My Birthday 2015


Thursday June 25th 2015

I got up at 5:30 A.M. and made oatmeal for Deeya and Frank.
Deeya laid a card, an Amazon Gift certificate and a bottle of Tums on the counter for my Birthday. That was funny.
I gave Yudi 30 dollars for Azure’s new Jazz Shoes
Happy B-day to me. I worked from 9:30 am until 6:00 P.M When it was over I was glad to be done for the day.
Courtney arrived around 3:30 with Azure and Zarah and Remington.
She came down in the basement. With a card from Missy and Danny and cards and gifts from the girls
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The cards were all very nice. and the gifts which was two shirts and two pairs of shorts were also very nice.
Courtney said that there was a DairyQueen cake in the freezer for us for my birthday.
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Azure and Zarah and Brooklynn worked on making a “Study Room” for Deeya for several hours.
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Then Azure decorated a pencil box to use as a box for her Jazz Shoes.
Zarah colored a box with markers that Brooklynn gave her.
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Yudi made some Vegetarian Blue Apron that was really good. I had some of that.
I went over to Jim Tuttles to give him a check from Deeya and Frank. He invited me up to his “Jam Room”
It was pretty nice. It had a P.A. and a mixer and mics. And also a bass, a G&L strat with a Peavey Tube amp.
A mandolin and a banjo. He invited me over to play some songs with him and his band. I accepted. Looks like fun.
After Brooklynn went to bed at 9:05. I told the girls that I didn’t want to stay up super late.
They played with Pataka with some string again for a while. Then Zarah started playing friv.com on the laptop in bed.
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Azure came in and started to read “William Shakespeare Midsummer Nights Dream”. She eventually said it was too hard.
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I told that most grownup have trouble with Shakespeare. The stories are really good, but the language is hard to understand sometimes.
I told her that she should get a star for giving it a try.
After that the 3 of us laid in bed and Azure read the “Cat in the Hat” to Zarah and I.
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When that was done I turned out the lights. Azure and Zarah played “Hot Potato” with a pillow for about an hour while I sorta of tried to go to sleep. They had a blast and were giggling. So I didn’t want to spoil the memory.
FRIDAY JUNE 26th 2015
I woke up at 7:50 am. and went upstairs for a minute. I started thinking about putting “Microsoft Office” on Deeyas new computer. I decided to wait until she got up before doing it.
I decided to lay back down for a few more minutes. Deeya called me a little later and said “What time is your meeting?”
I was like” Oh man! I forgot all about it”… I jumped in the van and headed out. I talked to Gary Wilson on the phone for a while on the way.
On the way back I talked to Kay Streevil and David Pavin and Gary again. I stopped at Taco Bell and got two cheese bean and rice burritos.
I got back just in the nick of time. It stated pouring down rain just as I got back we eventually got some alerts of flash flooding on our phones.
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Yudi, Azure, Buku and I laid on the floor and watched “Inside out”. It was interesting. And pretty good. Azure and Zarah acted like we were at a movie theater. Azure handed out tickets and Zarah gave each of us a bottle of water and a granola bar.
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Yudi cooked two frozen Pizzas.
Around 4:30. Buku and Azure decided that they wanted to play by them selves for a while. They had done good playing with Zarah the whole time that she has been here. So I said O.K.
Zarah threw a 20 minute Temper Tantrum. But I finally got her to sit by me in my room and play Barbie.com while I worked on their blog.
Zarah and I went to the Gas Station a little later and I let her get a small Freezie. She ended up mixing 3-4 different ones together. She liked it.MDB_Birthday_2015 078
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When we got back she went upstairs to Brooklynns room. Azure was putting on some pink leotards to practice ballet.
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Zarah kept asking me to buy her a subscription to ABCMOUSE.com. all the girls and Yudi stood behind me while I checked out the prices on the laptop.
We all decided to go ahead and get her a one year subscription. The 3 girls played on it for about an hour.
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Azure and Brooklynn started practicing dance  moves for about 2-3 hours while Zarah continued to play abcmouse.com on the laptop. She did really well. I could hear her practicing words and letters out loud. That made me very happy.
Deeya had just come back from doing Botox on a bunch of people and was upstairs discussing it with Frank.
Frank listened to Chris Botti all evening. It continued to rain hard all evening. I received several more alerts for flash flooding on my Iphone.
Deeya came downstairs around 10:00 and got Brooklynn. She commented that Azure looked really cute in her outfit and said to me. “She is really growing up fast”.
After they went to bed. Yudi asked me if she could take the girls to Burger King. It was about 10:15. We all went in Yudi’s car. It was still raining pretty hard. We went through the drive through. Azure and Zarah got chicken nuggets, Yudi and I got medium  fries.
We went back to the house and sat on the basement steps and ate and talked. Frank continued to listen to Chris Botti. About 11:30 Yudi decided to go to bed.
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The 3 of us went to the bed. I tried to read “Lincolns Last Days” by Bill O’Reilly for about 45 minutes. But most of the time I ended up talking to Azure about the Civil War and a country divided and we touched a little bit on todays Gay Marriage ruling by Scotus.
While Azure laid beside me looking at the pictures in the book. Zarah listened to music on her Nintendo with earphones. Eventually we all were ready to go to sleep.

SATURDAY JUNE 27th 2015
I woke up around 8:30. I had a slight headache. Deeya and Frank and Brooklynn were upstairs doing a Bible Study in the living room.
Deeya told me that we were all going out for Dinner tonight for my Birthday.
Azure and Zarah practiced dancing and stretching all morning. Zarah played on abcmouse.com. I fixed the nav bar on my site.
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While they were playing I walked for 25 minutes on the treadmill and read more of   “Lincolns Last Days” by Bill O’Reilly.
I took a shower. When I was getting my clothes, I noticed the carpet in the back closet was damp. Ugh. I knew that it was from all the rain lately.
I called Dave Faris and Indiana Foundations. The I walked out to the barn and brought the big fan in and plugged it up by the closet door.
Azure and Buku took a bath upstairs. At the same time Zarah and I went to CVS in Cicero. I got Deeya two cards for her Birthday and a Barnes and Noble gift cert. I got Zarah and Azure some Silly putty.
Brooklynn and Azure practiced Dancing while Zarah took a bath by herself.
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After a while I ran completely out of energy. I laid down on the mattress for a while. Buku had to work on getting ready for her camping trip tomorrow.
During that time Azure went into one of her lonely/bored slumps.
Azure and Zarah  eventually played together on the laptop in the chair. I practiced guitar for a while in my chair while I backed my website up.
Around 7:00 P.M. Azure, Zarah, Brooklynn, Frank, Deeya, Yudi, Andrew and I went to Tony Saccho’s Pizza at Clay Terrace. We had a nice time. Then we walked over to Cold Stone Creamery and got Ice Cream.
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After we got back Azure played Minecraft in Bed and Zarah sat on the other laptop beside her and did abcmouse.com. I worked on this and checked my email.
I showed Azure a video on Youtube of a guy making a picture out of blocks on Minecraft.  used over 1.2 million blocks. It took him 23 and half weeks to make it.
Azure got in inspired and made a picture of a Minecraft sword using blocks. She did a great job.
I laid down between them and watched them play for a while.
We hit the hay about 11:30.  Zarah was completely wound up and would not go to sleep for at least 30 minutes. Both girls laid beside me and gave me big hugs before we fell asleep.
Sunday June 28th 2015
I got up at 8:45 am. Deeya was just getting up to get Brookynn ready for her camping trip. We packed up Azure and Zarahs stuff they made and all of their clothes to take with us.
Brooklynn found a couple of old dresses for Azure and Zarah to wear to the Princess Roller Skating at Skateland.
We left the house at 10:00 am or so. We took the black van. It was about 72 degrees with a small breeze and not a cloud in the sky. I just kept saying out loud. “What a beautiful day it is outside today”. I told Azure and Zarah “That is one of the reasons God makes rainy days. That way we appreciate the sunny days even more and don’t take them for granted.”
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I told them that one of the reasons that there are sad  days in our lives is so we will enjoy and appreciate the happy ones even more.  I gave a dollar to a guy with a sign standing at 38th and 465.
We drove to the Dollar store on the west side. We stopped in to get a couple of Tiara for the girls to wear but they didn’t have any. So we jumped back in the van and drove to Meijers.
We found a couple of Disney Princess Tiaras right away.  We got to the Roller Rink at 12:05. Then I remembered that Zarah and Azure didn’t have any socks. There was a another Dollar store about two blocks away. I drove over there and ran in and got some Frozen socks for the girls.
We got back to the Roller Rink at about 14 after. We sat in the van while they put socks on. There were about 20 people standing there waiting to get in.
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We grabbed the same table that Zarah and I had the last time we were here. Zarah’s roller skates were a little too good so took them back and got the plastic skates that you wear over tennis shoes. She did much better with those.
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The had the place decked out pretty fun. The played Frozen music most of the time. The girl employees were all dressed up as Princesses. They had a snack table.
I ate 3 pieces of cheese pizza. The girls had a couple cupcakes. We all 3 had ice cream. Every one seemed really nice to each other.
The princess performed about a 25 minute show for the kids. We all got our pictures taken with them for fun. Azure and Zarah and I skated around holding hands alot.
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I always liked the name of this car because it sounds like Azure and Zarah together.

I always liked the name of this car because it sounds like Azure and Zarah together.

We had a really great time.

We left at 3:00 P.M. I planned to take the girls to Brownsburg after the skating party but no one answered at either Missy and Danny’s or Courtney’s house.
So we drove to Half Price books on 86th street. I bought Azure a Thick Drawing book. And Zarah got a kids activity book that she really wanted. I got a CSS3 Book and a Taylor Swift Rolling Stone mag for 50 cents.
I finally talked to Dan. He was at home so we decided to just go ahead and go there. the van has no Air Conditioning and you can’t roll the windows down. I didn’t really feel like driving all the way to Cicero and then 1/2 way back later.
Zarah started crying out in the parking lot because she left her white princess gloves in the store. I ran back in and found them on the floor.
We got to Dans. He was outside weed wacking with Ear protectors on.
We went in and sat the girls stuff down. We talked to Dan for about 10 minutes.  They gave me a sprite. I left and Passed Courtney and Tim in the neighborhood.
I got home at 5:15 P.M. I had a really good time with the girls. Now time to start saving money again for a while.





June 28th, 2015 by