Erica

Well hello LJ world. LOL I know it has been forever once again. I was thinking about something tonight and boom... LJ popped into my mind. If I have any friends left on here... Hi! Let me know how you are :)

Ok... I need some advice. My husband lost his job today. I have no details on it yet because he hasn't been home. I don't know if he was fired or laid off. We have 2 kids and now none of us have health care.
I was on Food Stamps once and some how they over paid me for my food stamps, and I got a letter from them a few months ago saying I need to pay them $300 for what they overpaid me in. I haven't had the money to pay them back yet, and now I definetly don't. I'm not sure if this will effect us getting any help in the mean time. Any ideas?

Of course my husband is going to try to get a new job with benefits ASAP. But we can't afford not to have health insurance.

Also, any ideas as to how me and my husband can get health insurance? I know we can get Cobra, but it's going to be unreal, price wise.

Thanks for any and all advice!

-Pay Verizon home phone/DSL
-Go to Petsmart
-Pay Cell phone
-Take Care of Registration on car
-Pay babysitter
-Go buy Kaylas birthday supplies.
-Put money a side for Avery's new car seat.

Two Names You Go By
1. Erica
2. Mommy

Two Parts of Your Heritage
1. French
2. Indian

Two Things That Scare You
1. sickos
2. dark water

Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Cleaning
2. COFFEE

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1.Black pants
2. shoes

Two of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)
1. Switchfoot
2. Rascal Flatts

Two Truths about you
1. I easily cry
2. I am a control freak

Two Physical Things that Appeal to You About the Opposite Sex.
1. HYGINE
2. Teeth

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. Puzzles
2. Ebay and LJ :P

Two Things You Want Really Badly
1. To go to church frequently
2. Get organized

Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. England
2. Australia

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Adopt or foster parent
2. Get debt paid off :P

Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. I want to go smoke
2. Need to get ready for Averys dr. appt.

Two Stores You Shop At
1. Target
2. HEB

Two people you haven't talked to in awhile
1. Amy
2. Robin

Two favorite web sites
1. Ebay
2. LJ

Two cars you have owned
1. 00 Civic
2. 98 Chevy Blazer

Two pets you had/have
1. Yellow lab-Sandy
2. Choc Lab- Chaca

Two People who will fill this out
who knows

Two things you did last nite
1. SHopped
2. Ate

Two shows you like to watch currently
1. City Confidential
2. Dog

HAHA! :) Ya right. I will be "rich" just until all my checks clear! We did our taxes today. We are getting WAY more than expected ! :) But all that means is that we will be able to pay more past due bills and creditors. Don't get me wrong... I'm very grateful for that. One step closer to where we need to be.
I'm busy cleaning house...well obviously not RIGHT this second, but I've allowed myself a break. The only rooms left to clean is Averys, which will take 5 minutes and Kaylas which will take 15 minutes cause I need to put her sheets on her bed. Plus I still have 3 more loads of laundry. I should be done by the time Stephem gets home. He's out with his dad at the moment. We are having a babysitter tonight, so Stephen and I can have a REAL and our first date night. :) In one more month it will be 1 year that we've been married. In some ways it seems as if it's been 10 years, and then some times it feels like it was just yesterday. Weird. Kind of sad that we've been married almost a year and this is our first REAL date. :P Better late than never I guess.
Well, better go... I'm off to read a little and then to clean some more. Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far! :)

On the back of the Purina One bag of dog food that I buy my dogs, I feed my 9 month old and 21 month old labs the recommended amount of food for their weight.

BUT, I don't see anywhere where they specify HOW MANY times a day I should feed them. They(Purina One) say that I should feed them 2.5 cups. Should I spread out that 2.5 cups? Or should I be giving them 2.5 cups 2 or 3 times a day??

My dogs seem to be A LITTLE bit under weight. Not too bad, maybe just a little. That is why I am concerned about HOW often I feed them.

Thanks in advance.

He is the only one I know that can blow money worse than a woman. SHIT. He took out $40 Monday night. THEN another $40 Tuesday night. I am so pissed because I am having to make returns in order to make sure our checks don't bounce and he goes off and blows $40 FUCKING in one day! ? ON WHAT? It costs him $6 something a day for him to get to and from work for tolls. I am SOOOOO Pissed. I just sent him an email asking WHY he took out ANOTHER $40. His ass is grass.

Anyway. Sorry to bitch.

Kayla is doing fine. She has a small bruise on her butt. She said her head hurt, but she seems to feel fine now. I will DEFINETLY keep an eye on her though.

OMG, I feel like it should be night time. Avery woke me up at 4:30 this morning. She hasn't done that in a LONG time. Then, when I went in to go make her a bottle and what do I find? There was only enough formula to make her 1- 6oz. bottle. So I had to go to HEB at 6am this morning so my chunky monkey could eat. I never got to go back to sleep. AND I didn't go to bed until 1am, so I'm kinda out of it.

Oh well. I'm going to go take a shower and then Kayla and I are going to clean the living room. ASSUMING Avery will stay asleep.

Everything has been going good. We've been able to spend a lot of time together since Kayla is at the condo. I really think it was LONG over due.

In other good news. Stephen sold his truck today. With no effort at all! :) The guy came to our door with cash! :)

Yesterday was my FIL's b-day party at the bar. Which was hard to sit there and watch people drink and smoke and nothing else. There was a lot of food there so I spent most of my time around the food area! :)

Anyway. So, my medicaid appointment. I was SO pissed. I was 2 minutes late and they made me reschedule. UGH... so I have been rescheduled for July 8th.

Also, Stephen and I have decided NOT to find out the sex of the baby. I really just want to be surprised! :P so does he... It's my family that it is going to go crazy not knowing!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far!

BTW, I think I have to make my journal friends only since that person is now insulting my friends on here.
So, how do I do that???

I don't mean to bring up ANYTHING controversial. I don't want any trash talk about the issue, PLEASE.
But, today is Gay Pride Day on Bravo. Earlier I watched To Wong Foo thanks for everything. ( Which I've seen before and I think it is a brilliant movie! ) Now is Birdcage (Same opinion.) Anyways, my point of bringing this up is Stephen doesn't want to watch it. He's seen it before and he doesn't have anything against gay guys, I think he just prefers not to watch a bunch of men dress up as women. I have to admit, I would feel the same way if it was the other way around. ( well, maybe. They haven't made a movie like that, that I know of) Anyway. I'm over here cracking up at the movie and he keeps looking at me shaking his head. It makes me laugh harder! :)

It feels like an ETERNITY since I have updated. I was going to update 2 nights ago and I couldn't get LJ to work. :( Then last night I was busy. I've been trying to catch up on everyones lives! It's a work in progress.
Here is a quick update on me and Stephen and other stuff.
He called me yesterday saying that he wanted to talk, so I went to the house that he was staying at. (to summarize) we talked and he is now back home. I told him I know that there is a lot for him ( and me) to work on so I don't expect for everything to be peachy keen right away. I am patient and determined. So, he said that he promises that he will do his very best to work on the things that we talked about.
I am glad he is back home.
Last night was fun of course! :) hehe
And tonight he cooked dinner, and even helped clean up. I hope it will last. My house is SOOO clean, I told him that he would HAVE to help maintain it. Tonight my kitchen is still spotless and the living room is still pretty well picked up.
I had someone come over yesterday and clean the bathrooms for me and sweep and mop the kitchen floor.
I just got off the phone with my mom telling her that and she started cracking up. I asked her WTF was so funny and she said that I had someone come do those things for me. And she asked why. I told her that I don't want to be around the harsh chemicals, plus I still don't have insurance (and since I am accident prone) I didn't want to slip and bust my ass or something. She kept laughing.. So I said "What is your problem?" And she said Erica I just don't think that you wanted to do those things and that's why you had her come. UGH! She pissed me off. I hung up on her. That is NOT why I had her come. Trust me I am not lazy, I actually take pride in my home and am a much happier person when it is clean.

Anyway. Kayla is leaving tomorrow for the weekend to go to the condo with my mom. I am going to miss her so much. :( It's just been me and her the last week and I will really miss her. BUT, I know she will have a great time!

Ok, guess that's it for now. I will be posting pregnant pictures next week since I am now 6 months. WOW!!! Where has the time gone??
Oh...also, I think Stephen and I have agreed to not find out the sex. I want to be surprised!

Also (sorry, I promise this is it) I went to my WIC appt. today and I got approved. I have my Medicaid appt. tomorrow. I hope that works out. I'm kind of nervous that they will think that we make too much. Oh well, we will see.

Hope everyone is having a good evening!