Category: Yay!

Things have really turned around, and not just for me, for just about everyone I know.

I kept meaning to update my previous entry but never got the chance to do so. I didn’t mention that Noelia and Andy are engaged (as of October 30th) and Yadira found out she’s having a baby boy!!

I’m so happy for Noelia and Andy. When Noelia came to tell us, Mario hugged her and when he pulled away I noticed he was teary eyed. I couldn’t help but get teary eyed after seeing him get like that. I hope they’ll be so happy together. Noelia couldn’t have found a better future hubby .

Yadira and the girls are thrilled over this little guy. I hope everything goes smoothly with this pregnancy for Yadira. She really wants a little boy!

As for my presentation–I got a HUNDRED on it!! It was the only, ONLY presentation I got a hundred on. I was so happy when Mrs. C-R handed me my little pile of critique sheets and saw a hundred and a blue smiley face. She said I had the whole class paying attention. I didn’t get a single rude or “how boring” comment . My average for the whole class is a 98…so far that’s the grade I’ve gotten for all my classes!

Ricci has met the man of her dreams. Two weeks ago she was upset and just had this melancholy vibe about her, and this week she’s been nothing but smiles. I’m so glad things are going right for her.

Mayra and her hubby got another car, so that’s a huge weight off her shoulders. She can come and go as she pleases and she was just beaming on Friday.

As for Lucy, she seemed a little upset on Friday, but I hope something really wonderful happens for her. She deserves it.

We all went to eat on Friday at Taco Bell again and just had a great time eating and laughing. Everywhere we go we’re usually The Loud Group of Girls. You can’t keep us quiet when we’re together. It’s so nice to text message Mario and tell him, “Going out 2 eat with the girls!” I’ve never had “girls” before. Well, not since high school anyway. We were all talking about how we have to find jobs at the same place, so we don’t lose touch .

Mom quit her job on Friday and all day yesterday was spent moving her stuff out of storage and into the apartment. She won’t get electricity till at least Wednesday and she still needs some furniture. Slowly but surely, we’re getting everything done. We’ll probably go to Aunt Nora’s again tonight to pick up the rest of Mom’s stuff. It’s so rude. They were already remodeling! Mom’s closet had been completely ripped apart. Grr.

I’m so excited that she’s moving back (and that we’ll finally get our living room back since John will be moving back in with Mom–no offense, Jinis). (Ha. He just said he’s like Ronald McDonald on those benches. He’s always sitting on the couch, but we can sit around him, he said. Then he said, “You don’t just tell Ronald McDonald to go away.” And I said, “But…you’re not Ronald McDonald.”) Mom was always so upset because Aunt Nora was getting after her for something. Granted, she’ll have to put up with my bad moods sometimes, but I surely won’t smash her spirit.

My back is killing me. I hope there won’t be anymore heavy lifing we’ll have to do. Every inch of me is sore. Doesn’t help that Ricci and I were reliving our teenage years and doing cartwheels (“just to see if we could do them”) when she and Goyo (her boyfriend) came over on Friday night. We watched videos online and were up till 12:30 just talking. Goyo remembers Mario from high school and Mario remembers Ricci’s brother, Frankie. Small world!

Mario didn’t get home from work till 6am. Yes, 6 AM!! I went to sleep really early since I was aching all over and was beginning to get a sore throat (probably from all the dust I inhaled). I woke up at 2:30am and noticed Mario still wasn’t home. I called him and he told me they were still working on a car for a guy who insisted that they work on it. Woke up at 5am and he still wasn’t here so I called again. He said they were on their way back from dropping off the car and the guy tipped them $50 each. So that’s cool. When he got home and we were talking before we went to sleep, he was saying the guys were teasing him because I was the only wife who was calling and wasn’t accusing him of cheating or being at a strip club LOL. He said Jannette kept calling Albert (when they got back together, I have no idea) and she even asked to talk to Mario to prove that Albert was working . When we got really quiet and were about to fall asleep I yell, “Aha! I know what you were doing! You were whoring yourself on 10th street, weren’t you?! THAT’S how you got $50!” And without missing a beat he snaps his fingers and says, “Dammit! How did you know?!”

(John just added that Mario should have said, “Now I have to return this pretty dress.”)

I finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yesterday. I already knew what was gonig to happen at the end (Sonia accidently let it out), but actually reading it made me get teary eyed. I wonder what’s going to happen next. Now that I finished the book, what am I going to read when I get bored or wait for Eenan to get out of school??

I should get ready. I think we’re going to the movies to watch Chicken Little. And I’ve got to clean. Blah.

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I should have known my concerns over who’d watch Jaylen in certain situations would come back to haunt me. Tomorrow, for example, John needs to go into Eenan’s school at 8am to observe 3 classes for his substitute teacher course. He (nor I) hadn’t thought of who’d watch Jaylen when John needed to get stuff like this done. Mario ended up having to trade his day off (Friday) with another guy to get tomorrow off.

I don’t want to discourage John, or stop him from doing something good for himself but I still wish he’d told me he was going to want to go to school when I was first making arrangements back in July. I could have just put Jaylen into Head Start, whether I liked it or not (I still don’t trust those people to watch my kid). Now it’s too late and we probably don’t even qualify (our income’s “too high”, ha!).

I had my hopes set on Mary’s empty apartment staying, well, empty, and mom moving in there if they ever accepted us into the CCMS program (and then we could try and get her into housing and John wouldn’t have to sleep on our uncomfortable futon–he could move back in with Mom). Well, I called CCMS today and the lady told me something about a manual list, so she’d get back to me. I gave her my cell number and she called while I was picking Eenan up. She said she had to put me into the system since I was on a written waiting list. I thought, ‘What? Didn’t they tell me 2 months ago I was added to the system?’ I asked her when I should call back and she said in another month. WTF? I’m going to be done with school by the time they decide to help me!

By the time I do get Mom into that program (again, IF we qualify–they asked if we received food stamps and TANF and we don’t, blah) Mary’s apartment will probably already be rented out to someone else.

Another thing that makes my stomach flip everytime I think about it is next year. What am I going to do when I start working after I graduate? I DO plan to work as soon as I graduate, since they help with job placement and all. What if Jaylen doesn’t qualify to get into Pre-K? If he doesn’t qualify for Pre-K, then he definitely won’t qualify for Head Start. Who will watch him? And if he does go to Pre-K, it’s only half a day, who will stay with him or pick him up? I try not to think of these things because I worry myself into a headache, but it’s inevitable. I have to think of it sometime and it’s just depressing. I hate to think I won’t be able to continue with my career because it seems that nobody (meaning the government or state programs) want to help us out! There’s no one in my family who can help us because everyone works or goes to school. All we need is just a little help to get us both on our feet.

Dreams of my little home just keep slipping further and further out of my grasp . That’s what I get for thinking ahead and making plans.

I hate to sound all depressing and pessimistic, but it gets really, really hard sometimes.

One of the only good things to happen today was that we got our Form Exams back and I got a hundred on it. Mrs. C-R usually leaves a nice note on our papers (like “Great job! Awesome job!”) and today she left:

Yajaira,
Awesome work! Keep it up! You have a lot of potential :)!

I felt giddy and I could feel my face beaming the rest of the day.

Oh, and Mario and I realized people still find us attractive, other than ourselves LOL. A guy at school makes it a point to catch my attention at least once a day (I really don’t think he knows I’m married, happily at that) and Mario was told that a girl that used to work with him was apparently “totally crazy about him”. When he slipped into bed beside me last night and laid on my shoulder to cuddle before we fell asleep, we discussed that I need to keep him locked in the bathroom, to keep women away from him. He didn’t think it was such a good idea .

I guess that’s it. I should get started on dinner, it’s getting late.

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Got a new Halloween-ish skin up, and in less than an hour in total! It’s based on a little doodle I drew when I was bored a few days ago…his name is Fang . I’m having trouble with my little icons on the side next to the links, but I’ll get to that tomorrow. It’s passed my bedtime and I’ll surely regret this tomorrow. I’m going to sleep stinky…I’m too tired to even shower. I’ll have to wake up at 6 to shower though, bleh. Have to finish up that project tomorrow at school (we’re creating an online application form from scratch, and it’s got to work correctly) and I’ve got to be calm and rested. Will update more later; tomorrow I hope. Goodnite!

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