Category: Work

So. I’m going to try and make it a point to blog during lunch, like I TRIED to do those few months that I actually stuck with eating homemade food at work. I feel a little weird, since a co-worker doesn’t go to lunch till 1 and he’s probably wondering what all the keyboard tapping’s about over here when I’m supposed to be on break .

Anyhoo. I did end up doing Ab Ripper last night, and a few reps with dumb bells. It took me a while to start working out after I finished blogging because I had a kitty to feed again, had to get the girls in PJs and have them brush their teeth, Emily was upset because she wanted the kitty to be glued to her side:

And then bought Eenan some type of points with my Paypal account. It took forever to get changed (well, it felt like it) and FINALLY I could start. I didn’t know what to watch, so I put it on the Health and Fitness channel. Nothing inspires you to work out like watching a documentary following a 600 pound 24-yr-old girl on her weight-loss journey. I did those Ab Ripper crunches like I never stopped doing them!!

I went to the kitchen to organize my breakfast and lunch for the next day. I tried salvaging some strawberries (I still threw half out. Hate that!) and froze them for smoothies in the morning for Jorge and myself. The guys left and he came in and collected all the boys’ electronics so they could go to bed. I showered and threw myself in bed next to my love. I was TIRED.

I woke up to Jorge telling me he felt like he had a fever. I was so out of it last night that I didn’t feel him turning me, nor did I hear him talking to me. He had chills last night so he increased the temp; that’s the only reason I woke up once, ’cause I was sweating LOL. Poor thing. He seems to have caught Remi’s virus or something. He even went in a little late to work.

I made us our smoothies:

I’m going to freeze too-riped fruit from now on for smoothies or what have you. I despise throwing out food!

The blending woke up Eenan. He’s the lightest sleeper of all the boys. The rest of them slept through the noise. I got all my stuff ready while Eenan followed me around, like he usually does :). I said see you later to my guys and got to work.

I ate, got ready for a recording at a local gym, got complimented, which was nice ’cause I hate the dress I’m wearing (I feel like a 12-yr-old/old lady LOL) who are partnering up with us for an upcoming event. I can’t wait. I love the whole “feel” of this new concept. I hope it works out how we want it to!

My boss and I stopped by Starbucks, right after talking about calories and such, heh. But we behaved. I got a lemonade passion tea, my fave.

Jorge let me know he was going home already. Poor thing. He’s not good at being sick at all, heh.

He texted me to let me know our insurance screwed up. So now that’s going to be a call or visit I so don’t want to make. Grr.

And now it’s lunch and I was still so full from breakfast that I didn’t even eat my pear with my sandwich. But I did have sour cream and onion chips. Damn you, H-E-B, for your buy Oscar Mayer sliced turkey, get free chips coupon!!

Here’s hoping the day goes by fast. I might get out early. My love needs me!

I’m not gonna lie. I just had the best homemade salad (didn’t get a pic ’cause I was STARVING, but it was baby spinach and mixed greens, feta cheese, bits of turkey slices, tomato, avocado and balsamic vinaigrette) and a perfectly ripe pear for lunch. I’ve been keeping up with eating homemade food at work. I BEST see that darn scale start showing smaller numbers! (Yes, I know I have to exercise. Darnit.)

Ok. So getting back to last Saturday…I would have finished that night but I was pretty delirious from sleepiness already and I had to go back and read the post the next morning because I had no idea what I’d written, heh.

So. My love left to work Saturday morning. We were still kidless (Mario picked up the kids on Wednesday for a week and Jorge’s boys mother FINALLY decided to pick them up either Tuesday or Wednesday; can’t remember when, but she was supposed to go since Sunday. ANYWAY.), so I kinda-sorta slept in. I knew I had to clean, visit Gramma, grocery shop and possibly set up a fishing trip appointment for the next day–if finances allowed after paying the bills. I really wanted to go, though. We had that 50% off coupon I’d bought and a little getaway sounded fantastic!

I had my Special K cereal and the best French vanilla coffee, ever. I read for about an hour (hey, I was enjoying the silence for once. I’m usually going crazy when the house is THAT QUIET). I paid our bills online, created budget and grocery list+budget, talked our fishing trip over with my Love and set the appointment, woo!! South Padre Island, here we come (tomorrow)!

Mom and I visited Gramma. We chilled out and laughed with her a while and then we made our way to H-E-B to get some groceries. I stayed within budget and got home and made myself a sandwich, since my sugar was dropping and I was beginning to shake.

I spoke to my babies, who’d been in Houston with their dad, and now they were on their way to Dallas to visit Adan and Aide. After everything, I still felt a small pang in my heart hearing ‘Dallas’ and their names. I know all they’ve said about me, all they think of me, but somewhere deep in my heart I fondly remember my old friend. And then I tell myself to quit being stupid and make myself remember all the ugly things. I know–I really need to quit doing that and just forgive and forget. Oh well, such is life.

My love got home early :D. I learned about some drama that was being ’caused by the ex (not mine, his). She pretended she was the boys texting him from their phone asking if they could stay the weekend and she’d pick them up Monday. So she could go out. How convenient . He said no because we had plans and OF COURSE that brought forth an avalanche of drama. She only had them a week in total last month and already was trying to get rid of them. Grrr.

Anyway. The guys were coming over to watch UFC, so Jorge and I got started on tidying up. We get this knock on the door and it’s some salesguys, wanting to do a demo. They presented us with this cheap little photo frame and told us they’d be right back. I thought, Great. They’re gonna mug us. We totally just gave them permission to come in and mug us.

Jorge and I watched them from the kitchen window as they unloaded this box. I said, “What do you think it is?” He replies, “I don’t know. But whatever it is, it better be some mechanical maid that’ll clean the house.”

Sure enough. It was a vacuum cleaner demonstration. And they cleaned the entire house for us LOL. After seeing the mounds of dirt they removed from the kids’ mattresses, the air filter and sofa, we were sold. And disgusted! How are they going to show you that stuff and you NOT want to buy it right then and there?? I told the salesguy, “Oh. You’re GOOD.”

So now we have this new vacuum. And they took our old little Dirt Devil :(. I had this sentimental attachment to it because it was Jorge and I’s first vacuum together (I’m weird like that), but the piece of crap didn’t clean SHIT! Jorge had just vacuumed the living room rug and the guy went over it and removed dirt and lint balls. And then I wonder why I have allergies. (It’s Ruffles’ fault, too.)

So the guys got there and we ordered pizza. I only had one slice. And Junior got there and brought me a Smirnoff.

He is THE BEST!!

So I sat outside with them and we watched American Reunion after the fight. Rudy showed up with mini brownies (grr)…and I had 3 :(. I had a major sugar crash after that and came straight to bed. Jorge was falling asleep, too, so the guys didn’t stay very much longer.

I set the alarm for 7:30 and made us some awesome omelets and some coffee. We showered, packed our stuff and we were off. We stopped to get gas in the BMW (♥) and when Jorge got back in the car he randomly said that one of these Sundays we needed to stop at the flea market. As we’re getting back on the Expressway, I get a call from the bay fishing company that there was a problem with the boat, they were trying to fix it, they’d call us if it was fixed by the 7pm trip, we could get a free dolphin watch (to which Jorge said, “I don’t wanna see fish! I wanna catch fish!” LOL), and to scratch out the expiration date (August 31st) on our vouchers. It was pretty disappointing but we decided we’d head to the Island to eat lunch and lazy around on the beach :). Right after we went to the flea market, heh.

We walked around the aisles and pointed stuff out (the huge tables with Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret creams, WTF?). I hadn’t been to a flea market in forever and we had fun :). We were each spending $10. We bought the girls some Hello Kitty hair bows, I found a vintage Bedtime Bear, and some little necklaces for Mom. And something else, but I can’t remember, heh.

We decided against getting a fruit cup or junk food and headed to the beach. We sang out hearts out all the way to the Walmart in Port Isabel :). I love traveling with him; it’s so fun!

We realized we’d forgotten towels and sunscreen, dur, so we got some. And the umbrellas were much cheaper than renting one so we bought one. I love that we’ll get to use it again later. No money wasted!

When we got to the Island, our first stop was Big Boy’s; one of Jorge’s favorite spots to eat. He’s always posting these awesome pics on his Facebook so I wanted to try it out for myself, heh.

We graffitied on the table while we waited for our food:

And then the food got there:

And I proceeded to eat ALL 8 SHRIMP!! Not all the fries, but definitely all the shrimp! SO GOOD!

We got in the car and drove to one of the beach accesses. We both changed in the car, heh.

If I could walk around in a bathing suit and linen cover-up all day, I totally would! It’s so comfortable :). (No photo of me in said cover-up; I’ll spare you!)

We ran as fast as we could in flip-flops through soft, scorching sand. We found a good spot, far away from all the other families and couples and set up our stuff. We had difficulties with the umbrella at first, but then, we got it. Jorge drank a beer and I drank my sweet tea. And we just relaxed and enjoyed the breeze, heat and the sound of the ocean.

I’m not too fond of that picture of myself, but it was the only one we got to take together.

We laid back and Jorge took a nap (he’s a pro at falling asleep at the drop of a hat!) and I took pics until I myself took a small nap :). That’s another one off my bucket list: fall asleep on the beach :).

I woke up when I felt the sun burning my hand, heh. Aunt Nora called and we chatted for a bit and then Jorge got up. We decided to go play in the water, because–like he said–we never really get to since we’re always taking care of the kids and making sure they’re all safe. I told him I was nervous about going out there; the waves were rough. He said, “I’d never let anything happen to you” ♥. It was great waiting for the huge waves to smash into us :). I love that we laugh and have so much fun together :).

We stayed a while longer and then found changing rooms. It was a lot less messy than I thought it would be. Jorge was glad for that; he was nervous about the amount of sand he’d get in the car LOL.

We blasted the music and started our drive home. We were getting hungry, so we stopped at Dairy Queen . I had the double fudge cookie dough with caramel drizzle. Oh yes. Jorge had nachos :).

We finished up and made plans to go to the movies. Then we decided against it because by the time we got home it would be late and our Mondays are crazy. So we came home, cleaned the cars and I made dinner. Fish and asparagus :). Needless to say, I was BEAT.

Monday was a regular Monday at work. A lot of time spent planning for our next event. I had to compile some photos from this event from years past. I ate lunch at work and tried behaving the rest of the day.

Until I got home and made bacon-wrapped cream cheese stuffed jalapeños and cheesy chicken. Sally came over so we could catch up and gossip and she stayed for dinner :). Jorge got home and we all ate and gossiped some more, heh.

I helped Michelle with registration for one of her events on Tuesday. That helped the day go by quickly, thank goodness! We got to eat after the event:

And I drank about 5 glasses of peach tea. Ugh. My stomach hurts remembering how full I was! Dumbass!

Anyway. I got to keep 2 vases of these gorgeous flowers:

Fresh flowers greatly improve my mood!

I went to Old Navy after work to get Alaethia some more jeans for school since they’re on sale. Of course there wouldn’t be any boot cut in her size. At least the other 2 I got her were boot cut. These were skinny jeans, plus a cute blouse and 2 bicycle shorts for under her dresses. I’m pretty much done with clothes shopping and school supplies. Now all she needs are her shoes and backpack! Woo!

The line took forever and my feet were killing me. I was wearing my most comfortable wedges but I can only do about 8 hours with them, tops. And I still had to go grocery shopping!

I accomplished this in exactly 1 hour, went $20 over budget (grr) and when I drove to my street found out it was CLOSED. I had to turn and take another street. I can’t wait till they’re done with this darn construction!

I made mom, Jorge and myself some salads while he fed the lil’ kitty:

I kept trying to convince Jorge to jog after dinner, but he wouldn’t budge. So I got up and made us some mini frittatas so we could have breakfast made for 2-3 days. I followed this recipe, which I found on the wonderful Pinterest. I baked for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. The only difference was I didn’t add salt at all, and I used 1% milk instead of half and half.

(I need to quit using Instagram for all photos; they look blurry!)

I topped them with Monterrey jack cheese and voila! Breakfast was ready!

We went back to HEB since I forgot dish soap and my precious French vanilla creamer. I also took the chance to buy some black and silver Wet-n-Wild nail polishes since they were still BOGO free!

We got home and got out stuff ready for tomorrow, showered and hit the hay :).

I got all my stuff ready for work this morning and got to work on time. My mini frittata was GREAT!! Super scrumptious!

The morning went by super fast, then came lunch, I blogged a bit, the afternoon sorta dragged and then I got out of work and went straight to pick up my babies :). I missed them so much! Jorge arrived with his lil’ guys soon after :).

They all fell in love with the tiny screamy kitty. Potential names are Shiner, Snowball, Furball, and Felafel LOL.

While they entertained the lil dude I made these awesome enchiladas:

And I’ve tried finishing up this blog on and off for the past few hours as I tend to children and feeding kitties. Jorge is having his guy’s night tonight and they’re all sitting around the BMW in folding chairs like it’s a sporting event LOL. And now I’m going to wrap this up and do Ab Ripper and about 20 minutes of jogging on the treadmill. Hey. At least it’s something!

It has truly been a great week :).

Sunday, July 29th

Eenan would be turning 13–YES, THIRTEEN!!–on Monday, the 30th. Since Mario was picking all the kids up on Monday night to celebrate Eenan’s birthday, we decided to celebrate on Sunday instead.

We slept-in somewhat, gave the kids a light breakfast, showered, got the kiddos ready and gave Eenan his gifts:

He was happy with his stuff and immediately opened up his sketch book and pencils and got to drawing <3. He's still into drawing, still loveable, still my sensitive boy (but don't tell anyone I told you so, heh). I knew he had to become a teenager eventually, but I feel like it just crept up on me. One day I'm lugging around this chunky, adorable baby and now he's 13 and at eye level with me?? (Ok, we all knew that would happen sooner than later, considering I'm 4'11"!)

Where did the time go!? The past year and a half or so were a blur, considering he’s in his dad’s custody most of the time, so it feels like I’ve missed things; like time’s passed so quickly even moreso :(. It still kills me, but I’m glad most of that whole drama is over for their sake.

ANYWAY.

We braved Golden Corral on a Sunday, because that’s where Eenan wanted to celebrate. During our drive there, several chaotic scenarios played in my head: the long line we were going to have to wait in, losing a kid in the crowd, the insane bill we were going to have with 3 adults and 6 kids, the girls (probably Emily) having a fit in public, one of the kids eating so much they barf. BUT, I was pleasantly surprised when we arrived and went straight to the cash register, our bill was half of what I’d budgeted, all the kids were calm and went in 2’s as they picked their food, the girls were very well behaved and ate their food before asking for orange sherbet ice cream cones with gummi bears and chocolate-covered marshmallows, and only Jaylen had a slight stomach ache when we left, heh. Jorge and I even behaved ourselves better than I thought we would :P. Everyone had a great time :).

I’m sad I didn’t get a pic of the kids at the restaurant, but everyone was up and down and just concentrating on eating :P. We got home and we chilled out the rest of the day. I made dinner, we watched movies. It was a great Sunday :).

While we watched a movie, Jorge downloaded a program on his phone and surprised me with this:

It still takes me by surprise how sweet he is !

Monday, July 30th

Eenan’s actual birthday! My big boy chilled out with me while I got ready for work and we had cereal together :).

Most of my work week involved planning for a video we’re working on to promote one of our upcoming events. Other than that, I spent the week covering the front desk during Rosie’s breaks.

I wanted to start taking lunch all week, 1, because if I ever go through with trying to eat healthy, it isn’t going to happen in restaurants. And 2, we spent a SHIT TON of money the week before eating out, going out. We’re blessed and lucky to have these extra funds, but we need to stop spending so much on unhealthy food . I’d like to put that extra cash towards paying off some of our bills!

The only bad part about eating at work is that my day goes by much slower when I don’t leave work for lunch. The crappiest part is not seeing Jorge :(. But we both wanted to start eating better, so we were going to try.

I got out of work an hour early, got some things at H-E-B and then got home to make sure my babies were ready. Mario picked them up and as soon as they left I started making dinner for Jorge, Mom, Jorge’s boys and myself. Then I started on a cake for Eenan. It was going to be a regular round cake, but then I thought I’d try making a Minecraft Creeper cake for him. I risked it being an epic fail since I didn’t have fondant to make it nice, or a square pan to make a cube, but I ended up cutting up a rectangular sheet cake into 4 and dying the batter green :). End result:

The kids got home as I was decorating it. It’s messy and I thought it was pretty crappy, but the boys were actually impressed, heh. They each started making requests for their next birthdays. They always know how to make me feel good .

Jorge got home and we sang Happy Birthday to Eenan :).

My darn flash kept taking too long, so poor Alaethia was struggling to keep her eyes open, can you tell? LOL

He WANTED us to push his face in the cake. Then his face had a black hue the rest of the night LOL.

We told the boys to shut off the video games and watched “Wrath of the Titans”. Of course the girls and I passed out, but the boys enjoyed it :). I love my family ♥!

Tuesday, July 31st

More video planning at work. More covering reception. I believe this was the day I received yet another copy of the final decree of divorce (yep, STILL haven’t signed the Final, despite having our “final hearing” since April 18th!) and I sent back some corrections.

I ate lunch at work and started feeling REALLY ill. Same thing had happened the day before, but this time my eye was twitching, I was nauseous and I had heart palpitations every few minutes. I had been getting a feeling like my heart was skipping a beat for the past few nights, but this time they wouldn’t stop. Michelle said I probably had anxiety. I looked up my symptoms and 80% of what I read said I had anxiety. I didn’t know what I’d have anxiety about. I mean, I worry about bills and stretching our paychecks much more than any normal person should, but it’s the norm for me. Other than that, the only thing I felt might be stressing me out was the fact that we were going to need to get another vehicle soon, since Javi was picking up the F-150 after it being in our possession for a year and a half. Jorge had already had several appointments that his boss had set up with different dealerships, but he wasn’t happy with any of them.

I made it till 4:40pm; almost till 5. I got home, greeted all the kiddos, changed and made fideo with chicken and squash for dinner. During prepping ingredients for dinner Alaethia asked for a piece of watermelon, 2 jumbo marshmallows and a small glass of milk. When the food was almost done, she came up to me and told me, with a squeaky, small voice, that she’d thrown up. I cleaned her up and put her in the bath, all the while lecturing about how I told you, one of these days you were going to eat so much you’d barf!

Still, it didn’t stop her from sitting at the table with all the other kids and eating her entire bowl of fideo, heh. I’m glad she was ok :).

Jorge got home and we ate, and then we sat to watch Gymnastics on the Olympics. He went outside to start skimming the pool and I helped. As we cleaned we talked about the car dealerships and what our options were. We discussed current finances and what was going to be necessary to make a new car possible. And then my eye started twitching and I started getting heart palpitations! I told Jorge, “You see! It’s the car thing stressing me out!” LOL

We swam around with the kids for about an hour. I got the girls inside for a bath in the tub, read them a story and tucked them into bed. Alaethia’s doing great and falling asleep in her room and staying put till the morning. Emily: not so much, heh. She still sneaks off to Mom’s room every-so-often. We’ll get there one of these days :).

Wednesday, August 1st

I managed to eat lunch at work for 2 days in a row…and then Michelle said she felt like having Olive Garden’s soup and salad lunch. That might be healthy…if I could refrain from eating 5 of the delicious bread sticks .

On the way there, Jorge calls and lets me know he’s been having a meeting via cell phone with a guy from a dealership. I talked to him and gave him some info, too, and Michelle and I enjoyed our lunch. I managed to only have 1 1/2 bread sticks *beams*.

My love texted me and let me know we were approved for the car. Now we just needed to get them to give us the monthly payment we wanted. Which we got :). We’d be going in the next morning!

I got out of work and hurried home to make sure my kiddos were ready. I smooched them and helped them get their stuff together and Mario got here for them. I changed and went to Jessica’s to pick up a kitten. Little did I know he was a very tiny kitten and wouldn’t stop meowing and refused to drink from a bowl :(.

I made us some seafood soup when I got back home. Jorge loved it. I have to admit, I wasn’t too crazy about the octopus LOL.

We sat on the sofa and watched the newest Kevin Hart comedy. It was funny, but I enjoyed the one that came before this one a lot more.

Thursday, August 2nd

I had no idea how busy my day would be. As soon as I got to work I started typing out the scripts for the video interviews we’d be shooting that afternoon. Jorge calls me at almost 10am to drive over to the dealership. Jorge’s boss and the guys there really outdid themselves; they helped us out a lot :). The man who helped us last, Augie, was such a sweet man. He kept talking about his wife and was giving us marriage advice, aww. We were done in under 2 hours and got to drive our new BMW to lunch, heh :).

I know. A BMW. I never in a million years thought I’d OWN one of those, ever!

The afternoon went by fast after we shot our videos at work. I went to Old Navy after work to get Alaethia some jeans since they were on sale. I found myself a cute red top for the pie party at the boss’ house that night. And then I waited in line for close to eternity.

I waited for Jorge to get out of work, and then for my black cardigan to dry in the dryer. We finally made it to the boss’ house at 9pm (in our new car, woo!), had a slice of blueberry cheesecake and a slice peanut butter pie. I’m proud of myself for only having 2 slices; I’m pretty sure I had about 5 last year, heh.

We were polite and sat for a while but left since we didn’t know any of the guests. All my co-workers had already gone home. I found out some of them were talking about me earlier that day, so I can’t say I was sad that some of them weren’t there, grr.

Jorge and I got in the car and decided to go to Cigar Bar for a few drinks since it was early. We laughed and watched Olympics and took pics. We even ran into Karina at Delorean’s next door :).

It was a great night :).

Friday, August 3rd

Friday felt like such a long day for me, probably because I stayed in for lunch. One of the highlights of my day was when Nancy, my first boss at my current workplace, told me she knew it was me in the bathroom stall next to her when she looked down and saw turquoise toe nails and tall fushia wedges, heh. As we walked down the hallway she says, “You are JUST DARLING. Hey…do you have a boyfriend?” When I blushed and answered yes she said, “Shoot. Of course you do!” And began to tell me how she met this rich, handsome young man and wanted to find him a girlfriend and I was the first girl to pop in her mind. I guess that’s a pretty nice compliment, heh!

I’d bought one of those Deal of the Day coupons so Jorge and I had a dinner date at La Jaiba and I couldn’t wait :). I love our dates :).

I tried calming the tiny kitty down when I got home. He’s so screamy and loud :(. And he scratches and has razor sharp teeth. I can tell I’m getting old, because when I was younger I had no qualms about staying up all night with kittens and puppies and keeping them quiet and entertained. Now, I have no patience!!

*sigh*

My love got home and we got fancy for our date :). There was an insane amount of food, and it was all so good :).

We joked and laughed and he reached across and rubbed my hand and said, “We need to continue to do this. Spend time with the kids, have friends over, but once every week or two we should have a date where it’s just US.” I agreed :).

We wanted to watch a movie, so we stopped by a Red Box. We decided, after flipping through selections, that we’d just rent “American Reunion” from DirecTV. I’m so glad we did; it was hilarious :).

I was going to finish writing about Saturday, but I’ll finish with that later. I’m sleepy. I’m going to go and enjoy a full night’s sleep without heart palpitations :).