Category: Work

After successfully eating a Ramen noodle cup yesterday around 4pm (well, about half) and feeling less nauseous than I had all day I cleaned up, did some laundry and then started on dinner when Jorge got home. I made cubed chicken in a tomato gravy and Mexican rice. The boys and Jorge positively loved it.

I had a spoonful of each…and felt just fine, thank God! I wanted something other than oatmeal or yogurt or a Special K bar for breakfast the next morning, and while I’d been looking for my ingredients for dinner I came across a can of condensed milk that was about to expire, so I made some atole de arroz, with extra cinnamon. This made Jorge not even try it, since he’s majorly against cinnamon. The boys on the other hand, loved that, too!

I had a couple spoonfuls and felt ok afterwards. The boys wanted to get in the pool and asked, “Are you getting in with us today, Yajaira?” I thought about it and said, “Yeah, I’ll go in today.” They cheered a unanimous Yay! and we all changed and got in.

Jorge and the boys played and I hung out near the steps, enjoying the warm water and the breeze on my face. The gentle “waves” caused by the playing boys were causing me to get nice and sleepy. I imagine that’s how a baby probably feels while in utero :).

We got out, showered and headed to bed. I read to make myself sleepy. I only woke up once, which is great!

We got ready for work, I gathered my stuff (breakfast, sweater, bag) and Jorge and I drove to work together :). I ate my atole and coffee (I had to) and felt GREAT! Thank you, Lord!!

Work went by fast. Michelle and I headed to lunch to Siempre Natural, where we met Briana and Jorge and his co-workers. I had a fideo and some lemonade, hoping it would go easy on my stomach. It did; I felt great all day.

We chit-chatted, went back to work and the afternoon went by fast, especially when our intern, Kristina, and I started talking about friends/acquaintances we know mutually. Seriously, 2 hours have never gone by more quickly!

5 o’clock rolled around and I ate my PB&J sandwich and drank my water as I headed to pick up my babies for the week. I was thrilled to see them. Alaethia had me get down and visit with their (real life) goat, who was terrified of me. Mario’s dad said hello, which is something that hasn’t happened in almost 2 years!

The kids and I went to HEB, then Dollar Tree for some pool accessories. Then we came home, the kids admired the pool, I got Jorge’s clothes together and we went to his work so he could change.

I had an awesome kids-eat-free coupon from Chili’s, so we got a pretty awesome deal! I love those!

The manager was nice, but kept bashing the Nolana Chili’s, which we found weird. Regardless, our waiter was great. He was attentive, fast and super nice.

Jorge wanted a drink, but then he said no so I ordered it anyway. It was so pretty and actually tasted like a Margarita!

We finished our food, were pleased with the check (heh) and we came home. The kiddos got ready as quickly as possible since they wanted to get in the pool. We had a little line of children waiting while Jorge skimmed the pool. Stupid pool cover keeps flying off and into the pool so it keeps getting dirty .

We got all the pool stuff out there (water guns, floaties, toys) and had a great time swimming and playing :). Alaethia was really nervous, and was the first to get out and chilled out with Mom on the porch. Emily was having a blast and paddled around in her donut floatie, giggling away. The boys…were being boys LOL. They were “shooting” each other and chasing and just having fun. It was great :).

They got ready for bed, brushed teeth and we put them to bed. Now I’m in my robe, typing this up and feeling like I have a sore throat and ear infections. WTF?? I hate to think this is what’s happening, but I think I’m getting sick so much all of a sudden because I stopped taking my acne antibiotics. I’d been on them since March 2011 because my acne had become quite awful. I hadn’t been sick AT ALL since March 2011. I’d been trying to wean myself off of them the past few weeks, but not only has my acne returned (though not as bad as before) and I’ve had a stomach bug and now feel like I’m getting a cold. I refuse to get sick! So needless to say, I started the pills again tonight *sigh*.

Jorge is passing out without me so I’m going to join him. Now I’m getting chills. 6 pound 8 ounce baby Jesus, help me!!!

I tossed and turned all night due to stomach pains. I woke up around 2am because I passed out with my contacts on and my eyes felt simultaneously gooey and dry. So I took them out, washed my face and brushed my teeth. Then I felt “awake” again so it took me a while to fall asleep. Then I tossed around some more, even waking up at 4am to check my alarm because I felt like I overslept. When the alarm went off at 7am I asked Jorge to please snooze; I had a massive headache and wanted to try and sleep it off for a few minutes (didn’t happen). So when 7:30 came around and I still felt like shizz I texted my boss and emailed Rosie and Beto, letting them know I wouldn’t be in. My boss already knew I wasn’t feeling good yesterday, so he understood. I still feel…irresponsible I guess you can say, since I just returned from vacation and I’m absent so soon. Thank goodness I got all my tasks done yesterday.

I sent am email that needed to be sent for work and then I tried sleeping more. Didn’t happen. I got up to freshen up and when I laid back down my stomach churned again, only it was now a mixture of cramps and hunger. Ruffles “knocked” on the door so I could let him in to use his litter box, so I obliged and the smell of coffee wafted into my bedroom from the hallway. Mom doesn’t drink coffee, but when she gets up early enough she’ll make me some so I can take with me to work. I couldn’t let it go to waste! I may have just completely ruined the recovery process because I totally mixed some French Vanilla creamer into the coffee. And I made some toast. I was planning on following the B.R.A.T. diet today (bananas, rice, apples and toast–all of which I have) because it seems more appealing than the Gatorade, chicken broth and crackers diet . But I may have ruined that, too, since I drowned my perfectly good toast with butter. *sigh* I’m such a fatty.

My stomach thinks so, too. It’s already churning :(. On the bright side, I’ve lost 2 lbs. in one day!

[edit 12:34pm]

So I thought I was feeling better and had already texted Jorge that I was bored (heh) and I was probably going to work half a day after all. As soon as I pressed ‘send’, my stomach rebutted with an angry gurgle . And then I realized Jorge took the Routan to work this morning, so I had no choice but to stay home anyway.

I’ve been reading ReFashionista.net since I’ve been thrown here in bed all morning and I must say, I’m impressed with her sewing skills! I wish I was half as good as she is with refashioning stuff. Makes me want to go into an old bag of cast-off clothes that are living in the garage that STILL haven’t made it to Goodwill after my garage sale in December . I’m pretty nifty with pillow cases, curtains, even baby blankets, but I’m not all that good with clothes *sigh*. (This reminds me that I have to buy some ribbon that matches my summer dress to replace the straps. I’m pretty good at replacing straps, heh.)

I’m going to heat up a bowl of (icky, from-the-carton) chicken noodle soup. Or perhaps eat a banana. I could really go for some coffee though :(.

[edit: 2:09pm]

Ate the banana, didn’t go well. I shall now stop lying to myself and come to terms with the fact that I am most definitely ill and stick to unsalted crackers. Dammit.

And here’s what I shall spend the rest of the day doing, since I’ve gotten quite tired of my bed:

Sunday, June 24th

Oh, Sunday. I regret my nutritional (or lack thereof) choices of that Sunday. I think I’m still paying for them a week later!

Jorge and I were child-less, as they were with their other parents that weekend. We slept in (sort of), got out of bed, showered, got ready and when discussing what we wanted for breakfast we both simultaneously decided we wanted Menudo. We rushed to our favorite Mexican restaurant, Espi & T’s. The service was a bit slow, but the food, as always, was delicious!

We went to Kohl’s afterwards so my love could get some new running shoes. He said I should get some, too, since I’ve had the same black, white and hot pink Adidas since 2006 ! I make my shizz LAST, heh.

As always I couldn’t find any shoes in my size, 5, so I checked the kids section. I found one of the 2 shoes I liked in kid-size! For almost half off the adult-version, which is always a plus :D. I was just worried that maybe the support wouldn’t be the same, but at least they were cute :).

I found some socks (kids’ size, ’cause they didn’t have them in “my” size, of course) and some for Aly and we put them on hold since I forgot my darn coupon. Yes, we went back home to get the 30% off coupon, what??

So we went back to get our stuff (and since everything was on sale already we saved A TON). We went next door to Old Navy to get Jorge some shirts and a few things for Aly’s school wardrobe. We found a few adorable things, AND I had a coupon, hehe. She just needs her jeans and a few more tops :).

We were on our way home, and we almost made it home without shoving junk in our face (that’s what she said!) but we stopped at this new-ish snack place and bought all of this:

And there were no kids with us! We’re just terrible. I had almost the entire bag of Flamin’ Hots with cheese and a few bites of Jorge’s corn in a cup and a few pieces of the fruit cup. I was very fond of the aqua de sandia, or watermelon water. I’d like to believe it was completely natural and only sweetened with watermelon, but it was too good .

We got home and tried napping. Well, I tried, but couldn’t so I finished up last week’s blog, heh. Javi and Eric got there to use the internet and we started watching a show, Jericho, but I remembered that the girls from RGV Cupcake Factory were going to be on Cupcake Wars so I went to watch in the bedroom. They won!! I bought Alaethia and Emily a cupcake each on Alaethia’s birthday that day, before they were famous, hehe :).

The guys left and the rest of the evening was spent cleaning and doing laundry for the week. Typical Sunday evening.

Monday, June 25th
My boss was out for the day, our boss boss was out for the day too, so needless to say, it was a pretty slow day at work. I took care of what needed to be done and then I pinned a few things and found Miss Laughlin’s blog. It’s a truly inspirational blog of a young woman who has lost weight after both her children, the right way. She also works full-time and has a husband and a home and it made me think, “Well, if she can do it, why can’t I?!” I read it during lunch, since I stayed in that day, and every chance I got after that, heh. Her before and after pics are amazing and she even has meal ideas. I have to admit, that’s one of my problems. I feel like I need to re-learn cooking, because a lot of the meals I learned are NOT healthy :(.

I got home and made some jalapeño tuna. And then I gathered the beer brats and mixed them into some HEB Borracho Shiner beans, plus some extra jalapeño’s, cilantro, garlic and pepper. Later that night, I realized I should have probably left the beer brats out. Those things are NOT calorie friendly and made my stomach hurt :(.

We waited a bit before putting on our new shoes and hitting the pavement at McAuliffe Park. We’d been running on the dirt road that’s under construction, but we didn’t want to run there with our new shoes so to the park we went. As soon as we started, we ran into Billy and Jorge’s other friend, Adrian. We stood talking for about 30 minutes, so we made our total jog only 3 miles (30 minutes). My legs were SORE, and I attributed it to the new shoes. When we were leaving we ran into Remi and chatted for a few minutes. We did Ab Ripper, showered and then Jorge–little devil on my shoulder!–brought us some of our Red Mango mango yogurt. Only a small cup, and it is pretty healthy I guess.

I vowed to do better that week. My legs were EXTREMELY sore. I just hoped that I’d be better the next day. I didn’t want to hinder our process!

Tuesday, June 26th

As I’m brushing my teeth in the bathroom the next morning Jorge says, “Morning sexy, beautiful woman!” from the bedroom.

I spit out my toothpaste and reply, “Good morning baby!”

I hear him sleepily mumble something, so I turn off the water and say, “What did you say?”

He repeats, “I love hearing your voice in the morning. It reminds me that i wasn’t dreaming.” :*)

He is the sweetest thing! It still takes me by surprise how romantic and sweet he is sometimes ♥!

My day at work was much like the day before, only today my knees were sore and in pain :(. I couldn’t even go up and down stairs, but I did anyway. AND, Jorge told me he requested his week vacation that day, and got approved! Now I just needed to ask for mine. Neither boss was in, and it was already Wednesday the next day, so I was a bit nervous about requesting so last-minute :(. Still, a vacation sounded divine!!

For lunch, I ate a small sandwich (two Orrowheat rounds with a turkey slice and cheese). I made myself some homemade Tazo passion tea in the kitchen.

As I waited for it to steep and cool, Jorge lets me know he’s at Siempre Natural having lunch, which is my favorite salad place. I asked him to bring me a fideo, heh. He did, AND brought me a lemonade!

I put half of my passion tea in the lemonade and OMG, tasted exactly like Starbucks’ version and it was SO GOOD!

I ate pretty well that whole day. When Jorge and I went for our jog that night my knees were KILLING ME. We still went to the park and jogged, but I felt awful because he had to keep waiting for me because I had to keep stopping :(. I just wanted to be better!

We got home and Jorge iced down my knees. I passed out in our huge cuddle chair. He woke me up to shower and I was so glad my knees felt a bit better. No matter what, I WAS going to jog on Wednesday!! And I was totally going to request my week vacation!