[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135382

A few memes.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135377

Hi Everyone,
I’m back!
DD are those your fuzzy slippers? They look comfy.
It seems like everyone has been having stormy weather this week.
We are clear now with more to come tomorrow and Friday.
I hope it will be clear for the kids on Halloween.
Colleen, I didn’t realize that you still have stomach issues. You lost a lot of weight over time. I am lucky that I can eat anything-but not lucky because it keeps me fat. lol
Little Nova sounds cute. Did the name Elaine come from someone in the family. Congrats to Brook. She will surely have her hands full. Grayson will be a good big brother once he learns to be gentle.
How is Kylie doing?
How is your brother?
Adele, your treat bags and boxes are so cute. You make everything fun!
I hope your storms are over.
I think we all got rain and storms at some point during the week. I think it just swept across the country.
We had a great visit with Brent. It’s a much easier drive to his place in Colorado than it was to his place in New Mexico. There still isn’t a lot to do around where he lives so we all went and spent a couple of days in Denver to have more to do. You can see the Rockies from Denver but you don’t have to go in them. Not like when we were in Ruidoso NM and they drove me up the mountain and I nearly had a nervous breakdown. lol
It’s very pretty when seen from a distance and that’s how I like my mountains-in the distance. lol
Anyway, we had a lot of fun and ate in some great restaurants. It was a good birthday present being able to see Brent again. We met his girlfriend and her son-he’s the same age and grade as Kendall.
They are going to come out here in the early summer/ late spring for a visit.
It was a great trip and the weather was good until the second day of our drive home. It rained hard all the way from DesMoines to home. Then that night it got windy and the power went out at eleven. Greg said if it wasn’t on in the morning he would hook up the generator. However, very early in the morning I heard it was raining really hard again so I woke him up to check on the back up sump pump since we had no electric. So he checked and said the battery on the back up was down so he had to go out to the barn and get the generator and hook that up to all the freezers and fridges and the pump. I felt so bad for him as I know he was tired after all the driving. I think we are going to look into a whole house generator as this has happened a lot lately.
I love to travel but it’s good to be back.
Gail
Kendall has to stay out of school until Nov. 4th because she was within six feet of someone on the bus who came down with covid. So we won’t be able to see the kids this week. Jenny said she had her tested the other day and she is negative so-so far so good. I wish she would get her vaccinated.
Piper called me yesterday because she is selling candy bars for school so we need to get grandma to buy because she always will. lol

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135078

Hi Colleen,
I am praying that your brother qualifies for the new treatment.
That little baby must be coming soon as her due date is my birthday.
They have been getting some really good singers on The Masked Singer. Nicole guessed it was Ruth Pointer so now she has a point toward the golden ear trophy.
This year I am only watching the dancers and the scores on DWTS and skipping the rehearsals and judges commentary. The reason being on Monday The Voice is on for two hours followed by DWTS so after watching The Voice I would have to stay up too long to watch all of DWTS so I am skipping through and watching just the dancing. On the Voice once they get through choosing the people I skip the rehearsals and just watch the battles-you can get through both programs in half the time by doing that-all that other stuff is just filler.
The young kids are cute. As if the kids even have to ask grandma to buy what their selling-it’s our job to buy the stuff! lol
Hang in there-sending love and prayers your way.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135073

Hi Adele,
My sister gets sick from the colonoscopy prep too so the last time they told her she needn’t do them any more. She is allergic to something in the prep.
What’s a fibrous an test?
Yes, we have to advocate for ourselves or have someone we can trust to advocate for us with the medical professionals.
27 pounds is a lot of weight. Hopefully that might make some of your joints feel better.
I will see my rheumatologist in November and he will tell me to lose weight as he always does. if only it were so easy. I don’t know how I ended up getting so fat as I was never a chubby kid. But as an adult I do like my sweets and also I was never a big exerciser and now most of the things I like to do involve sitting. Of course now they say sitting is the new smoking. You just can’t win.
It has been a strange fall-although it seems we are getting fall temperatures now. It seems like two years ago we had snow on Halloween. You never know what you will get.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135010

Hi Adele,
Wow-25 pounds is a lot. My doctors would love me if I could lose that.
I’m sorry you had to go back to ER. I will pray for you. I always do.
Are you able to do anything?
It really is complicated when they have to take away your arthritis meds because of the stomach issues but you now hurt without the meds. It’s a vicious circle. Have you looked into finding a doctor who practices holistic medicine alongside traditional medicine. Your problems are complex and have many levels so you need someone to look at you as a whole person and not just a series of parts with problems. You may need some non traditional medicine at this point. I know it seems exhausting to pursue other medical paths on top of your pain and suffering but sometimes doctors want to fix the problem and forget about fixing the person-if that makes sense.
I miss my old feisty-I can do anything friend, Adele-but I know pain is exhausting.
I wish I could do something. If I lived close I would stop by and try to ease your pain and make you laugh. Laughter helps if only for a minute.
Hugs to you my friend.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #135005

Hi DD,
I hope you are feeling better today. I know anymore doing what I used to do in a day would wear me out in no time now. I hope that you and Diane had a good day together though.
We are finally getting more chilly here. It was still like summer up until this week.
I wonder how that affects the trees changing colors. I see a little so far but not much. Years ago October was a prime month for color change on the trees.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #134895

Hi Adele,
How are you feeling? Your poor tummy.
Have you lost a lot of weight from not eating?
Do you eat a lot of potatoes and rice now-those things seem to be easy on the stomach.
I wish I could have brought you with me to see Sal Valentinetti. It’s a small theater so we were in the third row.
It was a great show and he is so young but yet loves the old Sinatra type music. He must be an old soul.
You would have loved it as he talked about a lot of the Italian family stuff.
His Dad was there with him and he talked about how lucky he was to travel all over entertaining with his Dad.
We dog sat this weekend while Jenny went to a wedding which was 2 and 1/2 hours away so they spent the night.
The kids were with their dad so just the dogs needed watching.
When we were over there on Friday Piper gave me her Christmas list and then she texted me the links on Amazon.
She sure makes my shopping easy! lol Isn’t it incredible that 8 year olds know how to do all this stuff. lol
So QVC decided to keep the boards open after all the emails they received-but the promise was just keeping them open into the new year so I still think they plan on closing them eventually.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #134890

Hi DD,
Snowball is a real character. She sure keeps you busy.
I hope the people in your building with covid will be okay.
Hopefully they were vaccinated and just had mild cases.
How is your weather. We are still in the 70s here-I’m quite surprised. It’s been a very warm fall.
Global warming is real-that’s for sure.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for October 2021 #134736

Hi Colleen,
I did watch DWTS-the first outfit was kind of a copy of one that Britney wore for a music video-dressing like a school girl. I’m guessing that the second one was also from a Britney video but I am not familiar with that one-it kind of looked like something Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games would wear or something. That dance with Cheryl and Cody from two different places was bizarre but it was nice of the show to accommodate them as best they could to allow them to keep on competing. We are living in unprecedented times so they are making the best of the situation.
Well, I think QVC is always struggling as I don’t think television shopping is as popular as it once was now that everyone can just go to a website and order things. QVC did not buy HSN QVC and HSN and Zulily and a few other retailers are all owned by Quarate-I believe Quarate now has a new CEO so whenever that happens you know changes will occur. it is just not profitable for them to keep the forums open and they want to push that traffic over to Facebook which has a completely different set up. It’s just short posts and comments not whole discussions like we could have on the forums-similar to what we can do here. I know I got a lot of info from the Q forums-I would learn about stuff that happened in the world practically before it was on the news. Someone would post about it. I’m at a stage in my life where it seems all my friends have moved away so the Q forums and here are the places where I go to talk to other women. I will miss them.
It’s getting close to baby time. Have you bought any cute things yet?
Gail

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