[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135822

Deborah Ann,
I will be saying prayers for your brother’s recovery also.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135792

Colleen,
I am sorry to hear about your brother. I will be praying for him.
This is always a safe place to vent. We have known each other for a long while.
Life is just not fair sometimes. We follow all the rules and sometimes bad stuff still happens. It’s hard to understand why.
We always love and support you because you are a wonderful, kind, loving, special woman.
Lots of Hugs and Love,
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135772

Hi Adele,
I have no idea how I missed your post yesterday. That’s weird.
I’m glad that you didn’t have the disease where you have to give blood all the time. That would get old.
It’s nice to give blood but not to have to all the time.
If i had to give blood for something like that they wouldn’t even be able to use it as a donation as one of my meds excludes me from giving blood.
I like your Annalee collection. They even have turkey dolls! How cute!
Well I decided not to cancel my harvest preorders-I will just use them next year. I went and read the reviews and they were good so I am keeping the orders active. The only thing I can not figure out is I guess those of us who ordered right away and were on preorder for a long time haven’t gotten our things yet and others who ordered later already got theirs. I wonder if our old orders have been completely forgotten.
I will just leave it active and see what happens as i already know that it will be too late to use them this year.
I have not watched DWTS yet as the Bears were on Monday night football-so now I have a two hour Voice and a two hour DWTS to watch. I will just skip over the commentary and watch the dances and the scores. I like to skip over Tyra anyway-each week she annoys me more.
There’s a guy on one of the soaps that I watch who is being let go because he won’t get the covid shot. How stupid to lose your job over that. Plus if he wants to work anywhere else in the business they will probably have the same requirements so i hope he has saved his money.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135754

Hi Colleen,
I’m glad that you enjoy the memes. I used to get them off of a discussion on the Q board-if the boards shut down I will be out of my supply. lol
I like the one about the jack in the box and the Pillsbury biscuits. I hate opening those packages. I always know they are going to pop and it still scares me. Sometimes I just make Greg open them for me.
Yes the kids do tend to leave and come back but eventually we want to make sure that they are equipped to leave forever and just visit as we know we won’t be around forever so we want them to be independent.
I think it’s wonderful that Brook wants to learn to cook. I’ll bet she would really appreciate some nice cookware for a Christmas gift.
I am always amazed when I see people on TV shows saying they don’t cook-I always wonder well then how the heck do you eat.
One of Brent’s high school friend always said his mother didn’t cook and I always wondered what they ate-maybe take out and frozen dinners or something. He always appreciated coming here for dinner. I always liked to cook but now standing in the kitchen for too long hurts by back and legs.
Maybe it’s better not to know what’s going on with Melissa and Stephen. As long as the kids are happy that’s what’s important. I’m guessing there must have been a lot of arguing if they are glad that Stephen is moved out. It’s always better if home is peaceful. I always hated when my parents argued when I was a kid-maybe that’s why Greg and I never argue as that had a big effect on me.
Antonella was one of the hosts who were let go. Who knows what their reasoning was. I always liked her.
I hardly ever watch live anymore so it doesn’t really matter who is hosting to me. If there is something i want to see i copy it and skip through it.
I think some live shows are now back on Q2 again. I think they started it thinking it would all be live and then things changed and they needed to show reruns to save money as it costs a lot to show live programming 24/7-when you think of all the people who have to work behind the scenes to put on a live show. I guess things are changing all the time according to the economy.
Are you still back into reading? I think during these past two years i have read more than ever. it was a good escape when we couldn’t go anywhere. It was a way to travel without really traveling. I like to start reading some Christmas novels during the upcoming season-some of them are like reading a Hallmark movie-I like stories that are uplifting and make you feel good.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135727

Hi Colleen,
I’m glad Brook wants to help with the cooking. The older I get the more help I will take.
I hope Melissa will be able to make Christmas, but if she is working I know you don’t get a lot of time off. Refresh my memory-did you say she and Stephen were separated? It’s hard to keep track of everyone sometimes and my memory is not what it used to be.
Jenny will do Thanksgiving. I will just bring some dishes. Then I will do Christmas here.
It’s a good division of the labor and as you know the kids don’t really care about the big dinner-they don’t care what they eat. lol
I have not heard anything about Antonella lately so i don’t know how she is doing. I imagine that she is on Facebook.
I hope she is well. I did read that when she was going through chemo that her husband had a 95% heart blockage but I think they put in a stent and he is better now. Boy they sure did have a ton of bad luck one right after the other.
Yes, it’s funny about the Q boards as they started having problems with people being able to log in on the same date that they were originally going to shut the boards down. I logged in and answered a post and then logged out and then went to log back in when I saw something that I wanted to respond to and couldn’t get in at all. it’s funny because I can log in the the on line store but not the forums. Many people think that it’s a way that corporate is using to make the forums naturally shut themselves down. A few posters can still log in but not many-some say they can only get in using their phones or using a certain browser. It’s been five days now and you know if they really cared about it it would be fixed by now. A lot of posters have gone over to a place called proboards so we can post there now if we want. I did sign up but haven’t posted much. Just in the book section.
It will be interesting to see if they fix it or just let it fizzle out because no one can use it.
If they are still going to discontinue it I just wish they would be upfront about it.
So far this year their Christmas programming has been pretty boring. I remember when I first started watching you could get stuff that you couldn’t find anywhere else. Now it’s the same stuff repeated over and over. No wonder i rarely watch anymore except for a Quacker show or a jewelry show.
How is your leg doing?
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135722

Hi Adele,
I’m glad that things are progressing in a positive direction.
I must have missed something one marker not two for what?
A lot of my decorations have lights so that makes this early darkness a little brighter now. I have lots of different fall candles and pumpkins with lights that I put out. I am definitely a sunlight person. I don’t like the heat but I do like the sun.
I had ordered these two harvest lanterns on advanced order from the Q way back in August and they still have not shipped. I’ll bet they are stuck in the supply chain snafu. I guess maybe I will have them for next fall if they don’t get cancelled all together.
What a mess with being able to get things in a timely manner. Piper was good and gave me her Christmas list a month ago so once we got home from vacation I ordered her stuff and most will be coming this week. The other two kids may be getting a lot of gift cards if they don’t give me some kind of list. lol
Greg never uses anything I give him so this year he is getting practical things like underwear and socks and deodorant and shaving cream-although right now he has a goatee-but i guess he shaves his neck or something-I never really pay attention.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135717

Hi DD,
I like your pictures.
No being out in the country wouldn’t have anything to do with me being able to hook up to our doorbell. Greg is hooked up on his phone and you are supposed to be able to then invite me to be hooked up and every time he does I get a code but things just don’t seem to progress any farther. he will get the notifications on his phone when someone is at the door but I get nothing.
I was going to have Jenny look at it for me on Friday but then I forgot. lol
I hope the rain that you got wasn’t too bad.
Now it will be dark at four o’clock practically. I don’t like this time of year. Thank goodness for the bright Christmas lights.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for November 2021 #135646

Hi Everyone,
Colleen, I hope that your leg is better. Next year you better stay home on Halloween to protect yourself. We sure do not bounce back as quickly as we age.
That’s funny that Grayson likes Nova’s toes. Little kids are so cute.
Are you having a group for Thanksgiving?
I imagine this year we will be going to Jenny’s again.
We do want to schedule our covid boosters soon too.
Adele, I will continue to pray for Gary’s recovery.
It is hard when neither of you are feeling up to par.
How is Tillie doing?
This year I did not do all my Halloween or fall decorations. I just have some pumpkins and leaves decorations scattered around. If i do not put everything out in September (which I didn’t do this year) I find it’s not worth it to get it all out. No one sees the stuff anymore but us anyway so it’s just not worth all the work sometimes.
Does anyone else have a ring doorbell. We had to replace our doorbell so we decided to get a ring. So Greg has it all set up to get the notifications on his phone but every time he tries to add my phone we are not able to do it. We look it up online and it says it’s easy as 123 but we have tried numerous times and just can not make it work. It is frustrating. Also I said if I ever wanted to have an affair I would have to have the guy come in through the back door so Greg wouldn’t get the notification and be able to see him on camera. lol
I guess we have to ask a 12 year old to finish setting it up for me. They know how to do all the techy stuff so easily.
I hope your hematologist appointment goes well.
Colleen, you are welcome. I don’t mind starting the discussion each month.
Right now there is an issue over on the Q boards. I have been trying to sign in for two days with no luck-yet I can sign in if I want to purchase something-very strange. I can sign in for buying but not for chatting. Some people think the Q is doing it on purpose because they want to end having a chat board. I don’t know about that though. We’ll see. I’m hoping it will get corrected in a few days as there were some posts I wanted to respond to.
Hopefully we will get to see the kids tomorrow.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135609

Starting a new discussion page for November. See you all there.

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