This Weeks Timeline

I've mentioned here before that I've been making kind of a journal for myself or for when after I'm gone so I won't go into the details but I figured I could make a post of it occasionally. This will be a little flashback of the last 10 years or so from this week. I won't post everything, some photographs, maybe where I was if I went anywhere, movies I watched, stuff like that.

August 18th

2004 (Wednesday)

Photograph - Samantha licking off frosting

2010 (Wednesday)

Photograph - First day of school

2012 (Saturday)

Instagram - Kitty Chilling

2017 (Friday)

Google Maps - Left to camp at Jellystone campgrough in Fremont, IN

2018 (Saturday)

Letterboxd - Watched the movie Central Intelligence

2019 (Sunday)

Letterboxd - Watched 7 movies from the Into the Dark series

August 19th

2011 (Friday)

My Sports Obsession - Posted my 100th blog post

2012 (Sunday)

Google Timeline - Had supper at Red Lobster

Instagram - unlimited shrimp

2013 (Monday)

 

Google photos & timline - Went to Highland Firearms

2018 (Sunday)

Google Timeline - Had 5 Guys Burger & Fries for lunch

August 20th

2007 (Monday)

Photograph - Picking up Sam at school

2012 (Monday)

Instagram
Google Timeline - Went to the outlet mall in Michigan City, IN

2016 (Saturday)
Google Timeline - Had Taco Bell in Columbia City, IN
Google Timeline - Visited Skyler at Ball State University in Muncie, IN

2018 (Monday)

Facebook - My mom found my work badge from where I worked from 1991-1994.

2019 (Tuesday)
Google Timeline - Went to the eye doctor (post to come)
Google Timeline - Had IHOP for supper.

August 21st
2010 (Saturday)
Google Timeline - Played cards at my ex-bosses house.

2015 (Friday)
Google Timeline - Grabbed the kids supper at McDonalds

2016 (Sunday)
Google Timeline - Went to cousins wedding

2018 (Tuesday)
Journal - Passed a city inspection at work.

2019 (Wednesday)
Google Timeline - Went golfing.

August 22nd
2004 (Sunday)

Photograph - Samantha and I

2009 (Saturday)
Facebook - Had the separation talk with Samantha this morning. Had to explain why mom and dad don't live together anymore, lots of crying.
Letterboxd - Went to the theaters to see Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsoniam.

2013 (Thursday)

Instagram - Doing homework on a Friday

2015 (Saturday)
Google Timeline - Went to one of my nieces weddings

2018 (Wednesday)
Google Timeline - Had Jimmy John's for lunch (at work)

2019 (Thursday)

Google Photos - Milo hiding

August 23rd
2018 (Thursday)
Google Timeline - Had Taco Bell for supper.

2019 (Friday)
Google Timeline - Had Mancino's for supper.

August 24th
2012 (Friday)
Google Timeline - Had Happy Cooker for lunch.
Google Timeline - Moved Skyler into IUSB.

2013 (Saturday)
Google Timeline - Had Jimmy John's and than Ritters for supper.

2014 (Sunday)
Letterboxd - Watched Noah.

2018 (Friday)
Google Timeline - Had McDonalds for breakfast.
Google Timeline - Had Simonton Lake Drive-In for lunch.
Google Timeline - Had Long John Silver's for supper.

2019 (Saturday)
Google Timeline - Had Jade Garden for supper.

What I'm watching

We spent last weekend watching the Into the Dark series on Hulu. I thought it was a TV series but once we got into it, I realized that they are all movies. Usually under an hour and a half but a movie none the less. You can see my ratings for each one here on my film diary. They weren't great, most weren't horrible. They were a typical horror series I guess. It's rare to get a really good horror movie and being they are putting one out one a month, I wasn't expecting to much.

We've also been really getting into the Live PD, Rescue, First Responders and whatever else is out there. We already have a healthy respect for those individuals but watching what a lot of them have to go through when dealing with the idiots out there, makes you respect them more. Of course, the real reason we watch is just to watch how stupid people really are. It also helps that Live PD is 3 hours on Friday night and Saturday night because right now, there isn't much on.

We started this today on Prime, it's supposed to be pretty funny. It's been ok so far (just finished season 1) but I know a lot of shows pick up after the first season and I hope this one follows that lead. With my lack of plans this weekend, we may get close to being finished with it by Sunday night.

Let's not forget my Sox, I always try to watch them but they are actually fun to watch this year. They are young so they don't always win but when they get on a roll, they are exciting to watch again. Coming into today, they've won 3 straight. Next week I'll get to add Michigan football as well.

Damn Teenagers

I feel like I should post here but I don't really have much to say. I probably feel that way because I told a guy at work that I post here and I know he went to the blog, whether or not he does again is the question.

I got a few issues I guess I can discuss. The first being my teenage daughter. She's a good kid as far as getting into trouble and doing things she's not supposed to do but I worry about her for other reasons. She is so co-dependent with her girlfriend that she has no other friends and has no desire to have any friends. Now, part of that is my fault because I don't really hang out with anyone other than my wife but it's not like I go out of my way to not have friends. I have friends at work, people I talk to, I go golfing once a week with a guy from work. The difference between herself and I is that I don't turn down things when people invite me to do things. Whether my wife goes or not, I'll go without her. Samantha has absolutely nothing to do with anyone unless there is a reason she can't be talking to her girlfriend. Her girlfriend was away for 4 or 5 days, all of the sudden, she's hanging out with another friend. As soon as her girlfriend is available again, haven't seen the friend since.

That's not the part that worries me the most. The part that worries more is her need for drama. If you're a regular reader (if I still have any), I have access to her phone and anytime I think I need to check it, I check it. Well, while her girlfriend was gone (she was in the hospital without her phone), she would text her only it wasn't, just thinking about you, or hope you're getting better or something like that. She talked about how horrible she's doing. I'm so lost without you, I'm so bad off that my friend has to hang out with me. That's an issue, it's all about her. Now, she's not that way with us much because we'll call her out on it but the need for everything to be about her is ridiculous. I'll be honest, I used to love to hang out with her, now, not so much.

She likes to tell people that she's just like me. Um, no you aren't. I don't have to rely on anyone else to make myself feel good. I love being alone and having alone time. I hate drama and want nothing to do with it. I go eat by myself, I've gone to the movies by myself. If you're not with your girlfriend, you're hiding in your room.

Don't get me wrong, I love her with all my heart but if I were honest, I'm just looking forward to her growing up and getting out of this "teenage" phase so I can have some kind of relationship with her again. This, you don't understand mental illness stage has got to go. It's time for her to grow up and realize her "life" is exactly where she's putting herself. I try to give advice but she doesn't want to listen. She's a teenager, she knows everything.

I guess had more to say about that than I thought so I'll leave this post at that.

Cross Post From MSO

This is a post from my sports related blog (My Sports Obsession) but I thought it fit in here as well since it is personal.


I didn't get any cards today, it is a Sunday after all, but yesterday I did some rearranging in my downstairs level. My grandfather died  a few years ago and I grabbed his desk and put it in storage. My wife was in the storage and it was annoying her so I took it out and set it up in the den. I pulled a dresser out as well and kind of made a "man cave" even though it really isn't. It's still a usable room with a couch and TV but nobody really uses it. I also can't leave my cards out all over because I have a stupid cat that likes to chew on cardboard, so I can't even leave the boxes of cards out because she'll chew on the boxes. When it's all said and done, I can only do so much because the room was painted red when we moved in and we never changed it. I'll probably rarely use it but at least I got to move my cards out of storage to where I can access them easier. My books were in the bedroom on a shelf and it gave my wife some of her shelf room back.

Here's is the aforementioned desk. As you can see, it's pretty nice, and huge. You can also see the red walls. The wife and I picked up a few things that could go on the walls and still match, plus I snuck a few things in as well. We'll go left to right on the desk.

This is my stack of magazines, programs, folders, ect. They are acting as my book ends until I can find a decent set that go with the room. The card books shown are (L to R) Tier 3 collections are in the first 2 books, and the last book has my Michigan collection as well as auto's and relics that are team collections and not player collections.

Next to the books, on the desk shelf are 2 bats that came from the Louisville Slugger museum that my mom picked up for me. The helmet was from the greek fries that I got at the last Sox game I went to, earlier this year. There's also my DVD's from the 2005 Sox.

The stuff on the top middle of the desk isn't really anything yet. The lamp was just thrown there to get it out of the way.

If you know my collections, than you are really confused by these 3 items. They were also my grandfathers and my grandmother gave them to me. On the left is a mug commemorating Mark McGwire's race to 70 HR's back in 1998. The middle is a Coke bottle with the St. Louis Cardinals on it and on the right is a Joe Montana beer stein. In case you haven't figured it out, he was a Cardinals fan, and a Notre Dame fan. As much as it pains me to have a ND alumn on my desk, I figured it was ok since he is one of the all-time greats, and he's in a pro jersey.

Beside that shelf and to the far right of my desk are my other card books. (L to R) Paul Konerko Collection, Tom Seaver Collection, the rest of my Tier 1 Collections, and the last 2 books are my Tier 2 Collections. As I said before, I don't have book ends so I'm using my Scott Podsednik bobble head for one on this side.

A little better view of the bobble head, or at least the box. When I get an actual room, I may break it out of the box.

Next, I'll go from left to right up on the wall above the desk

This photo is of myself, my brother and 2 cousins back when we were in little league. My grandmother made these for all 4 of us boys. I'm on the left and Sluggo is the other in yellow for the regulars who may know him by name.

 

These are above the right side of the desk. We picked these up at Hobby Lobby along with some stuff below.

As you can see, next to the desk is the dresser I pulled out. In the top drawer are my non-collection cards and Baseball Collection, 2nd drawer is full of empty boxes and such, 3rd drawer contains the Vintage Collection and the bottom drawer has my White Sox Collection in it.

Above the desk and dresser are these other 2 from Hobby Lobby. My wife did a pretty good job of picking all this stuff out that went with the walls. That's pretty much just one corner and wall of the room which I have claimed as mine but if you look around the room on shelves and walls, I have other stuff laying around.

There are a few Michigan things, it's hard to put that stuff up because of all the red in the room.

Last but not least, this is above the couch. Another Hobby Lobby pickup by the wife.

I have a bunch of other stuff that I could put up but a lot of it is in boxes in storage and I'm not going to drag all of that up until I actually get my real Man Cave, which will be in a year or 2 when I start kicking kids out and taking one of their rooms. For now, this little corner will do when I need to work on cards (or to be honest, get away from the wife for a bit.)