Sunday was Kyra’s birthday, we had the rock club picnic. I don’t really know too many people and the ones I do know were mostly at this picnic. So…I took about 20 gifts and we turned it into a joint venture. I gave everyone gifts to give Kyra and she thought it was her party. It was a great duel purpose party. It is sort of strange looking back to because I was at the party on the Sunday before Kyra was born. It has the same people and they are great people at that. I look forward to it actually.
The location couldn’t have been better than this year. The weather was about perfect. There is a small sample of the 80 or so photos taken.
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Her dad had off of work today because of the holiday and wanted to take her birthday shopping, so I took her to his house.
I came home and cleaned. I followed cleaning by taking my camera to the park to test out some of the features.
Here are the results.
Needless to say…I had fun while people wondered what I was really up too.
I came back, got Kyra. We watched Ratoutella (proudly called “the rat movie” here). I ready Kyra some “Go Dog Go” and she went to bed.
Stephen came up (We aren’t still together, but still watch movies together.) and we watched Watchmen from Netflix, but stupidly. I had ordered the animated version, so we watched the 20 minute show and then followed with comedy channel.
Now I’m here and going to bed.
Night…
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We rode on the scooter. I tied a belt fabric belt around Kyra and sat on it for extra protection, but she is a master of holding on. The scooter tops out at 45 miles an hour, so it is a fun little ride on the back roads.
We shopped, she got 4 dresses, a pair of shoes these are for her birthday. That is all that I am officially getting her, but I have planned to get her things for at my annual rock club picnic that happens to fall on her birthday. I’m going to get her a bunch of cheap gifts and wrap them and give them to the other people to give to her. She’ll think she is in heaven.
We went to the town fireworks and she danced with the band and collected candy at the candy crawl. It was fun.
It was a pretty good show.
Happy 4th of July…. Thanks to everyone serving our country.
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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.
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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.
]]>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.
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Here is the happy kid with her new rabbit.
]]>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.
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