I totally messed up my meals today. Slept with the fan on (on medium setting even) and woke up with a sore throat . Mario did too. After getting the boys ready in the morning and dropping Eenan off at school, I laid down to take a nap. Mom called at 9 and we spoke till almost 10. Mario woke up then and came to lay with Jaylen an I on the futon in the living room. He got up a while later and Jaylen and I stayed there, sleeping. Mario came in at around 11:40 and said he’d made breaded fish filets and if I wanted a sandwich. I said yeah and groggily made my way to the mom-in-law’s, since that’s where he’d been preparing the food so he wouldn’t wake us…. So I ate the fish sandwich and then my throat felt worse. I stayed up and cleaned a bit after that while Mario was at work trying to get the extra TV we have installed in the car. It didn’t end up fitting, so he came home. I went to pick Eenan up from school with Jaylen and felt like total crap the whole time we were parked. We got off to get Eenan when his class came out and I asked Ms. Ortiz how he did today. She said fine and told me how he was flirting in class, as always and was all happy when the little girls would button up his shirt. He got all dressed up for his picture day . I completely forgot to take a picture of him before he left to school this morning .

After helping Eenan with his homework and all of us having banana muffins Mario stole brought from work, I cuddled with Mario on the couch and we all watched the Ninja Turtles . I started dozing off, again, so I went to sleep in the bedroom. Jaylen followed me and fell asleep with me. Mario ended up falling asleep on the couch. When I woke up, I had an even worse headache and my throat felt worse too. And that’s because we’re taking Amoxicillin (sp?).

I felt really crappy, but made a simple dinner of Chalupas anyway. They were the best I’ve had in a long time, I’ve got to admit . I went inside to leave a chalupa for Mary and when I opened the fridge, a soda was just staring at me, begging me to take it with me. So I did . I hadn’t had a soda in over a week, but this headache’s just killing me so I thought I’d have just a little bit. God, I make it sound like I’m on crack. But really, I’ve had a headache EVERY SINGLE DAY since I haven’t had a soda. Or my morning coffee. I also read another e-mail foward about Aspertame and how it can make people sick, so I’m having second thoughts about drinking my Raspberry and Iced Tea Crystal Light on the go’s. I hate how everything can make you sick these days. (Hence the reason these headache’s have made me feel miserable–all I have is ALEVE!)

After dinner, we just chilled out and watched TV, read a few stories to the kids and Eenan went to bed, and then Mario and I (and Jaylen) watched the episodes we’d missed of Committed. I love that show!

Welp, gonna go before it gets any later. That, and I can feel Mario’s eyes burning holes in the back of my head. He’s waiting to get online buahahaha .

Breakfast:
• Nothing. Slept right through…

Lunch:
• Lemon fish sandwich (wheat bread, fish, lettuce, tomato, cheese, mayo)
• water

Snack:
• Banana muffin
• water

Dinner:
• Chalupa (toasted corn tortilla with beans, ground beef, lettuce, tomato, avocado, & cheese)
• water and 1/2 a can of Coke
• 1 sugar free Reese’s peanut butter cup

Exercise:
• None! My wrist hurts, my shoulders are sore and I think I pulled something

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Went ahead and treated myself to some Shrek cereal this morning . I was surprised to find out it had just a tad bit more, and sometimes even less, calories than the “healthier” cereals we have (Honey Bunches of Oats, Raisin Bran, and others).

Breakfast:
• 1 1/2 C. Shrek cereal – 180 cals. w/ 1/2 C. milk – 75 cals.

Lunch:
• 5 chicken flautas (don’t know how many calories, but had 1 less than the serving size) w/ Tostitos cheese – 60 cals.
• less than 1/2 C. rice
• water

Snack:
• 53 mini chocolate chip Teddy Grams – 130 cals.
• 1/2 C. milk – 75 cals.

Dinner:
• 2 small slices of a Totinos ? pizza
• water

Exercise:
• Crunches: 4 sets of 25
• 25 leg lifts (each leg)
• 25 squats

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I’m just sitting here, waiting to find out whether I’m picking Eenan up from school, of if I should call Sonia to. I actually picked him up by myself yesterday. All the other times I’ve driven to pick him up Mario was with me. I did really well .

Ah, Mary just called. Noelia won’t make it back on time so Sonia will pick him up. I can’t wait till Mario can find the time (and save up money–but that’s both of us LOL), to fix the Prelude so I can keep the Sentra here. We’re hoping to pay off Mario’s student loan and put the rest of the income tax refund on the car payment. After that, we’ll only owe 9 months or so on the Sentra. I hope it works out. The faster we pay it off, the faster we can get a new, more reliable car. These two are always breaking down on us .

On Sunday, Mario and I removed the headliner from the car. It was looking like a parachute about a month ago when the fabric started coming off for some reason, so Mario ripped it off. Now we’re going to re-cover it. It was such a pain getting it out of the door…I was praying it wouldn’t break, because that thing is non-replaceable. I dislike doing stuff like that–where I have to help Mario with something car-related–because he starts getting all bossy. I kept having to remind him, “Be nice…I don’t have to help you with this.” I hope we can get it fixed and install it without breaking it.

We were waiting around for Jorge to call so we could go over and bar-be-cue, but he never did. At around 9pm, after putting the boys to bed, Mario lights up the grill and we just chilled out outside. It was so cold that night (around 43°)! After a while, Chris arrived and we chilled out with him. We didn’t eat till 11pm, and by that time I was sleepy and tired so I only had a chicken wing and a piece of fajita.

Yesterday, I mostly did laundry and cleaned up the bedroom. Jaylen’s becoming quite a good helper . We took a nap about an hour after Mario left for work. I must have been really out of it because when I woke up, my arm was all scratched up. It was probably dangling off the side and darn Choco Cat had a field day batting it around . She’s insane, that cat. We have to close the door to the bedroom or else she’s flying on top of the beds biting everyone if there’s the slightest movement. When I’m sitting here at the computer, she’ll jump on my lap, since the computer chair is “her” bed. Most of the time though, she stabs her claws in my legs and just hangs there since she didn’t get a good grip with her hind legs. It’s quite painful. I’ve had two chances to give her away, but I’m afraid she’ll maul the new owners. She won’t do anything to my kids most of the time, only because she’s terrified of them. But still, even though I’m her human scratching post, I love her crazy ass.

I need to buy more CD-r’s to get all the crap off of my computer. Mario got all annoyed that I had like, 20gigs of music and videos and cartoons on here LOL. He does too, but of course only my stuff counts . I have but one CD left!

Gotta get some exercise, finish laundry, and clean the litter box and the bunny’s pan (well, he’s not a bunny anymore, he’s HUGE!). Then I gotta do dishes. Will be back later.

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