Category: Kiddos

Today my first born child turned 6. 6 years ago today I was in labor for 31 hours LOL. I can’t believe he’s 6 already ! He’s so big already; time passes by way too quickly.

Mario and I gave him his gift from us and the one from Mom. We got him a Pokemon Ruby game for his Gameboy SP and Mom got him a Pokemon toy (he’s still VERY into Pokemon…longest going obsession so far). He was thrilled. Since the son that isn’t having a birthday tends to feel left out, we always get him a present, too, so we got Jaylen 2 Ninja Turtle toys.

Since Elda and the boys and Tommy aren’t here (they went to Arizona to pack the rest of their stuff) and Mario didn’t have the day off, we’ll be celebrating his birthday next week on Sunday. Today, we took him to the movies to watch The Fantastic Four, which was okay, and then we went to Peter Piper Pizza where all the kids played. He had fun. We got back and had some chocolate cake Mary made and we sang him Happy Birthday and he blew out his candles. Mary gave him his gift from her and Big Mario, which was Metroid Prime Echoes, or Echo, one of those. I hope he had a good day. We usually celebrate at Gorilla George’s, which is his favorite place ever, but the darn place is closed while they relocate . He’s playing his game right now so I think he’s having a pretty good time .

School’s been going pretty good. Learn something new everyday and it’s really easy. One of the guys in our class had asked me during one of our breaks, “Can I ask you something?”

“Yeah, sure.”

“How fast do you type?”

“Um. I’m really not sure. Why do you ask?”

“Because I’m doing my work and all I hear is ‘DRRRRRRRRRRRRRR’ and I look around and it’s always you.”

That made me feel pretty good *beams*. I love typing!

I feel so tired. I can’t sleep during the week when I have school, yet last night I slept so well. It’s making me get really irritated . I actually took a nap yesterday for about 45 minutes. Mario called in, *tsk* *tsk*. We went grocery shopping and rented movies and we actually stayed within our budget! Next month is when I start paying one of my school loans so that’s gonna suck. It’s 10…gotta wake up early tomorrow and go to Mexico with the mom-in-law to buy the candies and Piñata for Eenan’s party next week. Then we have to go to Mom’s for a bit. Then I hope I can go to sleep early for school the next day.

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It hurts to type right now. Mary asked John to paint the empty apartment Jose and Elda are going to move into (I thought Elda said she was gonna do it?) and being the wonderful sister that I am, went out there to help him . My hands are killing me. We were trying to paint as fast as possible. It’s about 101° right now, which doesn’t feel good at all. We started at around 10:15. We came back at 12:30. Screw being in THAT heat.

I drove everywhere I needed to go yesterday, and then some. Holy crap, by the end of the day, I seriously had leg spasms. Mario drove to work, I drove back since I needed the car. Drove back at 12:30 to pick up his paycheck. Went to the bank to deposit money. Drove to Mary’s to leave our car payment with her. Got directions from her on how to get to my school from her office (and the ladies that work with her were saying how pretty and long my hair was and congratulating me for getting my license and starting school *beams*). She scribbled them down for me and well, I didn’t understand them. Thank God John was with me…we eventually figured out how to get there .

Things went well at the meeting. Almost had a heart attack because my “sealed” transcript didn’t have my grad year on it. All the ladies kept whispering to eachother and sounding genuinely concerned so I asked, “Am I going to be able to apply for Financial Aide??” She says, “Yes, we’ll do it anyway.” *whew*

Took about an hour to fill everything out (an hour less than the day before when I was enrolling). Like Mario said, it felt like we were buying a house LOL. After figuring everything out with our W2 with the F.A. lady, we’re going to be paying $124.77 out of our pocket each month. Then, 6 months after I graduate, I need to pay back my loans. Scary. I hope we don’t end up knee-deep in debt . We’re still having to pay back Mario’s loan, and it’s pissing me off they keep adding from $50-70 each time they send the bill for “Fees and Costs”. Bastards. We pay $40 for it…they’re charging $50-70…it’s like we’re taking 1 step foward and 2 steps back! We’re never going to pay it off like that! I seriously need to call and dispute those charges.

We’re going to be a little tight financially for the next 9 months. But it’ll be worth it. I made all those calls yesterday that will hopefully help us out a bit. Called CCMS for Mom — I’ll have to fill out an application and IF we qualify, they put us on a waiting list. That’ll help us out a lot with paying mom for babysitting the kids. I also called around to ask about my Scholarship, but I kept getting the run-around and eventually they told me to leave my name and number and they’d call me back, which they haven’t. But I’m .

After driving home from my meeting, we chilled out and then John and I left to pick Mario up from work. The boys insisted on staying with Big Mario, so they did. After waiting an hour for Mario to get out, we went to Denny’s. The food was so good and the three of us had a blast laughing and making jokes. Nice ending to a hectic day .

I feel so much better about myself now. Now when people ask me, “So how’ve you been? What’s new? What are you doing now?”, I happily say, “I finally got my driver’s license and I’m starting college!” Before, I’d say something like, “Oh. Not much. At home, with my kids.”

What I love about my hours are that I’ll get to go to school and still have time to spend with the boys. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time .

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