Life

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I have been dealing with a back injury. It has been two weeks now and I am not sure how I did it but I know I sprained a muscle in my back. The first week was horrible! I couldn’t do anything and now in the second week it’s getting better. However I still can’t do what I want completely without it hurting. It sucks.

I was looking for a simple cross stitch project to do. While I was looking on Amazon I kept coming across diamond painting. I have never heard of that. I watched a YouTube video about it and it seemed interesting. I picked out an easy one to do just in case I didn’t like it and for 8 dollars I chose a dragon one. It’s a little hard to find some that people like. Have to really read the reviews.  Well….I like it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can’t wait to see it when it’s finished.

 

 

Father’s Day

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Yesterday was Father’s Day and we had a good time. We had both dad’s at our house like every year now.  We are task with Father’s day and that is fine by us. Jeff made an awesome spread! He made beer brats, bbq chicken which was my favorite, pickle salad also very yummy, beans which was a hit and dessert. It was a fruit dessert with jello and I hate jello. So Ken and Elena brought me some yummy bakery cookies.

We had a good visit. We got Ken $20 gift certificate to DQ. Like I have stated before been working on dolls for my dad and Adam helped me design his. Here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought of DAD  which is D for dad, A for Adam and D for Danielle. Clever I think!

I also wrote my dad a letter that I will share. He was surprised and love it.

 

Dad,

I wanted to write this instead of saying. This way I can get out all I want to say to you.

I want to thank you for all things you have taught me in my life. As I get older I have noticed things about others that now I am glad you taught me.

Thank you for making me do things when I was younger even though at the time I didn’t want to do them. Even when I complained about doing those things.

Thank you for making me do and fold laundry. Even though I still do not fold pants the greatest. Ask Jeff. Ha!

Thank you for letting me help you paint. Yes I was really messy at doing it when I was younger which created some great memories! I have gotten a lot better at it even though I still make a little mess painting. However I do like painting just not prep work but then again who does?

Thank you for making me clean gutters and doing yard work such as mowing the lawn. I dislike mowing the lawn but at least I can do it. I have to say I am good at it.

Thank you for making me use tools. Yes I still say do you need the star or the flat head screwdriver? However at least I know what a screwdriver is. I know how to hang up pictures and use tools in general. I wouldn’t say I know what every tool does but I am not afraid of them and want to learn when Jeff and I do projects. Jeff and I have encountered people who don’t know what screwdriver is or any other tools. Makes me think I am glad my dad taught me about them and made me use them when I was younger.

Thank you for teaching me how to drive! That was a hard task for me. I remember my driving instructor thought I needed more lessons. But you helped me prove him wrong. You are right I drive like you and I have to say I think we drive great.

Thank you for teaching me how to change a tire. I still know how! Even though those lug nuts are hard to get off. Teaching me about a car in general has helped. I admit I don’t know a lot about cars but I get the concepts of them.

You are a great dad! You have taught me a lot more than this. I wanted to point out the things you taught me in my life that has helped me. There will never be enough words to say how much I love and appreciate you!

Life

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Friday June 8th we went to a huge rummage sale! I saw it on FB and it was a large garage full of stuff. Come to find out Jeff used to work with the lady who was having the sale. She was interesting and I say that in a good way. She was a talker! Lol! I let them talk as I looked around. It was fun. I found three things that I liked. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn’t this cool?! This was five dollars and I crown this the best find! I am giving this to April. She loves wolves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I found these. The bigger one is going to April and the smaller one is going to Helen.  For the both of them five dollars. So I spent ten dollars and got some cool stuff!

I was at Walmart and picked up this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay this is a felt project for beginners and even comes with a hoop. It was about five dollars and I thought easy enough plus I get a hoop.

WRONG! This is a WTF?! Project. There is supposed to be a holes punched in the fabric and the whole owl part didn’t have any holes punched in the fabric. It was a hard on my fingers to punch the holes in the needle. It was lame but I finished it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As anyone can tell it’s not like the pic but whatever. I am still going to put in on the wall. It’s artsy right? Lol!

Saturday I got a new fitness tracker. My fitbit bit the dust. I actually miss wearing it because I like I can tell the time and steps. So I got a different brand and so far I am happy with it. It’s called Letsfit paid 30 dollars for it. Fitness trackers can be expensive and I thought the Fitbit was going to last longer. Yeah it didn’t and for the band to wear like that they should have some kind of replacement for it.  The Letsfit is awesome! The band comes apart and that is how it is charged. Just put it in the computer. Don’t have to worry about a cord. I thought that was cool! I can also receive text messages and know when a call is coming in. I won’t use this feature but that’s cool. It also tells me the temperature outside. I got it in blue of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something dumb. I hurt my back and it sucks! I think I pulled a muscle on Friday. Not sure when I did it but Friday night I was complaining my back felt sore. The next day I couldn’t move all that much. It still hurts. Like every time when I want to get moving on fitness I get hurt. Not sure why that is that way but it feels like it.

Life

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Blog I have been lazy to write in you. Ugh. Okay not being lazy today. Let’s see….

Last Saturday June 1st my parents went to Sun Drop Dayz. We went never been there and it was okay. The time we got there most of the vendors were gone. My mom was mad! Mad at my dad because she wanted to leave early to see the vendors but dad wanted to watch a game on TV. Lol! Anyway they wanted to see The Cougars who are a band that plays a variety of cover songs. Dad told me he is obsessed with them. I thought that was funny. Anyway when we got there the sky was really dark. As soon as The Cougars started playing it started to rain but just sprinkling. They get to the third song it started to pour! I got soaked! We left then went out eat. I had to eat in my wet clothes that part sucked but it was nice to hang out with my parents.

Unfortunately my sister’s dog passed away Red. He was a cool dog. I am glad I got to see him at Mother’s Day. He was so gentle and calm. Red was 14.  I am just going to say this. I hated how my sister and brother in law would compare Red to Koko, always. Like we would talk about Koko and say he was slowing down and then Andy would say well Red is this many years older than Koko. Seriously that doesn’t matter. Each dog like each person is different regardless of age. That always bothered me. Anyway it’s sad when they die. I still miss Koko and I think I always will.

I am not done yet but I made more dolls! Of course I can’t stop making them they are fun. I am going to try to make superhero dolls. Father’s day is coming up and I made dad, Adam and I. When I’m all done I will show.

Life

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On Wednesday I met my friend Sam’s wife. All I have to say is AWKWARD! They both came over to pick up some shelves. After meeting her who she seems like a nice lady and I know it’s me, it was still awkward.  Maybe for all the new people I meet I should wear a tag that says “Hi my name is Danielle and I am socially awkward.” Sam and I had a conversation not too long ago and I told him. I am shy when I meet new people. He said you’re not around me and I said remember when we first met I was. Oh yeah he says.

What I learned through the years is test the waters. See if the person has the same sense humor and see what their attitude is. I used to be a little more adventurous but I learned the hard way there are people who aren’t sarcastic like me or have the same sense of humor. So the 35 year old Danielle is more shy because I rather have person test me out first then me. To avoid someone getting mad or taking things the wrong way. This way as I get more comfortable around them then I will open up more. I just find this is better than the other way around. I am sure Sam’s wife Penny thought I was awkward as well. Ugh I am dreading a cookout that Sam and Jeff want to do at Sam’s house. Oh well.

This weekend we are going to look at colors to do our kitchen. We are DIY our kitchen! Fun? No but it will be better than it does now. It’s summer!!!!

 

Avengers Infinity War

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Jeff and I saw the Avengers Infinity War on Thursday May 24 at 9:45 in the morning. It was the one of the best movies I have seen this year! This movie was way better than the second one. I totally love Robert Downey Jr and Chris Pratt they had the funny charisma! I hope we get to see more of those two in the next movie!

Jeff was surprised about Dr. Strange. He refused to see his movie because he thought it was going to be stupid. But he found out he likes Dr. Strange. Maybe I can convince him to watch Dr. Strange. I would watch it again. Come on that cape is funny!

I didn’t know we were going to go see the Avengers but I did see the Black Panther earlier that week. I wasn’t disappointed on the story because I heard others didn’t like it as well. So it was an okay movie. I like how I got to learn about the Black Panther but it wasn’t anything special. His suit is cool though and the technology. So when he showed up in the Avengers I did understand better.

Wow I so love this movie and I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD!

Bathroom

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Finally we have a bathroom! The guys we hired even though good were scatterbrains! Very irritating because they would come late every day and leave early.  First they pushed us back a week then they didn’t show up on the day they said. I was so angry that I was trying to convince Jeff to cancel the whole project and figure out something else. Like a different company or just have someone come and do the plumping. But Jeff wanted these guys because they were in our budget and they would do all of the bathroom. I was just so mad because we have been wanting to do the bathroom since last year and even wanted them to come out and do it since then.

Finally came a day later and only did some work and this was understandable found out that our floors underneath was wet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They had to leave for a day so it could dry that sucked. Also we found out all of our electrical is underneath the bathroom. Whom ever designed our house made a bad decision. Why would you put electrical underneath the bathroom?

Took them almost two weeks to do the bathroom. Jeff and I went to my parents house to take showers. We felt bad for Scotty he didn’t like the guys even though they were nice. He wanted nothing to do with them. He doesn’t open a lot to other people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They cover our old paint with a skip trowel method. The picture doesn’t do it justice it really looked like someone threw up orange in there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before and after. Looks so much better. Even though it took longer than we wanted we are happy with the end result. The curtain isn’t staying we want a door but we have to save up for that.

 

 

 

 

 

Rummage Sale

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Friday mom and I went to a lot of rummage sales and it was fun. It was a nice day and hot out.

I have a funny story! So we go to this rummage sale with this elderly man. We are looking around and mom comes across this pineapple thing. The old man says “Pick it up.” So my mom does and she says “What is this?” And he says “I don’t know really.” It’s accordion out and it was a strange thing however as it pulls out it breaks apart and breaks. The old man says “Oh no!” Mom put it down quickly. We looked around and then left quickly. LOL!!!! That old man gave my mom such an evil look. He told her to pick it up, right?! My mom wasn’t going to pick it up at all. When we got in the car I was cry laughing!

The next day Jeff and I were at my parent’s house and I told my dad the story. We all were laughing so hard! My dad was surprised my mom didn’t give him the dollar he wanted for that thing. OMG it was so funny.

I found some cool things at the rummage sale my prize a Packer hat for 5 dollars!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The strange thing I found was an old liquor holder and glasses for 2 dollars!

Mother’s Day

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Mother’s day was fun and strange at the same time.

We ended up at Chrissy’s house. My brother in law cannot cook chicken yet he wants to cook chicken for every family gathering. I was having a hard time eating the one piece that I had. It was a bloody chicken. Ew! Good thing there was other stuff to eat. I found out Chrissy was in a commercial! As soon as I can find it I will put it in here. It’s a funny commercial about windows.

It was a very nice day for Mother’s day it was sunny and hot, we all got to sit outside. I got sunburn all over but it was still a good time. So we are chatting and Kim gets up and says “Time to go. So I can go home sit on my couch and watch Netflix.” Isn’t that a strange thing to say to leave?! I would never say anything like that but that is Kim. She wasn’t even there for two hours and she had to leave. That was the strange.

I am glad we got to have Mother’s day at someone house because no way we were going to a restaurant and you know why.

Life

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It’s been a week since Koko died and it has been tough. I have to say it’s been really tough for Scotty. He slowly starting to act like himself but we have noticed now he is scared of EVERYTHING! He has always been scared of a lot of stuff but I think Koko made him braver since Koko is not here he has been more scared of things. It really sucks and we are unsure if he will become more confident over time or just be scared all the time. Only time will tell I think.

We are finally getting a new bathroom! They are starting tomorrow and soon we have not a moldy bathroom. It’s exciting!

What’s not exciting is this weekend is Mother’s Day. Already there is conflict. Of course sister-in-law wants to go to a restaurant which will be super busy AND expensive. The reason why she wants this because it’s go out to eat then everyone leave which I can see that. However if that is what they are going to do, we are not coming. Too expensive for us. We decided if that is what everyone is going to do we will celebrate Mother’s Day with mom the day before which happens to be Saturday. I am not giving into going to a restaurant thing. Mom wants to have it at Chrissy’s house which we could do that means we only have to bring something and spend time with oh I don’t know mom which is what the day is all about anyways.

I made two dolls for mom and then we are going to get her some flowers.