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Hi Barbara,
It is so good that Joey finally talked to you and Jerry about Lisa. It is nice that he told you about his buddy and died in his arms. That is one of the reasons that he is such a good nurse. He has a lot of compassion. He also gets a lot of that from you and Jerry. You taught your boys well. I am glad that Lisa is going to see a doctor about her outbursts. They may be able to do something for her to stop it or a medicine that will help her control it.
I think that you and Sara will do just fine. Making the pies together will be a lot of fun for the two of you. There is nothing that can start a conversation then baking together. Especially if something funny happens while you are making the pies. It is hard to live with your in laws. It sounds to me like you are really trying and it will work out just give it time.
I am glad that your mil is doing better. I hope that Jerrys brother thinks about this before he does this. He may really be sorry that he did it afterwards. The wards that put those people in when they have Alzheimer’s is terrible. The people in there scream and do things that they would never think of doing if they were well. I did not think that sun downers was a form of Alzheimer. It is just a condition that some people get after a traumatic episode or they just get it. They are usually fine during the day. I have not studied enough about it to know what the cause is. I should look it up. I do not have a lot of other things to do.
The lady that did my shot was really good. She was very careful that she hit the right spot. So she only had to do it once. She made me laugh and then said to be still. She was saying that it was not nice to make me laugh and then tell me to stop. It all worked out though. It is done and over with.
It is cold and windy here today also. Last night I thought it was going to blow some of the trees down. We were lucky that it did not. It is windy today and is supposed to be tomorrow. Not as bad though. This weather is crazy. One day it is warm and the next it is freezing. I will be glad when it gets cold and stays cold until spring. I like when the weather does what it is supposed to do. Do not like surprises in the wearher.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Gail,
We had a cardinal that use to bang his head on our window. He finally left and never came back. We did not have one that was as persistent as the one you have. I wonder if he is giving you address out and other cardinals are coming to bang on your window when he is tired. lol You may have to tag their leg so you can tell if it is the right one. He cannot keep this up for much longer. He has to be a little loopy by now.
I think that they will have the recipes on the qvc site so people can see them. They have to remember that not all people go on face book. So if I have to miss out on the recipes then that is how it will be. I am not going on face book to get recipes. They may put them on this site under recipes. We will just have to look for them. The mince mint pie sounds like it smells like my moms fruit cake. She had to put bourbon over her cake to keep it moist. It is funny because I do not remember it tasting like liquor. Her fruit cakes always tasted really good. She lost the recipe so now no one remembers how to make it. Wish that I could find it. Boy I really got off the subject. Went from cookies to fruit cake.
Your basement sounds really nice. Wish we had a basement. It would be nice to have that extra room. Then all of my decorations could be stored down there. We would just need an elevator to bring things up from the basement. I wonder if Ron would build me a basement with an elevator.lol I doubt it he would not want to do all that work. Unless I told him he could make him a room to fix his lawn mowers and other items. That would not work out.
That is so funny about the fish. That is an expensive dinner for fish. I guess it is fun of catching the fish to bring home to eat. They seem to really have a good time when they go. So that makes it all worth it.
How nice of the groomer and sitter to make that pillow for Rocky. he will have some warm nights now. He will have warm bones. You have some nice people that take care of your dogs. Now that he is alone they all want to make him happy. It is nice that you are making the chicken for him to put in his food. That will give him some variety. It must be hard on him not being able to eat food that is not soft.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Adele,
I got the shot in the back a long time ago. I had a shot in my hip Wednesday. I am done with the back shots. They were a little painful and had a lot of trouble with my blood sugar after wards. I am a whiner and that is a fact..
That is funny that you said that . We had potato soup tonight for dinner. He even helped me make it. He cut up the potatoes and onions and celery. It turned out pretty good. We have a lot left over. So will be having it for the rest of the week and the week-end. Maybe ever into Monday.lol I guess he has figured out what was going on so he decided to eat the soup and enjoy it.
It is on channel 255 where we live. They use to have a guide where you could find the show in your area. They also showed the show on the internet. So you can watch it on there. I really enjoy watching the shows. I cannot believe that Angel has so many shows right before her wedding. You would think that she would be so busy getting ready for her wedding that she would not have the time. It probably makes the time go by faster when she has to work. So I guess that there are good points and bad points.
Have fun with your grand daughter baking pies. The mince meat sounds really good. Does it taste like a pecan pie? My daughter wants a pecan pie this year. So will have to make that one. They are a lot of work also. I may just buy one. I am not making any of the pies just heating them in the oven. I am taking the lazy way this year.
I do not plan on stopping with the decorations. I love it and as long as I can put them out I will buy more. There are times that I say that I cannot buy another thing and then the first thing you know I have two or three more santas.
The cookie exchange show is on the 18th of this month. I cannot remember what time. It will be fun though. I know that the 18th is next Wednesday cause that is the day I get paid
My dad and grandfather were both veterans. Ron is also. Now we have my sil and he is the one that worries me the most.
Have a good evening.
ColleenHi Gail,
I have to agree with you on both groups of veterans. They both went thru a lot but none were treated worse then the men from Vietnam. They are at least getting the credit they are due now. I have to give a lot of praise to the guys that are in the service now. They go thru a lot in this police action. They have so many new rules then what they use to. Like they cannot shoot unless the enemy shots first. That is difficult for these men. Just think what this world would be like if they thought that way when we fought Hitler and the Vietnamese. we would have a lot more people dead then we already do.
I will get off my soap box and honor the men and women that served so bravely to keep us free and the ones who are fighting now to keep us free.
ColleenHi Adele,
I am glad that this is over with. I did not have the x-ray will wait and see if this shot takes care of it if not then will have the xray. I really am a coward. The shot itself did not hurt that much. Just when she stuck that needle in that was the most painful. So now I have to wait and see if it works. That is the fun part. They did tell me to ice it for a couple of days and to see if it is still sore. I have to go back on Friday for them to check it. I hope that everything is okay. When they gave me a shot in the back I was completely awake. It did not bother me except when they put it in the wrong spot. He told me to just hold still and he fixed it right away. So it was not been that bad.
I hope that you have a good time out with your friends. It is so much fun going out to dinner with friends. Just indulge and have fun. It is good to eat whatever we want once in awhile. In fact I do it a lot here lately. Ron is aggravating me again. The man does not know when to stop. lol
I cannot wait for the Quacker shows to come on today. They are qvc plus unless Ron shot them off so I cannot see them He does that sometimes. But I will get even with him when he wants to tape a game or a movie that he wants to see. He will pay. lol
That is about all from here. I wrote some on Gail’s if you want to read it.
Have a good evening. We are getting rain right now. It is supposed to really cool down soon. We have noticed that it is about 20 degrees cooler then it was this morning. Hopefully the storms that they predicted will not bother us.
ColleenHi Gail,
She showed me the picture of her plaster. It was just the bottom of the foot it was not a full cast. I had never seen anything like it but then I have never had trouble with the bottom of my foot. It was interesting.
This shot is different then the one that I had in my back. It is like the ones that you get in your knee. It was cortisone and not the predisone. It is weird the different types of shots that they give you for different parts of the body. It was not as bad as the one that you get in the back. It has started to kick in already. She just told me to put ice on it off and on all day. It does get a little sore from where she put the shot in. I have to go back Friday and have it checked out to see if it is working right. It will be nice when this whole thing is over with. They did not take the x-ray today thought it would be better to wait and see if the shot works first. Then we will worry about another shot if needed. I am a coward.lol
I hope that Brent will do okay this Thanksgiving. Does he have friends close by? Maybe if he does not work he can go to someones house for dinner and not be alone. If he is with people that did not know Kim it may be easier for him. I will be praying that he makes it okay thru this holiday and will be home with you for Christmas. Sometimes we have to worry about our kids as they get older and it seems like it is more then when they were younger. Who knew that it would be that hard.
I am glad that all of my decorations are on the same floor as I am. They are in two closets and can be gotten out really easy. So we now have two closets that cannot be used for anything else but decorations. Pretty soon I will have to build a room on just for decorations lol I can see Ron doing that. He would not be happy.
It will be fun to watch the cookie exchange show next Wednesday. Those shows are a lot of fun. They may have some interesting recipes for Adele to try.lol She loves to bake and sh may bake some of them and let us know how they taste. I am hoping that she will. Wish I liked to bake as much as she does. She has a lot of family that comes around all the time. Mine only comes when it is something special except for Mandy. She lives closer and comes around a lot. More then her sisters. I am glad that she does. The girls usually come with her. Just once in awhile the girls do not come but not that often.
To day I am grateful for all my friends here on this site.
ColleenI am grateful that they are going to take care of my hip and that grands are all doing well.
Hi Gail, Adele and Barbara.
Well things have been crazy here lately. I had to go to the back doctor and they want me to come back on Wednesday and get the shot in my hip. I hope that it will work out okay. I have to see the back doctor and the another doc to give me the shot. I am not really excited about that. I may have to have two shots. They said that they would not do both the same day. They will be in different spots. I told them that i was not sure about having two of them. They said they will know more after they do an x-ray. They want to make sure that I did not hurt it in some way. It never ends.
The commando one is one of them that drive me crazy and the other one is the toy boat sitting on the side of the tub. He cannot peddle fast enough to get his son out of there. So I just turn that one off and the commando one off also. They are just stupid and not worth watching. I do not worry about panty lines either. If they are dumb enough to look it is not my fault. They have to like big bottoms.
I am glad to hear that the sweet potatoes are good. Now I know that it will not be a waste of money. It is nice to know that I did not waste my money. I buy the apples for the doctors office every year. They really like it and they are always glad to see them when I bring them in. I am trying a couple of other things also. I got the spring rolls for snacks for Christmas while waiting for dinner to be done. We will also have cheese and sausage to snack on. I am doing better with the snack food them I am the dinner.lol
Adele I have had that shot in the back also. One time he missed the spot he was supposed to put it in and I got a really bad cramp in my back. He moved it and the pain went away. So that was the last time I had one. It wasn’t his fault things like that happen. He did correct it right away and so it did not cramp for long. This is going to sound weird but my hair got a little bit of curl to it after having that shot. That is all that we can figure out that could have done it. I had not done anything else different.
That dessert that Carla was ice cream and pretzels and candy in it. It looked really good but I will never make it so did not write the recipe down. If I want one of their recipes I have to look on the web site. Some times they do not give all the ingredients they put in. They start talking to the guest that they have on the show and just add it and do not say anything. Either that or I just miss it so I get it from there so I get it right.
It is hard when you are having a good day and you feel like doing a lot of things that your back is still not in the best shape. I do that and they have to work on my back again. Then I have to go thru the whole speech not to do that again.
Barbara, I am glad that your mil is doing better. My mom is in her 90’s and she will not move in with any of us. We have all tried. So we let her alone and will wait until she is ready. Jerry’s brother may find that she does not want to leave her home yet. It will all work out though.
I agree with Gail now is the time to teach Sara how to make pies. She may appreciate it. I wonder if her mom ever took the time to teach her to cook. Some people would rather just do it and not have people hanging around with them in the kitchen.
I am sorry to hear about your sil. I hope that she is doing better now. Men do not think about things like that when they happen. Do they have kids? Hopefully he called them and let them know. I can understand how you feel though. That is rough when you did not know and did not even call. She probably knew what happened though.
I am hoping that I get an appointment with the gastro soon. I will have to call him soon. I am having trouble with my hip so am dealing with that right now also. Even if the doc can give me something to help with my stomach until he can do the ERCP that would be great. I do not know what is wrong with doctors now days.
Well that is about all from here. Oh I hear from Christine also. She had the plaster taken off her foot today. They told her to put ice on it and to roll a ball with her foot.
Have a good night.
ColleenHi Gail,
Thanks for the tip on the mashed potatoes. I will check in the grocery and see if I can find them. I am doing easy this year with all the stomach that I have had I do not want to do a lot of cooking. Knowing my luck I will do all of that and not be able to eat. That is what usually happens so this way I will not feel so bad because I cannot eat. I am a good whiner though.
I have tried suggesting that everyone bring a dish but my oldest daughter tells me that I should give up doing the holidays and let them do it. They never really volunteer but that is what they say they want. So now she will not come every Christmas so it will always be here. I guess that she forgot all that she said. lol
I am taping a couple of the Christmas shows tonight. So I will not have to watch the commercials. They show the same ones over and over. They do have some cute ones but not as many as they think that they do. There are a lot of times I do not know what they are advertising. The one that I really do not like are the ones for toilet paper. I am not sure what brand it is but they are stupid. I could turn the tv on in the bedroom and Ron will never know the difference with his bad ear. He is a mess. I do not like those commercials they talk about all this medicine and then they tell you all the side effects that they have. I t is almost like if you want to live you do not want to take this pill.I know that they do that to keep from getting sued. But it is ridiculous. I do not see why people would want that particular drug after all the gloom and doom that they tell afterwards.
She does like quacker tops. She said that she just wants plain but a little bling would not be bad. I did look on the quacker site and about all they had was 3/4 length and she wants them to be long. So have been looking at the sets that they have. Will keep looking because we do not have to have hers until after Christmas. We go to her house on the 27th of December this year. I have also looked at Denim and co. They have some really cute things also. She said that she does not want them to be long either. I told her that she was being picky. She was just laughing. I will keep looking. She likes just about any color. The one that she will wear and never would before is red. She said that my dad did not like red and I noticed that she started wearing it after he was gone. She is a character.
One of the girls does have pierced ears. The grand daughters let their wholes close so they are not pierced anymore. Brook said that she was tired of having to keep earrings in her ears. She thought they catch on things and she did not like that. So I will just hang on to them until someone says that they would like to have them.
I am glad to hear that the kids liked that mac and cheese. Did you have the potatoes also? Were they good? I am just glad to have a couple of dishes already in the freezer. I will take them out and cook them before I do the turkey and put them in the microwave in my dishes. Or maybe not. I bought some disposable pans to do some dishes in. So there will not be as many dishes to wash. I think that this year I am going to skip shopping the day after Thanksgiving. I do not feel like fighting the crowds, Since I have all the gifts that I am going to by and just need gift cards.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
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