Dear Jessica Simpson’s record label,
Please don’t let her butcher any more Christmas songs. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Yajaira
Grr 
. With all due respect to those who are a fan of her…I can’t stand the way she sings lately. She used to sing nice…now it’s all this raspy, whispery, air-headed whining 
. And the facial expressions…OH. MY. GOD. THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS. Since when did singing require you to roll your eyes 3543 times and jerk your head back and forth like a chicken? When they showed her and Nick’s Christmas special on ABC I didn’t intend to watch it. I was just flipping through channels and *bam*…I couldn’t turn away. I wanted to, but I couldn’t stop staring at the faces she was making. I was appalled. That woman cannot sing…she SCREAMS! I literally wanted to scratch my eyeballs out of my face with my toenails. And to make matters worse…she was ruining my favorite Christmas songs! *inhales…exhales* Just needed to get that out. *whew!*
But ANYWAY, speaking of Christmas music, I added new music (click on ‘music’ in the little quick menu)! Most are some of my favorite classic songs.
I don’t have to buy a new dress or shoes for the wedding! I remembered I had this maroonish dress, that I wore when I was 9 months pregnant for Carol’s wedding. My very round belly was popping out of it, and I thought, “I’ve gained a bit of weight, and I wasn’t huge when I was 9 months, I’ll give it a shot”. So after praying all the way to Mary’s and searching through her closet, I found it, tried it on and it fits! I’m so thrilled. I don’t really like the shoes, they’re flattish (I was, after all, pregnant LOL), but they’ll have to do. The less money I have to spend for something I’m only going to wear once, the better. Well, twice in this case. All I need to do is buy a maroonish bra, or maybe a black one. I also need to get some mini cupcake cups and a mini cupcake pan. Eenan’s having his Christmas party next Friday 
. He’s so excited. He needs to buy a present for a boy for $2. That’s so hard…we had such a tough time finding something nice for $2 last year. I was thinking maybe a big, thick coloring book and a huge pack of crayons? They have both for a $1 at the dollar store. We’ll see. I have to send $10 with Eenan to school on Monday for a dinner they’re having at the church hall on Thursday (tickets are $5 each) and an additional $1.50 for his pizza party. I’m gonna be busy next week LOL. He’s starting to go through his “Mo-ooom!” stage LOL. Before, I’d walk him to his class when I’d drop him off and give him a kiss in front of everyone and Jaylen would give him a hug. He doesn’t mind so much if I hug him, but he kinda rushes a kiss if I ask for one in front of his friends LOL. A few days ago, Jaylen wanted to give him a kiss on the cheek and Eenan quickly turned away, which made Jaylen feel bad and he started crying. So now, before we even reach his hall, I give him a hug and kiss and Jaylen hugs him. I walk him up to the hall and he walks all the way down it to his class on his own. I watch him till he sits down and waits for the teacher (they have other teachers patrolling till their teachers get there). He’s so nice to everyone. It’s so cute hearing him say, “Hi” to all his friends and hearing their tiny voices say, “Hi, Eenan!” in return. I hope both my boys stay that way. I want them to be nice to everyone when they’re in middle school and high school, no matter what the kids’ financial/social status, race, religion, language spoken, etc. is.
Yesterday, I went with Noelia to cash her check from work, go to Mary’s office, Target and then to return some stuff from Michael’s. She was going to make some jewelry boxes for a Secret Santa thing her sorority is doing. I helped her out. One she wanted with Hello Kitty drawn on it and another with cherries on each side of the box. I took some pics, but they’re fuzzy and don’t really show the detail or even correct colors 
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So many times during my art fest I wished life had a select/cut/move selection/paste type function LOL. I kept having to erase since everything was uncentered.
Before I finish up, here’s two more random pictures:
Jaylen sleeping and holding on to Choco Cat for dear life. It looks like she’s yelling, “DON’T JUST STAND THERE, HELP ME WOMAN!”
My father-in-law has a deer on their living room wall. He dressed him up for Christmas LOL.
I at least got to upload my new winter skin! Click on ‘Skin 5’ on the side links if you’re still seeing the old ones…that’s if you’d like to see the new one 
. Oh well…I’m in a really good mood right now. Whatever’s in that white cheese popcorn, I’ve got to have more often!
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. Annie came over because she needed a burned CD copied. When she was leaving she turns, looks at me and says, “Quit losing weight already!”. I roll my eyes and tell her, “I haven’t lost, I’ve gained!” She replies, “And now with holidays coming up?! Forget it!” I nod in agreement and say, “I know! I’ve been baking cookies like crazy-“. I forgot I was talking to the Junk Food Queen and she glares me down and says, “Thank you for inviting!” I was like, ‘Oops!’ LOL. So we got to talking and I told her I usually bake on weekends, and next I was going to try making peanut butter cookies from scratch. Catherine’s having her birthday party this weekend so I’ll take her some. I “practiced” making them tonight and they taste pretty damn good! I also made cheesy scalloped potatoes, which I was going to pair with pork fillets but Mario wanted to take Mole to work so that’s what he’s taking, Mole and potatoes LOL. Doesn’t really go well, but that’s what he wants. And I made dinner (very simple elbow macaroni and tuna salad type thing) too. I already have breakfast in the fridge (leftover atole…rice pudding?) so yay, no cooking till tomorrow night 
. I loved all the embellishments and paper! I want to get back into scrapbooking. My poor Precious Moments scrapbook is collecting dust on my top shelf. I still have a huge Ziploc bag full of film I need to develop, too.