Things that irritate me

Posted on December 2, 2014 by dkbadmin under Random Thoughts

Part One

There are many things that irritate me but I am going to talk about words or phrases that really get to me.

Now I understand if you come from a different country or state and speak American English there is going to be different slang or phrases but some are just ridiculous.

I was born and raised in Wisconsin and there is a phrase that Wisconsinites say, “Stop ‘n’ go lights” I hear this quite often and seriously just say “stop lights” or “traffic lights”. We all know a stop light, stop and go but we don’t need to say stop ‘n’ go lights. Example: Now just go down the street and take a right turn at the stop ‘n’ go lights.

The phrase “cash money.” I hate this phrase because it’s two words that mean the exact same thing. Just say either cash or money but not cash money. It sounds like you don’t know what you are saying and it’s not funny. I have even heard this phrase in TV shows, commercials and movies and it irritates me. Example: I won cash money!

I heard my older brother at Thanksgiving, and he kept saying “Awesome sauce”. Awesome Sauce is a stupid phrase, just say awesome. Why does awesome have to add sauce? I know it’s a figure of speech but seriously stop it. Example: I am awesome sauce!

A word that gets to me is “huge” some people just say “uge” like hello there is an “h” in front of the word so say the whole thing. It’s not Uge it’s Huge! Example: Wow this house is uge!

One more word “innit” my sister in law says this word and it makes her sound like she can’t speak well. Innit means isn’t it. Example: My car is cool innit?

Thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2014 by dkbadmin under Holidays

Not excited for this!

I dislike Thanksgiving. Well I dislike Thanksgiving every other year I should say. Because every other year we stay home and create our own Thanksgiving. This year we are not at home we are at my Aunt’s house.

First a little back story: When I was younger, and my grandparents were alive, I loved going there for Thanksgiving. My grandparents, who would be my dad’s parents, lived on a farm. As we drove up to the farm there would be deer carcasses hanging out because my uncles and some cousins would go hunting in the morning. It never really bothered me seeing those. Then I would see the farm. I loved the farm very much. I loved how when my grandma would get everything ready for our meal, us kids would go to the farm. They had cows, chickens, pigs and farm kitties. All the kids would play up in the hay loft. Also there would be a lot of cats up there. We always had so much fun.

Then we all got older my grandparents died and my aunt and uncle sold their house next to the farm. They built a really nice house a little further away from the farm. They still have the farm but no animals expect one cow which they feed and then butcher later. They mostly grow crops now. There are some farm cats but it’s not as fun to pet them like when I was younger.

Now why I dislike going to the farm for Thanksgiving: My aunt has this weird thing about food. When you think of Thanksgiving you might think of all that food you will have for left overs, well not at my aunt’s house. She literally hides food. I have no idea why. When people start coming and bring food over she will hide it until someone asks for it. I think that is so stupid and its food for people to share not to hide. What is this, a hide seek for food? And she never makes enough for all the people that come over which really doesn’t make any sense to me at all. Now my grandma would make so much food she would tell us we had to take some home. Also all her food was very good.

On top of that my aunt makes pumpkin pies; she has more pies than the actual meal. Now I always liked her pumpkin pies because I didn’t know any better. Her pumpkin pies are grey and runny, I thought that was good. Until my mother-in-law made pumpkin pie, I was so blown away. I had never tasted a pumpkin pie that actually tasted like pumpkin and cinnamon. I didn’t know it could be so good! Now I hate my aunt’s pumpkin pie.

Also all my cousins are getting older and either moved away or have their own family, not many of my cousins come over anymore. Not even some of my aunts and uncles make the trip to come over because they have moved to a warmer state. Usually people come over now that I don’t know and only some aunts, uncles, and cousins show up.

When we eat, if I or anyone else gets anything on the floor she has a total freak out session. I would understand if it was juice or something that would really stain but we talking about food that you can just pick up and there is small children that come you know how messy kids can get, practically all day of freak out sessions about little messes.

Sounds like fun uh?

Well last year there was an incident that happened. Last year was an off year meaning we didn’t go to my aunt’s house for Thanksgiving. We made our own Thanksgiving which I love. The day before Thanksgiving my mom calls me in all in a panic. She asked my aunt if she could bring an apple pie for Thanksgiving. My mom hates pumpkin pie and all my aunt makes is pumpkin pie. She knows my mom hates pumpkin pie and some years she would make other pies to accommodate other people who dislike pumpkin pie. But last year my aunt called my mom and told her no other pie would be made and not to bring any other pie.

Let’s back up a little; my aunt is a huge control freak. One year when Jeff and I were first married my mother- in-law made some pumpkin and apple pies. My aunt had a huge freak out session; on how dare she make pies to share. Only she can make the pies. So this is what she did; she hid the food so no one could eat the pies until my mom asked if we could eat one of my mother-in-law pies.

Back to the incident that happened last year. Now my dad went over there early and my mom was going to go with my younger brother Adam a little later in the day. My mom called my aunt to ask if there anything she could bring and if she was going to make another kind of pie. That is when she said no and don’t bring any other pie. My mom was pissed! Not just because she is not supposed to bring pie but just how she treats everyone at Thanksgiving. I know my mom like me hates going to her house for Thanksgiving. She called me and told me how mad she was about this. Really though who does my aunt think she is anyways? She does not cook like my grandma, never has. Her food sucks on so many levels! But my mom ends up going and bringing an apple pie with her. Unfortunately for her she has to go because of my dad. I keep telling her she can come over to my house but she always gives in and goes to my aunt’s house.

What can I do? The answer is nothing.

This year Jeff and I are actually planning an escape route out of there. Go, eat something, talk a bit maybe play poker and then leave. Should only take 4 hours, usually we stay for like 6 or 7 hours. I want to leave before it gets too dark. Every Thanksgiving a bunch of the family likes to play poker, but only for nickels and dimes. Really cheap poker, they are fun because we all get to play and the games are silly too. That is actually my favorite part of Thanksgiving when we go. Also everyone in my family are big alcohol drinkers so they always bring so much booze. Free booze for 4 hours, sweet! What do you expect, I live in Wisconsin. So I won’t be driving home.

If you celebrate Thanksgiving and like it HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Rock This Town

Posted on November 20, 2014 by dkbadmin under Music

Rock it inside out!

Sometime during the 90’s when I was a teenager, I went through this phase of listening to big bands. I was totally into rockabilly and that is when I started to listen to Brian Setzer. He had an album called The Dirty Boogie. I totally loved that album. Of course I knew who Brian Setzer was, he from the 80’s band The Stray Cats. I also knew he is a killer guitar player.

I never thought of actually going and seeing him though. On Monday November 17, 2014 Jeff and I went to see Brain Setzer Orchestra and he was amazing. We saw them in Milwaukee at the Potawatomi Casino. First of all I have never been to the Potawatomi Casino and Jeff hasn’t been there since they updated it. The Casino is amazing there is so much to look at on the ceiling. This Casino is the biggest casino I have been in, in Wisconsin. Also it didn’t smell all that smoky which I was surprised by that and in the theater where the concert was you couldn’t smoke. I was happy about that as well. How the theater is arranged is in the front is seats like in a movie theater, then booths with tables, the seats we had were four chairs and table on the side of you and then more booths with tables. We were sitting a little off to the side but yet we could see everything. The couples sitting across from us were really nice people, a little small talk but not awkward small talk.

There was an opening band and they were called The Record Company. Never heard of them before but I really liked them. And the lead singer was from Wisconsin; can’t get any better than! I really liked their sound and will be listening to them. Also you can listen to them on Spotify, which is cool. They played for about forty five minutes. There was a little break, then Brian Setzer Orchestra was on. Oh wow! He was so good and so was his Orchestra.

Not only did he play Christmas music he played older songs like Rock This Town and Stray Cat Strut. But he also played a couple of new songs which sounded great going to be listening to that album. Since Brian Setzer has an Orchestra he played some Johnny Cash songs. I truly enjoyed the show.

After the show we stayed in Milwaukee. We stayed at the Brewhouse Inn. It was a Pabst Brewery at one time and they took the brewery and turned into a hotel. Very cool! We could even see where they brewed the beer. Also they had these really funny looking furniture that really cracked me up.

Foreign Foreign

Posted on November 14, 2014 by dkbadmin under Foreign Language

Now that is so foreign!

Foreign language is not my friend even though I want it to be my friend. When I was younger meaning grades first to the fifth, I had no choice of what language they were going to teach us. The language was Spanish. I was kid so that means I could care less about learning a foreign language I wanted to do kids’ stuff. That means I didn’t really learn anything.

Sixth grade which is middle school I got a choice between three languages German, Spanish and French. What do I pick? Of course Spanish and it was not fun. Seventh and Eighth grade I decided I needed to pick a different foreign language. I looked at German and it looked really hard so I picked French. Well I was in for a treat. French was so hard for me. I have no idea why I took two years of it. Also in Eighth grade I was failing and my only redemption was going to French camp for two days. My teacher told me if I wanted to pass I had to go and make an effort she would pass me. French camp was horrible! Once I got there the only rule was no English only French. Since I sucked at speaking French I couldn’t say what I wanted or needed for two days. But it was worth it to pass the class so I didn’t have to go to summer school.

In high school ninth to twelfth grade I got the same three choices German, French or Spanish. The only difference I only had to take a foreign language for three years instead of all four. I do not know how but my mom convinced the principal to let me not take a foreign language but to swap it for a bunch of computer classes. I think that computers could be a foreign language. So I took a crap load of computer classes but it was worth it not having to take a foreign language also I liked my computer teacher he was awesome.

After high school I didn’t think about learning any foreign language, I always thought what is the point because for whatever reason I can’t learn them. Not until I joined Livemocha remember I told you about that. That site makes you pick a foreign language so my fall back foreign language is Spanish so I picked that. I didn’t have any interest of learning the language just wanted to meet new people and help them with American English. Anyways I met my friend Helen there. Her language is Russian and I thought I would learn Russian. Now that is a very hard language! In my mind I thought I could learn Russian and someday I could speak to Helen in Russian and she could speak to me in American English. I would like to say if you speak Russian I admire you because your language is super hard to learn.

A couple of months ago I gave up learning Russian. I did learn some numbers, the alphabet, greetings and some random words. Russian was a lot harder than I thought to learn and I didn’t have the drive or the discipline to want to learn Russian. However that doesn’t mean I do not want to learn about Russia. I love learning things about Russia just don’t want to learn the language.

I was thinking about it and I know my best friend April is learning a foreign language. I didn’t give it any thought till I gave up on Russian. This foreign language I have always that it was unique. I think because they do not teach this language I didn’t think I could learn it without a teacher. The foreign language is American Sign Language. I didn’t come in contact with this language till I was fourteen. When I was fourteen had my first job I worked at an ice cream shop in the food court of the mall. We had a mother and daughter who would come and buy ice cream. The mom was deaf so the daughter would order for her. I thought wow talking with your hands is interesting. So back when people actually went to the library, I checked out a book on American Sign Language which is ASL for short.

It was really interesting learning some of the culture and learning some signs. I have no idea why I didn’t try to learn more. I guess I figured because I couldn’t learn a foreign language why bother, even though I thought it was really interesting.

Being older and rediscovering ASL I really wanted to learn this language. I understand Helen more and why she loves learning American English. You really need the want, drive, fascination and discipline to learn a foreign language. Also with ASL there is no pronunciation just have to watch what I sign because I am learning that some signs are pretty similar just need to pay attention what I am signing.

Why I think I will stick with this language because I have never been truly excited to learn a foreign language before. I really want to learn this and I am having fun doing it. Also it helps that I have a good teacher. My friend is teaching me and that is what she wants to do with her life. She wants to become an ASL teacher. So she can practice with me till she gets her degree. It’s cool!

One more thought, my friend April told me that music can help you learn a foreign language. I will have to agree. Since I am huge music fan learning the signs to a song and then practicing till I can sing along in ASL will just add to the fun. I decided to go with Sixx A.M. and their song Stars it’s one of my favorite songs right now. She is going to teach me all the words to that song. That means I will know more words plus I get to sing along with them eventually. Neat!

Here is a video of her signing Sixx A.M. Stars also I found these huge sunglasses and told her she had to put them on to make the video. Just being silly. April is so good at signing this song and she didn’t even know this song till I told her only couple of days ago. I filmed this on my phone this is her first attempt of the whole song. So I am really impressed!

Twitter Addict

Posted on November 11, 2014 by dkbadmin under social media

Twitter can be a good decision for some. But it was a really bad decision I made. I joined twitter in 2012 but never really used it till April of 2013. Now knowing me I should have never sign up for this Twitter application. I am such an internet addict and this really didn’t help me at all.

WHY THE HELL DID I DO THIS?

You cannot watch TV or go anywhere on the internet without anyone or anything mentioning Twitter or hashtag this or hashtag that. Seriously it’s everywhere! Even the President is on Twitter, everyone is there. It’s like a big party for really stupid thoughts. Or to promote things you don’t really care about. However, if you do have a business or author or really important, I can see how this can help you but I am none of those things, so it only really hurt me instead.

I am already a nervous person and think too much about random stuff. Hence here I am. At first it was really fun. I got to say dumb useless things in 140 characters or less and started to get starred and some followers. I was like wow, this is so much fun! Then after about a few months, big accounts started to follow me and they would retweet my tweets. I was like what? Wow, so fun! I am going to follow everyone who is following me no matter what or who they are or even what they represent. Once I started to do this, I started to gain a lot of followers. So many that I looked for another application that Twitter created to manage everyone that was following or had unfollowed me. I used unfollow.me to manage everyone and it was free. Also you have to sign up with Favstar to get the full experience of Twitter. Favstar is really to see who starred your tweets and you can give people trophies there.

I have to admit, it took me awhile to figure out everything. When I did my first retweet it was a rush. And I actually did a #FF. Which is Follow Friday and then you enter everyone you want others to see and follow. I only did that a couple times and was happy. Also I was getting DM’s from people and chatting with them that way. A DM is a direct message if you didn’t know. I have met really awesome people and really horrible people. I do have to say thank goodness Twitter has a blocking system in place for the horrible people. I was also thrilled to be mention in a tweet.

I figured as long as I was having fun this can’t hurt me in anyway. Right?

But then it started…….I would tweet and then think about it way too much! I would also be like “Why doesn’t anyone every retweet or star me anymore” or “OMG, I hope I didn’t offend anyone” etc. I was thinking about what to tweet what not to tweet. What if I don’t gain any more followers? I would think about Twitter so much, it was affecting me other ways in my life. Like spending time with my husband or family events and even sleeping. I thought about Twitter all the time!

I would check Twitter the first thing in the morning and it would be the last thing I would check before I went to bed. Even if I didn’t Tweet, I wanted to know what other people were saying or sharing all the time. It really was nonstop for me. I didn’t know I had a problem. My husband would be like you want talk about Twitter again and give a sigh when I would talk about it. But I really didn’t pay attention to it because I was a Twitter addict.

Literally one day in February sitting in bed thinking about Twitter like always; I thought about how this one little application was affecting me. Twitter made me nervous about what I was tweeting or what people thought about my tweets. And it hit me in the face! That I was spending too much time on this Twitter, what do I care about other people’s thoughts on Twitter? Most of the stuff on Twitter was just useless crap. Also I was sick of people DM’s about a lot stuff I didn’t care about or them harassing me because they didn’t like what I tweeted about or the fact that my avatar wasn’t a pic of me. Yes, I never put my pic on Twitter and I was really discreet about myself. Twitter was never the real me. Sure I would tweet about things that had happen to me or if I saw something funny but it wasn’t Danielle.

So, I thought about quitting Twitter for about two days and asked myself these questions: Do I need this? Is Twitter even fun anymore? What have I been missing in life because of Twitter? And the answers to these questions were easy to answer. No, I don’t need Twitter and it’s really not fun anymore. I have been missing a lot in life because of Twitter. After answering these questions, I did it. I quit, I didn’t even make it a year. But it was a lot wasted time there. I did however leave with a pretty good number of followers though. I had 606 followers but I didn’t even say goodbye and just quit.

And wow, I thought about it some more. I thought do I really want to do this? What I am going to do now? For two weeks I thought about joining again because I am a Twitter addict. I have a problem and Twitter was making it worst. But now after I quit, I do feel better. I know I am an internet addict but I don’t need Twitter to make it worst.

What I found out not being on Twitter is I have a lot more free time to pursue other things. I think about Twitter sometimes but it doesn’t invade my thoughts often. I am actually happier without it. Sure, I see it on TV or on the internet and of course hashtag this or that but I do not feel the need to be on Twitter anymore.

However, I am glad I went through that experience just to get it out of the way. Now, I honestly have an opinion about Twitter.

Goodbye Twitter forever!

Change

Posted on November 6, 2014 by dkbadmin under Everyday Life

It’s good to change right?

Lately I feel like I am changing. Like every year I have a birthday but I do not feel older till later in the year. But this feels differently like I feel differently about things in life then I did before. I have no idea how this feeling of change came along but it has.

I feel differently about my family. I have a lot of family issues in my life and it really sucks. I feel that I should be past all this anger and I hate that I have but sometimes it just hard to get past certain people and feelings I have towards them. I am sick of dealing with the same old issues and the tears I have to endure. I am sick of trying to figure out how to get around certain topics that always seem to pop up. I am sick of trying to be someone that I am not. I am really sick of my family judging me for being the person that I am. I just want these family issues to just go away. I want to find the strength to stand up for myself and say what I really want to say but it’s really hard to do that.

So far this year I did tell a person how I felt and it was really hard. Also this certain family member didn’t talk to me for a week which I was okay with because I was so angry at them. In fact these certain family member makes me very angry and sad. But also at the same time they make me happy and make me laugh. And when it’s just me and them alone we always have the best time. It’s very hard to find a balance with them. The incident that happened I think had to happen because I felt like exploding! Unfortunately I feel these feelings will never go away but ever since this happened I feel differently towards this person. And I think that why I feel this change coming along.

Since I am on the internet I rather not say who this person is even though none of family reads my blog anyways.

I have feeling of giving up on certain parts of my family life and I am okay with that. Sucks for those people I am giving up on because they are going to be missing me in the future but this just has to happen. It’s like I have gave them so many chances and they choose not take them. Also when I see them I am not going to pretend that I will see them anytime soon. I hate when they say “we need to get together more” and I am always thinking well I gave you like a million chances to do that you never take them. This year I am just going be like “okay” and move on.

Also on Facebook I am not following these people anymore. I am sick of their posts about all the family things they do and how they gloat about it. It’s sad that I feel so much hate towards parts of family life. I really need to work on this and move past this but it has been my entire life of trying and failing. I feel so differently towards my family issues that I just feel like giving up on those parts even though they make me who I am.

However I do not feel differently about my tiny family meaning just my husband and I. In fact that part of my life is the best part. We have been through so much of my family issues that he has really been my rock through it all. Like when I cry and feel so sad, he gives me the biggest hug and listens to what I have to say. Or when I am so angry all I see red, he listens and finds solutions to the problems. I always feel so much better when he picks me up from those horrible emotions.

I feel differently on the inside. I feel that this change is good and moving me towards the person I am supposed to be. Maybe this change will make me stronger and not the coward that I see in the mirror. I know that since I have been blogging I actually feel stronger to say “Hey this is me and I just don’t care what you think about me.” All that is important is what I think about myself.

I hoping this change will move me to the things I want to get done to myself, so I feel better about myself. Like I want to lose a lot of weight so I feel different. I am not losing weight for anyone else but myself because I want to go and see so many places. Being a bigger person doesn’t let me do those things. I want to get a bunch of tattoos for me. I have a lot of ideas of what I want to get tattooed as well. I want to publish one of my stories; I don’t even care if one person buys it. Just want to say I got a book published would just be so cool.

There are so many things I want to see and do before I die. And with that I guess I really need this big change in my life right now.

I really like listening to hard rock when I am sad or angry; it always makes me feel better about myself. The song I like to listen to when my family is getting on my nerves is 5 Finger Death Punch Bulletproof. This song is so special because no matter what they say or throw at me, I am Bulletproof from their hateful words.

Oh Brother!

Posted on November 3, 2014 by dkbadmin under Everyday Life

My younger brother Adam just moved to Portland Oregon. Finally! He has been talking about moving out there for a couple of years. One of his best friends and his girlfriend moved there awhile back. I guess Portland is the place to be. Well ever since then he moved out there my younger brother has been dying to move there but he would always come up with all kinds of excuses not to leave. He finally had no excuse to go a couple of months ago. His friend broke up with his girlfriend and needed a roommate. So he called my brother and to sweeten the deal he had a job for him. So there was no reason he couldn’t go. So he did which is good for him.

When we were younger we were best friends. Of course we had sibling rivalry but again who doesn’t? (Unless you are an only child.) Anyways when we got older our relationship sucked. It’s too bad that he had to move away for our relationship to be back on track but I will take it.

It’s funny thinking about the past with my brother. We are only three years apart so life when we were younger was fun because he wasn’t a little kid yet still could be very annoying. Since I was older I could boss him around that was the fun part. Ha! I use to make him do concerts with me for our parents. Make up dance routines to songs and then perform them. It was fun to do that also I think that is what we are doing in this photo. Fun times!

Also being older I would always stand up for him at school. I was pretty protective of my little brother and wouldn’t let anyone push him around. In return when he got to high school he would do the same for me. I am a shyer person then he. He always had a ton of friends which I use to be so jealous of. For example Adam could walk into a room full of people and like know half them and by the end of the night know more than half of the people. Me I would know one person and probably only know three people at the end of the night. So yes my brother is a huge social butterfly. Anyways in high school I was very shy so he and his friends would sit with me at lunch made me feel like I belong somewhere. We really looked out for each other growing up.

So when we got older and we started to separate, it made me sad because I love my little brother very much. Now that he is starting to come around in life again, I am really grateful to have his relationship back.

Here is a photo of us in high school together.

Adam I am glad you are in my life again. I love you so much!

Halloween 2014

Posted on October 29, 2014 by dkbadmin under Holidays

I have zombie love for you!

I absolute love Halloween, even more than my birthday. Even more than all the holidays combined. Halloween is the coolest holiday ever!

I love Halloween because I love scary. I love to be scared! I love zombies, do not get me started on zombies. I am a zombie freak; I probably have seen at least a hundred zombie movies by now. If there are zombies in the movie I am watching I do not care if it’s the crappiest zombie movie on the planet I will watch it. And I have seen some really shitty zombies movies that I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. I just totally love anything zombies and I do believe it could really happen.

Anyways here is a pic of a doll Jeff gave me years ago. It’s totally cool!

I also love skulls; I love collecting them and I have been collecting many things that have skulls on them since as long as I can remember. This is my absolute favorite skull that I have. I got it at a Halloween store. Check it out. I just love it even though it creeps out Jeff. I think that is funny. So far I haven’t really seen anything like it so far.

Jeff and I started our own tradition since we do not like handing out candy to kids. We turn off all the lights and pick out one or two scary movies. We get pizza, junk food and watch scary movies. It’s so fun! I look forward to that, that I picked out a scary movie like last month for Halloween. This Halloween I picked the move Oculus, it is about mirrors which always freak me out in horror movies. So I watch them anyways, I told you I just like watching horror films. Jeff hasn’t picked out his horror movie yet. This year Jeff has to redeem himself because last year he chose Jennifer’s Body and it was really stupid. The movies we pick for Halloween are movies we haven’t seen yet that, is the only requirement. Hope both movies are totally scary!

There is only one genre of horror films that I will not watch. Any horror films about exorcisms. It’s not like I haven’t seen them. I used to watch a lot of horror films on exorcism in fact I probably have seen the movie The Exorcist a crazy amount of times. I have also seen all the sequels as well (note they aren’t very good). Anyways the thought of a demon possessing someone’s body just really freaks me out and not good freak out. Since I believe in God and I believe in heaven and hell that just too much for me to handle. It’s just has been for maybe three years ago I decided not to watch those films. So I have seen them just chose to watch different kind of scary from now on.

There are certain things in a scary movie that totally gets my blood pumping. Like to the point where I am so scared, I can’t look. Those movies I need to watch with Jeff. I need someone to tell me it’s over but I find that those movies make it worth watching because of those things. Here are the things that totally freak me out in horror movies: 1. Mirrors because there is always something in them that is wrong or the reflection never follows the person looking in them. 2. The scary mouths, you know when someone is going to scream and their mouth is really too long for their face. 3. Any basements, long hallways they are always have no lights and who knows or what is in them. 4. Abandoned hospitals and prisons/ jails I do not need elaborate on this one. 5. Walking like all their limbs are broken and it’s very slow then really fast. 6.The backwards spider, ever watch the unedited version of The Exorcist if you have then you know what I am talking about. 7. The whole standing over someone while someone is in bed.

These things just freak me out so much but yet I still keep watching them. Also I love to watch foreign scary movies and I have to say Japanese horror films are some the scariest films I have ever seen in my life. Probably has to do with their really long black hair and a lot of them have that walking like their limbs are broken and those eyes totally freaky!

I have to say though the scariest movie I have ever seen and gave me nightmares is The Ring. This movie scared me so much. I watched this movie when I still living with my parents and I had a TV in my room. I had to cover my TV in my room with a blanket for months. The Ring was the ultimate scary movie and I will never watch it again. Thinking about it is giving me the creeps.

Another thing I love about Halloween is craving pumpkins. Two things I love about doing this is making cool creepy picture and baking the seeds. I love eating pumpkin seeds and they are only good if I make them myself. Here are the pumpkins I carved this year:

Road Trip Day Five

Posted on October 26, 2014 by dkbadmin under Everyday Life

Friday October 10 2014

Time to go home

Time to leave the fancy hotel and go home. During our whole vacation I didn’t sleep very well. First bed in the Hyatt really sucked, it was lumpy, the bed in The Henry was comfy but it wasn’t my bed. I also missed Koko who cuddles with me before I go to bed. So maybe three to four hours of sleep a night during vacation, I was tired and really wanted to sleep in my bed. On this day I actually got up at quarter to seven. That rarely happens because I am a night owl. I could tell I was getting to the point of exhaustion because I was crabby. The ride back home was pretty, but I was driving, so had to really see the pictures to really see the beautiful water and the Mackinac Bridge again.

Also on the way back I wanted to stop at a souvenir shop. On the way up we passed a souvenir shop that said it was the largest in the country so had to stop there. We looked at the reviews online of the shop and all the reviews said how wonderful this shop was. So I was excited to see what kind of treasures I would fine. When we finally got there it was raining and we really had to use the restroom. When we got inside the shop, we asked if we could use their restrooms. They told us that they had a portable potty outside. Are you kidding me? I am going to spend money in your shop and I have to go outside in the rain to potty. I thought that was ridiculous but when you have to go, you have to go. Anyways I was so disappointed in this shop. It was just a bunch of junk in there. I could find better stuff at Goodwill. But I did find some stuff. I found some little stuff for my friend Helen, also a little statue for my friend April for Christmas. Jeff found a cool eagle statue for his dad. I also found some cool little figurines for my figurine collection. Oh and the workers were very strange especially when we asked about the restroom. There weren’t all that friendly. We got there around almost five clock and they close at five. They didn’t even tell us they were closing they just turned off all the lights. First of all we were the only customers in there you could just tell us you were closing.

All in all that shop has false advertisement and the people who reviewed this shop has never been to a thrift store in their life I would assume because a lot of the stuff was donated you could tell and all the stuff was just junk. I would have better luck finding cooler stuff at a garage sale. So yes very disappointed in this shop.

While driving in Michigan they have these funny signs we would see every so often. They would say “Pass with care” I thought those where funny because you wouldn’t pass with care you would pass with rage. I am passing them because they are going so freaking slow I am going to lose my mind! So no one ever passes with care on the road they pass with rage. Too funny!

When we got Wisconsin it was dark out. I hate driving in the dark because all the headlights on the cars make it hard for me to see plus we were driving back roads there were so many deer. I was afraid I was going to hit one. Gratefully we made it home without incident. I was so happy to be home and to go to bed. I slept like for a whole day! It was nice. I love vacation because it’s a way to see cool things and meet or see the weirdest people. But I also love being home after vacation to appreciate the mundane stuff I do every day.

Road Trip Day Four

Posted on October 23, 2014 by dkbadmin under Everyday Life

Thursday October 9 2014

This day we went to the Henry Ford museum. I didn’t know this but this museum was very large. It took us almost four hours to go through it. It was so neat! First since its Henry Ford they had all kinds of old to new cars. The cars were everywhere, it even had Presidential cars, we got to see President Regan’s car to President Teddy Roosevelt’s car. It’s funny because they were all so different and we got to see where the Secret Service would ride around the car. The whole museum was a timeline of different vehicles but we didn’t follow the timeline we were just everywhere.

The second part was trains. There was this one train that was just so huge! Jeff stood next to it and you can see just how huge it was. It was so massive that it made the other trains looks so small. The other train they had that I thought was neat was a plow train. Very interesting! In the museum they had a working McDonalds in a train car. What? Yeah I was blown away by that. In the front of the train car McDonalds was the old neon sign and a classic car in the middle of it.

Third part was airplanes. It had the write brother’s plane, it was so simple paired to the others. Still really neat. There was this other plane you could go into it was from a long time ago. It was funny because first class was wicker chairs. That cracked me up! Also they didn’t have seat belts. Charles Lindbergh’s The Spirit of the Saint Louis plane was there. Amazing! Also with all the vehicles there were buttons you could press to either hear audio or watch tiny videos on the displays.

There weren’t just vehicles there were other displays there. Like Lincoln’s chair he got shot in. I even saw Rosa Parks’s bus and I could see where she sat. They had kitchens through the centuries. I only took a picture of the 1930’s I thought that one was the neatest. Lamps and stoves through the centuries, very interesting to see them all. Also had these doll houses, the doll houses were very detailed it was crazy.

There was this one part were we go through the centuries of just stuff. We thought it was funny to go through the 80’s and 90’s centuries because a lot that stuff Jeff had or I had as a kid. For example I had a Game Boy and a Furby, to see them in a display case made me feel a little old. But it was neat to see that stuff and bring back some memories. Also Jeff use to tell me he had bag phone. These phones were the earliest invention of the cell phone. So yes had to take a picture of that. I have never really seen one person just on the internet.

That museum so far is the coolest museum I have seen in a long time.

The second half of he day we switched hotels. We stayed in the fanciest hotel I have seen or had the pleasure of staying. One thing you got to know about me is I hate fancy. I hate fancy restaurants, stores and hotels. Because I feel that I do not belong and I can’t stand snobby people. I do not how but Jeff convinced me that we have to stay in a fancy hotel at least once in our life. We stayed at The Henry and it was a Marriott “Autograph” hotel, just another way to say fancy hotel. When we walked in it was so very neat to see. First you walk in and see the biggest chandelier like ever. All the employees are wearing suits and dresses. As we were walking to the elevators the walls are covered in art work. I thought that was really neat to see. When we got to our room I am almost past out because it was so huge! Once you walk in there is one tiny bathroom and the living room with a really cool view of Detroit (11th Floor). Then the bedroom and an extremely large bathroom. As you walk into the bathroom you walk right into the beauty area, and then when you turn there is another room where there is a shower and tub. The bathroom is covered in marble. The bathroom was like a studio apartment big. People could live in there. That is how big it was!

For extra cost we got Concierge floor access which means we got to go this floor where they have fancy food, alcohol and beverages all you can eat, for no extra cost. We ate caviar; I have never had caviar in my life. If you didn’t know caviar it is fish eggs. I thought that they would be disgusting but they weren’t. I was surprised. Also you could have as much alcohol and drinks as you wanted. Totally took advantage of the coffee and creamers they had. Jeff and I are not big drinkers so the alcohol wasn’t really a big deal. However Jeff is a soda fiend so all you can drink soda and I am a coffee fiend so we were happy. Were funny! There were some snobby people in this area, they were stupid, but of course we mostly stayed in our room. The staff were all really nice and I felt a little bad for them having to work with snobby costumers, yeah I thought about that.

For the first time in my life we ordered room service. I have never had room service because I always think it’s expensive. I am a bit of a thrifty person. But like my husband said you have to at least get it once in your life. So we did I got fancy Mac N Cheese which wasn’t all that good and Jeff got a burger and fries. We also got these buffalo wraps which were really good. When Jeff ordered food the person on the other end answered the phone “How can I help you Jeff. Jeff thought that was the coolest thing. I thought so because never had that before. I could tell we were staying in a fancy hotel.

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