Going down...

Gas prices, I'm talking about gas prices.... LOL

$3.53 at the local Sam's here, the cheap one of course, but nonetheless, damn gas is finally coming down.

Think we will ever be down under $3 again???

You like it?

 

Every semester UTEP's Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center displays a different work of art. Sometimes inside the Center (it's a damn Art Museum, not a "center") right as you walk in, it will be the first thing in your face. Other times outside. This was the Art of the Semester my first time at UTEP. In Spring it was some weird looking metal thing outside that kept falling over and making a mess throughout the semester.

For some reason this one caught my attention, so I took a picture of it. I'm so glad I did because to my disappointment a couple of weeks later, as I was running into the bathroom, it was gone! For some strange reason...I like it!!

A few of my favorite...

 

This one, specially right now with the high ass gas prices...

I'm glad to say that the price has been going down slowly here. Today at Sam's it was $3.68 & $3.88.

 

 

 

I def need this one for my car!!! LOL

Speaking of...

Jasmyne.

Check her out. I tell you, she's gonna be a model.

 

She was a whole 4 years old right here. First year of school, she was going to Pre-Kinder half a day.

 

AND she was going in the afternoon cause Ms. Thang likes to sleep in.

 

Getting her up for school now sucks because she needs to be up at 6:30 A.M. She'll be the first one up, out of everyone in the house, she's the only one that needs to be that early this year. LOL

Jasmyne...

 

This is Jasmyne, during our vacation last year to California. This picture was taken at Six Flags Magic Mountain. The reason why it's up here is because it has taken me a long time to finally fix this picture. Today it was done purely by accident. LOL

Almost over...

2 wks left. God it seems the summer zoomed by. I have no idea where it went and what we did.

Sleep...I did a lot of sleeping! I would say I'm all caught up on my sleep and hopefully won't suffer any sleep depravation this coming semester, but I know that will NEVER be the case. I can't seem to sleep enough.

I have most of the kids school supplies. I need the stuff like the Kleenex and paper towels, zip lock bags, you know all the "extra" stuff teachers ask for. And a backpack for Ms Jasmyne. I swear, this child is in some kind of contest to see who can go through the most backpacks during her school years. Avery used the same one for about 3 years, finally this year he decided he wanted a new one.

Jasmyne...oh my God, Jasmyne is always a different story. Jasmyne will go through about 3 or 4 backpacks in ONE school year. I can't explain it, I don't know why but that is Jasmyne. So she told me she wanted a pink backpack. I had just bought one for Avery at Sam's and it looks pretty heavy duty and like it'll last. I decide to buy one like that one for Jasmyne.

I just bought that one for Avery earlier in the week, I go back today and there are NONE, It's amazing how fast the stuff at the local Sam's here disappear! We have about 3 in the city. No, that is not a lot, specially for a growing city, but damn!!
I hope they do get more in soon. They were extremely cheap AND very well made. Avery got a black one, I was hoping to snatch a pink one for Jasmyne.

I bought me a Swiss Army one last year and this is the 2nd time I can honestly say a backpack was worth it. The first one I bought at school when I started here at EPCC (El Paso Community College). I would still be using it, if a stupid dog hadn't torn it (nope, not one of mine!!).

So the kids got new shoes, 3 khaki pants and shirts for Avery and skorts for Jasmyne. I need to see if Jasmyne still has some uniform shirts and find 3 more pairs of navy blue pants for Avery. His uniform changes this year since he's going into Middle School.

Of course, I still need a couple of books for my classes. I wish the instructors would email us the list of books so that we can look for them. I'm glad we will be using the same calculus book for awhile, specially since it was about $150!!

HOT!!!

After a cloudy week last week, we are now baking in the sun. I mean literally, it has been HOT! Which is a reason why I'm hiding out in my room. The AC is blasting and here I sit trying to get some scrapbooking done and actually not doing much of anything.

I've realized that when I die I want to be reincarnated as a dog, more specifically a pampered dog. I would say Pixie, but then she wouldn't belong to me, right? Since I'm dead already. Not sure how that would work out but that would be nice. Pixie does nothing all day but play, eat, and sleep. If the kids are watching her she gets about 4 cookies extra and can tear up anything she wants to as long as she is there with them. She has gone from my bed, to her bed, to my lap, to the couch just in a matter of an hour or so. Yesterday she kept bugging to go outside, I knew she didn't have to go cause she goes right after waking up once then later at night. But I let her out and this is what she did...



YUP!! She literally went outside to get some sun, before this picture she was laying with her stomach flat against the cement. I burned my fingers opening the sliding door to let her out and she goes outside to do this?!?! WTF? I understand the dog is white, but do dogs have a need for a certain amount of sun every day? She goes to the park for a walk almost every morning, I just don't get it, she left a perfectly cooled room to go outside and do that....