Posts Tagged: family

Me / Parenthood — Comments
25
May 09

So long baby stuff; or I better not be pregnant

Tomorrow, my plan is go to Out of the The Closet and donate the baby stuff cluttering the garage and closets.  Our youngest is 3 and everyone who knows me knows that I am not interested in making our family larger. Everyone who knows me has no interest in being around me when I’m pregnant.

What’s taken so long? Fear. I’m scared that I will get rid of the baby stuff and find out I’m pregnant again. Fear to make a decision is pretty paralyzing, I’ve learned. When we found out where were pregnant with the boy, we were broke. We also had to buy a lot of new stuff because I gave things away to friends who needed them. Thankfully, midway through that pregnancy we got more work and were able to afford to buy the things. Things don’t look so rosy now, so I’m paralyzed. What if I give away everything only to find out in a few months that I’ll need them again? Two years is a long time to live with that fear. It’s better to be optimistic, to think that maybe I can just buy the items back from Out of The Closet.

So, I bid farewell to the 2 diaper bags, 2 highchair seats, baby tub, toy mats, 2 carseats, 3 infant slings, the diaper pail, the potty seat, the 2 potty inserts and all those baby clothes I’ve never managed to unload.

But…maybe I’ll buy some pregnancy tests first.

Birthdays / Internet Confession Time — Comments
5
Mar 09

Internet Confession Time: Birthdays

4 of my 5 uncles were born in March. I know the dates, but I not kept track of which uncle belongs to which date. So…I wait until the 27th, when is the last day I know for sure there’s a birthday, and call all of them.

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21
Jul 08

bored

That’s why I’m ignoring you.  Well, that and the fact that I couldn’t access a damn self-hosted of MU Wordpress blog for the past week or so.  Craptastic stupidity I tell you!

Anyway, I still don’t have much to blog about.  My sister and family have gone back to France.  I got a new phone. I’m crackdicted to plurk. And I still need to use my plane tickets in the next 3 weeks.

To make it worse, nothing of interest has happened politically in like 3 weeks. Not a damn thing.

I’m bored.

I want these fools to pick their running mates already so that I can start mocking the bad choice.  I think that McCain is going to go with Gov. Crist, just based on his most recent stupid shallow comments on
what his VP should look like.  And now that I’ve found that Gov. Crist has gotten engaged to his beard, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a quick wedding before the end of August.

Other than that it’s all McCain saying something stupid, the media ignoring it, McCain surrogate saying something stupid, media almost ignoring it…Media is obsession on how to cover Obama says a lot more about their inherent ignorance and racism than any of the stupid articles from the spring could have.

So, blah, blah, blah….I’ll probably post some of my silly 12seconds.tv clips out of boredom.

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18
Feb 08

Fun is Google Earth

For the past couple of years, my husband and I have been in love with geeking out on Google Earth.  For whatever reason, we’ve never done it together.  Last night, him and the little girl devised a game.  He found our house and then they pretend to take off into the stratosphere.  Then a click of the button, they come plummeting back to Earth, but are saved by splashing into the pool.  I joined in bring the boy with me.  OMG.  We must be geeks, but that was seriously fun.  We each had our own blast off and splash down noises.  I’m sure the neighbors were like, “What the hell could they possibly be doing?”  But in Spanish.

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16
Nov 07

Ilia’s on cloud nine

On Tuesday my father called and Adrian put her on the phone. Now keep in mind that she’s been obsessing over “Grandpa” and carries a picture of Adrian’s (deceased) dad around. When she found out to she was talking to a real live Grandpa she was so happy. The conversation was like 3 sentences long and she recounts them:

“My grandpa said, ‘How are you?’ and I said, ‘Fine.’!”

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7
Nov 07

Feel sorry for me

I had to pull the kids from preschool. We couldn’t keep up with payments, since our stupid clients still haven’t paid us. I’m sitting here looking at close to $20K in invoices that should have been paid already. Life’s not fair. Our clients suck.

Got an email last week, rush job, “We’re sending out a check this week, can you get this done for us?”. Did we get it? Of course not. They owe us about $4K. From work done in March. Got an email today. “We’re going to try to get a check to you this week for $830.” What the shit is that?

So, I’m depressed. Mainly because I bought tickets back in August to go visit family for Thanksgiving. Now we can’t go. Such a shame since none of them have even met Alton. Oh, one aunt did. Still, it’s just sad. Even if we go, we have no place to stay. Well, we can stay where we usually stay, I guess it’s just that 4 people in one room with a full-size bed isn’t going to be comfortable. :( On top of that, we’ll still need a car to get from relative to relative. And we’ll need to eat. Okay, that’s not a big deal, we won’t go hungry. Still, for once I’d like to be able to visit home and not be broke. All the times we’ve gone back, we’ve been destitute. Once, the day we landed, the IRS put a lien on our bank accounts and drained them! Yeah, that’s out stupid luck.

So, feel sorry for me. I’m so, so sad.