Category: Outings

It amazes me that after all these years dad’s infidelity to mom can still mess me up. This morning, on the way to school, Ricci and I were listening to Wild 104 and they actually announced the War of the Roses early for once.

War of the Roses is a show that people call and try to bust their spouse or significant others cheating. They call up the person (you provide the number of course) and the DJ tells the person they won a free dozen roses from RedRoses.com (fake site) and what person would they like to send it to and what do they want the card to say. Well, most of the time the person IS cheating and the person calling screams out and they get into a fight on the air. It’s usually shocking and very amusing. Well, this morning was different.

A 17 year old girl called and said she wanted to catch her dad cheating. She said she knew he was, but wanted to prove it to her mom because her mom didn’t want to believe it. Sure enough, her dad sends the roses to a woman at a club and says, “Thanks for those nights and making my day easier”, or something like that. The girl was crying and asking, “Why dad?! Why?? I thought we were a good family! How could you do this to us–to mom!?” He kept telling her, “You be quiet. I’ll talk to you at home. You’re going to get it.” (Everything he said was in Spanish, so it sounded even worse.) By the time we got to school, I was shaking and had a lump in my throat. We got off and I tried hiding my face since tears were uncontrollably falling out of my eyes. Ricci saw me and I tried to laugh it off, but she hugged me and told me it was okay, that I was a great person and it was a long time ago, and many other comforting things I can’t remember right now, so that made me cry even more. Took me a while to compose myself. Thank goodness nobody asked questions since I was sniffing and my nose was clearly red, or I surely would have broken down again for sure.

I hate that that happens. I hate that I can’t think of what happened, I mean REALLY think of what happened, and not cry about it. I wish it wouldn’t bother me so much, but it does. Most of my life I ignored it; what he did never really bothered me; I wrote him off as an asshole and was just glad he left. But in the long run, it really has affected me, and that sucks.

Anyway, we started another lesson today and studied for 30 mintues of our 3rd period for our test on chapters 1 and 2 of Access. I feel really good about it; I think I did well. I’ve been really hard on myself lately when I don’t get 100’s and I really need to quit doing that. Mario said I’m going crazy and my God, I think I am. I work myself up for nothing. I got flaming mad when I got a 97 on our group project (the one I was really proud of–the 80’s Antiques one) and a 98 on my hospital project. I got points taken away because my fields didn’t fit the info correctly–something that none of us had been taught before, nor was anything about it in the chapters we were studying and it all depended on which layout you chose for the Forms and Reports. I found it to be really unfair, but whatever. I’m trying not to think about it anymore…

Ricci and I sat with Mayra for a while after we took our test and then made our way to the car. When we get there, I open the door and I realize the power locks aren’t working. I look at the lights and sure enough, I’d left them on and my battery drained out. I’d been so upset in the morning I didn’t go back and check if I’d turned them off (which I usually have to do because most of the time I DO leave them on). Thankfully the security guard had jumper cables and jump-started the car for me. Another guy was out there keeping us company since we looked all helpless.

Mario’s currently suspended from work. It’s nothing bad on his part, somebody threw a fit and decided it was the right time to take it out on someone else and Mario just so happened to be there. It’s nice having him home–he actually swept, mopped, cleaned the bathroom and we cleaned out the car and he washed it. He’s making good points .

As for the weekend, all us girls went to eat at Pizza Hut on Friday after school, and then the whole family (even John!) went out to eat there for dinner. It was nice. We got to see ultrasound pics of Gecko, Tommy and Yadira’s baby .

Mary treated us all to watch The Corpse Bride on Saturday morning, which was a GREAT movie. The kids loved it. Jaylen stayed awake the whole time even though he was really sleepy and Eenan didn’t try to jump into the isle at all! They were both very well behaved that day. Ha, notice how I said that day LOL. Kidding, they’re getting much better at behaving in public .

I spent the rest of the day chilling out and reading. We went to Isaac and Isiah’s party on Sunday night (where we ate more pizza–I had to have gained 5 lbs. just this weekend!) I also ended up finishing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, finally! Let’s see how long it takes me to read Book 5, which is even longer!

Man I have a headache and I’m out of Aleve . I still gotta take a shower and finish eating. I feel naseous .

Quote of the night: “I want to skadoo like Blue but I always end up tripping over my feet.” – John

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Friday was an interesting day. I kissed Mario goodbye in the morning and told him, “Thank God it’s Friday. It’ll be an easy day. We’re just going to study for our Final on Monday.”

Boy was I wrong.

The teacher surprised us by giving us our study guides back (I got a 92) and telling us we had two hours to study before we TOOK THE FINAL. We were stunned. She said she was making us take it that day since at least 50% of the class was absent on Monday. I bit my tongue, but after a few minutes of discussing it with the girls I decided to speak my piece. I told her it wasn’t fair that we got only a few hours to study just because of the people who were constantly absent. She said it wasn’t a punishment; that it was an extremely easy final and she was sure if we studied those two hours that we’d pass.

I didn’t care if it was easy; I was still pissed. I kept telling myself that if I didn’t pass with at least a 95, I was going to be furious. I studied like crazy for those two hours and Lucy and I kept quizzing each other every few minutes to see what we needed to study more.

We took the Final, and I got a 99. Yeah, that’s right. I would have broken my keyboard in half if I didn’t do well. I’d have gotten a 100 had I paid extra close attention and Bolded the months of the week in the assignment (stupid mistake). But wow, we’re actually done with Excel. We start Access on Monday. I’ve never worked with Access. I know it has to do with databases and that’s it .

I dropped Ricci off at home and since Mario now has his days off on Friday (yay!), we got ready and left to pick up his pay check. We deposited $315 for the car payment and a few other small things, filled up the tank ($28 now, and that’s because the gas prices have gone down a little), made our JC Penny payment, and paid Eddie for our brand-new JVC video camera ($100 for a $400 camera!). It’s been months since we went out to eat at a nice place so we tried Logan’s Roadhouse. Mario ordered two drinks, we got Mozzarella sticks, the kids got hot dogs and they drank two chocolate milks each. I got my food (which I didn’t really like) and a Coke (the waiter gave me a free Coke since I didn’t like the mixed-drink tea I’d gotten. I told Mario we should give him a nice tip since he was a really good waiter and he said, “Oh, so you like him now?” He kept teasing me about that the whole time we were there *rolls eyes*.) The bill came out to a whopping $54 . I’m so not used to spending that type of money at restaurants.

Needless to say, after paying our bills, buying stuff we needed around the hosue and a few groceries, and the extra “treats” we got this paycheck, we’re almost completely broke. Mario and I got really depressed about it yesterday. We both almost had nervous breakdowns. It sucks that we can’t even get or do a few extra things or else we’re totally broke. We also had this incident with the bank. Mom-in-law made a payment through our account which went through twice and of course had overdraft charges, so we’ll have to make our car payment late. Lovely! It’s really depressing.

We went to Jorge and Maggie’s that night and just talked about how everything sucks, about how Jorge is going bat-shit crazy since he’s bored out of his mind at home, and about how some people are taking advantage of the hurricane Katrina crisis. It’s always nice seeing them. Shame we can’t visit them more often .

As for this weekend, we’ve spent it exactly like I wanted to: doing nothing. I run so many errands and have a trillion things to do during the week, that spending the weekend at home sounded like a great idea. It’s been relaxing, except for the few fights the kids get into. I spent most of yesterday cleaning (which I REALLY needed to do) and then reading. I slept so well last night; hadn’t had a great night’s sleep like that in a long time.

I guess I’ve babbled enough for today. I need to write up a grocery list since we’re going grocery shopping tonight. I’m sort of dreading it. My feet are still recovering from all the walking around on Friday .

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I hate how I can never take a nap in this place.

I tried taking a nap, and all I ended up with was a headache due to broken sleep. Either the TV was too loud, Eenan and Brandon would come in and start playing, I could hear the front door opening and closing, or someone needed me for something. You really can’t take a nap when you’re a parent. Silly of me to even try .

I’ve been waking up super early to drop Mary off at work the past two days because her van was still in the shop. That, and school has really been burning me out. I’ve never felt so tired in my life!

Excel’s progressively getting more and more confusing. There’s so many steps to take to do something, and like I’ve mentioned before, the teacher spends so much time getting the “other side” of the class on track, that by the time we get back to the lesson (literally 15 minutes or so later, sometimes more), I forget what we already learned. Today for example, a few people got “lost” copying/pasting a URL into the browser and then importing it to Excel. HOW can you not understand how to do that? If they’d actually pay attention, they wouldn’t get lost. Grr. Poor Mrs. C-R….she’s got loads of patience. I would have yelled by now. .

On a lighter note, Lucy treated Ricci and I to lunch today at Jack In the Box. Hadn’t eaten there in forever and it was nice sitting, eating and laughing. I hope I can treat them next week .

Ooh I can see the kittens wadding inside their box . They’re two weeks old now and are clumsily crawling around and are opening their little eyes. They’re too cute. Their soft, baby, downy fur is so soft; I love cuddling them but Brushka gets angry if we handle them too much. I can’t help it, though!

*yawn* I need to get started on dinner and I have no idea what to make. It’s gotta be something with chicken, since I haven’t made chicken. Hmm…

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