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Life

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WHOOOOO what a weekend! I am tired. lol!

Friday I drove to April’s house to spend the night. We had fun. We went for coffee and breakfast at our usual spot Tera Verde. Afterwards we went to the Calumet County Fair which oddly opens up at 8 A.M. It was nice because I got to see where to park. I am always worried about that as I hate parallel parking and tight areas. As I am not the greatest parker in the truck.  We walked around the fair grounds. We saw some cool animals:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funny story: We are walking around the fair and we come up to this stand where this guy is selling fudge. April says “I know how to make fudge. It’s easy.” The guy was giving her a mad looks. As we left I couldn’t stop laughing! Later April said she wish she didn’t say that right there. Oh my it’s always a story with April. That one is funny!

Saturday April and I had to be at the fair at 8 A.M. for her show. I was surprised Linda (April’s mom) and Mike (April’s younger brother) came along. I didn’t think they would actually show up. It was great that they were there for her as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this day it was like 80F. So April was super hot in this outfit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April took second. She was really nervous but I think she did great. She tried and that is awesome!

Sunday Tex came home!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday was Labor Day and my parents, Ken and Milena, Kathy and Dave, Chrissy and family came over. To see Tex. We had lunch and everyone played with him. They also brought toys and cleaning supplies. Lol! We weren’t expecting anything but it was very nice of everyone! So far so good. Even though not a whole of sleep going on for us. Also Scotty doesn’t really like him but I think he eventually will.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life

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Today is Jeff’s bday and he has to work today.

 

Nothing really going on last week. Except for one thing that did bother me. I think this is just so petty. My niece Bree started a FB messenger group chat with all her aunt’s and uncles. I thought it was so cool! There is always someone who is an ass right?! One of Bree’s uncle’s left the chat after I just said “hello Bree!” and a cute emoji to follow. It’s because only my sister and I share a mom but not a dad. So what, this is Bree she is 8 and she wanted to say hi to all her family. What an ass right. There is always one. That just bothered me. They were talking about getting together with her that night. Jeff and I don’t care about that stuff. Talk all you want we didn’t have hurt feelings. We were excited to see Bree on messenger she is a funny little girl.

Anyways this weekend is when the fun happens, Friday I am going to hangout with April. Saturday she is in her first horse competition. I am excited to see her go for it. Sunday we get Tex!

 

Life

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Nothing really happening last week. Jeff worked on the car as it needed new brakes. I helped him when he needed but that’s it really.

I did finish my mom’s birthday present:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kit didn’t come with enough flower buttons. Good thing I keep extras from other projects. I had a dragonfly button and added it where a flower button would go.

Started reading a new app. I know! I know! I am addicted. I started reading in the app Lovestruck. The stories here are interesting and the graphics are cool. One more thing the chapters are a good length which can be a problem with those story apps. However I did find somethings that sucks about this app. One is the whole choices thing. You get hearts in this app and it seems every time I think I have enough for a choice it isn’t. For example I will have 20 hearts and the choice will be 23 hearts. Yeah that doesn’t seem right to me. Another thing is they have a broken story and of course it’s my favorite called Speakeasy Tonight. It’s not getting updated anymore and yet they let you spend your time reading it even though you will never find out what happens. Boo! One more con of this app is the time for tickets. 2 and half hours for one ticket or so it seems sometimes. Sometimes you get 2 tickets and sometimes you only get one ticket. Not sure what determiner this. Unlike Choices or Episodes where the time is sped up a little, Lovestruck really takes 2 and half hours for whatever ticket I guess they decide you get.

Yet I will keep reading as I love the story Astoria. You get to get together with Gods. I started out with Hades. Unfortunately they don’t tell you how you should read them. I just jumped right in a story with Hades and found out you have to read them in a certain order for it all to make sense. Anyways it’s still good reads though.

Life

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We went to see Tex on Thursday and this time we took pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pic with Jeff, Tex is giving him kisses! I love it! Awe Tex is so cute!

Friday I got my hair done by Lori. I told her this so far is my favorite color combo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Saturday was the family reunion. I was disappointed a little because with the way everyone was talking about it looked and sounded like a hundred people were going to be there. I got to meet some people. It was strange everyone just separated into groups. So Jeff and I ended up by my sister and her family. Some mingled but a lot didn’t. I did try and meet some people but a lot seemed to be distant. We were there for four hours and that was long enough. It was so freaking hot out it was crazy.  The best part of the reunion was seeing my cousin Ann. I haven’t seen her since I was 13. Mom, Chrissy and I went to CA to visit her when I was 13. It was so fun as she live in San Francisco. It’s funny because she looks the same just older. However It was an okay family reunion.

 

 

 

 

 

Tex

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OH. MY. GOD!

Guess what we did last Friday? We adopted a puppy! I am so excited. We can’t take him home till September 2. It’s hard waiting.

Story:

Last Friday mom sent me a link from Facebook saying puppy Labradors for sale. As we told my parents that we want a lab puppy. Of course I wanted a black lab puppy who is male. I get to be super picky because this is the dog we will have for a long time. Anyway mom sent me this link and I looked at it. They are all so cute. I contacted the lady to ask how much and what she had left. She had two silver labs which I didn’t know was a thing but those went fast. She had black and chocolate puppies yet for sale.

Here’s why it’s meant to be. She advertise in Green Bay. Jeff sent her message if we could see them on Saturday as we were going to be in GB anyways. She message back and get this she lives 5 minutes away from our house! WOW! So we literally went over there at 8 o’clock at night to look at cute puppies! Jeff told the lady we wanted a black lab that is male and she had 7 males left when were there.

AWE!!!

They all were so cute! However I did pick them all up but I had this feeling about one of them. You just know feeling. He just loved Jeff and I was like that is the one.

We named him Tex. Reasoning because Jeff’s bday is August 27 and he was born in Texas. So I thought Tex and I told Jeff this was his bday present from me. Lol!

We didn’t take any pics just was so excited in seeing them all. We are seeing him again this week. So definitely pics soon to come! Oh we can’t wait to have him here!

 

Sunflower Fest

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On Saturday July 28 mom, dad, Crayne and I went to Sunflower Fest. It was fun and not at the same time. At first Crayne was all happy when they pulled up to our house. Then in the car he was good until we got to the festival. Yes it was hot and yes there were a lot of people. That meant lines for everything. We walked around a little bit and Crayne was being so grumpy! Because there was a huge line for the bouncy house. So, I tried to get my face painted with him but all he did was whine. So I got my faced painted anyways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was cool to walk through a field of sunflowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crayne wouldn’t smile but I do like this pic of my dad at least he is smiling!

Afterwards we went for ice cream at DQ and of course he was happy then. It figures (rolling eyes). It was a fun day anyway to see the sunflowers and of course see my parents.

 

 

Life

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Later today Jeff and I are going to see the Equalizer 2 in the theaters. That is always fun!

Let’s see…

Not a whole lot going on. I am addicted to Choices again. Lol! I quit for some time because I read them all. However they have this new feature after finishing any chapter you get a chance to watch an ad and earn a diamond. Hell yes! Ads are boring but to get a diamond yes I will watch or play any ad for this. I can’t wait for Blood Bound book 2 to come out. It’s my favorite book right now! I also like America’s Most Eligible. Reality TV and you are in it to win. Which means I can choose to play nice or not. I love it!

Let’s talk Blood Bound I couldn’t decide who I like the most but I am going Adrian all the way. At first I thought Jax btw love the name but the book does sway you to Adrian and I can’t help but to like him. Also Choices finally got the memo of you can choose to be with women now. Even though I am straight I always thought what about the readers who aren’t or both. Finally Choices! Anyways in my stories I am bi. I like all the options you can choose even though in real life I am not. I mean I am sure some would argue that would make me bi. First of it’s a game but I admit I think about it sometimes. However yes totally straight. A woman’s upper half totally find but the woman’s lower half no, nope, no way.  Anyways I like their emotions! Finally vampires in today’s world and love how they still have rules. Yup my favorite right now!

I really liked Red Carpet Diaries the first one. But now, I don’t really like the second one. I am sure a lot of that stuff that is being spoke about happens however it makes me feel uncomfortable. Which I guess is good writing but I don’t like to read stories about that kind of stuff. I’ll read it for the diamonds but makes me not want to replay this story or even attempt to replay the first one which I liked.

Okay enough about choices.

I downloaded Episodes. I like and not at the same time. First I dislike you can only play a story five times. Choices you can play all you want over and over but in Episodes you can’t.  I admit I get a little bored with Episodes even those literally thousands of books to read on there. I don’t understand what makes some books official over others because some that are official, I say official are the ones you can earn diamonds. Those Officials ones some are so dumb! You can tell a teen or a young teen wrote them. And there are some that are so well done that are not official. I don’t understand how they choose.

What’s cool about Episodes is that regular people can make their own stories. I found some that are pretty good ones while others are not. That is the other thing I get bored of reading Episodes. You can earn everyday by reading four chapters a day. But there is a catch just like Choices your first chapter of any book is free. In Episodes they use tickets instead of keys. That counts as a chapter read but if you are on the last chapter of any book and read it. It doesn’t count as a chapter read. And I have problem with that because like I said, I get bored of reading Episodes. A lot of stories of Episodes is about bad boys.  It gets very repetitive.

That’s my life this week reading and reading which is good. However I really need to get going on my projects!

Girls Weekend

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Yeah not really…

So when one says girls weekend most think the whole weekend right? Well not in my family. I am not sure why they call it girls weekend should be called girls day.

Thursday we went over there and I stayed the night at my mom’s house. We saw Alice and her kids. It was embarrassing to say the least. We went to a restaurant for dinner and Alice lets her kids run around. She doesn’t discipline them when they bump into people and her youngest made someone fall down. They were bothering the workers of the restaurant. It was awkward.

Friday was an adventure in the morning. We are waiting at a stop light and this older man is in front of us. But the man hadn’t move all the way up to trigger the light. So the line got bigger and bigger and people started to honk. Mom was honking and yelling for him to move up. The older man flips us off. Finally mom opens her door to get out and that makes the man to move up. As soon as he does the light turns green. As we pass him he flipped us off again. I thought the situation was funny! After that we went to breakfast with Aunt Kathy. 

After that mom asked if I wanted to go to sewing class with her and Bree. At first I said no but mom kept insisting. So I decided to go and I wished I hadn’t. Sewing class was for Bree and there wasn’t a whole lot of people but I had nothing to do. For 2 hours and wondered around, it was at a library. So I looked at books talked to an older man reading the paper. It was really boring.

Then mom dropped off Bree at her house and she dropped me off at her house as she had an appointment. While she was gone I colored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Later that evening we all went to dinner at the Hinterland Brewery. Never been there before and as we went in, I think I will not go back.  The only reason is it was really expensive! If you don’t specify which beer you want you get the bigger one that is more expensive of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This beer is 12 dollars! Ahhh!! And for 12 I thought it was okay. The food was okay but expensive. I am glad my sister bought. That night we watched the Descendants which is a kid’s movie. But it wasn’t too bad. Mom and I slept at my sister’s house that night. I got to see their new puppy and he was fun! He is a Labradoodle. His name is Marley and he is 14 weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awe! I love this pic of Bree and Marley. And of course their other dog Bailey who loves to be petted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday we went to paint pottery. I am at the point where I don’t have to paint pottery anymore. I am not sure what to do with the stuff I paint. I painted a mug and I didn’t take a pic. That is unlike me but I didn’t take my phone with me. I know shocker!

However it was fun when we did things together.

 

Life

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I am going to be a busy bee this week.

So…I figured out how to go to girls weekend. I had to pondered and look at the budget and complained and look at the budget… Yeah I lot of that.

I am going not sure what we are doing but I am going. Here is Danielle logic: I go to girls weekend and there is no more complaining I don’t do anything with them. That’s my way of thinking.

Also it should be fun as well. I am not done yet but I am making mini key chains for girls weekend. I need to make two more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, Wednesday hanging out with April. Thursday hanging out with my cousin at my mom’s house. Staying the night. Girls weekend till Saturday night. Then home. I am going to be tired. Lol!

Life

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I am being totally lazy today. I know I need to be better in writing in you earlier! Ugh! Just not today. Anyway I finally get to see April next week. I will see her Tuesday and Wednesday shall be fun! Then on Thursday we are seeing Alice again. She is leaving on Friday. It will be cool to see her before she leaves. Wow twice this time she is here.

Mom has been telling me that there is going to be a girls weekend. That will include Chrissy, mom, Bree and me. I have been asking her when, WHEN? With no answer so guess what she tells me…oh next weekend. Ugh! So we decided to go back to adding to our retirement and that means less money. That is why I was asking when so I could save for a girls weekend. So she tells me this on Wednesday that it’s next weekend. Now I can’t go. If I wasn’t going to April’s house I could but April and I have been planning this for a month as April has to take time off from her job. This makes me feel bad and last time we had girls weekend my sister and mom paid for me. I don’t want them to pay for me this time. (Sigh).