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Hi Adele,
The electricity was just a breaker and Greg fixed it when he got up.
So here’s the main question-did Gary end up buying the doughnuts after he had the melt down in the store. That was a big price jump. Heck I remember when we were first married I bought a week’s worth of groceries for 25 dollars and now that buys about a day’s worth. lol Subway even had to change the 5 dollar footlong to a 6 dollar footlong now-although they hadn’t had a price change on that in 9 years so I guess they were about due.
I finally figured out that I must suffer from seasonal affective disorder. I have been worrying as I have felt so tired and unmotivated lately-well today was finally sunny and I swear my whole attitude changed and I got a bunch of stuff accomplished and just felt so much better in general. Maybe I am like a bear and I should just hibernate for the winter.
I missed the Quacker show tonight as there were too many other shows to copy and we had to watch American Idol live. I see there is a new Quacker contest this year. I signed up for another contest that I won’t win. lol I hope that they have a lot of short sleeve stuff this summer. I really don’t need anymore three quarter sleeves-although if it is I design I like it’s hard to pass up-but three quarter sleeves are practically full length on me so they are more for spring and fall-not summer. When did that length become so popular. I’d like to see more either long sleeves and short sleeves in both Quacker and Denim and Company.
GailHi Adele,
For some reason I stopped getting notifications. I shall have to try rechecking the box and see what happens. I loved my high school years but that is not true of everyone. I remember one girl(woman) that they called one year about a reunion and she said that the last thing she wanted to do was go back and relive those times as they were horrible the first time around. I guess we were some of the lucky ones to have had a pleasant experience.
I can only think of one marriage from high school that is still intact. Some of the others lasted a long time before they split up too-you would think by that time they would stay together. In fact I’m one of the few of both high school and college friends who has a long standing marriage and the only one of my siblings also.
Those OJ and the Madoff movies are supposed to be pretty good. I saw Richard Dryfuss and Blythe Danner who are in Madoff on a talk show and they said he was a sociopath who didn’t care about anyone-even his family. I also saw Marcia Clark talking about the OJ movie. I wonder how OJ’s kids have grown up through all of this and I feel bad for Ron Goldman’s family through all of this being dredged up again. I hear that Chigaco Fire is good-you would think I would watch it being from the Chicagoland area. We watch American Idol and the Voice and DWTS and sometimes it all gets to be too much. Too much TV=not enough hours. lol Well it’s the middle of the night it it seems we just blew a circuit breaker for some reason so I am on battery power on my laptop right now. I will have Greg turn the power back on when he gets up as I’m always afraid that I will flip the wrong switch. Anyway, I better sign off before I run out of juice.
GailHi Colleen,
I’m surprised that no one got you the newest Patrick Taylor for Christmas too. You will have to buy it for yourself. I am only three books into the series so I still have several yet to go. I think you read them pretty much all in a row where I mix them up with other books in between.
We have a few weeping willows-they were my favorite as my childhood climbing tree was a weeping willow. However they are very messy as a lot of branches will break off after a storm or a heavy wind so we won’t plant anymore. The people at the end of the road have them lining two sides of their property and they have to have them trimmed every year as too much drops off onto the roads otherwise.
I didn’t know that Danyielle worked. I thought she stayed home with Owen-or did she go back to work when he went to school full time. I hope that she stays home for a couple of months too. It seems like the younger people always have to be with someone or doing something or they get bored. It seems like they don’t know how to amuse themselves like we do. Jenny would go nuts if she were home alone as much as I am as she always needs to be in contact with someone. It seems like she and Adam are always talking and texting when they are at work. I never call Greg at work unless I really need something.
I e-mailed Brent last week and the new job hadn’t started yet as things were behind because of their snowy weather out there. He also interviewed for a different job in a different town so I’m not sure which job that he will take now. Hopefully he’ll know what he’s doing within the upcoming weeks. In between he has been working a construction job so at least he’s working-that’s the main thing.
GailHi Adele,
Isn’t a Monte Cristo sandwich deep fried or something like that. I remember having one in a restaurant and not being able to finish it as it was too heavy and greasy. So the idea of frying a cheese sandwich isn’t appealing to me. I missed that recipe anyway as I often am in another room when The Chew is on so I usually only see bits and pieces. I just found a new recipe for the crock pot that I want to try. It’s called Mississippi Roast-it sounds good and easy. You take a chuck roast or rump roast-they said sometimes they brown it other times not. Spray crock pot with Pam and put the roast in. Sprinkle on a package of Hidden Valley Ranch, a package of au jus gravy mix, put on a stick of butter and top that with some pepperocini peppers(however many you want). Cook on low for 8 hours. They serve it for a Sunday dinner with sides like mashed potatoes and salad or they also serve it on hoagie type buns for a sandwich. It sounds like just the type of thing that Greg likes.
Yes the kids out here have their proms at some sort of ballroom or other so no one organizes it like we used to. When I was in school the juniors put on the prom for the juniors and seniors(no one else could go) so my junior year I was in charge of organizing the prom. We did a Gone With the Wind theme (I imagine that I had probably recently read the book-although I’m sure the committee voted on the theme-but remember I am a bossy party planner so I’m sure I made a strong argument for my suggestion. lol My date and I were elected junior king and queen representatives. Anyway, the juniors always headed of to the beach in Zion the next day(it was always way too freezing to actually go into Lake Michigan in May.) And the seniors headed off to Post Prom which was held somewhere else than at the school. Now when our kids went to school the prom would be held at a ballroom somewhere but the parents got together and put on a post prom for the kids which was held in a rental hall right in Harvard. The parents would put this all together and decorate the hall pretty elaborately and have lots of food and a DJ and games for the kids to play. Greg and I worked on them when the kids were in school. I think it was done by the parents of the seniors so one year there was an Under the Sea theme and the next year it was a 50’s theme. The one thing that is nice about the kids proms now a days is that both the boys and girls can go without dates. Back in our day if you didn’t have a date you didn’t go and there were a lot of people that got paired up just for that night in order to go. Actually my senior year my boyfriend and I had broken up (his idea as we would be leaving for different schools in the fall) but we kept our prom date-needless to say it was awful. lol Plus I hated the way the hairdresser did my hair that year. Funny the things that you remember-junior year was a dream-senior year was a nightmare-same date-different circumstances.
I see the Wednesday night line up of comedies isn’t on tonight. I’m really enjoying Superstore so far and a show with John Stamos called Grandfathered on Fox is pretty good too. We’ll see which of the new sitcoms will get renewed. I hate to get to really like a show and then it gets cancelled after one season.
GailHi Adele,
Sorry that the meatloaf dish was a no go. It looked so good. If I remember correctly Mario served it with some kind of a sauce so maybe that made it less dry. I suppose Gary would never eat a sauce though. Too bad that you had to abandon the quiche-the hash browns as a crust is a good idea. How hard was it to roll that meatloaf up by the way.
Boy you really did have a small high school. That poor hockey team they just could not compete with the bigger schools.
Congratulations to Marissa on making the Dean’s list. Good for her. Tell her to keep up the good work.
I’m not familiar with the show Signed Sealed Delivered. What channel is that on? As if I don’t have enough things to watch already. I finally got caught up with The Good Wife and now Grey’s is coming back. So far I have the whole season of The Blacklist on DVR and I have not seen one single episode so I am way behind on that. I will have to binge watch sometime although a bunch of those together are hard to take as they are so violent. I normally don’t go for really violent shows but I think James Spader is so good-I used to love him and William Shatner on Boston Legal-loved the Denny Crane character.
GailHi Colleen,
Supposedly the Groundhog didn’t see his shadow so we will have an early spring-we’ll see. Are you getting any snow in your area? I think most of it is missing us again.
My Mom also read a lot of mysteries. I have a lot of cozy mysteries on my nook and i will usually read one of them in between more serious books. I get a lot of ideas for new books from that cozymystery/.com website. She has lists of them all. I don’t know how she keeps up with them all. I get several book newsletters. Another good one is Bookreporter.com-they send out lists of what new books are coming out each week in hardcover and paperback in areas that are of interest to me.
I remember the Charlie Chan mysteries. I have not seen them on TV in a long time.
Our property was basically a farm field with corn on it before we moved in. Some of the other plots down the road are heavily wooded and the people there had to clear out a lot of brush. We had virtually a blank slate. Greg planted a lot of trees. I had one rule. None close to the house that would block out the sunlight and drop leaves in the gutters. We had both things at our other house and I hated that. I know a lot of people want the big trees close to the house for shade but I will pay for the AC just to have the extra sunlight.
Isn’t that new zika virus scary. If a pregnant woman is bitten by the mosquito carrying the virus their baby might have microcephaly. If I were a young pregnant woman or one who might be wanting to be pregnant I wouldn’t vacation in Mexico or the tropics any time. I know they are frantically working on a preventative shot but i understand that is still pretty far out in the future. Those poor babies.
Was the chicken dish that you made that chicken schnitzel? It sounded like it was a winner.
GailHi Everyone,
I just realized that it’s now February (where does the time go) so i am starting a new discussion page-see you all there. Don’t forget to check the box.
GailHi Colleen,
I hope that Ron gave up on CNN and watched something fun for the weekend.
I’m thinking that there might be a lot more non allergenic makeups now-I hope that you can find something that works well for you. If you have makeup questions please remember to ask as I have tried a lot of different lines over my time watching the Q. Of course I can only give my opinion as what works for me might not work for someone else.
I doubt you will have to worry too much anytime soon if the guy is selling the lots for $100,000 plus the costs of building the house. I can’t believe he left while the brush fires were still going-they could have blown in any direction. That was irresponsible. When you bought your 20 acres was the house already on it or did you guys have it built. I know a lot of people didn’t like when their house was being built but I loved it. I loved the process of going out and choosing every little detail that would go into the house. I wish I could do it again and again except then I would have to keep selling our present house and moving. That’s just like I loved putting together everything for Jenny’s wedding-I really should have been an event planner as I have always loved doing that stuff and in high school I was always the party planner for various events. I guess because I was bossy and good at telling people what to do. lol However, I was a goody two shoes back then and never skipped-I really liked school once I got past that traumatic kindergarten year. I liked grade school and high school and looked forward to going. I didn’t mind studying and loved getting immersed in a subject and writing papers-I learned a lot on my own about specific topics that way. That’s when you really had to research something at a library-not just google it on the internet like now.
I saw that Brooke Shields was in one of those Flower Shop mysteries. Those are taken from a series of books-can’t think of the author right now but I have read some-The other series on Hallmark that is from a cozy mystery series is the one about the bakery shop with Alison Sweeny-those are written by Joanna Fluke I believe and that is a pretty big series. My Mom always watched Murder She Wrote. They were good-I’m wondering if those are from a book series too. They seem like they could be. There are so many cozy mysteries out there with so many good authors-there is a woman that has them all listed on her cozymystery.com website. It is a fun website-she has them listed by author or by theme or whatever. it’s a good place to find book selections if you like reading cozy mysteries.
GailHi Adele,
Obviously Gary doesn’t know much about cooking if he thinks he is getting a quiche without cheese. lol Greg likes quiche so I have no problem there-so “real men really do eat quiche.” lol Do you remember when that book was written? I don’t even remember what it was about anymore-just that it was funny and popular. That meatloaf that Mario made did look good. Hopefully you can disguise the cheese. If anyone makes it tell me how it went when rolling it up-that looked like it could be tricky.
I had Dominican nuns in grade school and then I went to public high school. I was a good kid in school and never was sent to the office-I saved my wild side until I got to college-what can I say-like I always told the kids-it was the 60’s. lol
Speaking of Dominicans-my friend Nan had a nun doll collection-she had all the orders in their authentic attire-I would get a guilty conscience just walking into the room where they were in their curio cabinets. lol All those nun eyes staring at you! lol
That’s nice that Gary will watch Hallmark with you. I know that would not be Greg’s favorite so I don’t ordinarily watch that when he is around. I’m sure if it was a one time thing he would watch with me as he is usually on his laptop anyway but since I usually chose the programming I try to put on things that he would like and copy the things that he is not interested in. He will watch House Hunters with me since I am addicted to it. I could kick myself as I forgot that Fox had a live showing of the musical Grease last night and I forgot to even copy it. We both really like musicals so I am sad to have missed it. I just recently found a program on TBS that we watched the other night that he really liked-it’s on Monday nights (I copied it) called Angie Tribeca-it’s a cop show comedy and it has all kinds of gags like in the old movie Airplane if anyone remembers that. It’s written by Steve Carell and his wife and we got a lot of chuckles from the sight gags and the ridiculousness of it all. So that new show was a winner.
Let us know how “operation fool Gary” works out. lol
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