funny thing about not having a computer

I am keeping up with blogging even tho they are short posts! haha. I am using Casey's computer but only about once a day. Jarrod didn't like it when I would be on the computer 5 or 6 times a day checking email and chatting with people. Maybe once I get my laptop fixed (please please please let it be fixable....they say there is a prob w/ the motherboard yikes) I can just use it a couple times a day now that i know i really CAN survive without a computer, although it isn't easy! :) Well I didn't sleep good again last night> I don't know what my problem is. Lately every time I have a house to clean I get all anxious the night before and think too much and can't sleep. Ugh, I get on my own nerves (as Mimi used to say). Well i wish i could write more but mahna just woke up.......... I do want to shout out to my momma who I had an awesome night out with last night! :) X's and O's

more to come: I think we figured out a way to pay off Jarrod's car (without borrowing money from anyone!) and get a loan on our own!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEE

Sad news: Jarrod's grandma has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will be having a mascectomy next week. She has great faith and hope and a wonderful attitude, but it is sad and scary nonetheless. Jarrod is very close to his grandma, talks to her every day. She is a really sweet tiny little woman who raised five kids and has about 20 some grandkids and about 8 great grandkids at the age of 73. I really pray she comes thru this like a shooting star.

Okay...off to clean a house and drink lots o coffeeeeeeee

gone wrong

We looked at a house last night and thought it was THE ONE> we were all ready to start the papers today... my parents agreed to cosign if we end up needing them to. This morning we find out there is already a contract pending...... suck suck. I woke up at 3:45 this morning after about 4 hrs of sleep and couldn't stop thinking of all the things we could do with that house.... oh well. Anyway Mahna is sleeping now and I need to vacuum.......I don't have much work this week either so that sucks. We did get to go to playgroup for the first time today and it was fun. mahna kept pulling hair tho so i feel bad about that. Maybe a lil bro/sis will help her learn such things. Thanks for all the advice!

heres my prob YO

My personal problem with more kids is my other earthly desire to make money and be successful. I love my business, and not just for the money. I like being out and about and all that jazz. I am AFRAID if I have another kiddo I will be housebound and when I go visit people with my two (or more) children I will be a huge annoyance unlike only having one child. Maybe I worry too much. I also fight the alter personality of loving being at home w/ Mahna and being w/ her constantly and just not WORRYING about making any money or making other ppl happy. Ugh.......... who knows.

howdy

I must apologize for my lack of posty post. My computer is on the fritz. At this moment I am using my mommy's new awesome cute little white averatec laptop while mine is running diagnostic tests etc.

Tonight is the last night my cuzin and his family will be here and we have been having such a great time, I really wish they lived close by. Their little boy is exactly one yr older than mahna and they have hit it off soooooooo awesome and so instantly. I have wanted them to be together all day everyday b/c i have never seen her play with another child like she has with him. It is so heartwarming. Maybe this is why people enjoy having multiple children......... until they become teenagers. :)

Thanks for reading and commenting etc etc xoxox

cheating on blogger

I admit it, honest person that I try to be... I am cheating on Blogger. I have been exploring and blogging on MYSPACE. Now I know who my readers are on MYSPACE, about 3 people, MAYBE. It is a small amount. I have really kept the blog entries to my selfish rants about beauty treatments and what I want to do with my hair....... very boring stuff, and as much as I try to convince myself that it is half way interesting I know it really isn't. That would explain why only my dear friend Nikki would comment on there. She doestn' read this Blog, though, as far as I know. It is hard to tell who does and doesn't unless one day you are talking to someone and they say, hey I read blahblahblah on your blog. Or occassionally I find out someone I barely know from church reads my blog, and I am like, woa did I write anything bad on there? But I really don't want to categorize church people because we are all just plain ol' people, with our paths crossing in different places. I did not go to church today. Last week I went to Irving Bible Church w/ my parents and Anna. This week my couzin is in town with his family and we were just having such a grand old day being indoors, playing games, pigging out and watching the kids play that we just kept on doing it instead of getting in the car and going to church. I can honestly and shamefully take 90% of the blame for us not going. I didn't feel like changing the pace and I came out and said it. then again, maybe I am giving myself too much credit....... haha. Tomorrow I am cleaning a house I have never cleaned before, my long lost friend Bryn's cousins house. Bryn now lives in Idaho and I truly miss her. She was a super fun friend and had a good listening ear. Anyway I better get to bed since its late and I have to get up early. adios!

two random questions

Can anyone tell me where to get FLY PAPER??????????? I have these stupid fruit flies in my kitchen i can't get rid of. AND YES I got rid of the fruit!

ANNNNNNNNNNND How do you have a picture next to your name when you post a comment to someone???? I like Lindsays and Joyes!

howdy

Today was a fun day of NOT WORKING! :) I enjoyed spending the morning being slow and lazy with Mahna... We both hung out in our PJs til 10, and played on the kitchen floor instead of rushing to get out the door. I got a lot of errand running accomplished today and also managed to see my sister in law, my mom, anna and my grandma! I picked up mahnas 18 mo. pics and the more I go to JCPenney for portraits the more I want to take Mahna to a creative individual photographer. She hates JCPENNEY photographers, which of course is a normal thing for a kid to not want to get their pic taken, but I just don't really like that place. I got the 5 year plan there when Mahna was first born and I regret it now, although I have definately got my money back out of it. The people I am cleaning for tomorrow have a photo studio in their home and have offered to do pics of Mahna, but I don't know them well yet, so maybe in the future that will work out.

Tonight Mahna and I played outside for over an hour. Then we came in and were just being silly silly silly. It was really fun, and exhausted both of us. We watched about 10 min of a Baby Einstein video after our bath and while I was getting her all ready for beddy-bie, and for the first time SHE wanted to turn the video off and go to bed. She was in bed by like 8:15. That really is a tired girl! haha.

We got some super groovy news tonight! Jarrod's longtime friend George is giving us FLOOR TICKETS to the Mavs game next Thursday!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it! I am so nervous but so excited. I have never been to the Mavs game and jarrod has been twice. He is a DIE HARD FAN for any of you who don't know him. Out of all sports, basketball is the only one I semi like to watch. Some days are more exciting than others. I liked the old team with Nash....... We have a good chance of being seen on TV (YIKES!) so I gotta get us some Mavs shirts to wear. Fun fun!!!!!!!

Night night, thanks for reading!

T.G.M.I.O.

Thank God Monday Is Over

nah........ it wasn't a bad day. I just had no energy, motivation or excitement. I have been extremely domestic lately, so any time away from home kind of sucks. I did help my gma organize a closet today. That made me feel good. It made her happy, too. Tomorrow I am cleaning a house in Las Colinas, then.........hopefully Mahna and I are going to "playgroup"! I have been looking so forward to it. So even if it doesn't work out tomorrow, I am excited for when it does. The other day I spent like $30 on cleaning supplies. Cleaning supplies not for my bizness but for my own house!!!!! I am now a big fan of the Clorox disinfecting wipes. Jarrod and I also reorganized the kitchen so it is not so cluttered looking. We don't have a pantry. We have two small cabinets to fit all the food, flour/sugar/etc, bread crackers cereal......cups....... you get the idea. We have to be creative. Hopefully by the summer we will have our own house though, with a finished, normal kitchen. Our original plan was to move out by April. Now we are facing some financial issues that aren't exactly our fault. We bought two Kias in Jarrod's name a few months ago. Reason being is that Casey needed a vehicle, as he is a courier like Jarrod, but couldn't get a loan. So Jarrod bought two, but Casey pays the payment on his. What we didn't think about a few months ago is how this much debt (we also have a truck payment) would affect us getting a home loan. So...... we will see what happens. Casey can't pay off his car or still can't get a loan so we could "sell it to him". Part of our plan is to fix the transmission on the truck, try to sell it for at least CLOSE to what we owe on it, and that will help. Jarrod just needs to take it to get fixed, but I guess he is dreading the bill....or maybe just hauling it 1 1/2 hr away. Back to my story about being domestic, I am now baking a chocolate cake. Jarrod has been in a mood for choc cake and vanilla ice cream. I can't eat it, cuz I am still doing ATKINS. I think I have lost about 4 lbs. All in my boobs mind you, but it's weight! (are you blushing?) Jarrod is watching some crazy show about a bunch of body shop guys turning crapper cars into dream cars. Why must he watch it on volume 20?

Standing Blog Entry

I am standing up while I post, just hoping to get a couple of thoughts out before Mahna finishes her dinner. It is so cool she can feed herself now! It is quite messy, though. I don't mind messes, I am, afterall, A CLEANING LADY! Okay, I gave her an oreo to buy me another minute!

Today the first house I cleaned I got to talk to my bestest friend in the whole world for an hour of it. That was cool!!!!! I really do not talk to her enough and she is my lifetime friend. I have known her since I think I was 11 or 12 and once someone told me you really truly only get ONE best friend in life, and I am so glad to have her as mine. She talked me through a bunch of stuff this morning. I don't "vent" nearly as much as I really should and I really unloaded this morning. She is a paralegal, so thank the Lord she was not too busy to talk to me.

times up..darn

uh oh i am on a blogging roll

Today at the first house I cleaned, I used a mildew cleaner and bleached some pants that I really like. I guess I shouldn't wear pants I 'really like' to clean houses, but it's been so long since I got bleach on myself, I took it for granted.

Oops, I thought I would get to post, but I got a ph call from my long lost friend Cynde Cynthia.....

no heart for cleaning

My heart was not in my work today. I did a nice job, but I could have stayed all day on an hourly rate cleaning every niche. I left 2 hr early, with permission. I wanted to see Mahna. I didn't want to clean. I felt a blanket of "down-ness" on my neck and shoulders and I just didn't want to clean anything else. HOpefully I will get over this tonight because I have two houses tomorrow and two houses on Thursday and one on friday...... I wish I could clean everyone's house for them in a way. But then I just wish I could do it in the middle of the night when Mahna was sleeping. Then I would probably get depressed about missing watching her sleep. Haha. She had a great time at my Gmas house today and even pottied in the potty! This is not the first time but it is a far between since the last. My gma is so awesome with trying to get her to sit on the pot. I am so lazy or A.D.D. or something. I need to start focusing on it especially since I am so lucky to have someone trying FOR me 3 days a week!

My nieces were here today when I got home and I was in a pissish mood and didn't really want to play with them but I made myself semi snap out of it so I wouldn't be a beast to a 7 and10 yr old who don't understand auntie's mood swings. Mahna had fun with them having a picnic of cheetoes and oreos on the front "lawn" (tis mostly dirrrrt). We went on a tiny walk with the wagon and as always Tina got annoyed with Mahna (that is the 7 yr old). Kat was wearing her "high heels" again which suprised me b/c she wore them all day at skewl yesterday and then for 3 hr of shopping with us yesterday! She was complaining all night so I figured she would put them to rest for a day or so til her blisters went away.

mahna wants me......adios

New Post on Sunday

I always try to respond when someone complains that I am lacking in the blog posting area. haha. I was having a writer's block, so my mom suggested I type some stuff about Mahna-kins and my house cleaning adventures.

Here goes.

Mahna is so fun. It is wierd to me how being a parent you can understand your child's language. I can tell almost always what she is telling me or what she wants. I have also realized that she is spoiled and whiney sometimes because I have allowed her to become that way. She is also 18 mo. old so that has something to do with it! Today I took her outside and we blew some bubbles. The bubbles we have must be cheapos cuz they don't work very well. I want to buy her one of those toys that blows bubbles. I was going to look at "once upon a child" for one yesterday, but we were having too much fun with Jarrod. He was working on my parent's Jeep and Mahna and I were just playing in the front yard of my parents' house for a few hours. We collected leaves, went for a walk and played with Duplo's. She also realized she can climb in the decorative antique wheelbarrel that my mom has in one of her gardens. Everything Mahna does I think is cute. I do have to realize that not everyone else always thinks everything she does is cute. In my eyes she is wonderous, but I am sure in some other's eyes she is just a kid.

Friday I cleaned a house I had never cleaned before. It was just a one time cleaning, which I really enjoy these days. The house hadn't really been cleaned b/c bothe owners work full time, so I really took great pleasure in cleaning every nook and cranny of the place. One of the owners was so complimentary to my cleaning skills the whole time, it just almost makes it worth it without getting paid to make someone so happy. But I did get paid, and got a $15 tip! That does NOT happen. But it was cool and I am glad I got to do it. Last week I also cleaned a 3900 square foot house in less than four hours! We are talking 4 bathrooms people!!! ENORMOUS!

I would like to shout out to my buddy Jana who is going thru a very hard time right now and I really wish you all the best getting thru these hard days and weeks ahead.

Also, those of you who know what is up with my sister, I am not ignoring it or unaffected by it, I just don't feel comfortable typing it all up here on my blog, for the sake of her privacy and my family's.

Love you all, readers!
Caro