my mom's sister - my tia blanca - arrived tonight. karla's due february 8. i can't believe my cousin oli, who i used to party hard with, is about to be a father. i mean, he is going to be an incredible father, no doubt about it. i just can't believe it because as baby-crazy as i am, as much as my uterus/ovaries jump when i see anything small ( Read more... )

-dinosaur (stegasaurus?) (slutty)
-teacher (you know, since i'm an n/k teacher) (slutty)
-mariachi (macho, not slutty)
-musical instrument (viola? string bass? piano? brass might be hard...) (slutty)
-?

Ozomatli was AMAZING last night. We were right in front. And it was FREE!!!

Going to the Celtic Fest all day tomorrow, can't wait! Maybe I'll wear one of my Sox caps with the clover on the back (South Side Irish!), I'm definitely painting a Mexican flag on my face. I may be at the Celtic Fest, but gotta represent Independance Day!!

We're Mexi ( Read more... )

super sleep-deprived. can't find an apartment. need to stop telling people when i think i'm finally moving out because it never fucking happens ( Read more... )

I'm so nervous about starting school again. I haven't been a student in... a year now? I went to Ecuador in March of '06, so my last semester was Fall '05. Is that possible?? When I start school again this fall, will it have been two years? No, a year and a half ( Read more... )

i think my collective reaction to everything right now is: "aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'"

today i woke up in such a crappy mood. totally shitty. yuck. and then i went to work and the kids made me laugh and thomas hugged me as he does every day and franklin winked at me (that pretty much made my week - no, my life) and although they were somewhat rowdy they actually stopped doing things when i told them to AND today was pretzel day. ( Read more... )

back at parents' house. so weird. even weirder and more frustrating is the fact that i have so. much. crap. and that no matter how much i throw away or bring to salvation army shit still ends up in boxes on the floor of my old bedroom because there is no place for it to be put away. ay ay ay. little by little, i guess ( Read more... )

My kids were great today, unlike the past week and a half or so that they've been really hard for me to manage. I wonder what it was about today that made them so calm... I really really love them, and will be so sad to say goodbye to them when the school year ends. So there's this one girl who comes once a week who is super spoiled and ( Read more... )

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