Hey everybody. I just want to let everybody know that we did OK during Hurricane Dolly. There was no damage to the house. There were some fallen branches and a couple trees in the neighborhood. We were lucky that the nasty part of the storm veered off to the North of Edinburg. It took FM 490 West instead of US 83. We spent most of the storm without power. Even now, I'm at Jitterz posting. Thankfully, nothing eventful happened during this storm.
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If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
With their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
When they were growing up; what with walking
Twenty-five miles to school every morning ... Uphill BOTH ways
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
There was no way in hell I was going to lay
A bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it
And how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm… Continue
I cannot tell you HOW many people asked me, "So does it BOTHER you that this is your LAST birthday in your 30's"
UGH!
NO! Actually, it really didnt bother me. (maybe a little) I wasn't going to let it get me down (so i thought). And then the DAY before my birthday? I spent the WHOLE day crying. (off and on) Don't ask me why.... i have NO idea. Maybe it was hormones....Maybe my blood sugar was off.... that MUST be it.... because crying over turning 39 is really ridiculous.… Continue
Alma and I had a baby girl on April 30. She was born at McAllen Medical. The girl was 6 pounds 8 ounces. They are now both safely at home. We named the baby Io Evangeline Mata.
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For the last 5 years, Mission Paving has been sending boxes to soldiers fighting the war on terror. Sometimes we pack the boxes ourselves, or sometimes we just pay the postage for a soldiers family. To date we have sent over 500 boxes.... i get LOTS of military related email and soldier stories... here's a funny one :)
Below is an article written by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated. He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in a F-14 Tomcat. If you aren't la… Continue
For those of you who celebrate, most I imagine, have a great Easter Sunday. I hope you spend it with friends and family. Enjoy watching the kids on their Easter egg hunts. They grow up, you know; before you know it they are too old to hunt for eggs.
Have fun!
Let's see some Easter pics. Continue
Posted by Shaine Mata on March 23, 2008 at 8:30am —
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Ok....time to gripe..... And if i wasnt trying to keep this blog family friendly, you'd be eyeballin' every four letter word in the book.... I'll keep it as tame as i can... in the words of the text messaging generation.... WTF?
Two things i HATE... wind - rain. Put them together, and I'M REALLLLLLY peeved. Not too bad on the rain lately, but the WIND?!? OMG! Someone take a board and beat me with it. Two weeks before the car show... wind every f'in day. One week before the car show - we're look… Continue
Hi All.... My first blog entry... what to do... what to do.. Should I say something witty? Should I complain about gas prices? I know.... the upcoming election! Uh... no. I'll just ramble a bit about the activity that's been taking up the last three months of my life. LOL.
Just finished up coordinating the 5th Annual Mission Classic Car Show. It was held Saturday, March 8th, at The Mission Sports Park at Sharyland Plantation. We had over 250 muscle cars, hot rods, street rods, and classic cars… Continue
some one stole my sons nintendo ds that he bought with the money he received for his brithday last year, it makes me mad that some kids dont respect other peoples property, but i guess ill just file a police report and hope for the best. laters Continue
Posted by Jesse Hernandez on March 7, 2008 at 8:51pm —
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I recently had some cards made for MissionEagles.org to try to bring in more members. As I go to different places in town, I'll hand them out to people. If you would like some cards to help me find more members, let me know. We can meet up somewhere and I can give you some.
My goal is to add more people from different classes or even more members from our own class. Obviously, there are thousands of people who have graduated from MHS; so why not bring them all together?
The other day, I ran into Mr. Krulock at PostNet.He says he's still teaching at MHS and that since the clsss of 1993 things have never been the same. Apparently, we were the best class to go through MHS. He invited me to go visit him at the R building; yes, there is now an R building. I'll stop by soon to see what's up. Maybe you should visit Mr Krulock too. Continue
Posted by Shaine Mata on January 30, 2008 at 12:54am —
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I don't know how many of you like to attend political events. At work, we managed to get Governor Perry to come down to Edinburg to present the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to the mother of Freddy Gonzalez for his sacrifice. He'll be down here on Feb. 4th, the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Gonzalez's death. Mrs Gonzalez is in her 70s and has been anxiously awaiting this event since we got it passed in the Tx House of Reps. Continue
Posted by Shaine Mata on January 22, 2008 at 6:57pm —
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I don't know about the sales part of Bert Ogden, given I've never bought a new or used car there. However, I can assure you their body shop customer service is really sucking right now. I wrote about Bert Ogden Body Shop on RGV Life. Continue
Posted by Shaine Mata on December 20, 2007 at 1:46pm —
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Well it looks like CompUSA is closing its doors. THe employees here have been told that they will no longer have jobs after about 6 weeks. They are sending merchandise from the other stores down here to sell/liquidate. They are already marking stuff down. The first things with discounts this week has been mainly Apple stuff. The closer they get to closing though, the bigger discounts there will be. Daniel says he has seen stuff go as far down as 80% off when a store did this in the past. Dani…
You guys seem to be enjoying this site, so I took the liberty of buying the domain MissionEagles.org to make it easier to visit the site and share the address with other classmates. You will be able to access the site using both missioneagles.ning.com OR missioneagles.org. I chose the dot org because it was the only one available and because this is a non-profit proje… Continue
Posted by Shaine Mata on November 29, 2007 at 9:37pm —
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