a little bit of this and a little bit of that

i heard from replacements ltd and they are buying all my silverware. two pieces were bought at a discount because they were not perfect. so in total i will be getting....$548!!! sweet fancy moses, that is right! i'm taking most of that to chicago.
speaking of chi-town...i found out that on second mondays at the field museum admission is free. yes, i'm there. the zoo, free, also there. beach, assuming it's free. where will i spend my little fortune? american girl, of course. we are having lunch there and that alone is a pretty penny. $21 per person. please like holly or brenna could even eat $21 dollars worth of food in one sitting. but holly very much wants to take her american girl doll there and have the whole experience. okay that is a lie. i want to go and do everything. you can even get you picture taken with your doll and they put it on a fake cover of their magazine. how cool is that. maybe i'll borrow brenna's doll and get a pic taken.
so is anyone else sick and tired of this jon and kate crap. they all over the news. you just can't get away from her hideous hair. why would you go ahead with season five knowing your marriage is in trouble? i will not watch their show anymore or buy any magazines that have them on the cover. news is not even news anymore.

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summer

can you smell it? can you feel it on your skin? it's almost summer!!! much to my sister's joy her summer vacation starts today. holly and andrew are not out until june 10. i just love the beginning of summer. there really are no worries and no rushing to be somewhere. i always have so much hope that i will be able to do so much during the summer. so here is what i hope to do this summer (depending on money of course):
garage sale at sisters (i almost start all my summers this way)
chicago in july at the condo i won at st. rose's auction...beach, navy pier, american girl, zoo
concert with heather, jen, and nicole (love bites)
craft show/flea market at the wayne senior center
worlds largest yard sale with jay in august
ethan, micala and maybe brenna come stay with us for a few days or weeks or whatever works
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silverware=money

we (meaning me and the kids) spent mother's day with my mom. jay went to his mom's. my sister and her family were there, as well as, my cousin, renee, her two kids and her mom. in total there were eight kids there. my cousin, her kids and her mom live in florida. it wasn't the warmest of days on sunday but compared to our winter it was a nice day. the michigan kids had on short sleeves, or a dress or shorts. the florida kids had on jackets and hats. you would have thought a winter storm was brewing. it was a very nice day with my family. after we ate my sister, jim, micala and me sat around the table talking "shit," when diane brings up how she is going to sell some silver on ebay. a lightbulb went off in my head. so i start asking questions about silver and silverware. you know, real silverware from the olden days. in my mind i saw the box of silverware my grandma gave me 16 years ago. i knew that had to be the real deal. could i actually have a small fortune in my basement? as soon as i got home i pulled out the box and looked for the markings, sure enough, towel candlelight sterling silver. if you brought this set today it is well over $5000! dollar signs are dancing around in my head. the things i could buy...things that we needed. this would so help out if i could just sell it for the right price. so today i called a place that buys silver. the going rate for sterling silver is $5 an ounce. the silverware weighs about 5 pounds. wow! $400! i wondered if i could do better. i called my sister's friend, julie. she knows things that most people don't know. she said to call replacements ltd sometimes they buy things from people. i called and yes, they are buying my patteren of silverware. now i am waiting for an email about what pieces they are looking for. i know some people would keep this silverware and pass it down to the next generation but i figure, if i don't sell it the next person may and why shouldn't i get the money, because i need it.
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bye, bye small town

yesterday we went to wayne's historical museum. i was able to ask about william houston. unfortunately, they did not have any pictures or infomation on him. only that he had a brother that was captured by the confederacy. anywho, although the museum was small jay and i found out alot of interesting things about our boring town. wayne was founded in the early 1800's and has gone through many, many changes. in the 1960's the state told this little town that a major road was coming through so figure out where to put it and in that one statement little wayne was changed forever. wayne was once a thriving town where you actually did all your shopping. it was kinda like hastings. you walked to downtown and did your business and went home. everything was here. but now that we have michigan ave it has broken up the town in two places and it is now not a friendly place to shop or walk. so to the genius of the state of michigan, thank you for destroying another small town.
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ticket

i hate traffic tickets, well who doesn't?! this morning after picking up bobby and tarra i stopped at a red light. technically it is only a two lane road but by the traffic light there is a lane to turn right. now there is a bus next to me, a car across the intersection waiting to go straight and one car coming from the left but still a ways away, no one is behind me. so i turn right. then i see a cop with his lights on. he asks me if my signals work. i say yes, and he asks whey i didn't use them. i had no good answer. does everyone use their signals everytime they turn? i think not. so anywho, i got a ticket for failure to use signal. yes, that is actual traffic violation. you know, i use my signals, on the highway or in heavy traffic, whenever the situation calls for it. the ticket is for $120 and here is the kicker i also will get two points on my license. that's right people two points. i am fighting this ticket! i have never done that before but this ticket is just a little excessive.so to the city or romulus and to the romulus policeofficer who gave me the ticket...SUCK IT!
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what a beautiful weekend, even though we got a little rain. holly, matty and gordy got to play outside and i put out my metal flowerboxes. today we took a nature walk. jay said i was walking to fast but i like the pace i was at and i kept going. on our way back to the car we stopped and looked through an old cementary here in wayne. the oldest person we found was born in the 1700's. most everyone buried in this cementary were born and died in the 1800's. a lot of children are buried here. what is weird about these old grave markers is that they had their age and how many months and a day they were when they died. one of the last gravestones we looked at was for a guy named william houston. it read that he was with co. D 24 Mich and died in gettysburg. so i told jay lets remember his information and see if we can google him and maybe we can find a picture of him. well, i googled him and found a drawing of him. in fact the city of wayne paid to have a mural painted on the side our our old movie theather a few years back and his face is on it. how weird out of all those graves, we pick his and find out that he is part of this mural. next saturday we are making plans to go to the wayne histroical muesum to see if we can find anything else about his young man. he was only 21 years old when he died.

sleep

last night i woke up at 3:30 a.m. so like any normal person i got up and spent two hours on the computer. going to the usual places like fb, myspace, usmagazine, ew, eonline, you know all the important places. i was able to chat with a friend online so all was not lost. i then played a game online for awhile. when i got tired of that i made andrew's lunch and got holly's lunch money together. by this time jay was up for work. i layed back down about 6:15 and fell asleep. i woke up at 7:15, the time i should be leaving to take the kids to school. so yeah, they were late today. sleeping for me has been a problem lately. i can be dog tired and still sleep will not come or i can't stay asleep. i have gone back in forth in my mind about sleeping medication but i'm already on one medication, i don't want to be a medicine cabinet.
that's all folks,
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