Tricks

Last night we out smarted Muñeca. She likes to sleep on my side of the bed on the floor next to my slippers and bedside table. Manny doesn't like her not sleeping in her dog cage. So I moved the cage to the corner she likes to sleep in and put one of my slippers in there. It worked!! She went to sleep.

She's the small black blob in the picture. I closed the gate but at 1 am she started going crazy!! I opened the door. She went and played with her toy for a while and then went back to bed.

Today I gave her a bath because she has been scratching a lot. I think the ants are getting her when we take her to go potty. Poor baby!

After her bath she was shivering since she has no body fat. I covered her with a towel and she buried her face in the towel.

Muñeca got to meet one of her grandma's today, an aunt, her cousin, and her dog aunt. Her dog aunt, Bonnie Blue, is part Siberian Husky. Bonnie Blue didn't seem to mind her, but my mom didn't want to leave Muñeca alone outside with Bonnie Blue just in case Muñeca made Bonnie Blue mad.

What I find funny about Muñeca is that after she eats, she has lumps sticking out of her sides. Hahahaha!!!

I took Muñeca outside to go potty and this little boy was walking his dog. He had dropped the leash so I quickly picked up my dog. Then we had a very ADHD conversation...

He said "Oh your dog is actually kind of cute!"
I replied "Thanks so is yours. How old is she?"
He said "I think two months or maybe a month and a half."
I said "That's how old my dog is, about six weeks."
He said "I'll buy your dog for twenty bucks."
I replied "We paid a little more than that for her."
He said "Oh yeah! Well we paid $500 for our dog because she is an Australian Shepherd. I'll give you $3,000 for your dog."
I replied "I don't think you have that much money."
He responded "Just kidding. I don't have that much money."
I asked "What's her name?"
He stated "We called her Butter but her real name is Kevin. I'm not sure why I named a girl dog Kevin. She likes to stalk people and go into their houses. Try going into your house and she will follow you."
I opened my door.
The dog was busy smelling stuff elsewhere.
He said "I'm trying to teach her how to run without me holding the leash. Watch this."
He ran off and I yelled bye. As I was going inside, I heard him yell bye back and then start talking to someone else "Hey what kind of dog is that?"

BAHAHAHAHAA!!! Oh children! I told Manny and he just laughed at me.

Tomorrow I plan on doing some work in my classroom. The new school year is quickly approaching and I only have two weeks to prep my room. Hopefully I can get a lot done tomorrow. We shall see!

Projects

Last night, Muñeca actually let us sleep. At first we put her in a dog cage, but as soon as she realized she was locked in, she started whining. We moved her cage so she could sleep near my side of the bed. For some reason she likes to sleep next to my slippers. You can see her in between the trashcan and slippers...

I went to Starbucks with Steph this morning. We had fun talking. It's always good to catch up with friends :-)

Afterwards I went to my school and the AC was on. Yay!! I didn't want to stay long because Muñeca was at home alone. When I got home, she had pulled all her blankets out of her bed and spread them everywhere. I guess she got bored.

I printed out some stuff today for some projects I am making for my classroom. I will post pictures of the finished products of everything I'm making, but for now, here's a preview of what's to come...

These are for my desk organizer:

These are for a sound check clip chart:

These are for a clip chart of "How we go home:"

These are for my birthday chart I will put on a bulletin board:

This is for a clip chart of where we are in case someone is looking for us:

Lastly, this is a book I am making about how to treat books nicely:

I am excited to make all these projects!!! Now I need to get to work cutting these things.

Surprises

Last night when I got home from Starbucks, Manny had a surprise for me. He got us a puppy!!!

I was at Starbucks with my friend and we were busy looking up puppies. I was sending Manny the links to some of the puppies I found online. Apparently one of the links was to a family in our apartment complex. The family owned the mom and dad and they had six dachshund puppies-two females and four males. Manny chose one of the females because he knows I don't like male dogs. Manny chose the name Muñeca which means doll in Spanish.

We did not get much sleep last night because Muñeca was crying all night!!! She is only six weeks old and it was her first night away from her family. Poor Baby! Manny got up and checked on her around 4am. I had been lying awake for a while. I was so tired and so I just prayed that she would go to sleep. It got quiet. I didn't hear anything from her until Manny's alarm went off at 5:15. Praise the Lord! This just goes to show that God cares about the little things :-) like sleep! 

This morning I got up and brought Muñeca into the bedroom. She cuddled up next to me and went to sleep. I guess she didn't get much sleep either. I let her sleep a few hours, but then I had to go get some things for her.

I didn't want to leave her here alone, but she didn't want to stay in my purse.

I went out and bought her food, a collar, food, and food/water dishes. 

I bought her dishes at Dollar Tree and I bought a squirt bottle. The lady at the register said someone had been looking for the squirt bottles earlier. I told the worker where they were and I told her that there are smaller squirt bottles on the hair aisle. Another worker had been listening and she said that I really know the store. Haha I told both the workers that I go to Dollar Tree way too much! One worker said "Well think about all the money you saved by not buying this stuff at Walmart." I said "That's true, but you end up spending way more money than you intend to." Haha my Dollar Tree addiction. Manny is no longer surprised when he comes home and I tell him I went to Dollar Tree.

As soon as I showed her the food, she started eating. Poor baby must've been hungry. I guess milk isn't too filling.

Well Muñeca is back to sleeping. She keeps looking around for Manny, so hopefully he comes home soon!

Work

This morning after I went to the gym, I saw THE cutest thing. I saw a little orange kitten...

I guess I was a creeper for taking this picture but it was too cute to pass up. 

I took a trip to school today. I started getting quesy on the drive there. I am so not ready to go back. 

Here are the before pictures of my classroom...

There was no AC so I only lasted about an hour today. I had trouble locating my stapler so I had to borrow one from the office. I was able to put the fabric and boarder on my bulletin boards. One less thing to do even though it wasn't much.

 I have two of these little bulletin boards...

On the way home I stopped at Kroger. I had a massive headache from having no AC at school, so I needed food. I bought a pint of blueberries!! They were 99 cents. I started eating them on the drive home. I guess when I made a turn I squeezed my legs together because they shot up and made a mess! I had blueberries surrounding my feet!

Poor blueberries! I even sat on one. So sad :-/ I rescued the ones I could and washed them off. Can't waste food! Haha

Alright well time to get dinner ready...

Travel

Today we went on a few adventures...

Ace Hardware was giving away free quarts of paint. We went to the Ace right near us, but they don't sell Clark and Kensington brand paint which was the brand that was giving away paint. We started to venture over to the Ace in Clear Lake. On the way there, we passed the place Manny gets his haircut. We stopped. He got his haircut so I could see how to do a medium fade. Oh man it looks so much easier than a high fade. I so got this!! 

We continued on our way to Ace. When we got there, I had to figure out what color I wanted. Too many choices!! I initially wanted a teal color, but then I had to think about what I was going to use the paint for. We have nothing teal in our apartment, so hmmm... I looked at red, but it didn't feel right, so I just stuck with my original color. It's a really pretty teal! It's called Eastern Shoreline. (And yes, water on the East and West Coast is really blue, not the nasty brown like Galveston. I feel bad for the people who think Galveston is a real beach. Nasty.)

So I got my paint, two little paint stirrers, and a paint can opener. Yay!

We continued on our adventure by picking up Manny's dad and going to Mexico!!

In Mexico, they hang flags and pinatas everywhere! Haha jk so this isn't really Mexico, it's Mi Tienda. We went here for lunch. It's a restaurant and a grocery store. Since I was with Manny, the people there just assumed I spoke Spanish. No big deal! I'm fluent! 

After lunch, we went to Sam's club. The line to get in was long and we still wanted to go see the puppies at PetsMart. We left to go see the puppies :-) but boo!! PetsMart only had kittens. Of course they are cute too, but I can't get one.

We left PetsMart and headed back to Sam's club. We determined that Sam's club isn't really cheaper than a normal grocery store. Everything is in larger quantities, so it's a little cheaper BUT you have to pay for a Sam's Club membership, so in reality, it's the same price as Kroger or Wal-Mart. Sorry to burst the bubbles of all those avid Sam's club shoppers. Maybe a few cents is important enough to you, but to me, it doesn't matter that much. I find enough spare change in parking lots to make up for my loss :-)

Well now I will continue to look at Pinterest while Manny studies :-) I have to figure out what my next project will be!!

Freedom

Today I had the opportunity to babysit my nephew :-) We had a lot of fun. I was trying to get him to crawl... We're getting there. Haha!

I went to Olive Garden with my mom and sister for lunch. We were celebrating my oldest sister's birthday. She is an old lady now!!! I love you, Megan! Haha 

I ordered a calzone at Olive Garden which means "underwear" in Spanish. When I told Manny I had underwear for lunch, he wanted some too. So for dinner, we went to Mario's and got some underwear. Yum! I didn't think he would be hungry because we went to the mall and got samples from the food court. They always have lots of samples. All those people on the streets begging for food should just go to the mall for free samples :-)

...After Mario's we drove over to Sam's club because Megan said they are having an open house. I googled it and the open house is all this weekend. SWEET! By the time we got to Sam's, it was closed. We will try again later. 

We got home and made s'mores with Reese's (How can we have some more when we haven't even had any? haha). Since we have an electric stove, we just heat up the marshmallows in the microwave. If you've never done that before, I highly recommend trying it. It's a good experience. I'll give you a glimpse of what you're missing out on...

Look at how big that marshmallow is!!! 

This is an up close picture of the marshmallow in the microwave...

Taking up close pictures of something in a microwave doesn't work so well, just in case you were wondering. Haha!

I don't have anything super insightful to say today, just a simple thought. The name Joshua is Hebrew for Jesus (they come from the same Hebrew root word). So Joshua helping the Israelites fight the Amalekites and Joshua leading the Israelites to the Promised Land, were both pictures of what was to come with Jesus. Jesus just did it on a much larger scale: He saved the whole world, not just God's chosen people. Any thoughts??

Change

Today I went shopping to buy a birthday present for my mom and oldest sister. My oldest sister told me not to buy her anything because then she'd feel bad about not paying me to babysit. I told her that one day she will babysit my kids for free so she shouldn't feel bad. She said "True, but still..." I couldn't not get her something for her birthday!!!

I went shopping at Walmart and they are having some pretty amazing back to school sales:
Crayola Crayons 24 ct for 50 cents
Spiral Notebooks for 17 cents
Filler Paper 150 sheets for 88 cents
Plastic Prong Folders for 50 cents
Paper folders for 25 cents
Glue sticks for 25 cents
The list goes on...

I bought a few notebooks, but I will probably need to go buy a few of everything on the Kinder school supply list since there are always a few kids who don't bring school supplies.

After dinner, we watched G.I. Joe Retaliation. Manny got it all ready and I walked over to the couch to find this...

A tupperware full of ice cream with two spoons and a box of cookies. I laughed!! 

The ice cream is in a tupperware because the tub it was in broke. We didn't realize it was broken which is probably why it was on sale for 99 cents. Psh! A half gallon of butterfinger ice cream for 99 cents!?! Who can say no to that??

G.I. Joe Retaliation was a pretty good movie. *Spoiler Alert* Channing Tatum gets killed off right near the beginning. What I find humorous is that his character's name is Duke which is his character's name in the movie She's the Man. 

After the movie, we went to Lowe's because Manny needed a bolt to fix the strut on his truck. I was also looking for something for my next project :-) (Lowe's didn't have what I needed, but Home Depot did. Luckily both places give military discount. I take Manny with me places just to use his discount. HAHA! Totally kidding.) 

Ok so I saw this picture and I asked Manny what was wrong with it. He couldn't figure it out...

Which side of the gate is the mom on?? Manny said that is the norm nowadays. Parents don't watch their kids. How sad! This company that makes the gates is encouraging locking your child in a room so the parent can do whatever. Manny said "Those used to be for dogs, now they're for children." Hahahaha!

Alright well insight for the night from Exodus 17... The Israelites were fighting the Amalekites and as long as Moses held his hands up in the air, the Israelites would start winning, but when his arms and staff went down, the Israelites would start losing. This shows that as long as we keep praying, God's power will keep working and flowing through us. But when we stop praying, that's when things get bad because God's power has stopped flowing through us. We've stopped letting Him work through us. People, that is when it gets dangerous and scary. Don't stop praying!!! Let God use you! He wants to :-)