Why 6 year olds rules the world

Woohoo! posting 2 days in a row, where's my medal? Anyway, back to the real world. I managed to drag my ass to work today where I proceeded to do almost nothing until lunchtime and after lunch had to test some pretty awful kids in science. Needless to say by the time I came home I was beat. Being pregnant does that to you (apart from other things which shall remain nameless for the time being)

I picked up my son from "martial arts" and drove the 1 1/2 blocks home to the tune of his incessant screaming that we "must go to Miles' house because he had planned a playdate with him and if we didn't go Miles was going to poke him with a pencil". I tried to explain to Chicka that 6 year olds do not plan playdates...parents do; I don't even know where Miles lives and I listed all the reasonable reasons I could think of why we could not head straight to Miles' house at that very moment. Of course this didn't work and I had to proceed to all Mom's greatest discussion ender "That's it I'm not talking about this anymore, this discussion is over". That put a lid on it for a couple of minutes, until he started asking me if he could play with his Wii (which is currently at my mother's house; but we were heading over there anyway to have some pre-dinner cooking snack) so I told him he could play 1/2 an hour.

Once we got to my mother's house I asked Chicka if he wanted to eat; he said no then played for about 5 minutes then said he wanted PB&J so he had a sandwich; then he went back to playing then he wanted what I was eating we had another discussion then he went and put a whole tub of spaghetti my parents had in the fridge from yesterday into the microwave (without my knowledge of course) My mom and I started wondering why the microwave kept beeping when my son comes over and asks me how long it will take to heat up the spaghetti because he already put it on for 110 minutes and it's not heating up; I explained to him that when we want to heat something up just for one person he has to put only what he's gonna eat on a plate and into the microwave. He did and he ate and he went back to playing his Wii. 5 minutes later he had to go to the bathroom where he proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes taking a you know what. By the time he came out of the bathroom it was time to go but he refused to leaving saying he had only gotten to play his game for 15 minutes and not 30 as had been planned. After much crying, screaming and punishing we finally left for home.

In the car I told him he needed to go to bed at 8:00 instead of his usual 8:30 because he's been really tired lately and very whiny. Well guess what time he went to bed tonight? 9:00pm. And no he didn't coerce me into anything, he didn't whine or even have a crying fit...I was just too tired to fight with him anymore. Case closed, you win.

Get ready for the rematch tomorrow baby!

Pictures

I know, I know...I go from not posting at all in about a month to posting twice in one day. It's just that I've had the urge to take pictures of my "office" for a while now and since soon it will be the new baby's room I better have something to remember it by. So I took some pictures...well, lots of pictures:


Well...this here's my ratty bookcase from Ikea chock full of books and knick knacks that I deem cutesy enough to grace it




Here's the bookcase shelf by shelf...pretty neat if I do say so myself (and of course I would...it's my blog isn't it?)












So here's this small clock that I have hanging on my wall and where I started collecting random small toys.



And here's a random picture of more books that need a bookshelf which I don't currently have and don't have any more room for anyway



Whew...that's it, finally :)

It's been such a long time....

I haven't posted in forever...during that time I found out I was pregnant and my relationship seems to be unraveling before my eyes and somehow I feel that it's connected. It seems that all these hormones changing seem to be affecting my brain somehow. I'm always angry (emphasis on always) at somebody and I feel so lost lately...it's pitiful I tell you. I'm always crying for one reason or another; yes I know that when you're pregnant you're always crying anyway, but this time around it just feels different.
When I had my son I was still living at home and was 19 and therefore had reasons to cry but I thought that now that I am pretty much independent (sort of) it would be different...it is different but I'm still sad for other reasons. My relationship is not going great, we are very uncertain moneywise and there's other things. This is all just very bittersweet for me. I'm not going to lie, we've been wanting a baby for a while now and just when we had given a break from actively "trying" it happened but now I realize that it's such bad timing. I haven't been able to celebrate it as much as I would want and then the crying hasn't helped one bit because I can't have a decent conversation with Rob without bursting into tears and I so hate that.
Whatever....just venting today, I will try to update more often than before. Here's new pictures of me and of my son.

Works for me Wednesday

Well, ever since I was considering starting a blog I was really excited about joining Works For Me Wednesday and guess what day it is today? Yup!

Today's tips are supposed to be about online stores/shopping. I cannot tell you how much i luv shopping and shopping online, where I can shop in my pj's, with no bra on and with 2 different slippers is just the icing of a very big, very gooey chocolate cake. (Well...so what if that's what I'm wearing right at this moment? :P )

Back to the topic at hand; my recommendation for online store is Amazon. I adore Amazon. Not only because they have so many things for sale (so many) but also because once you're a customer they have the "Treasure Box" which has different really marked down specials and deals for you everyday. I really like buying books from Amazon as well because they are usually lower than at the bookstore and I've gotten lots of hardcover books for paperback prices. So that's what works for me!
Take a peek at Shannon's website(http://rocksinmydryer.typepad.com) for more great tips.

We are the champions...

We won, we won, we won won won !!! WooHoo!!!
Well, I've finally gotten that out of my system. It was a great game and even though I only watched the 4th quarter and understood even less of it we had a great time here in my house. My parents, brothers and cousins came over; we had pizza, buffalo wings, nachos, chips...etc. It was great!

Changing the subject, we've been having really crappy weather around here lately. Last week we got lots of snow, we got snow over the weekend, yesterday was really, really foggy and soggy and it's just been plain craptastic. Now don't get me wrong, I love watching the snow come down and settle over the trees and bushes as much as the next person but I don't really enjoy driving in it. As for the rain, I don't mind driving in it, but I do mind getting to my car and it's in the middle of a swimming pool. Let me explain: the parking lot at work has a real drainage problem meaning that when it rains the middle of the parking lot turns into one of the lakes that Illinois has so many of. Well, yesterday morning, it wasn't raining and I was running late (as usual) so I just parked in the closest parking spot to the door (which let me tell you was not that close) and ran inside. Well, since I was running late I didn't get to make myself any lunch so I had to run out at lunchtime to go to McDonalds. I ran out and my car was smack dab in the middle of a swimming pool. Since it had rained, there was lots of melting snow and then the drainage problem I was telling you about I felt my car needed some sort of scuba diving mission to get to. Needless to say I was not wearing boots and my feet and socks got very wet. I think I resigned myself and just walked pretty fast to my door and tried to get in as dry as possible (which unfortunately was not very dry at all, can anyone say Athlete's foot???)

For all you football fans out there

Well, I didn't hang up my clothes. They're still in a pile on a sofa in my bedroom...but, I did clean my bathroom and if that's not a start damnit I don't know what is. I know this for sure though, I know that I have to get at least the 1st floor of my house clean because we're having a SuperBowl party tonight!

Now, I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY by Mexican parents. Football was never a part of my life; futbol was, but not football. Then I moved to Illinois and the Chicago Bears were going to the Superbowl and then everybody everywhere I looked started wearing blue and orange. Then all of a sudden it was bring your team colors to school day at my Chicka's school and wear your Bears gear to work day and even my 50 yr old Mexican mom got into the spirit of things and bought herself an orange t-shirt and wore it to work. It was crazy I tell you. I've never watched football before, don't really understand it but here we were last year holding an improptu party with McDonald's 99 cents double cheeseburgers, small fries and some soda. Throughout the whole party my hubby, who was the only person present who really understood the game, gave us the play by play in simple understandable form to us. Yes, the Bears lost but a tradition was born.

So this year the New York Giants are playing the Patriots and yes, I know that we're the underdogs here but there's always hope. Go Giants!!

My First Post

Well, this is my first post ever on my first blog ever (I don't know if MySpace counts or not but anyway, that's private and this is not) I have been wanting to join the blogging world for some time now but just never had the guts, but now I've finally gone and done it.

Let me start by introducing myself: I'm Crystal and I'm 26 years old. I live in Illinois but was born and raised in NYC so moving here was a big change for me...for us. I have a husband and a 6 year old son both named Robert and both pains in the butt most of the time, but they do have their good moments.

I will strive to write as poignantly (is that even a word?) and as witty as some of my favorite bloggers (Dooce, Pioneer Woman, Mandajuice, and many others) and I will also try to keep up with some regular postings.

Today was a special day for us around here because 8" of snow later and we got a snow day. I particularly love snow days because I work in the school system and therefore get the day off as well (even though I don't like driving in the stuff or shoveling it off the driveway is not much fun either) But I got to spend the day lazying at home and thinking about all the stuff that I could get done while being home. Thinking being the key word in that sentence, seeing as how it's now 4:08pm and have not yet to lift a finger around her. But then again, that's what snow days are for...right?

I think I'll go off and hang up my clothes now.