Say What I Think

Dad was on Classic checking which means when you don’t met the daily balance minimum than you get charged with services fees. I call was to make sure I was doing the bill pay correct and not causing myself trouble with finding out geee you really can’t do this. Bill pay isn’t hard to use with my bank Associated it actually quiet simple and not hard at all. I wanted to make sure dad medical bills would be taken from his account and not mine.
I spent a little time explaining to her what I was wanting to do. She made sure I got it right. Now I do not want to see dad being charged services fees at all. I like my advantage checking account because I can get OD Protection and save on the OD fees this has helped me. I been trying to put in 25 every paycheck into saving. I am going to continue trying to do that. My husband wants me to open dad a saving account also I need to make sure I can handle doing that first I already have 3 accounts to keep straight.
To bad Associated Bank does not offer debt consolidationI could really use some help with dad and me and hubby. I am not planning on throwing dad debt in with ours because the simple fact is I can not offord to pay his many debts. The customer service person from Associated Bank did a great job at answering my question. When I had hung up with her I thought dad would end up with classic checking, but she called me back after doing some looking into and told me it might be best to also put dad on advantage checking. I am glad she called back and told me what she had found out. It helps to know I can trust my bank when I call them with questions and get the wrong answer.

I have to say I am stuck on this game and it is still the very beginning or well close enough to call it the beginning. My hubby and I like the PS3 version of Prince of Persia and really enjoyed it and had high hopes of really liking this one.
Lets see we got it and hubby got stuck and I told him I would try it later, and I got stuck in the exact same spot. Now neither one of us can seem to claim up the status head, to get to the first thing. I can’t even ell you how many times I have died on this game, aught to be called Prince of death, sands of times, because some parts of it is nearly impossible. So hopefully someone will read this and now the status I am talking about and be able to tell me how to finally get past the same point.
The intro to the story is very short and you got control your character right away which is good. He explains what needs to be done but not how to claim up the walls. For being a PS2 game this has some cool graphics. Lets see a couple of there camera things do not make sense to me like being able to make the camera do a very zoomed out and you can’t see where he is at so it just don’t make since. It would be like looking at Ferrari parts from a distance and trying to decide what parts you want.
So far I like but hate the game. I think the PS3 version is so much easier so it shows the creators did a great job at improving the controls. So the controls are hard for jumping the walls this is the hardest part of the games the battles are not to hard. I haven’t died in any fights I’ve died only by falling down from high heights boy I miss my princess who kept saving me.

So if anyone knows the trick to jumping between the wall and the statue please leave me a comment and tell me how to get up the wall.

Not sure catching no fish is really good fishing, but I felt it was good fishing still. This weekend one of our friends from our congregation told us about Alma Boat Float. Alma Boat Float is located in Alma WI, but to fish at their dock either a Minnesota or Wisconsin licence will work, because their dock is in the water, and I guess it Federal waters. It is a little over 100 miles from the MOA which is great because even though it’s well south of the cities and I believe the water would be cleaner, it’s still close enough to home. It took us a little under 2 hours to drive there even with taking a wrong turn and missing our exit and driving past it.
We brought dad a long with us and he really enjoyed himself too. It’s 15$ for taking the ferry over to the dock. There’s a tiny dock that you wait on for the fairy to go across the water. This was the only really unsettling part, I was more worried about dad or someone falling off. It’s right next to railroad tracks there’s a set of two there and boy those trains move fast, and to be honest there’s no real warning a train is on it’s way so we had to be mindful. When the train goes by, boy that little dock really rocks which is amazing because you’d think a river water would not be affected by a train. Alma is right near where the Pepin lake comes into the Mississippi. Even if you don’t enjoy fishing the drive is worth it, it is beautiful and majestic, plus they have different types of shops. I have never been down there so I was amazed. Some parts of it reminded me of a town in my home state, there are definitely some nice cliffs and hills, and plenty of trees with the lake we passed with plenty of boats on it that day it would have made a great painting.
We got to the fish float dock, and waited for the ferry, we waited for about a half hour because we came a little later in the morning, the earier the better. To bad they don’t make pills for sun screen protection like they make best diet pills. I need to find some kind of good sun screen that my skin won’t break out to, I am not as burned as I could have been but I did get a little to much sun. Normally I do not burn more then once a year but I think on a river I might end up being more easily burned especially if it’s a clear day on the river.
My husband caught a few fish, none we could take home, he had a wallie or something which isn’t in season, and a bass of some kind which was way to tiny and not in season, and 2 sheephead fish. We where told if we got sheephead to throw back because they are not worth eating. Found out later they are all bones and no meat, doesn’t sound interesting to me.
Habits are hard to break, because I keep trying to fish, with the style of fly fishing but when you’re not using the right pole for that, that technique doesn’t work as well. I almost caught 3 fish but LOL they caught my worm and ran away. I gotta figure out a better way to get them on the hook and keep them there.
The water was pretty clean and you could see a bunch of little tiny fish by the dock swimming.
I will say I am impressed with the owners, it would be very easy for them to take advantage of their visitors but they didn’t. They where reasonable, which made us happy. We needed Minos and I like fishing with worms, I can’t seem to keep the mino on my hook LOL they get stolen very quickly, so I prefer worms which is the first type of bait I used, and what I seem to have more luck. Even though on the dock the only place to get bait was from them there prices were very reasonable.
Dad got hungry and didn’t want another p&j sandwich and asked for a hot dog, I went over there and got dad a hot dog, it was only 2.75$ which is good because we all know some places would charge more then that for a hotdog. Later that day hubby and I got hungry, and I had a grill cheese and a side of fries, and hubby had a cheese burger. I was surprised it was only 4.25 for his burger, because had he got fries it would have been only 5.25 I want to say or maybe a little over 6 bucks I can’t remember, by the end of our day, we spend 19 between minos, worms and food 3 of us which was very good. Dad said he wanted to go back, so maybe we won’t have to go to the casino so much this summer, but I will have to make sure that I have homework completed some how because Sundays are usually get done with homework or at least a good percentage of it. We stayed fishing for about 6 hours casino usually we leave at 4ish and return at 9ish, and it’s only a 45 minute drive.
I would recommend this to families like my hubby and I who don’t exactly have a lot of money to spend but want to go fishing out on the river and can’t afford the boat rental, Alma Fish Float would be a good place for Fishing with friendly people, and the owner seems like a good guy.. This was a lot cheaper then a boat rental, and it was better I think. The dock had plenty of places to sit down, and we didn’t even need dad’s chair we got him for sitting. There are a lot of stairs so I would say this is not handicap accessible to you need to be able to handle stairs and getting off the boat. Dad is 86 years old so this is a little bit of a challenge for him, but he was able to handle it, now my grandma I would never take her here because she don’t have the ability to walk.We might a few regulars and it was just a great experience all around. They even have a place you can stay for the night if you wanted. I am not sure if I would really want too with hubby and dad but it could be fun.

On Friday night my husband, his dad and I went to famous Dave’s in Bloomington MN. I will say I was very impressed with their waitrist she did a excellent job and answered our questions. When we got to places we hardly go to or haven’t been to since my pork allegry has gotten so serious.  We went in and asked them questions. They gave us a print out of all their foods and ingredents in those foods which help. The manger told me you know your allergies better then we do, so  we will give you a print out. This made life a little easier because I was able to decide what I wanted.

Instead of telling me oh well clean the grill real well before doing your food on it, she told me they’d prepare it in a pan. I decided to go with the Salmon spread, and Drunken Apples. The salmon spread has a kick to it but boy was it yummy. It came with pita bread that was good to, it was very feeling. I did not eat all the bread but ate all the salmon. The apples were good to but they were more raw then I thought they would have been. Overall I really liked the salmon spread and drunken apples.

Hubby had some kindof burger, with lots of nice cuts of beef and dad had the same thing. It looked good. Overall we were very pleased with the service we recieved.

There are very few movies I enjoy and wouldn’t mind seeing it twice in the theater, just don’t tell my hubby this. Ops I guess he might figure it out since he reads my blogs sometimes. Yesterday we went to Star Trek, to be honest we were a little worried about going because lately our enjoyment of movies in the theater hasn’t been enough, many movies we have walked out of feeling annoyed and like it just wasn’t that good to see. Hubby and I decided to try this weekend and were worried we might end up having to walk out because many producers or directors decide bad language gets the message across better then anything else, when it doesn’t really work.
I do not think there was a boring moment in Trek, it was really good and entertianing. I thought the spin they took on the story was cool and interesting, it worked well, it wasn’t like they were trying to copy the orginal Star Trek, and their ideas come off interesting.
I would not recommend this for young children but teenagers with parents would be okay there is some language and some other things for a bit of older group with out parents. It wasn’t gory or anything even though they had a lot of action, there were a few intense places but not at all over the top. I think Spok character was good along with Kirk, and the twist on the story was cool. There was a few funny parts, like when Kirk was talking a test eating a apple it seemed so unreal but it was funny. Overall I thought the graphics were great, and how they did the history was interesting.
I wounder if we will ever be able to get background check as quickly was they were able to in Star Trek just a couple of minutes and have all the info you could want on a person, boy something like that could save families of elders many headaches.

I hope Pesi decides to keep their Mountain Dew Throwback, I really do like it. It’s has a very clean taste to it, and doesn’t leave a after teast in your mouth that doesn’t go away. It just seems more refreshing then the other Mountain Dew, now don’t get me wrong I like Mountain Dew before but this just to me is better.

The Mountain Dew Throwback is made of real sugar, which is even better then corn syrup. Don’t get me wrong corn syrup isn’t bad but things with Sugar just seems to have more of a sharp taste and feel. It just felt more refreshing to me when I tried it then the normal soda with Corn Syrup. Now I wouldn’t say Mountain dew would be a   best eye cream.