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!

It’s been a week since Koko died and it has been tough. I have to say it’s been really tough for Scotty. He slowly starting to act like himself but we have noticed now he is scared of EVERYTHING! He has always been scared of a lot of stuff but I think Koko made him braver since Koko is not here he has been more scared of things. It really sucks and we are unsure if he will become more confident over time or just be scared all the time. Only time will tell I think.

We are finally getting a new bathroom! They are starting tomorrow and soon we have not a moldy bathroom. It’s exciting!

What’s not exciting is this weekend is Mother’s Day. Already there is conflict. Of course sister-in-law wants to go to a restaurant which will be super busy AND expensive. The reason why she wants this because it’s go out to eat then everyone leave which I can see that. However if that is what they are going to do, we are not coming. Too expensive for us. We decided if that is what everyone is going to do we will celebrate Mother’s Day with mom the day before which happens to be Saturday. I am not giving into going to a restaurant thing. Mom wants to have it at Chrissy’s house which we could do that means we only have to bring something and spend time with oh I don’t know mom which is what the day is all about anyways.

I made two dolls for mom and then we are going to get her some flowers.

Yesterday I got to spend 3 hours at the ER. I wanted to go to Urgent Care but they sent me to the ER instead. I have been having terrible pain in my back and it went to the side. Touching my side would send a wave a pain! They made me pee in a cup that took a little over a half an hour to get results. I was in the clear. Then they tell me I must have strained a muscle in my back and it localized itself to my side.

The solution inject two shots in my butt! OMG! They gave me a shot of a muscle relaxer and Ibuprofen. Before she does that she tells me both shots will give me a burning sensation. It was like sitting in fire! I had to wait 20 minutes which seemed like forever for the shots to take affect. Then they say it will last up to 3 to 4 hours. I can say it lasted 2 an a half hours. Now my injection site hurts worst than my muscle strain.

However at least this time I had very nice people looking after me. You know me! I usually get the grumpy people or the doctors who are unfriendly. But no this time so I am grateful for that.

For the last few days we have been having a blizzard! It’s so crazy! I can’t remember any spring being winter again in my life. This blizzard is even called Blizzard Evelyn. I hate you Evelyn. So we have been stuck  in our house which is so human nature. If you can’t leave your house you want to leave your house. lol!

What is good that the dogs still go outside. Scotty was so funny. He made Koko go out there first to make a trail and then he follows, he isn’t dumb. 

Snow bank up the side of our house.

We went grocery shopping and Jeff found this super cute plushie but…it’s not a plushie it’s a purse!

It’s so soft and cute! I got it for my friend Helen for her birthday.

Speaking of friends April’s and I friend anniversary is coming up. 20 years! I made a two dolls. One that is her and one that is me.

Can’t see in the the pic but I braided April’s hair since she always has in a braid. Also getting friendship necklaces. Hoping to get them soon. Next week we will celebrate. I can’t wait, it will be fun!

On Wednesday was an awesome day! Jeff had a half day because he had a doctor’s appointment. That part wasn’t too bad. He has some skin tags that were bothering him on his neck and he has one on his eye lid. Mostly concerned about the one on his eye lid. Found out it’s not a skin tag but a wart on his eye lid which to me makes sense because it doesn’t look like a skin tag. He has to have that one surgically removed because it sits on his eye lash area that’s too close to his eye for the doctor we saw yesterday to take off. These days to remove skin tag they use electricity to removed them. I thought that was cool. No cutting, freezing or burning them off like they did back when.

We went to the Bread Harvest afterwards. I haven’t been to a Bread Harvest in a very long time. I use to go to one when I worked at the YMCA. I used to walk downtown and go eat at the Bread Harvest. Jeff has never been to a Bread Harvest. So we got some yummy bread, cookies and some spread. Yummy!

After that we went to Walmart. I know that doesn’t sound fun but we were in De Pere and all Walmarts are not the same. Wow their Walmart makes our Walmart look like shit. It was so nice in there and clean. The one in my town isn’t always the cleanest and forget about using the restroom it’s always gross. The one in De Pere was very clean and the restroom were clean as well. We got some things we really needed and I got some clothes.

Then we went for lunch/dinner. We went to Sgambati’s pizza. We ordered a loaded nacho pizza and it was awesome! It was nice because there was really nobody there but us. So we had great pizza and great company. Had so much fun with Jeff just being out and doing things together.

I feel mad again at my sister. Ugh didn’t mom teach her any manners? So it was Drew’s birthday he turned 10 this year. We are short this whole month of February on money yet we manage to get him 10 dollars. Did we get a thanks? No! In fact Chrissy said thanked to everyone except us on FB. What a joke! I am mad! We are not obligated to get him anything and I know it isn’t her son’s fault but what a slap in the face. 

Anyways this weekend I made another doll. I like her better than my first.

Her hair is so soft. I like making them and going to make a whole lot more.