Category: Events

Since I have to wait for the whites to dry and I need to stick the jeans in to dry I decided to blog. Mario, Jaylen and Eenan are playing the games on the Chicken Little DVD so I’m bored. I guess I’ll summarize from where I left off on my previous blog.

We spruced up on Algebraic equations on Thursday, which I caught on to real quick. Everything’s been pretty easy so far; I just need to be taught once and I actually get it, thank God. We finished all our assignments early so Mrs. C-R. let us out at 11:30 instead of 12.

John and I went straight to the United Blood Services bus. (I was already thinking I was um, expecting, so John and I went to Wal-Mart that morning and picked up a preggers test to check and be sure. I wasn’t, so I was free to donate. I was kind of excited and nervous–in a way, I was relieved that I wasn’t since I’m barely getting out of school and want to look for a job and all. But, when it’s meant to happen, it will.)

My iron was good this time so they let me donate. It was John’s first time so they had to ask him the million questions they ask and then hooked him up. I didn’t even bruise this time, which is a big surprise. John didn’t bruise either, but he was delirious at one point. He even scared a girl we’d just met that day. Let’s just say he was singing along to “I Will Survive”.

We did ratios and proportions on Friday, which were easy as hell. We finished everything by 11a.m. so we had time to surf the net and talk. Some of us pitched in for pizza and then Mrs. C-R. sent us (Mayra, Lucy, John and I) to Domino’s to pick up the 5 pizzas. We made it there just fine, it was getting back that was tricky. I hate driving over there–there’s so many bridges and junk, and then there was this psycho old lady who almost ran me off the road and almost crashed into a trailer. She caused me to get into the left lane which was a “Left Only” lane and so I had to go all the way around to catch the expressway. Grr.

It was a great lunch. Mayra took her very awesome Cheesecake, Lucy took chips and dip (ooh I could go for some right now), I took cookies and then we had delicious pizza. We all talked about school and politics, a certain person and other stuff.

Mario, Jaylen and I picked Eenan up from school, then Mom from visiting Gramma and then went to JCPenny. We needed to get gifts for Jorgie and Justin, shirts for the boys for Jaylen’s birthday and Mario actually wanted to look for a few things. He found some Dockers dress pants he liked, a new belt and booties. He’s going to look so spiffy :).

The boys and I cleaned the bedroom up in the morning (after much yelling and threatening–the room’d been filthy for days) then I gave the boys showers and showered myself so we could leave. I needed to return two shirts I’d gotten at Ross: a pink one that made me look pregnant and a black/tan striped one. That one was way too long. I know that’s the style now, but it was just ridiculous. In their place I got:

That last one is the one I’ll be wearing tomorrow. It sort of matches the color of Mario’s shirt.

We went to Jorgie and Justin’s party after I shopped a little. It was at a park so I was dreading the heat, but it was such a nice, pleasant day. There was actually a breeze and shade. The boys had a blast, except for when this older boy started bullying the little one’s around. Other than that, it was a great party–Jorge and Maggie did a great job. The burger I had was deelish.

And well, that’s all that’s happened. Oh yeah, and Spike, one of Mario’s rats, died. And the other two started to eat him, which is an instinct rodents have. It was still horrible to see, though. Egh.

The clothes should be done now. I shall leave you with a picture of our newly-tinted truck:

G’nite!

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Since we’re working on a website for our class (Computer Concepts) and I already have mine done I’m updating. The darn internet at home is still all wonky due to signal failure (according to the Level 3 Technician I spoke to yesterday). They’re supposed to stop by the house on Sunday morning to fix it. Grr.

Anyway, we attended Arturo’s funeral on Wednesday afternoon. I picked Eenan up from school and arrived just in time to help Mario find his clothes (what would he do without me?) and then Mom, Big Mario, Mary, Mario and I left to Rio Grande. Thankfully, John stayed with the kids.

The priest said nice things, although I noticed he kept talking about things that weren’t really relevant to Arturo. It was so sad. My father-in-law cried–it was probably a mixture of that and that it hadn’t really hit him yet that made Mario cry. I kept swallowing down the lump in my throat and blinking back the tears. When we got to the burial in El Sauz, however, I lost all control when we put a handful of pretty flowers on his tiny casket. His casket was about a foot wide, a foot long, and about 8 inches deep. All that was left of him was enough to fill that little box, so that’s why they got that size casket. We went to their ranch for one last Rosario and then went home.

So far, all we’ve heard is that his death was related to the time he testified in court against drug traffikers. They didn’t do anything back then because it would be obvious so I’m assuming that’s why they did it now. I just hope they find those people and that they pay well for it.

John started school on Wednesday and so far he likes it. He keeps whispering “Vish” to me and constantly makes me laugh at the most inappropriate times, but it’s cool having him there. It would have been awesome if he’d gotten the chance to start at the same time that I did so that we could graduate together but oh well. It just wasn’t possible.

I’ve got so much to do today. Gotta go to Mr. Gatti’s to leave a deposit for Jaylen’s birthday party. I’m going to have to set the date foward two weeks (due to Easter) but that gives us more time to save money and buy more party favors and candies. I have to stop for Mario’s check, stop to buy tickets to Ice Age 2 before they’re sold out, get home and pack up more stuff to take to storage, go pick up Mary’s rentors’ check, and then pick up Eenan and go to the movies. Whew.

I should start coming up with a new layout for this place since it’s for a grade, I think? Yep, I think that’s what I’ll do. Too bad there’s no PSP or PS on here .

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I should be showering right now but I just have to mention a few things before I do.

First, I’m so proud of my Jaylen. He actually started writing his alphabet today. I didn’t force him–I just saw him drawing in a notebook and he started scribbling pretend letters. I wrote his name and he got excited and started copying the letters. He was so thrilled he was writing like a big boy that he had me sitting on my bed with him, a notebook and box of markers for an hour while he practiced. I’m SO glad he feels inspired to write, finally. I’d been trying for so long to get him to learn his alphabet. He knows his shapes and colors but I could not get him to sing the alphabet song or practice writing his name. Hopefully we’ve made some progress :).

John and I went to visit Gramma at the nursing home after his orientation. She’d asked us to take her some Hershey’s Kisses so we took them to her (John bought them for her, aww). A while back, about two weeks ago, she’d asked us to find a man she knew since middle school online and let her know where he was, or if he was even alive. I never got a chance to (and now my stupid internet is messing up) and she asked us about him today. I noticed it was the first thing she talked about and I think it’s because Mom wasn’t there. Turns out, just as I started suspecting, that this man is our Grandfather. I am not kidding you, just this morning I was wondering about my Grandfather–who he was and where he was right now. I need to find him. She said it’s important that she tells Mom about him before she passes away–which I immediately told her to stop saying. I’m not mentioning anything to Mom though–I promised Gramma I would let her tell her.

I accompanied Mary to the Rosary that was held for my Padrino Arturo at the funeral home today. I sat with my head bowed while everyone prayed. I tried following along as best I could, but I don’t know the prayers in Spanish =\. The emotion didn’t hit me until I went up there to pay my respects to Arturo and then expressed my condolences to his family. I felt my lip quivering and thought, “Oh, no!”, and just started bawling. I just can’t believe this happened. It’s not fair.

We stopped at Walmart for a few things and I saw Lucy there. We talked for a bit and then we came home. Since then I’ve balanced my checkbook and that’s it. I feel so lazy and tired. I’m on the phone with Mario–as soon as I hang up with him I’m showing and running to bed.

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