Category: Bitching

Alaethia woke up for a bottle at 5:30am Tuesday morning and I couldn’t fall asleep after that. I was up till 7am, making mental lists of things I needed to do. I tried sleeping, but couldn’t. Needless to say, I did not want to wake up when the alarm went off at 7:45. But at least I didn’t end up falling asleep, again, like I had been all week and waking Mario up super late.

Everything went really fast. John and Isaac came over and we dropped Isaac off at work, deposited money at the credit union for Mary, then went to Mary’s work to pick up a coupon she printed out for me (we still can’t find the CD to the printer so we can’t connect it to the laptop, grr). Luck would have it that it would be pouring when we arrived at the building. I got the coupon, got some papers I needed to take to a school for Noelia records, we stopped by Petsmart to see the animals, then went to the mall. We found some awesome parking close by JC Penny and went in. As soon as I went in there I knew I was going to have a hell of a time finding stuff in my size. I figured that after Saturday they’d replenish stock after all the sales, but it sure didn’t look like they did. I didn’t even know what to buy, so I bothered Mrs. V. again and asked what the dress code was. No sleeveless, capris are okay but you have to have nice legs (LOL), professional clothing and there were Polo shirts as our “uniform” if I’d like to do that, but it’s not required. They’re $28, which is more than I’d ever usually spend on a blouse, but it beats having to come up with an outfit every morning.

I spent two hours there and found hardly anything. I usually have to put blouses away because I want so many, but this time I couldn’t find anything at all. Out of everything I did try on I bought two pairs of “dressy” capris, a blue blouse and some black dress pants, which look like a pair I already have. Since all I have are open-toed shoes and they’re not allowed, I had to buy some. I’m going to be on my feet a whole lot of the day so I got some cute Mudd mary janes in black and brown. I had to order the black ones from the catalog, but I’m glad I found them.

John was acting like he was dying and he was doing me a great service by “being there” with me while I shopped for those two hours and wanted food. He was in a bad mood because Game Stop wouldn’t return one of the crappy games he’d bought. We went to the food court and got pizza and the shittiest sushi I’ve ever eaten. He bought dessert: a Minibon from Cinnabon. Those things are HUGE. I wonder what the regular cinnamon rolls look like.

I’d been doing so good watching what I eat and went and ruined it yesterday. And let me tell you, I immediately felt it. Carb-overload. I felt overly full and bloated.

We went to H-E-B after that to get the rest of the boys’ school supplies. I didn’t find Jaylen’s jumbo primary pencils. We went straight to the school to get Noelia’s paper, which took forever because they kept sending me to different doors and then told me the woman I needed to speak to wasn’t there at all. Pissed me off. A woman finally showed us to the gym, where the lady was stationed, and I got the darn paper. We rushed to the church to pick up Alaethia’s baptism certificate and I made it about 10 minutes before they closed at 5. I got home on time to pick up Isaac, but he’d gotten a ride with Jose.

I did everything I needed to do in the evening then Mario called while I was making dinner around 8pm. He wanted to buy a mini fridge so there Jaylen, Alaethia and I go at 9pm to meet him at Target. Mary watched Eenan while we went. We get there, get a few things Mary needed, get a few things we needed (and I found Jaylen’s jumbo pencils!) and got the fridge and paid. And I dropped off two rolls of film, finally. Still got about 10 more to go! I can’t wait to see what’s on them…they’re from like…3-4 years ago!

As for today…I didn’t want to wake up again in the morning and spent about 10 minutes huddled up in Mario’s arms for a while. That made me want to climb out of bed even less, but I did. Got Mario’s lunch ready, his breakfast ready, his clothes ironed and then fed myself and the boys. Eenan got ready, we dropped off Isaac at work, and then we left to the doctor’s office.

It was full, but they saw me right away. I was freaking out a little because the area that they’d injected me with the TB thing was RED. I’d stupidly hung the shopping basket yesterday while we were at H-E-B and hurt my arm. They said I was fine, though, and filled out my immunization card. I’d have to bring Eenan back in though, since they’d just received the vaccines and had to inventory them and all that. They told me to go in at 1-1:30, while they were at lunch so they’d do it really quick.

I dropped Eenan off then went to the HR office. My luck — the woman I needed to speak to about my paperwork was at a funeral and might be out all day. GREAT. I told the receptionist my supervisor wanted me in at least tomorrow but she apologized and said that the other woman was the only one I could see. She gave me a number to call back to to check if the woman went back to work.

I feed the kids lunch, spend time with little Aly and then call the HR office at 1. The woman’s still out, but they think she might return. Fine. I said I’d call back at 2. I took off with Eenan (who was quite reluctant knowing he was going to get a shot) and we get to the office. THE DOOR IS LOCKED. With a huge note that says they’ll be back at 2. ARGH. I’m so frustrated right now. At least Mario just called and made me feel better.

I’m off to call and go to the doctor’s office. I hope this day takes a turn for the better! I want to go to work tomorrow! (I may not be saying that later LOL…)

Update: 2:37pm – NO GO. Went to the doctor’s: NO VACCINES. They said call tomorrow. Called to see if Mrs. Lopez was in: SHE’S OUT OF THE OFFICE…again. She went back to work after the funeral apparently, but she’s “in and out of the office”. I left a message with all my info and told them to tell her it’s about my damn paperwork. How stressful.

At the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that is. I know we’re going on Friday for sure since I already have the tickets, but I got a little pang of jealousy in my gut when I was watching the news at 10 and they showed a huge group of people counting down to seating time. Wahh!

I didn’t do much today besides laundry and cooking and all that. Mario took the Equinox (to save gas) so I had no means of transportation. Well, I did; I had his truck but he left it on Empty and I hate having to pray that I don’t stay stranded all the way to the gas station so I just stayed home. I need to keep the Equinox tomorrow since I need to give his truck payment and go to the bank. You know, all that lovely adult crap.

Anyway, Mario got home early from work for once. He had to *ask* though. I wish it were like this everyday. I made dinner (chicken tacos and rice) and Mario and Jorge were over at Mary’s so I took them food over there, fed the kiddos and Mom, Aly and I went to Mary’s to see Noelia’s wedding photos with Yadira, Elda and the girls. I’m still quite peeved that the darn photographer decided to keep the picture of me where I have my eyes closed. I even asked him to take another one, please, because I knew I’d closed my eyes and he said he did. LIAR!

Mario’s back from Jorge’s (he escaped for a while) and now I need to shower before he falls asleep and Aly wakes up. Hopefully she’ll go to sleep early tonight!

So I’m going to try and update right now that Alaethia’s still asleep and the boys have begun their video game time. Let’s see how far I get!

Okay, so I didn’t sleep very well Sunday night because of Alaethia’s cough. I had to sleep propped up with her on my chest so that she wouldn’t be choking on her congestion. We didn’t fall asleep till 2am and in between that I kept waking up during Jaylen’s coughing fits. Poor dude. I had to take Mom to her follow-up doctor’s appointment that morning and figured it was a good a time as any to get Aly and Jaylen squeezed in for an appointment.

The office was almost empty, which was cool for us. We got called in so fast I only read about 3 pages of my book (usually I can read 2-3 chapters — that’s how long they take!). We got into the vitals room and I spotted Mario’s cousin, Jennifer, across the hall in the lab department. We found out she’s having a tough time with health concerns right now and she’s pregnant, so please keep her in your thoughts.

My tiny girl still weighs 13.15 lbs. and she’s almost five months old. Big difference from the boys who were lingering around 16-18 lbs. by now! I guess there is a big difference between boys and girls when it comes to weight; I would carry my friends’ daughters and they always seemed so light!

Our doctor wasn’t in so we saw the other one, Dr. M. I don’t really like him. He doesn’t answer my questions and really just doesn’t listen to me. I asked him to give me a generic prescription for Jaylen (since we’re so short on cash right now) and he told me he’d be giving me a cough medicine for him that “wasn’t expensive”. Right. When we get to the pharmacy they tell me it’s my regular co-pay of $20 for the name brand because that’s what he gave me. Grr!

He diagnosed Jaylen with a dry cough and no chest congestion. Aly’s got chest congestion, but he says it’s not too bad. He said her ear was red, but only gave me one prescription for her, which I believe is only for cough (see why I don’t like him?). He said it wasn’t bad enough that she’d need antibiotics. I hope he’s right — she’d been pulling at her ear yesterday. I’m to give her nebulizer treatments every 4 hours, but I only give them to her 2-3 times a day, right after she wakes up and at night usually, because they raise her heart rate tremendously.

Eenan stayed at home with John that morning since I didn’t want him exposed to any more sicknesses at the doctor’s office. He just got over his nasty cough and I’d like to keep it that way, especially since the wedding’s this weekend. Poor thing spent all morning cleaning their room since he was expecting his friend, Rolando, to come over. We waited all afternoon and he never showed up :(. Eenan was pretty sad. He remained hopeful even after I left with Elda, Noelia, Yadira, and Sonia to Noelia’s Lingerie Party, but nope, he never showed. Mom stayed with all my kiddos since no kids were allowed at the party.

Let me just say I know some crazy women. I laughed so much that the back of my head was throbbing by the end of the night. We’re all a bunch of pervs, that’s for sure LOL. They’d told Noelia it was only a Lingerie Party and not a Bachelorette Party to surprise her. I’d never been to one in my life and I had an awesome time. There was a penis cake and I even won the only two games of Dirty Bingo! Woo!

We got home pretty late, around 10pm. I got the boys ready for bed and then Alaethia and I began another sleepless night. Mario got home, late of course, around 12:30 and Alaethia was still awake. We had a long talk about some issues we’ve been having lately, mostly having to do with him always being out. I try to be patient, but it gets tiring. Hopefully we can work everything out and continue to have a good, strong relationship.

I spent yesterday trying to do housework (as much as Alaethia would let me). I’ve been doing pretty darn good with upkeep in the kitchen, even with Alaethia being sick. The dishes haven’t piled up overwhelmingly at all these past two weeks and it’s been such a weight off my shoulders. Yes, dishes were this much of a burden to me. I hate washing dishes and ever since Alaethia was born they’d become even more of a bother. But now that I’m doing them after each meal, after every dish we use, it’s SO much easier. Whodathunkit?!

Around 5pm Yazmin came over and she downloaded some songs she needed. Then John and I started remembering some old cartoons and searched for those on Youtube and I downloaded some old jazzy songs I’d sang in middle school choir. Gotta love technology.

I got in a bad mood quickly though when they asked me to drop Yazmin off at church in Peñitas, only to be sent right back when I was already arriving because the priest hadn’t shown up. This is like, the 2nd time he stands them up. How unprofessional. Still, I was pissed because I was in the middle of getting ready and had to be in a hurry now that I had to be driving around. It’s my luck that when I’m actually getting ready early something happens where I’m still going to be the one they have to be waiting around for. (Same thing happened the night of Noelia’s party.) But I took my time and we still made it on time, at 7pm, to the rehearsal.

Everything was all over the place and really unplanned. My boys were being extra hyper and were not minding anyone. I just pray that they’re on their best behavior the day of the wedding. They moved us around the three times we rehearsed, so imagine how confused they are. Mario and I are supposed to do the readings and when I was up there “practicing” I was told it was the wrong reading and I read too damn fast. Well, that’s how I read, dammit! So now I have to practice reading SLOW. Nice. Mario and I were practicing in front of each other and I was joking around that I was going to read it William Shatner slow. Buahaha.

So tonight we shall be practicing walking down the isle down our driveway. L33t. I should be getting my dress back from the seamstress today and I just hope it came out alright. I seriously need to go buy some double sided tape or something guys. I had a dream The Girls popped out and scarred everyone for life.

I need to start getting ready. The boys have their dentist appointments today and after this, we’ll have a grand total of $6 left in our bank account. Nice, eh? Thank God Mario gets paid this Friday. We’ve got so much shit we’ve still got to buy (Eenan’s party stuff, both boys’ school clothes and supplies, the rest of the wedding stuff, and soon they’re going to want to Baptize Aly *pulls out hair*) I’m so ready to hide in my closet until at least September. September seems like a safe month. Nothing overwhelming happens in September.

(Woo! I just finished this up and Aly woke up. I’m GOOD.)