I was going to make rice a roni. I decided to fry it on the frying pan on the stove first. When I finished doing that, I put the rest of it in a Microwave container to finish cooking in the microwave. While doing that I remembered that "La Raspa" does not happen in the microwave. Oh, darn! But I wish it would happen. So 20 mins later, I took out the dish out of the microwave, I took a spoon and mixed it and found "La Raspa" at the bottom of the dish. What a miracle.

Parking spot

I went downtown Salem to go to the Eucharistic Adoration chapel and I was thinking since it's just after 7am there may not be any parking spot by the chapel since people are there for mass. I asked the Lord if I can have a parking spot nearby so I don't have to walk too far. When I get there, I found a parking spot available right in front of the chapel. My goodness, is God good or what? I am overwhelmed by his goodness to me.

Aguacero

Today was a beautiful day to go walking on my lunch hour: Sunny and warm. So I marched outside of my office to go for my usual lunch walk. Walked all the way to the Salem Center Mall. While I was there I called my friend Carrie to discuss my trip to the airport and how to get there. We talked for a while but then I looked outside and noticed a huge downpour of rain. And me without my raincoat and umbrella. So I quickly hung up the phone, went to a couple of stores to find umbrellas and found nothing. So I darted out of Macy's to run to work but stopped at the Oregon Dept of Energy Building which has an overhang I could stand there and catch my breadth. While on my way over there I asked the Lord: "If you have any miracles left in you and if you want to, I really need a ride to work." So while standing in front of the Energy Bldg, a woman, walked out of the building, dressed quite nice, and looked at me and asked me if I worked at the Employment Dept. I asked her: "How could you tell?" she answered: "Because I used to work there, and what with all the publicity it's been getting in the Oregonian" Then she asked: "Do you need a ride?" I said: "Yes", so she said: "I'm on my way to lunch, I can take you there and drop you off, there is my car over there." We walked over to her car and she drove me to work. It was 12:50 and I needed to be at work by 1pm. I got to my desk at 12:59 pm. I was overwhelmed by God's goodness. I had asked the woman where she was from originally and she said Mexico. I told her I was Cuban. I blessed her and she thanked me. and off she went.

Praying for the New Pope

After Pope Benedict XVI abdicated his post as Pope, I asked the Lord if we could have a Hispanic Pope, but then again, I wish we could go back to the Italians. So the new Pope is a Hispanic-Italian. How about that? He is from Argentina from Italian parents. WOW! I got both my prayers answered. Is God good or what?

Chest pains in the middle of the night.

I woke up in the middle of the night one night with a sharp pain in my left side of my chest all the way to my back like a knife stabbing me. So I yelled at the Lord to stop the pain because I had to go to work, it was a Wednesday, my day to do phones at work, and nobody likes doing phone work, plus I had a hearing that day. So I told the Lord he had to take the pain away. He did. This was 3am and could not go back to sleep so I recited the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy for Ashleigh Murphy who needed to pass her math test. Finally fell asleep. Woke up at 5am as usually, seemed fine. Got on the bus at 6:09 am. Talked to my friend on the bus about heart attacks, and now the pain starts in again. Good Lord, why? By the time I got to work the pain was so excruciating that I was almost in tears. So went to Mike, the Head of Fraud and told him. He told me to go to the Hospital. I told him no, that maybe it's my time to go. He said:"I'm not letting you go anywhere. Go talk to Joel, who used to be an EMT, and Kevin who is a "First Response" person with the Rickreal Fire Dept. So I went to each one of those and they insisted I go to the Dr. So I called my friend Serena who was going to take me home that day. I told her I may not be going with her since I have to go to the Dr that Morning. It was 10:15am. She asked me how I was getting there. I told her I was walking. It's only 20 blocks. She said she was just going to go on break and she can drive me there. So we went. I get there about 10:30, told them what was wrong with me, that I had no appt and that I would take anybody. They looked up the Drs and they could give me an Appt with Dr Burgin (who is my Dr.) at 10:45am. Suchadeal. Anyway, Dr Burgin saw me and ordered a bunch of tests, and they all came out perfect. Also went to have an Ultra Sound test, perfect, all kinds of blood tests, all perfect. However, my sugar level was a bit high. So they wanted to do a test for that. That came out fine too. Hmmmmm.
They can't find anything wrong with me.