Feliz Cinco de Mayo
Happy Cinco de Mayo all my Mexican and non-mexican friends.
What's better, is that it is FRIDAY as well....yeaH!!!!!!!! I am so glad this week is about over. Tonight I am going out to dinner with my boyfriend (Mexican food of course) and am having a Margarita or 3....yummy. I can't wait. I already told him we are going and if he doesn't want to or isn't home when I am ready to go, I will go alone! Anyways, so what is Cinco de Mayo really? it is an Independence day for Mexico, but not in the way you think. Let me explain:
Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain at midnight, on the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.
So, why Cinco de Mayo you ask??? Well, in 1862 4,000 Mexican soldiers defeated the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5.
"The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez. The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left. The French, however, had different ideas.
Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay. They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire. His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota. Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion. The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War.
The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.
Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited.
General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks. In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.
When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year."
That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty. VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!! 
Okay, now you know a little more don't ya! Anyways, so other than that, not a whole lot going on. Am excited that the weekend is gonna be here in about 7 more hours...that's a long time, but hopefully it will go by quickly. I am really starting to dislike my job again. I feel that I don't get any chancec to show what I can do and I am being overlooked. My counterpart is taking all my projects and then I find out after the fact. It really pisses me off. I mean if they want me to be a secretary or something, tell me but don't tell me to do something that I can't because someone else has already done it. It is so annoying. I am also realizing because of him I may not be getting my promotion next year as I am not meeting my performance evaluation goals, his fault. It is really frustrating, especially since my boyfriend and I are planning on moving in a month and we need to buy washer/dryer and other things, PLUS we are contemplating buying a new vehicle too...but if I'm not gonna be able to advance in my career at all I will have to start looking elsewhere and they probably won't pay as much, so maybe no car. Grrr...it's annoying. Anyways, instead of whining I will let ya'll go. Have a wonderful day, drink a corona, or a margarita, or plain tequila and have some Mexican food to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Laters!
