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Un puré de Mapuey!

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Day 34 First fail of blog - since I should have posted this hours earlier but well tiredness got the best of me and hopefully this won't happen again. One thing I've been doing (but not over doing) is enjoy the amazing food of the Dominican Republic and at home I have the best cook ever. Bombón, as we call her - realname Hilaria which she hates, so she calls herself Marta, but everybody calls her Bombón is this very hardworking woman whom my whole family owes her a lot. Bombón has been working for my family for roughly 30 years and literally has been the hands feeding me, or taking care of me while parents were away, making sure the house is clean and organized, etc etc etc.  Nowdays, at homeonly having my parents living in it, she is way more needed than ever, not because my parents need any special attention, thankfully they don't but more because she is our eyes at home since my parents have the tendency of not disclosuring things to the ones who live abroad (me and two ...

Music for a sushi restaurant

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Day 5 To be honest, at the moment, I'm just tired, exhausted, physically drained but not sleepy 😑but nevertheless, a good day.  My morning was way too chill at the office basically because Microsoft Office suite was not working on my laptop. I informed IT about the issue, where Word, Excel and more importantly Outlook were not working on my laptop, and they took basically the whole morning to fix the problem.  I hated the fact that without those SW, I could barely do anything productive, but a couple of meetings had me "entertained" until lunch time, time when they call me and finally fixed the problem. After that the day went as usual: home for lunch, office in the afternoon, back home and then CrossFit.  Since my nephew is leaving very soon and for the past few days we have not gone out, I decided to take out for dinner, and we visited a Sushi restaurant where a dear friend works. My friend introduced me to his manager and said something along the lines of "I know...