They Do Listen!!

The Sequel yells "Mom!! Baby Girl just said a bad word". What did she say? I ask him. "She said, stupid". Baby Girl comes running in and says "I said it to a non-living thing, non-living mom!". I find it funny because I have made that argument also. Tear, tear, those kids are listening.

Worker Bee....Not!!!

Funny thing - This morning I told Baby Girl that I would pay her $4 an hour to work for me. She asked if she would be paid daily. I told her that I would pay her every Friday for the week worked. She asked if I could drive her to Toys R Us after I pay her. I said, sure! Anyway, I told her to keep track of her hours, sign in and out that type of thing. Anyway, she told me that she was taking of from work today. I told her that she had not even started working and how could she take the day off? She said that I had just told her today and that she was not ready. She also asked me if she could take breaks if her friends came over...wth?!! What kind of worker am I raising here?!!
She has yet to start working...sigh!

At Miller Outdoor Theatre enjoying Aladdin with the kiddos and TUTS' Leading Ladies. This is the bilingual version of the play.

Officially Off for the Summer!!

I am officially off for the summer!! Yay me!! For the next 65 days I am available for birthdays, happy hours, bat/bar mitzvahs, concerts, carnivals, communions, quinceaneras, graduations, and ALL types of celebrations. I am also available for lunch and dinner during the week, space is limited (I do only have 65 days!), so make your reservations now. Hope to see you all soon!!!!

I just noticed that I did not blog at all in May. I need to update you guys on my birthday party and other fun activities that took place during that month, so stay tuned.

New Job

I finally got the call today. The lady on the other end said that I needed to go by Human Resources and fill out the paperwork. I told her that I had been getting kind of worried since I actually got hired 8 days ago and had gotten an email about getting fingerprinted, but had yet to hear from Human Resources. Anyway, she asked me when I could go in. I said, right away, of course!

I print out all the paperwork (a whole 25 pages) and fill them in before heading to sign on the dotted line. Everything is going fine until she tells me that she needs to contact the High School to see when they want my starting day to be. She asks me if I have a preference on when I want to start. There I go thinking of all the million and one things I need to get done like, nails, hair, and school clothes shopping, and tell her that this coming Monday (April 20) would be fine. Anyway she gets on the phone and tells me that the Assistant Principal wants me to start tomorrow, Wednesday (April 15). I kind of choked a little bit on my spit…WHAT??? Didn’t they read my thoughts? I said I still needed to do my nails, hair, and shop for school clothes, PLUS figuring out how my daughter is going to get to school since I need to be at the high school at 7am.

I left the HR building and drove a town over to give them my fingerprints. I hope nothing comes back negative now since I am not going anywhere, they are going to have to call the National Guard to remove me from my new job! While driving I had to cancel my noon hair appointment on Friday and change it to a time I can actually manage. I also had to call the nail place and hope that they could squeeze me in today. I drove to the mall and did some last minute, super fast, shopping, and actually managed to find a really cute shirt to wear tomorrow.

I am super nervous about the new job. I tend to get panic attacks before meeting new people and tend to stutter when I am nervous…yeap, it is going to be an interesting day!! By the way, in case you all were wondering…I am a Library Asst. at a High School.

We Are Off To See The Wizard

On Sunday we went to the Hobby Center to see The Wizard of Oz. I thought my daughter would be a little more excited to see The Wizard since we are die hard Wicked fans, but that was not the case. Baby Girl kept saying that she had already seen the movie and that she had not liked it all that much...what? It is the front-end, pre-sequel, to Wicked!! Blasphemy!!

Our tickets sucked. We were all the way up in the peanut gallery section, well, I would say past the peanut gallery section. Since the husband and I are unemployed we decided to save some cash by sitting next to the people wearing sports jerseys and baseball caps. Some of them even had CROCS!!! Who goes to the theatre with Crocs??!!

Anyway, the play was ok. The doggie, Toto, did an amazing job. The music was good and the acting commendable. Overall I give it one thumb up! The play however got me super excited about seeing Wicked this summer in Austin. I can't wait.

My Ghetto Daughter

My daughter will kill me today! We are looking at twirling outfits for competition...I want elegant and classy, she wants Rainbow Brite meets a bag of Skittles topped with "sparkles and lots of colorful gems". Yay me!!
I don't know where this girl gets it from. If the piece of clothing has sparkles, rhinestones, glitter, or butterflies she is all over it. She is not my daughter! I try to take her to the nice stores, I take her to Ralph Lauren and say, you can have anything you want, she just looks at me and says, no, thanks! She is a lover of that place they call Justice. I was a frienemy of Limited Too, they had some nice stuff mixed in with the overpriced Hanna Montana and Jonas Brother t-shirts. Since LT is gone, I am stuck with Justice. Great!
Aside from my hatred of anything she pics, she does make me laugh inside a little. She sounds so mature at explaining to me how she is the one wearing clothes and how I need to understand that we both have different tastes. Then of course I have to remind her that I am the one paying for the clothes!
I do compromise some, but dread the day that she gets a part-time job just to pay for her own clothing.
Sigh!

What are Those?

Just tried to explain to my 4 yo the difference between man's nipples and woman's breasts while by 7 yo daughter chimed in. I think he is more confused now!
Ha, ha, and all this while I was changing. He pulled up his shirt and started touching his nipples and asked me what they were called, then asked me what mine are called. Then Baby Girl came in and told us that I had the biggest ones! Then my confused 4 yo said that no! daddy had the biggest ones. Those kids make me chuckle.

Peanut Butter!!

My son's (The Sequel) favorite sandwich is turkey, cheese, and peanut butter!! NO BREAD. I don't know about you guys, but that sound gross to me. I happily make it for him, since he is really picky and doesn't eat well most of the time. It does roll neatly into a roll which makes it easier for him to handle and eat, so that is nice. Peanut butter!! peanut butter!! Really?!!

Summer of Concerts!

This summer is shaping up to be one of music. The Woodlands Pavilions has a great music line up this year. I am going to Coldplay in July and I just got my pre-sale tickets for Depeche Mode in August!! I am super excited. I also want to go to Def Leppard, so if anyone has an extra ticket and need a cute girl friend ;) to go with please let me know OR if you have a ticket(s) for sale also let me know. Yay me!!

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Up Way Too Early!

Facebook Status -> Chica is kicking herself! What possessed me to sign up to chair Donuts with Dad? I need to be picking up the donuts at 5am. I will have drool and pillow case marks!
The event was a lot of fun and a HUGE success. The only minor problem was that Wal-Mart did not have my milk and juice ready to go when I got there, so I had to wait around until they got everything together. The bakery dept. did have all 70 Dozen of my donuts ready.
The volunteers were amazing and the parent's great. It was really a great time.

Spanking Illegal??

My French comrade tells me that spanking will become ILLEGAL in France. I am not one to hastily spank, but illegal? It is necessary sometimes. Opinions??

Go Diego!

Facebook Status - "It seems that The Sequel has changed Baby Girl's name to Alicia. I am going to have to limit his "Go Diego Go" watching". Not only that but he keeps yelling "there's animals in trouble". Too funny, or is it?

Interview

I had an interview today. I am only looking for a temporary position, one that I can have for 3 to 4 months, you know, nothing too formal, just some data entry, phone, well, general secretarial work, or take over for a maternity leave; but you would have thought that I was applying to become an astronaut or something. I was at the place for almost three hours!!! I was about to run out of there screaming. Cheez. How hard is it for a girl to get a job nowadays?!

Happy Groundhog Day!

Facebook Status - "Chica is wondering how accurate is this whole groundhog business...six more weeks of winter...booo!!!" I already had to go tan this weekend. I was starting to look pasty. Six more weeks...yuck.

Rock Band

Facebook Status - "The Sequel wants to "play" Rock Band. He is on Elmo guitar, The Last Episode is on drums, Baby Girl is on keyboard, so I guess I will rock out some Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
The Sequel is dragging the old Fender out, so I guess I am on acoustic and vocals. The funny thing is that Baby Girl keeps running away and The Sequel keeps yelling at her to come back and "rock with us". Ha, ha, I have no idea where TS gets his rocker moves. He dances and play the guitar like a rock star. He is too funny!

The Sequel Enjoying the Pool...Today!!

The water is freezing, but for some reason my son thinks today is perfect pool weather. Then he tried to convince all of us to get in...crazy kid!

Awesome Day!

After my interview, which I think went pretty well, after all, it was my first in ten years, I headed to Tootsie's to be fitted for the dress I will wear to the TUTS (Theater Under the Stars) event on Tuesday. The TUTS event called "Elle of an Event!" will benefit the TUTS’ Education & Community Outreach programs. Yay!!

These are some of the dresses I tried on...





Ohh, by the way, I should hear something back from the interview on Friday. I will keep you all posted.

Chica is getting ready for the first job interview in almost 10 years!!

The last time I went on a job interview was 1999. I worked for (company name) for a little over 7 years. I have done my own thing for 2. I am a little nervous, but excited at the same time. It is a temporary position, I will be cover someones maternity leave. I think it would be a good opportunity to get my feet wet and or at least practice my interview skills!!
I will be wearing my CD suit and who can resist a suit like that? So I might get the position on the suit alone ;)
Ok, guys wish me luck or at least keep your fingers crossed in that I don't make a gigantic fool of myself.
The most exciting part is that after the interview I get to go to Tootsie's and pick out two, yes two, dresses that I will be modeling on the following week!! I get to have a fitting and have them altered.
So, if I totally suck at least I will have that to pump me up!!!