I'm here I'm here!

Hey everyone

Sorry about the long pause in between posts (here comes the excuses) but I've been very busy with school, motherhood and wifehood. Still hanging in here and trying to roll with the punches of pain I keep getting. I'm so tired of complaining but thats whats on my head right now while I sit here in agony. Oh but good news about my health is that my acne is going away! I finally seen my regular family doctor cause the Metformin and BC pills my OBGYN gave me weren't working fast enough for me. So my doctor gave me an antibiotic to take at night, an antibiotic cream and benzoyl peroxide for the morning and differin at night and the combo has cleared my acne and now I'm left with scars which I'll take before my painful cystic acne. Thank God its finally working and I'm feeling good about myself again (except for the weight thing).

It seems that school gets harder and harder each day. I'm honestly not loving school anymore and miss my regular days off with my kids but I have to finish what I started and I know it will all pay off. I have 1 week left of school then I'll be on vacation for 1 week and Bubbs has been off since last week and will go back on April 15th. I've been having to send him with his grandma's while I go to school cause I don't have anyone to watch him. Audrey is still loving school and gives me a hard time when I go pick her up. Last semester she'd have to go to the bathroom when I picked her up so she'd take a long time and just sit on the toilet. Now this time she ignores me and keeps playing and acts like I'm not even there. So I have to act like I'm leaving and then she follows me, LOL. I really need to get a new camera cause I'm missing out on memories of them, they're growing so fast.

Naty went back to work like 1.5 months ago cause he knew it was time to go back. He's working at my old school (ELAC) and is liking it a lot since he's trying to be a foreman and make more cash, You know Naty, loves his paper, LOL the green kind ;-)

Our house is still in progress and Naty is ready to set the pavers down! finally!! YES! I've gotta get pics tomorrow of the progress and make sure to post them. He also did my flowerbed and the 2 entrance walls on the walkway, WOW! its coming together. Also the stone for the face of the house should be here on Monday so I'm thinking in 2 weeks we'll be done with the front of the house. Oh and can't forget the flowers! OH YEAH! I'm going to fill that flowerbed to the max! with bulbs spread out all over the place, I'll prob. buy hundreds of dollars in flowers.

Another thing, I've been really into you tube lately. I never knew all that was out there. I've learned hairdo's, make-up tips, cooking lessons, etc.. its really cool.

Let's see......OH Savannah's b-day is tomorrow and Sunday is Easter, already. The year is zooming..... it'll be dreadful summer soon (I all ready can't wait for it to be over). Anyway, its really late and I'm here youtubing so I better go to bed! goodnight.

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.

Happy 2008

We had a fun and entertaining christmas eve. I had spent the whole day before cleaning, baking and prepping for our big dinner. My mom and Steph even spent the night to help me but after a while I think Steph felt slaved by my demands. I had her cooking, cleaning and even hanging the Christmas lights with Naty, she looked at me like I was nuts when I volunteered her to help Naty put back up our lights. We had people working on our house on the 23rd! while Christmas was fast aproaching, instead of calling the whole thing off I decided to work with what I had. To my great surprise the guys finished the outside of our house and I'm amazed with the results! The actual color that we chose for the house was a lot darker than what it came out BUT we're really happy with it since the stone on the face of the house will be really dark it will blend really nice. So back to Christmas, we had tons of food, drinks and people! It was an awesome day! I was so busy that I didn't get pictures but I'll make sure to ask everyone else for some. So we just ate, drank and were merry.

Then Christmas morning came and the kids were waiting for us and when it was time they rushed the tree. Bubbs got a lot of games, movies and very little clothes and Audrey got some games, lots of toys, movies and very little clothes. Again, i didn't get pictures cause we were videotaping and I still haven't emptied my card on my camera, I know I know! thats dumb! After the presents I went back to sleep for a while and woke up to some guests which were Naty's dad, Miguel, Veronica and the kids, they stood for a bit and then we were off to Big boy Alex's house. He had asked Naty and his dad to fix his fence that the wind blew over so we gladly went and I took some games for the kids while we waited. It ended up getting late and Mayra got home so we went out for dinner at some Chinese Buffet place. OMG! it was hilarious, I had just seen Christmas story and the part when they go eat at a Chinese resturant cause the dogs eat the turkey, it was exactly like that! I told Naty watch them come out and start singing, "Fah rah rah rah raaaaaaaahhhhh, rah rah rah rah" (sung to Deck that halls, fa la la la la...." That is the most funniest part of the movie ever! But we had a nice quiet dinner and were off.

Now for New years eve we went to the George Lopez stand up show at Nokia theatre. We went in the neighbors Limo with a fully stocked bar. Me, Naty, Ruben, Laura, Mondo and one of his friends went. We had a cool night but they had changed the show from 10pm to 8:15! we were on the road at 8pm and the limo driver is the one who told us, imagine if he didn't tell us! we would have not seen George Lopez. We got there around 9pm and he came on at 9:20p, good thing we got to see him but we missed the first half of the show, I was fine with that but I don't think everyone else was. Oh well, what could we do?!? G Lo was hilarious and I couldn't breathe and had chest pains after but it was all worth it.

Then the next day we decided out of no where to have a BBQ here at home and invite everyone over. It was a nice day.

Of course my main goal for 2008 is to lose weight, I couldn't believe how big I looked in the pics that Laura took of that night. WOWSERS!! I'm huge! I don't want to get any bigger, I'm so out of shape, gross and very unhealthy, with all of my health problems I really need to lose weight. I know if I did my health would improve dramatically. I'm in pain as I type this and just want it to end, I wish I could just rest already, not DIE either! I meant, rest from this pain.......YIKES! Oh and forgot to mention that my doctor sent me for an ultrasound the next day and I now have another appt. with him on Jan. 17th. I just want to hear that I'm fine but I know I'm not. I'm also hoping to lose 5 lbs. before I see him, I've gained a good 15 lbs. since my surgery, NOT GOOD.

Well this post took me a long time to write so I better go now. We're leaving to San Francisco tomorrow morning to visit Jose and Monica. We owe them a visit since they come down here a lot. I'm just hoping to bond and have a nice vacation with the family, hopefully we can do that. Anyway, take care everyone and Happy 2008!