Light Duty

Things at work went much better than I thought they would. I didn’t even have to leave the library. I thought for sure they’d move me somewhere else but they didn’t even bother LOL. All I did all day was sort through magazines, scan the books in and put them on the cart (and one of our 8th graders who loves to wander around and get out of class helped with over half of them), I highlighted some info on a stack of documents, entered some student info into the reading program entirely with my left hand, and then we went to the Veteran’s assembly. That’s when my wrist/arm started throbbing a little bit, but not too bad.

The assembly was nice, although we could hardly hear anything. I hung around speaking to Mrs. Ruiz, the boss and her kids for a while and then went to pick up the kiddos. I like the 10 minutes I’m waiting in line for them. I get to READ. I’m finally about to be done with Shopaholic Ties the Knot.

I need to enjoy my ten minutes of reading while I can, though, because once we move to the new school I’m going to spend those 10 minutes hauling ass across town to make it on time to pick up the kids. I think I’ll be fine, though. Even if I’m 5 minutes late to pick them up, it beats the extra half hour it takes for the bus to drop them off at home.

I got home and I sat outside with Mario, Jorge, Mom and the kids. Mario asked if I wanted to go to town to jot down prices for the things the kids want for Christmas and of course I said yes. The boys stayed with Mom while Mario, Aly and I went to K-Mart. We ended up finding two original Xbox games, one for $5 and one for $10. Mario got an extra Xbox controller battery and we got some sodas to go with the pizzas we ordered for dinner. I was a bit surprised when we paid for our stuff, because it was $7 bucks cheaper that it should have been. Turns out the $10 game was $3! I was pretty disappointed when we tried playing them on the 360 and they didn’t work, even after Mario installed the updates. I really, really wanted to play Bubble Bobble :(.

We’d looked around to see what we’re getting Alaethia and I still have no idea what I really want to get her. I wanted to get her the Rose Petal Cottage, so she could grow into it, but then I realized you have to buy everything separately and the house itself is made out of thin material. Grr.

Aide, Adan and Belle came over for a bit and us girls sat around and talked about the babies and work. When they left, the boys, Mom and I went to Dollar General to buy a few things (the boys had been saving their dollars all week to buy a toy) while Mario stayed with Alaethia. And now Eenan and Mario are playing Halo 3 and Jaylen and Aly have crashed out. I’m next. I can hardly keep my eyes open but I’m trying to see how long I can keep my blogging streak going.

So far, it’s been 3 days in a row! Woo!