Last Saturday we helped my dad moved things from his house to storage. It sucked! It wouldn’t have been so bad if my parents didn’t have such an inclined of stairs. No wonder they rarely went down to their basement. My mom has bad knees and my dad has a hip problem. I will be happy when they move to their new place no stairs no basement. I know I am a young person and should be able to handle those stairs but carrying bins and basically going up hill is hard. Funny thing did happen. My brother in law was surprised how strong I was. I helped him move a heavy desk from one side of the garage to another. That wasn’t too bad and I have gotten stronger since I moved stuff all the time at my house. His look on his face was priceless.

Hopefully if the weather is nice this weekend. The Amish guy Melvin will come over and take out our chimney. Other than that nothing really else going on.

Saturday was a party for my cousin Alice she came to WI to show off her new baby. I so wanted to see Alice and baby Zarah. I love that name. I heard it years ago and always thought it was unique.

Anyway we went and for the first time we were the first ones at the so called party. It was strange. After about half an hour people started to show up. However it was an okay party. Alice finally came and I got to see the baby all for five minutes and that was it. Pity. I wanted to take a picture with me with the baby and never got the chance. Also didn’t get to talk to Alice for all that long either. I would say what party? Sort wish I didn’t go now. Really didn’t do anything but drink beer.

Also didn’t know but it was Alice’s first baby’s birthday. No one told us so here are some pics of him with his cake.

I did get this great pic of Alice and her mom Sue.

Love Aunt Sue the coolest Aunt ever!

Well beside the party per say I have gotten pretty far with Rick Grimes. I have three solid weeks to finish in time for Jeff’s birthday. I now think I can make it.

This past weekend Jeff got sick. Ugh. I really don’t want to be sick then again who does?

I am dumb and I am going to admit it. I figured out how to do Mallcrasher in Payday 2. I tried to do it like that guy I watched on the YouTube. I shouldn’t have done that and I never got far enough where they tell you how much you damage. So yeah. Should have known tried doing Firestarter like the YouTube video and I didn’t fair well so should have taken my own advice. Funny.

We decided to change our dresser. It has been through many moves and needs some help.

We are not done yet but getting there.

I went for a walk and I can’t believe this is near my house!

It’s so awesome! This trail used to be railroad tracks and they tore them out and made this awesome trail. Also there is a little bench too. I thought it was cute.

Early this morning I went for  a walk the other way down our street. There is a dead end not too far from our house. I like to go there and look out to see this.

What a great way to start a day.

Saturday the whole family came over even Corey and family. I was surprised they came. I have a story that really grosses me out but I will share a little later. First how the Saturday went.

I can’t believe but my sister was here first! She is always late. Mom told me she was really excited to see our house and us. What?! That surprised me. Even her kids were well behaved. Bree really loved Koko. None of them met our dogs before.

She said that Koko was her favorite and the other dog was no fun. Hence Scotty. Funny! Scotty is a shy dog.

He was so good with them. I knew he would be. He loves kids but he gets tired though too.

We all ate at our house showed everyone around. Jeff didn’t want to go to the beach with us. So here are the dogs after we all left.

They were so tired! They even slept all Sunday as well. Not only did the kids play with them they went for a jog down the street. Lol! Oh poor Koko he was tired when he came back. Scotty was ready to go again. Can tell the age difference between the two. Awe! I am glad they had fun as well.

After our house we went to the beach.

It was hot and I got sun burnt on my face. But it was actually fun. A strange guy talked to me when I was trying to swim. He was drinking beer and talking to me in the lake. My life is full of adventure apparently. Who knew? I never seen anyone at a public beach swim and drink beer at the same time.

Okay time for the disturbing story. This just really freaked me out. I can’t help feeling this way about it. Everyone brought food to share. Kim and Corey brought their own bar. Wish they would have told me because I bought beer just for Saturday. I don’t drink that much. So I wouldn’t really have any in my fridge. Anyway they brought chips. I dumped all the chips in bowls to share. Jeff said he watched Kim dig through the trash to find the bag to take the chips she brought to bring home. I am grossed out by this. By this time there was raw meat packages, snot tissues and other trash. Gross! She could have just asked for a baggie. I don’t care if you want to take your chips home they are just chips. I am disturbed anyone would dig through the trash for a chip bag. Makes me think she does other gross things like not washing her hands when she goes to the restroom. My brain just goes there apparently. Now I am glad she doesn’t hug me when she sees me and leaves. Please do not touch me.

Less gross more like okay? When we went to buy beer I saw a guy wearing high heels. He had a shirt, shorts then high heels. I thought Jeff saw him he did but not his feet. Me being more observant then Jeff again. Anyway I was thinking if you are going to wear high heels might as well go all the way. Why not right? Or maybe he just likes high heels. I was telling Jeff that Appleton has gotten stranger since I was kid. I am not against that but we don’t really see that stuff in the small town we live.

Also I worked more on Rick Grimes on Sunday. This is two weeks progress.

I feel better because now I only have his arm, gun and the rest of his hat to do. Maybe I will finish by August 27th Jeff’s birthday.

My knee is finally feeling better! Only took a little over a month. It’s not fully healed because every so often I have to stop doing whatever I am doing. The muscles burn a bit but it’s a lot better then before. Now I can drive and walk without limping.

But…

I am still dealing with my arm from January when I fell on the ice. I finally got an appointment that only took forever. I saw someone on Thursday and actually had someone that knew what they were talking about. Like I always say it’s a roulette wheel on whom I am going to see. She explained that it’s not my elbow which I thought it was. It’s a sprain in my bicep. She said she doesn’t understand why it’s still swollen. I said me either wish it would heal already and I am still in pain. Not a lot where I can’t do anything but enough to hinder some things I like to do. Cross stitching can be hard for me to hold the project and that sucks to me.

Anyway later today I go to physical therapy. I haven’t been to PT since the nineties for my back. Not sure what to expect also supposedly getting an ultrasound done to see my muscles.  She said if this doesn’t work then I have to get an MRI done. I really don’t want to do that. Well see what happens.

Tomorrow I am hoping it doesn’t rain. The family is coming over. Funny! Anyway my mom has been making a big deal that none of my siblings have seen my house yet. Well they do own a phone they could call me. Or I don’t know there are other ways too like maybe FB since I am there often. This all started on the July second to go swimming and eat at my house. Supposedly Corey and family were supposed to come but so far they haven’t said if they are coming. On top of that is the reason why everyone was coming over because of him being available to hang out with us. It would be no surprise if he doesn’t come over.

Swimming will be fun. I can’t wait to go. I haven’t been swimming in a long time and it’s been hot and muggy here. Would be a nice break.

Monday night I couldn’t sleep my knee was bothering me all night. Then on Tuesday it felt even worse. It felt like a muscle pain and I was worried I may have torn something. Jeff had a half day on Tuesday because we had a guy come out to look at our crawlspace and driveway.

We were worried about mold in our crawlspace because it gets wet down there since it’s just dirt. The guy said it was wet and we need to take care of that of course with their system. Jeff and I before he came over estimated how much it would be and he blew past both of them. It’s a hell of a lot of money! I felt like passing out when he told us. And that didn’t include jacking up our driveway.

You know me I am clumsy! I tripped and fell a month ago on our driveway going into our garage. I have a nice scar where I fell on my leg. Our driveway is uneven and it sank by the garage door. That is where I tripped and fell. We had talked about jacking it up so it’s even. Jeff and I estimated how much that would cost as well and he blew past that as well.  For both things to be done it was around twelve thousands dollars because you know I have that laying around. Twelve thousands dollars! That is when I pass out because that is insane! Have to think of something else to do with our crawlspace and something else with the driveway.

A weekend ago I hurt my knee mowing the lawn. It was getting better I thought but Monday night it was being painful. I felt it a little on Sunday and just thought it would go away. Wrong! I called the doctor which I so hate doing! I don’t know what it is but Theda Care has gone down in customer service over the year. The lady told me to go to the ER or go to the walk in clinic. I said which one should I do. She said ER would be the fastest. I told Jeff we got to go after our appointment as it’s my right knee and it hurts to drive with it. He said no we are going to the walk in clinic which I am glad we did. It was fast as I was the only one there.

I had a great doctor! I never know what I am going to get but she was great! I had to get a couple of x-rays. I never had two people do x-rays before. They sucked! Everyone knows getting an x-ray of a part of the body that hurts it’s going to hurt. But these two people where really hurting me to take x-rays of my knee. I told them so. I asked if they could be more gentle they both looked at me like I am nuts! So I just bared it as they put my knee ever which way. I didn’t but I felt like crying when I was done with x-rays.

Found out I sprained a muscle in my knee. Painful! The doctor gave me some painkillers and told me iced it, bandage it and try not to do so much on it for a couple of weeks. It sucks! It’s summer I want to go do things.

I feel like I can’t win this summer for some reason.