honey-do(n't)

this weekend has been a mess...remember back to one of my previous posts, when i talked about the hubby starting a drywall project in the girls' room, and then not finishing it? well, he finally did, after many temper tantrums on my part. and it's horrible. it looks like crap. really, really bad. but it's finished, and the wall is sealed up now. so no more spiders (fingers crossed), and no exposed insulation. my sweet grandmother gave me some leftover paint she isn't ever going to use, so we can paint at least that wall, if not the whole room. it will make it look 10x better.
so hubby has not even thought about finishing the drywall in my (our) bathroom. i'll probably do it myself. all it needs is some stinking nails. it'll literally take 2 minutes. and he still hasn't done anything about the nasty carpet in there. i'm thinking about ripping it all out and just putting plastic down on top of the plywood floor (isn't it called a subfloor? not sure about technical names...) and maybe that will get hubby rolling on getting the flooring materials.
and of course, we can't forget about the cars...hubby still thinks i'm wrong about what needs to be done to them. the codes tell us what's wrong! they're there for a reason! car-MAF sensor, van-EGR valve. changing the fuel filter will not fix what's wrong. same as an oil change. yes, they're both good for maintenance, but it doesn't fix the problem! Freaking listen to me!

so, moral to the story....
     1) Don't EVER expect a man to listen; they think they know EVERYTHING! and
     2) If you want something done, done right, and done well, just do it yourself! if you don't, it'll NEVER get finshed! 

oh, boy(s)....and girls!

wow...it's been a wild (in other words boring) few days.

saturday: went to my neighbor's ya-ya party...it was so much fun!
sunday: hubby was off work, so we (as a family) cleaned the yard. it looks so good!!!
today: took amara to lowell for her neurologist appt. dr gave her an A+! no more meds (from that dr, anyway). yay!

so a fun and wild week, wouldn't you say?! lol  

until next time.....

it's bedtime

it is so bedtime for this little boy...if he would just stay there! even tolod him he could lay down in my  bed, and he won't....arrrggghhhh!

really looking forward to a scalding hot shower tonight. if the boy actually goes to sleep!

ok, enough is enough....more later....

life

so i am crampy, irritable, and tired. af just started, i think. it's only 3 days late. anyway, we had a great day saturday. we took the kids to old timer's day, then out to eat at la heurtas. it was so good! the kids had a blast. then we took them to a field by our house (because our yard is so small), and played softball, frisbee, and playground balls. it was so much fun! we should do stuff like this every weekend! anyway, i'm gonna see where hubby went. he disappeared.

p.s. hubby and i are better now. no more fighting (yet), and way more communication! makes me happy!

the day after my birthday!

Ok, my birthday wasn't as exciting as i thought it would be. I've put on a brave face, but I'm just going to say it here. I was disappointed. Hubby kept letting me think he had something big planned. He didn't. So I had kinda gotten my hopes up, and then nothing happened. And this is the first year my mom hasn't made me a cake...in my whole life. She told me about a month ago she would make me a dinosaur cake, but it didn't happen this year. Which is ok. But hubby should have never led me on. Now I feel guilty for being let-down. This sucks. You know what we did for my birthday?! We cleaned the living room. (Btw, I was really proud of my girls for helping so much!) Hubby did take me out to eat, and so we went to a local place that was really good. Then we all came home to find his parents waiting for us. They gave me a really pretty bouquet of wildflowers. Then we went to the bar to shoot pool (and got our asses stomped). That's it. The whole night. What fun. Then today, my mom came over and gave me a book for my present (which I'm going to start reading in a few), which was cool. But hubby had promised me birthday sex and brownies. Did I get either? NO! Maybe I shouldn't bitch. But it hurts my feelings. I know we are on a tight budget. But things don't have to be expensive to be special. I had no money for hubby's birthday back in April (which is the same day as Ariah's). But I decorated the living room. Mom made him (them) his (their) cake(s). I couldn't buy much, but I got stuff for him I thought he'd enjoy. Guess what I got. A pedometer (because I started walking. But that tells me he thinks I need to walk.). And headphones for the ipod, because that's what I listen to when I walk. And a shaper for my pool cue. And a sweater/light jacket, which I really do like. And a sweet card. It's not the stuff I got that upsets me. It's just that he led me to believe he was going all out, and he didn't even make an effort to make it special in any way. It was literally just another day. So I'm a little bit disappointed. Should I be? Or am I asking for too much, and being spoiled? I don't want to be ungrateful. But it just made me sad.

Anyway, hubby is taking tomorrow off as a vacation day. So I guess we'll spend the whole day together. Hopefully it will be a good day. Now, on to read my new book.