Celeb status!

I've come to the conclusion that I work too much. Well, I really don't work too much ALL the time.. but, I work 40 hours over the weekend, then I volunteer to work at the clinic 2-3 days a week. Working at the clinic tires me out more than working my 16 hour back to back shifts. I'm not sure why that is, cause I am only at the clinic 9 hours, I guess I just interact with more people and do more stuff. Oh, and I don't get fed like I do at my weekend family's home. They love me. I truly couldn't have asked to work at a better house. I feel like they are my new 2nd family. They are so awesome! I have never been as comfortable at a clients house as I am with them. As much as I miss the clinic, I don't think I will ever go back permanently.  I am just trying so hard to get extra money to get us out of debt, which is why I have been spending extra time at the clinic. I loved it for the 4 years I was there, but it was definitely time for a change.Now that I am home with Jaida most Monday-Thursdays and I have the chance to home school her and be with her all day, I love it. I don't think I will ever go back to a Mon-Fri job. However, after my RN is done (a few months left to go!) I would like to cut back hours a bit to where I have a little bit of my weekend to do fun stuff with my fam. The foster mom from my weekend job says she would like to open a Pediatric Nursing Home. She would be an amazing director! She is one of the best moms I have ever met. Hopefully if her dream comes true, I will be able to work for her one day! Best. Job. Ever.

Random thought. One of my girlfriends gave me an idea that I will be using for birthdays and Christmas' to come! Her daughter posts the things she wants/likes on this website called Pinterest. Cutest freakin website EVER. I'm going to use this for Jaida and I throughout the year, that way, when Christmas or a birthday comes around, I don't have to rack my brain thinking of things...  cause you know, when I really want to give people a list for myself, nothing comes to mind. With this site, I'm just gonna post things I love and let people decide what to get me. Plus, the site has the cutest freakin ideas humanly possible.

Speaking of Christmas! I can't believe how excited I am this year! I have no idea why! I feel like a little kid in a candy shop. I am especially excited for Jaida to open her presents. I feel like this is gonna be the best one ever. I have been able to get her almost everything she wants.  I love seeing her smile. Nursing school was really the best decision I ever made. It has really helped us to create a plan. Another upside to Christmas this year is that we are going on a lil  mini vaycay to Louisiana to see family. I love going on trips. (even if it is for only 3 days)  It will be our first traveling Christmas. I'm excited!

Another random Summer thought. It's really my ADHD kickin in... So, Jade and I are local celebrities at our local mall!!! lol

No, but we REALLY are!!!  It started out like this: We took some Old-timey Southern pictures recently, and instead of wanting to be a cute saloon girl or a southern belle, my child wanted to be a gun slinger. Yep. You read that right, a freakin gun slinger. Not that I minded at all, because I am super obsessed with outlaws. So obsessed that my cat and dog are named Frank and Jesse James.

 Anywho, my silly child had the man who was taking our pics laughing so hard it was unreal. He thought she was the cutest thing! She wanted to look like a bank robber with stolen money in hand. So he decked us out in outlaw-wear. He gave her a bag of "money." We took our pictures, bought them and left. Well, apparently, he liked our pic soooo much, he is using us a display in the store. (right up front!)  so, I went and saw it for myself yesterday. He told me that he had so much fun taking our pictures, and Jade made him laugh so much with her obsession with being a bank robber, that our pic was his favorite ever!!!!!  Isn't that awesome?!   Our freakin pic will be traveling around with him when he goes to other malls. Jaida is so excited, she thinks she is all that now. (as if she didnt think that before..... now its just way worse.)

So here is our infamous pic!!:    (taken from my nieces camera phone lol)

Cute huh?!

I thought so too!!

Anyway! I'ma get back to work. They aren't paying me to blog!

Till next time!

Duct tape?!

Ok, can someone please tell me why I'm wiggin out over free duct tape?! Its not like I ever use it.. ok, so maybe I use it a LITTLE, but not alot... to the point I got all excited and did a happy lil "free duct tape" dance. I guess if anyone ever needs duct tape, I'm their girl! ha

For some reason, I've been crazy LAZY this week. I'm not sure what the eff is going on. I wish I could get back on my Vyvanse. When I took that, I never sat still. Although, the whole point of Vyvanse was to calm me down. And, it took me down a few notches from my normal hyper self. But, I got SOOOOO much more stuff done when I was on it. My house was always clean, I was motivated to get off my couch and do activities with my daughter, her movement didn't drive me crazy, etc. I must be a lil bass-ackwards, cause I literally worked 40 hours from Fri-Sun, Monday I was so energized I organized and cleaned my house (although you wouldnt be able to tell that I did if you looked at it today,) got my daughter caught up on school work, made dinner, AND went to bed super late..... just to get up Tuesday and go to work at the clinic and not be tired!  It was amazing.. but my ball of energy has slowly stopped rolling, because today, I feel like crawling back in bed and sleeping for a week. It sucks to feel like this today cause my work "week" starts now. I work 8 hours tonight, a 16 hour tomorrow, a 16 hour on Sunday, then a 9 hour on Monday. (The Monday shift was one I volunteered for earlier this week during my energy high.)  I could slap myself for it now.

I'm pretty sure I have taken this extreme couponing thing to a new level. I realize I need Coupon-Anonymous. I counted my coups last night, during my nightly "clean-up and organize my coup binder venture" and I have about 4000 coups. And, it seriously breaks my heart when one expires. I feel like I am burying one of my pets. Isn't that pathetic? Anyway, NOW I freakin need a new binder thats bigger, cause my lil 2" binder no longer closes...thanks to all my coups. Maybe I'll tell my hubbo to buy me a binder for xmas. That would probably be the BEST gift ever..  so, if you are reading this hub, you now know. <3

I know that it JUST started getting cold here in Texas, but I'm ready for spring. I need to get some pictures of my kiddo, and I just don't like the ugly background of dead leaves and funky leafless trees. I took some super cute xmas pics of the family I work for, and it got me wanting to get back into my photography a little. Maybe not for strangers, but my family and my close friends. I love taking pictures. I found a backdrop set that I wanted to get, but I gotta make a lil money first before I wanna start buying stuff for my camera.

Speaking of money, I started reading the Total Money Makeover, and it is seriously changing the way I look at money. What an amazing book!! I have already started working on my "money makeover" and hopefully within 6 months, Danny and I will have NO more debt other than our house & car payment. Of course, I am going to start working on paying both of those things off early, but for RIGHT NOW, I am paying off everything else. Even if it leaves me no money to have fun with. I am determined!

You know how earlier I said I was lazy?  Well, I am too lazy to upload any pics today OR continue writing/typing/whatever. So, until next time!  This is so sad!

A lil bit of this, and a lil bit of poop.

As if I don't work too much, I volunteered to work at the clinic today. I love love love my clinic job... well, I did till today!  Ha, okay, I still love it, but I shoulda stayed home today. LOL  Today, the toilet decided to back up. Not just ANY toilet, the toilet right by the desk I was working. The doctor I was working for went in to do his business *gross* and the toilet died. I guess whatever he had living in his colon decided to poison the toilet and all of Temple's water supply. It was awful. First it wouldn't flush, then it did and decided to vomit it back up... THEN he went BACK into the bathroom an hour later (even though he knew the toilet was dead) and used it again.... only to back it up DOUBLE.. and now there is poopy coming from the drain vent on the floor. This has now become a health hazard. I'm waiting for the plumbers to get here in Hazmat suits. What a crappy day! teehee...   But all jokes aside, that was the worst smell I have ever smelt in my LIFE. I had lotion and tissues up my nose to block out the funk.

The weather has gotten unbelievably cold. There can never be a happy medium here in Texas. Not sure how we went from 90 degrees down to the low 30's in like 3 days. I'm freezing! I don't do well in the cold... hence the name, Summer. I'm not looking forward to going grocery shopping tomorrow.

Speaking of shopping, I am totally excited that I got 9 packs of razors (12 razors in each pack) for FREE yesterday. I love coupons. I won't have to buy razors for awhile. I wish I could pay for gas with coupons. LMAO. I wish I had more coups for food.... I cringe at the thought of paying all that money for food. Too bad we can't live off toilet paper or dish soap! (I have plenty of those things!)

I got bored and cleaned my entire house yesterday and organized it. There are a million other things I SHOULD have done, but I was in one of those "nesting" moods, and felt the need to organize. I made Jaida help, and by noon, she was conked out. We should have homeschooled yesterday, seeing as how I volunteered to work today, but I felt like my house was a cesspool. Ok, maybe not THAT bad, but I feel like it was disgusting. There were dust bunnies on my ceiling waving at me. ...It was awful.

I think I wanna start doing the Biggest Loser diet thingy again. I say this as Im eating a snickers bar. But seriously.. I am gaining too much weight, and I hate to sweat or exercise. I did well with it before! I'm tired of being chunky. I blame it on my Aunts yummy Thanksgiving dinner! I wish I liked meat more. Lots of people seem to be doing amazing on the Atkins diet.

Well, it looks like I need to get back to work. I'm not gettin paid to blog, although, that would be awesome!

Until next time!

Uti & a thousand chances...

Had to take bear bear to the doctor yesterday.. Turns out she has a UTI. Poor baby. However, she is still in good spirits. She loves going to see her doctor.. Well, she likes being at the clinic period. She acts like I still work there and as if she can just go where she pleases. First thing she did was go to her old spot sitting in between the receptionists. Normally they give her some kind of little job (whether its stamping papers, stapling stuff or shredding..) It makes her feel important. She also always wants to help stock exam rooms. Ha. Since I dont work there anymore, I feel like the new employees are gonna wonder why some strange lil girl is stocking their exam rooms. Lol

Im guessing Jaida has been extra sensitive lately due to her infection, but she got mad at her dad the other night and said she "was never ever talking to him again." In her defense, he is a grouch sometimes and doesnt think before he yells. He also doesnt think of how it will affect a 6 yr old girl. We decided to start giving her some simple chores so she can learn responsibility. He asked her that night to clean the area in the kitchen where the dog bowls are. So, she, trying to show him she could do a good job, attempted to wash the dog food bowl mat in the sink. (the dishes were a tad piled up cuz I was having a lazy day)  anyway, she put water on the mat to wash it, and some water fell on the floor and daddy got mad. He asked her why she always had to create bigger messes than there was originally. She didnt even have a chance to prove that.she would have cleaned up the water, cuz as soon as it hit the floor, he got upset. But to his defense, she is well known for making messes and not cleaning them up. So, anyway, his comment hurt her feelings, and she cried. I told her that boys were just born rude, and they never think before they speak. She said she had given him a thousand chances, and she was never talking to him ever again. So the rest of the night went a lil something like this:

Daddy: Jaida, would you like some ramen?

Jaida: Mommy, tell daddy yes, I would.

Mommy (me): daddy, Jaida says yes she would.

Daddy: J, you cant be mad at me forever.

Jaida: Mommy, tell daddy yes I can.

Me: Yes she can daddy.

Until he tricked her into talking, and she got mad at herself. Lol

Anyway, I need to get back to my 16 hour shift at work! Till next time!!

Chrim-urtain & A Dancing Queen

Ok, so hubbo and I have this "thing" about the holidays. For some reason, if I put up my Christmas tree BEFORE Thanksgiving, we get in some pretty huge fights. Never fails. It has happened year after year... I put the tree up, because I just CAN'T wait, and we fight. And, these are not fights over the tree, they are BIG fights. Fights that usually involve me going to stay with my mom a few days. And every year, I tell myself, next year, I will wait till AFTER Thanksgiving, but that is virtually impossible for me. I have no idea why. But it happened again this year. .....We fought. It's a never ending cycle.

This is how I know its the tree's fault; the one year I actually put it up the day after Thanksgiving, we had a PERFECT year. It is definitely the tree, I am convinced. Anyway, the tree didn't even know what was coming this year, as it lived a short life. My fat 17 lb cat decided to end our cycle of fighting and squish the tree. Literally. He broke my poor lil trees arms. They were ALL (yes, I said ALL) bent downwards. It was so bad, the ornaments just slid right off. It looked worse than the Charlie Brown tree. It started out soooo pretty!!

See?? 

I liked this years tree better than all the previous tree's we had ever decorated.  Fatness apparently did not share my feelings. 

So, now without a tree, and my closet space being limited, I hung a bow on my curtain and created my Chrim-urtain. haha I WAS gonna hang ornaments all over the curtain to be funny, but I didn't wanna take the chance of Royal Fatness messin that up too. He's a scrooge!!!! So, here is my Chrim-urtain:

I guess since we won't be in Texas for Christmas anyway, it works. I still miss my stinkin tree. Stupid Jesse James.

On a less tragic note, yesterday was my daughter's dance class. They are practicing for their recital. It is sooooo cute!  At first, I was pretty sure my daughter was the whitest, most nonrhythmic child alive, but compared to some of the girls in her class, she is a dancing queen. She is just so tall and lanky and not so graceful. It was funny watching her start! She has gotten so much better. I just love her teachers. Oh, did I mention she is in hip hop classes? She really loves it. She use to be in ballet and tap, but as I mentioned previously, she is the energizer bunny, and those classes were too slow and boring for her likings. I think its awesome, because she comes home and practices her dances. She cannot wait for her recital. I got to watch them work on their dance yesterday, and they all look so adorable!! They have come a LONG way from the first few hip hop classes. To be honest, I wasn't sure Jaida would make it, but she has surprised me! She got fitted for her recital outfit yesterday, and I got to see the outfits they will be wearing. It reminds me of 90's Hip hop. So adorbs!!

She will be in the pink jacket. How freakin cute is this?!

I'll be sure to post plenty of pics of her recital and her progress..  

She is getting so big, so fast! She is all about leg warmers these days. It was pretty chilly yesterday, and she insisted on wearing her dance shorts with leg warmers. She reminded me of a soccer player:

Anyway, I guess I better get going and finish her homeschooling. I told her I was only gonna be gone a second, and 30 minutes later, I'm still in the office.  Poor kid. 

Until next time!