anne's chit chat

I am so cold. One of my storm windows is broken in my apartment so it will not shut properly. This week it has been windy and rainy and freezing. I am cold.

I had a day off yesterday and I did nothing but sleep and watch movies.

I am waiting for Jake to arrive any minute. My apartment is a mess and I don’t even care (what is happening to me!)?

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This past weekend was so much fun! I had a great time home with my family and Jakes family. We ate and played all weekend.

Friday night we all waited until midnight for Jake to come home. He had “36 hours of Misfortune” (you will have to ask him to tell you about it). Once he got home there was a French Silk Pie for him to enjoy. He told us his “36 hours of Misfortune” story and I have never laughed so hard!

Saturday my Mom baked chocolate chip cookies (I love going home). My Dad went up to Minneapolis to visit his Mother for the day and then picked he picked up my other Grandma and drove back to Mankato. My Mom made the most delicious meal for all of us that night. I headed over to Jake’s (my parents and Grandma went to a movie) and we played baseball with Hope. It was so cool to see her go from not knowing how to hold the bat to actually hitting the ball and running around the bases! She is only four and is an absolute delight!

Sunday was Mother’s Day! I made rosemary potatoes while my family was at church. My Mom had prepared the other dishes and everything was delicious. My Mom finally got to open her present.

This past month my Auntie Sue and I have been recreating the corner piece from the parkay floor from my Great Great Grandmother’s house. Her house was on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. Years ago my Grandpa had cut a piece from the original floor along with two corner pieces right before the house was destroyed…he had always wanted to recreate another corner. The process was so much fun and the piece turned out beautiful!

Ran errands Sunday afternoon and then Jake and I headed over to his Grandparents house in St. Peter. They are about to put the 1895 house up for sale. His Grandmother just moved out and they had painted and wallpaper and redone the floors. The house looked beautiful. There are tons of lilies of the Valley all around his Grandparents house. They are my favorite part of their house. Later that night we had Jake’s Stadium pizza for dinner with my family.

This weekend I went to good old DQ West twice and had the classic pecan cluster blizzard.

I drove my Grandma back to Minneapolis yesterday morning and then headed home to St. Paul.

My parents did buy a fridge and it was delivered yesterday! We didn’t go “downtown” on Saturday night, but no lose there.

It is 82 degrees hot in Mankato Minnesota today. I just got home and saw the temperature on my old high school message board.

My parents just left to go buy a new fridge, I decided to not go with them. My old dog, Patches, is into her same routine…she was excited to see me for about 1.5 seconds and then she went about her business as usual…sniffs all around the kitchen and then goes straight to her bed and naps..she is so old but I still love her.

My brother Peter just found out he got a job for the summer! He is going to be working in a bank. Congratulations Peter!

Jake just finished up his school year today and will be heading up to Mankato for the weekend. Ben, his brother, is home from La Crosse and our friend Wendy is home from Washington. We are going to have the best weekend! We might even head “downtown” on Saturday night!!!

Sunday is Mother’s Day and I can’t wait to give my Mom her gift! (I haven’t been able to blog about the process because I wanted it to be a surprise for her).

I wish everyone a wonderful weekend!

Allisa and I walked home from work together, we eventually part and she goes over a bridge and I go up a hill. It is fantastic outside today, sunny, breezy, and beautiful (is that from a commercial?). After we both got home Allisa came to pick me up and we headed over to A to Z rental. She needed to rent a tiller to get her vegetable garden started. The tillers are huge and there was no way we were going to fit one in her car…so she and Delip will have to get a trailer this weekend.

After A to Z we drove to Jerebek’s New Bohemian Coffeehouse and Bakery, which is this amazing little shop with delicious cakes, pies, cookies, bars, vintage clothes, dishes and knickknacks! It feels so good there and I wanted to eat and look at everything. We sat outside and I had a slice of cherry pie and Allisa had a rhubarb bar, we both had iced tea with lemon. It was pretty much a perfect afternoon.

I met the owner of Sebastian tonight! As I was walking back from my car to my apartment building I saw this guy walk towards the alley and then call out “Sebastian”!!! I couldn’t believe my luck.

I smile and say to the guy, “Who is Sebastian?”

He says, “Oh, he is my cat.”

I then tell him, “I have been wondering because I can hear you from my window call out his name. So you just let him outside to wonder around?”

He replies, “Oh yeah, I let him out every two or three days.”

“Does he always come back?,” I ask.

He says, “Yes, he is a really great cat.” He then asks, “Am I keeping you up at night?”

I say, “Oh no, it was just a mystery who Sebastian was…so now I know.”

“I’m David,” he says.

“I’m Anne, nice to meet you.”