Headache from hell

My head hurts. I believe the cause is a late dinner, due to Karate. Yes folks I took the kid to karate!!

It's fundraiser time at school and I hate it. Here's my selling pitch: "You can spend 16 bucks on this crap or you can donate $5 and be a non active member of the PTA." How sad that most people are opting to buy the crap. I thought I would make more money with the whole $5 PTA thing, which is totally legit. Any member of the community can join without actually participating. If any of you out there is blog land would like to donate they have a website you can purchase from. (email for the link, I know none of you will and I don't hate you one bit)

In other news. J has gotten a yellow card at least once a week. And what are we on week three???? Every school is different, most work on the 1-5 number scale. J gets colored cards. Green is good, yellow needed some reminding, red is awful and parents are called. I'm not surprised that J needed some reminding. I remember our report cards as girls, always full of "they talk TOO much and DON'T pay attention!!" After all he is only five and they don't take naps. None the less it's a rule he's breaking and I didn't want the consequence to include daddy's belt which was totally gonna happen if he found out. I punished him from the TV for THREE WHOLE DAYS. It was sheer torture (for me) I thought I was going to go insane, but I followed through! He got a green card today and came straight home to watch "animal planet" which is his new obsession.

We're getting a new manager at work and I don't know that I can adjust. She seems to be more of a hardass. Beautiful but a hardass none the less!

Hmmm "none the less" twice in one post. I need a new phrase!

Here's a good story. I took our infant car seat out of the outside storage so I could wash the cover before I give it away. As I was taking it all apart a HUGE cockroach came flying out. I screamed, threw the carseat and then chased the damn thing all over the living room before I finally got it. GROSS. I can just imagine how many others are in the warm dark outside closet. SICK.

All the large baby items that I was going to keep are taking up too much space and at this point I'd just rather buy new. All that is left is the crib, playpen and high chair. I am missing some of the hardware for the crib so I think that may be leaving soon. I am tired of hanging onto all this junk in hopes of using it again. It's already been in storage for 5 years. I can't do it anymore. The car seats are stinky (and have roaches in them, ewww) and the other stuff wasn't so expensive that I couldn't just buy it again. We'll see. J loves the crib, and seems to have a hard time parting with it. I am also ready to get rid of the little tikes playhouse. Yeah we have a playhouse inside this little ass apartment. Little J says it's too small for him now, but it's something else Big J wants to keep. Again, I feel it's something we can re-purchase when the time comes and only if we have backyard to put it in.

Oh too much babbling. I have lunches to make and clothes to wash, and all I want to do is go to bed.

Rambling

Yesterday I searched high and low for a damn desk or even just a chair for little J. He has a desk but the chair that came with it was very low to the ground. I went to Goodwill, no desk, but a very nice tanning bed for sale. I went to The Salvation Army, no desk, but a lot of nasty couches. I went to the unfinished wood store and target. NOTHING. What the hell?? Only because I need one right?

So I posted on Freecycle and for once someone responded. Sweet.....

I rearranged the living room, but still have a lot to do. I have lost the desire and the room looks like shit. But my idea was a good one. I like how it looks so far. I just had so much shit and nowhere to put it. Our bedroom is so small and the furniture so big that I can't put any of the extra shit in there. And then the cable outlet is far from where I want to put my computer. What's a girl to do? I need smaller furniture, less tables, something...

I think I might get a storage unit. Maybe. I would like to put some of the bedroom furniture in it, but I doubt J will go for it. Hmmmm. I gotta come up with a plan. I also want to get a dining room table, which I why I started changing the room around. I wish we had an IKEA so I could get some small furniture. That would be awesome. The nearest one is in Sunrise, and both of them (cause I don't know which Sunrise it's in) are 4 + hours away.

Soooooo. I guess I better get moving.

Wow

It's a beautiful morning. After the terrential downpour yesterday, things have cooled off and for now the humidity is at bay. I have the backdoor open and the birds are chirping away. I love it. I am glad I got up early enough to enjoy it.

I am supposed to be getting ready for Karate, but I am not in the mood. (we're still going though)

I guess there's not much going on here. We decided to renew our current lease again. I just can't justify moving into another apartment that costs $300 dollars more per month. If we stay here we can put that money we would have spent toward my CC debt. Wich is what I have every intention of doing and believe me, J is so mad about it (it's about time) that he will really make me do it. I have no idea why he finally realized how bad it is and that we really need to do something about it but I am glad he did. We have gone rounds on this for years so at least there is an agreement.

The bank has a really awesome first time buyer home loan. If we qualify we can get a 25 thousand dollar grant for the down payment and closing costs. I think if it has anything to do with me that my credit will get us booted right out the door, so I am having J do this alone. Weird how it used to be his credit holding us back and now it'll be mine. But anyway the mortgage lender said it is not a short process so we figured if we got started on that and stayed here (paying down debt) we might have a chance at getting a house by next year.

Ok I really have to go. Damn karate.

Happy Anniversary

Our's was yesterday. We buy gifts off the "traditional gift list" and this year was leather (we buy according to our years of marriage, instead of how long we've actually been together, which is 6/3) I got him a new wallet, which was badly needed. He bought me....drumroll please.......






A Dooney & Bourke purse. HOLY COW!

Talk about expensive, especially when I am notoriusly cheap! I love it but am saddened that the matching wallet is over $100. SICK. Maybe I'll put it on my Christmas list. I had decided a couple months back that instead of buying a few cheap purses I would like to have one really nice purse. He remembered.

He also bought me beautiful orange roses (I love orange flowers) We didn't go out to dinner because his mouth is still bothering him. He had all four wisdom teeth pulled on tuesday. It went fine, just the usual soreness. I am not looking forward to having mine done.


I can't believe I am up this early, lol. And I have already cleaned the bathroom and done some laundry. Amazing for a sunday!

The vacation

The family arrived on the 4th and we've had a blast. We couldn't do much since we both had to work and little had school, but we went to the pool every night. They were able to stay for the 2nd pool party (the 1st party was at the Chuckster) Everyone that was invited attended the pool party and I hope they all had fun. My dad and nephew (but mostly my dad) made cakes for both J's and they were awesome!

J started Kindergarten with no trouble at all (and I never expected any) and his new teacher is very nice. I love the school, it's so nice and clean and still has the newness to it, even though it's a few years old.

I like it so much that I don't want to move out of this area until J goes to highschool (the middle school is right next door to the elementary) We don't want to stay in this apartment and house on this side of town start in the 200's, so we are looking at different apartments that will have a much higher price. None are priced TOO high since our rent goes up $20 every time we renew the damn lease. We looked at one yesterday and the pictures were much better then the actual complex! We don't have much time due to the damn 60 day letter of intent policy. We know we aren't staying but if we can't find anything we don't want to be stuck. We have two more weeks befoer notice is due.......

The familt left this morning, so things are back to usual and not quite as fun. J's sis and brother are supposed to come over tonight for dinner to celebrate his birthday. I haven't gotten him a gift yet! I guess I'd better go shopping!