Bummer

What a CRAZY couple weeks! First, we had part of the gigantic maple tree in our back yard fall on our house, fence and across the neighbors driveway. Luckily they did not have any cars stacked up on that part of the driveway, like they normally do. That probably would have been un-called-for damage on at least 2 cars. We were also lucky that there was no damage to our house, just to our pocketbooks as they say, in order to get that huge part of the tree cut down. Then we had the air conditioner motor stop working, so we called the guy out to check it out and come to find out that it was not worth fixing, the thing was older than me and Rob, and it was a model that normally would be used for a condo, not a 3 story house!!!! So we had to spend most of our wedding money on a new air conditioner. BUMMER!!!! There goes the honeymoon that I have been begging for. But the good thing that we are hoping to see is a huge savings in our energy bill. Not only that, it no longer sounds like a MAC truck coming through every time the air turns on. Now, it seems to be quieter than our vacuum! Not to mention that while at work we were getting our butts kicked! Seriously! Craziness!!! We did a little yard work on my days off, I know, it’s amazing, this time I am not writing about how I can’t get him to mow the lawn….this time, we did it together, he mowed, I weed whacked (however you spell that) and there was teamwork involved here! First time in a while, then Rob had been wanting to do something about the area of dirt and weeds that was next to the house in the backyard, so we dug up all the weeds, laid down some week b gone stuff that stops the weeds from sneaking through, and then we got some white marble stones and filled in that area. It looks SOOOOOOO much nicer now that it is done, not to mention, it didn’t cost an arm and a leg, like the first 2 paragraphs of my blog today! After doing the yard work on the hottest day of the year, we went fishing at what Rob calls the “secret pond”. Well, it’s only a secret if you don’t live in that neighborhood, cause let me tell you, it seems that EVERYONE saw me catch the first fish (and last fish for that matter) I caught it, and there were a couple softball teams on top of the hill, and some people walking and jogging and riding bikes, that all had to stop and see me catch the fish, I mean don’t get me wrong, it was cool and all, and it was just a little bass, but this sucker was going crazy!! The problem was that I have just learned how to take the bass off the hook by myself (for those of you out there, yes this means that I touch the fish myself too!) So here I am, just caught a little crazy bass, and trying to take if off the hook by myself and all eyes on me, and the stupid thing would not stop jumping, I could barely stabilize it to get the hook out, so I was all flustered and nervous, that I had to call Rob over to help me. He of course did it with no problem, and was the hero! That was fun, then yesterday, we went to the other pond, with my sister and her husband, and I caught quite a few crappie and blue gill! That was fun! Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much!

Cherry arctic rush and onion rings for breakfast

So there I was, driving to Jordan’s house to an all day scrapbooking event, when I realized I hadn’t called her yet to tell her I was on my way, so I called, and she said she had to leave to pick up Kaitlyn and that she would leave the door open. I thought, ok, perfect, then I have time to stop at Starbucks and get some breakfast….so I checked with my handy dandy navigation in my car to see where the closest Starbucks was, because I wasn’t picturing in my head where there was one in Round Lake anywhere. Well, that’s because there aren’t any! Can you believe that in most towns around here, there are at least 2 Starbucks somewhere to get a nice fresh tasty cup of coffee or tea, whatever your preference….but not in Round Lake, there is not one! Since I was already in Round Lake, my car told me that the nearest one was 4.1 miles away in Grayslake, and don’t get me wrong, Grayslake is not far, but I was all ready to be scrapbooking, so I didn’t want to go too far out of the way, considering also that Jordan left the door open for me. So I decided that it was 11:00am, and that dairy queen should be open, so I went to Dairy Queen, and the sign said open at 10:30am everyday……SCORE! I pulled to the drive thru and ordered my very nutritious breakfast that consisted of a cherry arctic rush and onion rings. Yummy!! So there I was, sitting on the couch at Jordan’s eating my onion rings, and enjoying my cherry arctic rush, and in come the kids, and Jordan, and of course, there is no “Hi Auntie Jenny” this time, nope, the first thing I heard was “what is that?” with their eyes staring and fingers pointing and mouths drooling……at this point, I finally figured out that once you have kids, you MUST SHARE EVERYTHING!!!!!! There is nothing that is just yours anymore…..and they are not even my kids!!! I also brought some candy, that Jordan and I like to eat while scrapbooking, and who do you think ate most of it? Nope, not us, it was them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, I am sooooooooooooooooo not having kids! Don’t get me wrong, I love them to death, but really, must I share EVERYTHING????? Someone help me out here??!?!?!?!?!?!?! Is this what it's really like? Nothing is yours anymore? Live, Laugh, Love

Overtime City

So I don't have much to blog about lately, since I have been working like crazy! Overtime city baby! Anyway, tomorrow is my friday, and I am so happy to be off for 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday, since I worked 16 hours yesterday, and 12 today. Hopefully it won't rain on my days off this week like last week, and it seems the week before, but please forgive me as I might not really be able to remember back that far, considering that it feels like I have only been working with no time off lately....I only had one day off this week, which was Tuesday, and I know for sure that it rained that day, because I cleaned the bathroom, and some of the kitchen, then I started switching out our old stuff for some new stuff, and now, I just can't wait to use some of that new stuff. I did at least use one baking pan, I was being a good wife, and made my hubby some brownies. He enjoyed them, but I made them too fudge-like, so I didn't eat many, as I like them more cake-like....if you understand what I mean. This week, I am hoping to go fishing with Rob on Tuesday, and then I think I am going to go scrapbooking at Jordan's house on Wednesday. I was going to go to the "Park on Park" with my brother and sister, but Kim has to work on Wednesday night, so ixnay on that one. For those of you that don't know what "Park on Park" is , it is a car show that is held in Mundelein every second wednesday of the month throughout the spring and summer months. We all used to go with my Dad and see all the old cars, and as most of you know, that was one of my Dad's passions, was old cars. He was just amazing, let me tell you, he could tell you the year, make and model of any car you wanted to know, just by looking at it, even from a distance. I think thats all for now, not much that I can think of to write about, except........OUR WEDDNG PICS ARE UP! WOO HOO!!!!!! Check them out: at pictage.com, you have to log into the guest book first, then you can view them, and order pics online too, if you are interested! Live,laugh,love!

Seriously?

Today, I was thinking, that I feel that fishing has taken over Rob's life! He doesn't want to do anything unless it has to do with fishing, for example, he is either actually fishing (which, dont get me wrong, I LOVE to do!), going to Bass Pro Shops to buy something for the boat or for fishing, or sitting on the couch, watching fishing shows!!!!!! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Someone please help me to get him to snap out of it and realize that there is more to life than that! I mean, it used to be golf, but honestly this year, he has not gone golfing for about 4 or 5 weeks so far. Not only that, but this is the first year that I have had to beg him to cut the grass! I have been begging him and asking him for about 4 days now, and always says he's gonna do it, but it never gets done! Aside from doing it myself, which I did about a week after we were married, as he lay on the couch sleeping, I don't know what to do! Then he thinks that I am bothering him and nagging him, and that is not the case, its just that I dont want to look like the slackers on the block, seeing as though the neighbors on each side of us do nothing but work on their yard, then here's ours in the middle, looking quite shabby. I would just do it again, myself, but I don't know how to do it right like him. He empties the bag every couple swipes across the yard, and I guess I could, but how do you know if the dang thing is full, if you can't see in it, and then there's the other thing, why empty it if it is not full? I mean, that is just silly, having to do more work than necessary? That should not happen....... The next thing is that our shower curtain has been falling down for the past 3 weeks or so, it is the rod, but it is new, so instead of throwing $50 out the door, he has been trying to fix it, well, there have been questionable days, that I am not sure I am going to be able to take a shower, because the thing is either half way down, or had already fallen down. For example, last night, it fell completely down again, and Rob put it in the other room until he could fix it, (and don't get me wrong, I know he is sick of fixing it) but then this morning he woke up and went to Bass Pro Shops (see what I told you) and he came home and sat on the couch to watch fishing (see????) so I asked him if he could fix it so that I could take a shower today, and he said uuuuggggghhhhhh, I was like I am sorry, but I need to take a shower, what do you want me to do? He told me to take a bath.....ok, now for all you girls out there, you know what it's like to try to get shampoo and conditioner out of your hair....so I said, um that won't work, how do you expect me to get the shampoo out of my hair? He told me to use a cup! OMG!!!!!! I was instantly mad at him for the rest of the day, and before I walked away, I said ok, you try having this hair, and see how you would like trying to get shampoo out with a CUP! Needless to say, he fixed the shower curtain! Hope you liked my story of my day. Yes, I apologized to him, but seriously! Live, Laugh and Love, I know this will be one to laugh at!

Here we are, the married couple!

some needed updates!

So the last time I wrote, I had just gotten married, and that's all I had time to write. Today I decided to do an update, I figured since Christina can update her blog, and she is at home with an 8 year old, a 1 year old and a 1month old, then I surely can find time to update my own. So here I am, a married woman! It feels weird, only when I say "my husband" he he! Married life is good and fun, so far except for the day that I mowed the lawn, while my new husband slept on the couch. Yeah, that day wasn't so fun. Anyway, otherwise it has been great, we didn't take a honeymoon as some of you know, we just stayed home, and seemed to go fishing everyday that we could. This weird thing I learned is that I LOVE to fish!! It is super fun, I guess its just first, learning how to throw certain reels, and then there is what lure you use to for different fish, and also, whatever the conditions are means you then also have to decide what reel to use. It's craziness!!! So, I guess you could say our honeymoon consisted of fishing. We bought a slip at Bangs lake and decided to keep Rob's boat there. It is only 10 minutes from our house, so it's easy to go and fun! Hopefully this year, I will have a good tan, since other years, I looked like a ghost, with no tan, especially last year, because I worked midnights, and then sleep during the day......horrible, I really hope I never have to do that again. Anyway, so let's see, what else did we do? I got my name changed, yay! I am officially Mrs. Jennifer Kniskern! yay! but Mrs. makes me feel old! he he! Rob also helped me get my dad's tax check cashed, we had lots of trouble with that......but I won't go into it. I am back at work, I have been back here since Thursday. I had 3 weeks off, and it did seem like it at the end of the vacation, but now that I am back at work, it doesn't seem like I actually had 3 weeks off. The wedding was GREAT! We had fun, and everything went pretty well! The only thing that I could really complain about is my make up. I got some pictures from some people, and my face looks like I have a disease. It is red in some places and make up in other places. It's just really bad, oh well, I know that it can be fixed, so that's what we will have to do......photoshop, here I come! The time went so fast, but we had a blast!! I can't wait to see the pictures, and the video! Just so you all know, the pictures should be up on pictage.com around June 9 or so. I will update you all when that happens! Until then, apparently, I will be working lots of overtime.......though we need it, I want to be outside on nice days!!! It is the summer after all! Ok, I think that's it for now, I will get going and if I think of more to write, I will, otherwise, bye for now! Live, Laugh, Love!

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