Category: Pets

I can’t remember much from Wednesday except that I flossed the kids’ teeth at night and while I was flossing Eenan’s I noticed he had two new teeth! Problem is: his baby teeth (the two bottom front ones) haven’t fallen out yet but he has his two adult teeth growing behind them. When I told Mary she told me what I feared: Mario had the same problem. He had really bad teeth as a child, which is why he wore braces when I met him. I wonder how much it would be to take him to the dentist? His CHIPs insurance only covers a certain amount and he already went to the dentist in March. And will they pull his baby teeth out? What if they don’t get pulled out? Will his teeth be crooked? Oy.

Mom’s new glasses came in the next day so we went to pick them up (only took a few minutes, thank GOD) then went to visit Gramma for a little bit since we were already in town. We joked around with Gramma and then started telling Mom how we were going to put her in the same nursing home Gramma’s in and they can be roomates. Mom was not amused.

I was invited over to Mary’s to try the mole Elda and Jose made. I got a little to taste and when I was going to sit, I got that sharp pain in my lower abdomen. The round ligament pain is happening more and more often. Yadira reminisced about her pain and we all talked about how large I’m getting and then I came back home to make dinner.

I made steak and steak fries for dinner. The kids loved the fries (they had hotdogs instead of steak) and Mario was in heaven. He said, “I’m so glad I have a wife that knows how to cook.” It gives me such an ego boost when he talks nicely about my cooking :D.

After we ate dinner, Mario presented me with our new pet: a lizard. She’s so pretty (well, for a lizard) and spiny. At first he thought it was some kind of horny toad, but upon closer inspection we noticed her scales are much shorter and she’s a totally different color.

As we’re walking towards the desk to get some info on her I notice the computer’s acting funny; the right-click menu keeps popping up, the Start menu keeps sliding out, windows are being minimized and opened. I freak out and whisper, “Babe, look at the computer!” as if the hacker’s going to hear us. Mario runs over to the computer chair and just watches what’s happening. He starts closing everything, because we’ve heard about these types of hackers that use Spyware to mess with your computer this way, and then I notice Jaylen’s sitting on our wireless keyboard and his butt’s been pressing the buttons. Talk about paranoid!

We couldn’t find any info on our new lizard. I stayed up till 1am looking for something, anything! But no such luck.

After Mario ran a few errands the next morning, we left for town. Since we’d made plans to go watch The Omen at the Dollar Movies, we left the kids with Mom and the in-laws. First we stopped by Mary’s office to drop some money off for Norma C. All the ladies were really surprised by how big my tummy was. While Norma D. picked up my blouse and examined my belly, everyone else gasped and said, “Oh, you’re definitely having a girl!” They all asked me to call the office as soon as I get the sono confirming the baby’s gender. I promised I would and left since Mario was probably asleep in the car because I was taking so long.

Speaking of the pregnancy, I made a page for my Pregnancy Timeline. You can see just how huge I am for barely hitting the 3 month mark.

We stopped by Pet Smart next. We needed to ask someone for help on what to feed Dragon (Jaylen picked the name). A sales associate told us it was called a Pink Bellied Swift and it was a desert lizard as we thought. She mostly eats crickets and worms, so we decided we’d come back later because we didn’t want them to die in the heat.

We picked Jorge up from work so we could have lunch. We went to New Wave Chinese Buffet–it was delicious. With this pregnancy, I’ve really been on a fruit and veggie kick and that day was no exception. I had two full plates of long green beans–they’re just SO good. I especially love how Chinese buffets prepare them for some reason

We went back to Pet Smart to pick up the crickets, a water bowl and sand for the tank then to Wal-Mart to find a lid for the tank we had in storage since Pet Smart didn’t have them. We left the remote start on while we were at Wal-Mart so the crickets would stay cool.

Since the movie wasn’t until 5 and Jose and Elda had invited us to their bar-b-q at that time we decided to skip the movie. We still had two more stops: Mary’s storage unit and then ours and then we went home. To our surprise, the tank in storage already had a lid. Grr.

We got home and fixed Dragon’s tank. I looked up info on a Pink Bellied Swift and upon looking at pictures of it I found out it was actually a Texas Spiny Swift and because of the lizard’s color realized Dragon was actually a girl, so we named her Liz/Lizzie. Only one website actually had info on her and it was a pet speciality store. Most of the only places I found pictures of her were specialty stores (where lizards like Liz ran for $14.99).

We were at Mary’s the rest of the afternoon and had talks about babies and other women things. When we came back home, Mario had a craving for a Slush from Stars so we went.

We got some Slushies (only for Mario and Jaylen. Eenan was sleeping over at Mary’s and the ice hurts my teeth) and then rented some movies at Video Plus. We watched the rest of Failure to Launch that night, which I thought was really funny.

The next morning I cleaned, bathes and got dressed, then took Mom to the bank. At around 12:30 the beautiful sisters, Mayra and Erica, picked me up so we could go to the movies. We’d be watching The Devil Wears Prada–we’d all been wanting to see that movie since it first came out. It was a REALLY good movie–much better than I thought it would be. Not to spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but it’s TOTALLY different from the book. I actually liked how the movie ended rather than the book.

We went to eat at King’s Chinese Buffet (because you can neve have too much Chinese) and had great conversation and great food. It was sad to leave them after not seeing Mayra for so long. I really wish we could get together much more often.

Mario got home early that night and he was in an outdoor mood. We took the dog out (who is STILL not potty trained properly, by the way) then he and his dad got to chopping down a tree. The mosquitoes were running rampant that night so I came home and started making dinner. After that, we watched The Hills Have Eyes and oh my gosh, I couldn’t sleep for an hour after watching it. I love scary movies, and this one was just creepy and one of my favorites because the “monsters” in it were something that could possibly be real because of everything that happened back in the 50s. AND another favorite? NO BOOBS! All the other horror movies have to throw in a tit or 10 and it makes the movie tacky.

We woke up semi-early Sunday morning, since Mario and his dad were going to start the construction on our bedrooms! After we ate pancakes (that Mario made!) they got started. They had the studs that would split the room up in half an hour and then I left with Mary to Target and Wal-Mart to get some school supplies that were in the ads. I can’t believe how early people get there and how much people buy. There was hardly anything left! We did get all the things on the kids’ lists, but it would have been nice to get a few extras =\.

Mary stopped by Luby’s to pick up some food for my dad-in-law and then we stopped at a raspa stand to get some Elote en Vaso (corn in a cup) for Mario and I. Never again will I go to that place–a medium, which was the size of a small, was $2.50! The size of the cup I got usually cost $1!

When we got home they had most of the studs up. All they were working on was the kids’ closet and then they were done. Everything looks really good–I can’t wait till everything’s done! My closet is going to be awesome.

I need to get the rest of my 80s stuff out of the room :(. I can keep a few things, but there isn’t room for everything else. That huge 8 foot shelf I have is going to have to go, which sucks because I love it and everything on it. Here’s all I have left in my room, plus a few other things that aren’t pictured:

I’m so sad. I don’t want to have to put everything in storage, but I really don’t have a choice. Mario’s talking about possibly staying with this house (because his parents want us to have it), but there isn’t enough room! I need to have a room especially for my babies :(.

I have a lot of cleaning and organizing to do today. Mom’s already asking me to take her all over the place but I’m waiting to do that till I have to drive her to her appointment on Thursday. Oh and Lizzie doesn’t have any food. The genius at Pet Smart who gave us the crickets in a plastic bag failed to tell us crickets have teeth and can escape from the bag. Yeah, they escaped. We’ve only found 4. The other two are hiding inside the house.

And speaking of bugs, Jaylen said the cutest thing this morning. Eenan was frantically calling for me to kill a bug in the bathroom. I go in and notice it’s a tiny water beetle, but squash it anyway (I’m horrible, I know). Jaylen says, “Mama! It was harmless! It was looking for its Mama. Next time don’t kill it, okay?” This coming from my little 4 year old. He said it in the cutest, most innocent way. I wish I had a recorder with me all the time. I never want to forget their baby voices :(.

This woman is either going to make my blood pressure go up or give me a heart attack. I already have a headache from yelling at her. She’s been injecting herself with insulin at the wrong time and checking her sugar HOURS after she’s eaten. I’m giving her instructions on how to do it right: “inject insulin, eat, check sugar 1 hour later” and she keeps writing it in the order that she’s used to doing it. I don’t know how many times I told her how to do it. Maybe the doctor was right and she does have a memory problem–I hate to say it. Last night her sugar was at 40–lowest it’s ever been–and she felt like she was going to pass out. Why? Because she decides to do everything as it’s convenient to her, not how she’s supposed to be doing it. My mother frustrates me like no one else.

Anyway, Friday was such a nice day. It started out a bit stressful since Mario wanted to leave early (like 10:30) and I hadn’t picked out my clothes for the interview. I had nothing decent to wear–my maternity clothes weren’t dressy enough and my professional “not pregnant” clothes were getting too tight. I ended up wearing one of my old work blouses (still fit!) and a knee-length denim maternity skirt I had, that didn’t look maternity. I wasn’t too happy about wearing anything denim to the interview, but I had to work with what I had. Then I just put on some black flat Mary Jane shoes (that hurt much more than I thought they would! The little band going across kept cutting my circulation!).

I love cool, overcast days and Friday was just that. Mario picked up his paycheck from work, cashed it and then we went to give our car payment, JC Penny payments and then went to pick up our Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man’s Chest tickets before they sold out. Then we got some lunch.

I hadn’t eaten Luca Pizza in years, probably since I was pregnant with Jaylen. They kept talking about how the Pizza di Roma in Mission was the same place, different name but we never tried it until Friday. It was definitely the same place–the food was SO good. They serve these huge slices of pizza and the kids almost ate the whole thing–it was THAT good. Mario and I had stuffed pizza with pepperoni and mushroom…mmm. The place was nice, too. It had an arcade and air hockey (the kids’ favorite) and pool tables. We didn’t have time to play because it was almost time for my interview, but we promised the kids they could play at the arcade at the movies.

While we were eating, it started pouring. We had to run out and jump in the car–thank God we were parked right next to the door of the restaurant. We still got wet though. I told Mario, “I have my interview in 10 minutes and I’m soaked!” The new perfume Mario bought me (he got me two: Ralph Lauren Glamourous and Armani Mania) totally washed off :(.

When we get to the building I get soaked again on the way out, but I had a good feeling about the interview. I waited in the seating area for the lady I was supposed to be speaking to. I overheard the guy next to me telling one of the loan directors about how his grandmother had a whole bunch of cashier’s checks and was wondering if he could deposit them for her. That’s so interesting–she just found them in her house and now could have all these thousands of dollars.

I wanted to hear more, but I got called in. The lady was really nice and she told me about how getting a job with banking will always secure you a job, no matter where you are and we basically had a talk about customer service and my experience with it. She then told me if they didn’t call me from the branch I applied to, they might call me from another one. So now I play the waiting game again. It takes 2-3 weeks to determine whether they’ll hire me at my first choice, and if they don’t, it’s several weeks for the other places to let me know. Oh, well. At least I gave it a shot.

After the interview we left for the movies. We tried our hardest to find a parking space close by–not only because we didn’t want to get wet again, but because all the parking spaces that were far away were about a foot in water. Had we taken the Sentra water definitely would have started to go into the car–it was that bad.

Mario dropped the kids and I off at the front and he drove around till he found a parking space nearby. The kids didn’t want to play in the arcade since they spent $2 each getting Pokemon toys from the machines. They were seating for our show already so we found some pretty good seats and enjoyed our candies.

I don’t know if Jaylen was scared but for the first time ever he was asking to go home. Eenan did pretty good and actually enjoyed it. I ended up sitting Jaylen on my lap and he fell asleep, so we got to enjoy the movie. It was good. Kind of long, but good.

We went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things we needed for around the house, picked up some chicken with sides from Golden Chick (Mario suggested it so I didn’t have to cook–aww :)) and we got home. I was so tired it felt so good to be home.

Saturday was a stay-home day. Well, mostly. Mario left to work and then I got ready to pay a few bills. Oh my gosh, I just remembered something embarrassing! After I’d stopped at the bank to deposit and was going around the turnaround to pay my storage unit, this old lady coming from the north into the frontage road completely missed a stop sign and then was going 20 miles an hour. I was going 55–the speed limit. I had to slam on the breaks and slow down to about 30 and I motioned with my hand for her to move out of the way, she was gonna kill someone! And when she slowly moved into the next lane I sped up and gave her my famous scowl (John knows which one I’m talking about–he says it’s gonna get my ass kicked one of these days). To my utter embarrassment, I noticed that the lady looked A LOT like one of Mario’s aunts. I wanted the ground to swallow me. I laughed nervously all the way to the storage unit and John said, “You see, that’s why you shouldn’t be such a bitch.” Heh.

I got home and went straight to Mary’s to tell her about it. Before, you know, she found out from anyone else in the family about my road rage. She just laughed it off, but agreed that it wasn’t safe of whoever it was to miss the stop sign and go 20 in a 55.

Mom and I sat in her kitchen and talked with her for a while about different things. Then Noelia got there and I bought some clear bowls and plates off of her that she’d bought for a wedding but wouldn’t need. Then we ate mangos and talked some more. I cleaned a bit and then took a nap. Then dinnertime came around and I made enchiladas and beans (have I added that recipe? I have to check.) and Mario called that he was on his way. He told me to get ready since Jorge invited us to watch the UFC fight.

That fight–sucked. Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock, is it? Well, them, their fight was over in like, 1 minute 15 seconds–no joke. They stopped the fight because Tito elbowed Ken 5 times in a row, but Ken was fine. When the referee stopped the fight (stupid ref!) Ken jumped up in like half a second. Everyone was pissed. All the people there were booing and screaming ‘bullshit!’ It was the worst fight ever. They didn’t even stop the first fight we got to see (we got there late) when this guy’s head was bleeding all over the place. I mean, it was gross. Everytime I used force, his head would spew out blood.

The last fight, which was the main fight, sucked, too. Jorge and Maggie were so pissed. Jorge even said he didn’t want to watch UFC anymore LOL.

Today, I plan to do nothing, again. I need to buy some hangers at the Dollar General, but that’s it. I need to mop, since the darn dog keeps crapping everywhere and well, cleaning spray can only clean so much. I need to get the kids to finish cleaning up that darn room. They barely have any toys left (the rest were taken to storage) and they STILL don’t want to clean up. And when they are cleaning up, they disagree on something and end up beating each other up. If I have another boy, I feel for him.

Thursday was the type of day I absolutely hate. It was so hectic and there was much driving involved–bleh.

First stop: dropping off some applications and resumes nearby. Who knows when they’ll call me.

It took a total of 15 minutes to finish up there, and then it was time to drop John off at school. Since his car was overheating the day before and I was going to be in town anyway, I figured I’d drop him off. He had a final and was being a bit annoying, whining about how he was going to be late when he was clearly already late (45 minutes). Mrs. C-R knew he would either be late, or wouldn’t go at all.

Next was Mom’s endochrinologist appointment. They took forever there. It took about an hour and a half for them to just call her in, then another hour for them to actually see her. A nurse came and called the kids and me to go in with Mom. She said “Your mom and the doctor are having a hard time communicating.” I thought, ‘Mom must not be able to hear him correctly’, since she’s deaf in one ear.

I get into the office and the doctor yells, in an accent I can barely understand, “Does joor mahther hev memory problem?” Well, shit. Mom not being able to hear to begin with and then him with that accent was not a good combination. I tell him, “No. She’s hearing imparied. She wears a hearing aid in one ear.” He nods and then proceeds to yell at Mom and she doesn’t understand him anyway, so I have to repeat everything to her. She’ll be injecting insulin twice a day now since her pills never helped her with the diabetes. She was being a drama queen and almost cried when he told her she’d need to give herself injections. Later on during the day when she tried it, she was afraid that the needle had gotten stuck in her stomach since she didn’t feel anything LOL. I told her it wasn’t a big deal.

The boys were sort of well behaved the whole time. They kept moving the chairs they were sitting in back and forth and kept fighting to sit next to me but other than that, they did good for being there so long. The other kids in the lobby were running everywhere.

As soon as Mom was done, we went straight to pick up John. Only it wasn’t so straight since I had to go down this road I didn’t know and had to go all the way around the expressway to turn around and go East. Grr.

We get there and I go to Mrs. C-R’s room so that I can print out a resume to leave for the job position they were hiring for. I got everything I needed, then went to the front office to leave the paperwork. The lady I was supposed to talk to was out to lunch. I was to come back in an hour.

We go next door to Wendy’s. There’s NO PARKING since it’s lunch time. We end up going through the drive thru and find a solitary parking space and eat there. The kids are still behaving, yes! John starts feeling sick after he eats two burgers and then I notice my baked potato with chives is missing it’s melted cheese. I go back, since I’ve GOT to have cheese on my baked potato. When I get back, John gets even more naseous since he smells the cheese. We wait till 1:30, which is when I’m supposed to go back to the school.

I go into the waiting area and give the receptionist my resume. I’m looking around and think, “Wow, I wonder what these people are here for? What are the suits and ties all about?” I notice women start going in and they’re wearing fancy dress clothes, too. I look down at myself and look at my nice, white button up top and my jean capris and brown flip flops. I felt so out of place! When the lady I was supposed to speak to gets there, they ask, “Who’s here for the group interview?” All the nicely-dressed up people stand up and follow the woman. The receptionist tells me, “Go! Follow them!” I was going to say, “But I just wanted to drop off my resume…” when a lady pats me on the back to move along.

I tell one of the ladies leading us to the room that I’m just there to leave the resume. She tells me to join them anyway. I say, “I’m not even properly dressed!” but she assures me that I’ll be fine.

I won’t even go into detail about the interview, but I can say that the position was not what I had in mind. Jumpy hours, working Saturdays, somewhat lying to people: no way, not for me. Some of the other people who were there (and seemed like they really wanted the job) were much more qualified. I wouldn’t feel comfortable in a position like that one.

An hour and a half of my life, wasted. We stopped by Mom’s pharmacy before we came home so that she could pick up her insulin.

We left the house really early on Friday morning. We needed to go to Mary’s office, Target, pick up and cash Mario’s paycheck, set up an appointment for Louie at the vet, and eat since Mario hadn’t had breakfast. We ate at Taco Palenque (sp?) on North 10th. It was really nice, and clean! The other one on S. 10th is always so…grimy.

They had a buffet table with all the salsas imaginable. All the chips you could eat and even Agua de Jamaica. If it’s one thing I have Ricci to thank for while we were friends was her introducing me to Agua de Jamaica (and Mangonadas!).

I had a plate of fajita panchos, Mario had a fajita plate and the kids had enchilada plates (which they barely ate, grr). Once we stuffed ourselves we took the kids out to play in the little playground they have enclosed in a courtyard-type-thing.

We made our way to Target, where we got Louie a bed, toys, turtle food, Mouse Trap for the boys and a shoe shelf. We got done there and went to set up the appointment for Louie at the vet and then picked up pizza for Noelia and John and a salad for Mom.

We get home and Mario and the kids put Mouse Trap together. Louie is in love with his new bed and is rolling around it in along with his Black Sheep toy. I found it the perfect opportunity to take a nap and Mario soon followed. (John was here on the computer, so he was watching the kids).

We wake up, just 20 minutes before Louie’s appointment. John forgot to wake us up! Mario drives as fast (and safely) as he can. Louie looked really sad; he probably thought we were going to give him away since the only other times he’s been in cars is when he’s being transported to new owners, poor thing. He does really good on the road and doesn’t have any accidents at all at the vet’s. Everyone that saw him fell in love with him. People kept saying how sweet, nice, playful, cute, kid-friendly he is :).

They called us in and Louie starts getting nervous. He weighs 5 lbs. 8 oz. and is 8 weeks old. We took a stool sample in, since we were suspicious that he had some type of worms and he did: hookworms and tapeworms–eww. The very sweet vet gave him a medication for the hookworms, his first set of shots, flea medication that should help with the tapeworms and she gave us a pill to give him at home for the tapeworms. He was really well behaved. He wimpered a little when he got his shot, but he was still really sweet afterwards. They want to see him back in 3 weeks.

We went to PetSmart and got him training treats, potty training spray, a brush and a clicker. What Mario wants that clicker for is beyond me, but he got it. Everyone that passed us at Pet Smart would stop to pet and play with Louie and at least 4 people asked where we got him and if they had anymore pups like him LOL.

As soon as we got home I took Mom to the Dollar General to get some stuff she needed. We got back and Mario and I made tacos for dinner and then we just chilled out.

While I was online I did something to f*ck up my Falbum…God that sucked. I had to reinstall it this morning. I didn’t plan to do anything today but be online and sleep, but Mary wants to take the kids to Peter Piper and the movies. I don’t even really want to watch that movie, Poseidon. I think the kids’ll freak out with it.

Grr. I just noticed that the cheddar Bugles I bought at the Dollar General yesterday are missing. I wanted to sneak them into the movies :(. — Nevermind, I found them :).