Author: Yajaira

I’m in a bad mood. I was fine, until Mario called and told me he’s going to have a “few beers with the guys” again. That boy’s a beer away from becoming a damn alcoholic. Okay, maybe not, but it’s starting to bother me that they drink all the damn time. And hey, I’d like to go over there too, dammit. Eenan’s even sleeping over at Mary’s again and he (Mario) doesn’t even bother to invite me or anything…he just said he’s going over there. I told him to move in to Jorge’s buahahaha. It’s true…he may as well.

It’s also pissing me off that I can’t see any of the local channels clearly at all! We have cable, dammit. I’m trying to watch the darn news and all I see is little fuzzies and I can vaguely hear what they’re saying…I mostly hear static . The Dish Network guy’s supposed to come over on Thursday. We ordered it like 2 weeks ago. Lazy assholes.

Went to Muffins For Mama day at Eenan’s school this morning. It was kinda humid and overcast outside so it was a really nice day for a walk. Jaylen enjoyed it. We got to the school, I signed in and picked Eenan up from his classroom and then we went to the library to check out some books. They had tables set up in the courtyard with muffins, orange juice and coffee and had chairs all along the walls. The boys had muffins and juice while I read to them. It was nice. They started becoming a bit antsy about 20 minutes into it, so I finished reading the books and I took Eenan back to class. It was actually more pleasant than I had anticipated.

I also started with the crunches again. That’s the main thing I need to work on: my belleh. I need to make it a point to work out.

It started raining out of no where today so I had to run my ass outside in the POURING cold rain and cover up Mario’s Chevelle. It was horrible and I got soaked but it had to be done. I just hope water didn’t get into the darn car.

Ugh…I’m feeling nauseous for some reason. I should go since I need to take a shower, too. I’m stinky.

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Thursday was spent in town all day. Ate at Burger King for breakfast (healthy! *sarcasm*), went to JCPenny for Eenan’s shoes, Target to return/exchange some things (exchanged a shirt for the Cheer Bear Cub I wanted–only to have it go on sale again this Sunday!), a shoe store who’s name I can’t remember for Mario’s shoes, Wal-Mart for house stuff, Star’s for lunch, back home so the boys (including Mario) could all take naps, spent some time outside talking to Big Mario and ooohing over the truck he bought (very cute 70’s stripes along the side!), went to RGVmag to get our “prize” since Mario answered the mystery thing correctly (and I’ll be coming out in the magazine in a few months–I looked like total crap!), stopped at Mario’s work, took Eenan for a haircut (only $3.75!), visited Mom & John for a while, went to H-E-B for groceries, picked up a pizza from Pizza Hut (our prize!), and then I got home and made mole/rice for Mario’s lunch the next day, tried watching a movie with Mario on the futon but kept dozing off, and then I went to bed. *whew* Yeah, it was as hectic as I just described .

Friday the boys and I just chilled out here and when Mario got home from work we went to Jorge’s (with only Jaylen, Eenan of course was sleeping over with his Nana). Don’t really remember much from that day…it’s a bit of a blur.

The next morning I made breakfast and saw Mario off to work then got the boys ready since we’d be going with Mary and Yazmin to watch Robots. It was too cute and funny. The boys actually sat through the whole thing and didn’t ask to go home once. When 4pm rolled around I took the meat, sausage, and fish down so it would thaw and made a chocolate cake and flan. I got myself ready and called Mary since she’d be watching the boys for us while we went to Hiram’s get-together. Mario got there and we got all the stuff we needed for the bar-be-cue together. On the way over I had this nagging feeling we forgot something. I think I told Mario twice, “I hope we didn’t forget anything”. We get there, say hi to everyone and take all the food to the kitchen. We were already late and we had the majority of the food. When taking all the ingredients out of the bag for the guacamole dip I was going to make, we realize we forgot the darn meat! He took off in a huff and came all the way back home to pick it up. I met Naomi and Eric, then later on Albert, Jannett and their baby, Alan; Frankie, and the Cat (as they call him) arrived. Joe and Hiram were already there with Jorge and Maggie. All in all it was a great night. Lots of laughs and Alan fell in love with me. I don’t think a baby I don’t know’s ever just jumped on my lap like that. He was the cutest thing with the BIGGEST eyes I’ve ever seen! Hiram got a little wasted and was being hilarious. He ended up with cake all over the place and was even spanked with a huge plank by Eric LOL. He complimented my cake and said he was impressed…that only his mom made cake that moist..aww! Maggie liked the flan…she ate half the pan by herself, no joke!

Everyone was really nice. I was a bit leery about going since there were going to be all these people I’ve never met there, because everyone (mostly the guys Mario works with) like to talk shit about the wives and how ugly/fat they are. Mario told me not to worry because I wasn’t fat/ugly and because everyone thought I was cool and not bitchy LOL. That made me feel a little bit better .

Sunday Mario was off work and we just stayed home all day long. It was so boring LOL. He made dinner that night which was Penne Pasta with spaghetti sauce, ground beef, and mushrooms mixed in. He topped it off with parmesean cheese and some spices and some garlic/parmesean bread…it was SO good.

Today was the first day back at school for Eenan. Back to the same ol’ routine…egh. He did good though…didn’t give me a hard time when he woke up or anything. ‘Open House’ was tonight and it was the first day of their book fair. Mary, Noelia, Jaylen, Eenan and I all went walking to the school. Ms. O. had nothing but nice things to say about him. He’s such a good student, I’m so proud . He went around the class showing us everything they do, where he sits, and was even showing Jaylen stuff like puzzles and their games. We went to the book fair and they got Unlovable, How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? and Little Quack’s Hide and Seek. They’re all too cute, but I especially loved Unlovable. Now I want a pug .

Tomorrow they’re having “Muffins for Mom’s Day” for Public School Week at 10am. Since I won’t have a car (Mario will be at work by then) I’m taking Jaylen in his stroller and we’re going for a walk. Hopefully it’s nice out, like it was today. It’ll be good exercise.

For dinner tonight I made Chicken with a Twist, without the ‘twist’ since I used elbow macaroni (I had nothing else!). It came out pretty good–the boys even ate it. Let’s see if my toughest critic, Mario, likes it. He’s finally home from Jorge’s .

Hah, he liked it, who’da thought? I really need to go see Gramma this weekend. Mom called and told me she was very depressed and was complaining about a pain in her chest. I hope they get her checked out and that nothing’s wrong with her. I kept thinking about her and was praying she was okay. I wish I could see her more often . Okay, Jaylen’s heavy and is on my lap trying to go back to sleep so that’s my cue. Goodnight.

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Mary and I are hopefully going to start with our walks 3 times a week again, at least. We just got back from our power walk. Each of us had one of the boys in the stroller, which added a little resistance. Since we hadn’t walked in a while (I haven’t even used the tredmil since I got the flu a few weeks, maybe a month or two, ago), we were out of breath and our calves/thighs/bottom of our feet were in pain…and we were barely a block away!

We did okay on the way up the hill. On the way back down, we saw a UPS truck and I thought, “Mario’s package was supposed to arrive today” and sure enough, it came down our street. We jogged a little bit, then I ran full speed with Jaylen and stroller in tow a little under half-way back. Needless to say, I missed the truck and I felt like I was about to barf; my mouth was so dry. I waited for Mary at the corner and when she caught up I started feeling really dizzy. I’d never felt dizziness like that before. Everything around me turned really bright fushia/green colors so I closed my eyes, grasped on to the stroller’s handles and slowly kneeled down. Everything was spinning. When I felt like I was okay, I got back up. Mary told me to stay put a little bit while I focused. I couldn’t even see straight. Totally strange. That’s never happened to me before. When we got home (and BTW, I ran for NOTHING because they left the package at the door !), I started feeling really thirsty and my chest felt like it was tightening up; like I couldn’t breathe. Either I was having a heart attack or my sugar went up. It couldn’t have been low because I know what it feels like when it’s low. I’m so going to have some type of glucose problem, and it sucks . I’ve been drinking nothing but limeade, tea and strawberry milk since we’re totally out of water. I REFUSE to drink tap water–that’s disgusting. I haven’t even had much of an appetite since last week…and when I do get hungry all I want is junk food–sweet junk food. I need to keep exercising…I don’t like feeling like this !

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