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Scotty and I had a great walk on Tuesday of last week.

I have to admit I took some great pics of the lake. Still icy but I love that blue!

Then this happened:

Why is winter here again?! I hate it!

Last Thursday since there was snow. I let Tex out to play in it. When he came up the stairs he slipped and got his front leg caught between the steps. He immediately started to cry. I felt so helpless on what to do. I got him inside and he was crying and limping.

Afterwards he went to take a nap till Jeff came home. Tex being a lab meaning dramatic. Whined and laid on his back crying. Then he got up and put up his leg and cried some more to show Jeff. After that he didn’t cry anymore.

We took him to the vet and found out it’s a sprain. They gave us some pain pills he has to take till gone.

The next day he was limping and all the weekend too. But he seems okay. He’s a puppy so he is acting like a puppy. He gets around on 3 legs fine. I hope soon he will be all better.


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47. Lilac Girls

This book mom lent me. It’s great! It’s about three women during WWII. Each how they survived it with their own stories. This was a fast read for me because it was so interesting. I literally couldn’t put it down and when I did. I couldn’t wait to go back to reading it.

It’s tragic, there’s romance and it shows strong women in this novel. How they overcome and really shows the human spirit against the odds.

I like how even though they came from different places around the globe they met each other eventually.

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Looks like I didn’t win that writing contest. I really tried though. I am a little sad the money would have gone for adoption. What can I say here but oh well. We’ll figure it out.

Speaking of which the adoption lady finally got back to us. She gave us literally a small book we had to fill out about our childhood. Thinking of my childhood and filling out this questionnaire was okay. Clearly Jeff had an awesome childhood. Which I already know that. I had a pretty good childhood too. His is filled with both parents in his life. While mine is mostly filled with just my mom even though my dad was around. He was such a workaholic though. That means he wasn’t home and away in other states a lot. What I remember the most is he never could remember my birthday. Isn’t that strange?! The one thing that made me remember him not being home is my birthday. I remember him asking mom all the time when it was. My birthday is the easiest March 17th.

What’s sad is one year I got this cool little statue cat with my birth stone in it shaped like a heart. I got it for my birthday and it was from my dad. Later in my life I found out my mom picked it out and all the gifts dad has ‘given’ me. Which really I should have realize that. I feel sorta of dumb that I didn’t figure that out. Only that mom let it slip one year that she picked it out and wrapped it.

Also mine is filled with trying to please my dad like joining a lot of sport teams. This girl isn’t a sports girl. I sucked at every sport I tried to play just so my dad would be happy. Ugh! Looking back I understand the why but he didn’t come to a lot of the games. It was for nothing.

But as an adult now my dad and I have a good relationship. And it seems Jeff is the opposite with his dad. That is sad to think about.

Next on the list of adoption we are going to have our first home visit.

Happy Birthday

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March 31st celebrated Scotty’s birthday! He turned 11. Wow I can’t believe he is 11 already! Where did the time go? We gave him puppy ice cream his favorite flavor peanut butter. Also Tex got some it was his first time. He was actually slower than Scotty to eat it. That was surprising. Cute pics of our fur baby!

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Lately I have been watching movies. I watched the most boring stupidest movie. The Nutcracker and the four realms. Now I like the Nutcracker and wow the story was dumb and the acting was terrible. It felt very flat which is sad because this movie is pretty.

Venom I wasn’t sure if I would like this movie and it was good! Tom Hardy is an awesome actor! The movie isn’t dark which is good and the action is great.

Won’t you be my neighbor is about Mister Rogers and I use to watch him as a kid. Great documentary about him and I really didn’t know that much about him. Interesting man.

Ghost in the Shell wasn’t too sure on this one as I know it’s an anime. I never read it but I know a little about it. I actually liked it and the story. Had great actors in it. What I thought was strange that they had Scarlett Johansson who is a great actress but the end her being actually Asian thought it was strange. They should had an Asian actress play her.

Ralph breaks the internet this movie was very funny! The first movie was good but this was great! Jeff even watched this one with me and he didn’t see the first. You don’t really have too. Oh it was so great!

Swiss army man this movie is funny and strange at the same time. At the end I wondered what did you just see?!

Scooby Doo and the gourmet ghost I like Scooby Doo movies but this one was really boring. It also has Bobby Flay in it but still couldn’t make this one good.

Scooby Doo and the 13th ghost terrible movie as well. This has classic tropes in it and it was really boring.

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Not a whole lot going on. Snow is finally melting! However it still gets cold at night. So whatever melts turns to puddles then ice. Is it Spring yet?

For adoption nothing going on for us. The adoption agency is now doing background checks. Going to take awhile because of Jeff. Only because he was born in Texas and not Wisconsin. Every time we do background checks this has been the case.

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Yesterday was my birthday and I need to talk about it. Last week I made a messenger group inviting the family to breakfast for my birthday. The only person who responded was my sister Chrissy besides I knew my parents where coming.

For thirty five years of my life my parents always ALWAYS pays for birthday meal. First time in ever I turned thirty six and they didn’t. The reason? The reason being is because Corey and his wife came. They claim that they are poor and can’t pay for themselves which is bullshit! Also they never give me anything they are cheapskates. Would have been nice to know they were coming ahead of time because we got to the restaurant first and only put in for who I knew was coming.

No matter what holiday or even birthday all I get from them is a card. Now I grew up you going to someone’s birthday or even any holiday you give them a gift or money. It really isn’t that hard to do even if you don’t know that person very well. We have a store called the Dollar Tree. Where everything is a dollar plus tax. Easy gift, go to store pick out lotion and if you know the person well enough or even best guess they have all kinds. Get gift bag, card and maybe a trinket there done and it can be five dollars or less.

I was mad because they always get what they want and this was MY birthday. I wanted the attention of MY parents and I wanted to talk to them. Didn’t get a chance to because they came. Ugh!

Happy Birthday!

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Today is my birthday! I am 36 years old today!

This morning I am going to have breakfast with my parents and Chrissy. I invited my brother and his family but they didn’t respond to me. Oh well missing out on a great breakfast.

Then I have been debating what I want as a treat. So I want Seroogy’s chocolate and Jeff is going to get me some coffee to take home. They have awesome coffee!

Jeff got me a couple of gifts and I got them early. One I wanted he got me a new phone case. The second one that I didn’t know about this skull! It’s awesome!

Adoption

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You know what is dumb it’s hard to find anyone talking about adoption. I have Googled and looked around to see what it takes to adopt and it’s hard. Even people who adopt don’t even talk about the process. And when I say process like what is all included to adopt? I have no idea why?

Isn’t adoption awesome?! I think so.

So in my journal here I am going to write what it takes. This way if anyone wants to adopt they know.

Alright! We had to get for the application copies of: Birth certificates, SS cards, driver licenses. Then we needed letters from all of our insurances. This one took awhile. We needed any life insurances policies which Jeff and I have both have a couple. Home owner insurance, regular insurance and what it covers for the both of us and car insurance.

Had to go to the bank because the adoption agency gave a us a document that we had to fill out and get notarized so the agency can run background checks on the both of us. We also got a cashier check for $500 that is what it costs just for the application.

Not required but we are sending a check for $500 we are sending it certified mail because that is some money! Better safe than sorry, I say.

Officially this weekend we have started the process!

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Here is it is book number 48.

Pirates!

What’s funny is when I was last at my mom’s house. She bought this book a 100 books you should read before you die, this was one of the them. Funny!

Some of it though I have to admit was a little hard to read and it made me learn new words. How dare it. Just kidding. Some of it is in French. But overall a good book.

There’s a movie? Yeah I found out there is a movie with the same name from 1935. I got excited because it had Basil Rathbone in it. He was Sherlock. Loved him as Sherlock. Still a great actor his role wasn’t huge in the movie and I think it was wasted talent. He would have been a great Captain Blood.

I thought the movie was okay. I thought they spent too much time in the beginning getting to the point that he turns into a pirate. So just like today the book was better than the movie.