Sometimes it's best to not know....

As many of you know my grandpa Sap is/was very dear to my heart. I love everything that reminds me of him. Pictures/Fireman Badges/Trunk/Letters/Tic-Tac-Toe Game....the most important thing to me from him is my playhouse he built when I was 3 or 4 years old. I'm not talking a crappy playhouse. I am talking full out HOUSE! Siding....Roofing....windows.....deck.....well when my mom moved we had no where to put it....we were not living at the farm yet so we had to leave it behind. Jeff my sweet thoughtful husband tried for the last two years to get ahold of the people who lived in my old house. Offering to buy it...they did not return calls or answer any contact made. Well the *ssholes got evicted so yesterday everything left in the house was thrown out on the curb. My mom, flu infected, went adn got me the oak mirror I had forgotten to take with me. I LOVE IT! :) The saddness when I stopped was when I went to look at my playhouse....it is ruined...destroyed....I started crying.....for at least an hour. The idiots let their rottweiller destroy it and use it was a dog house. My playhouse is missing the entire front and one side is caved in........
I just can't believe it. I just always thought that I would get it back again someday somehow. Why do people just destroy things....my playhouse may have been 20 years old but it was in perfect condition just a few years ago......why not buy your dogs a dog house instead of destroying my playhouse Or use it as a shed....as I assumed it would be if there were no kids....anyway....saddness......horrible........unforgiveable......what a crappy week...
love, me :(

COLTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!

So....the ice storm last week...was horrible! My truck wouldn't go up the big hill because of the ice and couldn't get back up the way I came due to ice! I then had to walk in the ice/snow/wind a mile and half up hill (not exaggerating length) to 78 to get picked up! Then I called Home Healthcare and asked if they could send someone with 4 wheel drive...they didn't and that person got stuck...really? Then my mom dropped me off across the field and i had to walk across the field in ice/snow/wind.....YUCK! Not to mention that the field is a farm field so I would sink down in random places. WORST DAY EVER!

Colts are in the SUPER BOWL! YEAH! :) A great game.......:)

This is a picture of Poochie guarding her "Sunday Football Treat" on our chair. She has been guarding no joke since Sunday and I took this Tuesday Morning. She refused to come to bed Sunday or Monday night and layed next to it.....not on the couch that had blankets. The only time she leaves it is when the other two have already gone outside to the bathroom and then she will go.....to eat/drink....and when I pick her up to put her away while we are at work.....she may be crazy......

love, me

GOING TO GET MY AFC CHAMPIONS TSHIRT TODAY!!

Negative Feedback on Ebay.....WTF

So Some creeper asked to meet to pay and get the item he purchased on ebay. I politely said I do ebay because I do not have time to meet or run a store blah blah blah. He then writes back and says I will meet you anywhere blah blah blah. I then say that I attempted to be polite but I cannot meet strangers out and about in this day and age and asked for payment so I could ship. Note: The ebay item never said pick-up was an option but rather only shipping. So, then I get to my mom's house this morning and she says the ass left me negative feedback!
He said I was rude and a horrible ebayer!!! WTF! Do you watch those predator shows?? I am sooooo mad! Anyway, I opened a case and responded to the feedback.....creeper. If you ebay...pay for your stuff....or don't bid!!
I will write later of the my truck debacle on the hill later.....
love, me

Happy Belated Birthday Rebecca and Happy Birthday Today Char! :)

Well it was a good weekend minus being sick and sounding like a man! Saturday I got to hang out at home with Jeff all day! :)
Sunday I headed to Knoxville with Emily and my mom to go to an auction.......what a fun day! Everyone went to church in Norris (Jeff, ACE, Mom, Emily & I) then the girls headed in my farm truck with all three of us in the cab to Knoxville. The Auction was great fun minus the fact that mom found the Farmington Fan before me so she got to bid on it! BOO! Don't worry, I found some Farmington old pencils/pens and a very neat old toy chest plus lots of stuff for the store. (Oh and some postcards for the 1904 St. Louis world's fair) The best thing I found was just by chance. They had three 1984 Porcelain Cabbage patch dolls that Emily and I went over to look at just to see their names. Well Emily found the one she was looking ats name first...Jeffrey....so I said wouldn't that be funny if the other one was Jessica......IT WAS! Yep, I realize that both were very popular names in the 1980s but for them both to be there in their original boxes? Crazy huh? I got them both! :)
Emily is hilarious bidding, she won't make up her mind, then if she does get in she does not quit. At one point she said she wanted some boots/magazine rack and it was a dollar so mom yelled yes for her. Emily won but put her ticket up the wrong way with the number facing her and not the people who needed to see it! She was excited, then realized she also got another box of junk. :) (She also got an overstuffed chair and very cute end table!)
While Emily and I put everything in the truck with no one offering to help by the way! Mom proceeded to get the dirt on the guy Emily and I had said was cute. She found out somehow that he lived in Elmwood and was in Farmington the night before. For the rest of the time this guy avoided mom, We concluded he thought Mom was a cougar! HaHa! :)
Sunday was great.....I worked at the store for a bit then Jeff & I went to Peoria to run errands...ATE Qdoba (Jeff's Favorite!)
Oh the best part of my weekend you ask...COLTS WIN! And I'm not saying they will make it for sure to the Super Bowl because I dont' want to get cocky but I am sure glad we are playing the Jets! :) COLTS SUPERBOWL???? I hope so!
Love, Me

Wii Biggest Loser may be my death.....

Yep, I have been using my Wii Biggest Loser and let me tell you It is kicking my grass (Cover the GR----sidenote: This is what happened to austin in 1st or 2nd grade I believe, a kid wrote grass covered the gr and said to austin "what does this say" Austin of course read it and got in trouble when the kid said austin's cussed.....haha) Anyway, Yep every muscle in my legs hurt....but I guess that is good right? :)


I have almost finished my Gpa Sap photo collage for the store! It's very nice....It reminds me of how much I miss him looking at all the photos trying to pick out the good ones...I even made a copy of a photo and gma polly and gpa sap taken a week before their wedding for my antique locket I got a couple months ago...it looks amazing in it! The picture does not do it justice :)

Well I need to check my ebay stuff that is in its final hours! (My mom & I have done pretty well with our stuff this week!)

Love, me

RIP Reeses

I was at Mom's yesterday waiting to give Gma Polly a bath, Austin gets home goes into his room and screams....I go to investigate....Reeses (His Guinea Pig) was dead! :( He is such a kind heart that he was already crying when I got in there. I checked to make sure he was in fact a carcass and see if I could tell how he died...no signs of anything and he had not been acting wierd and he'd been eating. So I tell him to wait for mom because I am not dealing with the Carcass. To this fact he looks at me dead serious and goes "Jess I cannot play video games with a carcass in my bedroom!" I busted up laughing, I know its horrible, poor kid just lost his pet but if you could have seen his face. Mom finally got home and dealt with the carcass......thank god. Then as I am changing Gma Polly's bedding I hear Austin go "What am I going to do with all that empty space? I need something to pull my room together." I again bust out laughing, Austin tells on me. But seriously, ACE I love you, but did you think that Guinea Pig cage tied your room together? :) As for the empty space I looked at mom and told her that he was definitely her son. So, RIP Reeses, You will be missed you spastic little guinea pig.
Love, Me
Sidenote: As most of you know, my favorite word is Carcass....so best blog ever.

Manic Monday!

Had a visit to Dr. Matt this morning! :) My mom weaseled her way into going with me to see Dr. Matt because she has shockingly lost her keys....the same keys she just attached a big snowman to avoid losing! (Note: She hasn't driven since last wednesday so her keys are probably buried under a mound of snow!) ...So needless to say I had to take her to work with me....anyway, I made an appointment because my fatigue is back yet again. I looked up some stuff on webmd last week....and my self diagnosis is either thyroid issue (my 92 gma has taken a pill for it since she was about my age) or anemia due to my fatigue, being oddly cold all the time, bruising easily, and brittle nails. They had to take my blood (we all know how well I do with needles....I did ok.....I just tried to not faint by breathing in and out slowly) Hopefully the results of my blood work will be in soon! I just hope to get a better answer than ISU death services had of "some girls just get fatigue."
This week promises to be long...we are in the middle of figuring out new schedules and so I have few kids this week....making the days long!
Love, Me

Epiphany continued

as for mom and me she didnt know a pickle was a cucumber until she was i believe in her thirties and i had my epiphany at movies when i realized the fancy symbol in disney was a d! i was 16! :) Haha ditziness is genetic...thanks mom

ever had an epiphany?

so i am sitting here watching austin play madden and he goes did you know the orange symbol you click on firefox is a fox? i said yes and he goes i didnt until yesterday! he is hilarious and in that moment i realized our ditzy moments must be genetic!

Let It Snow.....Let It Snow.....Let It Snow

Ozzie LOVES the snow! He doesn't realize all his fur is gone or how short he is because he just runs through huge piles! Poochie HATES it and Payton just wants to chase cats no matter the weather......she has started this new game where she sits on your lap and tries to bite your nose then gets down then jumps up and snaps for your nose again.....She is our little crocodile! But the bites hurt sometimes! Haha

I prayed for a snow day Thursday because I love to stay in my pjs and just hang out around the house....and we got it!! YEAH! Jeff did not get a snow day, but I told him he had better call in sick because the roads were bad and our Jeep was in the shop getting fixed. He hates to call into work, but did to appease my fears..oh and I threatened to call his mom. :)

We spent the money at home....cleaning, watching tv, and playing civilization. Then went to pick up his Jeep around noon and headed into Farmington to list ebay items with Mom. Jeff played Madden with ACE.

Our Road is as expected bad, but the plow has been out several times so that helps a lot!! No one in the ditches so far this year....then again we haven't had any visitors recently.

The Volkswagon Camper I would Love to Have.....

We saw this camper in perfect condition at the Henry Ford Museum.....

This was one of the vintage ads for the Camper....... Not that I have the talent or ability to restore a camper....but I would love to find one of these to restore....It was sooooo cool! I loved it. Jeff would not be happy when I keep it in his garage to restore...I'll have to wait until Jeff's making lots of money to find one already restored.

Sap's Antiques and Uniques

The back wall that we worked on over break.....all the frames are filled with old photos of Farmington ......some back to early 1900s....

Wish I was little again....

The Puppies in their Christmas Sweaters! :) All sitting waiting for treats!

Being an adult sucks because when you were young things went wrong, you didn't have clean them up....know when the pipes freeze in the laundry room, you have to buy a spaceheater, get the pipes unfrozen only to find that the machine won't run...it's still too cold.....yep then you have to unload the water you just worked to get into the machine cup by cup into a bucket.....being an adult sucks....

Poochie on the other hand loved that the pipes froze because we used the spaceheater in our bedroom....Jeff said that she thought she was back in Mexico. She only came to bed once we moved the heater to face the bed and then we wormed her way into moving me over so she could be closest to the heater! :) HaHa

Biggest Loser-AWESOME! I do not know who my favorites are yet...but I hope the mother/son from Chicago do well since they are from IL! :)

Totally Forgot to Mention the POLAR PLUNGE!

Jeff decided to support the local Humane Society by jumping up to his shoulders into freezing cold water! He did great! We learned a lot about how to do it if he decides to do it again......1) go in with as little of clothing as possible 2) blankets ready to jump in the warm car and get dressed at home. After the plunge, he went into the changing room, and I wondered what was taking so long.....well he had thrown his wet clothes on the ground and they have frozen before he picked them up!!! I was very proud of him not for the jump (jumping into freezing water=stupid), but for raising money to help animals! :) YEAH JEFF! :) As for the rest of us...mom, austin, and me WE WERE FREEZING!

Love, Me

January 4th, 2010......Diet D-Day....

Today is the first day of my diet for 2010....i have a couple new years resolutions....one go on a diet....or rather a lifestyle food change for good.....and two keep in better touch with friends! So I've decided to keep this blog in order to do both :)
Christmas break was great.....a week and a half is never enough, but we fit a lot into that time! We visited Jeff's family, WM, Dawn/Derrick, Steve, my holiday god family, and my high school friends! It was great to see everyone! Best Christmas Gift: NKOTB Watch.......I wore it every day until Payton got it off the table and chewed up the one strap....I am very mad! Puppy classes appeared to not have worked....HaHa
My mom and I spent a lot of time at her store working on the back "community" room. We painted Farmington on the back wall and hung lots of old farmington pictures. I will post pictures soon. It is a room where we hope to have coffee and classes for kids and adults. January 21st, 2010 Frank Donath is coming to speak about old bottles...I can't wait...I love old stuff...hence my love for history. :)
Biggest Loser Season starts tomorrow! Yeah! I cannot wait! Well I guess I should get some work done!
Love, Me