That’s why I love her.

I totally love the song “Miss Independent” by Ne-Yo.  It’s almost the epitome of what I’m striving to be.  Add something about being an awesome mom in the lyrics somewhere and it’d be perfect.

I haven’t written in quite some time and you’re all due for an update.

I GOT A POSITION AT USPS!

It’s only for the holiday season but it’s something.  I’m supposedly starting this week.  Unfortunately I thought I was going to start last week and quit my job already.  So I’m unemployed for a whole week.  But I’m excited that all my hard work is almost paying off.  It’d be a whole lot better if the darn economy wasn’t down so that I’d be pretty sure I can extend my contract.

I swear that I say this all the time, but I have been working on the layout and I’m pretty stuck.  So it might be awhile, but since I have the week off I should be really productive.

Well I’m off to pick up the kids!

I haven’t written in awhile.  I’ve got a new temp job that I’ve been busy at, as well as household chores and such.

I’ve started off with an assignment at a warehouse in Sumner.  I hate to say it, but I really couldn’t do the job.  They expected me to unload trailers full of dinner table sets.  So there was a whole table and 4 chairs in a box, dissasembled of course, but still impossibly heavy.  I’m just not that buff.

So I was sent to a different warehouse in Sumner and the job is easy peasy for me.  I just finished my second week and I’m already training and taking charge. I am a little bossy, but there needs to be some leadership and I wouldn’t ask someone to do something I wouldn’t do.  But I don’t want to stay there because the pay isn’t that great.  Luckily I met a woman there who’s a supervisor at this other place I applied for, and she’s all for helping me get a position there so wish me luck!

I’m trying to stay positive and relax and get all my ducks in a row.  I need to run some errands and see some friends and cook dinner for my lovely bf.  Toodles!

Not me.  Thank god not me.  But my boyfriend’s son is sick again and so soon.  He was sick two weeks ago too.  Poor thing.  I’ve been trying to take care of him but it’s really difficult when he doesn’t like to tell me what’s wrong.  That’s the biggest problem I have with him.  He never tells me what’s wrong.  He just kind of whines and kick his feet and I have to sit there and guess what’s wrong.  Sometimes he won’t even nod or shake his head yes or no.

I’ve tried telling him “a closed mouth doesn’t get fed” and if he can’t tell me what’s wrong I won’t do anything.  It doesn’t seem to work, but I keep at it because I feel that it’s going to be a long process.  But boy does it frustrate the bejesus out of me.  Sometimes I’m not even sure I want to have kids anymore because he’s so frustrating sometimes.  I really hope that this behavior is something that comes from his mother’s side of the family; that it’s something he learned from her.

But I’ve slept with him most of the day to keep him in bed.  I gave him lots of water.  I made chicken soup for him.  And I gave him some Tylenol.  I’m wondering why he keeps getting sick.  Hopefully but doubtfully he’ll be better in the morning so that he can go to school.  Did I mention he’s in Kindergarten now?  He loves it and got all pissed off this morning when I said he couldn’t go to school.  That little booger.

Anyways, I’m going to devote tomorrow taking care of him if he’s still sick.  If not, I have a long list of chores to do.  I’ll keep ya posted.

http://mybentolunch.com/ <– Here.

I found a cute site about food today.  Bentō is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine.  I always love ordering a bento when I’m eating out at a Japanese restaurant because it usually has a little bit of everything so I don’t have to choose just one thing.  These bento lunches are a little different, but uber cute.

I should show myself some food love and try to make bento lunches for myself(and maybe if they’re good, for my family).

I made some progress with the layout last night.  I just have to decide whether I want to make the layout widget friendly or do it the hard way.  I think I’m going to do it the hard way because it will not take as long.  Doesn’t really make sense, does it?

I’m trying to do some more cooking since I have so much time on my hands now.  I’m not really good at it.  But it’s easier when I can get inspired by cooking shows on the Food Network and by seeing what other members of Lavish are cooking up.  Thinking about food makes me hungry.  I’m going to go get something to eat.

PS, the site will look funny sometimes.  Don’t mind it, it’s just me tweaking the layout.

I started the new layout.  But there’s still a lot to do.  Right now I’m working out the quirks with the actual layout, but then I need to decide what fonts and colors to use for text and links, and then I’ll need to try to make it wordpress friendly.  Since the kids are with their mom this weekend(and will be with her on most weekends), I should have some time to work on things.  I also need to help my boyfriend update his resume and fill out a few job applications.

I’m very very tempted to go back and work at McDonald’s part-time.  If I do, I’d only want to work hours when the kids are at school, and that’s the only place I’m pretty sure will give me whatever hours I want(now that their drive thru service is sucky).  But I also heard that now they really work you.  But when I’m working, I want to work.  Time goes by so much faster and  I hate it when there’s nothing to do.

I’m getting really tired of using my laptop.  It’s uncomfortable for me and it’s ready to break.  I hope I can increase the cash flow soon so that I can invest in a desktop.

I really do like this layout.  It’s very cute.  But, I do want something my own.  My goal this week is to make my own layout.  It will be quite limited graphics-wise though; I don’t have my mouse so I can’t create anything nice.  There were some nice photoshop tutorials posted on Lavish that I might use for some inspiration.

Today we celebrated my nephew’s third birthday.  And yes, I forgot my camera.

He is SO adorable.  I believe I say that about every little kid I meet.  He loves Thomas the Tank Engine, so I bought the new movie that came out this week called The Great Discovery.  Now, as you all know, I’m on a budget and I tried to get the best price I could.  I was tempted to drive to different stores to find the best price, but with gas prices the way they are it didn’t make any sense.  I just searched online at the different stores I planned to go to and tried to find the prices that way.  It really doesn’t work, at least not around here.  The best price I found was at FYE.  I went there and it was more expensive than the online price.  I ended up going to Target, intending to look for something else, and the DVD was actually cheaper there(and the product I was looking for was more expensive than it was online).  So fortunately I got a good price, but I learned that online prices DO NOT match store prices.  At least sometimes.

The kids had tons of fun.  They had so much fun, they already cleared their calendars for Ethan’s fourth birthday.  Man, I love my kids.

I’m really not cut out for the working world.  It’s not that I don’t like to work.  I work very hard mind you and do a good job of it.  I actually get sick often and get in a situation where I’m vomiting and dizzy and don’t want to go to work in a warehouse full of fresh produce and miss a week a work because of it and since it’s a new job I lose it.  There I said it.  I lost my job yesterday.

I felt like crap.  I have all these bills to pay.  My boyfriend wants me to stay home and take care of him and his kids, and honestly, I love the idea.  Except that I have my own personal bills(credit cards) and I don’t want him to struggle to pay for it.  I’m trying to find a  way to work at home, at my own pace, and earn a couple hundred dollars a month.  Just enough to cover my credit card bills.

I’ve thought about paid blogging, but let’s face it, this blog isn’t quite there yet.  But now I have plenty of time to blog, so maybe I can work on that.  I’ve also thought about freelance writing, like Jenn does.  I’ve googled the subject and there seems to be tons of work, but I don’t have any writing samples or experience.  The writing samples I can whip up but the experience is not so simple.

*sigh.  If anyone out there happens to be reading this and can give me a few pointers, I’m all ears.  Or maybe it’s eyes?

Alliteration.  A literary term that stuck with me from high school.  It’s the repeated use of a consonant sound in the beginning of words, like the title of this post or in those tongue twisters we used to say when we were kids.

So back to the title.  The house is FULL of spiders.  From giant ones to itty bitty baby ones, we find them everywhere.  And they all love to bite me when I’m sleeping.  It doesn’t help that my dear boyfriend is scared to death of spiders.  I think it’s the only thing he’s scared of.  There’s some kind of horrible experience behind it.

I’ve done some research online on how to get rid of spiders, and it seems like we’ve just been attracting them.  One of the things we can do is to try to keep plants away from the outside of the house.  The plants creates a haven for spiders and if those havens are next to the house, they’ll be coming in.  But I really can’t do anything about that.  The plants belong to the future-in-laws and they’re very stubborn and don’t fear the spiders.

Another thing I can do is get rid of all the cardboard in the house.  It’s a wood product, and spiders like wood.  No idea why.  I have a whole bunch of unpacked boxes, mostly in my bedroom.  So I need to try to throw more things away, and buy plastic storage bins for the things I want to keep.

I also need to keep everything neat and put away.  Spiders get more bold if they have more hiding places.  I’m clean, but I’m not neat.  I have little piles of things everywhere, mostly paper.  So I have to put everything away or rather find places to put everything away.

Spiders also hate Lemon Pledge.  Apparently they “taste” with their the tips of their legs and they hate that taste.  So I’ll be dusting the window sills and such with Lemon Pledge.  I should probably wait on that though.  If I do it now, I’ll probably be keeping the spiders in.

Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum!  If there are spiders in the house, chances are there are egg sacs and little tiny spiders running around.  So I’ve been vacuuming everyday, and letting the kids help me with it.  They like doing it for some reason.  I’ve been trying to get every nook and cranny.  I’ve found a couple of those itty bitty spiders.  EW!

On a more personal note, I need to blog more, my tummy hurts, and I miss Angie like crazy!