Why, WHY when I’m finally trying to do something to my site my FTP takes a crap?? I at least got to upload my new winter skin! Click on ‘Skin 5’ on the side links if you’re still seeing the old ones…that’s if you’d like to see the new one . Oh well…I’m in a really good mood right now. Whatever’s in that white cheese popcorn, I’ve got to have more often!

Vito and Grandpa fixed the car today, bless their hearts. I need to start driving in TOWN! I drove to and from Aunt Nora’s when we dropped John off (did I already mention that?) and I wasn’t really terrified, but I was nervous. I have no depth (distance?) perception what-so-ever and that scares me. I also have no sense of direction…Lord help me if I ever do start driving in town. I’d get lost in a carboard box .

We have a wedding to go to this Saturday and Mario barely reminded me of this yesterday. I have nothing to wear! How I hate shopping…especially for dresses. Or something dressy. I never look right *sigh*. But I’m in a good mood and darnit I’m gonna find something nice. Wish me luck .

…hours later. The husband got home about two hours ago and OMG he must have missed me while he was at work or the lunch I made him was really good because…wow. Describing would just be too much information so I’ll just zip it and go to bed .

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I’m so beat . Annie came over because she needed a burned CD copied. When she was leaving she turns, looks at me and says, “Quit losing weight already!”. I roll my eyes and tell her, “I haven’t lost, I’ve gained!” She replies, “And now with holidays coming up?! Forget it!” I nod in agreement and say, “I know! I’ve been baking cookies like crazy-“. I forgot I was talking to the Junk Food Queen and she glares me down and says, “Thank you for inviting!” I was like, ‘Oops!’ LOL. So we got to talking and I told her I usually bake on weekends, and next I was going to try making peanut butter cookies from scratch. Catherine’s having her birthday party this weekend so I’ll take her some. I “practiced” making them tonight and they taste pretty damn good! I also made cheesy scalloped potatoes, which I was going to pair with pork fillets but Mario wanted to take Mole to work so that’s what he’s taking, Mole and potatoes LOL. Doesn’t really go well, but that’s what he wants. And I made dinner (very simple elbow macaroni and tuna salad type thing) too. I already have breakfast in the fridge (leftover atole…rice pudding?) so yay, no cooking till tomorrow night !

So our stupid car (Sentra) broke down yesterday. While Mario was driving. I’m just so grateful that he didn’t get hurt. The strut went out and he lost control of the car a for a little bit and just barely got to park on the side of the expressway. He was so close to the exit and couldn’t even get off it. Vito went and picked him up and took him to work, and later Vito and Tommy picked the car up and pulled it over here, I think. We got the part. Well, Mary did. We owe her $55, which we’ll give her on Friday. It’s like that stupid car knows when it’s Christmas or someone’s birthday…it screws up at the most inconvenient times . Mario also talked to Albert at work, and the Prelude came up and he said he’d find us a Jetta or another small car like that and we could trade. Sounds pretty good to me !

Noey took the boys and I to pick up Eenan’s glasses this afternoon. He looks so cute! I need to take a picture of him and post it here. He looks too adorable. He didn’t want to take them off at all until he took a shower LOL. We’d gone to a scrapbooking store down the road to kill time before the glasses were ready and the boys each got a pack of (expensive!) “space” stickers. Eenan put them all over his little glasses pouch . I loved all the embellishments and paper! I want to get back into scrapbooking. My poor Precious Moments scrapbook is collecting dust on my top shelf. I still have a huge Ziploc bag full of film I need to develop, too.

Welp, I’m going to finish watching “The Biggest Loser” I recorded from earlier today. G’nite!

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Isn’t my Qbee Secret Santa gift adorable??! Thank you, Secret Santa! xoxox!

Welp, I had all these amazingly entertaining and interesting things to blog about (heh, right), but I forgot already. I hate it when I go days without journaling because then I forget everything I did. A short summary of last week: the usual–waking up early, taking Eenan to school, spending time with Jaylen, cleaning, making lunch, dinner, Mario’s lunch for work, laundry. Yeah, SO exciting! I also finished painting the apartment and Mary paid me today! Which was really unexpected and very much appreciated ! I had to give John some money, since he helped me out and because we owed him $10.

The new rentors started moving in so yesterday I was over there with the rentor’s brother (our other rentors) and his neices and nephews installing tiles . Then we went to pick Mary up at the airport (she was coming back from staying a week in Arizona). The boys were so excited to see her . All of last week Jaylen would look out the window and say, “Tell Nana to come down!” He’s so cute. He thought she was on the plane the whole week she was gone LOL. She brought us back some presents…just like Mary to be on vacation and still buying stuff for everyone else . She brought Jaylen one of those new flip-action Ninja Turtles, or whatever they’re called. She brought Eenan a Cartoon Network racing game for his Game Cube and she brought me a Hello Kitty tin with marshmallow candies in them and a Proud Heart Cat Beanie . I already had it, but since it’s about 2 inches longer than the one I already had (I thought they only sold them in 8 and 10″??), I kept it.

OH! Before I forget…another hilarious thing Jaylen did: I’d gotten out of the shower and realized I left my undies somewhere (had everything else but my underwear) and I pulled my tee over my feminine parts and peek out the door and ask Mario to get me some. Jaylen pops up in front of the door and notices I’m standing with my shirt pulled over myself and says, “Your weedos are cold, Mama?” (Weedos being what they call their privates). He’s a riot! He said Psycho Bitch today…which isn’t exactly something I should be laughing at but hearing his teeny voice say it was too damn cute. After biting my lip for a minute I told him never to say it again of course .

John spent the weekend again. He wasn’t going to come over because he thought Mario wasn’t getting out till really late today, but we told him he got out early on Sundays so Mario picked him up on his way home from work on Friday night. Thank God, too. I thought I was going to be incredibly bored all weekend.

Last night was a total disaster in Yajaira’s World of Cooking. I burned rice. Not once, but twice. It was John’s fault really. He was playing this flash movie that had Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” playing in the background. I started watching it from the kitchen, while the rice was browning, and I jokingly tell John, “Ooh, that song makes me tingle in certain places”, just to freak him out and have him curl up, cover his ears and yell, “OhMyGod!”…and then the rice burned. Dammit. I salvaged as much as I could, because I just used up the last of the rice I had, and got to adding spices and boiling it. I was making Mole, and preparing the sauce and boiling the chicken and making sure the chicken was cooked correctly because I’m deathly afraid of poisoning my family with Salmonella…and I let the damn rice burn again. While it was boiling *slaps forehead*. Oh well. Needless to say, the husband had no rice for his Mole…but the Mole tasted pretty damn good when I was done. I had a pile of dishes to wash to top it off…didn’t get to bed last night till 1am. Thank goodness Mario didn’t go in till 12 today.

I went grocery shopping with Mary today and we bought the Christmas tree! It’s already in the stand in the living room and ready to be decorated. Noey and I’ll be putting the lights around it and waiting till Eenan gets home from school to finish the rest. The kids are so excited about Christmas this year .

Ok, it’s almost 12. Gonna go snuggle up next to the hubs and still-awake Jaylen and watch Spongebob.

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