Mohamad Zein's Channel

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87. Don't Forget...

We have had a little trouble in trying to figure out laundry schedules. I am not used to doing laundry on a schedule and like to do it all the time, a little at the time. I like moving it around when I want to move it around and not worrying about whether enough is done. Well, Wednesday is a hard core work on the business day since it is a day when Marcus is gone. So, Wednesday has become my mom's day, which is why I have been doing the laundry today, and lots of it. My mom was like, "Don't forget tomorrow is my laundry day!" I wanted to say, "I won't you little..." But I didn't. I rarely tell her how I feel. I would rather she just hate living here and move out rather then know we absolutely 110% hate her living here!

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I Don't Really Want to Post Here

Today I don't really want to post here. It isn't because I think I shouldn't, after all I have watched traffic increase as well as earnings. After all I think that this blog has brought me a lot of peace of mind, though it will change a lot when my mom no longer lives with us.

It's that today I feel particularly frustrated. I am having a hard time not being upset with my mom today. She thinks she is wonderful and that life is great. She thinks that it is okay to be herself, when herself hurts people and bothers them. She doesn't really care that I feel completely frustrated, after all, she's good!

86. Christmas Presents

Yesterday was the day that I got a few hour break from Marcus (my 16, almost 17 month old son). He went to Grandma and Grandpa's to play with his aunts and uncles (who are homeschooled). I was planning on getting a ton of things accomplished. I figured I would get this and this done as well as two articles. I was almost done with the first article and mom called me into her room to help her wrap my brother's Christmas presents. Plus she wanted my things ready so that they could go in the boxes and...

Well, it took an hour and a half. I got done and had just a few minutes left to finish up what I was doing before it was time for everyone to be home again. Errr...

So, my first work hard day was ruined. I guess we will see how next week goes. Thankfully they are going to take him one afternoon each week. This week it turns out to be two since Mary (my youngest sister-in-law) and I are going to lunch and a movie.

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85.Schedule Issues

My mom likes to live on her own schedule. Which is fine. She sleeps all day many days and is often up late into the night doing one thing or another. There are just two problems with this. The first is when she is noisy at night while the rest of us are sleeping. After all, it is night, we do have to be up at certain times, and we can't sleep whenever we want. Her TV gets loud, she bangs around, and moves around to get things, and she showers. All of which make a lot of noise. The second problem arises when she wants us to be abnormally quiet during the day. After all she is sleeping. Well it is hard to keep a 16 month old quiet (no matter what time of day) if he doesn't want to be. Then there is the fact that he loves to visit grandma and usually starts knocking on her door about a half hour after he gets up. I have tried to stop this, but it is hard to do if I am going to do anything other then hold him down! Plus she hates the washer and dryer running while she is sleeping. It isn't that I blame her for disliking it, but what am I to do? When she sleeps entire, unplanned days away, how am I supposed to plan to do laundry when she is awake?

Ah, I am hoping that it won't be long...and she will be out.

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84. I Don't Feel Like It

So, I borrowed the van so that I could take mom to go and fill out paperwork only to find that she doesn't want to. I went out of my way so she could, my in-laws went out of their way so she could and she doesn't feel up to it. Rather then tell me that in the morning, she tells me that a half an hour before we are going to leave. But she still needs me to go and get her heart meds. I do, and find out that the wait is an hour and a half. There I am wandering around Walmart. We checked out the outdoor section, the Christmas section, the fish, and everything else we could ever possibly look at. Marcus wasn't too happy, he doesn't really like shopping. By time we had actually left Walmart I wanted to cry...

Oh well...it won't be forever.

Power Tools

Okay, I will admit, I wanted the sponsored post money, so a took this offer. All the time I was thinking, "Oh no, 200 words to review a power tool site." I like power tools, in my hand. I like having my husband teach me how to use them. But I am not one who normally likes to buy power tools, or really even think about buying power tools. But as I read Ohio Power Tools statement, it was like, "hmmm...maybe I can do this after all!" It is easy to promote a company that sells the best. It is easy promote a company that makes it easy for men and WOMEN (of course not all women fall into this category, but those of us who do) to shop for power tools. Man this is great. They have an easy to navigate website with great power tools, Milwaukee Power Tools as a matter of fact. They have good prices and they are even specially set up for the holiday season.

Being thorough as I am I found a 4 piece combo kit. It has a drill, a sawzall, a work light, a hex impact (I will have to admit that I don't know what that is) plus a bunch of little gadgets including a batter pack, a storage box, and more. Now this was the part that really got me. This set would normally sell for almost 1000 dollars. But you can get it for 60% less then its normal cost! I know that we were looking at a good drill and a sawzall for more then that!

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83. Shopping

Today we have to go fill out paperwork for my mom (after nap time). That is fine and dandy. Then there is the heart medicine my mom wants. While we are at Walmart to pick up her prescription (there is a forty five minute wait period) I am planning on doing a little shopping. Already I feel tense. I feel like I know that my mom will ask for something. In particular she will probably ask for something chocolate. If I buy it for my mom, my husband will get upset. After all buying chocolate for someone with no self control is a never ending process. There for awhile she was buying 8-10 pounds of chocolate a month in the form of candy bars, kisses, and other types of chocolate. Plus licorice, peanut butter m &m's and sometimes more. Then she no longer had food stamps so she wasn't buying all that crap.

I hate feeling all tense and worried. Especially about something like this. But no matter what, I have never been able to say no to my mom. She borrowed money, paid late, and made me take cash out of my credit card to pay my rent because of it, and still I couldn't say no when she wanted to borrow money. And of course there was the time she wanted to live with me feeling she had no other choice, I couldn't say no then either...

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Hopes and Questions

I have a lot of hopes about my relationship with mom. She is talking about moving out. Plus she is talking about moving in with her new phone friend. (She has been talking to my "uncle" every night sometimes for hours). Either way, I am really hoping that she moves out by March. She moved in back in March, so she will have lived with us one whole year...

There is a huge question about where she will live and how things will work out. I think that our relationship will be great. The times when I moved out of her house, it made things great. We could talk and spend time together again and there wasn't the issues between us. Additionally, she won't be here all the time. She won't be trying to tell me how to be a mother all the time and so on.

Well, I am not sure how or when it will all work out. However, the other question is, "What will I do with this blog?" I am not sure what I will do or how it will change, though it will change. I have thought of some ideas, but no matter what it will either have to end or change in a gigantic way...

Time will tell...

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Dating

The situation is an odd one. There is a man I have known all my life. Him and his wife were my "Aunt and Uncle". They weren't blood related, but they were given those titles none the less. Now my aunt was never nice to my uncle even though he worked hard to take care of her. Now they are divorced and my uncle asked my mom out on a date.

She said yes. But that isn't the funny part. The funny part is how she has been blushing for a week and primping even though he is currently a trucker and not around to see her. He is planning on taking her out the next time he is in Texas. She sorta hopes he wants her to live with him. I love that idea more then I can ever say.

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82. Half Planned

Yesterday mom wanted to go apply for food stamps and she had a 3pm doctors appointment. So, I figured we could drop the baby off at 1:30 (he stayed with his aunts and uncles while we did what we had to) and then we could go get the application filled out and then off to the doctors. What my mom didn't tell me until last minute was that she needed to print some stuff off while we were at the in-laws. This is because our printer is dead. Well they bought a Lexmark too, which means we had to leave for the doctors appointment before it was printed off, and I had to come back and get it.

This happens a lot. She doesn't tell me everything that she needs to do, until we are doing it. Or on Thursday she will be like, "Can you borrow the van tomorrow?" (We borrow a vehicle from my in-laws in order to go places, at least we are blessed enough to have that as an option!)

Well, enough complaining for now. Thanks for stopping by.