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28th September 2008

Manic Monday - Back….

manic-monday Questions:

  1. What is the most useful gift you’ve ever been given?
  2. Name the most terrifying moment of your life so far.
  3. One hot summer afternoon, while walking through a parking lot at a large shopping center, you notice a dog suffering badly from the heat inside a locked car. What would you do?

Answers:

  1. I have been given a lot of useful dishes, but I have to say probably the best was getting dishes from my brother.  When Adam left he took at the dishes no not complaining.  He deserved them.  I just didn’t have many and Jason came down with a big box of really nice dishes.  It was really nice.  We still use those dishes now although they seem to chip easily.  I have added to them.
  2. I don’t know….I have had a lot of scary moments.  I try to forget them.
  3. Go into the store and have them make an announcement that the car owner left there lights on or something like that to get them out… I probably wouldn’t confront them though.  I am a woose about this type of stuff.  I think it is terrible though that some people do this.  Man, my dog is so spoiled….

Manic Monday has been going on so long.  All that time I stopped posting…they were still going strong.  Here is where you can find them ever single week.

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27th September 2008

Deuce at the Park…

Well, easily Saturday is my favorite day of the week now that I work all week.  It is my time to relax and just be with Kyra.  Today was no exceptional Saturday.  We had a good day though.

I felt bad for Deuce today, I wasn’t real nice to him after he chewed my shoe.  So I have a guilty conscience.  Today we had to go buy some more pizza crust mix because Gage and Hannah were possibly coming to make pizzas with us.  It wasn’t to hot out and stuff, so we loaded Deuce in the car and off we went.

We went to Walmart got out stuff.  It was pretty good…I got in an out of Walmart with less than $10 spent.  Amazing huh??

Deuce is pretty good in the car, he gets nervous though.  I just think he has a lot of nervous tendencies… he loves going though. 

We took him to the park and went on the long walk.  We took the short lease and the long lease, so both Kyra and I walked him around the trail.  He did really well.  He is out asleep on his chair already tonight, so he must be tired.

Kyra did good.  She is such an amazing kid.  She loves walking Deuce.  Every person that walked by us, she told them she has one dog and his name is Deuce.  I think everyone that heard her got a big smile.  A couple told her about there dogs which was kind of cool.

We came home and cooked vegetables, more of the potatoes from the garden.  Oh, they are so good….  Kyra just had a hot dog for super with the vegetables.  It was a good night.  We drew, painted, read stories, jumped on bed, played blocks, played in sand outside.  We cleaned the porch off.  I ran the vacuum, but you can’t tell.  She is laying on the bed watching Sesame Street right now, occasionally she will say “Hey Mom, I want to do that”.  I say “OK” and that is that.  We have lots of things to do though.

Hannah and Gage put off the pizza until tomorrow…I think they are a bit nervous with Deuce.  I hope they will get over it though as he sleeps in with Kyra and me.  I think they would have fun here and it would give there parents a night out.  Parents need nights out…..I know I do.  It helps put into perspective the times I have with Kyra and keeps me grounded even though that seems opposite of what you would think.  That night off and that night of missing Kyra keeps me from getting complacent or whatever that word is.  I appreciate my time having her more I think.

Anyways, today was a great day.  We had a lot of fun.  Tomorrow is looking to be a really fun day too….maybe we will clean some more.  However, laundry is all done here.  Good Night…

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26th September 2008

Deuce…

I got Deuce from the shelter.  Deuce was owned by someone else before me and was about a year old when I got him.  This other person worked with him and he is very good with us in a lot of ways.  He is a great dog basically and loves Kyra to pieces. 

He can not be left alone though.  I hate putting him outside in the rain even though he has a house and would be fine.  I also hate putting him in his giant crate for the day.  I want to just let him have free roam of the house…so he isn’t cooped up all day.  He is fine outside when it is nice or in summer, but for the winter and for bad weather days.  I want to keep him in house.

That said I keep giving him chances with my things.  Today was one of those days, so I get home to my living room have all sorts of junk scattered all around including a wicker basket shredded…not even sure where that came from yet.  My shoes though what is up with dogs and shoes?  He only really tore up 1 shoe this time…he has gotten at least 20 pair since I have had him.  When I first got him he went mad on my shoes one day…so now my shoes are put away in this shoe thing, so he can’t get them.  I put a blanket over the shoe thing this morning as extra caution.

I closed all the room doors, so he only has access to the living room kitchen area.

He took 8 shoes out of the shoe rack though…mind you only actually chewing one individual shoe.  He took them out though and had them all over my living room.

This much be why the previous owners got rid of him.  I mean…why shoes and why chew things?  When I even give him bones he is more than welcome to chew.  He chooses to chew my things.

I scream and get mad because I am mad and he acts like he gets it, but does he really?? 

What do I do?  How do I stop this madness.  He doesn’t do it while I am here of course.

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25th September 2008

So Mad…

I could spit bullets right now.  I am so upset.  My mom is calling Adam with threatening phone calls.  She doesn’t have the guts to talk to me her own kid, she calls Adam and threatens him, the sucker between the two of us.  (Sorry, Adam, but it true.)

I went out last week…as you all know.  I wrote about it on here.  Did I drink, NO.  Did I do anything wrong, NO.  Is it bad that sometimes I pick up my girl at 2 am, yes maybe.  Do I do it all the time, NO.  Are there worse things?  Yes…  Should I never go out and do things I like?  I don’t think I shouldn’t, being a mom didn’t come with a grounded for life bulletin.

So my mom calls Adam and threatens that Child Services is going to take Kyra away from us.  Both of us….yeah get that, why because I spend so much time in bars.  She is the biggest BITCH on the face of the earth. (Sorry, Mom, but it true.)

I like watching bands.  I like dancing.  It is stuff I enjoy.  They don’t even start until 10, what is so wrong with me going out once in awhile and having a good time.  Yeah, last week.  I spent less than $10 total for the full night out.  I picked up Kyra afterwards and went home to bed.  I was after all about 2 miles from her.

Saturday, Kyra and I went to the park for 4 hours.  Sunday we walked Lake Henrietta.  She is the most loved little girl in the world.  She spent 2 full days…Thursday and Friday with her father, doing fun things.  She then came to me and spent the following 2 full days with her mom doing fun things. 

What is the problem?  I’m not out getting in trouble.  I have a good job, my daughter is well taken care of, we have food and live in a nice house.   I didn’t do anything wrong…I am grown and can do what I want and nobody should interfere, especially from over 200 miles away. 

You don’t know what you are talking about, so shut the hell up, MOM and anyone else who has an opinion.  It isn’t your business nor your place to decide what I do and how I live.

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23rd September 2008

Fresh Dug Potatoes…

Well, today was a typical day in insurance.  It was not extremely busy, but my phone rang steady all day.  I didn’t sell any policies…which sucks.  I mailed over 60 marketing postcards though and got another 20 ready for tomorrow.

Kyra had a busy day.  She went shopping with Tom at like 4 stores.  She wore her pants inside out all day until she got a bath tonight.

When we got home we dug up fresh potatoes from the garden and cooked them up with a meatloaf.  It was probably my most complete meal in a whole long while.  I tend to lean towards partial meals here as I don’t eat that much.  So tonight we had a whole rounded healthy meal.  The garden potatoes though were definitely a highlight.  They were go yummy.

They were so good.  I think they put Kyra right to sleep.  She was out within 15 minutes of super.  She didn’t even watch Curious George first…she was just out.

Now, I’m on here and also dead tired.  I have left overs though for lunch tomorrow that I will probably actually eat.  Good Night….

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22nd September 2008

Insurance Monday…

Insurance is a really crazy business.  I hate insurance somedays.  I think it is basically good though, don’t get me wrong.  It is something everyone should have and really does help a whole lot of people.  It ticks me off when people complain about just simply it being a requirement.

Well today was generally a great day for me.  I was busy all day with lots of stuff to do and will probably have a great day tomorrow too as I left enough to keep tomorrow interesting.  My filing is getting so behind as well.  I need another 10 hours to catch up for the week.

Today though I got cursed out.  It wasn’t directly at me, but just about insurance.  I was really uncomfortable though because this person was going against a lot of what I believe with insurance.  I was polite though and let him leave.  I even did the count to 10 under your breath thing.  LOL…

I do have some really crazy clients sometimes.  I’ll pass on some of the bizarre things that happen on here sometimes.  I only saw about 4 customers today though, so nothing much happened besides the cursing which happened early in the day.

I came home tonight, cooked super.  Kyra and I played in the sand for about an hour.  We are making a giant dog from sand out there.  It basically looks like an ant hill right now, maybe it will look more dog like soon.  Kyra has a great imagination though and to her it looks like the perfect dog shape.  She was hugging it and telling me to hug the dog.  LOL… 

We called and talked to my grandmother on the phone tonight.  Kyra is pretty good on the phone but still thinks the caller can see her, so instead of answering yes, she shakes her head yes and hold up her fingers to say she has 2 of something.  It is sort of comical to watch and know what is going on from this end, while the caller at the other end has no idea what she is doing or saying even though she is very articulate for her age.

Well, that was my day…pretty boring huh?  That is why I sort of disappeared for so long.  My days are now occupied with almost only work.  I don’t do nearly as much playing nor have nearly as much adventure in life as I once did.

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21st September 2008

September….

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.

Memory Stick 036 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.

_DSC1061 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.

_DSC1070We 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. 

_DSC1075 _DSC1079 _DSC1087 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. 

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21st September 2008

August….

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.

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We went to Possum Lake.

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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.

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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.

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9th September 2008

Let’s See How This Goes…

I had to disable comments. I think that should solve the google error that is coming up. I am sorry I have been absent for so long. I am back now. I probably won’t disappear again. Life has been crazy though with work and just everything.

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