Walmarts mistake is a blessing in disguise

Last weekend I went to walmart and noticed they have fish. It was the one I used to work at and never saw anyone with fish come through my line. Well I decided to get some more guppies, surprisingly they had really pretty male guppies. Being walmart no one wanted to help me, so I got my own fish and saw a these albino frogs that walmart called "dwarf frogs" well in my aquarium I have 4 dwarf frogs and felt an albino would be a great addition. When I got home and put him in my tank I noticed my dwarf frogs hid at the sight of him. SHIT. I did some research, he is an African Clawed frog and he will eat all in my aquarium not to mention get about 5 inches long. Thank you walmart! He lived in a pickle jar for a day but now has a nice small aquarium. I named him Cornielious and he can live up to 20 years. Apparently he is considered an "exotic pet" because no one seems to know a lot about him. I bought him a black mystery snail today, we will see if the snail remains uneaten.

I am so not used to having something that does not have fur and eats living things. I will have to get used to buying fish at the store for him without naming them or getting attatched to them.

Loki likes to watch my fish while I cuddle him. He is too sweet. Took him to see my grandma at the skilled nursing facility. He made her so happy,, she lit up and cuddled him until we left. On our way out some other residents stopped me wanting to pet Loki. When we left everyone had giant smiles on their faces. I am glad we were able to bring joy into their lives for a little bit.

Baby Watch 2008

It has been a really long time since I have blogged. Well I am substituting for Keller ISD and I have a 20 gallon aquarium with guppies, dwarf frogs and ghost shrimp. The baby watch is because I have 4 females guppies that are very pregnant. They look like they are about to explode. I am so excited. Loki turns 2 in a week and the weekend after his birthday he will be in the Chihuahua races. I can not wait!! Oh getting the tattoo on my foot lasered off. Since there was a very high metal content in the ink I look like a leper lol. Sorry if this doesn't make sense, just got home from subbing a third grade class, exhausted. I think I need to talk to my doctor about my blood sugar.

Yeah I don't know

It has been so long that I didn't have a clue as to what to title this. This semester has been a little crazy. I started out taking 18 hours and I had to drop my spanish class as well as my second major so I can graduate next December. I am getting real tired of class, I guess because I am getting so close. Scrapbook Pad wanted me to work too much and I couldn't do it with my school schedule, plus I wanted to be a better wife and mother. Now, I am cooking dinner almost every night, it saves us money and is a lot healthier. Also, I am doing more housework while Rob is at work. Now, I am selling AVON and it is wonderful.

I sold AVON when I graduated high school and I was really stupid about it, I spent more than I made and got screwed over by some people along the way. I am being smarter this time around and I have also grown a lot since then. My sales have been increasing slowy, but increasing nonetheless. I hope to make enough where I can help with rent and other bills. Robert has been extremely supportive of AVON and my school, he is great.

Good To Be Home

It has been almost a week since I have been home from Mexico. I really enjoyed my time in Mexico, I learned a lot and my professor down there told my professor from Wesleyan that I am fluent. Although the experience was great, I missed everyone here way too much, especially my husband and our puppy.

My experience taught me a lot of things. I feel more humbled now, everywhere in Cuernavaca had no air conditioning. The air conditioning really is not needed because the temperature is always in the 70's during the day and very cool at night. I actually enjoyed leaving the windows open at night especially when a storm rolled over the mountains. Since energy is so expensive they will turn off the boiler for their hot water. I did not realize until a week after I was there that I needed to ask my madre to turn on the boiler for a shower. It was actually very refreshing to come home from a day of class and an excursion to take a cool shower. Since we had the windows open, mosquitos invited themselves in and eventhough I sprayed myself down every night with bug spray I still would get bit.

Something that got to me was in the downtown area there were several children selling jewelry or other things. Education in Mexico is not free and several families can not afford to send their children to school. It broke my heart seeing such beautiful children being robbed of their childhood and education because of a very corrupt government.

While on an exursion we went to these caverns. I was getting dizzy inside but I thought I was alright. Well the director of the program saw me and told the tour guide I needed out of the cave fast. We started to walk out and I was told to sit and it all caught up to me and I could not breathe. I took my inhaler but could not catch my breath. Suddenly I saw a couple people running and they had oxygen with them.  I started to feel better, but more medics came with a stretcher and insisted that I lay on it as they carried the the half mile out of the cave. Apparently, that doesnt happen to them often because they were having a very hard time carrying me. It was embarrasing and unexpected. I have never had that hard of an asthma attack before and being in another country without family was scary.

I lost about 8 pounds while in Mexico and this past week I have probably lost a few more. It was very refreshing to eat food not filled with preservatives, hormones, and the other shit FDA puts in our food. I agree with Rob in thinking my stomach illness this past week is from my body trying to readjust to all the chemicals in the food. No, I did not drink the tap water. I ate some things off carts outside with flies flying all around, I was proud of myself because some of the best food is off the little carts.

I am extremely thankful for my experience, but I am very happy to be home.

CODY SUMMARY-

I am happy to be home, I am humbled. I lost weight and I have been sick the past week.

Mexico Dia 4

Today is my fourth day in mexico. Our flight on sunday was delayed 3 hours because of the rain. We flew in to mexico city, I have never seen anything so large before, there are houses as far as the eye can see and the airport is right in the middle of a lot of buildings so landing was very scary. Classes are getting easier and easier con cada dia. I am taking a conversation clase y we have to translate in spanish what the professor says in ingles. Its very mentally exhausting, pero I am learning mucho. Vamos a mirar License to Wed en espanol. Chao.

I MISS ROB MUCHO. ROBERT TE AMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!