Keeping my promise

I'm keeping my promise! I'm actually filling out applications for work at home jobs but so far, one of them says I have to pay them (NOT!) and the second one only has full time jobs. These are all credited agencies so I'm not worried about being taken for a ride, I'm way too tight to part with my money.

I didn't get to work out today which was horrible, but I did do a lot around the house today that was needed. Today was a trying day but all you can do is try to make it better.

One good thing was that I was approached by a woman from MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) to have a Tupperware booth in March, which will be awesome! I plan on doing a raffle there for some Tupperware and maybe charging $5 per ticket which won't be too bad to get $50.00 of Tupperware.

My baby boy did awesome today. He woke up this morning saying "Good morning mama!! I had a good sleep and stayed in my bed!". Bless him! I guess not having a nap and putting him to bed at 7:30 rather than 8:30 worked. Although today I did have to give him some Benedryl because of allergies tonight. Poor thing was sniffling and sneezing because of this front we've got blowing in.

He did great in school too, not a tear shed and came out singing the cutest song! It's something like Fly Fly Tera-dactyl or something like that. He sang it all day and I even got him on camera! He ate like a champ too. I made spaghetti but it wasn't just meat and spaghetti sauce, it was ground beef with ground mushrooms, bell peppers, garlic, onions and spinach so it was a veggie spaghetti sort of. It was a helluva lot healthier than our dinner last night.

Sometimes...

Sometimes 3 vodkas and an iPod really do help you. At least for right now, my world is okay. I know I'll have to wake tomorrow and take on my challenges but for right now, we're okay.

Currently I'm listening to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and it seems a fitting song for me right now.

Today was bad.

As the title of my post says...it was bad. I had to deal with that fucking cat of ours who pee's on the landing EVERY chance that asshole gets. My husband never believes me when it comes to that bastard with fur. According to my husband, he does no wrong. Even when that little asshole is caught redpawed, he STILL doesn't believe it. Well today, I'd had enough. I put down some baking soda down on the carpet to soak up the smell and what happens? The first thing that hell on paws does is piss on it and it gets all nasty, yellow and clumpy.

So what do I do? Get the brand new Dyson and vacuum that up which was super stupid of me. It was still kind of wet and baking soda went everywhere in there. So, I had to spend the next hour and a half cleaning my brand new vacuum cleaner and praying it works properly. FYI, it did and I'm a little bit wiser. I did steam clean the landing big time so I'm hoping that the smell will eventually leave with treatment. One thing's for sure, that furry bastard is out of here!!

Next...went to Sams and spent $150 on groceries. I'm praying that will last most of the month, of course that's not including bread, milk and eggs, but canned foods and snacks.

My poor baby boy didn't get a nap in today and tried falling a sleep a couple of times but couldn't stay asleep and I was trying to get him to stay awake, that way tonight, we don't have excuse after excuse to stay up and so far so good. We put him to bed around 7:45ish and it is now 8:42pm and haven't heard a peep.

So what am I doing now? I'll tell you what I'm NOT doing that I NEED to be doing...looking for a J.O.B!!! I have bitched about it long enough and this time, I'm serious, I am not quitting until I find a job. It sucks being poor!! As soon as I finish this blog, my ass is getting on here looking for a job although, I do kind of think it would be best to actually apply tomorrow because I'll have a quiet house. Husband will be at work, son will be at school and MIL will be here watching TV and I'd hate to apply for a job being tired and my resume looking like crap. You know, I'm going to wait until tomorrow but have my jobs lined up that I'll applying for. When I update this tomorrow...it will be after I have applied to some jobs!!

What's going on?

So today has been a pretty good day. I can't really complain and especially after seeing the folks in Haiti, I have much to be thankful and happy for. So many times I can look at what I don't have but for now, I'm looking at what I do and am very thankful for it.

So what did I do today? This morning, I had to hurry up and get my baby boy ready for "school" and speed out the door to make it for nine. I made it in the nick of time and then had to deal with "mama!!! I don't want to stay, I wanna go home with you!!". Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It tugs at your heart and makes you mad at the same time. I didn't know what to do because I didn't want to leave him there crying and have him feel insecure, but at the same time, I didn't want to give into him and validate him. Eventually I had to just kind of push him and run out the door and wouldn't you know...five minutes later, he's fine and playing.

So went to CVS and got 3 12packs of Pepsi and four packs of Stacy's pita chips!! I was waiting for this deal since last year because Stacy's pita chips are delicious and expensive. So I paid about .15 out of pocket and burned 3ECB's which wasn't too bad for $21 worth of stuff.

After that went to the post office and sent back that nasty, good for nothing Shark Vacuum back to Euro-Pro. Then went and picked up our little monkey and he had a wonderful time at school! Right now they're into dinosaurs and so he made a couple for us and did great.

Today was successful for another reason, I went and worked out! That in itself was a feat and I'm going to attempt to workout at LEAST 3 times this week so we'll see how we do with that.

What can I say?

Well, what can I say? I haven't been on in ages!!! Needless to say, I have had a very busy few months. In fact, mentally, I'm still in 2009. So what has happened? Well, for one, I went to my hometown for a couple of weeks to assist my sister in her decorating business and that was interesting, fun and an experience. I never realized just how much thought and time is put into decorating for Christmas for the wealthy and I learned a few things about them.

First, rich people are the same as you and I. Really they are. I know they poop, pee, cough, sneeze the same as those of us with empty accounts but they're not as snobby as you'd expect. In fact, they're rather nice. I was expecting for them to have attitudes and the "old money" rarely had attitude and were probably the nicest out of the bunch. The "new money", you know, the ones who didn't have money but now have money, were the ones you had to watch out for. I think they think they have something to prove and don't really know how to act. Another difference is that "old money" or for convenience sake we'll say "OM", they don't flash their cash. They have smaller houses but inside, oh hell, inside their houses are lavish and gorgeous to say the least. They've got spectacular taste and you'd never know by looking on the outside.

"New Money" or NM, they have the big houses and poor taste. They have something to prove so they're going to show the world their new big house and when you step inside, well I guess they didn't get the memo that all rich people have personal decorators that do their houses.

Another thing I learned is people take their decorations seriously. They have fantastic decorations and the tree isn't for little Suzy's class Christmas ornament, it's for Christopher Radko and his very expensive ornaments. I have to say, a tree done up with Radko ornaments looks pretty damn hot. I guess I'll have to save the kid's ornaments for the kids tree eh? LOL

Okay so anyway...Thanksgiving was great because we were with family and it's always fun being around that lot. The food is yummy, company is good, liquor flowing...what more can you ask for?!?

So then I come back home and it's December 1. Not a moment to sit and relax. Nope. I had to get the house ready for the wine tasting party that was only four days away so my happy ass gets the clothes washed, house cleaned (my husband was awesome and tried to clean up a bit but I still have to clean it my way), and Christmas decorations up. Against all odds...I did it!!

We had our wine tasting party which was a huge success! I think I lost count as to how many people were actually here but I can tell you, everyone had a blast. I truly felt so blessed knowing I had a house full of true friends and having just gotten back from my hometown with my family...well it made me all warm and fuzzy knowing how blessed I am for my family and friends.

So...December 17. That was "D" day. That was the day my in laws were secretly flying in from London. I had prepared for this day since April and kept my mouth shut (which is no small feat!) and now, the day had come.

My husband had gone into work for a place he often freelances for and I was in direct communication with the manager of the company and had worked out with him the time that they needed to keep him occupied. They were to keep him until 7pm which would give me plenty of time to pick them up at the airport at their scheduled time of arrival which was 4:45pm. So, I wake up that morning, check continental.com for the flight status. Sonofabitch their flight is delayed by over an hour! Knowing the flight path by heart from taking it more times than I count, I knew they were going to miss their connecting flight. I was still hopeful but seriously doubtful. If they were delayed by 20 minutes, that might have been okay because they MAY have been able to make up their time, but being delayed by an hour and a half, there's no way of making up that time. Although they had over 2 hours to make their connecting flights, they still had to go through immigration, customs and run the marathon that is Bush intercontinental to get to the domestic flights so they were out of the race.

I had given them my cell phone number to get in touch with me if they were delayed so I was counting on the phone call to let me know if they didn't make their flight. So 3:30pm, no phone call so by 4pm, my BFF Katy and I head to the airport. I had told her that I don't think they made the flight but we both agreed that perhaps we'd better just go in the case that God had personally grabbed the plane and placed it in the tarmac in time for the connecting flight.

We go to the airport, we circle around too many times and finally I decided to go inside and see for myself that they were not in the airport. Sure enough, talking to a lady at baggage claim, they didn't make their flight and were scheduled to get on the mornings flight. Oh man, defeated and sad that I would have to go ONE more night keeping the secret, not to mention the thought of my in laws wondering around in an unknown airport until the next day was unbearable. I was so glad to have Katy with me because she shared in my disappointment and it was just comforting to have someone with you when you're sad.

I decided to get hold of them myself at the Houston airport to see where in the world my lost relatives are and managed to get a hold of my sister in law. I was so happy to hear her voice and know they they were okay! She told me that all of the other flights were full and that they had given her the option to go to San Antonio and without hesitation, I told her "GO!". I know they were worried about how far I'd have to drive to get them but it didn't matter at this point, I wanted to get them home where they could be comfortable.

Katy was sweet and let me drop Simon off her and I had to make up an excuse to my husband as to WHY I had to drive to San Antonio. I had told him that my cousins (of which he thought were the visitors coming in) were stuck in San Antonio and I had to go and get them. So I hear that my in laws were landing at 9 something so I'm off to the airport. Turns out, that plane too was delayed! Oh the luck! So I wait until 11 and FINALLY see them! Darren had called me a couple of times and I was out of lies. What the hell was I going to tell him? I was out way later than I expected and by this time, the only acceptable thing I could have told him was that I was either arrested or in a wreck and I know he'd be worried so I did what I had to and ignored the calls. We hauled ass home and by this time, most everyone had fallen asleep in the car because they had been up for probably around 24 hours and finally made it home.

Knocked on the door and my poor husband was waiting up for me. When he saw his family, he was speechless!! He had a confused look on his face and when he saw his mom, it finally sank in! Everyone was tired, but happy and it was priceless.

We had a wonderful two week visit with everyone and I was so happy that this was a true surprise to my dear husband. We went to Fredericksburg, ice skating, all around Austin and got some much needed family time. Our Christmas was wonderful with all the kiddos around and truly a wonderful experience.

Unfortunately two weeks came and went by rather quickly but we still have my mother in law which is awesome. Now, I'm starting to feel like I can finally relax and get my mind and body back in sync.