Slacker

So, I've been slacking the past week or so. My entire house was sick for well over a week and we're all just getting over it. I still have a lovely cough that moved into my chest, and my nose looks just wonderful with the after effects of a runny nose wiped with cheap toilet paper. ouch :( The week was fairly uneventful. I was the healthiest one in the house so I played mom for a couple days. My poor Mom was down for the count-she had a headache so bad one day she was crying from it by the time I got back from picking the kids up from school. We ended up taking my youngest sister in a free clinic on Thursday night because at the point she had been spiking fevers of 103 for a full week. She was given a breathing treatment at the Dr, plus a round of antibiotics, and a prescription for Motrin. The antibiotic started working within a few hours thankfully, and she was actually well enough to go to camp over the weekend. She was happy, and they got a TON of snow while up there. It was also one of my little sister's birthday on Sunday. She turned 12. She is definitely a handful, and very hard to please, but that is due more to her being "special", as we refer to it. I lucked out and got my tax returns on Friday and Saturday, so I was able to go grocery shopping for the house, and buy birthday presents. Thank God. She wouldn't have had much otherwise. And she seemed pretty OK, if not happy, with what she got, which is a relief. When I went grocery shopping I was able to get stuff to have fun in the kitchen. Got some more zucchini to make fried zucchini, some poblano peppers to make Chile Rellenos. Going to be making some marinara sauce from scratch, and hopefully some ravioli. Last night, I made a big batch of ma and cheese, and a beautiful mango salsa. Monday I made 5 dozen mini cupcakes, a cake, and some american buttercream for my sister's class at school. I also finally got some butane to fill my caramelizing torches, so I want to make some creme brulee in the next few days. I do have a lot of time to make them. Especially since now I'm not too sure if I got the job with the YMCA. I thought I did; my friend thought I did, but then a previous employer gave a bad reference, so now I'm kind of in limbo. It sucks. I really do need to call and find out why I haven't recieved any unemployment either. The general concensus is that my previous employer is contesting it, which I wouldn't be suprised, because all in all, they are kinda shady like that.

(On a side note, I do need to figure out how to link up my recipes with pictures. Gonnahave to research taht some)

On the guy front, things seem to be holding pretty steady, though slightly stressful. J is back to calling me babe, and whatnot, which is nice. I just still don't know how to label us. You'd think I would have manned up by now, and asked, but I'm a bit of a chicken in that respect. It feels like back when we were together though, so I just don't know. And G has been asking me to commit to him. I didn't want to answer him until I knew for sure where I stand with J, but that just isn't fair to him, so I need to figure out some way to tell him that. If things were different, and J wasn't in the picture, I would say yes. He's a very sweet guy, and I do like him. But I love J. I guess you could say that's where my problem is, depending on who you talk to, lol. And M is still sporadic. His phone is still off, so I don't really have a way to get into contact with him, except to email him, and hope he checks his email. But I know he's going through some stuff right now, so that's fine.