Category: Recipes/Cooking

This has got to be the longest I’ve ever gone without blogging. I’ve sat down in front of the computer ready to type my frustrations out and I never get the chance to actually…sit. My site’s going to crap…I’ve lost so many visitors in the process .

Since the last time I updated, my head’s just been out of whack. It’s gotta be this bi-polar thing. I’m fine one minute and a sobbing mess the next, and over the tiniest thing. I wish I could go to the doctor so I could actually be diagnosed with something instead of just thinking I’m going nuts.

This Quickbooks course’s got me REALLY stressed out. Out of all my classes (including the computer hardware and software ones) this one’s the hardest. Last Friday was one of the worst days for me. Aside from my hormones (or whatever’s wrong with me) going haywire, I was having a fit with Quickbooks because I made one tiny mistake and had to start the assignment OVER. I literally broke down (thankfully right before a break) and cried my eyes out. I couldn’t even understand why I was crying–I’d messed up on assignments before and it never affected me like that. I felt so…weird and stupid crying over that. It didn’t help that my friends kept saying, “You’re too hard on yourself!”, when it had absolutely nothing to do with the assignment.

That day, I got home late (because Ricci and I stayed a little later to work on our assignment) and got yelled at by Mario. I cried that whole day. I even cried–no, no, bawled–because of a song I heard on the radio (The Christmas Shoes).

I’ve felt better since, but there’s really no telling when I’ll get all sensitive again. I just hope it stops happening at school!

What made me feel a little better on Friday was that we went to the mall and got the kids a few winter things (a new jacket for Jaylen and beanies) and bought meat to bar-be-cue. It was super cold that night but the fire in the chimney made it all warm and toasty. Ricci, Goyo and Belinda came over for a while, Andy and Noelia, Mary, Big Mario, Mom and the boys were there and then later Chris and Nancy came over. We stayed up talking with them till 1:30am. Nancy and I actually talked to eachother this time. I confessed to her (and her to me) that I was embarrassed to talk before because I was embarrassed about my Spanish (and her, her English). She’s really sweet; I’m glad we got the chance to chit chat. Now I won’t feel embarrassed going over to their house for bar-be-cues and stuff. That’s why I’d never go before LOL.

We went to Catherine’s birthday party last Saturday at a place called Kidz Rock. Aside from the scary waiver we had to sign that basically told us we were signing our kids’ lives away it was pretty cool (the employees could basically beat the kids to death but we signed the waiver so they weren’t at fault. It also said they weren’t responsible for any diseases, partial paralysis, or death that may occur ). The kids had fun though.

This whole week’s been spent buying Christmas gifts. Ricci and I have literally gone to the mall every day after school since Monday. I actually finished getting my friends their gifts and I’m so happy. I hope they all like what I got them. Ricci knows I got her stuff from Victoria’s Secret Garden and both Mayra and Lucy know I got them purses I just hope they like them.

Oooh! Ricci finally told everyone she’s pregnant! Yay :D!

Since it’s the holidays the mall and 10th street are super crowded; mostly with Mexican tourists. My GOD those people do NOT know how to drive here. That, and they like to park in the middle of the parking lot when they can’t find a parking space and put their emergency lights on. So annoying. I almost had an anuerism at least 10 times this weekend. To think we still have 3 more gifts to get (and 1 more for Eenan and 2 more for Jaylen) on the 23rd when Mario gets paid again. Oy.

Spent tonight making Snickerdoodles with Mary and Mom. Mary made Pan De Polvo, Mom helped roll the cookies in sugar and later Elda came by and made pecan sandies. We made little tins for the kids’ teachers tomorrow. I still have to make more cookies for us here at home (Mario and I can eat a whole batch of Snickerdoodles ourselves) and some for my classmates. It’s going to be a busy weekend.

I should REALLY get into the shower and get our clothes out for tomorrow. Eenan’s last day is tomorrow. I’m so proud of my little guy–he made the All A Honor Roll for the first time this year. He’s so thrilled.

I’m so sleepy. I don’t think I’ll be ironing tonight . I’ll hopefully update again soon. Hope being the key word.

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Seems like Mario and I are commuticating by Post-It notes lately. I wake up at 6, leave to school at 7 so I don’t get to see him “awake”. He gets home anywhere from 8:30 to 10 p.m. and I’m usually getting ready for bed at that time. I leave notes for him like, “Don’t forget your lunch!” on the coffee pot where he’ll see it. It’s a bit depressing, but I knew it would happen once I started school .

We spent a little bit of time together yesterday. He worked till 3 p.m. even though it was his day off, but he had a huge System to finish up. We watched TV for a bit and then I made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. He wanted meatballs and I’d never made them before so I looked for a recipe online and combined 3 different ones together and made some pretty damn good meatballs. I added too much salt, but even then they tasted awesome. I shall post the recipe sometime, if I remember and have time.

Tonight, he got out at who knows what time, dropped his co-worker, Mario, off at home, and went to drop something off at Jorge’s and he’s still there and will probably still be there till 2am. The one time he could get home early, and he doesn’t. Grr.

Anyway, it’s been great getting to know Ricci the past few days. She gets here early, we leave, hang out at school with the rest of our friends and then when we come home we chill out here at my house and then I drop her off. We have a LOT in common. It’s nice having a friend to chat with about everything. She brought tamales for us for breakfast a few days ago, which was the sweetest thing. She also took me grocery food shopping, since we were running low LOL, to “pay me back” for taking her to and from school, which I told her wasn’t even a big deal since she lives super close to me. It’s not like I’m spending extra gas or anything, but she’s just a really nice person. I’m not used to that kind of a friend (*thinks back to the olden days*) and it’s quite refreshing.

I was the first to finish all of today’s assignments (we’re using Mail Merge in Word, which is so nifty!), which was really cool. A lady came in looking for blood donors and I jumped at the chance. Although I’m terrified of needles, I really, really wanted to donate…there’s a shortage. I had an appointment the first week of school, but something happened to some equipment and they left early. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. I got to talk to two girls who are in my class I never got a chance to speak to before. One of them had already donated so she kind of walked us through it. They gave us juice and snacks and a t-shirt and a $5 coupon to the movies, which is AWESOME since Mario and I wanted to go this weekend . We even got to keep the little foamy ball we squeezed for dear life, but Jaylen already lost it.

We had a pizza party. Our “group” sat together and we had a good time. Something happened that kind of made us think a little less of some people, but I won’t mention it just in case my URL gets out–don’t want to cause any problems.

I’m so tired. Electricity went out so I was reading The Chamber of Secrets, which I still haven’t even gotten halfway on, and now I’m super sleepy. My arm feels all funky, too, like it’s sore or something, but not where they stuck the needle–it’s more like my shoulder .

*yawn* I need to put these boys to bed. They won’t stop screaming their little heads off !

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