any harry potter-twilight-lemony snicket fans will like this book:



or anyone who has a grade school kid who likes to be read to. God, I cant wait to read books like this to scarlett.

photo dump!


dude. check out what an amazing artist my kid is. do you see the smiley face and balloon on the bottom of the page? yeah, my kid drew that.

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whew. just took the kids from the head start program on a field trip to the zoo. we had NO time, like an hour and a half, so we zoomed around pretty quick to look at everything. We did manage to see the polar bear playing. I have never been to the zoo that early, it's way better! the animals are all awake and active and there are no crowds. Anyway, I was in charge of two of the kids, one of them has a pretty big language barrier, she sounds like scarlett when she talks and she is 4...except way quieter. but when she speaks in spanish she is all loud and speaks really well. And she always repeats the things I say back to me, like a little parrot. She's totally my favorite, I am glad she was put in my group. I like little girls way better than little boys. haha.


I got my nails did for the first time ever. I hate them, i feel disabled and I cant scratch myself or open soda cans or pretty much anything.

life is busy busy as usual.

me and scarlett to a trip to the craft store the other day (or as she likes to call it, "crap store") and we bought lots of fun things for her to do. We have a great time, just me and her. i pretty much devote every single moment of my free time to her. I rarely go out these days, I am just too focused on more important things....daughter, school, career, making money. I just have a hard time connecting with "party people" these days...but how do you meet friends unless you go to parties? I am busy but I do not want to be lonely!

Anyway, in august after my school is done, I am going to have a well deserved break. Maybe I will take my daughter camping.

yesterday sam brought me orchids. so pretty!

I am a little weirded out by my child. I dont know if this has anything to do with it, but ever since she started kindercare, she has been playing independently SO much more at home. It might be a coincidence, it might just be that she is getting older. But I love it! Not that I dont love playing with her ALL DAY EVERYDAY 24 HOURS A DAY but its a good thing she is learning how to keep herself entertained. this morning she even turned off her morning cartoons and went to play somewhere else all by herself!! and I have been doing internet stuff for the past half hour and she has only come up to talk to me, not to whine or complain that I am not paying attention to her. it's awesome! yay for more freedom.

also, i would like to know why i wake up every morning and im still EXHUASTED. How much sleep does it take!? blah.

I am unhappy as of late. this has resulted in over spending because whenever I get unhappy I stop caring about things like budget because I am too busy feeling sorry for myself. Due to this little fault of mine I spent over $100 at the grocery store and bought myself and scarlett lots of junk food. She asked for ice cream cones, i bought her ice cream cones. she asked for gerber puffs, i bought her gerber puffs. cookies, ice cream, chicken nuggets, etc etc. I also bought her red grapes because she asked so at least it isnt all junk. I wish it was just me and her; the rest of the world can seriously eat it.

I didnt go to work today because I woke up sick and my throat on fire. since this morning i feel better, though.

i want to cry today.

oh my god you guys.

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the man did STAR SEARCH for god's sake!

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i am so stoked to get a big pack of TP in the mail in 5 days!

"im taking my last dollar and buying some medicine."


-my two year old, just a few minutes ago.

sooo freaking tired. I have to get up so early tomorrow too. so this is my future! I have to write 7 papers in 4 weeks...not to mention the math journal and all other math problems I am assigned to solve. it is called the 5th circle of hell my friends. I am cursed to work.

ahhh

as usual, things happen very quickly for me. I am starting a new volunteer job tomorrow at a migrant summer school. Im working with pre-k kids who dont speak english. Im doing it twice a week for a month. Im so excited! Since I start tomorrow, I have no one to watch scarlett but I think me and matt are gonna set her up in kindercare for the month. She would probably really love it, they do lots of fun activities and have lots of kids for her to play with. plus its only twice a week for the mornings, so it wont cost a HUGE amount of money. Also, I start summer school today. 6 weeks of intensive elementary math courses! blaah. hopefully by the end of migrant summer school, boys and girls club will have contacted me so I can continue summer volunteering. I was feeling discouraged about my career path all this week, like maybe I am just wasting my time. But now that I am back on course I am feeling better about it. So um, yeah. here's to being deliriously busy for the next 6 weeks! see you on the other side, hopefully bettered because of it!


also, scarlett dropped a deuce in the potty. one step closer to big-girldom.

since yesterday, scarlett has gone on the potty for a total of 3 times! this morning she sat down and went right away. I put her in big girl pants as a reward as well as a sticker chart and other "big girl" things, like using a big girl cup and a straw and other silly things. This morning when she first woke up she had already gone in her diaper but she wanted to go sit on the potty anyway. She is so big :)

scarlett just peed in the potty for the first time!!!! she looked at me and yelled "THERE IT GOES!" and then I heard a tinkle. yay!

scarlett has become the "no-nap" queen. she has been sitting on the potty for 20 minutes looking at the same 5 books just to avoid the nap, becau7se that's the only thing i will let her stay up for. She didnt even take one yesterday. ahhhh! i dont want her to give up her naps yet :( well, maybe we can get some pee in the potty as a result of this no nap business.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

the inner cloaker in me is trying to escape.

last night I stayed up til past 2am playing magic the gathering and I actually really enjoyed myself! Now I want to build a lethal deck and destroy all nerd opponents in my way. I played two games and won both times!

I also went out to mexican food and won scarlett a ladybug bank at wunderland. I won like 200 tickets on 2 nickels. She loved that place even though she couldnt do anything but put coins in the slots of the games and take tickets out of the slot. She was walking around with a plastic bag full of tickets, and I told her to give them to me at the end so she could have the bank. In the car on the way home, she goes "where are my tickets?! i want my tickets waaaaah!" and she didnt understand that we had to trade them in. She really liked taking the tickets out of the machines and I guess wanted the tickets more than the bank! haha. I tried to explain the concept of trading but i dont think she got it.

anyway, im hella tired and i have a final today that I need to finish.

holy crap. I'm about to pull an all nighter!!! good god, it's the end of the term. I have to do like 6 kiddie art projects and 5 journal entries. woooo. But first, some ice cream i think.

I never update like I used to anymore. Just been busy I guess. I am finishing up my last day of volunteering for the elementary school next monday. I'm trying all my resources to find volunteer work for the summer, but so far, no luck. Dammit! I guess if I cant find something. my next step would to be to put an ad for free tutoring on craigslist or I was thinking about maybe getting some sort of middle school or older elementary school summer book club going at the library. I;m just trying to get in as much volunteer work as I can. I had a blast with the kids today, they all did their work in a flash and we also were able to joke around and talk about things like "the importance of reading" which is actually a fun topic amongst children who are learning to read.

It's the last week of school and then I have finals. Both of my finals involve making a visual 3-d model of sorts, and I, being the clever girl that I am (think Jurassic park....clever girl!) came up with a way to make one 3-d visual to work with both classes!

I took some tables at my work on sunday cuz we were busy and really did an awesome job. I made $60 on like 4 or 5 tables and a couple of to-go orders or something. That was nice, I was able to buy groceries this week! I am still shopping whole-foods consciously and this week was even better because I went to a less expensive store and a ton of fruit and veggies were on sale and cheeeeap. tomatoes 88 cents a pound!! my house is a blueberry-raspberry-kiwi-fruit bowl wonder machine. I also plan on making portobello mushroom burgers very soon....gurgle gurgle.

scarlett didnt nap today, we planted sunflowers and zucchini. hella late in the season, i know, but it only really just started getting warm a couple of weeks ago. i need to get tomato plants tomorrow. yay for gardening. I weeded like a mutha effer today. it was a good workout in the humidity. we also made cookies. i added bran in them because scarlett is a cookie monster and i wanted to make them healthy. I added raisins too. muahaha. I love that she can help me with little things in the kitchen now. I was also a promised a thunderstorm by the damn news people today. wtf where is it?! liars!!

also, wtf disappearing plane?! hello they are totally on a time traveling island somewhere.

scarlett just now:

"ouch!"

"whats wrong?"

"guapo's teaching me how to fly! get out of here guapo! get out of mama's room!"

yeah, my kid makes a ton of sense.