my blog lately, now I’m going to tell you the secret: I’ve recently become a dad. Yes, that’s a moving moment in anybody’s life, or at least I felt it like that.

Being a dad is cool, except that sleep has become quite scarce lately, with wife breastfeeding to little Tommy five times a night. I don’t know how many times she’s feeding the little one during the day, because I’m at work, but I bet she feels like a milk factory already. At night, the process goes like this: she’s bought a nursing pillow, which is a kind of rectangular pillow with a curved edge and with a LED inside. When baby starts crying with hunger, mom takes the pillow, puts baby on top of it, the light glows nicely, they start the feeding thing, then in a few minutes, the pillow light goes off, so I’m supposedly not disturbed by the baby nursing process.

This is funny: if I was not disturbed, how comes that I know so well what my wife and son are doing all night long? I just pretend to be sleeping, so she feels comfortable, but I can tell you that I feel like falling asleep at the wheel or at my job, which is a dangerous thing to do, taking into account that I’m a heavy equipment operator.

Posted: November 17th, 2009 under Life.
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This is my first post and the first blog I’m making, so I think I’m going to tell you a bit about myself. I’m Ike, and I’m a heavy equipment operator. This is no big deal, although you may be impressed with the size of these machines like forklifts and gantry cranes, or with the heavy works they are able to do in such a gentle way, if handled appropriately. Indeed, in the beginning, operating such monsters was scary, but after I did an apprenticeship stage, I felt like I was in full control, so I was able to go out there and look for a job. I’m doing this job since 10 years ago, and I think many American people drive their cars over a piece of my work. That’s because I was in the road builders operations for quite a long time. What do I do when I’m not moving heavy things from one place to another? Like you, I like to watch TV, I collect things, I play with my kids and I surely enjoy a good beer after work and a barbecue on Sundays.

Posted: October 3rd, 2008 under Hobbies, Life, Work.
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