This guy looks almost identical to the new guy. He is about 3 inches long. Isn't he beautiful? I've named him Mark.http://www.bugsinthenews.com/Texas%20Spiders/Golden%20Orb-weaver%20(

I went up to Illinois with P to go to his mother's family reunion. That was...interesting. I had fun and learned a lot about that branch of the in-laws. I may make further comments later ( Read more... )

For my graduation gift from UT, I bought myself a Brother PC 8500, PED Basic, and PE-Design Version 4 from Ebay for a REALLY good price (not that I would ever recommend that anyone buy such a product from Ebay, especially not using PayPal, but at the time I didn't know any better and had not yet been personally screwed by these companies). I ( Read more... )

So I get this call from my SIL, R, asking what day P’s birthday is. She says that P’s dad was arguing that it was the 3rd and P’s brother was arguing that it was the 4th. She says that his dad finally made the comment that he thinks he would know what day his son was born on. He was wrong, P’s b-day is on the 4th. What is really sad is that my ( Read more... )

So, I get rather irritated when I see someone driving while on a cell phone, esp. when they are driving erratically.

While in El Paso, we saw a motorcyclist driving erratically. He was without a helmet in fairly heavy traffic where two highways merge. Turns out he was texting while driving. How do people like this make it to adulthood?

I've been in El Paso with my mom visiting relatives, and for other reasons that I may divulge later.

A quote from my Tia: "Mija, you'd be surprised, but your tios were actually smart when they were younger."

So I called TDH (now DHSH) and they replaced my voice on the machine with some man's. My mother is going to be so disappointed.

I've past that stage where I wasn't showing at all and am now in the stage where none of my clothes fit, but all the pregnancy clothes that I can get over my chest are huge. My maternity shopping experience so far was not fun. It probably doesn't help that I don't much like to shop for clothing anyway. My sister and I went to Motherhood last ( Read more... )

I spent the week in El Paso visiting my mom's side of the family with my mom and my sister, rhonda_on_crack. I got to see three of my mom's brothers, four of her sisters, a three of her cousins, a bunch of my cousins, and a bunch of their kids. I ended up getting a lot of family information and a lot of harassment (on par for the course). I'll post more about ( Read more... )

I realized last night around 11:00 pm that my cell phone had been turned off most of the day. When I turned it on, I found that my mom had called and left a cell page telling me to call her. My mom has never left a page. So I called her back this morning when I saw that she was online. She couldn't remember what was so important and told me ( Read more... )