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Pilgrimage to Santuario de Chimayo

Posted by: Felissa M. Garcia
April 14, 2009
Topic: My Daily Personal Life, by Felissa M. Garcia

Last Thursday, we started our pilgrimage walk beginning in Albuquerque right by Sandia Casino and right off of the !-25 Highway and we started just walking and walking and walking North until we reached Bernalillo. We stopped and ate at the Range Cafe. It was a very hard walk. I went with my hubby, Ronnie, Jacob and my nephew Carlos Garcia. On Thursday night we slept in a ditch just outside of Algodones and then on Friday night we slept in a hotel room at La Fonda in Santa Fe, right on the Plaza. When we got home on Saturday, we just basically passed out the rest of the day. Then on Sunday I had to take Ronnie to the Urgent Care because his feet were completely blistered. I'm so proud of him for doing the walk. I couldn't finish it but Carlos and Jacob made it all the way to Santuario and Ronnie made it to Santa Fe. Ronnie had promised to take the walk as a thanks to God for all the blessings he has bestowed on Ronnie and on us in our lives. I hope that next year we can make it all the way but our feet got so hurt that we could have caused serious or permanent damage if we had gone the whole way.

I have been feeling just a little bit better after losing Coco. It's still really hard to think about her and I wear the pendant I got that has her remains all the time. So Coco went with us on the walk and slept with us in the ditch. That made me feel a little better. I also feel like I've been a little more depressed and I'm not sure if it's because of the weather or because it's just part of the depression cycle I've been on my whole life. I go to see my doctor tomorrow and hopefully he can help. He is really an excellent doctor and is on the cutting edge of meds. I really like the way he runs his practice as well. I hope that he can help because I really don't like to feel depressed at all.

Life has been a little rough on some of our Staff members at The Family Law Firm. When my staff have personal problems, they also affect me very much because I consider them to be my family. I want to see them succeed and when bad things happen in their lives it makes me very upset. Today I found out that one of my paralegals, who was supposed to be married in June, she found out that her fiance was cheating on her. He says it was one date, but come on now, I've been in this business long enough to know that it was WAY more than just one date. And she knows it too. She is hurt but in the long run she is WAY better off without that jerk than with him. The funny thing is that if he ends up with the chick on the side, one of these days he'll be cheating on her too! HAH! Any way, my heart hurts for her but she's a strong, beautiful and powerful woman and she will get through this.

I left the office early today because I'm still feeling sick from this weekend. I think I got the flu when I took Ronnie to the Urgent Care for his feet. So I was working today and then all of a sudden I got sick again so I had to leave. Ronnie has been staying home too because his feet are really bad. Ooh, I feel bad for him they look so bad. But he's keeping them clean and well bandaged so hopefully soon he'll be up and about again. I miss hanging out with him and going places together. He's my best friend I love him so much.

I didn't exercise again today either. I like to use the excuse that I'm sick and I truly hope that being sick is the reason I'm not exercising today because too often I start putting it off until I find that I'm not exercising at all anymore. I don't understand why I do that. I do love to exercise and I feel great when I'm done. It's just getting started that's the hard part. Do you ever feel that way? Or am I just weird?

We just booked Zoya's flight to San Francisco because she's going on the "New Admitees" weekend for students just accepted to Stanford University. She is still shocked that she got it but I'm not. Shoot, when I wanted to go to college, I had first chosen New Mexico State University to go into the Journalism Department. On the day I was supposed to go to Las Cruces to tour the campus, my dad refused to take me. So I ended up going to UNM which turned out to be really great for me, but it's just amazing how different our generations are. I still don't understand some of what my Dad did or didn't do when he was alive, but as I get older, I understand more and more. He had 13 children to raise and I'm sure it couldn't have been easy. My Mom is still alive and still raising all of her kids, it seems. She says once you're a mom, you're always a mom. Ain't that the truth! But I love having my kids and my sweet Grandson Anthony. He's the light of my life. Anyway, so Zoya is off to Stanford and she'll start school in September. That means that this big house just got bigger! I love this house though and I don't mind having this much space because I really do use it for work. I do about 50% of my work out of my home and I'm blessed to be able to do it like this.

I'm sure you're bored out of your mind with this blog. I'll close. See you later. Felissa M. Garcia