That’s Life

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Oh my knee it hurts so badly! And it’s swollen too. But had to get things done on the house this last weekend.

I didn’t tell you but an Mennonite man I think he is because he lives in a neighborhood so Mennonite. He gave us a quote to work on our roof. He is going to take out our chimney stack then patch it and fix the roof where the tree fell last year. That means that Jeff and I had to demo our garage wall so he can get to our fireplace box.

I am scared of heights and I had to go way up in our garage. I was very scared but I did it, it was also hard because of my knee. I was in a lot of pain at the end of it.

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I told him I would put this pic up. Funny. He’s so cute even when working.

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Funny I told Jeff I haven’t felt that hot working since I worked in a warehouse. The same amount of air moves through our garage as it did in the warehouse. It was so hot!

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I had to add this pic. I haven’t posted a Scotty and Koko pic in awhile. Cuties!

I got to work on Rick Grimes this weekend and finally got some of his torso done. I don’t think I will be done by Jeff’s birthday. I underestimated the time it would take to complete. I am getting there.

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That’s Life

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Monday night I couldn’t sleep my knee was bothering me all night. Then on Tuesday it felt even worse. It felt like a muscle pain and I was worried I may have torn something. Jeff had a half day on Tuesday because we had a guy come out to look at our crawlspace and driveway.

We were worried about mold in our crawlspace because it gets wet down there since it’s just dirt. The guy said it was wet and we need to take care of that of course with their system. Jeff and I before he came over estimated how much it would be and he blew past both of them. It’s a hell of a lot of money! I felt like passing out when he told us. And that didn’t include jacking up our driveway.

You know me I am clumsy! I tripped and fell a month ago on our driveway going into our garage. I have a nice scar where I fell on my leg. Our driveway is uneven and it sank by the garage door. That is where I tripped and fell. We had talked about jacking it up so it’s even. Jeff and I estimated how much that would cost as well and he blew past that as well.  For both things to be done it was around twelve thousands dollars because you know I have that laying around. Twelve thousands dollars! That is when I pass out because that is insane! Have to think of something else to do with our crawlspace and something else with the driveway.

A weekend ago I hurt my knee mowing the lawn. It was getting better I thought but Monday night it was being painful. I felt it a little on Sunday and just thought it would go away. Wrong! I called the doctor which I so hate doing! I don’t know what it is but Theda Care has gone down in customer service over the year. The lady told me to go to the ER or go to the walk in clinic. I said which one should I do. She said ER would be the fastest. I told Jeff we got to go after our appointment as it’s my right knee and it hurts to drive with it. He said no we are going to the walk in clinic which I am glad we did. It was fast as I was the only one there.

I had a great doctor! I never know what I am going to get but she was great! I had to get a couple of x-rays. I never had two people do x-rays before. They sucked! Everyone knows getting an x-ray of a part of the body that hurts it’s going to hurt. But these two people where really hurting me to take x-rays of my knee. I told them so. I asked if they could be more gentle they both looked at me like I am nuts! So I just bared it as they put my knee ever which way. I didn’t but I felt like crying when I was done with x-rays.

Found out I sprained a muscle in my knee. Painful! The doctor gave me some painkillers and told me iced it, bandage it and try not to do so much on it for a couple of weeks. It sucks! It’s summer I want to go do things.

I feel like I can’t win this summer for some reason.

Life!

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This week was a four day weekend. We didn’t have time off though it was hard work! That is why blog I am really slacking on writing you this Monday. Feel tired and my legs are sore.

Thursday Jeff’s friend Derek came over. We had a bunch of wood left over from the winter that we don’t need now that we have a pellet stove. Jeff told him if he wants that wood he can have it in trade for cutting down some of our stumps so I can mow them over. Then he says I will take any trees you don’t want too. Deal!

Anyway Derek’s wife came too. She is a small woman and wow is she strong! Way stronger then me. What I thought was funny is I was watching Derek cut down the stumps in our yard. I never see that done before so I was curious. His wife Courtney I think she thought I was checking out Derek. Which is too funny! First of all not attractive to me at all. He to me is very young looking. I think he is either twenty five or six but he looks nineteen. I don’t really dig guys that look that young. Funny towards the last stump she come over and says “Hey babe! Are you almost done?” She said babe louder then the chainsaw and looked at me. In my mind I was laughing. He stopped to say he was. She put her hands on her hips and swayed and smiled at him. I was trying hard not to laugh. It’s funny to spot those things.

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Our bathroom is coming along. We have to do our bathroom in chunk because of money but it’s getting there.

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Can’t tell but that floor is one piece but looks like tile. Easy to install and easier to clean.

Sunday was father’s day and we made lunch. Jeff made dessert and I made Indian tacos. Had to get up early to make dough then fry them. But it was a good day and we had fun. We bought a snowblower off my dad and we gave Jeff’s dad the snowblower. We gave my dad a gift certificate to a place that puts VHS tapes on a flash drive. My dad has some old home movies that he wanted transferred.

Happiness

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Last week my friend Helen said that knitting makes her happy and also playing music. That got me thinking what do I do that makes me happy?

I like writing in my blog. It makes me happy. Why? Because if something that is bothering me writing about it makes me feel better. I also like blogging about the improvements on our house. I like to look back and see what a great job we are doing. I like writing about my dogs. They are a big part of my life. I don’t have children so they make me happy.

I like cross stitching it makes me happy. I like looking at a piece of aida and imagine what can be put there. I like being creative and deciding on the possibilities of different colors rather then always following the pattern and the colors it comes with. Yes I sometimes follow the color pattern exactly but not always. In my opinion I have created many beautiful pictures with thread.

I like writing stories. I like creating a whole new world where my characters live. Writing stories make me happy. I have six completed rough draft chapters done for the book I will publish. This year I am working on completing the story. I want to next year complete it fully and find someone to draw the pictures for it. My story is a zombie story. However I have some other stories as well that has nothing to do with zombies and some that are. Different scenarios with different characters.

All these things make me happy.

Loathe

coollogo_com-36732099Loathe by definition means feel intense dislike or disgust for.

That is what I have. A few years ago I decided to be positive in my life and it has helped me. But there are just some things I will loathe or people I loathe forever.

For example my mom wants me to go swimming with the grand kids this weekend. When has that ever been fun? Sure I understand they may be fun for some people but for me I hate it. Maybe if I had a kid then it would be fun but I loathe swimming with the grand kids. It isn’t fun for me. First of all that means I have to act like an adult. Why would I want to do that? Don’t get me wrong I like swimming but I want to swim on my own terms I do not want to worry about little kids. Also little kids that I don’t know very well. We are related but I only see them sometimes and holidays.

Person. I loathe this woman Jeff works with her name is Amanda. I have never liked her. You know some people you meet in your life and there is just something about them that you hate. I have had that feeling about her since I met her and when Jeff talks about her. First she does sometimes now but when Jeff started she flirted with him a lot! I dislike that but I didn’t loathe her. Also Jeff is dumb when it comes to flirting. He doesn’t know when a woman does that to him. I’d be like she flirting with you. He be like oh really? Funny.

Anyway one time a couple of years ago she came over to do a demo for a vacuum cleaner. That is when I met her. Just something about her that made me not like her. I think it was her fake happiness. Ever see anyone with fake happiness? Fake smile and the giggling. Ugh! I so hate the giggling so fake. At this time she kept saying “Good thing I like dogs or I grew up with dogs.” Meaning your dog Koko is very scary. Funny. I know I shouldn’t but I laugh when people think Koko is scary. Gentle giant alert. Koko loves people and gives them more kisses then me. Jealous.

Jeff tells me she does the most stupidest things to get attention of guys. Really? DUH! You can tell what kind of person she is. Maybe because I am a woman and I can spot a fake or maybe just because I can be observant. Or maybe it’s both. Not sure on that. However the tribe decided now to do security cameras everywhere. She was concerned you could see her workout. Yeah I could see that. But when she is done working out she walks around the office in her tight skimpy work out clothes. So let’s get this straight you don’t want people to see you workout but you keep your sweaty workout clothes on when you are done. Hmmm attention whore much?

Finally Jeff said the other night he dislikes Amanda. She doesn’t work hard as the rest of us. Really? FINALLY! All the stories I hear about her from the others as well just puts nails in her coffin.

I don’t loathe this person but I loathe the situation. Sheyerna my friend from Facebook. I hate that she never got back to me about hanging out with her. I dislike that she blew me off. I see her hanging out with others that she hasn’t seen just as long as me. Sometimes I think of asking why but decide not too. I am actually hurt that she did that. She was at my wedding she took pictures. I really liked her and thought she was interesting. I loathe that she did that to me. So maybe I will eventually say something. I must brew about it more though.

Life!

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Late Friday we went to Home Depot in Green Bay. My favorite place….not. Wow we haven’t been in a Home Depot for some time. The only thing is Home Depot has better wood then Menards that’s why we went there. There was only one person who was nice otherwise wow rude! Especially one guy and he was the hardware manger. I wish I caught his name he was rude and not very good at his job. I understand retail sucks I know I used to work at an ice cream shop. People can be such dicks. That is why when I go anywhere I am polite.

We were getting wood to build a fence this last weekend. Our old fence was put up badly and it was rotten. Already Scotty push through and got away. Good thing he was easy to catch. As we were putting wood in our cart Jeff cut his finger. It bled a lot! Jeff asked the manager if he had or sold band aids. Here is his respond “Hahahahahahahaha No.” He laughed! Laughed!!! Jeff’s respond as he walks away fine. Jeff had blood all over his shirt good thing it was black but he did get some on the floor. Good thing I had some band aids but still he laughed. I am sure people cut themselves on that wood before and they have rules for that kind of thing. I am mad he laughed. I didn’t think of talking to the manager till AFTER we left. Just wanted to leave so badly. Never going to that Home Depot again.

Saturday it rained a lot in the morning. I was bummed because I wanted to build the fence. I like having lazy Sunday. About noon it stop raining and we decided to build the fence. It took I would say about seven hours to complete. Jeff said he never tore down a fence and put one up so quickly. He has build many fences in his life. I told him we make a great team!

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This is old fence. It looks so bad!

 

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Menards

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Today I want to talk about Menards. Why? Because we shop there often since we bought our house. I remember Menards when I was kid. I would go with my dad all the time there and I still have the same feeling about this store that I did back then. I dislike going. It’s boring there.

I am not a handy person so none of the stuff there appeals to me. Jeff of course loves it there and I have to say they do have good deals on some stuff. They also have this eleven percent they do every so often. Everything in the store is eleven percent off OR you can send in your receipt and get money back. We have taken advantage of that.

Anyway the real reason I want to talk about Menards is how different each store is. First of all the layout what are you guys thinking? Just pick one layout and do that for every store. Here is what I think is dumb. There is one layout but they flip them. One store everything we need is lets say on the right then the next store they flip it so what we need is on the left. Why do that? And why is the restroom always in a different location? I hate that.

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We sometimes go to the Menards in Green Bay. I hate that one because they are not friendly. No one every says hi or hi how are you? Can I help you? Never! We were there on Wednesday and we saw some employees not one said anything AND we had some questions to find things. As soon as I found one employee they escaped never to be seen again. They are never around to help out or even at their little desk where you can ask questions. Why is that? The only person who was nice was the lady at the service counter. She smiled at us and said hello. The only person in the entire store. I would like to give her a high five if I could.

Another time we went there we had a question on a A/C filter. You know what the guy said to us? Oh just Google it to find what you need. Are you serious?! Anyone can Google that. We are at the store you are working at it. Can’t find it just say ‘we don’t have it but if you like I can check other stores’. Green Bay Menards is a joke and since I dislike going to the store as it is. I really hate that store.

However the Menards in Appleton super friendly! There is always a ton of employees walking around and they actually come up to us. ‘Can I help you find something’? Whenever we have a question there is always someone around to help. Also if they don’t know the answer they don’t tell us to Google it. They find the answer. We haven’t had a bad experience at the Menards in Appleton. I wish we could go to that one all the time the only reason we don’t is Green Bay is a bit closer to us. Way to go Menards in Appleton you guys have great customer service and always help us find the answers we need.