FREE MONEY RULES!

Today I got a check from my credit card company for $20. The catch, I just agree to sign up for their protection plan which means I have to pay 89 cents for every $100 that's on my card. Since my balance is 0, I get the money for free and pay nothing as long as I don't use my card. Sweet deal, I plan on buying myself lunch tomorrow. I love getting or finding money unexpectedly.

My little angel is 5 months old today. We celebrated by not making him do as much tummy time today since he hates it. He does good at times, but other times he starts getting fussy after 2 minutes. He doesn't like the fact that he can't crawl yet. I'm not exactly sure when he is supposed to start doing that, but I would imagine he will be in another 2 months or so, maybe sooner??

I got my paper signed today so I could send the rest of my stuff into the VA so I can begin getting that free money for going to school. I can't wait to start getting that money each month. Other than that, work is still boring as ever and the people there are getting on my nerves. I keep my office door closed most of the way so I have some privacy and every time someone comes in they walk out and leave it wide open. How hard is it to close it again? I had to re-close (is that a word? who cares) my door at least 10 times today because people are retarded. Well, that's my complaining for the day. =0) Laters.

AHHH, Saturday

It's the weekend again which means I made it through another week of BORING work! At least I can say I get paid for doing nothing. Also, next week is the last week of my class so I will have a break from school until Oct 1st because I am currently out of free tuition money. Speaking of Oct, that will be the beginning of something great. Not only is my college 100% free because I'm full time with the Guard, I also qualify for this thing called the REAP. It's an education benefit provided by the Vets Admin. for those who have been to war. I will get over $600 buck deposited into my account as long as I'm going to school. That will be awesome. Maybe I can finally get a bill paid off and build up my savings again. I should have an interview with them soon so they can verify that I qualify for it and all that.

As far as today goes, I am meeting my mom for lunch because her birthday is tomorrow. Her best bud came in from Poky so I'm sure they will have a good time this weekend.

My little man is still doing great. He will be 5 months old this Tues. Time sure flies. Not sure if Dominik feels the same as he has only been in the world for a few months. I wonder how time does feel for a baby. I'm sure everyday feels quite redundant for them. Eat, play,poo, sleep, eat, bath, sleep, play, whine a bit, , pee, sleep. I guess that's the life though. NO bills and no responsibilities except to do cute things so mom and dad can brag about it. Oh, to be young again.

I'M IMPRESSED

Let's start off with this picture. Lil Dom stole dad's credit card and as ready to hit the mall. I think he has his eye on one of those exersaucers and maybe a new pair of booties.

About a week or so ago I left my neighbor a note asking him to quit being so loud with his music and what not. Well, he did it once more and all this time has gone by and so I figured he didn't give a crap and was just going to continue doing what he wants and cause problems. I came home from the grocery store earlier today and there was a note on my door and it turned out to be an actual apology. I never get those from people!! He explained that him and his room mate were having problems and arguing a lot and all this and he said it's now worked out and we won't have any more noise problems. That was really nice of him and I'm not used to it. I thought about talking to him and being neighborly, but I'm still the anti-social type so I will probably just ignore him unless I happen to walk past him outside or something. I don't know what it is, but I hate talking to people in the general public now days. I guess it's a good thing I don't work in a store or something or the customers would probably think me rude.

As far as my angel goes, he is now officially eating a small cup of oatmeal each night. I think he actually likes it now because he starts to scream if you don't have a spoon full of it in his mouth the second after he swallows the other oatmeal. Also, he has slept through the night 4 nights in a row now. I'm hoping this is the new trend for him as it's awesome. He goes to bed around 7 and doesn't wake up until 7 the next day. He's also fitting in his 6 month clothes now and he's not even 5 months old yet. He's just sooo long. I also bought him size 3 diapers today because his length makes the size 2's fit a bit small.

Tomorrow marks my last day of vacation time. It's pretty sad really. Now I get to go back to a job where I'm underappreciated and now underpaid since they don't have money for my promotion (so they say). Hopefully I can get one of these new jobs opening up, but there will be lots of competition so I'm not holding my breath. My office environment and fellow co-workers are really just starting to get to me. For 1, I'm the only girl that works there which stinks and then we have the 3 amigos who get away with doing what they want because one of the amigos in the boss. I'm tired of being critisized and picked on for things that they tell me not to do, but then go off and do themselves. Aholes. Anyhow, it's still scorching hot out but hopefully it will cool down soon. I have to go to Ketchum on Sat with our climbing wall for a kids camp thing and then Sun is drill so I will be at the range. Not too excited about that, but at least I've had the past week off. Guess that's all for now!

OF COURSE IT WOULD HAPPEN.....

So yesterday was the hottest day this year... a miserable 106 degrees. What could possibly happen to me on the hottest day of the year you ask?? Of course! The air conditioner breaks down. Go figure! Yep, it went out the night before and wasn't fixed until LATE last night so we had 1 1/2 miserable days in our sauna. After the guy fixed it at 9:00 last night he used his laser that reads temperatures to make sure cold air was blowing out of our vents. Then he pointed it where I had been sitting on the couch and it was 95 in this apt. Little Dom was naked all day with a fan blowing on him and Juan and I were sweating our butts off. The pic with a wash cloth is one from yesterday because I was trying to cool him down. It was sooo hot though that the rag didn't stay wet long. Luckily, it's working again and it's now a confortable 76 inside and a cruddy 100 outside.

Today was good as gram Whittier, Uncle Sean, Aunt Pei-i and the kids and the Marshall family were all gathered for a family BBQ. It was the 1st time they had all seen Dominik so it was fun and I hadn't seen many of them in years. I ate too much but had a good visit so it was worth it. I should have taken my camera and gotten a few pics, but I didn't think about it. Maybe next time.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

It sure is a hot 4th over here. Supposed to be over 100 today and the rest of this week. The good thing about today is I have the day off. I got up early and went for a run since I knew if I didn't do it right then I would be too lazy to do it later. Me, Juan and Dominik also went to breakfast today so that was nice. Oh, and last night, we saw Transformers. It was the best special effects I have ever seen in a movie. It's a definite must see if you haven't already. I will buy that one when it comes out on DVD and I don't buy many movies unless I know I will watch them again so that tells you how good Transformers is.

I guess there are many fireworks events going on around here, but I will probably just stay home and watch from my balcony. The big show is at a park just down the street from me so I'm sure I will be able to see them. Other than that, think I will just clean up after my boys. OH yeah, in crappy news, I was told yesterday that it doesn't look like there will be money at Counterdrug to promote me this upcoming year. I think they're full of crap because we have promoted 4 people in the last 6 months and now that it's FINALLY my turn we have no money all of a sudden. Basically this means I transferred back to a field unit that I hate and left the one that I really liked because I was told that my promotion was probably going to happen. Now I'm stuck as a leader at a piece of crap unit and I don't get the money or the rank for it. I am now looking at all my other job options if that's how it's going to be and I will work my butt off elsewhere. I don't think they realize how much I do there so if I get an opportunity to leave they will probably have more stuff than they can handle. Well, enough of that, I'm just really disappointed and angry right now.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!