Husband is gone and it's hot out so me and Stink are staying in for the night and since I've already read for like an hour and a half I decided I could blog. Today it was between 87-93 degrees so we went to a beach out past the casino so we could bring Penny. She actually went in a little on her own free will! Then we dragged her out til the water was just below her back. She didn't protest too much but we could tell she wouldn't go out that far willingly. Someday I'll have a dog that loves water as much as me.
While I was in the shower today I was thinking of a list of things I want to do/goals I have for myself and thought I might put some on here so I would remember even the littlest. Roughly in order but with no definite timeline, these are my goals/things I'd like to do:
1. Eat ice cream after this (or before, depending on how long this takes me)
2. Talk on the phone with Matt tonight
3. Move to Duluth
4. Eat DQ
5. Swim
6. Find a niceish place to live in Duluth
7. Get a haircut
8. Find a decent job
9. Make new, grown-up friends
10. Garden
11. Go to the Duluth zoo
12. Go to the State Fair and stuff my face. Twice.
13. See a porcupine (not in the zoo)
14. Get a banjo/learn how to play
15. Buy a spindle and learn how to use it
16. Get a bichon puppy that looks like Casey
17. Learn how to knit more than just a scarf
18. Knit Matt an ugly Christmas sweater from the fiber I've spun
19. Have babies
20. Buy land (5-10 acres) outside of Duluth
21. Buy goats, chickens, steers, maybe some pigs for our land
That's as far into the future as I'm gonna go for now! Gotta get to #1 now, so later!
Tracie Lee
Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Last Day of Work
Hi. It's me. How's everybody been? I, for one, am fabulous! Just quit at Walmart today and couldn't be happier! If it wasn't for moving I would have quit yesterday anyway from being so so SOOO mad at them. Let me tell you a story:
So on Thursday I answered the phone to a lady saying, "I'm not trying to be rude or mean or anything but I just wanted to tell you guys that last night my two year old son and I (she's five months pregnant) bought ice cream from there and got really, really sick and I checked the ice cream and it said it expired January of 2010". I said that we could certainly give her her money back though I know that that wouldn't have helped the fact that they probably got food poisoning. So I told her that I would let management know so we could get it off the shelf. Well I did let management know and it sounded like they would take care of it. Now it's Friday (yesterday) and I decide to check and make sure all the ice cream was taken care of on my lunch break. IT WAS NOT TAKEN CARE OF! There were probably eight packs of the ice cream the lady had told me about, all of which were expired. Oh boy was I fuming. My heart still speeds up typing about it now from being so angry. So I told Victoria who was at the fitting room at the time to tell management again that that needed to be taken care of and I waited while she was making the call. It sounded as though they would take care of it. I still had it planned that if it was not fixed by the end of my lunch I was going to buy all the expired ice cream and then immediately bring them to the service desk and return them for being expired to get my money back before quitting. Luckily management got a brain and decided they shouldn't keep bad food on their shelves. Needless to say I will not be stepping foot in another Walmart again.
So that's my rant. Thank you for listening, and if you actually read through it all I'm impressed.
Still don't know for sure when we're moving for sure but hopefully within two weeks. Haven't found a place yet either, so hopefully we get on that....
I was talking with my mommy just a few minutes ago and I can't wait for the State Fair!!!!! Though it will still be like a three hour drive to get to it I'm still excited. Better than having to drive seven hours for it! Can't wait for that vanilla shake and pickle on a stick! Yummmm.
That's all for now. Hopefully once we get settled in I can visit that goat farm around Duluth and get my spindle (and make friends and get to help with goats?!?!? I can hope) and learn how to use it I will have more interesting stories! Though I know that doesn't sound interesting to some of you I'm sure.
Til next time!
Tracie Lee
So on Thursday I answered the phone to a lady saying, "I'm not trying to be rude or mean or anything but I just wanted to tell you guys that last night my two year old son and I (she's five months pregnant) bought ice cream from there and got really, really sick and I checked the ice cream and it said it expired January of 2010". I said that we could certainly give her her money back though I know that that wouldn't have helped the fact that they probably got food poisoning. So I told her that I would let management know so we could get it off the shelf. Well I did let management know and it sounded like they would take care of it. Now it's Friday (yesterday) and I decide to check and make sure all the ice cream was taken care of on my lunch break. IT WAS NOT TAKEN CARE OF! There were probably eight packs of the ice cream the lady had told me about, all of which were expired. Oh boy was I fuming. My heart still speeds up typing about it now from being so angry. So I told Victoria who was at the fitting room at the time to tell management again that that needed to be taken care of and I waited while she was making the call. It sounded as though they would take care of it. I still had it planned that if it was not fixed by the end of my lunch I was going to buy all the expired ice cream and then immediately bring them to the service desk and return them for being expired to get my money back before quitting. Luckily management got a brain and decided they shouldn't keep bad food on their shelves. Needless to say I will not be stepping foot in another Walmart again.
So that's my rant. Thank you for listening, and if you actually read through it all I'm impressed.
Still don't know for sure when we're moving for sure but hopefully within two weeks. Haven't found a place yet either, so hopefully we get on that....
I was talking with my mommy just a few minutes ago and I can't wait for the State Fair!!!!! Though it will still be like a three hour drive to get to it I'm still excited. Better than having to drive seven hours for it! Can't wait for that vanilla shake and pickle on a stick! Yummmm.
That's all for now. Hopefully once we get settled in I can visit that goat farm around Duluth and get my spindle (and make friends and get to help with goats?!?!? I can hope) and learn how to use it I will have more interesting stories! Though I know that doesn't sound interesting to some of you I'm sure.
Til next time!
Tracie Lee
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Moving! Someday. Soonish!
Well hello there, whoever is reading this! A lot has happened since I last posted anything. When we went to Duluth to change my driver's license Matt talked to the boss of a painting job he applied for and the boss said he started tomorrow. That obviously wasn't going to happen because we live in Marquette! But after talking to everyone it looks like as soon as Matt can get a physical and take a drug test which are happening on Tuesday, once the results get back to the boss they'll figure out a start date, which will probably very soon after. So it looks like we'll be moving in a few weeks here instead of August! It's funny because on our way to Duluth that day we shook on it that by the first week of August we would for sure be moving to Duluth. God loves me :)
I absolutely cannot wait to move! Or rather, I'm excited to be moved, not so excited for the actual moving part. Unfortunately, moving means that I won't have my garden; the thing I was most excited about for the summer. And it looks like all the gardens in Duluth are full too. Sigh. I guess I can't have everything or I might die of happiness overload.
It was nice and warm here today! Kayla and I went to the beach and had some good talks that only Kayla and I can have. I have some good ideas for my next tattoo now! Hopefully I can figure out something perfect and get it done sometime soon! Speaking of warm weather, I was beginning to get depressed how it's never warming up here and now it's finally warming up here and I look at the temps for Duluth and they're all colder than even here! Hopefully it'll warm up some once we move there.
Off to do some dishes to Matt Hires! Haven't heard of him? Check him out! This is my favorite song of his... it's so true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RliY1p1FE8
I absolutely cannot wait to move! Or rather, I'm excited to be moved, not so excited for the actual moving part. Unfortunately, moving means that I won't have my garden; the thing I was most excited about for the summer. And it looks like all the gardens in Duluth are full too. Sigh. I guess I can't have everything or I might die of happiness overload.
It was nice and warm here today! Kayla and I went to the beach and had some good talks that only Kayla and I can have. I have some good ideas for my next tattoo now! Hopefully I can figure out something perfect and get it done sometime soon! Speaking of warm weather, I was beginning to get depressed how it's never warming up here and now it's finally warming up here and I look at the temps for Duluth and they're all colder than even here! Hopefully it'll warm up some once we move there.
Off to do some dishes to Matt Hires! Haven't heard of him? Check him out! This is my favorite song of his... it's so true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RliY1p1FE8
Saturday, May 15, 2010
We're Crossin' Over State Lines
Hiya! Last night I, and by 'I' I mean mostly Matt, put a bookshelf together. But I screwed two screws in and handed him pieces and put all the shelves in.
Tonight we went to Frosty Treats and then looked for boats after. There were no boats but I have the best husband in the world and he stopped at the field by Biolife and let me kick lots and lots of dandelions! And now I can keep a watch out in the next week to see if there are even more.
Day off tomorrow and hopefully we can get a lot done around the house. It's supposed to be nice so maybe we can ride bikes too! And perhaps visit my garden. Which still remains a pile of dirt because of nights like tonight where it's supposed to get down to 36 degrees. Maybe someday I'll get to plant vegetables.
I think I might add a few more pictures to the flickr thing, so keep your eyes on that! I'm not sure if I've even shared it on here, but it's flickr.com/foggyacres.
Off to bed I think because possibly early church tomorrow! Even though I'm sure we'll be too tired and end up going at 11 like always.
Catch ya on the flip side!
Tracie Lee
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Exciting Things!
Guess what happened on Monday that I forgot to say yesterday?!?! I got my new social security card with my new name! :) It was super exciting and now we can drive five hours to Duluth on Monday to go change my license even though I'll have to change it again before August. But Duluth equals Dairy Queen and Dairy Queen equals yum.
In other exciting news: My cute lovely husband bought me flowers yesterday! :) :) and OUR TIM McGRAW TICKETS CAME YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That means it's for real that we're going!!!!! Wooohooooooo hurry June 26th!
That is all because I have to get ready to go to work. Bye y'all!
Tracie Lee
In other exciting news: My cute lovely husband bought me flowers yesterday! :) :) and OUR TIM McGRAW TICKETS CAME YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That means it's for real that we're going!!!!! Wooohooooooo hurry June 26th!
That is all because I have to get ready to go to work. Bye y'all!
Tracie Lee
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
I think a lot of people would pay to see this
Is it supposed to take like five minutes to peel an egg shell off the egg? I don't think it's supposed to take that long. But I've boycotted eggs for so long that I can't really remember how to take the shell off a hard boiled egg. In fact, pretty sure I just completely squished this egg. Maybe we'll only have like eight bad-tasting deviled eggs instead of 14. Good thing Matt said he'd eat them all no matter what!
Ps though- Matt and I made homemade pizza on Sunday night and it was super yummy! AND I made porkchops last week too and Matt ate two whole ones :) Now if I can just get good enough for other people to eat my food and kids someday. I got years of practice ahead of me. And I'm convinced my food will be better once I get to use my own vegetables from the garden (if the UP summer lets us plant my garden).
Anyway, this is taking far too long trying to blog and take shells off of hard boiled eggs at the same time so I'm gonna be done so I can get stuff done before work.
Later!
Tracie Lee
Ps though- Matt and I made homemade pizza on Sunday night and it was super yummy! AND I made porkchops last week too and Matt ate two whole ones :) Now if I can just get good enough for other people to eat my food and kids someday. I got years of practice ahead of me. And I'm convinced my food will be better once I get to use my own vegetables from the garden (if the UP summer lets us plant my garden).
Anyway, this is taking far too long trying to blog and take shells off of hard boiled eggs at the same time so I'm gonna be done so I can get stuff done before work.
Later!
Tracie Lee
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Oh, Life
Hello! Our life is crazy right now. First and foremost let me just say that it's 37 degress outside right now and it snowed last night. That's probably about number 5 on the list of reasons I need to get the heck out of this place. I'm not going to go into the specifics of why, but dear Lord, please get me out of here. As soon as possible.
We were going to put my tomato, onion, and green pepper seedlings in the ground tomorrow because they're getting out of control in the kitchen and their roots are going through the container, but I don't think that they'll make it unless it starts being at least 60 all the time now. But I also think they're going to die from trying to untangle all their roots anyway so I guess we have to give it a shot and replant onions if it doesn't work out and buy tomato green pepper starters at the farmer's market when it opens up.
Our house is a mess. Dan is leaving tomorrow, so hopefully on my two days off Sunday and Monday we can get it feeling like a home instead of me feeling like I'm living out of my car. Once we get situated I'm hoping that this will feel like my first real home since the house in Apple Valley. I think I'm being a little too hopeful because I can't even stand this city anymore..... so again, moving to Duluth please hurry.
I'm reading "Never Kiss Your Goat on the Lips" right now, and I think you all should read it; it's a fabulous book! And no (to my disappointment), it does not mention goats a lot. This book will soon be done and it'll be on to the next farming/homesteading/self-sufficient book. It looks like a few of the people reading this might have some ideas of good books on those topics..... if you do let me know!
I'll try to write again soon.
Tracie Lee
We were going to put my tomato, onion, and green pepper seedlings in the ground tomorrow because they're getting out of control in the kitchen and their roots are going through the container, but I don't think that they'll make it unless it starts being at least 60 all the time now. But I also think they're going to die from trying to untangle all their roots anyway so I guess we have to give it a shot and replant onions if it doesn't work out and buy tomato green pepper starters at the farmer's market when it opens up.
Our house is a mess. Dan is leaving tomorrow, so hopefully on my two days off Sunday and Monday we can get it feeling like a home instead of me feeling like I'm living out of my car. Once we get situated I'm hoping that this will feel like my first real home since the house in Apple Valley. I think I'm being a little too hopeful because I can't even stand this city anymore..... so again, moving to Duluth please hurry.
I'm reading "Never Kiss Your Goat on the Lips" right now, and I think you all should read it; it's a fabulous book! And no (to my disappointment), it does not mention goats a lot. This book will soon be done and it'll be on to the next farming/homesteading/self-sufficient book. It looks like a few of the people reading this might have some ideas of good books on those topics..... if you do let me know!
I'll try to write again soon.
Tracie Lee
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