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We were up so late the night before that Mario didn’t go in to work. And neither did Jorge LOL. He’d already hinted to me when we were over at their house last night that he wouldn’t be going in, but I didn’t tell Mario till the morning, after he’d already called in. Jorge was kind of upset, but there really wasn’t any work.

We had lunch and went to Home Depot to pick up some pipes and other material so Mario could finally—after 6 years—install the exhaust in the kitchen. The funniest thing was we ran into Jorge and Jorgie. Mario was ahead of me and I was pushing Alaethia in the cart. I see Jorge spot Mario and he starts quickly chasing him with his basket. I started laughing loudly so Mario turned around and saw Jorge. I asked him why Jorgie was with him and he said they were all taking a family day, aww.

We left Home Depot right on time to pick up the boys from school. Mario started working on the exhaust as soon as we got here. I finally have a working exhaust!

After dinner I turned on my computer to look for something and for some reason I scanned my computer. I left the scanner running before we went to Jorge and Maggie’s again.

We got home and I was up at 2am trying to remove the stupid Trojan (Trojan.Brisv.A!inf to be exact) from my laptop. Mario and Alaethia were already asleep. Boo. And what pisses me off is that I didn’t even get this on my own. It happened either when Sammy asked me to download and put songs on his MP3 player, or when Mario had borrowed my computer to download some stupid Scottish song. Grr. This is the last straw; no more doing favors for anyone on any of my computers, like uploading music to everyone’s iPods or MP3 players. Our desktop is in the boys’ room and all the kids go over there to borrow it. Well, not anymore. I’m setting a password up on it and no one–not even my own children—will use it. All I need is for them to become as screwed up as Mario’s laptop. But that’s a whole other story.

I can’t believe I haven’t written since the 12th! It’s been a crazy few weeks. Trying to get into a new routine, spending time with the kids and still holding up the fort (although the fort’s a little messier than usual these days!) barely allows me time to check my e-mail, much less update my site.

I’ve gotten the hang of all my tasks at work, even when we have a flood of students stopping by the library. I imagined myself running away screaming if it got overwhelmingly crowded (which it does), but I’ve dealt surprisingly well. My boss is great, the parent volunteers are great and just about everyone I’ve met there is great. I’m still not too thrilled about waking up at 5:50am (and tossing and turning about an hour before that because I’m paranoid the alarm won’t go off), but I like getting out early and spending time with my kiddos. I see Mario even less now, unfortunately, but we’re trying to work on that =\.

It’s time for me to iron and shower, so I’ll go ahead and make this quick. Alaethia turned 8 months old today…aww, my little baby’s growing up so quickly! She’s been teething since Saturday, which was the day of Yazmin’s Quinceañera, and Mom recently taught her how to dance (i.e. bopping up and down) and clap! It’s the cutest thing! She brightens up the room with her gummy smile and she’s thrilled to see me when I come home from work. She’s got separation anxiety like crazy, but it makes me a bit happy that she does because I was certain she’d forget me now that I’m working LOL. She stands and crawls like a pro and takes wide, ski-like steps with our help. She’s a doll :). She already got sick with a cold this past week (woke up every 2 hours the first night!), but it went away pretty quickly.

The boys are doing great at school. Their teachers speak the world of them. I’m so proud :). They performed so well at the Quince–I need to add all this past month’s pictures to Flickr. The sad thing that happened that night was that Jaylen was running around and tripped on his shoelace and busted his lip open. I was so afraid he’d broken all his teeth, but he’s alright, thank God. I had fun, even though Mario and I only danced to one son (I’ll Be – Edwin McCain) which was prompted by Yazmin. Eenan asked me to dance though, and then he requested the Chicken Dance and took me and Angela with him LOL. It was a nice night.

Okay, I probably missed a whole bunch of stuff, but I’ve gotta go. Hope everyone’s well and thank all 20 of you who’ve stuck by me even though I’m not updating much. Okay, at all. One day I’ll get all this worked out and I’ll have room for updating again! I’ve got my insurance meeting tomorrow. Wish me luck with that. I feel like I’m working for insurance alone–it’s so darn expensive!

Well that didn’t last long. The giddy happiness I felt on Friday is no more. I don’t usually write about our hardships on my blog, but I can’t get this out of my head. I have to vent.

The situation at Mario’s work turned into yet another drama and in the midst of it all Mario had to hand over $150. Out of his own pocket. $150 that we needed for bills. His paycheck was going to be short as it is because of his vacation pay (which, after 2 years of him working there, they still haven’t increased), so we were going to be cutting it close as it is. But I would have budgeted. Now I have no idea how we’re going to make it till the next paycheck. I’m going to have to withdraw money from my Target Visa, which I didn’t want to have to do at all. Which will then raise the finance charges, which will ultimately cause us to have to pay much more a month. John said he’d lend us the money, but I feel totally, well — for lack of a better word — weird borrowing money from my little brother. And then what if we can’t pay him back? No, no. I’d rather just take the risk with my Visa.

How the heck did we get to this? Everything was peachy and now I’m panicking, worrying about what’s going to happen next. I’ve been looking for jobs left and right even before this happened, but everything I want is either taken or I’ve been overlooked. I’m not used to that. I’m used to wanting something, going for it, and having it in the palm of my hands. I don’t want to have to call the Career Services department at my old school because then they’ll be calling me EVERY DAY to go in for interviews to jobs that are either too far away or just suck. Blah.

And on top of it all Alaethia still goes to sleep at 2am. If she falls asleep before then and I think, Awesome, I’m putting her in her crib and going to sleep! she’ll wake up as soon as her head grazes the softness of her mattress. I’m totally thinking of taking up Maggie’s offer of working with her. The plus is that it’s close by. I’ll be going in in the afternoon, but the shitty thing is that I won’t be getting out till 9pm. There goes all my time with the kids :(. The pay isn’t anything to celebrate about, either.

And I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I’m GOING to watch Harry Potter next week.

Right now would be the perfect time to fall into some money, like an inheritance left to me by some long-lost relative. Or winning the lottery. Not state lottery; I’d be happy with $500 off a scratch-off. Or finding a $100 bill on the ground somewhere. I wouldn’t feel guilty about taking it because there wouldn’t be anyone around…

Okay, enough of the day dreaming. I just have to keep thinking positive! That’s it. We’ll make it. We’ll figure it out. We always have. And that reminds me of the song that Mario had me listen to a few days ago. I’ve been absolutely in love with “Hey There, Delilah” by The Plain White T’s. He said he thought of me when he heard it, aww :). It’s funny how it’s sort of fitting right now.

(P.S. I added the radio.blog on the right as you’ve probably noticed. After messing around with it for a while I ended up with those two awful lines of numbers up at the top. I can’t be bothered to fix it right now, as unsightly as it is. And I had to resize it to fit in the column so it’s sort of hard to see the text, but enjoy anyway.)