OY VEY! (Longest Entry Ever!)

I can’t tell you how many times i’ve said or thought out loud OY VEY! over these past couple days, travelling with a baby is chaos. I left Sunday afternoon and before I got on the plane we ate at encounters which is this really cool restaurant at the airport, they used to have really good food, butternut squash ravioli to be exact, but they got a new chef and I ordered Gnochhi which is my favorite, and I was like they can’t possibly mess up a dish like that, it came and as soon as it got to the table the smell coming from it made me want to puke but I ate the gnocchi anyway but I left the chicken and the veggie sauce stuff alone, yuch! My hubby didn’t even order anything cuz’ he said it all looked gross and he just ate off of Tay’s chicken finger plate. It was expensive too. I didn’t really have a problem getting on the plane or off when I got to Vegas. I had a wheelchair to help me carry all my stuff cuz’ you can have that go through security. My mom picked me up and we went and ate at the Cheesecake factory and it was storming really bad and the power even went out in the restaurant for a sec. After that we went to her house and I watched Secondhand LIons and then the Pamela Anderson roast on Comedy Central, and my mom showed me her new Lexus. It was soooo sweet! After that my mom took me to Lorenzo’s and I went to sleep. He bought Tay a realy cute blanket from Express. The next day Lorenzo said that he had to go get his phone fixed so I had him come back and get me when he was done, while he was gone I looked through the box of all the memories my brother had saved from my dad and I kept all the pictures and the rosary he had in his pocket when he died. Tay broke my rosary already, so I have to go get it fixed. When he came and got me we ate at ARby’s and he said I should treat him and I said okay afterall it was just a fast food resaturant, but he ordered like half the menu and it costed almost $20 for us to eat, then he said he had to go donate plasma and that it would take 2 hours so he dropped me off at my moms job. Tay was asleep so I left her with my mom while I went to Ross and bought a airlplace outfit for the trip back. When I got back my mom was already waiting for me at her car and it was time for her to go home and she had somewhere that she had to be and she said that she tried to get a hold of Lorenzo but couldn’t so she asked where me where I wanted to be dropped off. I told her I guess the Mirage where my family was staying, so she drove me there WITHOUT a car seat, and that freaked me out. When I got to the Mirage my family had already eaten dinner and then they decided they were just going to walk the strip, my feet were already hurting from walking to ross and back from my mom’s job and on top of that I had to carry Tay because it would have been too much to take her stroller and her car seat and whatever else I needed. But we were gonna walk all the way to the Stratosphere which is at least a few miles in the hot weather and since that was there plan to go there, whenn My bro finally called he said he would meet us there, but then they saw Circus Circus and decided to go there instead. So I called my brother and told him that they changed their plans and he flipped out on me and was like F it Fit, I’m just going home, I’m not chasing you guys all over Vegas to catch up with you, you can find a way to get home on your own, I’m going home. So I was stuck with them and they just played mini-golf in there and me and Tay just watched, and the kids went on some ride and even though they were 3 & 5, Tay was still too small. Then we decided to go back to the Mirage and we were going to go swimming but the pool was closed and Jen came to the rescue and got me and we were going to eat @ CPK but the line was forever long so we drove to Anna Bella which used to be one of my favorite restaurants but it was in Northtown in the ghetto so I hardly got to go. But they closed that one down and moved it over by where my brother lives. Jen ordered spaghetti and meatballs, I ordered Tay cheese ravioli, and I got pastina soup which was the bomb and Tay ate most of it, and I got ghocchi again, I knew and Italian restaurant couldn’t go wrong like encounters had and sure enough it was soo good I wanted to lick the plate, and for desert I got a chocoalte covered raspberry gelato star..Yummmm, I could seriously eat there everyday, if it weren’t for the fact that it is in Vegas and that the bill was 50 somethin’ dollars, but the waitress was really nice and the hospitality and the food made it all worth it. Tay didn’t even touch her food and she just wanted Jens spaghetti. Afterwards she took me home cuz’ it was late and Jen came in to visit, and my brother’s girlfriend Sasha was there. It was so funny because when Jen was about to leave she said bye daddy to my brother and he looked so pissed and he kept saying like little mean things to her and Jen would just fire back, it was hilarious, I think Jen had the upper hand, he is such a loser! Afterwards we decided to play cards and I was going to teach them how to play spades but I forgot how so I called my hubby and asked and he was at his cousins house and he reminded me how to play and either he hung up on me of the phone cut out but I was like whatever. They didn’t like spades so we played home-made pictionary and that was really fun and I found out Sasha is the same age as me. She is nice but I don’t like to see him with anyone other than Maria or Amanda. I went to bed like at 1 and Tay had already crashed as soon as we got home, well after she crapped herself and dug her hand down her pants and Lorenzo yelled at her and scared the hell out of her, I told him that’s what kids do, get used to it. I put the phoen by my ear before I went to bed because my aunt was supposed to call me in the mornin so we could meet to eat before my 1something flight. My hubby calls at 3 a.m. and was like why didn’t you call me back and he was acting all wierd and he tried to tell me that he got home at midnight, went to sleep, woke up and called me but I know he called when he got home at three! Whatever. The next day I woke up and called Kim cuz’ I wanted to see her and she was like okay but my place is messy. So I borrowed Lorenzo’s car, went to ross to return the shirt I had bought the previous day, called kim and she said that Caiden was asleep again, even though it was like 10 a.m. and that she didn’t want me to come over so I was like whatever, I think she just didn’t want me to see her mess. Then I remembered that my mom said that Lizz worked at her insurance companies office which was right across the street so I drove in front of the office and I kept looking in the window of Allstate and it looked like Lizz’s hair but I was’nt sure so I called my mom and she said no! It’s statefarm so I parked in front of there and sure enough her name was stickered on the window, lol. Before I could even get out of the car she was running up to the car trying to get Tay out! I hung out with her for like 15 min. then went back to get Lorenzo so we could go meet my mom for lunch at the Mediterranean cafe. That was another $12. I think this trip costed like $100 in food alone! After lunch we went to the Mirage pool to meet up with my family from Chicago and I was still in my plane clothes cuz’ I was supposed to leave at 1 something but my hubby called and said to take the latest flight to avoid traffic driving back from the air

port. So I was I thought I was supposed to leave at 5:45 but I guess it was the 6:45 flight. But anyways Tay got in the water and I wanted to swim so I found a swimsuit store and there cheapest suit off the clearance rack was $62!! So I just roasted in my airplane clothes. Then to make my day worse, my oldest cousin who is like 30 on my dad’s side of the family, Paco, who has always made fun of my weight still hasn’t grown mature with age. I was lying down in the shade and he had Tay on his lap and they were filming me and he goes "Orca, Tay don’t call your mom that" and then like a min. later he goes "Shamu, Tay, that’s so mean, don’t say that about your mom" and then a min. later he goes "Beluga, stop Tay, that’s so mean, that’s your mom" and then he just kept on naggin’ at me tellin’ her to poor water on me because I look beached and all kinds of crap. I wanted to cry so bad, but I had to keep my composure. Even Tay was lookin’ at him mean, she sensed the vibes. Then he wanted to prove his authority or something and so he started giving Tay orders and yelling at her and I kept telling him stop and his wife kept telling him stop and she was crying and he was scaring the heck out of her just saying stupid stuff like "Tay, get over here, pick that up" just to see if she would listen. It was pissing me off so bad, I couldn’t wait to leave. We finally did and my bro took me to the airport and DRAMA. First the automated teller machine wouldn’t spit me out my ticket so I had to walk all the way to ticketing to get my ticket and the line wasl ike 20 min. long, then I got up to security and they were like you can’t take your cart past this point you can either find someone to help you carry your stuff or you have to go downstairs to the baggage claim area and find a wheelchair. I asked if they could have someone bring one up and they said no you have to look fo one yourself. So that took another 30 min. then when I got everything on the wheelchair and I’m going through security they said that I had been randomly selected to undergo a search. The whole time I was waiting in line and getting searched no one else had been randomly selected! So that took another 30 min. they had to unpack everything in my bags and put it all back in, they patted down me, they patted down Tay!!!, they made me take off my shoes, and then they looked at Tay’s shoes,I was like are these people serious, so I finally go to the gate, and they had just closed to door like 5 min. before and I missed my flight. The next one wasn’t for 3 hours. I called my hubby and he was pissed and started yelling at me because I told him to be there at seven and assuming I had even made my flight he would have had to wait an hour but because I missed it he had to wait forever too. On top of everything Tay is going crazy running all over the place and messing with random people and trying to eat stuff off the floor and I’m trying to stay by the payphone cuz’ there was an outlet to charge my cell and people are staring at me cuz’ I can’t control my child and I’m in tears. I finally remembered they had a children’s area so I took her there and charged my phone there and Tay crapped on herself through her pants so I threw those away and put the new outfit my mom bought her on. I had to buy a normally 50 cent pack of wipes for $3 from the gift shop and since I only had one pamper left I looked at how much those would cost and it was $10 for 14 diapers! Forget that, that 1 diaper I had left better last. I bought Tay and I juice and pretzels from Auntie Annie’s and went to the gate, the flight was delayed, lol my luck. Tay was going crazy and wouldn’t sit still, she peed thru her pants so I changed her with the last diaper and within 2 minutes after that she peed through her pants some more. The people sitting next to us gave her gum and beef jerky to try to calm her down but it didn’t work then they finally let us on the plane and we got 2 seats again so luckily she didn’t have to sit on my lap since she was soaked. We even got whatever drink we wanted and pretzels unlike going to Vegas when we only got water. Tay was screaming on the plane while people were trying to sleep, and at the beginning of the flight I asked the stewardess for a blanket and she didn’t give me one until right before we started landing. When me did land I had to wait till everyone got off the plane first because I didn’t want to hold everyone up. Then I was like how am I going to carry this stuff off the plane and the stewardess just stood there looking at me for a few min. and then carryed my 2 bags just off the plane, not even down the jetway to the gate. So I’m standing at the end of the jetway trying to figure out how I’m going to carry everything up the ramp and there’s like 5 airline workers just standing there looking at me and I just dropped everything, incl. Tay and started crying and said I can’t do this I need a wheel chair or a cart and the stewardess goes"she doesn’t look handicap to me" referring to my daughter who is 20 mo. like she can really carry any of this luggage? Then she goes "whenever I travel with my child I only take her carseat and some toys" Let me guess she just buys clothes when she gets to where she is going then gives them to goodwill before she gets back on the plane to get home! Stupid Lady. I couldn’t check the stuff either because I don’t want my things going somewhere that I’m not. So finally some guy helps me carry my bags to the gate and tells me to wait so he can get me some help, some guy comes and helps me carry my bags down to the baggage claim and then some lady gives me a cart and my hubby was waiting for me right when I got off the elevator. On our way driving home I saw a bunch of prostitutes and I was like dang. And it got me thinkin’ about my past and all those pimps that tried to get me to work for them like they had something to offer me, and about Savannah, the girl who took me with her on one of her calls so I could see what it was about, and how people could live thier lives like that, it’s crazy. I’d rather be dead than to sleep with people I didn’t know over and over again. We didn’t get home till’ 12:30 and I crashed. Today I just need to focus on my schoolwork, my last 2 assignments, and getting my blood drawn. That’s all, I don’t think anyone will actually read this entry since it’s so freakin’ long, but if you did, then wow! lol. Peace out!