Santa Who? Santa You?

My 11 yr old daughter, soon to be 12, finally admitted knowing this Santa thing is a hoax. Before I tell the how and when, here's a little background... I have been running around jumping through hoops for years, trying to keep the lie alive. Making the situation worse, her birthday happens to be 6 days after Xmas. I would wrap her gifts from Santa in "special paper", complete with different bows and ID cards from the other gifts under the tree, just to make sure she didn't guess I was really Santa before I was ready. Sending gifts to relatives houses, leaving them in the trunks of friends... never enough time in a single parents day when the holidays roll around. Last year, her dad said he wanted one more year for her to believe. Yeah right!! You really think this girl, the one who loses a tooth, waits a week to put it under her pillow at your house - just so she can squeeze more $ out of you, doesn't know Santa is fake? That girl's no fool, she's known for years!

So here's how it went down:

Last year, "Santa" got her a digital camera. About couple months ago, my mom borrowed her camera for work since she was up here and didn't have hers with her, and mine... well that's another story. Anywho, months go by and I asked my mom if she was going to send the camera back to her, since she lives out of town. It was never coordinated, and for whatever reason, my mom decides just to give my daughter the money to buy a new one. Cool, I didn't really like the other one anyway, and hey, I was in a hurry when I bought it, ok?? Over a period of a week, I keep sending my daughter links to cameras that I think will work and you know what? That little chick is picky!! She keeps telling me she doesn't like this one cuz of the color, and that one doesn't have all the features... say what? Yes, I realize me being somewhat of a tech geek myself caused this, but come on now! You're 11, what features do you need... really?? We decide on a cute little red camera, 10 megapixel and comes with all the features she can handle.

Last week my mom came up again, and she was at the house and my daughter shows her the camera she got. I'm telling my mom about one of the features, and ask my daughter to hand me the camera.

"No." she says.

"Gimme the camera, I paid for it." I say.

"No, Nana paid for it."

So I say, "I paid for the original camera this one is replacing."

To which my daughter responds, "I thought you said Santa got that camera."

I know what you're thinking... she got me. But wait, I'm ready to call a spade a spade... let her know the truth, or at the very least, stop jumping through hoops and let her come to whatever conclusion she wants. I'm done trying to cover this up.

"Girl, quit playin, you know I'm Santa!"

Hahaha!! None of us can stop laughing. Then I tell her that's she's known for a while and she just giggles and says "Yeah."

Gotta love that super cutie :)

Fantasy Update

I know you've all been waiting with bated breath... did she win?? Heck yes!! I love it. However, as with any situation, there's usually an upside and a downside. The upside is that yes, I did beat him in our week 6 match up and took over 1st place. Bragging rights for a week baby! Yep, you guessed it, that my friends is the downside, after half my roster was either injured or on a bye for week 7, I got throttled! I am most displeased with this, as I am now in 3rd place in 2 of my fantasy leagues. Romo needs to make sure that pinkie is ready to go come mid-November, or I simply won't be able to compete. I need my boys to finish the year with a bang - yes, I mean post season!

COWBOYS BABY!!

Phuckery...

I'm a competitive person by nature, couple that with a love of sports, specifically football and you have a girl with not just 1, but 3 fantasy football teams. This is my 3rd year playing, my first year having no clue what I was doing I was shocked to discover I had indeed come in 2nd in my league. Closely followed by irritation in that had I known I was in the championship game, I would changed my lineup and probably won the whole thing with a minor adjustment since I only lost by a margin of a few points...

Being who I am, I can't just let someone talk trash and not do whatever possible to take him off his #1 perch in the league. I may be ahead in points, however the fantasy football Gods have smiled upon him and bestowed him with a tie in last weeks match up, leaving me in the #2 position. Until Monday nights game, I was in first place in this league for the first time since the season started. He congratulated me, then 2 minutes later, notified me of his tie and resurgence back to 1st place. A tie??? Really???

Our teams go head to head this week. How fitting is this? My fave team, Dallas Cowboys, travel here to take on the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Of course I have Romo as my QB and who does he have, none other than Kurt Warner.

May the best woman win!! ;)

COWBOYS!!!!

damn...bitter much??

so i know its been a bit since my last post, ill do my best to update ya. so a lot has happened since my last blog. after the issue with money and child support, i got in a car accident and lost my job. wham!! why does it always happen in 3's??? so $1000 deductible, not a good idea. trust me on that. i went through a bit of a depression. just hated everything, didn't do much and avoided most people. so after a couple weeks of that, things ended with j. permanently. which personally is a good thing. i wasn't happy in the relationship and bottom line is he's just not what i want. so that being said, it didn't take me long to get over that. 30 seconds according to him. apparently he was under some misguided illusion that i would call all the time and beg him to get back together. um, no. that's not how things went. hilarious really. so here's what went on... we ended and decided to be friends. so about, i dunno, a week and a half later, he calls, now mind you, i didn't call him at all. so he called and asked what i was up to, how i've been and what i was going to do for labor day, had i met any guys etc. said i've been great, cuz i had been, things were looking up i was optimistic about things, and i had met many great guys, lol and told him that i'd met a lot of cool people. just left it at that. so then he asks if ive been on any dates? no, not yet. then he tells me that he is going to wait a while before getting involved with someone again. uh ok, good for u. do what u gotta do. whatever. so then we get on the subject of the breakup and us being friends. he asked if i want to be friends and i said sure. apparently sure wasn't a good enough answer, so then he says, well if its too hard for u to be friends we didnt have to be. hehe, are u kidding me? so i told him i wasn't broken up about anything and that it wont be hard for me. guess he didn't expect that. he seemed a little thrown by that statement. so we decide to be friends and i say i gotta go a few minutes later. im not one for phones...

so fast forward... a couple months later. he, meaning j, graduates from the police academy. and i get a call at i dunno, 10:30pm. im usually in bed early but at the time i had to be at work at 7am so i went to bed pretty early. now i had deleted his number back when we broke up out of my phone, didn't want to be tempted to call him since as far as i was concerned the breakup was the best thing for me. i answer the phone and its him. he says that he's on my side of town and has no where to go. do i wanna hang out?? i ask why he's over here since he lives in the west valley and he says he graduated tonight and that he just left the graduation party? what kinda party ends at 10:30??? anywho, so i say congrats and then he asks if i wanna hang out. said no im in bed, to which he responded, hangin out in your bed sounds good and chuckles. yeah that ain't happenin... so i tell him i dont wanna hang out so i guess he drives home. now side note - i could have sworn i saw his car driving on my street earlier that day but blew it off cuz he lives so far away... now im wondering. ok so this is when things get ugly. lol so apparently he didn't expect me to say no so he drives home and we're talking while he's driving. we get on the subject of me telling him i luv him and he asked if i did. in being honest, i say that no, in hindsight i don't think i did. i felt it in the moment, but no i must not have otherwise i don't think i would have gotten over it so quickly. man he did not like that. so highlights of the convo from this point on??? i must not want to be friends cuz i never call him - ummm i didn't really call u much when we were together, why would i start now?? that i must really wanna get married and desperate for a husband. im really not sure he ever met me after hearing that one lol. im a liar and a slut for telling him i loved him when i didn't and he doesnt want to be around to watch me lie to some other guy and tell him i love him when i really don't. that all girls do is lie and none of them know what luv is. that he called me hoping, he actually said hoping, that i was secretly very hurt and upset and that i was trying to be strong. WTF??? who are u kidding? now what kind of person wishes bad emotional mojo on someone. especially someone they claim to have cared about not all that long ago. then he got mad cuz i deleted his number from my phone. suffice it to say the convo didn't end well. he pissed me off with the insults and name calling, that's so childish. but if it makes him feel better than fine. so bottom line, not friends. his choice. im ok with it, more than ok. i came to the conclusion that a friendship with him would be one sided and im all around better off without him. me being the nice person, tried to call him the next day, just so things didn't end on such bad terms, ie him hanging up on me and me yelling at him. he didn't answer so i left a vm saying just that. i sent him an email letting him know if he decided he was able in the future, he knew how to reach me and sent him the pics we had taken while we were together and just left it at that. 2 months later, and no word. works for me!! :)

im sure im missing info in all that but its been a while and the highlights remain the same.