Category: Kiddos

I’m so beat . 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 !

So our stupid car (Sentra) broke down yesterday. While Mario was driving. I’m just so grateful that he didn’t get hurt. The strut went out and he lost control of the car a for a little bit and just barely got to park on the side of the expressway. He was so close to the exit and couldn’t even get off it. Vito went and picked him up and took him to work, and later Vito and Tommy picked the car up and pulled it over here, I think. We got the part. Well, Mary did. We owe her $55, which we’ll give her on Friday. It’s like that stupid car knows when it’s Christmas or someone’s birthday…it screws up at the most inconvenient times . Mario also talked to Albert at work, and the Prelude came up and he said he’d find us a Jetta or another small car like that and we could trade. Sounds pretty good to me !

Noey took the boys and I to pick up Eenan’s glasses this afternoon. He looks so cute! I need to take a picture of him and post it here. He looks too adorable. He didn’t want to take them off at all until he took a shower LOL. We’d gone to a scrapbooking store down the road to kill time before the glasses were ready and the boys each got a pack of (expensive!) “space” stickers. Eenan put them all over his little glasses pouch . 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.

Welp, I’m going to finish watching “The Biggest Loser” I recorded from earlier today. G’nite!

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Isn’t my Qbee Secret Santa gift adorable??! Thank you, Secret Santa! xoxox!

Welp, I had all these amazingly entertaining and interesting things to blog about (heh, right), but I forgot already. I hate it when I go days without journaling because then I forget everything I did. A short summary of last week: the usual–waking up early, taking Eenan to school, spending time with Jaylen, cleaning, making lunch, dinner, Mario’s lunch for work, laundry. Yeah, SO exciting! I also finished painting the apartment and Mary paid me today! Which was really unexpected and very much appreciated ! I had to give John some money, since he helped me out and because we owed him $10.

The new rentors started moving in so yesterday I was over there with the rentor’s brother (our other rentors) and his neices and nephews installing tiles . Then we went to pick Mary up at the airport (she was coming back from staying a week in Arizona). The boys were so excited to see her . All of last week Jaylen would look out the window and say, “Tell Nana to come down!” He’s so cute. He thought she was on the plane the whole week she was gone LOL. She brought us back some presents…just like Mary to be on vacation and still buying stuff for everyone else . She brought Jaylen one of those new flip-action Ninja Turtles, or whatever they’re called. She brought Eenan a Cartoon Network racing game for his Game Cube and she brought me a Hello Kitty tin with marshmallow candies in them and a Proud Heart Cat Beanie . I already had it, but since it’s about 2 inches longer than the one I already had (I thought they only sold them in 8 and 10″??), I kept it.

OH! Before I forget…another hilarious thing Jaylen did: I’d gotten out of the shower and realized I left my undies somewhere (had everything else but my underwear) and I pulled my tee over my feminine parts and peek out the door and ask Mario to get me some. Jaylen pops up in front of the door and notices I’m standing with my shirt pulled over myself and says, “Your weedos are cold, Mama?” (Weedos being what they call their privates). He’s a riot! He said Psycho Bitch today…which isn’t exactly something I should be laughing at but hearing his teeny voice say it was too damn cute. After biting my lip for a minute I told him never to say it again of course .

John spent the weekend again. He wasn’t going to come over because he thought Mario wasn’t getting out till really late today, but we told him he got out early on Sundays so Mario picked him up on his way home from work on Friday night. Thank God, too. I thought I was going to be incredibly bored all weekend.

Last night was a total disaster in Yajaira’s World of Cooking. I burned rice. Not once, but twice. It was John’s fault really. He was playing this flash movie that had Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” playing in the background. I started watching it from the kitchen, while the rice was browning, and I jokingly tell John, “Ooh, that song makes me tingle in certain places”, just to freak him out and have him curl up, cover his ears and yell, “OhMyGod!”…and then the rice burned. Dammit. I salvaged as much as I could, because I just used up the last of the rice I had, and got to adding spices and boiling it. I was making Mole, and preparing the sauce and boiling the chicken and making sure the chicken was cooked correctly because I’m deathly afraid of poisoning my family with Salmonella…and I let the damn rice burn again. While it was boiling *slaps forehead*. Oh well. Needless to say, the husband had no rice for his Mole…but the Mole tasted pretty damn good when I was done. I had a pile of dishes to wash to top it off…didn’t get to bed last night till 1am. Thank goodness Mario didn’t go in till 12 today.

I went grocery shopping with Mary today and we bought the Christmas tree! It’s already in the stand in the living room and ready to be decorated. Noey and I’ll be putting the lights around it and waiting till Eenan gets home from school to finish the rest. The kids are so excited about Christmas this year .

Ok, it’s almost 12. Gonna go snuggle up next to the hubs and still-awake Jaylen and watch Spongebob.

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Poor Mario had a tough night at work. He barely got out about 15 minutes ago (it’s currently 11:45pm). They got a truck at 5 and just now finished up. He ran the wires too short for the amplifier and then after that the other two guys working on the truck with him (Jorge and some other guy), messed up a few things. The amp burned out, a speaker didn’t work and something on the alarm was cut so it didn’t work either. Poor Mario. Jorge was pissed. He feels really bad, but it’s not like he screwed up on his own.

This weekend was nice. Hectic, but nice. After seeing Mario off to work on Saturday morning, and eating breakfast, John and I went to paint at the apartments. It sucked, but we made good progress. All we needed after that was the kitchen (which takes the longest because of the cabinets) and bathroom and the tops of the walls. John was having a fit because he “didn’t want to do that shit”. I told the boy he was going to help me when it came time to paint them. I wasn’t gonna do it by myself, heh. I did my share of complaining (it was hot, dammit!), but at least I painted right. John left one of the walls all streaky looking .

Mary told us to take a break, so we did. We watched Super Size Me, which made me never want to eat McNuggets or Premium Salads again. When Mary got back, she started on the inside of the kitchen cabinets and I continued in the back bedroom. It got dark fast, so we stopped. I came back and took a shower (there were clumps of paint in my hair…don’t ask.). Then she took the boys and me to see Gramma for a little bit. I feel so sad that it’s going to be her first Thanksgiving away from us . Mario already said he doesn’t want to “be driving around” on his day off, so I have no idea how I’m going to see Mom or Gramma. She asked for us to smuggle in a plate of turkey for her LOL, and I promised we would. *sigh*

After that, we went to Target, where Mary got some X-mas gifts. I just looked around the scrapbooking isle. There’s such cute embelishments and stickers! I want to get back into scrapbooking…I only have a few done in my Precious Moments scrapbook. After Target, we went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few groceries and then came home. I listened to my music and drove John nuts (who sleeps in the living room on the futon when he sleeps over and had no choice but to listen, buahahaha). Big Mario was at the ranch and called to ask us if we wanted to go over there Sunday morning. I told Mario about it and he said, “Do YOU wanna go?”, I replied, “Yes.” So he said, “Well then yeah…I guess.” He got home super late that night–around 2am. He was playing pool . That’s when I started feeling ignored. I thought to myself when I heard him scurrying around in the kitchen in the wee hours of the morning, “I bet he’s not gonna want to go to the ranch tomorrow.” And sure enough, he didn’t.

Mary brought us McDonald’s the next morning . John felt almost nauseous…since we’d watched Super Sized Me and learned all of McDonald’s dirty little secrets. I ate my sausage buscuit…which I have to admit I love. Mostly for the biscuit which I smother with apple jelly. I could feel my liver crumbling as I ate…

After making as much noise as I could because I was being a bitch and wanted Mario to have a hard time sleeping for getting home so late, I got the boys in the car and we left. It was fun over there, I have to admit. Someone gave Pino a turkey, which he kept as a pet. I’d never seen a turkey like that (there’s a K-Mart commercial with a bunch of turkeys just like him!). He was too cute. He was white, and when he was nervous/angry his head and neck would turn blue, and when he was calm and happy, he’d turn red. Too cute LOL. The boys chased him around and laughed their heads off because they loved how goofy he looked when he ran. Poor Guero (Blondie). I drove the 4×4 after Mary and Big Mario showed me what to do. It was awesome. When I took only Eenan with me for a ride once, I was going really fast and with his little hands gripping onto the handles and his hair flailing madly in the wind he yells, “THIS IS SOOO AWESOOOOOME!” He’s too cute LOL. Jaylen was falling asleep, so on our last ride around the ranch he started sliding off the side…I had to slowly drive back as I clutched onto him! We saw the deer blinds Big Mario built and the one Pino built…they’re too cool. The kids called them tree houses LOL. The men bar-be-cued pork ribs and chicken and heated up deer tamales. We ate and then came home. The boys behaved exceptionally well. Thank God for spiral notebooks and map colors!

When we got home I told John and Mario about our day. I tried not to be mad at him but he made it hard for me. He was acting like an ass. I even cried at night when we went to drop John off and he laughed! He made me so mad. When we got home he went to Chris’. We’d already sort of made up…and as he was walking out the door I softly sing “All By Myself”. He laughed his ass off and he said, “Shut up! You’re such a weirdo!” Which I am, what can I say. He came back and we watched a movie. I folded clothes while we did because I was in desperate need of sleep, but wanted to spend time with him. I still ended up falling asleep before him.

Today, I painted and now I only need the bathroom, the top of the front bedroom and the kitchen (bleh). I hope to finish soon, especially since John’s going to spend the week here. Relatives are coming down and he doesn’t want to be there at Aunt Nora’s. I told him he’d have to be my slave (only not in those exact words) if he wanted to be here LOL. Dr. Z called and said Eenan’s blood test came back clear! Yay! Now all we need is his chest X-ray. *crosses fingers*

Ok…I’m dreadfully tired. I need to stop staying up so late. But I wanted to see the husband before I went to sleep *sigh*. It sucks that I never get to see him. I feel lonely and he’s only been working for 3 weeks!

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