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After successfully eating a Ramen noodle cup yesterday around 4pm (well, about half) and feeling less nauseous than I had all day I cleaned up, did some laundry and then started on dinner when Jorge got home. I made cubed chicken in a tomato gravy and Mexican rice. The boys and Jorge positively loved it.

I had a spoonful of each…and felt just fine, thank God! I wanted something other than oatmeal or yogurt or a Special K bar for breakfast the next morning, and while I’d been looking for my ingredients for dinner I came across a can of condensed milk that was about to expire, so I made some atole de arroz, with extra cinnamon. This made Jorge not even try it, since he’s majorly against cinnamon. The boys on the other hand, loved that, too!

I had a couple spoonfuls and felt ok afterwards. The boys wanted to get in the pool and asked, “Are you getting in with us today, Yajaira?” I thought about it and said, “Yeah, I’ll go in today.” They cheered a unanimous Yay! and we all changed and got in.

Jorge and the boys played and I hung out near the steps, enjoying the warm water and the breeze on my face. The gentle “waves” caused by the playing boys were causing me to get nice and sleepy. I imagine that’s how a baby probably feels while in utero :).

We got out, showered and headed to bed. I read to make myself sleepy. I only woke up once, which is great!

We got ready for work, I gathered my stuff (breakfast, sweater, bag) and Jorge and I drove to work together :). I ate my atole and coffee (I had to) and felt GREAT! Thank you, Lord!!

Work went by fast. Michelle and I headed to lunch to Siempre Natural, where we met Briana and Jorge and his co-workers. I had a fideo and some lemonade, hoping it would go easy on my stomach. It did; I felt great all day.

We chit-chatted, went back to work and the afternoon went by fast, especially when our intern, Kristina, and I started talking about friends/acquaintances we know mutually. Seriously, 2 hours have never gone by more quickly!

5 o’clock rolled around and I ate my PB&J sandwich and drank my water as I headed to pick up my babies for the week. I was thrilled to see them. Alaethia had me get down and visit with their (real life) goat, who was terrified of me. Mario’s dad said hello, which is something that hasn’t happened in almost 2 years!

The kids and I went to HEB, then Dollar Tree for some pool accessories. Then we came home, the kids admired the pool, I got Jorge’s clothes together and we went to his work so he could change.

I had an awesome kids-eat-free coupon from Chili’s, so we got a pretty awesome deal! I love those!

The manager was nice, but kept bashing the Nolana Chili’s, which we found weird. Regardless, our waiter was great. He was attentive, fast and super nice.

Jorge wanted a drink, but then he said no so I ordered it anyway. It was so pretty and actually tasted like a Margarita!

We finished our food, were pleased with the check (heh) and we came home. The kiddos got ready as quickly as possible since they wanted to get in the pool. We had a little line of children waiting while Jorge skimmed the pool. Stupid pool cover keeps flying off and into the pool so it keeps getting dirty .

We got all the pool stuff out there (water guns, floaties, toys) and had a great time swimming and playing :). Alaethia was really nervous, and was the first to get out and chilled out with Mom on the porch. Emily was having a blast and paddled around in her donut floatie, giggling away. The boys…were being boys LOL. They were “shooting” each other and chasing and just having fun. It was great :).

They got ready for bed, brushed teeth and we put them to bed. Now I’m in my robe, typing this up and feeling like I have a sore throat and ear infections. WTF?? I hate to think this is what’s happening, but I think I’m getting sick so much all of a sudden because I stopped taking my acne antibiotics. I’d been on them since March 2011 because my acne had become quite awful. I hadn’t been sick AT ALL since March 2011. I’d been trying to wean myself off of them the past few weeks, but not only has my acne returned (though not as bad as before) and I’ve had a stomach bug and now feel like I’m getting a cold. I refuse to get sick! So needless to say, I started the pills again tonight *sigh*.

Jorge is passing out without me so I’m going to join him. Now I’m getting chills. 6 pound 8 ounce baby Jesus, help me!!!

I tossed and turned all night due to stomach pains. I woke up around 2am because I passed out with my contacts on and my eyes felt simultaneously gooey and dry. So I took them out, washed my face and brushed my teeth. Then I felt “awake” again so it took me a while to fall asleep. Then I tossed around some more, even waking up at 4am to check my alarm because I felt like I overslept. When the alarm went off at 7am I asked Jorge to please snooze; I had a massive headache and wanted to try and sleep it off for a few minutes (didn’t happen). So when 7:30 came around and I still felt like shizz I texted my boss and emailed Rosie and Beto, letting them know I wouldn’t be in. My boss already knew I wasn’t feeling good yesterday, so he understood. I still feel…irresponsible I guess you can say, since I just returned from vacation and I’m absent so soon. Thank goodness I got all my tasks done yesterday.

I sent am email that needed to be sent for work and then I tried sleeping more. Didn’t happen. I got up to freshen up and when I laid back down my stomach churned again, only it was now a mixture of cramps and hunger. Ruffles “knocked” on the door so I could let him in to use his litter box, so I obliged and the smell of coffee wafted into my bedroom from the hallway. Mom doesn’t drink coffee, but when she gets up early enough she’ll make me some so I can take with me to work. I couldn’t let it go to waste! I may have just completely ruined the recovery process because I totally mixed some French Vanilla creamer into the coffee. And I made some toast. I was planning on following the B.R.A.T. diet today (bananas, rice, apples and toast–all of which I have) because it seems more appealing than the Gatorade, chicken broth and crackers diet . But I may have ruined that, too, since I drowned my perfectly good toast with butter. *sigh* I’m such a fatty.

My stomach thinks so, too. It’s already churning :(. On the bright side, I’ve lost 2 lbs. in one day!

[edit 12:34pm]

So I thought I was feeling better and had already texted Jorge that I was bored (heh) and I was probably going to work half a day after all. As soon as I pressed ‘send’, my stomach rebutted with an angry gurgle . And then I realized Jorge took the Routan to work this morning, so I had no choice but to stay home anyway.

I’ve been reading ReFashionista.net since I’ve been thrown here in bed all morning and I must say, I’m impressed with her sewing skills! I wish I was half as good as she is with refashioning stuff. Makes me want to go into an old bag of cast-off clothes that are living in the garage that STILL haven’t made it to Goodwill after my garage sale in December . I’m pretty nifty with pillow cases, curtains, even baby blankets, but I’m not all that good with clothes *sigh*. (This reminds me that I have to buy some ribbon that matches my summer dress to replace the straps. I’m pretty good at replacing straps, heh.)

I’m going to heat up a bowl of (icky, from-the-carton) chicken noodle soup. Or perhaps eat a banana. I could really go for some coffee though :(.

[edit: 2:09pm]

Ate the banana, didn’t go well. I shall now stop lying to myself and come to terms with the fact that I am most definitely ill and stick to unsalted crackers. Dammit.

And here’s what I shall spend the rest of the day doing, since I’ve gotten quite tired of my bed: