Category: Daily

This entry was started on Friday, September 9th, finished on September 12th. I never had a chance to revise and upload!

[Friday, September 3rd]
I have about 25 minutes left of my lunch hour so let’s see how much I can get typed up about the last week, heh.

I left off on Friday, the 3rd. It was SO HOT that day. Work was work. Michelle and I got permission from the bosses to hit up Starbucks. She had to get a gift card for a co-worker and I got myself a tall Tazo Passion tea with lemonade since we were already there, heh. I figured it was way too hot for any kind of caffeinated drink.

I was still in a kind of gloomy mood and even moreso since the kids would be with Mario that weekend. The first Art Walk was on Friday night so Mom and I went over there for a little bit. She got me a super cute sushi ring and I got a Hello Kitty resin ring for myself. I also went ahead and scouted a few artists for one of my upcoming events ;).

And of course I immediately had “buyers remorse” as soon as I walked away from the Hello Kitty table. I can seriously never just buy myself anything without wanting to run back and return it right away. (When I told Jorge later, “I can’t believe I spent $10 on this ring! I could have bought groceries with this. Or a dress from Ross for work!” He laughed and gently joked, “Oooh, you spent $10! Oh no, how will we ever make it to our next paycheck!” LOL. I eventually began to love the ring again.)

I also got some cute Angry Birds keychains for each of the boys and some headbands for the girls :).

My babe and I’d had a little disagreement about an hour before and he called me while I was at the fair. I started it, I admit it. I slowly tried making peace with him and him with me. We were still a little cautious and awkward with each other when we got home, you know how it goes, heh. His boys asked me to sit and watch a movie with them so I did and he did his crossword puzzle on the iPad out on the porch. I joined him outside later and we took turns with the crossword. By the end of the night, we laid in bed and exchanged a kiss on the tip of the nose, wrapped our arms around the other’s neck and simultaneously whispered, “I don’t like fighting with you”. And that was that; like nothing had happened :). I love that !

The boys left for dove hunting the next morning so I started a load of laundry and tidied up here and there. I walked into my bathroom and saw the cardboard box that I’d kicked out of my closet when I’d brought back my scrapbook drawers and the bins with my albums from John’s apartment the day before (finally!). I decided I shouldn’t procrastinate and organized my closet while I had a chance. That took me a while, especially with Ruffles in the way every 5 seconds >_<. But I finished, and it's organized and all my scrapbooking supplies are within reach and my photo albums are safe from the heat :). I finished up and remembered I had to pay bills and deposit at the bank; so I got ready and ran my errands. I may have gone grocery shopping, I forget now. Oh yes, I did! We got some corn-on-the cob, which was on sale, and I thought it would be awesome for the BBQ we would surely have once Jorge and the boys collected enough doves from their hunts on Saturday and Sunday :). I also bought us some Pecan Sandies...because we'd decided that we were starting P90X, and would cut WAY down on the junk food. So of course, whenever I start a new workout routine, I have my traditional Binge Fest!! I can't remember much else from the day. I made pork fillets for dinner with a side of salad that night and thankfully I made the whole tray of meat, because the boys and my babe got 2nds and 3rds LOL. The hunters were mighty tired and hungry LOL. We had a lazy morning the next day and had our traditional Sunday omelet ♥. We had a few hours to kill before we took the Insanity Fit Test, just to see where we were at physically. John had come over to visit and I downloaded songs for Mom while John surfed the web, the boys were watching TV in the living room and Jorge was doing his crosswords on the iPad. The only thing missing to make that a perfect morning was my babies, who were at Mario's still :(. Man, I hate that :'(. We brought out the Pecan Sandies and I was totally prepared to have my Binge (which, now that I recall, I tried having with Oreos and I ate a total of THREE and the kids ate the rest LOL.) and I, once again, had about 3 LOL. I'm not good at the junk-food binging anymore; my waistline must be thrilled! We did a few more crosswords and then: DUN DUN DUN!! It was time for the fit test. We did pretty good considering we've worked out very little the past year. I get on the treadmill every once in a while, but I wouldn’t say it’s an actual work out. I was feeling a little queasy from jumping all over the place and probably from eating those sandies, so I told Jorge maybe I should skip hunting. He’d asked me to go the day before and I wasn’t looking forward to sitting in 107 degree weather, but he really wanted me to go and his cute, pouty face made me change my mind. So, with trembling baby-deer legs after the work out, we showered and got ready to go.

We met Jr. at his house, grabbed some Subway for lunch and met with their uncle in Cuevitas. It was extremely hot, but it was worth sitting in the heat watching Jorge spending time with the boys. He kept missing his shots, and blamed it on me making him nervous LOL. But he eventually got back into it.

Since it was Labor Day the next day, Mario was keeping Emily, grrr. We went back home around 7 since I didn’t have to be home at 6 =\. We went shopping for some last-minute stuff for the BBQ and for being so last-minute, it was some DARN GOOD food! I had to invite Michelle over :).

My babe left on a training that week. It was supposed to be a quick one and then turned into 3 days and then he ended up having to leave on Wednesday till Sunday :(. We’d been away from each other before, but not for that long. It was torture for both of us. We even set up our Qik accounts, Google cam accounts and I went to buy a mic since my darn laptop doesn’t have one . So we kept in touch as best as we could; he even called me once during lunch and I got to “see” him hehe.

My middle school reunion was that weekend (the 9th) and I was excited for all my buddies to meet Jorge, but he couldn’t go, obviously :(. I bought a blouse and met the old Terrier crew at Buffalo Wild Wings. It was a nice reunion. Too bad Sally wasn’t there =\.

I didn’t stay long, I was amazed I’d stayed awake till 11pm. I got home and all my little darlings were strewn all over the sofas, it was the cutest thing. I let them be and called my babe before going to bed :).

The next day was a busy one for us. I took the girls to the library, where they got a whole plethora of new books. All of us visited Gramma and then we got home and I was volunteered by Alaethia to sew a new dress for her dolly, since hers was missing. It took forever, because I was too lazy to get the sewing machine out, but once I DID it was a breeze, heh.

I hadn’t spoken much to Jorge other than an update here and there by text to let us know his ETA. The girls and I picked him up from work and then went to HEB (where we ran into Michelle and Rosie!) to pick up some stuff for a BBQ to go along with his football game :). It felt so nice to have him back :)!!

He invited a few friends over and we had a great night. The next morning was even better; Emily woke up early and didn’t cry when we left for work! She was so sweet and lovely and ate her cereal and sweetly waved at us and said she loved us. My babe and I drove to work together (aww, I miss that!) and I got to meet him for lunch (El Terco!) and then we went to Kumori with Emmos for dinner! Hadn’t been there in forever! He watched his MNF game and Emily was just the sweetest girl in the world :).

I swear, I could explode from happiness sometimes!!

This will be quick, because it’s almost 1am and I need to shower!

– *Finally* fixed that Flickr album error yesterday. Darn thing!

– Work was interesting. The excitement of the day was a homeless, dressed-too-young elderly lady (no really, you could see her wrinkly buttcheeks =X!) with a shit-ton of belongings trying to get a Marriott hotel shuttle to pick her up…and host her at their hotel. For free. Eventually, she did get a Fairfield shuttle to pick her up. I wish her the best =\. Interested to know what happens to her.

– It started to rain, which is my favorite weather, ever. Not so much my favorite traffic, as everyone flips out and comes to a complete halt on the Expressway. Thankfully, I made it to pick up the kids in one piece.

– Saw a double rainbow on the way to Burger King:

– Ate with the kiddos and stayed within budget, thank goodness. I had the newish California Whopper and it was SO GOOD! I had asked for the Jr., but the guy charged a Jr. and gave me a huge burger. Eenan helped me with it, though :).

– The kids were hyper so we went to the park to burn off their energy, heh. They were all on the slides, then the swings and then the girls wanted to go for a walk, so we did :).

– Dropped them off with their father. Grandmother. Because Father was nowhere to be found, of course.

– Picked up dinner for my love, who was at home watching the game with his buddies.

– Clipped coupons :).

– Sat outside with the guys while I was on my laptop. Started thinking about the glazed, chocolate & sprinkles Krispy Kreme donut I had around 3pm. And my California Whopper. And the strawberry muffin I had for breakfast with my coffee (which seemed innocent at the time but I didn’t know I’d eat so much other crap throughout the day =\). And the sips of Jorge’s extremely sweet Mango tea. I decided: THAT’S IT, FATTY. Time to get on the ball again. I started watching P90X results videos on YouTube to get hyped up and motivated. Even my babe was watching over my shoulder during commercials and we decided Sunday is the day. Sunday we start FOR REAL. I gotta get the meal plans and videos off my external harddrive and start planning things out. I don’t think we’ll be doing all the videos, since time doesn’t allow, but we’ll incorporate jogging and whatnot. I’m excited :D.

– I jogged/walked on the treadmill for 37 minutes and burned 250 cals while watching “Something Borrowed” :). Love, love, love that movie ♥!

– Did some push-ups and Ab Ripper. Ok–SOME of Ab Ripper. I am severely out of shape! But that’s all gonna change :).

– We got a random knock on the door from PD asking if someone was screaming in our house. I was like, “Wha?? No.” I was out of breath from working out and then Jorge is walking down our extremely long sidewalk from the backyard. The cop shines the light on him and says, “Do you know this man, ma’am??” I say, “Him? Oh, he’s my boyfriend.” And they bombard Jorge with handshakes and ask if anyone lives in the house next door. We say no, people moved out. They ask if the gate is always open like that, we say no. I remember hearing something like a baby crying or a howl while I was jogging, but I thought it was another TV in the house. Really strange.

– Babe came in and told me about his day :).

– And now…it’s 1:14am and I work in the morning and I should be in the shower by I’m HYPER and NOT SLEEPY!!

I don’t know what was wrong with me yesterday. I was overly sensitive and I had these waves of sadness. I just felt like the world was going to end. I cried–no, bawled–during Ramona and Beezus. I felt a lil better when Jorge said, “It’s you!” when Ginnifer Goodwin was on screen (I seriously still don’t see the resemblance AT ALL. Emily, yes. Me, no).

We got into bed early (for once!) and he didn’t let me fall asleep until I talked about it and got everything off my chest ♥. I still can’t fully pinpoint the cause, but I’m pretty sure it was because I was missing the kids and it just branched off from that.

And I’m PMS’ing. Grr.

Work is work. I seriously can’t WAIT till October when everything starts picking up. Or at least, I hope it does.

I searched for a blueberry muffin recipe during lunch so I could rescue the sad strawberries that were nearing their demise in the crisper.

I got home after work and went straight to the hallway bathroom to clean up the girls’ step-stool; I’d read yesterday about the recall on these stools. Sure enough, took it to the store and got a gift card for $27. I found a plastic, safe-so-far replacement stool for the girls, got a few things I needed for dinner, an eyeliner and a lipgloss (both of which I needed, both of which equalled to $3, heh). And I still had some leftover!

Mario needed to bring Emily back to me and brought the other kids too since he was going to the gym . We had a talk outside about Eenan’s attitude, which he described as something that’s been happening recently, and um, no, it hasn’t. He blamed it on the video games and said that he thinks it’s a good idea to deprive them from games during the school week. I almost lost it. I kinda did, I think. Arms waving in the air and everything, I said, “Um! That was my rule! If you would have kept it that way it wouldn’t be a problem.” Oh. But last year he wanted to seem like the Good Guy and the Fun Dad and wanted to make me look like the Bad Guy and Boring, Strict Mom. But now he’s having problems with the child and NOW he worries. I coulda told him this would happen from day one ;).

Mom helped cut up chicken for the spaghetti and I started on the strawberry muffins. They were a hit :).

Eenan was a bit mopey, but then he slowly got closer to the kitchen until we started talking about cooking. I really need to make time to teach him the basics; he’s really eager to learn :).

He started telling me about his story he’s been writing since 5th grade (my God…he’s in 7th! *faints*). He talked while Alaethia and Emily both jumped around waiting for the muffins to cool. Both the girls are showing signs of a cold. Poor Alaethia; Pre-K isn’t good for anyone’s immune system :,(.

Time went by too quickly, but at least I got to enjoy my babies for a bit :). Jorge is asleep already and Emily’s asking for stories so I must be going!