Just Simply Jennifer!

Well, this was another exciting weekend gone by.  Friday night, Stephen and I went to the haunted house in town.  Yeah, that is correct Stephen and I.  It was really quite cool.  I wasn’t real scared, but all the details in the house were pretty great.  They put a lot of effort into it having some great cobwebs.

After the haunted house we went and got Kyra from her dad.

I ended up staying up really late. 

Saturday, my grandmother, aunt, and 2 cousins came to visit.  Everyone says I look like my aunt Janice, I don’t agree but with this photo somehow I do see where they get it.  I never used to have a clue what people were talking about.

Kyra played with her cousins a little bit.

They didn’t stay very long.  It was a good visit though.

After they left we went to Tarin’s to discuss Stephen and I and to play with Hannah and Gage.  Stephen and I still weren’t back together…

I was at Tarin’s, Kyra was playing.  Tarin had to cook like a million pounds of stuffing (really she had 3 crates of stuffing) for a charity dinner event thing, so we were in her kitchen.  I laid on the floor talking to her and bam.  I fell asleep, goodness…. they let me sleep right there on the floor for 2 hours.  LOL…

I woke up well rested.  I went and chased and caught all her loose chickens. 

We left and went home.  Kyra was playing and I was on my computer nothing unusual. 

I wanted to go to Purse before winter came, so Stephen popped up online and I asked him about going to Purse with me.  Well, I had talked about it the night before.  Well, he was like lets go, so our adventure began at 8 or 9 pm from out of the blue.  We are going to the beach.

We stayed in a Holiday Inn Express somewhere close to Waldorf, MD.  We woke up and went to beach.  The beach is at the end of this long trail through the woods…. The beach was so high tide that there was virtually no beach.  There was no chance of Sharks Teeth findings and it was really cold.  We stayed only a short while.

We than headed to York, to the Nixon center where Geology Weekend was about to end.  That is a pretty neat little museum if you haven’t visited it….everyone should go there once.  More than once though is overkill…unless you like the trails.  The trails are the only thing that really change any.

We left the environmental center and went to a friend of ours who lives in York.  They have a little boy that Kyra likes playing with, so we stayed there until pretty late.  We left and came  home.  Our surprise weekend get away. 

We are back together afterwards of course.  We never really had a good reason to be separated as we never really fought.  It is really bizarre to me because it seems like we didn’t even skip a beat.  I always like being with him.  He makes me laugh.  He still does. 

Now we are back to deal with things I never dealt with before, that is his parents.  I never really dealt with in-law per say parents, so I am a bit more awkward than I usually am.  I am nervous even though I haven’t seen them again yet.

All in all it was a really great weekend.  I am really happy and my family visit was really nice.

September has been a trying month pretty much.  My work has been steady and great though it has sort of held me together a little.  I absolutely love my co-workers even though we are each uniquely different in personality and we would never choose each other as friends, I don’t think without work.  We find commonality in work though and each have a unique take on that even.  Dave is the sales person, all about the sale.  Tarin is sinical, she likes sales.  However don’t think marketing is a ton of mostly fruitless work.  Me, if you haven’t figured it out.  I like sales.  I think our product is as good as it gets for insurance.  I am overtly honest though and sometimes this drives the sales away, but when it doesn’t I think I have a client for the long term.  We will see if that is true though next year.  I am overly through at explaining things going into to much detail sometimes.

My break up with Stephen happened on the 7th.  The month up to that was about as stressful a time as I ever had in my life.  I did something or something changed in his parents either the end of last month like when we went to the corn festival or shortly after…I honestly not sure what happened.  At one point though his parents recommended to him that he break it off we me because we weren’t a good match.  They started to put a lot of pressure on him about it, as if he had to choose me or them.  Honestly it was heartbreaking to me that parents would do this.  I got to watch them rip his heart out and I probably wasn’t helping it.   I mean I get it at the one month point, but we are at the 11 month point….this should be done in my opinion at this point.  Oh well though…. Stephen was extremely torn as anyone would probably be.

When we broke up, it was almost a stress relief for me though.  I would have broke under the pressure of his parents.  It was affecting me.  I was crying a lot and that is very unlike me. 

We broke up with him having officially made the break up decision.  He kissed though and he was crying his eyes out.  It was sort of one of those surreal moments in life where you almost don’t believe what is happening.  Oh yeah, and in addition we went out the night before and had like the best time.  I rode the bull at Hot Pointe.  It was so much fun.  We definitely went out on a bang….

We have been text messaging since, so we will end as friends.  I imagine him as always being my friend, but we will see on that.  I definitely love him and part of me always will.

The realistic aspects though…we probably not a great match.  I think we would have worked though stuff though.  He drinks too much.  I would have been annoyed by that at some point and he probably would never admit it.   He also doesn’t like a lot of things and only would go because I dragged him. I think this would have stopped at some point.  I think I need someone that will willingly go to anything, do anything and make huge efforts to have fun.  My interests are very wide….  I can go dancing one night and to the goat show the next.  I love computers and home improvement shows.  Heck, I went to a garden show.  I like nature and bowling.  I wouldn’t mind going to play ping pong or something dumb like that.  I think I can have fun at anything. There is nothing that I totally don’t like.  Stephen probably wouldn’t have enjoyed a lot of these things and when he isn’t enjoying himself….you know. That sometimes annoyed me about being with him.  His interests are so limited.

Kyra has taken all this so great.  She basically understood what I was telling her.  We did walk one day and she wanted to go to Stephen’s house, so we did walk that way.  I told her we couldn’t stop there anymore and she was okay with that.  We just walked by, we walked about a mile.

We have learned what happens when you put your toys in the oven without telling mom.  This is an ABC game.  It used to be pretty cool and it was helping Kyra learn her alphabet.  It no longer will serve that purpose.

We also practiced taking out own picture together.  I look like a fuzz head.  LOL…  I got my hair straightened right after this photo.  LOL….

Everything is calm again now.  I miss Stephen definitely, but it is calm.  I guess I am relieved that all that stress has been taken off of him. I think he is slightly stressing about if he did the right thing or not, but I can’t help him with that. I do sincerely hope he comes back around as a really great friend, but like I already said time will tell. 

I went out to the Hardware Bar this Friday night.  I danced on the bar for the first time.  I always wanted to do that, so I did.  It was fun, it is scary dancing and looking out at all the guys and realizing there are so many more guys than girls in this place.  I met a couple people who will probably turn into long term friends.  I was dancing with some crazy guy, who had so much energy I have no idea how he was jumping like that honestly.  We were dancing though and it turned 2.  It was like he was going to turn back into a pumpkin and he said “gotta go” and literally sprinted out of the place.  I got hit on by a cop, which is weird.  He was like a bodybuilder guy the whole bald just big look going on. He danced, but stiff like.  It was sort of comical.  The band Asking Andy was great.  I knew almost all the songs that they did, which is remarkable for a band honestly because my musical knowledge is a bit lacking. 

Saturday we went to park.  We walked a full two miles.  We ate lunch at Wendy’s. We came home and Kyra laid on my belly and fell asleep like she used to do when she was really little.  I sat there holding her for a full 3-hour nap, I wouldn’t trade a minute of that time in to have been doing something else.  Man, do I love this kid.  I am so glad to have her. 

Today we went to Henrietta Lake and walked around that two times.  It was pretty fun.  I try to do fun things with her that don’t cost a lot or cost nothing.  My budget is really tight.  I am making it though, all my bills are paid.  That is the important thing and my income can only go up as I will start to get some renewals in 2 months and that will really help me and affect my pay.  I should sell more insurance too, so…I’ll give my work phone number here 717-486-7777 if you are in PA and would like a free quote.  Why not give me a call…. I might save you money and you will be helping us do more fun things.  LOL….  I would like to go to Sesame Street Place here before it is cold for the winter.  I doubt we do that one though.

Like I said before though….I am going to start posting to my site again regularly.  Probably daily again….  I also am trying to get that google warning junk off my site.  I don’t know what originally caused it.  There are no viruses here.  They are in people who commented here’s pages, so I deleted all the past comments. 

Well, I am going to get back into writing on my site.  I’ll tell you about August though in one big swoop.  August was over all a great month.  The weather was summery and hot.  It was a beautiful month.

Kyra grew a little during the month.  She is growing in her mind at an alarming rate.  She learns so much now, she is like sticky paper with her mind.  She picks up on so much stuff.

Work was great.  I am getting more and more confident in my insurance knowledge and I feel liked at work.  It makes me very happy.

Stephen and I were together the full month of August…we broke up here in September.  August though was great. 

We met with Jason, Missy, and Haley and went camping during one of the weekends in August.  We went to Possum Lake. We went to the Lebanon Rock Show in August.  The Corn Festival is the last weekend of August and Kyra and I went to that with Stephen’s mom.  All those things were great fun.

The whole month just flew by.  Here are some of the photos….  The first 6 are from the camping trip.

We went to Possum Lake.

If you have watched this site awhile.  You will have seen Kyra sitting in this shopping cart as a baby all the way up.  I think she is almost done being able to sit in it now.

We learned that playing under the empty pool is just as fun as playing in the water filled pool.  Turtle is a fun game all over the yard.

Well after having yesterday off, going back to work was sort of a welcome thing for today.  I do like my little office.  Well, I got there like a tornado hit.  No there wasn’t paper every where, but work everywhere.  I had 80 or so e-mails which I get usually about 15 or so in a whole day.

I got things all put back together about noon or so. 

I had leftover Caledonia Bistro food, from yesterday.  That place is so good.  It is such a treat even to have left overs.

I got Kyra back at 5.  We came home and she woke up which sure is welcome.  We walked to Stephen’s while she told me about her trip to Lake Tobias today with her dad.  We got her tricycle back, she fell asleep last time we were there, so I carried her back and left her bike there.  She played for a while.

We got our stuff ready for our weekend trip we are planning.  We are sleeping in the tent tomorrow night, so we are ready now.

Here is my small photo catch up.

The top one is a picture of Kyra about a week ago, when we had a picnic outside.  The next one is her at the fire station with here babysitter.  This is the other little girl that is with her (Emma), aren’t they cute.

Here is the before Stephen’s hair cut.  It was like midnight and he had a hair appointment before I got home from work, so I got him up to take his picture.

Here is the picture of him falling asleep, but with short hair. I need some better photos of him.  I am always taking them of Kyra.  I ignore him with my camera.  LOL…

Anyways, that is that.  Have a great weekend.

Here is the happy kid with her new rabbit.

First off, let me grab all you sewers out there reading this…  I have been working hard on listing fabrics on ebay the last couple days, so go check them out and show them some love. 

I bought most of my fabric pieces from a wholesale distributor, so this is the exact stuff that is in the stores.  It isn’t seconds or any of that.  It has been in my possession it’s whole existence.  I buy the fabric and put it away for a few years before I even attempt to sell it.  That is how I have old stock, not from it being attempted to be sold or anything.  The worst that this fabric could see is a few wrinkles and fold lines because I do cut it and fold it for storage and easier future sales.

So anyways, if you sew and like fabric panels.  You should seriously check out my listings, the prices are the best you will find.  If the links don’t work, I am of course ladylike4.  I don’t list all the often anymore.  The reason for these listing now is my 2nd job only gave me 3 hours this week and I need the money to pay my house payment.

Ok, so done with the sales pitch…

It is only Tuesday, that is hard to believe.  I am getting all excited for my concert that we are going to in a few weeks and so time is slowing down for me.  I think it will remain slow until I am at this concert than it will start warp speeding to catch up.

I didn’t have anything special to do today though, so we just stayed home.  I worked on ebay stuff off and on all day.  We drew with the thank goodness washable marker for a good long while though and got creative with our faces. Those lip extensions washed right off, you would never known….

We played with the cat for awhile, she is starting to come around.  She has been doing bad things the last few times though and getting herself kicked out.

  We talked on the phone a lot today.  Although she didn’t talk to her dad that I can remember, so that was strange. We ate pizza for lunch.  It was so good.  Kyra put the sauce on and helped spread the crust.  She is really quite helpful.

We did my afternoon routes, I think they added extra caffeine to the lunch milk though because I had a whole bus of energy today.

We went and got Stephen’s contacts and paid my legion dues after my routes.  I am able to get into the Legion bar for another year.  I used to suck being a designated driver and not being able to get into the door of the bar for the disabled people.  LOL…  I was in the Army though, so I qualify to be a member.  Robin has paid for it in the past, but it was due.  I like the food there and it is close for me and Kyra to go there and have lunch.  Tonight all 3 of us ate for less than $12, it was good too.

I came home and watched the movie Periscope.  That is a good movie.  Kyra was asleep by the end of it.  I am going to bed now.  I caught up on some of my blog reading today too, so some of you got two weeks worth of Manic Monday postings read today.  LOL…  Hope you have a lovely night and day tomorrow.  Good NIght.

It has been a beautiful week, as I have said before.  Yesterday, Stephen decided to light there bon fire that they had been building up for quite a while.  It had rained, it wasn’t to windy, it wasn’t to cold.  It was the perfect day.

There is what the fire looked like when it was first lit.  It is a pretty big pile.

Here is what it looked like after about an hour.

It burnt about 8 hours total though, Kyra and I quit watching it after about 5 hours.  We went in the house and watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2.  That makes so I have seen all of those.

While we were watching the fire we were riding the 4 wheeler around a bit.  Kyra likes riding 4-wheeler.  She let Stephen bring her home and get new shoes without me (She had her boots which were falling off.), which is probably a first of some sort. 

I didn’t take a picture of her going through the mud like I thought I had, so next time.  She was quite ready for a bath though at the end of this day.  She was rolling down the hill, playing catch with the dogs, running, and screaming.  She made everyone laugh at least once with her screams. She likes doing anything outside though, so she was loving it all day.

Here she is opening a gift.  You will notice she is in different clothing in all of these photos.  When she opened a clothing package we had to try that piece on, so I think she wore 6 or 7 outfits all in the matter of an hour.

She got a fake electric guitar.  I broke the strap within a few seconds of opening it, but it seems cool.  I actually don’t mind loud toys, isn’t that an amazing fact??  LOL…

I got her dressed in her nice new Christmas day outfit and what does she do??  Yeah, she goes into the dog cage and sits for awhile. 

I left my camera at Stephen’s house, so he was taking photos of his dog with it.  This is one of those photos.

Well, had you woke up with me this morning.  You would have thought instantly that I was going to have just the worst day.  I got out of bed in like this emotional thunk.  I was just depressed for no reason whatsoever and Kyra was balling and just generally being bad.  I ultimately didn’t leave my basement get away until just before noon. 

When you looked outside, you would have thought about the same thing as what I felt like.  We are under attack, take for example my trees here.  In the normal parts of the year, I can drive my lawn mower under those trees.  They are so weighted down with ice that they are sitting on the ground at the base.  It is amazingly beautiful though in a way.

So, I concentrated on the amazingly beautiful today and headed out with my camera and Kyra.  I busted out the snow pants that I had bought her for Christmas even, so she would stay warm.  Yeah, she doesn’t have her gloves on…they are in the pocket.  We weren’t out that long though only like 20 minutes.  I didn’t wear gloves at all, so we were okay.

Here  are some of the ice pictures I took.  The ice was just hanging from about everything.  The grass looks very cool coated in like this small layer.

We walked around our small block during this short outing.  We were walking along and right behind us this branch fell from the sky.  It was amazing sounding.

My ugly bus has little icicles all the way around it.

We came back from out and ate lunch and played around.  Kyra was exceptionally grumpy all day way more than standard days.  She is getting so she just constantly screams “Mommy Mommy” even when I am standing a few inches from her.  Oh, it is so annoying.  We read though, read the help wanted section of the weekly newspaper, rode tricycle, talked to people on the phone, played with the dog, took showers, played with the V-smile, basically everything I know how to do that she likes.  I stopped doing anything though when she was crying, so I sat on the couch a lot too.

Stephen came and got us about 4 and we went riding on the 4-wheeler.  Yeah, we were outside riding around in the ice.  We were all bundled up and I actually didn’t get cold at all, I don’t think Kyra did either.  Her hands were in mine the whole time and I was fine.  It was Stephen who was cold. 

His mom had been making cookies all morning, so we went in there afterwards and had fresh baked cookies.  I ate too many to tell you a count.  They were so good.  Kyra ate 3 though.

We came home, Stephen came with.  We watched CSI off of my DVR while Kyra took her nap.  I am totally caught up on my CSI.  I swear that doesn’t happen very often.  I am almost caught up on Top Model, so what will I watch now??  LOL… 

Now, I am here at computer.  Stephen went home.  I am going to bed slightly early and getting up slightly early.  I am going to be showered and all that before I start my bus routes in the morning.  I usually don’t shower until I am back, so this will be strange with wet hair.  I have to leave almost immediately for my interview when I get home though.  I will have time to change my clothes and that is about it. 

I really have to wake up in a great mood.  I really need confidence for this interview, I think.  I am so put off by interviews.  It is just crazy.  I need to not flop.  I know I can do the job once hired, but need to be confident during interview and keep it positive to get hired.

Anyways, that was my day.  It was a huge turn around of emotions from start to finish.  I am going to bed feeling great though, so lets hope that transfers into tomorrow and I type about how I won’t be a bus driver next year on here. Tomorrow night.  Have a great night everyone…

First off, I’ll show you my cute little Christmas tree.  This was before it had lights on it.  It now has lights.  I still haven’t a clue where all my Christmas decorations are though, so it is looking cute, but sad.  I have searched and searched.  I wonder if Adam took them accidentally…but who knows.  It has lights and some decorations now and some red and silver icicles stuff.  It looks big from outside too because it is on a table.  LOL…  It is like 4 feet tall.

This is part of the mess that Kyra made the other night while I was in the room.  She poured the milk in the glass and about 1/4 of that total Nesquik container in there.  She transferred it to a bowl at one point and microwaved it, so it was all over the place messy.  She is forgiven though it is all cleaned up.

Here she is on the phone like she is always.  She is obsessed with talking on the phone and will talk to absolutely anyone.

Here is her on the phone again, but when she says “Good Bye” there is usually a kiss coming afterwards, so this is during the kiss part.  She is really quite good at it.  I think her dad taught her this one though as I don’t kiss the phone.

My divorce signing is scheduled for noon tomorrow, so this time it should go through.  It is supposed to be nice through tonight, so school will probably go as scheduled.  Today was just a messed up day.  I should have trekked to put some more resumes into circulation, so am feeling badly for that.  I guess 3 online isn’t so bad though.

I watched Lord of the Rings The 2 Towers tonight…that is a long movie.  I like that little weird guy that acts as the guide.  He is pretty cute.  LOL…

Well, I am off to bed.  Have a great night.