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We put up our tree!

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Also we have snow now.

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I hate you snow.

I got to meet my new doctor. I am picky on doctors and sad I had to pick a new one. I really liked my old doctor and she was the only woman doctor that I liked. Usually women doctors I have found do not have compassion especially female things. But my old doctor did. I swear Thedacare has gone down on health care because they made me reschedule this appointment three times which I hate! Not only do they NOT apologize I ran out of my prescriptions and it’s their fault. Like with my arm took FOREVER to see anyone about it as well. Really grinds my gears! Grrr!

Forget about asking questions on the website they never get back to you. I also hate calling then talking to the nurses any of them. They make me feel dumb or I have to repeat everything. Or they take forever to give me information. Not sure what is up with that.

So I had to pick a new doctor and I knew I didn’t want a female because of what I stated before. I got the only male they had available and he is younger then me, thought that was funny. Not funny I thought my new doctor attitude was flat and he said some dumb things. I thought that form you have to fill out the doctor had to look at it. Even more so when you are new. I am going to say they don’t have too.

He was checking my back and said “you have a swollen spot here.” I am thinking ‘no I don’t’. I told him I had scoliosis surgery and have two metal bars fused to my spine. And he was “Oh when did you have that done?” I am thinking look at my form! With my back one side pokes out more then the other. That is just me.

I have acid re flux disease had it for years. He literally drew me a picture on how it works. I am not that dumb I know how it works and what can become of having this disease. Also on my form it tells how long I have had this disease. It takes a minute to look over the form. Why even fill out that thing out if the doctor isn’t even going to look at it?

My appointment was a physical so I was surprised he didn’t check my chest. I thought they had to do that to check for lumps and things. I didn’t even get undress he checked my legs and ask “Do they get swollen?” Which the answer is no. Just strange he didn’t check my chest though.

I even asked him questions he was matter of factly with me. I hate that tone. I am not a doctor so I don’t know some things like terms and such. I like well this or that and this what this means. The only thing I do know is what I have wrong with me for years. But when I ask questions just say don’t have a tone with me. Explain things so I can easily understand. I hate when doctors do that. I understand you went to school and you are smart but no one likes going to see you so make it a little pleasant. Is that too much to ask? I think not.

In my opinion some of the nicest doctors are the ones I encounter in Fast Care. Some are so nice they even take the time to explain and show me a picture where on my body they are talking about. However ER doctors are the rudest I have encounter. I even had one ER doctor yell at me. So yeah my opinion on doctors is the not the greatest. It has been ever since my seeing so many doctors for my back. Then the surgeon pinching both of my nerves in my back. Also doctors upon doctors for variety of things. Being clumsy AND having asthma to going to the ER. I don’t really like doctors. So when I find a nice one I hang on for a long time! Miss my last doctor. She was so nice and felt comfortable asking her questions. Now I have matter of factly doctor who actually he said to one my questions was “I don’t know.” Which I followed up with “Can you find out?” He said he will and he did. At least he did.

Oh well hopefully I only have to see him once a year.

 

 

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coollogo_com-24034826I forgot to add to my vacation. Dawn had to feed these horses for this older lady and we got to go with her. They were so cool!

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There also were these three black labs that roam around and they were super friendly! Awe and super cute. The horses didn’t mind them either. The black horse liked Jeff because it wouldn’t let me pet him. The other horse let me pet them.  They were cute.

 

Changes!

I don’t know what happened but I noticed a change in Jeff. Who knew vacation could change someone that much. Anyway an example of a change of mind which I find strange. For years we send our nieces and nephew money for their birthday. I don’t remember who came up with the idea of giving them money based on their age for example Allie turned eleven so we sent her eleven dollars. So the other night we are sitting and talking and Jeff says We should send our nieces and nephew twenty dollars instead for birthdays. In my brain I am saying: WHAT! Did you get punched in the head? Who are you? Because Jeff would never say that. So I thought that was strange.

Jeff is changing.

Here is the real reason. I don’t like that there will be less time for us. Jeff is starting a new business venture that could lead to great big things. Him and a guy from work are going into business together as a side project. Which is awesome! But that also means less time for me. Also he is so focused on his family ever since vacation which is great too. But he spends a lot of his time focus on them. I don’t even focus on my family that much.

I know I am being selfish but I get to be since it’s just me here. Jeff and me. Has been for a long time.

Drama!

There was an incident that happened in NC after Allie’s birthday party between Jamie and Corey. It ended badly and now they are either not going to get back together, not sure on this. However Jamie video chatted with Jeff yesterday. I thought that was strange. She is a cool person and I was sad to hear what happened. But I am worried about Jeff. He hasn’t ever had to deal with this sort of thing before. I have. There was one girlfriend that Adam had that I really liked and was sad when they broke up. I hope that Jeff knows what he is doing.

In my opinion it’s best to stay with family and let it be as it is. It’s fine if you want to be friends but have to be careful on what is said because it WILL come back. And it WILL be used against you. I know been there done that.

We will see what happens.

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I am worried about my mom. She is having breast reduction surgery and she asked me to drive her to surgery which is next Monday. I am. What I am worried about is early this year she found a lump on her breast. Turned out to be nothing which is awesome. What I am worried about is what she is not telling me. She didn’t even tell me she found a lump till way later. She said it’s because her back and shoulder are in a lot of pain and the doctors suggest this. I am hoping that is the case.

 

Later

coollogo_com-79813088See you later. Time for vacation! Dawn is super excited to see us. Every day for weeks now she has been asking us what we want or what we want to do. I think it’s funny how excited she is. I think it will be fun and it’s a vacation. Jeff and I haven’t been on vacation for a while. Jeff promised that he won’t do work on vacation unless his work is going down in flames. So we will see if this happens. I can’t wait to see pretty landscapes. I am hoping see some weird too. Maybe a really big statue of something.

You know there will be some crazy story because Jeff and I traveling. Always something strange happens to us. Ha ha!

The hardest part of leaving is I will miss my fur babies.  I see them everyday and all day too. So that is the worst part of leaving. They will be staying at Jeff’s dad house. It’s funny because Koko is a big boy and their house is smaller than ours. He takes up a whole room by himself. So that will interesting to hear how Koko did since he likes to be a shadow. I think they will be fine. Scotty will have Koko and that makes it better. Scotty won’t be too scared even though Scotty was Ken’s dog but I know he will miss us. You know how dogs are very routine animals.

Later…

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coollogo_com-31467614Yesterday I was recovering from female problems. It was a bad one this time. Being a female sucks but only sometimes.

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This has been the bane of my existence for three weekends! Since we own two lots that means twice the work. This time I had to do it by myself and it was so boring! Last time Jeff helped but he was doing inside projects which less for me to do inside the house. So it worked out.  I hate raking leaves because boring and long. Also the town we live in we can’t rake them in the street. Sometimes you can and the city comes by and picks them up. No we have to take them to a place. Only thing between the two is this way it’s more work but less taxes. The other way less work more taxes. Still  it’s a lot of work. I complain about mowing the lawn. I forget about fall and all the leaves we have to pick up. Makes me want to mow the lawn instead.

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However look how neat our lawn looks now. I like the end result only. Ha ha!

In other news cute Koko picture to enjoy. I do like looking at Koko pictures.

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Wish Jeff’s laptop wasn’t in the way. But if I moved it he wouldn’t let me take a picture.

 

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coollogo_com-64753991I am just going to put this out there. I feel a little hurt by my cousin. As you know we have been paling (I don’t if that is a word) anyway I got her letter the other day. Okay I understand that she works full time and have two babies. However if we are going to write each other I rather wait a long time for a meaningful letter then just a letter about nothing. I wrote in my last letter how I was worried about April and that Jeff and I had our ninth anniversary. Usually she says Wow that is awesome happy anniversary. I was hoping she would say something else about April. Nope. This is what I got this time was blah blah kids blah blah husband blah blah work. Don’t get me wrong I do like hearing of her life but I respond on the things she says yet she hasn’t been to me lately.

I understand how life can be busy. I think she thinks since I don’t have job even though homemaker is twenty four seven. And I don’t have kids that I do nothing all day every day. I really do believe this. So my solution I will not write her for some time. Because apparently my life isn’t full like hers. I hate feeling of hurt. Damn being human!

If you didn’t know we have a new President, President Trump. What I am going to say about it is….that is life. FB is a rampage of emotions and yes I have to admit I used to be like that. But I don’t dwell on those feelings of negativity anymore. Not going to say if this is good nor bad. It is what it is.

Today is Veteran’s Day. Jeff has the day off and we are going to be working on the house. It’s never ending. Anyway I want to say thank you to all the veterans. I do believe our military is the best and they deserve the best of the best. My dad is a veteran of the Vietnam war. Last year I sent him a card. This year I send him a card with a DQ gift card. Thank you dad for your service. I love you!

One more week and Jeff and I are on vacation. Or as my friend Helen calls it holiday. I am excited to get away for some time. I can’t wait to meet people I just see on FB or hear about. What I am not looking forward too is driving a bunch. I will make sure to take a ton of pictures. It will be fun along the way too, to see different things and landscapes.

 

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coollogo_com-64753991I have to say this week is like ugh life. It’s not like I am bored or anything the weather though is so gloomy. I want to lay in bed, I feel so sluggish this week.

Anyway on a good note I have a mother in law again. Ken and Elena got married last weekend. They wanted us to keep it a secret. Isn’t that dumb? Why? They never answered why it had to be secret. Anyway it was so beautiful and I had happy tears. Jeff and I are happy for them.

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They got married at the Appleton court house. It was funny because we looked way out of place there. The judge she was so cheerful and happy about it too.

Tomorrow Elena, Ken, my mom, April and I are going to see the lead singer of the Herman Hermits. The Herman Hermits is one of my mom’s favorite bands. Yesterday I couldn’t stop singing “I am Henry the eighth I am, Henry the eighth I am, I am.” Even got Jeff singing it. Funny! I can’t wait to see them tomorrow it will be fun. All their songs are great and simple. Also it will be fun hanging out with April as well.

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Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday was a long blur of sickness. I had scary asthma on Friday. I had to take my machine. I hate taking my machine makes me feel shaky and weak. When I take my nebulizer I have to lay down, I hate that. I had to take it Friday twice and twice on Saturday. I couldn’t breathe! I know I always have that option to go to the ER. However they do nothing that I can’t do at home. All they do at the ER is the nebulizer which I have at home. That is the reason why I have one to use at home.

When I get asthma troubles it comes with a cough. I was lucky this time it did go down in my lungs a little but it came back up to my throat. Good that is really good. My asthma cough can sound horrible like I am hacking up my lungs. But this time it doesn’t sound that awful. Cure for asthma cough, cough syrup always have to keep some on hand. Also my breathing exercises helps a lot!

Unfortunately I got a sinus infection. Ugh! I just want to roll my head of my shoulders it feels that bad. I hate sinus headache it affects my eyes. Hard to type or really do anything. I have been sleeping so much! I think I slept enough for five years. Funny. Last night I am happy my fever broke. I got really too hot I could have slept outside. It’s fall now so gets about 40F at night. I was that hot but in the middle of the night it my fever broke because I got really, really cold. So today I am starting to feel better. Yay!

Since it’s fall we get to rake the yard this weekend of leaves. So not fun but I rather rake leaves then be sick any day.

 

 

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We worked more on our wall and finished the wood part.

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We put the cabinet in and painted where the TV is going to go. It looks so cool!

Remember that pumpkin? I carved it.

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This pumpkin was the hardest to carve! But the pay off I am drying out it’s seeds right now and soon I will get to eat pumpkin seeds. Yum!

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coollogo_com-39114930It’s time to continue October movies.

Housebound 2014-Netflix. Who rates these movies? If you want to be bored watch this movie. There wasn’t even one time were I was scared. The plot is boring and overdone. The main character she acted like Kristen Stewart in Twilight. I give this movie a one.

The Dead Room 2016. This was a good movie. Two scientist and a psychic. The scientists trying to get proof of ghost. The psychic to detect it if any. Old house but not a big house. Thought that was interesting. Usually haunted houses are two stories. The acting was good and the other things in the house made it scary. There is one scene of possession but not too bad and I could handle it. I give it a four.

The Hoarder 2015. Yes this was really scary in the beginning. I didn’t know it was creature feature. So I was disappointed in that regard. However storage unit building and being trapped. Something about that is scary in itself and the acting was good. I give this a four.

Really scary moment. I was watching The Dead Room and it got to the scary part and since at this time we had a whole in our wall to the garage the air compressor turn on by itself. Scared the shit out of me! Now it’s funny but I was like what is that?! Scared Koko too. Jeff said it’s because it was low on air it just turns on. Also it took some time to fine how to turn it off. Still though scary!

 

 

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Hi! I am back being my positive self.

April had her surgery for her cancer September 30th.  Everything went great and she won’t have a huge scar either. She was worried about that. Because back in the day when they did thyroid surgery the doctor would leave a scar that would spread across the neck like someone tried to kill you scar. I knew that wouldn’t be medicine has come along way from that. I am happy that she wouldn’t have that and the surgery went well!

She had all of her thyroid out and all the lymph notes on her right side. Not sure yet if she needs radiation they told her a couple of weeks. Also that she can take the radiation in pill form so she can be home when she takes it.

Right now she is at home chilin’ after all that. I am glad she is fine. Now April has to content with her tumor behind her eye. But at least the cancer is gone.

Saturday Jeff and I had pizza with my parents and my aunt Kathy. It’s was good to see her that is my mom’s sister. My mom and dad went to my dad’s brother’s farm with the grand kids to pick pumpkins. Every year my Uncle Paul grows pumpkins just for the kids to have. That is so nice. He gave one to my parents to give to me.  Look it’s huge and it’s green!

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While we were in Green Bay we went to Cabelas. Never been there before. Jeff has been thinking of getting another gun. So we went there to compare between the guns of the one he wanted. Anyway while walking inside it’s huge! There is animals everywhere AND they have a small aquarium inside. It’s was so cool!

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It was so cool to see everything! We ended up not buying a gun because there was no one to help us. They only had one person helping everyone and there was a line.  Also my fault too I convinced Jeff that he should wait to buy might go gun shopping with his sister in November. However I wanted to hold one to see which one I liked but I wasn’t willing to wait hours to do so. I think it was the Smith Wesson Shield and Compact to see the difference.  Dawn wants us to go shooting. I am excited about that. I haven’t gone in years because around that time when we were going shooting and taking the class, I got carpel tunnel surgery done on my right hand. Since I am right handed hard to shoot a gun. I had so much fun shooting. So that will be fun!

We worked more on our wall. This was Saturday.

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This is Sunday.

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See the wall on the right we are going to that little part of the wall with the boards. Also that is where our pellet stove will go as well.

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Yikes!

I need to keep myself in check. I have been a ball of emotion and I am starting to notice anger likes to pop up.

Like on Wednesday I got frustrated really quickly when we were trying to take out the carpet in our living room. To make room for the pellet stove. Not a good thing.  I got angry at Jeff for no reason. Good thing he forgave me when I apologized. It’s time to go back to positive Danielle. Yesterday I am trying to get back to her. It’s hard because I feel mostly nervous for April. Right now she is back at the Mayo Clinic. We keep in touch but still can’t wave the feeling of nervousness for her but I am going to try and be my positive self.

This entry is short because that is all that is going on in my life right now. Hopefully this weekend we work more on our wall.