First Day of School

Bubbs and Audrey started school on the 10th, Bubbs went to the 4th grade and Audrey finally started Kindergarten! yayy! She had to wait a whole year because of her birthday and I can't believe how small the other kids look next to her, lol. Naty had to take her for her first day and she cried when he tried to leave but she stopped right away.

Then yesterday the kids started a new school, they're now going to the one in front of their grandma's house and she had to start all over again. Bubbs did really good and was so excited to move but Audrey cried her eyes out and was holding onto me. The whole plan was for me to stay there with her but since she started crying her eyes out the teacher didn't think it was a good idea for me stay. So once I left the teacher said she stopped, when I picked her up she was happy and doing good. poor thing, lol, I almost started crying with her. But everything is good now.

Oh Christams Tree

The tree is up and the kids are happy, what more can I ask for?

We're having another busy weekend, Friday we're going with the in laws to church for the Virgin Mary celebration and then we're staying the night and making tamales for MIL's B-day. Her b-day is the 11th but we're gonna wait till the 13th to make the tamales and invite family over to celebrate with us, then we're gonna spend the night again and come home Sunday. We're hoping to make it to church Sunday morning, if not we'll go with them.

I have finals next week so I'll be taking all my study material with me. Can't wait to get this over with! almost....yayy!!!!!

The Weather is Perfect

I love the cold weather, and we were due for some. After having a late summer I thought we'd never cool down. Even though we don't get as cold as other states being in the 70's or low 80's is considered cold to us. I'm so tired of people saying we have the perfect weather, no we don't! 112 in the summer is perfect? or 98 in the fall is perfect? it's horrible and very uncomfortable!! So I tell Naty all the time that I live in the wrong state and how I can't wait to move to Colorado, that is ideal weather to me.

Moving on, on Thanksgiving night my two shoulders starting hurting me so I thought it was because of lifting and carrying the turkey but when I finally went to the urgent care that saturday the doctor said it would be impossible because it would take 2-3 days to feel the pain so it had to be something I did on either Monday or Tuesday. So she said I really pulled my trapeizus muscles and RX'd me 800mg of Motrin, 3X per day. I thought that was a little too much so I take it maybe twice a day. The problem is that no matter how much motrin I take, I'm still hurting so the doctor said it is because it has to bring down the inflammation before it can start working on the pain so I'm basically screwed, lol. I've been trying to make the best of it and trying to ignore it but its really hard too when you have to use your arms for everything.

As for thanksgiving, we had it at MIL's house and I cooked almost everything and we just ate and ate and ate and I gained 4 lbs. from that. It was really relaxing and non-stressful. I guess cause I wasn't in my own house to worry about everything, I just had to worry about the food and getting Naty and the kids ready. It was so worry free. We had a good time and especially Naty since we stood over 2 nights.

School is coming to an end, I only have 1 more week of instruction and 1 week of finals. I have 2 major papers to write and a couple of homework assignments due next week and I'm done! I've gotta do major studying for my Epidemiology class cause that test is cumulative, gonna be so hard. I'm just hoping for a B in that class.

Now we're getting ready for Christmas. We went shopping yesterday and almost finished buying all our gifts. We still need one more thing for Bubbs, Naty was thinking Rock Band since Bubbs has guitar hero but I said NO! thats too expensive, but what Naty wants, Naty gets, so its up to him.

Then Audrey's b-day is coming up on the 20th and MIL and FIL gave them $200 so that we can take them to disneyland but I don't think we'll take them till around March. Since it's Mia's b-day too they're having her a b-day party at the park so we'll go for a lil bit and then have a cake for Audrey here at the house. I'll just invite the in laws and my mom.





Right now I'm working on minor house projects like organizing and putting out the Christmas decorations. Naty wants to finish the floors and have them stained by Christmas but I say, NO! leave me alone! NO MORE STRESS, so we'll see. Well Audrey wants to make a craft so I better go......bye

Medical Update and other stuff

I had my yearly ob/gyn visit last thursday and saw my favorite doc, Dr. King in the newly updated and super nice Kaiser Medical facility in Redlands. I just had to follow him from Fontana to Redlands, I can't see myself starting this whole process all over with a new doctor. Dr. King already knows everything thats going on with me and has been great so far and patient, to say the least. So I thought I'd see him at his new medical office and give him a quick review of my aches and pains. I told him how I went almost the whole summer with no pain and once September came, the pain came too. The pain has been off and on, which is good, I'm glad its not a constant thing cause thats when I would have ripped out my insides myself. So asked about possibly seperating my uterus and stomach instead of doing the hysterectomy and he said he didn't think that was a good idea since my scar tissue is in very thick bands and because the success rate isn't that great since the scar tissue can just grow back. He's told me a million times that I'm just prone to scar tissue and it just depends on the person's body. So basically, if I don't want the hysterectomy then theres nothing he can do for me, just pain management. Since I'm not 100% on kids for the future I don't want to have the hysterectomy till I'm 100% sure. I still want the option to have more kids if I wanted. So Dr. King didn't know how to lay this on me but he said, "since you don't want the hysterectomy then I can't do anything for you, but if you were 100% then we'd be heading out for surgery soon." Oh well, its my own fault, I know the hysterectomy would benefit me a lot and take most of the pain away but I just can't do that right now, unless it was medically nesecary then I'd jump on it but its just pain. I kind of stopped complaining to Naty cause I know what to do to end this but its kind of hard sometimes, trying to act like I'm ok when I can't bare the feeling.

Moving on....today I had a presentation to do in class and I was so scared and nervous to get in front of the class so I did a prayer and asked God to PLEASE take the nervousness and anxiety away and guess what?????? I had my prayer answered, of course when I went up there I thought I was gonna pass out but then out of no where I calmed down and felt nothing. WoW! does God answer prayers! I've always wanted to pass out when I've done previous presentations and this time I thought it was over, I'm going down, before I even went up there! LOL thats how ridiculous I am! hahaha But soon it was over and I was happy again.

Forgot to mention! Naty started a new job with the district of water and power (DWP) and he's loving it, this was his first week and they're already loving him. He's such a hard and good worker that people just flock to him and want to be his best friend. He's already carpooling and saving tons of money and making $7 more an hour. I'm really happy that he's loving it this much. Oh and he's already been asked to work sunday which is double time! He deserves all this, he's such a good person and works hard. I'm glad that God is blessing him and making his dreams come true.

Now the house, its coming along! On tuesday we went to practice baseball with the kids at the park and then decided to start painting out of no where. I just told Naty, "let's go get the white paint for the ceiling" and he said, "OK" so we did that and came back and went straight to work. We took all afternoon and evening to do the dining room, hallway and Living room. We're so proud of what we did and so happy that its getting closer and closer to being finished! yayy! We had some leftover paint so I started painting the nasty yellow in the kitchen (what was i thinking?) so far I've done 1 wall and it looks really good! I know the cupboards are gonna be super hard so hopefully I can get Steph to help me.

ok, I better get to bed, I'm not having such a good night. anyway, goodnight and see you soon.

Looking good

no, not me, MY HOUSE! the pavers are down and done and now up goes the stone. It's looking so good!

I have 1 day left tomorrow of school then finals are next week. Oh, how I can't wait for it to be over. So far I've got one grade back which is a B in English! I'll take it, shit I'll take a C as long as its passing. I struggled in that damn class, big time. I was crying while writing my papers, it was torture. so glad thats over, no need for English ever again.......

I did my intership at the fibromyalgia association and I learned so much. It's a great organization and they do awesome things over there. Very fun place to work at, wish it was closer. I'm gonna have to start looking for a job once I graduate cause I don't think I'm going to the PA program straight out of fullerton. My dreams were crushed when the advisor came to our class to "school" us on the program. Damn he just went off about how hard it is and I feel awful about that. Oh well, we'll see.

Audrey grew so much. I could say that she grew at least 2 inches in the past 2 months. I'm looking at her and she's just so tall, not my midget anymore. And bubbs has always been a big boy, he's playing baseball right now and almost done with that. He'll be going to football right after, I'm scared.

Naty is still working at ELAC and working on the house, poor guy, he needs a break. We both do. I'm thinking of going on a vacation, just us two. we'll see.

On Holiday

LOL. I'm on spring break but not really.....make sense?

I had a 4 page paper due on Sunday, then changed to Wed morning but I finished on Tues. night and sent it on it's merry way. I needed that paper out of my sight! I hate Anthro, hate hate hate it. It's boring.... So that paper really bugged me and had me on the edge. So I now I have insomnia since I was staying up really late, then waking up late that its hard for me to get back on schedule.

I had my 27th b-day last saturday and Naty bought me cake so my mom, carlos and steph came over and we BBQ'd and watched a movie. Nothing big, just how I like it. Then my mom came back the next day and we just chilled and watched another movie. Very relaxing weekend. OH! and the weekend before that was Easter. It came so early this year that I didn't get any time to decorate which is fine with me. We first went to mass then to the park to celebrate with everyone. It was pretty warm that day but it didn't last, it's now cold and raining......which I love! I really want to move to a cold country instead of "sunny" california. I hate the summers and eveyrthing else before and after is alright, I just wish it would rain a lot more. I want to be able to own a raincoat, galoshes and an umbrella. I've been trying to convince Naty that Colorado is the place to be, but we'll see. That would be awesome!

Bubbs is on vacation too. He goes back on the 15th. He's started back at baseball and plays for the Red Sox this year and is liking it since he's hitting the ball while be pitched at. This is his first year that he's not in T-ball. No baby here anymore.

Audrey is on vacation with me and bored out of her lil mind. She just acts like a lil cat that follows me, cuddles and is attached to my hip. She's a great lil helper but has been crying a lot lately. Don't know whats up but its ok, I show her who's boss ;-) It's really hard getting mad with her cause she's too sweet but theres times that I'm not having it.

Naty is working at my old college still, nothing new and still working on the house. We're finally finally finally working on the walkway this weekend. I'm praying he comes through and finishes it. He was just outside planning where all the lights are going before he puts down the stone. He's really into the lighting, wants our house to be seen from space, too funny.

Ok, I just started enjoying my vacation and its almost over.....of course! thats how my life runs....

All alone

to do homework and THINK.

Naty took the kids to his mom's house since he had to work from 3-midnight. He was supposed to take care of them while I did my homework but instead he wanted to help a friend out and work a side job for him so he dumped the kids on his mom. The in-laws are taking the kids to a family birthday party and they're spending the night with them too. I thought it was cool since they haven't been seeing their grandparents that often. It seemed that last year they were here a lot and since Naty has been working a lot they haven't been coming around too much. I have a lot of homework to do today and have been working on it since Naty left 2 hours ago. I'm so damn tired of homework and taking a short break now.

I went back to school 3 weeks ago and the pace is picking up now. I have papers already due next week and I barely started on them today. I made a goal for this year to stay on top of things and not fall behind so I need to pick up the speed on things and stop procrastinating. I need to shoot for those A's and get my overall GPA up for graduate school!

OH and I found something out, I need to apply for graduation, ALREADY! My teacher taught us how to graduate a whole semester earlier so that we don't have to wait for Spring 2010 to graduate, instead I can graduate in Spring 2009 but still finish up my last semester in Fall 2009. This is all happening way too fast for me! wow! I just graduated from ELAC and now from CSUF, WOW, I hope P.A. school goes this fast too.

Now, on to my health dilemma. I went to see Dr. King in Jan. and he gave me some Metformin to treat mild PCOS. He said I'm not officially diagnosed with PCOS till he sees my results next time BUT I know I have it. I have bad acne all along my jawline and my periods are all screwed up. The medicine hasn't made anything better but I think its helping my body go back to normal because I'm finally losing weight. I would diet and exercise and it would still be so hard to lose weight and even though the Metformin makes me hungry as hell I think my body is going back to norman :-) well I hope so. This acne is driving me crazy, I just want it gone and for it never to come back. I would complain about my face before but now! its what I'd call bad, before was just minor breakouts, damn I hate it.

Our house is on hold for now since Naty is working a lot. Our next step is to lay the bricks on the walkways and stairs so that we can start on the stone on the face of the house. We were so close to ordering and then Naty got busy! are we ever going to finish!

Anyway, everything is ok and going good, nothing major besides my PCOS.

Back from Novato

We went up North to visit Jose and Monica on the 4th and came back home on the 13th. We had fun getting away and relaxing somewhere other than home and had a great time. Naty kept asking me if I wanted to go do something but I was happy chilling at their house and just spending time with them. I told Naty if he wanted to do something then we could but it wasn't necessary and I was having a good time bonding with Monica. The kids were dying to see Alvin and the chipmunks so we did that right away, did some shopping, had my hair done, did some more shopping (hehehehehe) and my favorite of all we went to see some new houses that they were interested in. All I could say is, "WOW," they were sooooooooo nice! I was imagining myself in those houses and Monica made a few comments about us moving up there that it started to sound really good to me ;) Oh and Naty went to sign the book at his union in San Francisco and got a call on almost the last day we were there so he got to work one day and made a little over $900 bucks for one day! WOW! the union electricians make $50/hour up there and Naty was in total shock and love. Overall, the getaway was great and made me miss my home and appreciate it more once we got here. I was so tired on the way home that I thought I was going to knock out once I got here but instead I started putting all the Christmas stuff away and cleaning like crazy. I'm really glad to be home, aaaaaahhhhhh I love our home :)

Bubbs went back to school today and had a blast. He was so happy to go back and was done with vacation, I think he got bored and tired of hanging out all day. I'm really glad he got back into the swing of things and loves school. As for Audrey she's dying to go back to school too, she was upset that Bubbs got to go to school and she didn't. She loves playing with the other kids and loves her teachers too, I just hope this lasts for both of them, lol.

I also go back to school next week with Audrey. We're school and carpool buddies and have fun going to school together. It's just so convenient with the daycare being on campus. Oh and speaking of school I finally got my grades last week, here they are!

Stress Management.........B
Nutrition.................A
Personal Health...........A
Sociology of Gender.......A
Which puts me on the Dean's List :)

Isn't that funny that I got a B in stress management! LOL, I'll admit, that class gave me major stress! My teacher turned out to be totally cool at the end and announced that we would be the last class that she'd teach cause she was retiring. I felt bad for her cause she cried in front of the class but besides the B, I did learn a lot in her class.

Now this semester I'll be taking:

Advanced College Writing (blah, I hate english)
Concepts of Health Science
Measurements and Statistics in Health Science w/ lab
Visual Communication

My goals again are to get all A's! I'm really trying to graduate with honors, I know I could do it. I'm going to take advantage of all the help I can get with my classes. Like tutors and writing centers, I'm not going to guess my way through this semester. I'm also going to stay on top of assignments like I did about 3/4 of the time last semester. Big changes and Big hopes for this semester and actually in my personal life as well, we won't get into those.

Ok, I better put the kids in the shower. see ya

Ramblings

We all went to the beach last Sunday and had a blast! so we decided to go again. This time I'm taking my camera. The waves were crazy and kicking our asses. We had so much fun and I was glad that almost everyone could make it.

Bubbs is now in the after school program at his school and loving it. Today was his first day and he asked why did I pick him up, LOL!! he said he had a blast playing with all the other kids. I think this will help him cause he's so shy and doesn't really like talking to other people. Hopefully he'll get out of his shell.

As for Audrey she's talking more and more at school, her teachers say she's sharing a lot more with them. They had asked me if she can talk in the beginning, hell yeah she can!

I did so much today and it hit 106 degrees, I was soooooooo damn hot being out in the street running errands but I kept at it. I had so much to do and I'm doing homework now while Bubbs and Naty play video games. Oh and today is my mom's b-day so we took her out to eat with grandma.

ok, I think thats it..........my head is spinning still from earlier.

Go Titans!

I'm in! Cal State Fullerton University that is! and man oh man its been an exciting ride so far. Monday I found out I was accepted into the school so I was on the phone and internet most of the time trying to get classes and I finally got in! here's my classes.

Personal health: MWF (10-10:50)

Nutriton TTh (2:30-3:45)

Stress Management T (4-6:45)

Sociology of Gender TTh (11:30-12:45)

Audrey has also started daycare and loves it! She's painting, singing, learning new things and has new friends. I was scared that she was going to cry but she's not scared anymore and loves going.

As for Bubbs, he loves his new teacher, she's really young and looks like she can keep up with them all. He's just growing and growing and up to my nose now. He's been good at waking up too, he would cry and fight me to wake up but now he just goes with the flow!