I live!

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile I've been really occupied with Rei. She finally got a hang of using the toilet and letting us know she needs to go. I'm just happy she didn't put up a fight to leave her diapers lol.

Also, she finally said 'Daddy' though it's cute I don't like it she uses it more to get Alex to do her bidding -_-

Evil kid she is.

Right now I'm waiting for a VoxBox, a BzzKit and a package from Mom Ambassador. The BzzKit is for Dr. Scholl's for her, the Vox Box is Something Blue and from Mom Ambassador, I'm sampling the O Organics Salads. I'm going to be busy once they all come in the mail. :)

Father's Day is almost here, I already know what I'm giving Chewy. I was able to get a Winston Shaving Kit from Harry's, a photo card from Treat.com and Skyrim: Legendary Edition. I'm kinda proud of myself, the only thing I paid for was half of Skyrim! Everything else was free or paid with Prepaid Visas I've gathered. I'm going to make him some tri-tip that day, can't wait!

Catching Up!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope everyone has been having a goos time. Sorry I haven't been posting besides the usual review posts, but I had a bit of writer's block. Not to mention laziness xD

So, I was back home for a week, it was great being back. Little sad though, because Alvarado became well.... dirtier. Echo Park looks like a little suburban filled with hipsters now, but what pissed me off was the older Hispanic women over at Alvarado. Glaring at me or Rei one even had the gull to 'bump' into my stroller. I expected some rudeness but not at the level of hostility I saw when I went out. It was weird.

Sad, even.

I was raised around those parts of Los Angeles, but my trip made feel like a complete outsider. Maybe I've been living out here for too long. Maybe it is a good thing that I seldom return to LA to visit.

Oh well I guess.

So mom lives near the church now, but I love her new apartment. So many little shops and what not. There's even a bookshop! The next time I visit her Im setting $100 for that bookshop!

So life at home has been good. Alex started giving me a monthly stipend because according to him, a housewife should have spending money even if it's a small amount. Eh, free money I don't complain. Besides, it goes to our home anyway xD

I have been potty training Rei this week. It's f*cking hard! Props to the ladies that have the patience for this. She is willing to go potty, but freaks the hell out when Alex is home. I think she's shy.

Happy Birthday Rei!

Rei's birthday was last Friday! I can't believe she's two already! Alex and I were originally going to take her to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo but at the last moment decided to go to the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

I have to say I'm glad we decided to switch at the last moment. 

Not only was the zoo bigger but we also stopped by to visit my mom before heading home! As a bonus, my sister and nephew tagged along with us on our adventures :)

The day was fun, tiring and well, fun. We managed to only spend $150 that day and that includes gas, admission, lunch, dinner and more gas. I'm kinda proud of myself I budgeted and I stuck with it. I probably didn't save as much as I think I did but that's ok. Rei had fun, we had fun. The day was great!

Bleh.

I've been going through some really bad fatigue lately. I'm in a constant state of dizzying and being light headed. Ugh. I blame it on the stress. I just found that I'm going to have to take in my sister for an uncertain amount of time. ;/

Don't get me wrong I'm happy to do the right thing , it's just. .. well I don't know. I mean Alex and I are foregoing our personal life and space and it's not exactly sitting well with me. Also the thought of more people=more expenses such as the electricity, food, etc.

Plus she also has a child. I don't know her child or his mannerisms/behavior.  Not to mention how is Rei going to adjust to another child in the home.

I think I'm over thinking it.

I'm hoping that by trying to do the right thing I nor my husband get burned. I really do. For I'm just going to hope for the best, wish me luck cyberspace.

Oh! On a lighter note, I bought The Lost World by Michael Crichton for $1! That made me thrilled and sad. Thrilled because it's a brand new book for a dollar.  Very sad because it's a Crichton book in brand new conditions in the clearance rack.  :(

D: oh noes!

Alex won't be working for this entire week! The harvest is over so everyone is off this week and starting next Monday he'll be pruning grapevines. I'm happy he's still working but what I don't like is that he'll pretty much become a commission employee rather than salary like he was before. I'm kinda dreading it. I'm also sad because that means I can't put money in my roadtrip jar :(

We'll see what happens I guess.

My phone has been acting weird lately. It won't let me access Blogger or Facebook. I have to access them through apps which I hate because it means downloading stuff into my crappy phone :/  

I'll tinker with it tonight.

So Thanksgiving was awesome! Worked my butt off that day. I'm proud that everything that was served was made from scratch, nothing was boxed. Quite the feat compared to last year when I was still learning to cook xD

Happy Halloween!

Stay safe everyone, don't KO into a sugar coma!

This year Rei will dress up as a pumpkin :)

Last night before bed Alex and I were carving two pumpkins he was gifted from work. We did it, we gave them faces...

But I'll be the first to admit though, our pumpkins look funky xD Next year we will use freaking stencils!! It was fun cutting them up ans cleaning them from the inside, but man! Cutting faces into them was hard!

Alex is taking REI trick or treating, I'm probably staying home to hand out candy. The landlord is hosting a costume contest and I'm thinking of taking Rei but I'm not too sure. The last time we participated in a community event, everyone just stared and pointed at me. It annoyed the shit out of me.

Not to mention people out here don't control their kids. >_>

No I'm not saying I rock parenting, but at least my kid doesn't go around hitting/shoving for shits and giggles. Anyway, here are some pictures :)

Have a safe Halloween everybody!

It's almost October :3

Yaaaay!!!! Halloween is almost among us!  We've already bought Rei her costume and candy bucket. I'm hoping it looks as cute as the picture in the package or I'm gonna be pissed. I also bought some random decorations to tape on our door lol. I wanna bake cookies and make vampire cupcakes and chocolate cake! Though I know I won't because we'd never eat it all and we don't associate with anyone to share.

So Alex didn't work all week.

Remember how I was bitchy and not too happy about it? Well,  I ate my words. That same night I posted I came down with a horrible fever. Up until yesterday, I was too sick to do anything but lay on bed, drink Powerade and feel like shit. He was a trooper about it, took care of Rei, the apartment and cleaning/cooking. 

It almost feels like Karma wanted to teacher me a lesson. A painful, foggy, annoying lesson.

Oh yeah I joined a book club on that momsite I hang out in. I love it so far!

Might be a long week.....

So I just found out that Alex might be off the entire week. That sucks. We're probably going to be late with rent pay by the looks of it....ugh. I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish that the heat would come back. It's been pretty humid out here lately , but with not much sun.

The problem with that is that no heat means that the vineyards might take a little longer to ripen and if there is no ripe fruit, well Alex and his workers have nothing to do. I'm starting to believe that I'm not allowed to be too happy about anything or bad stuff happens. This I take as an example. We'd just our bed and were starting to get ready for Halloween and bam! Suddenly the heat dies down and work slows to an almost stop for him.

Maybe I'll just stick to being passive aggressive bitchy 24/7

Huzzah

Happy Monday peeps.  Climb ladders, bring home the bacon,  etc.

I hope those of you in the East Coast were safe from Issac, I heard Haiti is going through trouble as well.

Is it true that CA experienced 30 quakes over the weekend?  I just heard it on the news, they said that they expect it to keep going into next month.

This weekend was great for me. It was cool, bright with a constant breeze. Taking advantage of the weather Alex suggested that we go to Richgrove. It's a small swap meet, but pretty decent when it comes to merchants and stuff.  I'm happy to say we found a bed that we like too.

All in all we only spent 20.00 out there on some DVDs, handkerchiefs for Alex and socks for Rei and myself :)

The entrance fee was a dollar, free parking.

We had a scary moment though.  A wind blew through the lot and lifted the canopies off th ground! One of those things almost fell on the three of us. Later, Alex was making fun of me because I was oblivious to the tent pole that almost hit me :/

I cannot wait to go back :D

The rest of the day was a nice lazy Sunday. We got some take out, did the laundry and watched our bootlegs. Gotta say, the DKR made me teary. Batman had me geeking out Lol. 

Busy day today

We came home late from Los Angeles.  We didn't get to bed until maybe 3 a.m. I feel bad for Alex since he had to go to work later that morning. The good thing, I guess is that he came home at midday so he only worked six hours. With this heat it's almost impossible to do anything during the day it sucks. I need to go buy meat and fruits but I can't leave the apartment. I'm hoping it blows over eventually.

LA was fun. Sad as hell, but fun. We arrived Saturday night and spent the night at Gretel's. I'm kinda under the impression that Jason doesn't like me, but I'm not hurting over it. Her kid is so big! I hope the clothes I brought him fit.  :)

Spent Sunday with my Mom, visited my Aunts church too.  We took the kids out to the park, it was pleasant just to hang out. We took pictures too. 

I don't want August to end.

I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it to be honest.

My mom gave me a bunch of kitchen things. Appliances, silverware and glass/crystalware.

But not everything was good. Due to the heat, in the one day we were gone bugs got into the apartment. So today I spent the day cleaning, reorganizing, and throwing crap out.  Laundry was done too.

Man, what a long day. I still have plenty to clean tomorrow, so ugh.

Oh yeah, got another freebie in the mail. Press on Acrylic nails

Late humpday-Update

Today is my anniversary with Alex. I only know this because he woke me up to tell me. Honestly I didn't want to remember, it makes me feel like there's a noose tightening around my neck :/

Lol damn menstrual hormones.

So Sunday I will be in Los Angeles for a few hours to help my mom around her home a bit. She moving out of CA in two weeks. I feel like I truly am stuck in this cheap excuse of a town now. I hate it. So Sunday Imma make the best of it since it'll be the last time I see my siblings probably.

I got more samples in the mail this week :)

1 granola bar
2 Astro Lubricants
1 Lipton Ice Tea packet
6 Poise Pads
1 Wet!  Lubricant

I'm still waiting for my Bzzkit to arrive I'm so excited!

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Update :

He brought cake! Everything's better with cake! Lol, the day went by just fine. Now just waiting for Sunday :)

Free stuff :D

Got a bunch of freebies in the mail today! Well throughout the week, bur still! I also got some coupons too :3

The freebies I received this week are:

1 Shick Hydro Silk Razor
1 Schick Hydro Silk cartridge
3 Crazy Straws
1 pair of faux Pearl Earrings
1 Pair of Black Heart Earrings
3 Packs of Multi Vitamins
1 Coupon for $4.00 off Shick Cartridge
1 Voucher for free panties from Victoria Secret
1 Coupon for $10.00 off a Victoria Secret Bra
1 Voucher for a free Whopper from Burger King

And I also was selected to try out Unreal Candy™ for  free, through Bzzagent :D

Good week for my mailbox!

I also found out that Alex will be off Friday and Saturday. Boo!! I don't want him here!

Oh yeah our apartment management offered him a job here at the complex as a Maintenance guy. He's applying tomorrow, let's see how it goes. It pays the same as his current job.

It's 4:30 a.m.

And Reila is wide awake.

I feel like crying, I'm so sleepy but there she is watching Cash Cab. Alex is up too, loading the dishwasher and about to get ready for work. He's eating takeout today, I really don't feel like cooking for his lunch today.

I've been downloading e-books lately. Here's what I have so far:

The 50 Shades of Grey trilogy
The Hunger Game trilogy
The Harry Potter series
Confessions of a Shopaholic
S.D. Perry's Resident Evil Books. (BOOKS -00, 03, 04 and 06)
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
World War Z
Thinner
Acheron
The Dark Hunter Companion

I think that's it. Either way, I have reading material for the weekends.

Happy 4th of July!

We went to go see fireworks last night! I'm happy to say Rei did not freak out :)

Alex went back to  last week. This week the harvest started, right now he's doing 9 hour shifts I think. I kinda hate the harvest season though. He comes home smelly and dusty. It annoys the crap out of me :/

On the plus side, he brought fresh grapes home. The vine was still bright green. OMG! I think those are the best grapes I've had so far. They were crunchy, sweet and seedless.

The bad part?

They are gone!

Rei ate all 3 batches :(

I hope he brings more soon. Mmm, sweet crunchy goodness :)

Summer!

It's summertime ;D

Fuck SUMMER.

It's been two weeks and Alex still hasn't been able to go back to work because of the the heat. Triple digits. It's been triple-freaking-digits this entire time.

Ugh. Oh well, at least our bills are covered so we aren't hurting for money.

That feels good to say. "We aren't hurting for money."

Vent over.

;3

It's Friday! Two more days before.he goes back to work, yaaaaay!!

Lol, I feel bad. This entire week he has been trying to spend time with me and I keep ignoring him. I made him rent movies almost everyday so we wouldn't have to really interact. I think he finally got the hint. He stopped asking for hugs and kisses.

xD lol being on my monthly suck. Makes me bitchy. It doesn't help that its been triple digit weather. Ugh, I DO NOT look forward to summer.

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I scrapped Fuyo's story. Her bio is still the same, mostly. The only thing is that Greed is going to be in the story now, not as the enemy but she is the reason Fuyo has powers. As well as others like her. In her story, the earth was struck by a violent meteor shower. Many perish, but not all. Among these survivors there are a few that through heavy emotional distress opened up their psyche which led to them developing powers.

Fuyoko is Pyrokenetic. Instead of being a Pyromancer and relying on magik, she'll use her mind.

She'll be hunted down by others like her who grow stronger after each kill.

Still a work in progress, but I have a general idea.

Hmmm

Alex is off for this week.

On the plus side though, he is still getting a paycheck this week so yay for that. We rented some movies yesterday, Due Date and some low budget flick that I can't remember what it's called. Went out to Delano and did our laundry :x

I didn't want to go out it was too hot lol.

I love the love seat, it's comfy and all three of us fit in it. The only problem is that Rei gets greedy and tries to kick everyone off of it so she can lay down by herself. Greedy little baby xD

All in all, the weekend was a little slow, but great. I'm wondering how this week will be since he's gonna most likely be home with us. He goes back to work next Tuesday I think I'm not too sure. I just know he goes back next week. I think he said they're spraying the vegetation this week and that's why everyone is excused, but once he goes back he'll be there all day practically since the harvest will start as soon as they come back to work next week.

I'm just happy he's being productive again. I think the whole unemployment thing was driving up the wall :/

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Oh yeah, I had a pretty vivid nightmare the other night. I think on Friday or Saturday, I'm not too sure now.

Remember when I was pregnant I use to talk about how I felt like I was being stalked, dream-wise? How I use to dream with some grey creature that would follow me in my dreams and started making me paranoid?

Any who I dreamt with whatever that thing is again. In my dream, I was staying with an older lady, Rei was with me but Alex was working. I just remember he wasn't present because of work. Anyways, this lady would tell of how her home use to be haunted and how the entities that resided there would physically harm her and such.

Well long story short, I started seeing that "thing" soon after. At first he appeared in a bathroom mirror. He'd appear to me in any reflective surface, always standing right behind me . Well one night, I was going to bed and the "thing" was laying in bed with Rei, it's arms wrapped around her. I turned on the light, it vanished, but then the light bulb exploded.

The lady I was staying with, picked up on what was happening and offered to do a cleansing for Rei and myself. I accepted and through the cleansing shit got worse. It appeared to the both of us and spoke to me. I don't remember what it said, all I recall is that it scared me speechless. It tried to touch me and I felt its appendages over mine. Like you could feel the body heat it gave off.

Everything after that is a blur. The last thing I recall is that we were in bed. Rei and I were laying down, and Alex was about to get into bed with us. He walked into the room and climbed into bed. I felt the covers being pulled off of me and I assumed it was Alex. When I opened my eyes, Alex was asleep. I felt someone tugging on me. Behind me, someone was laying behind. I could hear breathing and felt the mattress move. Not wanting to turn around, I panicked and tried to wake Alex. When he did wake up he looked over to me, his eyes went wide as he jumped off the bed and tried to turn the light to the room on.

The feeling in the room was horrible. There was this thick presence there. I never turned to see exactly what was behind me I was too scared, but somehow I knew. I knew it was that thing.

Yes, I know I have an active imagination. But that shit was scary. If I could draw a picture of what I saw, I would.

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Lol I'm loving todays weather! I have all my windows and blinds open so it bright and breezy in our home.

I woke up in a good mood today lol

I finally logged into my old DA account, it took forever to get up to date on all of my notifications! But I was able to update my account and my DA ID as well.

Yesterday I had inspection come to the apt as part of renewing our lease. We passed so now I just have to wait for corporate to do a walk through and we're good to go.

I can't  believe it's been a year since we moved in here, it sure does NOT feel like it! I feel blessed though, the staff knows us and work with us whenever we have needed it.

Alex switched jobs today. He's not at the dairy farm anymore his temp was up. He's not home though he went to work for HR Agriculture. He's an assistant manager but his job is to supervise the people in the fields. Better than picking fruit for minimum wage IMO.  They started him out with nine hour days but I haven't found out what his wage is yet.

Android App

I just found the Android App for Blogger. Infact, I'm using it right now :)

Really, really easy to use.

Woke up around 2am to fix Alex's lunch for work. I wasn't sure what to make so I made him egg & chorizo tacos and a container of honeydew melon. I wish he'd get paid already though, we're running out of food and milk for Rei. Times like this I'm glad I have a canned food stash. It's not the healthiest, but I'm glad we have something to fall back on. I do miss eating meat though :/

Alex brought up yesterday that he ran into his Aunts. He wants me to go over and meet them, I said no. He became annoyed and tried going on about it even though he knows I have no intention to meet more people from his family. So to hell with that.

Oh yeah, has anyone actually gone through all of the services Google offers? I was going through some of them today and man... I can't wait to get on a PC.

Updates!

So how's life on the other side of the screen? I've been keeping busy, mostly with Rei. Ever since she learned how to open closed doors I've had my work cut out for me.

The weather has been ok lately, but I still refuse to go out. The skin on my neck healed almost completely, but I really don't want to risk it KWIM?

Alex has been working (yay), and I must say his mood has improved alot. I think being inactive was starting to get to him and honestly I don't blame him one bit. I look forward to a full time job, not just on-call or odd jobs.

Have you heard of streamzoo? It's an Android app, like Instagram. Pretty straightforward and very user friendly. Incase you do have it, add me. Like always I'm Wydow.

So I finally heard from the people at Xanga. They offered apologies and said I was free to rebuild my old site. F*ck that. I still don't understand what I did wrong there, but I'm not going back.