I was feeling nostalgia on Tuesday. I was sitting and working on my new cross stitch, listening to music. Oh I have been wanting to do this cross stitch for a long time but it cost over sixty dollars! That is too much expensive to do. So had it sitting in my amazon wish list for a couple of years and finally it came down to seventeen dollars! Had to get it!

It’s a platinum collection, that means HARD! Pretty much since I did Rick Grimes, is easier. Ha!

The plan is to hang this up above the TV on our nice wall we did.

Back to the main point is I was feeling nostalgia when stitching because I was listening to 90’s punk. I miss 90’s punk. I remember going to Warped Tour in the 90’s. I remember seeing Reel Big Fish. I was such a fan of them. Also I met the Plain White T’s before they became famous. I used to have their first CD with all their signatures but it got stolen. Just think if I still had that! So many band I got to see and meet.

I was thinking every year I would save up to go with Adam and friends. One year we went with Corey but we wouldn’t stay together we would scatter. It was an all day thing and one time it rained all day. It was so worth it! Unlike me, being shy, I actually mingled with other teens. Shocker! It was so fun! I am glad I went. I can’t imagine it being the same and I have listened to some 2000’s punk, not the same. I guess it’s a sign I am getting older.

In any case it was fun to think back.

Saturday we had a crazy storm blow by. Hail rain!

Isn’t that crazy and as soon as that storm pass it got sunny and melted all the hail. We have been having some crazy weather lately.

Sunday was Father’s Day. Jeff was awesome! He cooked for two days and it was a wonderful meal! We had Indian tacos and Jeff first time made guacamole.

I don’t like guacamole but it was really good on the tacos.

I fried the tacos this one looks like a heart. Funny.

So good. Unfortunately it rained a lot and we couldn’t sit outside. Our house is a bit tiny for that many people but it all worked out.

When we could sit out side these birds were just hanging out. We have never seen these type of birds before. Jeff took the pic at the right moment.

Tomorrow I am going to be at April’s. She is going to compete in her first horse show on Saturday. I can’t wait to see her and the horses.  Also there will be music and we get eat some chili as well. It will be fun!

On Tuesday June 13th I made my personal best of exercising. It’s exciting and makes me feel really happy about it.  I walked for forty five minutes for exercise. I found out that our road sort of hits a dead end which I didn’t know. It just stops and goes to the busy road so now I know that I can only go so far down the road. That means pretty soon I won’t be able to keep going down our road. My only option is doing the trail.

What I really want to strive for is making the road and the trail all into one big walking route and adding my favorite part walking to the lake. The lake part would be the end. I love walking to the lake for a couple of reasons. One it’s nice and cool walking that way since there are few houses and mostly trees. Two it’s pretty! Sometimes I see wildlife. One time I saw and Eagle fly down and grab a fish. It was awesome!

I am trying to train myself to walk a marathon. My first marathon would be five miles if I can find one. Then I want to do ten miles and so on. Would be so cool. But first five miles of walking. I know I can do this. Plus walking around isn’t boring like being on a treadmill.

Also I am becoming stronger! My goal is to become strong. I want to be able to pick up a dog food bag like it’s nothing and I am almost there! That is twenty pounds and my next goal is forty pounds. The pellets for the stove is forty pounds a bag. I want to be able to pick one up like it’s nothing.

You can do this Danielle!

It’s here! Yes our pellet stove is in and ready for the winter!

Jeff did such a good a job making the base. On Friday we had a guy come and put in for us. Now we can have heat for winter and not have to pay so much for electric heat.

Saturday sucked a little. We lost all of our electricity for hours! It was too hot for this. We took a drive in the truck for AC and decided to go to some rummage sales. I saw this one in our bulletin paper. It’s funny because I usually just recycle that thing but this time I really looked at it and saw a rummage sale that was supposed to be huge! So we went over there and it was really disappointing. That ad should have just said “got kids? We have kids stuff.” Because that is all it was.

We did see a sign for a different one and went there. This rummage sale was like oh here is all of our junk and we aren’t going to price it.  I had to ask for everything “How much is this or that.” How are they supposed to make any money? Anyway I did find some cool things: 

Check out this small bottle. It used to have perfume in it and it smelled like old lady perfume. But it’s glass easy to clean out, air it out and now it smells like nothing or soap. Either way it doesn’t smell like perfume anymore. I am going to use this for crafts.

Oh isn’t this cool?! It’s a light switch cover. I thought it was unique. I wanted to put it near our back door but….it doesn’t fit. Sad! It’s so cool! Now I am not sure what I am going to do with this. I don’t want to throw it away.

This is a cool box but wow it smelled SO bad! I bought four of these boxes. I had to throw them away. Phew!

This is what was inside the boxes. They are neat tiles. I guess they are for hot plates or you hang them up. I am going to only keep two of them and put them in a display holders. The hanger on the other side doesn’t look that strong to hold on the wall and they are too pretty to use them for hot plates. Two of them came with emboss paper but they smelled bad like the boxes. Definitely in someone’s wet basement forever because that is what they smelled like.

I only spent five dollars and fifty cents. I wish there was more rummage sales and I like to look at other’s people stuff. Ha! I was hoping for stuff for crafting but maybe later, summer isn’t over yet.

Finally! Today we are having someone come in and pipe our pellet stove. Another piece of making our living room come together. I will take pics and show you on Monday. All we need after this is new carpet and new windows and that room is complete. Also we will not have to have electric heat for the winter. Savings! I like saving money.

Kinda funny that we are getting out pellet stove now. It’s been so hot out! Wisconsin what is going on? It has been in the 70s and 80s. I think this is the hottest it has been in a while. However I have a nice tan going on but it sucks to work outside when it’s so hot out. Not really a super warm weather person. No hot state for me even though I don’t really like winter. I rather be cold then hot. Can always layer as we always say.

I feel lazy right now and I don’t know why. I should feel energetic since I got up this morning at six for a walk. My poor Koko can’t go for long walks anymore. It’s his hips. Now we can only walk down the street and back. But not Scotty he could walk for miles. I hate when dogs get old.

I hung out with my mom this weekend and she didn’t bring up Memorial Day. Yay! We were supposed to go to the Botanical Gardens in Green Bay. However it rained all morning so we decided not to go. They took me out for breakfast and we went to Julie’s Cafe. It was so good! The pancakes are as big as the plate. After that we went to check out Meijer which is like a Walmart layout. It’s new so I said I wanted to know what was it like in there.

I have to say I was disappointed the food is expensive compared to Woodman’s. The stuff they had wasn’t that impressive either. They had a section of clothes for big people but they weren’t in my opinion great clothes. I did buy a plant. It’s laughable that is the only thing I bought there.

After that we went to Hobby Lobby. I haven’t been there in ages. I was excited to go there. I love crafts! I bought some yarn and some hoops that I have looked everywhere for. I want to try and make dream catchers for the dads for Father’s Day.

We did go to some others stores but found nothing. Then we went swimming that was fun since it was in the eighties outside. I spent literally all day there but it was fun! See now that is how our relationship should be. I come to see her because I want too.

I thought my relationship with my mom was going smoothly lately but this weekend it changed….again. Ugh! Yesterday was Memorial Day and I told mom we may or may not come to their house. We decided not to go to their house and stay home. I got the third degree from her and she even was trying to tell me that dad was guilt tripping me.  Ridiculous!

I don’t understand why we have to go to everything. It’s not like anyone talks to us or cares what we have to say.  All mom does is care what the grandkids are doing. I have tried over the years to talk to her and all she is says “When the grandkids aren’t around, I’ll listen. Okay?” or “Not when so many people are around.” So….why should we go? Just to sit around and do nothing? Dumb.

Also when my mom called we had just gotten done ripping off the siding of our house and it was hard! There was these nuts that were stripped on to the house. I had to use my whole body and strength to get the board off. I was so tried and exhausted so I wasn’t in the mood to argue with my mom. I plainly told her we are not coming and all she does is hangout with the grandkids. She said my siblings are all going to be there. I told her they if they want to see me they know where we live. Ha! I was in no mood to be sympathetic to her. Also Jeff said he has never heard me talk to her like that. I told him when your exhausted things happen. Ha!

I watch people on TV and see how close some families are. They don’t know what my mom is like. Sometimes people say family is important. But does anyone have to put up with guilt trip after another. Then go to family functions to be ignored?! That is ridiculous! I bend over backwards for my mom but my siblings don’t. It’s because I don’t have kids. I get treated so differently because of that reason. It’s unfair.

Take Corey for example his family rarely comes to their house unless it’s to drop of their kid. Sure mom complains about it but doesn’t guilt trip him like me. She definitely sees me more than him. SO why do I have to be guilt tripped into seeing them. And it’s not like we don’t go over there or go to family functions ever. We go all the time. So what? We don’t go this one time and it isn’t even this one time. We didn’t go over there last Memorial Day. We didn’t get hassled like we did this year.

I am just mad. It’s dumb how she has to guilt trip me to do things with her. Since we go see them a lot. I would saw we see them more that they are only 45 minutes away than hour since they moved. And that is another thing we helped them move. We do all kinds things for them and they get angry at me because we didn’t go on Monday. On top of that I  will be spending all Saturday with my mom. How many of her another kids are going to spend all day with her? I do it because I want to not because have to lay down guilt.

I vented now I feel better.

I finally made some slipper socks. They were hard and I decided I don’t like making them. The heel part is the hardest.

Koko wouldn’t move so he got in my sock picture.

On Saturday we went to celebrate my Aunt Joanne’s birthday she turned 60. I was a little surprised that we were invited to her party and I thought there were going to be a whole lot of people.

This is the aunt who never has enough food on Thanksgiving but for some reason had so much food for her birthday! It’s ironic because there was so much food and not that many people were eating yet at Thanksgiving we always complain there isn’t enough food. Ha!

She rented out a hall for her birthday and I was surprised that there wasn’t that many people there. I thought for sure there would be a ton of people that I didn’t know. There were people I didn’t know but not as many as I thought.

When we got there and when we left she was very happy for us to be there. I thought that was strange. Is she getting more sentimental as she gets older?

Now I can’t prove it but I always thought that my aunt thought I was either really lazy or a bit stupid. Really! I only think that because I get this look when she asks Jeff if I have a job yet. And she talks in this tone to me somethings like I wouldn’t understand what she is saying. I don’t know why she does that. Like when she invited us to her birthday party it was Easter at my parent’s house. Her tone on letting her know through my parents it was like do you understand? Like yes I got it, I am not dumb.

Well anyway we showed up and stayed for a couple of hours. And she liked our gift we got her a Kwip trip gift card. She even gave me a kiss when we left?! What is going on? Strange.