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!

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). 

Saturday July 7th we celebrated the 4th with the family. We stayed at my Uncle’s house for seven hours! That is crazy! We had fun though. We played poker and cousin Jared won my money. Lol! He rarely wins so I’ll give it to him.

There was some strangeness of course. My cousin Erich was there with his wife Carmen. I forget what state they live in. Anyway saw him once and that was it. I talked to his wife for a little bit. But they didn’t mingle with anyone. I thought that was strange. There were people there I didn’t know but they were nice and mingled with everyone. There was this one guy there that didn’t introduce himself. Okay before I get into this guy what is up with that? Manners. If I don’t know someone I introduce myself. Even if we don’t talk again still. What is the harm of saying I am so and so. Right? Whatever. Anyways this guy kept in crouching my personal space and staring at me. It made me feel uncomfortable. I just tried to ignore him the whole time. Anyways it was fun day!

I had an awesome day on the July 4th. First Jeff and I went to my Uncle and Aunt’s house to see my cousin Alice and family. It was so much fun! We had pizza and cookies. Lol! We brought the cookies and they were a hit. Reuben was a little less strange even though he thought he got abducted by aliens. Yeah aliens. At this point Jeff and I just nod and don’t ask questions with him. Reuben said that he was sad he will be missing the Koehne poker game. Alice said Danielle why don’t you call your dad. So I did and my parents came for a visit too. Dad, Reuben, Jeff, Uncle Dan and I played poker. I didn’t have much money as I didn’t think we play poker. I had maybe two dollars however I left close to five! Lol! It was great!

In the evening we went over to my Aunt Kathy’s house. Mom invited us and we asked if we can bring Scotty. They said yes. They have two young dogs a collie named Amadeus who is 2 and Sebastian who is three and he is a black lab. Scotty was nervous at first then Amadeus was showing him around the house. It was too funny! Only one bad thing Sebastian tried to dominate Scotty a couple of times but then he stopped doing that after he was disciplined.

Seeing Sebastian  made Jeff want another black lab and I thought it would. He was so cool. They both were. My aunt said that we and Scotty can come back anytime.

Amadeus wouldn’t turn around for a pic. Lol!

Friday Jeff had the day off and we went to Green Bay. We dropped off the Explorer for window tinting. Then we went to breakfast with my parents. I had Eggs Benedict. I have never had that before. Okay now I understand why everyone likes it. It was so yummy!

After breakfast my dad had to go back to work and we told mom we were going chair shopping. She wanted to go with us to the first store. I did find a chair there but Jeff talked me into at looking at WG&R for a chair. I am glad he did! I found the perfect chair for me and it’s so comfy!

It’s also very soft!

Mom told me she was sending a package to Adam and wanted me to make more dolls. Lol! So I made him and me.

I have to add a pic of Scotty. Look he is a happy dog.

I have been dealing with a back injury. It has been two weeks now and I am not sure how I did it but I know I sprained a muscle in my back. The first week was horrible! I couldn’t do anything and now in the second week it’s getting better. However I still can’t do what I want completely without it hurting. It sucks.

I was looking for a simple cross stitch project to do. While I was looking on Amazon I kept coming across diamond painting. I have never heard of that. I watched a YouTube video about it and it seemed interesting. I picked out an easy one to do just in case I didn’t like it and for 8 dollars I chose a dragon one. It’s a little hard to find some that people like. Have to really read the reviews.  Well….I like it!

I can’t wait to see it when it’s finished.

Friday June 8th we went to a huge rummage sale! I saw it on FB and it was a large garage full of stuff. Come to find out Jeff used to work with the lady who was having the sale. She was interesting and I say that in a good way. She was a talker! Lol! I let them talk as I looked around. It was fun. I found three things that I liked. 

Isn’t this cool?! This was five dollars and I crown this the best find! I am giving this to April. She loves wolves.

Then I found these. The bigger one is going to April and the smaller one is going to Helen.  For the both of them five dollars. So I spent ten dollars and got some cool stuff!

I was at Walmart and picked up this:

Okay this is a felt project for beginners and even comes with a hoop. It was about five dollars and I thought easy enough plus I get a hoop.

WRONG! This is a WTF?! Project. There is supposed to be a holes punched in the fabric and the whole owl part didn’t have any holes punched in the fabric. It was a hard on my fingers to punch the holes in the needle. It was lame but I finished it.

As anyone can tell it’s not like the pic but whatever. I am still going to put in on the wall. It’s artsy right? Lol!

Saturday I got a new fitness tracker. My fitbit bit the dust. I actually miss wearing it because I like I can tell the time and steps. So I got a different brand and so far I am happy with it. It’s called Letsfit paid 30 dollars for it. Fitness trackers can be expensive and I thought the Fitbit was going to last longer. Yeah it didn’t and for the band to wear like that they should have some kind of replacement for it.  The Letsfit is awesome! The band comes apart and that is how it is charged. Just put it in the computer. Don’t have to worry about a cord. I thought that was cool! I can also receive text messages and know when a call is coming in. I won’t use this feature but that’s cool. It also tells me the temperature outside. I got it in blue of course.

Something dumb. I hurt my back and it sucks! I think I pulled a muscle on Friday. Not sure when I did it but Friday night I was complaining my back felt sore. The next day I couldn’t move all that much. It still hurts. Like every time when I want to get moving on fitness I get hurt. Not sure why that is that way but it feels like it.

Blog I have been lazy to write in you. Ugh. Okay not being lazy today. Let’s see….

Last Saturday June 1st my parents went to Sun Drop Dayz. We went never been there and it was okay. The time we got there most of the vendors were gone. My mom was mad! Mad at my dad because she wanted to leave early to see the vendors but dad wanted to watch a game on TV. Lol! Anyway they wanted to see The Cougars who are a band that plays a variety of cover songs. Dad told me he is obsessed with them. I thought that was funny. Anyway when we got there the sky was really dark. As soon as The Cougars started playing it started to rain but just sprinkling. They get to the third song it started to pour! I got soaked! We left then went out eat. I had to eat in my wet clothes that part sucked but it was nice to hang out with my parents.

Unfortunately my sister’s dog passed away Red. He was a cool dog. I am glad I got to see him at Mother’s Day. He was so gentle and calm. Red was 14.  I am just going to say this. I hated how my sister and brother in law would compare Red to Koko, always. Like we would talk about Koko and say he was slowing down and then Andy would say well Red is this many years older than Koko. Seriously that doesn’t matter. Each dog like each person is different regardless of age. That always bothered me. Anyway it’s sad when they die. I still miss Koko and I think I always will.

I am not done yet but I made more dolls! Of course I can’t stop making them they are fun. I am going to try to make superhero dolls. Father’s day is coming up and I made dad, Adam and I. When I’m all done I will show.

On Wednesday I met my friend Sam’s wife. All I have to say is AWKWARD! They both came over to pick up some shelves. After meeting her who she seems like a nice lady and I know it’s me, it was still awkward.  Maybe for all the new people I meet I should wear a tag that says “Hi my name is Danielle and I am socially awkward.” Sam and I had a conversation not too long ago and I told him. I am shy when I meet new people. He said you’re not around me and I said remember when we first met I was. Oh yeah he says.

What I learned through the years is test the waters. See if the person has the same sense humor and see what their attitude is. I used to be a little more adventurous but I learned the hard way there are people who aren’t sarcastic like me or have the same sense of humor. So the 35 year old Danielle is more shy because I rather have person test me out first then me. To avoid someone getting mad or taking things the wrong way. This way as I get more comfortable around them then I will open up more. I just find this is better than the other way around. I am sure Sam’s wife Penny thought I was awkward as well. Ugh I am dreading a cookout that Sam and Jeff want to do at Sam’s house. Oh well.

This weekend we are going to look at colors to do our kitchen. We are DIY our kitchen! Fun? No but it will be better than it does now. It’s summer!!!!

Friday mom and I went to a lot of rummage sales and it was fun. It was a nice day and hot out.

I have a funny story! So we go to this rummage sale with this elderly man. We are looking around and mom comes across this pineapple thing. The old man says “Pick it up.” So my mom does and she says “What is this?” And he says “I don’t know really.” It’s accordion out and it was a strange thing however as it pulls out it breaks apart and breaks. The old man says “Oh no!” Mom put it down quickly. We looked around and then left quickly. LOL!!!! That old man gave my mom such an evil look. He told her to pick it up, right?! My mom wasn’t going to pick it up at all. When we got in the car I was cry laughing!

The next day Jeff and I were at my parent’s house and I told my dad the story. We all were laughing so hard! My dad was surprised my mom didn’t give him the dollar he wanted for that thing. OMG it was so funny.

I found some cool things at the rummage sale my prize a Packer hat for 5 dollars!

The strange thing I found was an old liquor holder and glasses for 2 dollars!