It Sucks To Be An Adult

Alaethia didn’t fall asleep till 2am last night (but that’s not why it sucks to be an adult LOL), just as I suspected. I would have slept a glorious 8 hours straight because she didn’t wake up for her first bottle till 10am, but my dear husband decided to wake me up at 4am to, um, bother me.

So, as I mentioned in my last post, Mario and I spent most of the day going through our bills (namely credit cards) to see which ones we could consolidate with the new, low interest rate credit card Mario got. We decided we’d pay off Home Depot, JC Penny, our JC Penny personal plan, which is how we got our wedding rings last year; Sears and the dreaded Capital One card. The only cards we’d have left would be Target and the new Visa.

No matter what those stupid “What’s In YOUR Wallet?” commercials tell you, DON’T GET A CAPITAL ONE CREDIT CARD! We got it about 5 years ago, just to build up credit. We didn’t use it for a good two years, then we used $250. They raised our credit limit to $500 at one point and after all the payment protection bull and our yearly “fee” it’s been at $480 the past two years. We even send double our payment amount and it still never went under $450. I hate that thing.

So around noon after we’re all showered and ready, we leave to pick up Mario’s paycheck. He’s taking longer than usual, so I get to read a whole chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. There’s a discrepancy with the paychecks; apparently the program they use to remove all the federal taxes and stuff didn’t remove anything this time. They tell Mario not to cash his check until they figure out how the state’s going to fix the problem. They say they’ll most likely have to withdraw the money from his check on his next paycheck. I tell him that’s bull–it’s against the darn law!

We got eat at House of China and the boys are thrilled. It’s one of their favorite places. Mario wants to eat at New Wave, which is another Asian buffet place but more expensive. I don’t know if it was Mario being a drama queen or if he was already ill but he said the food was gross and he felt nauseous. The boys and I ate just fine and we’re all okay. Mario still has a stomach ache.

The boys were super well behaved; they really surprised me. They even ate really well, too. Well, Jaylen always does, which people sometimes don’t believe since he’s so skinny–just like his daddy! Eenan’s my pickier one, but he even tried some Teriyaki chicken today!

Alaethia was a total doll, too. She quietly played with her toys and then drank a bottle and continued to play with her toys after that. I’m so glad she’s good at restaurants! I hope she stays that way LOL.

We go home, and while passing through Peñitas I notice they’re putting up a small fence of black plastic around the perimeter of the future site of the new Wal-Mart. Finally! I’m so thrilled. They’ve bordered-off both sides of the Joy Dollar plaza, so I’m dying to know what else they’re going to build there! I’d love a Target but that would be asking too much :(. You never know, though…they usually build Targets near Wal-Marts…so…?

Anyway, we got home and rested for a bit before taking off to the bank to get the Equinox payment moved later in the month. Since we’ve, thankfully, been either right on time or early with out payments since we got it, they were really cool about it and made the changes right away. So now that one’s due at the end of the month and Mario’s truck’s due on the 12th. Whew.

Mario ended up cashing his check because he got the okay to. I hope they don’t give him shit about the Medicare and Federal Withholding crap.

We got back home and started calling all the credit cards (which was a headache on it’s own) and called the new Visa to start with the balance transfers. It ended up being an even bigger headache and supposedly it would take much longer to process with Capital One than we had time for so Mario got frustrated and wanted to scrap the whole thing. This of course makes me almost hyperventilate because if we didn’t consolidate all the bills like we wanted to, then we’d be screwed! Well, not really, but we’d be really tight on money and these next few months we can’t afford to be since business at Mario’s workplace is slow.

Mary comes over and sees how frustrated we are. She tells us the credit card should have come with a check and sure enough, we find one. She said instead of having them pay the cards off, for us to deposit the check in our bank account and pay everything off on our own, in person to avoid any conflicts. Genius! The bad thing is I’m going to have to leave to town super early and get everything done. I was supposed to have my dress for Noey’s wedding altered, but I don’t think I’ll get to make it to that. It’ll have to wait till Monday or Tuesday.

Mario needs new shoes for work, so Mom (who’d been sick with a cold all week and hadn’t really come over) offered to watch the kiddos while we went. Eenan ended up going to Yadira’s with Mary so Mom only watched Jaylen and Alaethia.

Mario, poor thing with his wide feet, didn’t find a thing, as always. He hates shoe shopping because he can never find anything in Wide that’s nice looking. When he was looking at the last isle, his last hope, I saw sparkly things on the wall and scuttled over there. I ended up finding some really cute heels for my dress, so I shall be returning the ones I bought at Payless (which are the 2nd ones I’ve gotten LOL). Hopefully, this third pair of shoes will be the charm and they’ll stay.

Unless I find them in silver. THOSE were really cute.

Mario was in a foul mood the rest of the afternoon, well, until we got home. We’d stopped at H-E-B to pick up the ingredients for Chili. We ended up spending $53! That’s HALF of what I spend every two weeks on groceries. I’m never letting that man go to the groceries with me again.

We get home and I’m basically fuming thanks to Mario’s awful attitude. He notices I’m quickly losing my patience so he starts playing around with me trying to make me laugh. He always does that: pisses me off then expects me to be happy with him once he decides he wants to be in a good mood. He kept complimenting my cooking after he noticed joking around wasn’t working. Then he offered to help me wash the few dishes that were in the sink and obligingly brought me things I needed after I finished bathing Alaethia.

Needless to say, he’s forgiven :). Doesn’t take much to make me happy :P.

I think it’s time to go to sleep. I was going to do a Meme Sylvia tagged me with but I’ll wait till tomorrow. I’m going to take full advantage of Alaethia falling sleep before 1am for once!

I hope tomorrow’s less stressful than today!

P.S. I’m so glad they sent Paris Hilton back to the Slammer. I’d of, just like many other people, would have been so pissed if they’d succumb to her requests. She’s just like any other person when it comes to the law, and I’m glad the judge saw it that way!