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Finally it was a nice weekend where it didn’t rain. That means outside projects.

We wanted someone to come over and take our porch but the guy was a no show. I hate that on classifies. If you can’t make it just say so however that will be gone soon. We had some of our trees removed in the front yard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately after this really bad wind storm it killed one of the trees and it was leaning towards the road. The other tree died and we didn’t want it to fall on our house. It’s sad like I said before I hate cutting down trees. 

I learned something new on my loom. I learned how to make bracelets.

 

 

 

 

They are called dragon scales. They are cool.

I thought this was thoughtful my niece Bree sent Jeff and I a thank you card. We have never gotten one before so I thought it was special. She is seven now.

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Easter was fun! I wasn’t sure if it would be because…family but it was. There wasn’t as many people as I thought was going to be there. The only siblings that were there was Kim, Corey and Crayne. I thought for sure Chrissy and family would be there but no. So only one little kid and they weren’t there for all that long. Oh one thing Kim complained how hard her life is to my mom! That is the last person anyone should complain about married life with.

Kim complained that she can’t always be superwoman she needs superman. I was laughing in my head when she said that. The only reason she was complaining is because my mom asked when she gets to see them again since they live closer now. That is when she said that. My mom got in her face a bit about not complaining about it because really there is nothing to compare. My mom had three sometimes four kids at home while my dad worked all the time and most of the time wasn’t in the same state, Kim has one kid and Corey works a bit around the state but the same state.

Other than that it was good so see the uncles and aunts and of course Jared. We played poker like always and Jared and I were ripping on each other. It was fun! I was the only one who lost but that is okay. I also got to look at old pictures, I like looking at old pictures of family. I got to show Jeff my grandparents so that as cool.

I made some more things with my loom. I saw these grips for the hooks and had to try and make them. I found the tiny rubber bands at the dollar tree. I can buy 500 of them for a dollar. I love the Dollar Tree!

 

 

 

 

The idle loom would be the straight one but didn’t have that one. So I use two of my looms to make it. It’s sort of a pain because no grooves one the outside of the loom as hard to get the rubber band over to knit it. I ended up just grabbing it with my fingers to do that part.

 

 

 

 

I totally love these grips and so easy to make! I do a have a bit of arthritis in my hands and these make it easier on them to knit. Now I want to make them for all my crochet hooks. Back to the Dollar Tree I go.

Time for another dog picture.

 

 

 

 

Koko is pondering with his head on his arm. Too funny!

 

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Watched NASCAR yesterday and they had this crazy glitch going on. At first it was funny but after what felt like forever, it was getting annoying. We checked if the other channels on the TV worked and they did so it had to be NASCAR’s problem. Last stage they kept showing Harvick and Logano racing and the quality kept getting worse and worse. Till it looked like a 90’s video game. Which made us not see most of the that stage, that sucked. They finally fixed it so we could see the last 83 laps. Hope that doesn’t happen again.

I learned how to make flowers and gotten pretty good at it.

 

 

 

 

 

Also this weekend Guilherme Marchi made 600 qualifying rides! That’s amazing!

 

This morning seem like someone was hitting out house.

 

 

 

 

Rain and hail this morning. I am all for storms but not hail.

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I have a new project. I bought looms.

 

 

 

 

I kept seeing at Walmart and had to know how to do them. My plan is to make hats for Christmas presents. The instructions that came with them were all smashed in the box. Instead of reading smashed instructions I watched a couple of YouTube videos.  I have to admit I had to start over twice. The first time I started with the blue loom and the beginning turned out holey. Not good for a hat. Also the blue loom is for a child’s hat. The second time I picked the orange loom is for an adult hat and I somehow missed a loop when trying to make the brim of the hat.

However yesterday I finally got it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was getting a little frustrated with it but now that I got it, I can’t wait to continue. If this turns out great, I will be making more hats. I also found out that I can make more than just hats with the looms. But first just hats.

On Saturday I called my dad to see what they were doing. Nothing during the day so I asked him if he wanted to have brunch with us. Of course he said yes! We drove to Green Bay to meet them at the Pancake Place in Green Bay. When we got there the place was packed and this was only 11:30. Also we got there before my parents who live in Green Bay. Funny!

Anyway we got a table and I think they think you have to be a stick to fit anywhere in there. I was really crammed in the table. When my parents got there, they were really crammed in the table as well. That part was unpleasant but as people started to leave it wasn’t so crammed. My parents were surprised that we would make a trip just to eat out with them. I thought that was cool as well.

 

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Not a lot happened this weekend. Ken and Elena were supposed to come over to celebrate birthdays but Elena was to sick too. It’s funny because here are the birthdays, Mine is the 17, Elena 18 and Ken 19. How Ironic is that?!

So not much going on and we had a lot of rain this weekend. It rained so much I could have swam in our road it was like a big pool.

Nothing really else watched NASCAR on Sunday. I am rooting for Chase Elliott this year. I really want him to win. Would be so cool if a rookie could win one of the races this year.

 

 

 

 

 

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I had so much fun on Tuesday. April came over and we went to see Beauty and the Beast. Jeff went too but saw Kong Skull Island. I couldn’t believe it the theater was packed and this is Tuesday in the morning. That was crazy to me. Even though our theater was mostly children, we didn’t hear any crying or whining. Which is good but also unbelievable!

The movie was awesome! Except for two things: One I thought the beast had funny lips. Two there is a hole in the story however this hole is also in the original animated Disney movie as well. Wish they would have fixed it. So beast has to save Belle from the wolves and he gets hurt however when the beast lets Belle go, she still has to go through the forest, no wolves chase her. So…where did they go? Sort of funny if you think about it. Anyway great movie! Loved all the singing and dancing, very entertaining.

Jeff said his movie was a great action movie. Now I do have to see that movie.

We actually saw three movies that day. We all saw Sing! With all the hype that movie had, I wasn’t impressed with it. Jeff liked it. We all liked the music but I don’t know I was expecting something more. Then April and I watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This movie was awful! It had no plot to almost an hour into it. I was also expecting more from this movie. No matter what J.K. Rowling produces nothing can measure up to Harry Potter.

However the main character actor Eddie Redmayne he could be the next Doctor Who. Since he needs to regenerate make him the Doctor. He would be perfect!

April coming over was to celebrate many things. Christmas, birthdays and her being cancer free!

We made her a blue cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finally finished it! My dream map which I didn’t know that what a thing. Ha! Helen told me it is popular in Russia so we both made one. Here is mine:

 

 

 

 

Since we do not have a color printer. I printed and colored them, that took awhile to do.

Helen’s sent me an awesome birthday presents!

 

 

 

 

In the bag are awesome towels and I got a wooden comb. So cool!

 

 

 

 

April got me two awesome games! I can’t wait to play them.

 

 

 

 

Time to geek out about sports! Me?! That isn’t me. Ha! Ooo! I saw on my Facebook feed and had to get it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I decided he is my favorite bull rider. I wish there was more of his story in it but still very good!

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I had a great birthday! On Thursday Jeff took me to the Meyer Theater in Green Bay to see Tom Segura. He is a comedian we found on Netflix. So funny! I was hoping he wouldn’t do the same jokes he does in his specials and he didn’t! Like every comedian most of it was funny but not all. You could tell who you liked the show and who didn’t. The man sitting behind us didn’t laugh but his date did. It was funny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Friday I did nothing! It was great! I saw this dessert on YouTube and decided that is what I wanted for my bday. It was chocolate chip churros.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff did a great job and it was a lot of work. So I feel a little bad that I didn’t like them. However:

 

 

 

 

I loved this! On birthdays get to choose a favorite movie. I chose the Godfather.

Funny I was telling Jeff when I was younger I used to rent the Godfather and this was before DVD’s. It came in three VHS tapes. On top of that I used to rent the Godfather part 2 and that was also three VHS tapes. Funny how technology goes. I was also saying that the Godfather and Grease are the two movies I have seen the most in my life. Has to be in the hundreds by now. Just thinking how long the first and second Godfather’s are is a lot of hours in my life. I could never make it through the Godfather part 3.

Later on Friday my parents called me. It was cool because they had Drew, Bree and they all sang Happy Birthday to me. It was neat!

Tomorrow April is coming over! I can’t wait! We haven’t seen each other since last year and not even for Christmas. We are going to see Beauty and the Beast movie. It’s going to be a lot of fun and she is sleeping over.

 

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My eyes are doing better. But still could be better. Reading things on the computer is still a bit hard to do and my eyes get tired by the end of the night. Which sort of sucks because I am not physically tired. Still have a whole week of drops to do, I really can’t wait till those are done.

We have had two nights of really bad wind. I would wake up scared! I could hear branches breaking from the trees. I would have nightmares of trees falling on our house. It was crazy! Then this happened:

 

 

 

 

Yes a tree is falling and still falling. It’s mostly leaning on anther tree now. So Derek!!! Ha! Jeff’s friend is going to come out and cut it down for us. It’s a win-win situation. We get rid of falling tree he gets the wood for his house for heat. We are going to take down some other trees too that the woodpeckers like to bore holes in as well.

I hope we get no more super windy days. I will be okay with thunderstorms. Before crazy windy days we had thunder snow. I am also okay with that as well.

 

Goodbye

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Goodbye glasses. Goodbye them falling off my face when I exercise. Goodbye to scratches, them being dirty all the time! Even when I just cleaned them. Why?! Goodbye smudges! Goodbye never knowing where to put them when I want to sleep in the car or elsewhere. Out of style? Who cares now!

 

 

 

 

I am so happy to have not have to wear you anymore!

I was very nervous getting Lasik. Also I couldn’t find anywhere of someone describing what they felt like when getting it done. Not sure why? I wondered how they would keep me from blinking.

At first they look into your eyes. Then they tell you what’s going to happen. To me it was like okay get on with it, I am nervous! I got a lovely hair net to wear and then the doctor comes in and gave me some relaxing pills, Ibuprofen and Valium. I have never had Valium before so wasn’t sure how it would make me feel. After that I went into the suite as they call it.  There is wear I laid down and the woman put numbing drops in my eyes. The first time it burned but as she went for the third time and fourth time couldn’t feel it.  Thought this was funny and clever at the same time they had me hold on to a teddy bear. The woman said to keep the hands busy and it did.

The doctor then put a plastic round piece over my eyes to keep me from blinking. That makes sense! I figured it was going to be like in horror films with the metal eye things. Ha! Nothing like that. The doctor press on my eyes and I look at a blinking red light that was the laser. The machines sounds like loud clicking noises but wasn’t scary.  After the laser goes for a little bit the doctor takes off the plastic part and okay yes I could feel the flap. Sounds horrible but it didn’t hurt, more like taking something off the skin. The doctor proceeds to wipe the eye with a brush and then puts the flap back. Puts the plastic part over my eye look at the laser and the machine goes. All I saw was white around like a circle and the blinking red of the laser.

No it doesn’t hurt because of the numbing drops. And it only took ten minutes so crazy! I could read something afterwards that how fast it works. Afterwards I saw haziness and that is normal. They say go home and sleep, I have to tell you that really, really helped sleeping!

The next day I saw the eye doctor again and he said I had perfect vision even though even now I still have trouble with light. That is normal. What I don’t like about this is the regiment of eye drops. I have to take three different kinds plus artificial tears. The drops feel like they dry out my eyes terribly. Not much I can do about that. Good thing I only have two weeks of drops to do.

One more thing light. I don’t like it. In our house has been dark. Ha! I hope soon I won’t have trouble with light. I see halos around clocks and such. It’s strange. Other than that. I am happy with the results! I would recommend doing this because it’s worth it!

 

 

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Saturday we went to hang out with my parents. We ate a new restaurant and had a strange pizza.

 

 

 

 

It’s bacon cheeseburger pizza with fries on top. Never seen that before however it was good!

My mom also got me this music box. It’s pretty and it plays too ra loo ra loo ral an Irish lullaby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday I changed my first faucet. It was hard contorting my body to fit under the sink. Our old faucet was so rusty that you couldn’t turn it from one sink to the other. Also they sprayer sprayed you and the counter it was always a mess. This is the old faucet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New faucet. We love it! By having Jeff having me to do repairs I have to admit I am learning what it takes to do these things. I feel the sense of accomplishment when it’s all finished.

On Sunday night Jeff made steak. Oh I love you steak. It was so good and he made potato wedges.

 

 

 

 

Let’s try again….this Thursday I am getting my Lasik. I am excited and nervous again. But it will be all good.