Category: WP

Thanks to our very late night the night before, we woke up late. Well, I woke up late and woke Mario up late for work again. I didn’t even have the strength to wake up and make Mario breakfast. I slept in with Alaethia till 11:40.

I’d gotten up to pee and John texted that he was at Target and heard a kid yell “Obama!” when he saw him on TV. I think it’s a bit creepy that he has that effect on people. Even Alaethia can spot his voice in a second and yells, “It’s Yobama” LOL.

I asked John if he’d go with me to work. I had to pick up the Constellation Turtle I’d ordered for Alaethia and my W2 form. He said yes, but he was running an errand. Alaethia and I ate leftover meatloaf from the night before. John came over and ate while I showered. Mom came over and offered to watch Alaethia. Even better, because then they’d never let us leave talking to her and I had only an hour to get over there and back and pick the boys up from school.

We went over there and said hello to everyone at the office area and even got to see two of my kiddos, Tony and Manny. We went to Vero’s office and I picked up my stuff and chatted with her for about half an hour. We went to the library before we left but it was empty. As we were leaving I saw Mrs. V. inside the office. We chatted a little bit. She told me the kids missed me *tear*. I said, “Aww, I miss them, too. I miss everyone.” The principal was standing right there when I said that and he said, “See? I told you not to leave!” I laughed it off, but I felt weird LOL.

We rushed out of there because I felt like I was going to pass out from the hot flashes I was having. We went straight to pick up the boys and we got home and got started on homework. Of course I had to take Eenan back to school because he lost a pencil his friend had lent him and he was afraid she wouldn’t talk to him anymore. He’s lucky we only live a few blocks away.

I started cleaning and washed a few things. I tried updating a bit and then went to chill out at Mary’s and gave the boys dinner. Aly and I ate leftovers again (pancakes LOL) but she kept sucking on the pieces and spitting them out. Grr. I was certain she’d eat well since it was something she liked, but nope.

I washed dishes while she played and then she wanted to watch TV, Noggin, of course. I made Mario some dinner and waited for him to get home. I bathed Alaethia, then caught up on my entries some more. Mario got home and he showed me pictures of their latest project. I must say, I was quite impressed. Mario watched TV while I updated some more (gosh, it feels like I’ll never catch up).

The baby’s been moving around like crazy. I feel every little movement. She flings her little limbs all over the place and it hurts sometimes! I can even feel her tiny foot pressed up against the left side of my belly. I press my hand to her foot every chance I get. I think she’s running out of room in there. I get a pain on my lower back and, er, nether regions whenever she starts rolling around.

While I was sitting at the kitchen table typing on my laptop and Mario was on his laptop in the living room, we hear Alaethia in deep conversation with someone. We turn and listen closely. She’s talking to “Pum-bah”, which is Spongebob. She’s talking to him on her princess cell phone. “How are you? You good? I’m good. Thank you for the magic water.” How cute is that? She’s like a sponge herself, this kid! She’s amazing.

Finally, after…7 months or so, I’ve finally created a new layout! (Click here if you don’t see it yet.) It’s called ‘Blessed’ because that’s the only thing I could think of; it’s the only way I’ve felt lately, even with the insane amount of bills and stress going on :). I don’t even know how I ended up with a layout — it started out with my messing around with the picture of the 5 of us in Paint Shop Pro, then eventually it ended up in Adobe Photoshop and voila! A layout! You need the font CAC Pinafore to view it correctly, so please download it if you don’t have it already.

I actually did 85% of this layout with Alaethia in my arms and in my pajamas. Still got it, baby! It still needs a bit of tweaking here and there, but I’ll eventually get to it. This one’s a keeper, I think.

The lil’ princess is finally fast asleep. Only took 2 4 oz. bottles this time…

I hardly did anything today, besides the usual and doing the layout. Oh, and Mom and I went to buy fireworks. And that’s it.

I need to unplug the slow cooker since the beef stew I was making smells done already. Man I’m tired. Mario fell asleep ages ago and didn’t even give me a chance to shower. He’s only off the hook because he said I’m The Greatest Wife, Evar. Still…I hate going to bed stinky :(.

Goodnight!

WordPress users, I have a question for you: is “upgrading” really…well, hard? I always read we should disable any plugins and I just don’t want to ruin anything I’ve worked so hard to install (I say hard because I’m not the web wiz I once was, and frankly, WordPress still intimidates me, heh).

OH! And another question: has anyone switched from the Default URI structure (http://yoursite.com/?p=123) to the Date and Name Based (http://yoursite.com/2007/05/21/sample-post/) structure without messing anything up? I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, but I’m afraid it’ll ruin the whole setup of the calendar and archives and all that stuff. Please let me know about this, I’ll REALLY appreciate it!

This is kind of off-topic right off the bat, but I’m so incredibly sad that I won’t be seeing Bob Barker on The Price is Right after June 6th. I’m so sad that I never got a chance to actually be ON The Price is Right. John and I always wanted to go. (And to Family Feud, too. We’d so PWN the opposing family.) But he had a good run. I like how he said he wanted to retire while he was still “young”. He’s 84 :). I wonder who’ll take over? Whoever it is, it won’t be the same.

Thank you so much to everyone who answered my questions! It was fun reading all your answers and “meeting” some new (well, to me!) readers! If you still haven’t answered the questions don’t be shy! Click here!

Well Jaylen’s Pre-K field trip was on Thursday. They went to watch Disney on Ice at the Dodge Arena. He said he had so much fun. He couldn’t stop talking about it :). They had pizza at Peter Piper afterwards and then they brought them home around 2:45. I’m going to be so sad when he leaves Pre-K–he’s had such wonderful teachers and I’m going to miss them. They always say he’s such a well behaved boy–I think they’re partly to thank for that :).

Friday felt like any other day, even though it was Mario’s day off. Usually Fridays (and Sundays) are spent out of the house, or doing something productive (like cleaning or building something) but since Mario was helping Chris do something he wasn’t here most of the day. He said if he got out early enough we’d go watch Shrek the Third. He was done by 4 so he came and showered and then we left. Well, actually, Eenan didn’t go because he insisted that he was going to watch it (twice) for his UIL and Millionaire’s Club field trips. And Mary offered to watch Alaethia for us, too. So it was only Mario, Mom, Jaylen and me going.

Although it was, what? The first day it was out we naively thought we’d get to get tickets for one of the shows at least, even though it wasn’t for the early ones. I drop Mario off at the front to get the tickets and go find parking. As I’m parking I get a call and it’s Mario. All tickets were sold out, even the ones at midnight. Bummer. The first time he actually wanted to go to the movies and it’s frickin’ sold out!

We decided we’d go to Target and just buy a movie and have Movie Night at home. We picked up some Gardettos, Scoops tortilla chips, some pizzas, a game for the boys’ Game Cube (TMNT), and Arthur and the Invisibles. We were overcharged for the game (it was on sale) so we ended up getting $20 back. Thank goodness I check receipts — Mario was already walking out the door!

The movie was really cute. Mario and I enjoyed it a lot and so did the boys. Eenan kept saying the little girl “Invisible” (can’t remember what they’re really called at the moment) was “beautiful” LOL.

Saturday was the day to get rid of the rest of the junk we had left from the yard sale. I packed up the trunk as best I could, including the stuff Karina’s mom was going to buy, and only took Alaethia and Mom with me. The boys stayed with John.

First stop was putting gas in the truck, because my husband likes to play this little game where he leaves my truck on empty to see if I’ll actually make it to the corner of the street to the gas station. Grr. He always does that. Even when he leaves me his car because he “just wants to take the truck for once.” Drives me insane.

I get to the gas station and my heart stops when I notice how much it costs: $3.09. WTF?! I don’t even think it got to that much at the end of school in 2006 when gas prices were through the roof. It took $40 to fill my truck, which is A LOT for the Equinox.

Anyway, I met Karina’s mom and she took all my stuff, even what I was leaving at the Goodwill, so that was cool. I still have some stuff to look through and put away in our little storage unit, but God I feel lazy. Especially since it’s so darn hot out.

I didn’t have much luck finding anything while thrift shopping on Saturday. I got a cooling rack for cookies for $.50, a new pack of cleaning gloves for $.50, the Amy Coe pillow case Mini Blanket (I found out it’s a Mini Blanket and not a pillow case. It’s too cute!) that goes with Alaethia’s crib set (Flutter Mod) for $2.50(originally $9.99), a cute roll of wrapping paper for $1.00, and a brand-new huge bottle of my favorite current lotion, Johnson’s Soothing Naturals for $2.00. I can’t remember what else I got (oh! Now I remember, I got Mario 2 sealed, brand-new packs of Nicotine gum because he was supposedly going to quit smoking for $3 for both), but in all it was $11.30. Enough to get a stamp on my card for speinding over $10. I frantically look for it and to my horror realize that I’m missing the first stamp I got two weeks ago, when I barely found out about the card program. You get your card stamped whenever you purchase $10 or more and on your 10th visit, you get $10 free towards your purchase! Now I’m back at square one!

I dropped off a drink for Mario at work, then we went to visit Gramma, who’s doing very well, and then we went to Wal-Mart. We left early, at 10:30am Saturday and still didn’t make it back home till 4:30pm that evening. It never fails!

I got up early (for a Sunday) at 9:30am to the boys fed and Eenan ready for and dropped off at CFF. I ate a quick breakfast and started getting myself and Alaethia ready for Noelia’s shower at 2pm. I made good timing, especially since I wanted to leave at 12:45, just in case.

Mario picked Eenan up from CFF and then guess what he did? Since he was watching the boys he wanted to take them out somewhere so he took them to watch Shrek the Third!! Without ME!

I was even more annoyed when he, once again, took my truck without my knowledge and left me the Neon with low tire pressure and NO GAS. He’d given me $20 to spend “on myself” but that ended up going towards gas in his car!

I also stopped for some pens for the bridal shower since they were short some, so I guess it was good that I was a little late leaving the house.

The bridal shower went really well. The games were really fun (I stupidly changed purses to match my outfit and we ended up playing two games having to do with purses: the first one was a weight one–whoever had the heaviest purse wins. I TOTALLY would have won had I not exchanged bags! And the second one was a scavenger hunt and you guessed it–everything was in my other bag!). There was even a funny one where there’s two girls: one has a roll of toilet paper in her legs, the other has a stick. The one with the stick closes her eyes and the one with the roll “leads” her to put the stick in, well, the hole LOL. It was hilarious!

The other two games were Guess the Spices and the other was the White Stuff game (where you determine what each white powder is, like flour, baking soda, anything you’d use in the kitchen). I won for the Guess the Spices one ;).

And since they had a Money Tree in place of gifts, Noelia made out like a bandit! While we were sitting around the table I jokingly told everyone, “I’m going to just throw a party and have a money tree, too!” LOL

Mario had a pretty good time with the boys; he even took them with him to a job he had to do and they behaved well! As soon as they got home, though, Jaylen started acting up. I’ve been having such a tough time with him when before it would be Eenan who’d act up. I’m so afraid Jaylen’s going to end up with Middle Child Syndrome, where they sometimes act up because they don’t feel like they’re getting enough attention :(.

I’ve got no plans to leave the house today (well, except to pick up the boys). I really need to finish this week’s laundry and finish tidying up the living room but I really want to just read. It feels like a never-ending battle!