BAM! KICK IT UP A NOTCH!!!

Since we got cable back I've been unable to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. I've been staying up late watching insect lifestyle national geographic shows, dumb ass MTV shows and infomercials. On Sunday night I stayed up until like 5 am. I really need to put the damned remote down and get some sleep.

So we agreed that from now on I will be cooking around the house. I love to cook but I hate cleaning up. SO we'll see how that works out. Yesterday we went to WalMart to stock up on shit because I got a few recipes. Mostly I will be cooking vegetarian stuff with a few exceptions since I can't let all those carcasses in the freezer go to waste. Felicia is sort of a vegetarian so I don't mind not eating meet while at home cuz I can pretty much eat it elsewhere. Tonight (which the meal is for tomorrow) I will be making Stuffed Bell Peppers and getting ready a Wilted Spinach Salad and another side (still haven't decided what. Tomorrow night I will make spinach casserole (the recipe I got from a book at home so there's no link), and a tofu dish (still haven't decided yet. I think I will take pictures and put them here to show you all (two of you) my masterpieces... haha.

Well, the gas company (cuz the water boiler in our new apartment is powered by gas) company was supposed to come in an turn the gas on. When Felicia called they told her that someone had to be at the house but could not give her an estimated time of arrival. Just sometime during the day today they would arrive. So, she was told to leave the door unlocked all day so they can come in, which I did. I haven't been able to call Felicia to see if they installed the gas yet. I guess I will find out tonight.

That's all

SUNDAY EVENING

Well, it's sunday evening the entire weekend was up to snuff!!!

Friday, as per usual I came to my mom's and Felicia went to her grandparets. I stayed up later than I should have so I got home almost at 6 am. Saturday we spent most of the day trying to fix up the apartment. Trying to get the apartment looking decent with Fabianna and her just-as-annoying little sister is like trying to convince you that Chyna is a woman. We did get a lot accomplised and Today we took another big chunk out. I had to get rid of a table and a bookcase because this apartment is small!

Yesterday Felicia, the girls and I went to Ruby Tuesday for dinner. It was nice, we rarely get to go out like that. I was glad I ended up with them instead of Tres Pesos drinking the night away.... again.

Well, nothing relevant here (as if I ever post anything relevant)... just a random post I guess.



Fabi's work update

• Pretty (When Felicia does her hair we say "Look, how pretty" or just pretty. So she caught on)
  
• Pow Pow (When we threaten or have spanked her)

PAH-TEE!

So yesterday neither Felicia nor me reported to our respective jobs because we were sick as hell. Probably something we ate and I don’t care to go into details… hehe.

Well, Felicia progressively hates her job more and more. I can understand how she feels because although Time Warner was not as bad as CIGNA, they are kinda the same. It is bullshit there, not only does she only get two ten-minute breaks and a half an hour lunch but she is EXPECTED to take 100 calls per day. Calls from pissed off customers, providers and nursing staff dealing with the neglects of the company. I can only imagine what type of hell they go through because they are practically enslaved to their desks with stats on how fast they took the call, how long, how long it took them to expedite it, to hang up, to wrap up, etc, etc… They are treated like machines rather than humans.

Well, Greg from Donkey Punch invited us to a Halloween party on the 30th. Of course, we MUST dress up. I was planning on going as Otis from House Of 1000 Corpses.



But since I don’t have any contacts the costume will look dorky if I wear my rimmed glasses. I am now in desperate need for another costume where I can wear my glasses cuz I’m legally blind without them. Any ideas? (And no, I will not dress up like Bill Gates or fucking WALDO!!!)

We finally ordered our digital cable that will be installed on Saturday. I need to set up all the games, DVD’s, VCR’s and other paraphernalia before they show up cuz those damn techs are lazy as a motherfucker. I can’t wait for cable… it’s been like 6 months without cable due… IT SUCKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update on Fabi’s words…

• Ahi Viene (Here “he/she” comes)
  
• Coca (Coke)
  
• Cheese
  
• Papa (food)
  
• Ice
  
• Tati (which she uses to refer to any baby or doll)
  
• Tee (which is her version of “Aqui” that mean “Here”)
  
• Thank you
  
• Hola
  
• Hi

And when I remember more I will post more… I haven’t been able to post more pics cuz I have not Internet at home. But I will update soon

Bye.

SPANISH MUCH?

So, at Felicia's and my mom's insistence, we opted to wait a few days and post more babysitter flyers to see if we can find some poor illegal teenager that we can exploit for $100 per week. I feel bad for my mom but fortunately, starting tomorrow Ricky agreed to help her until Monday with the girls since, for whatever reason, he doesn't have classes. Hopefully we can find said babysitter.

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I found the most hilarious blog a few weeks ago. It's called the Idiot Roommate Blog. The author's roommate reminds of Casey, a roommate that Clay, my former roommate in college had during his last year at Ai. This dude was a compulsive fucking liar not to mentioned that everything we said or did, either he or someone he knew had already done it and a million times better, faster and more efficient than us. He was a fucking nutcase... We were watching Hackers and I said, "Damn, it must be cool to be a hacker." and he said "Been there, done that". We were watching a martial arts show on ESPN and Clay said, "Those guys are awesome.", Casey said... you guessed it, "Been there, done that" (he claimed to be a black belt on something but I kicked his ass one time I forget what for). He smelled bad, he rarely left his room, he was weird and he was always trying to sound smarter than he was. Now, he was a smart person (as opposed to the guy in the blog), but he thought of himself as misunderstood genius or something. Oh, well, that was back in '98 though... that blog took me back to my college years... Anyway, check it, it's funny.

RANDOMNESS

We have been in our new apartment since September 25 (the day of my Bday by the way) and we still haven't fixed the place up. Everything is still boxed up and the clothes are scattered all over the bedroom. The apartment is tiny, much, much smaller than the one in Pineville. Of course, it is also much cheaper. I really want this apartment to be more habitable than the one in Pineville. We have agreed to take the entire weekend fixing it up so it would be ready by the weekend following. We plan to throw like a little cookout or something for close friends and family just for the fuck of it.

Financially, we're still in the hole but it seems that we've been doing better. Aside from the $30 we, idiotically spent on Sunday when we went to Tres Pesos with Ryan and Jessica. I had two beers, that alone was $7. Oh well, I need to control my impulses. I am an impulse buyer though and it's hard to control my impulses.

Last night we put up some flyers around our new complex for a babysitter. Earlier today I received a call from a very nice lady. We spoke and she sounded nice and eloquent (as opposed to the obviously rural uneducated slang of Nublia's dad). But she said for the money we were offering it will be virtually impossible to find someone to take care of the girls at home with my mom. Sadly, we cannot afford anymore. Neither Felicia nor my mom value her opinion because, well, because she's a prospect employee so to speak so she'd obviously want more money. I don't know, my mom is in desperate need for some help...

I told you guys I joined that online beer loving group called Donkey Punch. It's been going great. These guys are hilarious and a bunch of bastards but they are cool as hell. Unfortunately I haven't had the change to meet them yet. Mostly because I can't go out for two main reasons. The first is the money issue and the second is because I lost my ID and I can't get another one. I actually lost my wallet and all my info. I have to get another SS card and other info before I can get a picture ID because you NEED A PICTURE ID TO GET A PICTURE ID?!?!?!?!?! WTF?



That's all... bye.

I HAVE TO DO BETTER WITH UPDATING THIS THING

Yeah, I need to do better at updating my blog, but I wish you guys posted more often if for nothing else but to placate my ego and making me believe these rambles actually entertain or amuse somebody! (that was a cry for help.. hehe).

So much, has happened... let me see, OH yeah, remember how I said the babysitter quit? Well, she quiet on a Friday and by that Sunday evening her dad called me saying she could go back one more week. I was like fine, I'll pick her up tomorrow. Well, on Monday, she calls me at 11:16 am to tell me she would be unable to do it... at 11:16 IN THE FUCKING MORNING!!! I was already on my way to pick her up. She better be glad I was also heading her way to go to work otherwise she would have gotte cussed the FUCK OUT! So I let it go and my mom is taking care of the girls for me now. I hate it, I feel like shit because I know it's physically exhausting for her to deal with a toddler and an infant. We tried to seek help from Felicia's grandmother but she gave us what I consider to be the most disgusting answer I have ever heard from a family member to another. But out of respect to Felicia I will not go into details.

My relationship with Felicia fluctuated to the "good" side again. We're doing good again and obviously being content, comfortable, and in love with each other more times than not. This weekend she got her "hair did". She got some "wet and wavy" (I think that's what she calls them) braids. They look awesome and she's happy because she had been unable to braid her hair in like six months or something. Sunday we spent most of the day together. We went to some Catholic Church sponsored kermesse (which I guess in English is spelled kermis) that SUCKED ASS!!! They had a bunch of stands but most were empty or only had a bunch of people sitting doing nothing. They had a pony ride for the kiddies and a couple of inflatable jumping ride thingies. They had a shitty DJ who only played a song every 15 minutes or so and there really was nothing to do but stand around and do nothing. Ryan and Jessica were with us so about an hour into it we decided to go eat (cuz the food there did not look appetizing). We ended up in Tres Pesos and hung out for a while. They then invited us to their house to see their wedding pictures and wedding DVDs. We had a good time, we are finally able to hang out with another married couple and have mutual friends that we both like... that's good.

Today, back to the grind at work. I had my evaluation from when I was fucking up and I have improved almost completely. I still have to work on a little requeue quirk but it should be fixed by this week. I'm pretty bored with work but I don't hate it or feel trapped. I'ts more like a sense of dullness when I am here... time seems to stop when I am here, and I don't mean in a usual I can't wait to get out of work type thing, I mean as in the monotony of the calls and the process of my office. You could be sitting in this desk 10 minutes or 5 hours and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It's hard to explain it... the whole day goes by like a perpetual eye blink... you can close your eyes and open them immediately and 3 or 4 hours have passed. Not in a good way... not in the, "cool, I only have "x" amount of hours left to go" time has passed way. More in like... "Wow, did I just cease to exist for the last four hours?!?!" type of way.

Today, my mom said she was getting tired of the girls so I have to find a babysitter by the end of this week. Tonight we will go out and post the flyers cuz to be honest, we haven't posted any up! Aren't we just horrible and inconsiderate parents??!?!?!?!

The girls themselves have been doing great... In the past few months Fabi has added to her vocabulary words like Vamonos (which means Let's go in Spanish), Hooray, Ice Cream, Uncle, Auntie, Michael (Her little cousin's name) and like 50 others that I just can't think of right now. She also loves to dance to If you're happy and you know it. She follows along all the instructions on the song like clapping her hands, stomping her feet, etc. She also loves The ants go marching and she also follows what the songs says like when it says the little ant stops to suck his thumb she starts sucking her thumb too. But she only knows the song up to when they march to three. She learns all the songs from a DVD we bought her called Kid's favorite songs 2.


I really recommend this if you have little kids that jump around all day, they will fall in love with it and leave you alone for a while!

Tati also loves the songs in the DVD despite she's only 8 months old. She loves On top of spaghetti and If you're happy and you know it. Tati, can't follow along the instructions cuz she's very young and kinda chubby... hehe... she just flails about with the biggest, chubbiest grin on her face. She's so chubby, Serg calls her "PIGGIE". HEHEHEH... little piggie.

Anyway, I guess I am tired of typing.... I will definitely try to keep up with this more often.

Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again.
Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again.

Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am young again.
Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am fun again.

Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am free again.
Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am clean again.

However far away, I will always love you
However long I stay, I will always love you
Whatever words I say, I will always love you.

Last Thursday I went to pick up my new glasses because 10 days prior (that’s how long it takes them to get you new glasses, I found out) my old pair broke and my dumb ass never got a back up pair. Anyway, I went to Visionworks in Carolina Place Mall. While I was there I went and, mostly out of randomness, bought Felicia a greeting card from Hallmark Gold Crown. The card (if I can I will scan it later), was actually a square made out of rugged cardboard rather than the glossy rectangular kind (made it look more rustic) and in the front it had, in what looked like very transparent water color, two cherries and said “I love you”. The inside was completely blank except for, in small, simple letter, “It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” I thought the card accurately expressed how I am currently feeling. I took it upon myself to write the above lyrics on it with another personal message. She started ballin’!! haha… but she really appreciated the gesture and I felt good about myself. I like giving her things here and there… I know it doesn’t make up for the lack of communication or actually having a marriage.

Today is the babysitter’s last day too. We need a babysitter urgently because my mom cannot handle both of those little spawns by herself. Felicia said she’ll talk to her grandmother but I don’t know what’s going on with that yet. We are trying to split the girls with two family members until we can get another babysitter. We’re pretty much looking for another young girl, preferably illegal (money issues) who can work for about $100 a week. I made the flyer below… what do you think?



I saw the presidnetial debate last night... Just thought I'd mentioned that... lol.