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This one is going to meander all over the place, just warning you now. 

As a lot of you know I had a 4 day weekend.  I had taken Friday and Monday off and the original plan was to go to California, visit and workout with Nancy and see a giant mouse.  Well as a lot of you know..  I still don’t have my tax refund, so that trip got canceled.  I did go into the IRS building last week and was told that the notice for Chris’ ITIN was just mailed out that day, so it was still going to be 4-6 weeks!!!!!  OMG!!!  I have that down payment check that they are going to try and cash just after the 4th of July weekend!!  They cash that without my refund in my account, I’m totally screwed!!!  No money for rent, groceries, or anything!!!!  I asked the guy if he could please put a rush on it, as I was told it was going to be 4-6 weeks 3 months ago!!!  He said he’d “try” it..  gee thanks.  I think he was new cuz he was so freakin slow!!  UG!!!

 Then a friend of mine from work told me about this place that can help you with you greencard..  financially and with the forms.  We go in there on Friday and he gives us a list of all the stuff we need to submit with the forms..  yeah, know all that.  Then he tells us the fees, yep we know that..  we came in because we were told you offer financial assistance for obtaining the card…  goes away from the desk, comes back and says that you can apply for a waiver of the fees, but for the type we need to file, it wounld almost guarentee a denial of the greencard, because I have to be able to afford to keep Chris off welfare!!!!!  Ok, I can afford to keep him off welfare, I just can’t afford the $1500 at one shot to pay all the stupid ass fees!!!  So basically, and sorry if this offends anyone, we are the wrong race!!!  If we were hispanic/Mexican, they would have helped no problem, but because we’re white, nope forget it!!  It really and truly pisses me off!!!

Yesterday we planned to go to the movies, something we haven’t done since November.  We were taking Mikayla, because quite frankly I don’t really have anyone to watch her.  I get people offering all the time, but then they never give me their phone #..  what’s up with that?  Anyway, we were sitting at home before we left and we got a knock on our door…  a lady from the apartment office..  “Did you realize you haven’t signed a new lease yet?”  um..  actually, yeah, but we’ve been waiting for the stupid tax refund to see if we were going to be able to afford to move to a 2 bedroom, less bug infested apartment, closer to work.  So we were talking to her about maybe transferring to a 2 bedroom apt here, and she said she’d look into it.  Turns out they are charging about $90 LESS for the rent on our apartment than what we are paying..  and a 2 bedroom?  We were last told it was $100 more than what we’re paying…  nope!  only about $10-20 more.. ok sign us up!!  Only thing is we have to come up with a $200 transfer fee…  so, not sure when we will have that.  Was thinking I might have it this Friday, but got to thinking about that downpayment check out there and thought maybe we should wait on that…  SUCKS!!!!

Saturday was Chris’ b-day.  We were supposed to go out to a late lunch with some friends..  they canceled and moved it to Sunday, after I’d already declared Saturday my cheat day and had eaten 2 donuts and a blueberry muffin!!!  I was quite mad to say the least!!  Ended up eating almost 3000 calories, because we then ended up getting chinese, and with my allergy to sesame, I’m super limited to what I can eat… (plus still not totally liking all veggies like broccoli) and don’t like seafood…    so Sunday I think I did ok, but I can’t find anything close to what I had on any of the websites to even give me a guesstimite on the calories..  oh well.. 

We saw Star Trek yesterday.  It was really good!!  Mikayla did really well!!  She was a little monkey, climbing all over me and wiggling around, but she only fussed once when her bottle was empty and I had to make another one… in the dark..  LOL  that was fun!!  Chris took her over to the hallway and walked with her there while I made the bottle so she wouldn’t fuss, and he could still watch the movie.    Now I know for Harry Potter to have at least 2 bottles already made up!!  She was totally fascinated with the giant “TV” screen though!!  LOL  She didn’t know where to look!!!

Well off to work, gonna hit the treadmill there today for some cardio.  Didn’t really get a workout in yesterday, just some walking around the mall a bit..  lite cardio..  hehe..  at a snails pace!! 

Hope everyone has a grerat Tuesday!!  Sorry this is sooooo long!!!

I have this pair of jean, pretty much my only jeans…  and they are big on me, like really big.  I wore them yesterday, as I do every Friday for jeans day and I had forgot to bring my belt.  (I have my cardioFit class so I bring my clothes to change after.)  I was standing talking to someone and my jeans started sliding..  as I was pulling them up, she commented that they were a bit big.   I told her, yeah..  I could probably fit Mikayla in there with me….  sooooooo   just to prove it, and be silly I had Chris take a picture of it!!

Here it is: