Sorry for running off again! Rei has been keeping me busy lately, but I thought I'd stop by to say I live!!
Anyway, freebie wise I haven't been doing much. I wrapped up my BzzCampaing as well as my MomsMeet Sample Party. So for now, I'm laying low just enjoying my spare time lol.
We'll talk again soon!
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!
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.
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!
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. :(
Is driving me crazy!! She's becoming so damn rebellious. Especially now that she picked up the word "No." She fights me while potty training, eating, bathing. Pretty much everything!
*Sigh*
I have a new phone! A LG Spirit that Chewy bought me for Valentine's Day. It's spiffy :D
Yesterday I also got myself a new pair of glasses. They're purple! We also bought something for Rei, Spongebob dvds.
Man things have been a bit slow for me, sorry for not blogging sooner. I am on a couple of Bzzcampaigns so that's keeping afloat lol. Since Rei has become more hyper I really haven't had time for myself, especially with the potty training/trying to teach her to speak and pronounce words correctly.
Yay! In already planning my Thanksgiving meal and what I'm going to gift this year.
For Christmas, I've been hunting PDF books almost all year long. I plan on gifting books this year, hopefully that doesn't seem too weird.
Man I've been trying to be consistent with Rei and her potty training and I have to say it is hard! It doesn't help that this kid likes to run around naked when I'm not watching. Ugh. The messes I've had to clean! *shudder*
I know I haven't posted any freebies in a while, for that I apologize. Right now though I've been busy with home life and I haven't had the time to freebie hunt as much.
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!
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This weekend alone I had 120 visitors to my blog! I don't think I've seen that much traffic in such a short period since I stopped doing monthly Raffles. My roleplay blog, Wydow Zamure also was busy too. I'm thinking of updating that blog again too. Not to mention I haven't uploaded ALL of my characters on there yet.
So Alex was here three days last weekend. Annoying on Friday, but after that it was ok. We went to his old workplace and used their wifi so we could download some new games for us :D
I'm a happy girl lol. Especially because I have Spyro and Infamous again.
This coming Sunday, I'm going to be In Los Angeles for a few hours. I wish I could stay longer but I can't I get cabin fever too easily at my mom's.
Rei has been bratty all weekend, it's starting to irk me :/ She entering the Terrible Two's. Ugh, I'm not looking forward to what else she will start doing. I'm already giving her time outs and taking toys away. I don't want to spank yet.
Before I forget, here's last months Visiting log:
United States 406
Russia 55
Germany 54
United Kingdom 4
Malaysia 3
South Korea 2
France 1
Lithuania 1
Ukraine 1
Most of the traffic is from Facebook, Google and twitter.
I feel like I'm hung over for some reason. It's probably because I only slept five hours. I don't know why, but lately my sleeping habits have been crap. @_@
We bought Rei's bed on Saturday :)
Took all freaking day to assembled, but she has a bed! I was scared that she was gonna fight the bed and throw tantrums over not sleeping in ot but I was wrong. She took to the bed just fine.
She is starting the terrible twos though. She's at this phase where she will throw a screaming fit if you say "No" to her. Annoys the crap outta me :/
So I've started putting her in time outs. When ever she throws a fit the TV is turned off, her toys are taken away and she sits in the bedroom for five minutes. It calms her right down. Other times she falls asleep during time out.
Woke up to birds singing outside of my window. Idk why it just made the morning feel surreal to me.
The weekend flew by in a bit of a blur, I'm not sure if that's a good sign or not.
I went on a shopping spree this weekend. Bought something for everyone, even for the apartment. Reila was the winner of that though. Bought her a new carseat, clothing, shoes and sippy cups. Next week we're buying her a bed. A real bed, not one of those plastic toddler beds.
Man, this kid is growing up too fast.
Bought a shit ton of Batman last Saturday. Well, not a ton of stuff but I did get 3 movies and 13 episodes of the 90's cartoon. Next weekend I plan on buying more.
Rei made me cry today she said her first sentence.
"Hi mommy."
We were playing house and I handed her the phone Gretel gave her. She took it and said "Hi mommy" she said it 3 more times before she giggled and ran away from me.
Aww, I don't want her to grow up.
;_; Rei is becoming a big girl.
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I'm thinking of disabling my Facebook. I'm starting to loose interest in it. Esp, since I'm spending all of my time on CM.
Stupid Fb glitched on me and everytime I updated my status I was messaging random people instead.
It was weird.
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 :)
My fingers are numb and they feel prickly as I type lol. I just spent the last hour and a half scrubbing all of the walls and baseboards.
Man, my fingers hurt!
I still need to mop the kitchen and bathroom and the stove. I've been up since 5 a.m. and it feels like I've done nothing >_<;
Rei has been following me around all day and it doesn't help that she keeps messing up the living room. I mean I know our apartment isn't too big but still!
Ahhhh, my fingers.
Oh wanna know something cute? Today, Rei discovered Sesame Street. She was so into that I was able to change her diaper, clothes and feed her without her making eye contact with me. Right now she's still glued to the t.v. watching Elmo's World.
Last night we took in a puppy! She's three weeks old, her breed is Poodle. She's the same size Osa was when we first brought her home, it made me nostalgic for a bit.
Rei is inlove with it, which I'm relieved for honestly. Last night she was asleep when the puppy was brought so today in the morning I was anxious thinking the dog would scare her. As soon as she noticed the pup she became excited and played with it. Now everytime she sees it, she wants to pet it.
It made us laugh that the dog is afraid of Rei.
The puppy went home not too long ago, Rei didn't want to see it go I think. She followed Alex out of the apartment when he left. It was both cute and sad.
Even though the puppy didn't stay with us for long it kinda made me feel like I was caring for a second baby. Weird, but that's how I felt.
I only slept a couple of hours last night. Rei threw up in her sleep, scared the hell out of me. I couldn't sleep afterwards I was afraid she might choke on her vomit.
The night felt like it wouldn't end!
Right now I'm sanitizing all of her toys and all of her bottles too. When Alex gets home he's going to wash all the blankets she's puked on.
Poor Rei. I hope she gets better soon
It smells a lot better than I thought it would. Bought some to help with Rei's butt rash I don't know if I used it wrong or something but it didn't do anything. If anything anything it got worse. So I started washing her butt after every diaper change and sprinkled baby powder instead.
Worked like a charm. Her rash vanished like it never happened. Now I'm annoyed I lost $7.00 buying Butt Paste. >_<
I received a UPS package the other day. Wanna guess what was in it? Let me tell you anyway: Spermicide and VFC. It had a letter from so-and-so company thanking me for promoting them and as a personal thanks they were sending me a package of popular items for me to try out, in hopes of me to keep promoting them.
I lol'd. I haven't done anything for this company in six months. Thank you for the swag though! I'll just put it in the box of other stuff that I get for free. Now that I think about it I should try to score free diaper vouchers from H.
On the plus side I guess I'm well stocked for the day I feel ready to have sex again. xD
I like ordering catalogs from said company though. They have pretty clothes that are easy to draw.
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.
