a second thought on green

i think iti is not only the lack of a/c but the fact that i have to keep the heat on to keep green from over heating that gets me the most. but i love green. and i am not willing to give up yet. like i sait, though-signifigant investment.

green has never let me down in 70,000 miles. although he did let j down in the 3,000 miles she drove it. sorry about that axle thingy...the mechanic marveled when i drove it down from wisconsin for her, " how did you make it from wisconsin? the water pump is leaking and oil is spewing" well, green has spirit and so i can't give up. any way- no one can love green like i do. even though i am depressed that i cant afford anything but band-aids for him. i thinkwell, school starts in a just over a year. i can get another job just for a little while and fix green up. we will see. i hope green can hold out that long. it has been almost 10 years (maybe more) since i got him and he has held out this long. just a bit longer...

i love green but if i dont get blue back soon i may go crazy. i think it is more because of the hassle it has been with the insurance etc rather than driving green. but green is old and i am afraid to say may be past the point of every day driving with out signifigant investment. ahh green, i will try to keep you alive as long as i can...

finally...

afer being potty trained for over a year and after an unsucessful attempt yesterday, julian peed standing up today. i guess it is the little things in life. and he had his first trip to the movie theater to see hotel for dogs. he was most happy about the vat of popcorn he consumed. he is definatly a grandmas boy.

baking.

this weekend is all about the baked goods. cookies on saturday- just the old stand by- chocolate chip and then cupcakes on saturday for miss m's friend at school. decorated and all. we will see how that goes!!

moonsand bikinis and plasma

julian got moonsand yesterday. what a joy. it is really fun but now the 3 colors are 1. pinkish purpley. messy, too. the included blow up sand box wasnt really big enough to do anything with but we played for over an hour. whicch is a record for me. not julian. when he is in to something, he will play forever. when we were all done the moon sand that jumped onto the floor was stuck to his leg like some crazy skin disease. i will post some pictures. thats what i always say, right? on a scale of 1 to 10 i give it a 7.5 mostly for the mess it makes and the too small sand box. maybe i will start a blog rating toys. julian has enough of them...

on a different note- it is my day off and monica and i have a date to go to the pool after school. julian will be at sandras so i can just sit and relax and read a book. i may go buy a new bikini. my old one is on its last legs. the pink polka dots are now white. i saw a cute one at acadamy. i do have a new suit joyce bought me last year. maybe i will stick with that. if i had a choice i would have a new suit for each day since i like to switch it up but i am also cheap and that always seems to win. i think i have to sell some more blood before i can afford a new suit, though.

strangly enough i look forward to blood days. i get paid to sit in a chair for 45 minutes or so and i get to listen to Radiolab. they have new plasmapherisis machines that go super fast. the last time before the new machines it was about 40 minutes to do the donation and last time it was 27. holy cow! i used to be there for a little over and hour and last time i was in and out in 45 minutes. which is good and bad since i like to relax and not think about anything while i am there and this cuts back on my think nothing time. but boy does that plasma bag fill up fast! it is amazing. it literally pours in there. some people are grossed out but to me, it is fascinating.

as usual, the wash is calling my name. i swear i had it all done 2 days ago and now i have 5 loads to do. it is crazyness.

why cant i make this slideshow thingy work? am i really so special?

radio lab

really- i have few vices in this world. raidolab has replaced mt dew. better, huh? except i will listen to it for ever and spend hours downloading episodes so i can feed my addiction. it does help to listen while i am mindlessly folding wash or doing the dishes or selling my plasma. so far, my favorite episode was "sperm" but i am a sucker for reproductive science.

ok, so apparently i was not being patient enough so here are some pictures. hair pictures as promised. more later after i do the dishes etc...

camerA woes

i cant seem to take the pictures off my camera. it seems to be held up by a video i have on there. i dont really get it since i have transferred videos before. and i dont want to just delete it since it was christmas. sheesh. i tried to go to my computer but apparently i can only access my camera through the kodak software. arg....i am gonna try some more. if i figure it out there may be a picture explosion coming.

hair part 2

yeah, so new hair? awesome!! kelly at trashy roots was awesome. she did what i wanted even though i wasn't sure what i wanted. at first i didnt look like me, though! i still have to put up my pictures but i promise that by later tonight they will be up. i got tons of compliments at work today and i think nemecio almost pooped his pants when he saw. he is really happy (good since he paid and all) now i just have to se what happens when i wash it and it does it's natural thing. i am thinking afro. but we will see. i guess thats what a straightner is for!

hair

so this is how the conversation went (edited for time and length)
-you need to do something with your hair. its pretty bad
-what i need is $50 for a real haircut
-here, take $100 and do something

i am not sure if i should be offended or happy. we can't really afford it but he is right, my hair is pretty bad. poofy, nappy, dry, weird. so i made an appointment for today at 330. i will post some before and afters. besides what girl doesnt like to have her hair done? it's not really free but at least he has been working extra caterings.

wish me luck. i hope this place is good. i think was attracted to the skulls on the website. i left my hair in its natural state so they can see what i am not working with.

on a scale of 1 to 8, your'e an 8

why is it that even though i just peed i will still have to pee after i brush my teeth in 5 minutes? why do i have to compulsively pee 1) when i come home 2) aftre brushing my teeth 3) upon waking up even if i woke up an hour ago to pee 4) before bed. why is it my son, on the other hand, never seems to have to pee. no joke. once we drove all teh way to wisconsin and he didnt pee once. he peed like 6 times in the shower when we got there but damn! in the mornings i have to remind him to go. sometimes i will forget and it will be like 1 pm and i will say to him, have you peed yet today? and he will say no and run away. maybe i am a bit obsessive but that just doenst seem to be normal after my over active bladder. and why o why does he poop everytime i am taking a nap? even if he already pooped that day if he sees me napping, he has to poop. i dont get it. i am going to bed

ahhhh spring!

i am losing my voice. maybe it will be completely gone by friday and i wont be able to work the dt at work. probably not so lucky.

ahhh...peace and quiet. julian is asleep and no one else is home. i am relishing this moment until i have to start cleaning the house. i already cleaned 2 boxes of toys out of julian closet and picked up the room and i am washing the sheets. now, the rest of the house (make sure you read that ina paul harvey-esque voice, ok?)

i did all my car stuff today. at least that is taken care of. now, tomorow i can slack off and do nothing. which i am not so good at lately. i feel like i need to keep moving. like there is something else to do either in the house or with the kids or errands to run. i used to have this list of things to do if i was wondering what to do. it started like this:
HEY LAZY!! IF YOU ARE BORED YOU CAN...
and then it listed all sorts of things that needed to be done like change the sheets, make cookies, scrub the tub, go to the gym, clean the fridge, walk medea etc.
it listed things that either a) didnt need to be done on a daily basis or b) i needed extra motivation to do them. oddly enough, it worked. i would consult the list if i was bored and then i wasn't so bored anymore. now i never am really bored just more felling like i am forgetting something big that i need to do. and i never figure out what it is.... oh well.

off to do the wash that is calling me.

colds hail and snot

i discovered, yesterday, why they say not to use a sinus rinser when one or both sides of your nose are completely clogged. i was deaf for almost half an hour since my ears clogged up so bad and rinse water (which contains all sorts of nose goodies) was not coming out where it was supposed to (the other nostril) but it decided to take the route through the back of my nose and out my mouth. so now that you are thoroughly grossed out... but i was desperate. and my nose was only like 95% clogged so i figured i had that 5% to play with. sudafed is my hero right now. but even that isn't mare than 75% effective with this monster that has decided my sinui (is that multiple of sinus?) were a good place to live and breed. it seems to be going around at work. but i keep going just to spread the love with my co-workers.

on a different less nasty note, i had the dent guy come to look at my car and he said that i need more than just dent repair, i need actual body work. thanks hail. so wednesday i have to drive out to leander for an estimate. and get greens inspection done. and pay greens registration. so i can drive green while blue is in the shop. i guess i also need to order a new txtag since my windshield will be replaced as well. thanks again, hail.

and now, i am frustrated since it took me 15 minutes to get the pictures just so. and i am still not happy with the placement but i just gave up since 3 people read this.

someday i will get the picture of the hail off my phone and put it up here. it was about the size of a baseball. i have never seen anything like it.

tomorrow julian and i get to go to see the pediatric orthapedist (the bone and joint dr-what ever they are called) for his knee pain and left foot that is always turned in. hopefully it will be nothing but my dr is very thorough and wants to be sure. too bad i cant remember the dr's name.

arg. time to whisk julian off to sandras house and then of to work. so i can infect more people.

dream sequence 2
dropping julian off at school. i leave my car on to run inside and get him settled in (i never do this in real life, i always shut my car off if i am stopped longer than a stop light.) the music is playing loud. i am in the school no more than 2 minutes. nemecio is there and we talk for a minute while julian settles in for story time. i go outside and look for my car. i cant find it but i can hear the music fading. i look out past the row of cars and i see it driving away. so i run back inside and ask for nemecios phone to call 911. of course, it is too complicated and i cant make it work. suddenly 2 detectives show up and say that someone from the governors office asked them to come. they say i must have friends in high places. and i think to my self, i dont really have many friends...i give them all my info and head home to get ready for work. the only problem is that i cant find my work clothes. they were in my car. of course then i cant find any other clothes, either. and i am getting kind of excited. not in a good way. and i kept thinking i should just call in. they would understand if my car was stolen and i couldnt get to work. somewhere in there, monica came home and had a friend along and they both fell asleep. my house was the old apartment above btbt's house where paul and his mom and steve used to live. thats all i remember. i am not sure if i ever got to work (somehow i dont think so) or if i ever got my car back.

i am kind of dissapointed i havent been remebering my dreams lately. i used to remember them at the very least once or twice a week. hmmm. wonder why.

hair cuts and other goodies

it never ceases to amaze me how much of a difference a little trim makes. me being me (meaning cheap) cut my hair today. i usually do it every couple of months. why should i pay someone to cut my hair straight across the back when i can do it myself and it is fine. since my hair is poofy anyway no one can tell it it a bit choppy at the ends. now it is dry and extra poofy. next battle: chlorine season.

really. do you think sallys sells a giant bottle of chlorine out shampoo? last year i almost had to shave my head since it looked more like a hay field in fall than hair. but i am not willing to give up swimming, either. i cant wait to swim. the water is too cold now but once the weather gets warm it should warm up fast. last year at this time, it was in the 80's consistently. this year, not so much. it was in the 40's last week for lows and i think the warmest day we have had has been in the 80's. today, a beautiful 77 degrees sunny and light breeze. ahhhh...

update- julian never managed to give himself a wedgie

i seem to be having some writers block. which is ok since i am not a writer.

more later

can one give ones self a wedgie?

julian is giving himself a wedgie. or trying to anyway. need i say more? clearly he is my child.