Author: Yajaira

I’m not usually (too into) celebrity gossip and whatnot, but since I had to do my searches for my Netbux account and I’d read on various blogs about how gangly and unhealthy Lindsay Lohan looked, I searched for Lindsay Lohan pictures. Since Mario is CRAZY about her and would have a shrine dedicated to her if I let him (and if the kids wouldn’t ask “Why does Dad have a picture of a lady on the computer”, like when he had Christina Aguilera on his desktop before her horrific makeover), I was even more curious to see how his “lady” has changed. I was completely shocked when I found these:

It doesn’t even look like her anymore! And her boobs…where’d they go? Does this mean they’re actually real and shrunk when she lost the weight? I heard rumors that she had her implants taken out and had smaller ones put in because Disney said her boobs were too big for their movies? I’ve heard she’s on crack, and well, with the way she parties I wouldn’t put it past her. It’s so sad how easily these Hollywood girls are swayed into making bad choices. I just can’t see what’s so “sexy” about being so skeletal.

The last two pictures are from thesuperficial.com. You can read their article here. I don’t know where the first one’s from, forgive me.

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I caught the kids’ cold. Actually, I caught a cold that was even worse than the boys’. I got a fever, and chills–the works. I went to Mexico (Reynosa) with Mary and Noelia and the boys on Wednesday (got some birth control pills !) and shared a Dr. Pepper with Eenan. Sure enough, the next morning I woke up with a sore throat (they didn’t even get a sore throat!).

Mario had Thursday off and Mom needed to be picked up from her Opthamologist, where she was picking up her new glasses, so we went for her around 9:30. After picking her up, she treated us to lunch at Taco Olè in Mission. I ordered some of the best cheese enchiladas I’ve ever eaten in my life. Sad thing was I couldn’t even enjoy them since my throat was on fire by then. We dropped her off after that. I chilled out for a while while Mario napped and then I went to pick Eenan up from school. We were going to bar-be-cue that night so I got everything ready while Mario got the pit ready. I made what was possibly the best rice I’ve ever made, Mario grilled the drumsticks and ribs and marinated them in bar-be-cue sauce, we had baked potatoes smothered in cheese–everything was delicious, and of course, I couldn’t enjoy it .

The next morning I woke up feeling lethargic but forced myself to drop Eenan off. I ironed Mario’s clothes and then laid on the couch. He kept smiling at me sympathetically since he’s not used to seeing me thrown on the couch in a helpless heap. I didn’t even make him breakfast that morning–that’s how tired I was. I’m sort of glad in a way that everything hit me at once: runny nose, sore throat, cough, aches and pains–because I’m pretty much just putting up with the cough and phlem now (ick!). Usually, my colds last for days. I’m hoping this one’s over soon *crosses fingers*. I’m so grateful that Noelia brought me Day and Nyquil, Mary brought me antibiotics, Big Mario watched the boys for me most of the afternoon while I slept my cold off (I couldn’t stay awake at all) and then Mario brought dinner (pizza and breadsticks!) and movies. We watched Spanglish which I thought was really cute .

Today I just paid bills and went grocery shopping with Mary, Yazmin and the boys and then we watched Are We There Yet?. I was gritting my teeth at all the crazy things the kids in the movie did LOL. The boys actually sat through it. They’re getting better at watching “movie” movies; we couldn’t get them to sit still if we were watching something other than a cartoon.

Oh my gosh. I yawned and I can hear again! Wow, I had the volume on the TV on really loud .

Hopefully Mario will be home soon and we’ll go to the “new” Wal-Mart. We need to get house things. I hope the boys will be well-behaved. They’re on a sugar high since they stuffed themselves full with junkfood at their Nana’s and being in public with them after something like that never goes well.

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Let me start by saying that Bush is a damn idiot. How the hell do you go off planning to spend all these millions of dollars on illegal immigrants’ hospital bills when you don’t even HELP THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUAL CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY!! This country is going to shit. And fast.

I also can’t believe the little girls that were murdered in Illinois, may have been murdered by one of the little girls’ own father. How could someone do that to their own flesh and blood, their baby? It’s just so horrible. They were only 8 & 9 years old . Hence the reason I won’t let Eenan go on playdates yet–he’s already begged and begged. You just never know these days and that saddens me.

*composes self* Anyway, hope all the Moms out there had a wonderful Mother’s Day. I didn’t get a chance to finish visiting all my mom friends on the ‘net and personally wishing them a Happy Mother’s Day, and I feel very guilty for it, but I do hope their day was grand .

We started the day by all getting together at Mary’s and exchanging presents and having breakfast. Mario made me some eggs and bacon and handed me my plate and gave me a kiss. Everyone “Awww’d”. Later he tells me he was making himself breakfast, but after Annie said to Cata, “Aww, see Babe, [Mario’s nickname here]’s making Yajaira breakfast!”, so he gave me the plate. I said, “You know, I could have gone the day without knowing that,” and glared at him. Then he said he was kidding. I’m still trying to figure out if he WAS kidding or not .

This year, I got beautiful hand/homemade gifts (the best kind!). Mary and Noelia printed pictures of the boys and put them in the center of a plate. They helped the boys paint little hearts and stars around the plate with gold paint–they turned out so nice! Mary gave me a little angel salt-shaker, which she made herself, that had cherries on it to match my kitchen theme. She gave Annie one with sunflowers and Yadira one with cows . She also gave me a frame with a picture of the boys and a poem called, “Walk With Us Mommy”. I couldn’t even finish reading it that day because I was still PMS’ing and immediately began to get teary eyed LOL.

The boys gave Mary her gift, which was a jewelry box with a picture of them in the frame on the lid. I’d painted it white and the boys painted little stars and hearts and then we glued them on the box. She loved it. They made one for Mom, too. Mario and I gave her her gift, which was some DVD’s that she’d picked out herself LOL.

After breakfast, we drove over to the cemetary to visit and leave flowers for Mario’s Grandma, Great-Grandma and visited with Mario’s sister for a little bit, too. I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it in the years I’ve been blogging, but Mario had an older sister (about 3 years older than Noelia) who passed away when she was only 3 days old due to being born with only 2 heart chambers .

We came back and chilled out for a while and then left to the movies. Mario’d been trying to convince me to watch that dreaded Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I’d watch it on DVD, but I wouldn’t spend almost $8 to suffer watch it at the movies. We compromised and watched Kingdom of Heaven instead. I can’t say I was thrilled about it .

We went to eat at the House of China on North 10th in McAllen. I so love the one on South 10th…this one didn’t have the crab thingys covered in the fried…thing? I forget what they’re called at the moment, heh.

It was nice though. The boys behaved for the most part and Yadira and I shared our labor stories with everyone LOL. We ended up helping Mary pay for the bill and now we are b-r-o-k-e. Thank goodness Mario gets paid this weekend!

After lunch, we went to visit Gramma at the nursing home and took her our gift. We stayed and talked for a while and then we left to visit Mom. I gave her and Aunt Nora their gifts, which they loved . I talked with Mom for a while and talked to John who’d been laying in bed practically the whole day. I told him to come with us, so he could drive a bit and of course he refused. I don’t know how he can complain about not having a license when he won’t even make the effort to learn or take the car out for a spin on his own. Hell, that’s the only way I started driving. I got a few lessons here and there from Mary and Mario and then I was on my own. Had I not started driving Eenan around on my own and taking the initiative to get over my fear, I still wouldn’t be driving.

We came home and Mario was tired so he was going to take a nap. I laid down with him to cuddle for a little bit and ended up falling asleep for about 45 minutes . I really need to start going to sleep earlier. I went to Mary’s and joined everyone after I woke up and started on a scrapbook embellishment: popcorn! I had little carnival theme embellishments (Sandylion brand) and it was missing a box of popcorn so I thought I’d make one. It turned out really cute. I want to make some candy apple ones but I’m not sure how to go about it. I have these clear sheets of plastic–the ones the stickers come on–and I’m thinking of putting those on some red apple-shaped cardstock to make it look “glazed” and adding a little stick. Hmm…

I scared Mario last night. I wish I had the camera with me to capture his expression–it was priceless! I was washing dishes in the kitchen and he comes up behind me, playfully smacks me on the butt and then gives me a kiss. I step away from him while holding his hands and tell him, very seriously, “I need to tell you something.”

He gets this OMG look on his face, kind of smiling, kind of freaked out, kind of about to PASS OUT and he says, “WHAT?”

“You know how your mom accidentally got me the wrong pack of birth control pills?”

At that point I didn’t know if he was going to cry or scream…or both. I start laughing uncontrollably and say, “No, you weirdo, I’m not pregnant! I’m just saying, she got me the wrong ones. I can’t take these because I’m supposed to take them the first day I “start” and well, I’m about to finish so I can’t take them. I’m afraid I’ll become incredibly naseous or that they’ll ruin my cycle. I’m telling you this because I “want some” after I’m done with this thing so you need to buy condoms.”

He look so relieved and then whined, “Condoms, hell no.”

I rolled my eyes. Though it would be weird going back to condoms after all these years, I don’t think he wants me to utter the words, “I need to tell you something” for at least 3 more years LOL.

Which brings me to the talk we had Saturday night. We decided we’d live here for at least 2 more years. We’re in no hurry to buy a house, though it would be nice–really nice. This lil’ apartment was built just for us, so we decided not to take it for granted, save, I’m going to go to school and then hopefully get a job after Jaylen starts school next year, and then we can buy a house. We could go and apply for a loan right now, but we could only get a small house. Once I start working (hopefully) we can get a bigger loan which means bigger house, which is what we both want. 4 bedrooms–no less, two living rooms, big kitchen, etc. We’ll have either red brick with white trim or cream colored brick. Yup, I’ve got it all planned out LOL.

I forgot to mention. A few days ago I uploaded my Lil’ Mama Clique index to this site. What a mess that was. If it weren’t for Jessica I never would have noticed! Well, not until I updated LOL. Thanks, Jessica :).

Well, I guess this’ll be all. I should get all this laundry hung up and folded. Then I have to clean the bathroom. Fun, fun . THEN, I’ll hopefully get a chance to upload my simple little scrapbooking pages to show y’all.

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