My Birthday Weekend with a Funeral

Pretty crazy things happening lately. First, on Thursday I had my birthday, where mskate and I went out to dinner at Culvers, and the night before we went to Chuck E Cheese for a 50% off food with a promotion with our preview of gold with bronze, where we split an app sampler. I also 100%'d Lego Star Wars 3 this week.

Friday we went up to my in-laws and spent the night because we had a funeral for my grandma figure on Saturday. I did the live stream and that was a little complicated since it was a live stream through our wedding youtube channel, and while I'm familiar with streaming I'm not super familiar with youtube's streaming page, so it took a lot of work to get working. It was a good service, the priest mentioned how she loved cooking, which she really did. Afterwards we went out to a restaurant that my grandma really liked, and after that we went to the deceased's house to handle some things (like logging her out of our Disney plus on her smart TV). Afterwards we went home because we had coffee and donuts on Sunday.

Coffee and donuts went over well. We got the donuts and put in our order for July, I brewed all the coffee and made the tang, and then we went to mass. After mass we handled all the serving. We went through the pot of regular pretty quickly, so I put out the second pot, which also went rather fast but not all the way, I put the 3rd pot out but I don't know if anyone had any. Oh well, making coffee is hard to gauge how much we'll need. Last week was the Usher's big breakfast and they had some unopened orange juice left over, so we put it out and went through a gallon of that and a pitcher of tang. We went up to my parents house area and met them at chuck e cheese for my birthday lunch. We had a #2 combo; large pizza, cheesy bread, and 2 drinks. With all our tickets we bought some prizes for mskate's easter egg fundraiser, stickers for friends for life, and spot it games for camping. Afterwards we went bowling. I got 2nd in our 1st round, and I got 1st in our 2nd round. I also had a White Russian because The Big Labowski. For my presents I got buck-ees clothes, buck-ees snacks, and franks red hot goldfish crackers. For dinner I got a happy meal in part for the fifa world cup toy, but the mcdonalds I went to was out so I got a book (no big deal, we'll throw it in with a book drive). I'm not into the world cup, but I know those toys will have resale value, and I want Dolan the Dinosaur. That night I was able to watch Sunday night FOX cartoons, because they finally had cartoons, yay.

Today we had the interment for my grandma figure. I brought my camera so I could record it for the same people who watched the live stream. It was a really good service; they put her ashes in the mausoleum, we were able to say our goodbyes, my brother said some interment prayers, I had us sing When the Saints go Marching In (one of the songs she liked to play for the sing alongs), and we said some stories. Afterwards we went to lunch at the restaurant that's close to the cemetery. I went home to do my normal things, but mskate stayed with her parents to help out more with the funeral things. I got the interment video uploaded and ready to share, which will make the family happy. Later.

Various things recently

A couple weeks ago I went to the eagle scout honor event since I'm an eagle scout and it was the American 250 birthday celebration that my mom's daughters of the revolution group did something with. They had a thing where you could get different revolution activities and one of them was "make a spinner thing," and they didn't have heavy enough wood wheels for the spinners to really spin, so I shared that knowledge with them and they thought it was cool. The event was at a park thing with an old car museum, which was pretty fun. They also had Captain America walking around, so I got a picture with him. Later in the evening was the Eagle charge, and they invited all past Eagles to stand and recite the charge, and it was really cool being the "and if you also achieved this in the past, stand and be recognized as well."

It was also Mother's Day, first one without my grandma and just with my grandma figure, but she's not doing well and has an aneurism that we're just kind of waiting for it to pop. That was kind of sad. We went to Red Lobster which was pretty good for everyone. Also, that morning we were responsible for coffee and donuts that week at church, so that was pretty good.

This weekend I went to my in-laws to try to sell some stuff at their garage sale. I had a bunch of tchotchkes and happy meal toys to sell, and I was able to sell some big things which freed up some good space in my storage area. I got $13.50, and just spent the day getting caught up on some TV shows. Today I went to church and did some VHS converting, and getting stuff put back on the shelves, and put the easy up stuff back away. I also went to a pharmacy that was going out of business and bought a bunch of stuff, and sorting that out also used up a bunch of energy.

Oh, and my wife didn't properly close a bottle of body wash when she put it in the closet, and it made quite a mess. I've been spending the past week cleaning it up, basically just rinsing the soap off of everything and smelling like a Disney princess since it was Disney princess bath and bodyworks soap. Later.

4/10-12/26

This was a surprisingly full weekend. Friday my aunt asked me if I wanted to go to a comedy show she was going to. She bought 3 tickets (1 for her, 1 for my mom, 1 for my dad), but then thought the transaction didn't go through so she bought 3 more. Turns out though that the transaction did go through and now she had 6 tickets. I said "sure, I like stand-up," and he was quite funny. It was Zoltan Kaszas and a guy who sells shirts that say "a comedian can live off selling 4 shirts." I didn't sit with the group, and I could see everything, but my family couldn't. There was a really funny thing with the opening act, he was telling a one liner and the microphone stand fell and you couldn't hear the punch line well. He did a good job playing it off.

Saturday was pretty fun as well. Mskate saw that our theater was playing ET for a rerelease, and we were going to go to the 11AM show, but then there was only an 11AM show on Sunday so we went to the 7PM show later that evening. After realizing the mistake with the movie we went to BJs to get gas and some drinks. For dinner we went to Applebee's on a whim. We did 2 for 25 with the upcharge foods, ribs for me and salmon for her, and mozzerella sticks for the appetizer. The movie was fun, it's a good movie. I would link the review memory that I did when I saw it at the drive in, but I guess I didn't upload that one yet. Mskate hadn't seen it, so she was really happy to see where all the references and music comes from.

Sunday was pretty good. We were in charge of coffee and donuts this week, so that was good. We picked up the donuts and got them all set-up. Then at mass they forgot us in the back for communion, so that was kind of funny. After mass we did some grocery shopping of our own, and got a lot of sales stuff. For dinner I made us an Asian inspired noodle dish. It's rice noodles, soy sauce, onion, steak, and bell peppers; I don't know if this is anything real, but it sure tastes good. I had Sunday Night cartoons again now that The Faithful is finished (of which you can read my review here). Later

2/21/26

This was a fun day. We went to see mskate's best friend and her husband. We went out to lunch at a restaurant that was recommended. It was an Italian place, I had a ruben and pizza, mskate had spinich pasta, and her friends had pizza. It was fun just hanging out with them. We all got along really well. Afterwards we went to see "I Can Only Imagine 2." It was a good movie. I made a small review of it. After that we went to a chuck e cheese in the area. It was really cool, they still had the original pizza time animatronics, they weren't doing the show but they were still out. I made a video of it. They also had some kind of video whack a mole game that was Japanese. Really fun day. Later.

12/5-7/25

This was pretty fun. On Friday my city had it's tree lighting ceremony down by city hall. We live pretty close to city hall so we walked down to the event. While we were walking there we saw a car accident happen, which was kind of wild since it was right in front of police setting up the parade. They do a little parade with city vehicles and the marching band. It's cool, there's the police, the fire department, utility truck, and some other vehicles. Santa was riding in on a fire truck. We got some glow sticks, which was fun. Santa then got the key to the city and lit the tree, and then there's a little firework display. There was also a little reindeer exhibit, and a little Christmas knickknack store. Good little time.

Saturday we went to a gymnastics event. I went to Blimpy Burger and got my burger, and it was good once again. Afterwards we walked to the M-den where mskate bought a new shirt. It was an 11 minute walk from Blimpy Burger, so we were kind of quick. The meet was pretty good, it was an inner group meet where team blue was against team maze. Lot's of fun. When they were giving out t-shirts I did my foot technique and I got one, and then mskate got one. Lot's of fun.

Sunday was a good day, just hanging out at home. Later.

9/12-14/25

Friday was really fun, I went to Cedar Point with my mom for our annual amusement park trip. I'll be working on getting that out within the week. Saturday was kind of simple, mostly driving home, and then that evening I sold tickets for my church's Octoberfest raffle. Sunday I did coffee and donuts and went to mass. Mskate sold tickets before and after both masses. In light of the recent church shootings and Charlie Kirk assassination, I've started bringing a baseball bat to church in case things go south. According to mskate, there was a crazy woman disrupting the homily and going to the priest at the 11AM mass that one of the off duty cop parishioners got her out of the building, and if she was at the 9AM mass I might have been stepping in instead brandishing my baseball bat and forcing the individual out. After mass I filmed a couple of catholiccontriversy videos that I plan on uploading this week. I fried up 3 pounds of bacon, and went to chuck e cheese, and filled up on gas and bought ground beef to make stuffed peppers. They turned out good. Now I'm watching a new episode of Doc and later will watch The Great North. I've been pretty shaken by the Charlie Kirk assassination; not as much as other commentators, but I've been basically listening to nothing but coverage of the case which is pretty wile. Later.

8/30/25-9/1/25 & 9/6/25-9/7/25

Sorry, got a little busy last weekend and didn't write it. Friday night I went to see Jaws 50th Anniversary rerelease at the drive in, with Blues Brothers as the 2nd feature. Saturday was really fun. We went up to see PepperBC and her family, and meet her boyfriend, who if he stays around will be PepperAD since he is basically "gender swapped PepperBC." It was really fun, mskate and I got to the restaurant first and while we waited I played club kino, and won $2 on a $1 bet, yay. Everyone showed up kind of at the same time, and we had lots of fun getting to know him a little, and not try to scare him off since our family can be a little intense. After the restaurant we walked around the downtown a little, going to the new arcade and playing some games. I played an Elvira pinball game and it kept glitching and giving me free games, so while the buy in was on the expensive side ($1 instead of 50 cents like back in the day), but I played like 3 times and got high scores and put my name on the leader board. I also played Ms. Pacman on a cocktail table; I thought it was a multi-cabinet since the table top had multiple games displayed, but it was just Ms. Pacman. It's not exactly a bad thing, I like Ms. Pacman, but I have a Ms. Pacman cocktail table at home (and I'm not talking 1UP, I have a real coin-op commercial arcade cabinet of Ms. Pacman and Galliga 35th Anniversary). After the arcade we went to the candy store and got some bulk candy, and I didn't realize that the candy was price separated so I had to sort it afterwards. After the candy store we hung out at my aunt and uncle's apartment. Sunday was pretty tame, we sold raffle tickets for our church's Octoberfest celebration. Afterwards we went and saw the accordion friend and helped her with some things around the house, mainly getting her phone set-up since it had some problems.

Now for this weekend. Saturday was pretty fun. We went to a birthday party for our friend's 7 year old daughter. It was pretty good that we went, because I brought my balloon animal stuff and the dad didn't plan party activities, so all the kids made fun with the dogs and swords I made them. I'm pretty good with balloon animals, but not a big balloon artist that can do all sorts of things; I can do dogs, cats, rabbits, giraffes, swords, and giraffe hats, but that's kind of it. One kid asked me for a turtle, and I'm like "uhhhh, OK, let's see, a turtle is an oval, with a little hump in the shell, with a tail, here we go, your imagination can believe this is a turtle, right?" He said yes. Then another kid wanted a polar bear, I couldn't think of how to make a polar bear. I offered all the other things he could have but he wanted a polar bear, and then got sad that I couldn't make him a polar bear. His mom then worked with him and he wanted a turtle too; ok my second ever turtle. The presents were fun, lots of Stitch stuff that we missed the memo on. We got her a paint by stickers book that got her excited, and a water game where you try to get the balls in the buckets. Unfortunately it was leaking so we had to get a replacement. Sunday we went to mass and mskate was selling raffle tickets. Ever since the Minneapolis shooting I've been bringing my self defense bat to church, and the ushers asked me what I was up to (not aggressively, they know me and that I wouldn't cause problems, but just like "hey bro, what crazy thing are you doing now"), and they appreciated my willingness to protect the congregation. After mass mizorlover and I went to chuck e cheese for his birthday celebration. We got a pizza and played the games, and did really well on the Jurassic Park game, and with all the tickets we had I got a hello kitty hot dog stuffed animal for mskate. I also started a little packing for our upcoming Disneyland trip, mostly getting the food packed and some clothing. I also uploaded my video on Carlo Acutis and my own connection to the Eucharist. I also got my vlog of universal studios uploaded. Later.