Category: Grr

So it turns out that the “beeping” Jaylen was hearing in his “bwain” yesterday was due to an ear infection. I started getting a little suspcious since he kept saying his ears felt weird later on during the day. Then he said the sound “jumped” from one ear to the other and that it hurt every time he talked. I asked him if it hurt when he swallowed and he said no. He fell asleep just fine; I gave him Motrin just in case he felt any pain and some Triaminic Night Time since he had a runny nose.

He woke up in a pretty good mood. Well, I’m lying, since he gave me a hard time while he was getting ready and to top it off spilt his bowl of cereal all over the floor. Eenan was a bit more cooperative though, thank goodness.

I dropped them off, came home, dropped John off, ate breakfast and reheated some leftover barbacoa for Mario. Then I made an appointment for Jaylen, which couldn’t be set until 2 since the doctor was out till then. Thankfully Mary’d asked Sonia to pick the kids (Eenan and Brandon) up afterschool for me. Mom waited at my house so someone would be here when Eenan arrived.

Everything with their insurance went without a hitch and we were seen pretty soon. They were having problems with some audio test they were performing on him to check for infections, so they waited for the doctor. He was tested for Strep, which came out negative, but he definitely had a full-blown infection in the left ear and the beginning signs of one in the right. And the kid doesn’t even act sick. Dr. Z. prescribed some antibiotics, ear drops, Tylenol (which I wouldn’t be getting since I just bought Motrin) and some mild cough/congestion medicine.

We go over to the pharmacy next door and I ask the guy helping us how much he thinks it’ll come out to. He says he’ll be right with me, which I take as him actually checking and finding out, but instead he just has them filled and rings up my total. I get my Debit card out and to my horror, it’s $30. The co-pay for each medicine is supposed to be $5, $20 if there isn’t a generic. I assume it’s for the antibiotic but when I check the receipt, it says $5. I ask him what came out to so much and he says, “Oh, that’s the congestion medicine. There isn’t a generic.” My mouth drops and I practically yell, “For that, I could have just bought Triaminic like I have been!”

I wanted to tell him to keep the medicine and shove it, but I held my tongue and paid. Grr. Next time I’m going to stand there until he tells me what each thing is and how much it’s going to cost!

We went to see Mario really quick before we went to his mom’s office to drop some stuff off. I was introduced to his friend/co-worker Lenny and Mario spoke to Jaylen for a bit. I told him about how pissed I was that they charged so much for frickin’ cough medicine but he said it was fine–anything for the kiddos. I’m all for getting our kids everything they need, of course, but the fact that I was screwed really irks me.

We get to Mary’s office and she gives us a tour since we’d never seen it before. It’s gorgeous and the decor is so modern. John, Jaylen and I get drinks and then we come home. Then came the nightly routine of cooking, bathing the kids, eating and putting them to bed. I was ready to crash at 9:30 but I figured I should stay up a little since it would only make me wake up even more during the night to pee :(. Alaethia’s so active around this time. She’s been doing something weird where I feel like one of her limb’s going to rip right through my abdomen.

Totally random: I’m SO getting The Biggest Loser Workout 2 to use after I have Alaethia. Have you seen the people on that show?! They all look so damn amazing! If they can do it, I can totally do it. I *have* to!

Okay, talking to Mario on the phone, who’s finally on his way. I’m ready to sleep!

The cold front came in and has been lingering since Thursday. It feels great outside — totally a pregnant woman’s kind of weather, or mine anyway. I’d much rather feel cold and warm up quickly than feel hot and sweaty and get no relief from fans or air conditioning.

I had a tough night Thursday night with Eenan. He’s gotten into the habit of throwing tantrums often and being extremely rude. I was so frustrated, especially since I’d been arguing with Jaylen over his games (he couldn’t find his Gameboy case) that I poured a half of a whole salt shaker into my mashed potatoes. The hormones took over and I immediately felt like a failure for messing up dinner (it’s funny to me now, but I was so sad that night) and felt even worse since Eenan kept trying to find ways to disobey me. I ended up just cupping my hands over my face and sobbing, which Eenan thought was completely his doing. He freaked out, jumped up and down and said, “Oh no, Mama! I don’t want you to cry!”

I felt horrible that he thought it was all his fault, and told him when he got into bed it wasn’t entirely his fault; I was stressed and having a bad night, but he was still punished for being rude all day long. He took the punishment (grounded from games) and went to sleep.

I felt much better the next morning (after I’d bawled my eyes out to Mario when he got home from work the night before — he puts up with so much; bless him). Eenan appologized and gave my belly a huge hug and we all left to school.

We went to his Awards Assembly at 9, where he got two certificates for getting All ‘A’ Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance for the 2nd six weeks. I’m so proud of my little dude.

When the kids got rowdy and one of the teachers spoke with them she said, “You need to be respectful to your friends who are coming up here and receiving their awards. They tried so hard this six weeks; they studied very hard and came to school even when they were sick–”

Mario and I turn to look at Eenan and he nods his head and points to his chest, implying that he’s one of the ones who felt sick and still went :P.

When he went up to the front to get his awards, I frantically tried taking pictures with my camera. Stupid thing would turn on, then swallow up the lens again. Then it showed a “low battery” picture, which wasn’t right since I’d had it charging the day before. I throw Mario a look of desperation and he says, “Toldya you should’ve bought another camera during the sales. Toldya.” Nothing like pouring salt in the would, eh? I got at least one blurry picture of him, but was totally disappointed I didn’t get one of him shaking the secretary’s hand or the group one of his class in front of the Christmas Tree on the stage. Poo.

When his teacher came to pick them up, I gave her Eenan’s Christmas picture money. We went to Jaylen’s class afterwards to turn in Jaylen’s and we see him happily sitting cross-legged on the rug. He’s wearing a little “hat” with the letter ‘N’ on it and a picture of a nest. He sees Mario and runs up to him to hug him while I spoke to his teacher. Mrs. S. and Mrs. T. had just been telling me that morning how the troublemaker in the class, a little boy named Ray, kept smacking Jaylen on the head the day before, so they had to remove him from his spot, which is next to Jaylen’s. Just that morning I’d seen him punch a little girl on the arm for passing Jaylen a sheet of stickers to pick from instead of passing it to him (and he hadn’t turned in homework–that’s what they choose stickers for). They told me Jaylen won’t say anything at all if someone’s bothering him; he’ll either ignore them or take it. I tell him he needs to let his teachers know about it, and that being hit or picked on is something he’s allowed to “tell”. He nods his head and Mrs. S. says, “I hope he does. In order for us to find out we have to catch him (Ray) doing it.”

Jaylen and the girls aren’t the only ones Ray picks on. He’s this tiny little boy, smaller than Jaylen, even, and he picks on all the kids–even ones twice his size. Kind of makes you wonder what goes on at home that he’s so aggressive and mean all the time :(.

When we leave the school we go to Family Dollar to pick up the rest of the Megaman action figures we’d seen the day before. They also had the Pet player thing, which used to cost $25 and we got for $5, yay!

John had another day off so we went to Whataburger after we picked Jaylen up from school to get the rest of us lunch (Jaylen eats lunch at school). We ate, Mario came home from Tommy’s house, where he was installing an alarm and he ate and then we got to talking about cameras. I told him I didn’t want to spend money on a crappy camera and have it stop working in a few months–it would be a waste. He wanted to get me the Canon PowerShot S3 IS, but it’s super expensive so there’s no way I would’ve let him buy it. He told me to do some research on Target.com and Flickr. I found some on sale at Target, but after reading reviews I decided I’d wait on both. Then I came across a Kodak EasyShare Z650–love at first sight! Although one of the other cameras that was on sale came with a gift card and was 7 Megapixels with 3x optical zoom, this one was 6 Megapixels with 10x optical zoom. My other camera only had 3x optical zoom as well.

I accompanied Mary to get some papers done for a loan and then we picked Eenan up. After we picked Eenan up, Mario and I packed up the rest of the boxes I had left in our bedroom and got them ready for whenever we could go to storage. Then we were off to Target.

Since I received my 10% off all-day coupon for getting 1,000 points, we decided to get the kids the games they wanted for Christmas and Mario got a book. We saved a good $50 at least on our purchases. And since everything came out to about $350 (it was originally $400) I automatically qualify for another 10% off shopping day in January, which is awesome since we can totally use the savings for Alaethia’s things!

The camera was about $20 less online, but Mario said, “Why wait? You’d have to wait for it to arrive at home.” So I just got it right then and there. I LOVE this camera. I’ve been lugging it around taking pictures of anything I can for the sake of using it LOL. Mario’s not a camera-person, but even he was stoked about it and was looking for accessories on Ebay for me, like lenses and stuff.

I made Mario promise he wouldn’t get me anything else for Christmas, because he’s got a knack for giving me my present “early” and then still getting me other things on the actual holiday. This is enough and much appreciated.

On the way home, while clutching onto the box, I immediately started to feel guilty and told him I hate spending so much money. He says, “Woman, you never ask for anything, ever. You deserve this!” I tell him, “Yes I do. I ask for…you know, stuff…”

He chuckles and says, “Like what? All these luxuries like pads, toilet paper, and shampoo?”

Aww <3. We bar-b-q'd at night and by the time we went to our room and read our books, it was 12:30am. Stupid mistake, especially since I had to wake up at 6am to get Eenan ready for his Competition today. I got Mario's stuff ready and now I'm waiting for 9:45 to roll around to drop John off at work, then Mom, Mary, Jaylen and I are going to town to finish Mom's Christmas shopping and hopefully make it back on time by 1:00pm to pick Eenan up. I hope he does well!!

Well, I finally published my October 20th entry. I’d been putting it off since I couldn’t get myself to write that last part about Wookie passing away. I figured I’d put it off long enough so I finally tackled that this afternoon.

I’ve spent a good chunk of today trying to upload old 2005 entries. I still need mid-March and a few 2006 months. Bleh. I hate it. It would be much easier if I didn’t have to read through them to categorize them, but I’m anal about that so I just *have* to do it. It’s so much easier having them on here when I need to “remember” something.

I spent some of yesterday annoyed, so I’m glad today was better. I hate having to do things I don’t want or need to do, and Elda just so happened to send a bill for me to pay with Brandon in the morning. I didn’t get a call asking me to do it or anything. I was just expected to do it. Pisses me off.

I picked up a few things at the Dollar General after I picked up Jaylen and paid Elda’s stupid bill. I desperately needed a new cookie sheet, so I got one and some Mega Man toys for the kids that were only $2! Pretty darn cool. I was supposed to save them for their stockings if I found them but there was no way I’d be able to hide them from Jaylen =\.

My stupid toilet tank was overflowing, so that pissed me off, too. It’s finally flushing correctly so I was thrilled, but oh no, something else always has to go wrong. After using about 5 huge towels to sop the mess up 3 times I lowered the faucet thing down a little and it didn’t overflow anymore. Stupid toilet.

I was supposed to be sewing curtains for Mary’s bedroom (blah) but she didn’t leave me the pattern (which is an old curtain) so I didn’t do them. I’m not going to do them tomorrow, no way. I fully expect to be left alone so I can enjoy these 5 days of no-school. Like Mario said, they figure I’m “not doing anything else” so everyone gives me little chores and errands to do. That’s the one thing I don’t like about living here =\. I don’t mind doing them for the in-laws, it’s everyone else that gets on my nerves.

Bitchyness aside, Jaylen got a dinosaur toy for behaving all six weeks. When I spoke with his teachers this morning they said only 3 boys and 1 girl didn’t give them trouble all six weeks, so they got to choose a prize. Jaylen was thrilled. I’m so proud of my little dude :).

Eenan placed 9 out of 30-some kids in UIL. He’ll be receiving a ribbon, which he’s just elated about. I’m so proud of him, too. His coach was gushing about him this morning. *beams*

John is humping the air while laying on my couch because he’s bitching that he wants to get online so I think I shall go now before I throw the monitor at him. Now he’s rolling around whining for me to remove this part of the blog, but I’m not. Neener, neener.

Okay, I’m going to read my Harry Potter book now (have you seen the teaser trailer?! AWESOME!) and kick the kids’ cousins out since they’re fighting over the Game Cube. What happened to their Game Cube, darnit?? They’re only here to play because once time is up and I tell them to turn it off, they leave. WTF?

Anyway, yay! 5 days of not waking up at the crack of dawn!!!