I expected to spend yesterday finally catching up on some chores. I'm behind and slowly catching up. I'm still waking up tired, without any energy whatsoever, despite how many hours I sleep. This has made getting through each day (what's left of them) very difficult. Yesterday I did wake up late after not being able to sleep; however, I didn't feel as weak as usual. So I got up and started to get to work. My plan was to feed Aaliyah, eat, and then get to cleaning. Just as I was mixing her food, almost ready to heat things up, the power flickered.

My Brain: "What the... Oh, at least the power didn't go ou-ahh, damn it."

It was about 2:45pm. It was at least 105 degrees out. To say I was hot as hell would be an understatement. Seriously, it was horrible. For some reason keeping my windows open doesn't help much with getting some nice air in unless it's super windy out, so I tend to have the air on more than I'd like. Aaliyah and I were miserable. Okay, she was upset as soon as she found out she wouldn't be able to eat the food I was making, the heat was just extra. In fact, she said she would make it when I said I couldn't, lol. After going through a few foods she finally agreed to an orange instead.
We did take off to the pool for a little while to cool off. Luckily (for them) most people were still at work so it wasn't crowded. I did consider going to my brother's house (he recently got into his first house and mortgage) but their power was out too! I spotted a neighbor in his car listening to music. Too bad my a/c compressor doesn't work or that would have been an awesome idea. Power was slowly restored in sections of town, little by little, so we were able to head out to the store by 8. Usually I hate walking into this store (some of the people are rude, customers included, lol), yet after enduring all of those horrible hours of eat, it was like ~heaven~ . LOL. Seriously, it was a relief. Even when the cashier was an ass I couldn't be too mad under the air conditioner. I'm not sure exactly when my apartment had life again, it was back on by the time we got home.

Since I couldn't vacuum, wash and dry laundry (some people were in the laundry room when it happened), and the kitchen and bathroom were too dark to clean; I really didn't get much done. It was a struggle to put up the clean laundry. Plus I had things to catch up with online (this wasn't the blog I planned to type, lol) which obviously couldn't be done. Oh, and so much for cooking instead of eating out again. Ugh. Whatever. Yesterday sucked. It's a new day, that's what should matter.
Actually the new day started 5 hours ago and I've yet to sleep... Yeah, this day's not starting off too well.

Aaliyah turned 3 in April. I went to the store with plans to buy either an Elmo cake or a Spongebob cake, they had both. I let her pick and she had a serious face the whole time, until she finally made her choice. Such big decisions.

I took Aaliyah swimming today. She's done so plenty of times, just not too often in one that isn't considered a kiddie pool. It took Noel forever to get in the water, a little while for me, and Aaliyah pretty much made us look bad and went for it. Once I got used to my lower body temperature it was pretty damn relaxing.



Oh yeah, my car sucks again. Nothing new. A few months ago I was thinking about how awesome it was that my tax money wasn't going towards my car, then a few days later the air compressor died RIGHT before I planned a trip out of town. Driving in a 4-wheel piece of metal for at least half an hour through the hot desert summer sun without cold air? No. Hell. No. I ended up dropping off my car to be looked at and my mom was awesome and took Aaliyah and I out of town in her air conditioned car. Ugh, I was hoping it just needed a simple change of fluid. I'll probably get the part from a junkyard, it's going to be expensive for the labor though. I swear, I would just get another car if I had the down payments and a job (nothing new there either, that search isn't going anywhere).



Things have been really up and down. Seriously. I don't want to get into it. It seems like as soon as I overcome one thing, something else comes up. I know life isn't easy, but damn it. Can I have one day of just bliss?

Too bad some of the people that need it most won't be around by the time it actually starts.

Last Thursday I took Aaliyah to the dentist. That was an... interesting trip. Interesting, but not very useful. They had me sit in the chair with her on my lap so she could be comfortable. They were really nice and concerned about making sure she was comfortable before she was looked at. Unfortunately she wasn't having it, lol. Aaliyah kept asking to go home. She never liked it when I looked in her mouth during her I'm going to see if I can eat everything I find days, so she was really uncomfortable with strangers trying to do so. An even bigger issue is they handed me a referral to a dentist that could give her something so she would be worked on; however the closest one that accepts her insurance is a few hours away. I'm considering making her another appointment in town and hoping she's more comfortable, I just doubt it. When I finally convinced her to agree to have her "teeth brushed" (cleaned), I showed her the "tooth brush" and asked if she would use that. Her response was a sad voice stating, "Nooo. It's dirty." Well, compared to the Elmo and Disney Princess toothbrushes she has owned, it did look kinda ugly.

Today, er, yesterday, was one of my "lazy days". That's when I have a bunch of crap to do, plan to do it, and then convince myself I have a valid excuse not to, lol. I'm trying to fight a cold before it gets worse and help Aaliyah through hers. At least she'll be able to get to sleep tonight. We managed not to get sick during all those days of rain and got hit now that we're having warmer days. I was actually supposed to blog here a week ago, lol.

I finally emptied the freezer, cleaned it out, went through things (OMG, I still have no idea what a couple of things are that I took out from the back, LOL, all I know is that they could be up to 2 years old ), organized it, and took inventory of what was there. Now I can open/dig in/stock the freezer without closing the door and running from the occasional frozen food avalanche. I already cleaned, organized, and inventoried one cabinet earlier this month (it wasn't scary like the freezer), and I still have two more to do. The remaining cabinets aren't even bad or full, I just need to take note of everything I have. I want to plug everything into a recipe site so I can find new things to make (I gave up enchiladas for a few months just so I could eat them again... two meals of them and I'm tired of them again!) with what I have on hand, and eat at home more. It was fun going out, but last week I ate way too many meals out.

I won't lie, I had Taco Bell for dinner last night, LOL. I actually have their taco seasoning, plenty of ground beef, shells, cheese, and even hot sauce from their restaurant. A box of shells and I could have saved a few bucks. Browning some ground beef would have taken less effort than getting LeeLee and myself ready and heading out and back.

While I didn't get through more than half of my list of things to do for the day, I did get some work done so I'm pleased. Sunday night I cleaned out all of my coupons and my purse, and updated both my budget spreadsheet and the savings (tracking my coupon use) spreadsheet.


Oh, and I was supposed to post pictures from my Project 365 task. I'm just not very pleased with them. Since I started the New Year in a horrible mood (and things got worse for a while), I didn't stick with it. I started over on the 17^th. I forgot to take my camera with me one day and ended up taking the picture when I arrived home after midnight, yet I'm going to keep going. I expect something to happen from time to time during the remainder of the year, so I'm not upset about it. I learned a couple of new things about my camera. The pictures are better, just boring since I started doing the project again as more of a chore than something fun. That will change, and I'll start sharing.

Speaking of not getting things done aside from wallowing in pain, I really need to take a few days out and just focus. For every project or task I come up with, there's probably five others I put off. I'm ambitious just not motivated? I don't know, it's 5am, I've yet to sleep, the tooth pain is slowly coming back (I'm sick of garlic), and I'm rambling. This post lacks any meaning or sense aside for feeling like I should blog something.