Category: Family

The title means two things: 1) What will we do this weekend? And 2) We’re broke and Mario just got paid today so I have no idea how we’re going to make it till next payday (which also means we’ll probably do ZIP this weekend).

I’ve been so tired these past few weeks that chilling out at home with the kids sounds just fine to me. Ricci might come over sometime Saturday or Sunday to finish her assignment, but that’s about it.

We picked Mario’s pay check up today after I got home from school (and ran a few errands for Mary) and we were both pretty shocked. Since he was “suspended” for 3 days he missed out on a lot of pay and boy did the check show it. It was half of what Mario usually makes and that sucks. We had so many bills to pay off; we’re even more behind now . Thanks Asshole That Works With Mario for suspending him for the dumbest reason (PMS on Asshole’s part). It feels like I’m never going to take my certification exam and I’m going to have to go into the Financial Aid office on Monday and tell them I won’t be able to pay my tuition till the 17th instead of the 5th. I hope they don’t give me any shit about it . They didn’t the last time, but you never know what lady I’ll have the pleasure of speaking to this time.

We’re going to be really tight money-wise these next two weeks, really tight. I’d be a sobbing, crumbling mess right about now, but we’ve made it before and darnit, we’ll make it again. So we’ll get a little behind on the bills–who doesn’t? Mario’s helped me realize that I need to stop being so anal about everything, especially our bills (and my grades at school ). Of course I’ll keep up with them (I’ve got an Excel workbook with our monthly bills for Pete’s sake), but I won’t have a nervous break-down if we can’t make a deadline like I usually do.

Speaking of, we were so broke this week I had to go and get a “loan” out with Mom on Wednesday. I’ve never had to do that before and felt slightly embarrassed, but Mom happily helped us out. I’m so grateful that we have such a wonderful family .

I plan on taking it very easy this weekend. I’ll have to clean, blah, but other than that I think I’ll spend the weekend reading and sleeping, heh. Oh, I wonder how Mayra’s doing? She was spending today moving into her new house and also needed to finish her assignment, which I e-mailed to her. I hope she got it okay.

Jaylen’s looking so much older now. He’s almost as big as Eenan is! We took them to get their hair cuts today and they look so nice. They’d both been asleep before we’d arrived at the salon, so they were grouchy when we woke them up. Eenan was crying and looked completely miserable. The two ladies in the salon were both laughing and thought he was just adorable. Jaylen was really cooperative and looks so nice. He got a Cesar’s cut like Mario and looks even more like him . I’ve just realized I need to update my cam pic. My webcam’s taken a crap it seems; it doesn’t want to work!

Enough babbling for tonight. I should check where Mario’s gone…I haven’t seen him in two hours LOL.

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It amazes me that after all these years dad’s infidelity to mom can still mess me up. This morning, on the way to school, Ricci and I were listening to Wild 104 and they actually announced the War of the Roses early for once.

War of the Roses is a show that people call and try to bust their spouse or significant others cheating. They call up the person (you provide the number of course) and the DJ tells the person they won a free dozen roses from RedRoses.com (fake site) and what person would they like to send it to and what do they want the card to say. Well, most of the time the person IS cheating and the person calling screams out and they get into a fight on the air. It’s usually shocking and very amusing. Well, this morning was different.

A 17 year old girl called and said she wanted to catch her dad cheating. She said she knew he was, but wanted to prove it to her mom because her mom didn’t want to believe it. Sure enough, her dad sends the roses to a woman at a club and says, “Thanks for those nights and making my day easier”, or something like that. The girl was crying and asking, “Why dad?! Why?? I thought we were a good family! How could you do this to us–to mom!?” He kept telling her, “You be quiet. I’ll talk to you at home. You’re going to get it.” (Everything he said was in Spanish, so it sounded even worse.) By the time we got to school, I was shaking and had a lump in my throat. We got off and I tried hiding my face since tears were uncontrollably falling out of my eyes. Ricci saw me and I tried to laugh it off, but she hugged me and told me it was okay, that I was a great person and it was a long time ago, and many other comforting things I can’t remember right now, so that made me cry even more. Took me a while to compose myself. Thank goodness nobody asked questions since I was sniffing and my nose was clearly red, or I surely would have broken down again for sure.

I hate that that happens. I hate that I can’t think of what happened, I mean REALLY think of what happened, and not cry about it. I wish it wouldn’t bother me so much, but it does. Most of my life I ignored it; what he did never really bothered me; I wrote him off as an asshole and was just glad he left. But in the long run, it really has affected me, and that sucks.

Anyway, we started another lesson today and studied for 30 mintues of our 3rd period for our test on chapters 1 and 2 of Access. I feel really good about it; I think I did well. I’ve been really hard on myself lately when I don’t get 100’s and I really need to quit doing that. Mario said I’m going crazy and my God, I think I am. I work myself up for nothing. I got flaming mad when I got a 97 on our group project (the one I was really proud of–the 80’s Antiques one) and a 98 on my hospital project. I got points taken away because my fields didn’t fit the info correctly–something that none of us had been taught before, nor was anything about it in the chapters we were studying and it all depended on which layout you chose for the Forms and Reports. I found it to be really unfair, but whatever. I’m trying not to think about it anymore…

Ricci and I sat with Mayra for a while after we took our test and then made our way to the car. When we get there, I open the door and I realize the power locks aren’t working. I look at the lights and sure enough, I’d left them on and my battery drained out. I’d been so upset in the morning I didn’t go back and check if I’d turned them off (which I usually have to do because most of the time I DO leave them on). Thankfully the security guard had jumper cables and jump-started the car for me. Another guy was out there keeping us company since we looked all helpless.

Mario’s currently suspended from work. It’s nothing bad on his part, somebody threw a fit and decided it was the right time to take it out on someone else and Mario just so happened to be there. It’s nice having him home–he actually swept, mopped, cleaned the bathroom and we cleaned out the car and he washed it. He’s making good points .

As for the weekend, all us girls went to eat at Pizza Hut on Friday after school, and then the whole family (even John!) went out to eat there for dinner. It was nice. We got to see ultrasound pics of Gecko, Tommy and Yadira’s baby .

Mary treated us all to watch The Corpse Bride on Saturday morning, which was a GREAT movie. The kids loved it. Jaylen stayed awake the whole time even though he was really sleepy and Eenan didn’t try to jump into the isle at all! They were both very well behaved that day. Ha, notice how I said that day LOL. Kidding, they’re getting much better at behaving in public .

I spent the rest of the day chilling out and reading. We went to Isaac and Isiah’s party on Sunday night (where we ate more pizza–I had to have gained 5 lbs. just this weekend!) I also ended up finishing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, finally! Let’s see how long it takes me to read Book 5, which is even longer!

Man I have a headache and I’m out of Aleve . I still gotta take a shower and finish eating. I feel naseous .

Quote of the night: “I want to skadoo like Blue but I always end up tripping over my feet.” – John

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Well, after watching My Name is Earl, or whatever the correct name of the show is, on NBC last night (which I think is hilarious) I started thinking about Karma and all the people I’ve been evil to in my life. Although I do think the good I’ve done has out-weighed the bad, I’m starting to feel paranoid.

This morning was total chaos. Woke up a little late. I thought since I woke up at 6:20 yesterday morning and had more than enough extra time that if I woke up at 6:30 today I’d be okay. For some reason, I was in a hurry. Packed Mario’s lunch since he got home late and I didn’t have his lunch bag, Jaylen woke up early so I got his breakfast ready, got Eenan ready, and I don’t even know what else.

Ricci and I left the house and everything was going smoothly till we reached Mission. We saw people going off the road, into the grass median and into the Frontage road. There were TONS of people so I started to panic. Sure enough, about 100 feet in front of us there was a traffic jam due to a car accident up ahead. Ricci told me to go ahead and cut through the grass, and I had a really bad feeling about it so I sort of stalled, then went for it. All was fine until I had to pass over the huge curb…the bottom of the car made a huge screeching then booming sound–I thought for sure I’d broken something, but we went on since traffic was mad.

The Frontage road was no different from the Expressway. It was congested and moving at a snail’s pace. While we were slowly trudging along we notice we’re already in McAllen, and above on the Expressway there was yet another car accident. It felt like forever by the time we got back on the Expressway and got to school. We had to call Mrs. C-R. to let her know we’d be tardy.

We got to the school and I checked the car for any damage. Good news: I only dented the undercarriage (or whatever it’s called; I’m a girl, sue me!) on the left side a little. Bad news: my tires REALLY need to be aligned now. I swear that poor car’s going to fall apart because of my retarded driving .

I hope Mario got to work ok. I didn’t call him during my first break to warn him about the traffic jam. I know he’ll probably be pissed because for the 2nd day in a row I didn’t set the alarm correctly. It would really suck to get into some petty argument over something like the alarm. I don’t need it today !

I have to pick Mom up after we’re done here, then go see Gramma and then drop her off. I have a bad feeling because of all the madness from this morning that I’m PRAYING nothing odd/horrible happens the rest of the day. .

Mayra didn’t come to school today. What happened Mayra!?! Hope you’re okay.

Oh, and Rita’s now a Category 4…lovely!

[edit] It’s now a Catergory 5. A Category 5!!![/edit]

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