I am still living in Paysandu, Uruguay and plan on spending the rest of my life here.
I apologize for not blogging more this year but I have been busy enjoying life here, especially since the birth of our daughter in February. Life was good before she arrived but it has gotten great since then. I thank God for being given the chance to be a daddy, again. Agustina has brought sunshine to my life, and my other daughter, Valentina, is my other sunshine.
Unless you are a parent you don't have a clue what I am talking about.
I talk to Agustina in english and,of course, everyone else talks to her in spanish. I love watching her smile. She has a wonderful smile. She smiles with her eyes. She started making baby sounds about a month ago. Her first word was "aco", whatever that means. Her second was "goo". I am happy and I love living here with my new family. I know I will probably never seen any of you all that are living in the US again but I want you to know that life is good here.
On a different note, I have been going to the gym on a regular basis and decided to compete again. I asked the owner of the gym where I go, En Forma, if he thought if I could compete and he told me yes. He sponsors the competition here. I have started a tough regimen of weight lifting and diet. I have already lost 2 kg. I am not sure what part of the competition I will enter other than the over 60 category. I was thinking of entering the over 50 category and hopefully beating the person that won last year. This is the guy that won last year: https://scontent-a-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1385264_633576303348668_1081689866_n.jpg
This is a video of the top 4 contestants in the over 90 kg category: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paysandu+classic
I think the same people that thought I was crazy for moving to Uruguay will think I am crazy for doing this, but what the heck, it's my life. I'm not going to live forever. Fabiana is very supportive and helps me with my diet, which consists of eating 10 egg whites, daily and drinking no less than 4 liters of water, daily.
I will try and keep up more with what is happening here. We are going to Montevideo next month to the US Embassy so I can get papers notarized to get a number for Fabiana so I can file Married filing Jointly so I won't have to worry about paying any more taxes. I think it is ridiculous that people that live on Social Security and retirment annuities should be expected to pay taxes, but that is a different story.
Until next time.
