Category: Daily

My luck would have it that the night before my Yard Sale we’d get “Strong to Severe” Thunderstorms. It’s been reported that golf-ball sized hail is headed this way, in about 15 minutes. My sweet husband was outside in a t-shirt and shorts running around finding bricks to hold down the tarp that’s covering all the yard sale stuff. Those bags and boxes mostly consist of toys and books–great. I hope they stay dry.

We’re also under tornado watch. It never concerned me before, but after all the severe weather Texas has been having lately (Lubbock, Amarillo, Tulia and the tornados in Eagle Pass) I’m pretty darn terrified. I just hope everyone will be okay. Who cares about the darn Yard Sale.

Eenan’s up. The hail’s here and Mario’s outside in a raincoat watching it. Better turn off the computer before the storm does.

Dear JC Penny,

Please quit raising my credit limit, as I’m having enough trouble paying off the $600 balance I currently owe you. It’s quite rude of you to keep tempting me so.

Yours Truly,
Me

Dammit! Why do they do that to us!? I already have a $10 off on any purchase of $10 or more coupon I’ve been dying to use (I need more jeans or capris!) and now they raise my credit limit another $300? Argh!

Mario and I completed 10 years of being together (our “dating” anniversary) yesterday, April 30th. I still can’t believe it’s been that long. It doesn’t even feel like it, really. Can’t think of anyone else I’d like to spend 10 years with :).

I’m so beat. Alaethia fell asleep about 15 minutes ago and I should already be in bed taking advantage but I decided to blog before the days accumulate on me. Alaethia actually let me sleep in with her till 11am after the boys and Mario left (though I was woken up by a phone call from Jorge once and jolted out of bed a second time because I was dreaming that I slept in and was late picking up Jaylen). Poor Eenan had a fever in the morning of 100.3, but I gave him some Motrin and it got back to normal so he went to school. After I picked Jaylen up I went straight to tackling the yard sale stuff, as much as I didn’t want to.

I tidied up my bedroom and closet since I hadn’t paid much attention to that part of the house in a few weeks. It looks much better and more organized in my closet. I also managed to pick a whole bunch of flip flops to get rid of! I had no idea I was so obsessed with those darn things. I also looked through the kids bookcase and although I didn’t get rid of too many books, I did get rid of 4 huge school boxes full of crayons! The things these kids collect.

I emptied out the two 30-gallon bins the boys had toys in (that are mostly being sold in the yard sale) and put Mario’s car collections and my 80s stuff that’d been in cardboard boxes in them instead. I need Mario to help me get the highest stuff out of the living room closet so that I can properly stack the bins. The whole house is a mess right now, what with all the yard sale stuff that needs to be taken out, and I’m getting a bit…overwhelmed by it all. I can’t wait till we’re done with the yard sale!

I went to the mall yesterday with John to pay a bill and John went to get an application but they weren’t hiring yet. Later in the evening, we went to Yadira’s for a bar-b-q Jose and Elda had planned (Alaethia wore the overalls that both my boys wore and held her bottle for a good long while for the first time!). Both events totally threw my day off, so I didn’t get anything done for the yard sale (and I kind of didn’t want to, heh). Oh! And Ricky, Big Mario’s friend, came to check our sink and figured out the source of the leak was from our darn spray thing! It was messed up since we bought it at Home Depot a few months ago and that’s what was causing all the leakage. I’m still not sure what we’re going to do about the wood, though.

I went to Dollar General today to buy some neon-colored posters to make signs and some more gallon-sized Ziplocs to stuff toys in and sell. Then I went to buy the permit at the City Hall. We’re allowed 3 days. I’m doing mine Thursday and Friday and Elda’s doing hers on Saturday. I was originally going to do mine on Saturday, too, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to waste my Saturday doing the yardsale LOL. I’ve places to go and a Gramma to see :P. I also plan on taking all the stuff that didn’t sell straight to storage or Salvation Army. I hardly ever go to Salvation Army, so I figured if I take them to a charity shop that one would be the best bet. I wouldn’t leave the junk at the other ones I go to since I’m fully capable of buying my own crap back!

Tomorrow will be spent putting neon-colored price stickers on everything. How fun. We’ll that’s if I don’t end up taking Eenan to the doctor after picking up Jaylen. I’m scared for the little guy. We don’t know what’s wrong. Nothing hurts. He keeps getting a slight fever and his eyes get hot, but he doesn’t feel pain. He also says his legs feel “jiggly” and that his tummy bothers him. I’ve asked him if he feels like throwing up, but he forgot what it feels like. My poor dude.

Mario put him to bed before leaving to Chris’ since I had Aly in my arms (he took a towel and put it next to Eenan’s bed on the floor with a trashcan on top of it), and I went in afterwards to tuck him in. I brought him an extra pillow to prop him up, just in case. As I’m fluffing his pillow I hear him sniffle and he says, “I love you guys. Thank you for everything you do for me.” My son, with his big eyes and his big heart, can always dissolve me to a pile of mush :*).

I hate when my kiddos are sick. I feel so…helpless. Then I start to feel all icky, too, and I hate when that happens. I should be strong for them!

Okay, I’m brushing my teeth and going to bed while I can. I also plan on putting Alaethia in her crib from now on, since Mario flings his arms around and although he’s careful with her, you never know. Better to be safe than sorry.

I can’t wait till the yard sale’s over.

I’m about 3 hours into scanning the house for more yard-sale-worthy (i.e. JUNK) things and am already sick of it. I went through every-single-thing in the cabinets under the sink and am keeping about 1/3 of the stuff that was down there. I still need to do a bit more searching, as I may just be keeping a bit too much stuff. I even rediscovered my cake-sicle pan (makes cupcakes in the shape of popsicles!) and my Betty Crocker Bake-n-Fill pans. Need to use those for mother’s day ;).

I also discovered that the water damage that happened about a year ago to the wood down there is more extensive that I thought. I removed the contact paper I’d put under there for easier cleaning and was disgusted to find the wood almost completely rotten. Not good, and NOT healthy. I kept telling Mario and my dad-in-law about the problem and everyone just kept shrugging me off. Now we’re going to have to replace just about everything!

AND we’re also going to have to re-do the bathroom floor. One of the boys (all signs point to Eenan) threw a wad of green bubble gum into the bathroom wastebasket and completely missed. Well, Mario obviously didn’t pay attention that night and threw a towel on the floor since the bathroom rug was in the wash. When I went in there to hang the towel up to dry (men!) I pulled the towel up and the tile came with it!! I guess it was a blessing in disguise since I noticed the floor was covered in mold. Like, a layer of mold, no kidding. It’s disgusting. It must have happened when our toilet was on the fritz a few months ago and overflowed a few times. So now, we have to measure, get prices for, and buy ceramic tile. We’re not putting any of that commercial stuff in there anymore. That’s what we had in there before: commercial tile. Water can easily get under there and lift the glue, thus causing mold. I don’t know why we ever put it in there in the first place! I don’t know how people can have the sense to put carpet in their bathrooms (I’ve seen it several times!).

Why do houses and cars decide to fall apart when you’re not only broke, but trying to save money. Mario’s vacation is coming up and it looks like we won’t be doing a damn thing this year. Not fun :(. That’s probably where the money I make at the yard sale will go–saving for either repairs or vacation.

I guess that means I should get a move on and get back to searching through stuff and cleaning. I just wish I had help *slumps*. Mario’s off helping his Mom get her stuff out of storage. It’s going to take all day. By the time he gets home, he’ll be too tired to help me.

But at least I got my 3 last boxes of 80s stuff out of our outdoor unit and into my house!

I noticed I’ve got a few extras of vintage Care Bears and Popples, so I might add those to my Thrift Shop soon.