Category: License

God I love that song by Tim McGraw and Nelly (the name just slips my mind at the moment…). I can’t relate to it (thank God), but it’s so pretty.

Anyway, yesterday was a good day for the most part. Went around noon with Noelia to get our hair cut. Though the woman’s damn charm bracelet kept getting caught in my hair (and she didn’t gently untangle it), I thought my hair came out the way I wanted it. It was fro-y since it was just wet and then air dried, so I couldn’t really tell at the salon what it looked like. I get home, flat-iron it, and notice the front is all chopped at different levels. Then, I notice she didn’t cut the shortest layer the length I wanted it…it was way too long. Nobody could even tell I cut it, and that’s because I got it layered . Mario was all excited when I told him, and when he got home and I pulled my hair out of the clip it was in, his smile slowly faded in to one of confusion and says, “It…looks the same, Babe”, and kinda made a face like: . So that was disappointing, but at least I got all the split ends cut off (she cut off about 1-2 inches) . If I’m brave enough, I’ll fix the front and cut it to where I wanted it. I haven’t done that in forever so I may just not touch it. I’m hoping if/when I get my highlights this weekend that it’ll look “better”.

Oh Lordy…the song that’s currently on VH1 is the reason why I loathe most hip/hop/rap *shudders*. Let’s just say it’s 3 females…

*cough* Mary called while I’d been fixing my hair and told me the Income Tax place had called Sonia yet again. Why they were calling to her house and not ours is beyond me. They called Mary after they called Sonia the first time (or did Mary return their call? Don’t remember) and they asked for Yadira [my maiden name here]. I was like, “WHAT?!?” I don’t think the woman doing our taxes did anything right at all. I don’t know what the point of her asking for all our info was if she was just going to get my name wrong and our phone number wrong too, obviously. She could barely speak an ounce of English to make matters worse. I had to scrape up the bit of Spanish I could remember just to successfully get our taxes filed. So, I called back and was preparing to bitch somebody out, when the lady told me our refund check was in. Yay! I called Mario and he was all thrilled of course. He’s got plans for that money. We were planning to pay off Mario’s school loan, the $51.11 I owe Avon from when I was working for them (long story) and the rest was going towards fixing the Prelude and possibly selling it and towards paying off a good chunk of the Sentra. We talked about it last night and decided we’d spend a little bit “for ourselves”. We’ve always used our refunds for things we need (the cars, kitchen remodeling, bills, etc.), hardly ever for anything we “want”. So we’ll see.

After I picked up Eenan, we went back home and we went back to the salon with Noelia so Eenan could get a haircut. Then we just chilled out here at home and when I was going to blog, I noticed my stupid site was down…again. I really, really need to find new hosting. I just hate the whole moving process. I’ve never backed up my site from the server (I have everything backed up on my computer…except Greymatter and Megabook) and wanted to know–how do you back up your site so your whole guestbook and blogging tools (in my case, Greymatter) stay intact and you can just upload them to the new server? I would hate having to re-install a new Megabook and Greymatter. Blah. I need to find some place for cheap ($4-7 a month) that has a good amount of space like Pixiehost (500mb space, 40gigs bandwith), especially since I’ll be hosting John and all his flash stuff. I’m so not looking foward to researching everything again, and definetly not looking foward to possibly getting screwed for the 4th time, once again.

So I guess you can say my bad luck started last night. Today, I found out I may have lost Eenan’s glasses. Lovely. Mario couldn’t get the darn refund check deposited because I didn’t sign it (idiot) so now we have to wait. Mary called, and now I have to pick up Yazmin from school probably all week. Not fun. I don’t mind picking her up, it’s the waiting a whole hour to get back home after picking up all the kids. I don’t even know till when I’m supposed to pick them up actually. I’m starting to hate the whole driving thing. Especially since all I do is drop Eenan off, come back, pick him up, come back. If I went to the mall or something it would be much more enjoyable. But of course, I have no license and God forbid I get stopped. I had a dream about that last night actually. I’m going to have to be so careful today — I’m scared shitless that I’ll get stopped and be like, “I’m an unlicensed driver, hi!”

Hopefully the rest of the day gets better. I’m so ready to hit something…

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I finished with the Lil’ Mama code checks today and out of 91, I only have 35 (34 not counting me) members left, just as I’d suspected. How disappointing. The drama-queen in me wanted to just close down the darn thing but I thought about how long I’ve had it, and how it really was the first clique for moms and I decided I’d keep it. I’m happy that the members I do have, have stuck with the clique so long .

Anyway, Friday night we all got ready and headed over to Jorge and Maggie’s when Mario got home. Eenan didn’t go, as usual, since he was sleeping over at Mary’s. Mario wanted something to eat, so we stopped at Star’s. I was driving and absolutely hate driving when Mario’s in the car because he makes me 10,000x more nervous than I already am. After getting his and John’s food, and Jaylen & my milkshakes, we went to drop off some movies we’d rented. Then we finally got to Jorge’s. Hiram was there, too. We all just laughed and a had a good time. We kept trying to convince John to do the “Riverdance”, but he was being a poophead and didn’t want to. The guys (well, except Jorge LOL) said they’d Riverdance if John would. They even had this whole syncronized dance planned out, but John refused . It would have been fun. Even more fun had they done it and I had my camera .

There was also this poor, old little chihuahua running around the neighborhood looking for a warm place to sleep. His owners just left him out there in the cold (and trust me, it was cold). We were all sitting in the garage, and he happily pranced on in and found a bed in the corner. He had this huge bump on his side…looked like someone either beat him or he got run over and his ribs were broken . Mario and Jorge kept trying to run him out, because they thought he was looking for a place to die (rudeness!), but the rest of us begged/yelled for them to let him be and they did. Jorge and Maggie let him stay over night and in the morning, when they opened the garage door, he ran out LOL. Poor little guy.

On Saturday we just chilled out here, then in the afternoon Mary and I left to pick up Yadira and the girls and we left to Nuevo Progresso, Mexico. Mary needed a root canal, and getting it fixed over here would cost about $400, not including what her insurance covered. So we went to Mexico, where it would cost about $150. I had a holey tooth since the filling had fallen out and decided I’d brave the needle and get it redone. Mary said it would cost about $15 per tooth, which was great. The dentist was really nice and was making small talk. He kept saying he couldn’t believe I was 22 and that I had kids. We talked about how young I got married/had kids/etc. and about where in Texas we were from. I ended up getting 4 teeth done, and it came out to $35. Later on, after talking with Mary and Yadira about what the dentist and I talked about, Yadira said he was flirting and that he gave me a good price because he liked me . Whether that’s true or not is beyond me, but I’m thrilled I got a bargain LOL. I didn’t know I had so many darn cavities . I brush my teeth twice a day (should maybe start brushing 3 times considering how much crap I eat) but I don’t think it helps that I eat so much candy. I hadn’t flossed in forever, too . Last night when we went to Wal-Mart though, you can believe I bought some spearmint flavored floss. I don’t want my teeth to fall out !

I want to go back next week when Mary gets her root canal done. (She couldn’t get it done that day because her tooth/gums were too infected and they wouldn’t go numb. They gave her medication and she’ll hopefully get it done this weekend.) They highlight your hair at this one salaon for $15! I so want to get highlights and now that Mario actually agreed of course I’m getting them done. I haven’t dyed my hair since before Jaylen was born…or since before I was pregnant with him even! I need to get my hair cut first…I never frickin’ went to get it done! Yadira said she wanted to get them done too. I just hope they don’t ruin my hair .

Mario got a flat tire on his way home from work last night. He bought a new tire, replaced it and now our car isn’t making that horrible side-to-side jerking it was doing. The old tire was all shredded and might of had a “ball”, so Mario thinks it was probably just that and not the suspension. Yay!

Tomorrow’s Monday…which means another week of waking up early. Gosh I hate it . I try to take a nap during the day but I can’t. The times I do take a nap I wake up with a headache and feel shittier than I did before. Blah. I should get to those dishes (been putting them off, as always!) and take a shower and head to bed before it gets too late. Er, late-er.

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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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