The Weekend:
All in all, our weekend went well. We got to meet my brother’s wife and their daughter. My stepmother and them came up, spent the night, we had a nice morning with breakfast a-la stepmother. The kids played, fought, played, fought.. We went to the Palm Beach Zoo, then we drove south to the Miami Seaquarium. I’d say the experience was a mear “OK”, though, because both parks had some level of drabbiness and neglect that’d make us stop and think “god that sux”. Dirty tank waters, trash dumped in various places. sigh… But we got to spend time together, toddler tantrums and all.
By the end of the day I had a huge headache from the sun and from dehydration and I was h-u-n-g-r-y! We dropped them back off at my grandmother’s at 6pm and we could have just kept driving home but I stayed because, like I said, I was h-u-n-g-r-y! and my grandmother and/or aunt always have food to offer. I ate like an animal and had 2 very tall glasses of water. Even my very picky 3 year old ate like crazy. My 5 month old drank a bottle and a half of milk and she entertained everybody for the next hour with her babbling baby cuteness.
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Current Mood:
Pensive,
Relieved
I’m sure most people don’t know the kind of slobs my husband and I are at home on most days. It really is shameful.
The most recent state of the house was really really bad. I’m not just talking clutter and dirty dishes either. I’m talking weeks of dog hair along the baseboards, weeks of human hair on the bathroom floors, dried up spills on the tile, more layers of dog hair on our area rugs, clean laundry laying everywhere, unidentified sticky stuff on our coffee table to which more floating dog hair has become stuck to. Dirty snot filled tissues, dog vomit stained bathroom rugs. Weeks and weeks worth of unopenned mail piled on our kitchen table (this is why I get in trouble for not paying bills on time).
We knew it all had to be cleaned sometime, but we just really didn’t have the drive to do it so it just got worse and worse. In fact, the last time we cleaned this house was in July for my daughters party. My worst fear had been that someone would drop in on us unannounced.
Continue reading ‘I don’t clean for nothing, damnit!’
Current Mood:
Accomplished,
Cheerful
Having had so many of my aunts, uncles, and cousins step off the rafts onto this country’s soil, I often tried to put myself in thier shoes.
What does this country look like to someone fresh off the boat from an opressed country like Cuba? What goes through their minds when they see all these newer cars on the streets, all this traffic because SO many people have cars especially in this state where public transportation isn’t all that great? And what emotion do they experience when they go to our supermarkets for the first time and see the isles and isles of food of all kinds stocked up to the ceilings?
I imagine they may feel awe, shock, wonder. Maybe even anger and sadness that they’ve left so many people behind who won’t have access to it.
Today my sister in law didn’t step off a raft from Cuba but she stepped off an airplane from DR which is still a pretty bleak country. She is, at this moment, in Miami probably being driven around to see the sights. Probably at a mall shopping for warm clothes. Probably at my uncle’s house just shooting the breeze. No matter where she is or what she’s doing she’s got to be thinking to herself something like .. ” I knew this existed but I didn’t really know this existed “.
I’ve been to visit in DR and when you leave the airport (which is quite an experience all on its own) and start driving through the various towns to my dad’s house, I’ve always felt this feeling like I’ve suddenly left my world, my reality, my planet… and entered into some twilight zone of noise and confusion.
It must be the opposite for them.  I’d say where I live is like a twilight zone of comfort and order. LOL
Current Mood:
Pensive
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