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Hi Adele,
Well Gary should be happy with the outcome of the game. I like the way he plans his own game day meals. I just watched bits and pieces of both games. Was just glad that the Packers didn’t move forward. Didn’t see the end of that one which I understand turned out to be quite exciting.
I know Animal Control would think that I was totally nuts if I called them about this bird. We live out in the country and a rogue cardinal is probably the least of their worries. Speaking of animals I got a chuckle the other night when Adam’s daughter Enya told him that his Dad had bought his Mom a pig for her birthday. It kind of sounded to me like one of those gifts that your husband gets you because it’s something that he really wants. Like if Greg bought me a guitar for a birthday gift or something.
I don’t think that Piper is psychic-just a good yarn spinner. she’ll probably have some creative excuses for bad behavior while she is growing up. However, my hairdresser has some psychic abilities. She has dreamed of things happening to people that came true several times and I take her hunches very seriously. Right before Brent was considering going back to NM I was getting my hair done. She was asking me if I knew anyone that liked hard rock head banging type music because she kept on being woken up at night by this type of music playing when it was really not-she was just hearing it. She said that she asked a few other people and they just looked at her like she was nuts. However, that’s the kind of music that Brent likes to listen to so we thought it was perhaps a message from Kim that he should move forward with his plans. Anyway, after she told me about it and I told Brent the music stopped playing so it seems like the right message got to the right person.
We are back to the bitter cold weather again. We have a wind chill advisory of 20 below here. I feel so bad for Rocky. He just got a haircut and when he has to go out he comes in shivering. Now that he’s older he has a hard time controlling his body temperature so i have one of those space haters from the Q next to his bed and will turn it on and run it for awhile until he warms up. He looks so cute laying on his bed in front of his little private fireplace. All he needs is a pipe and a smoking jacket and he could be a dog Hugh Hefner. lol Actually I wish I could get him to wear a sweater-but when I put one on him he just stands there and won’t move so i always end up taking it off. I also have an afghan that i will throw over him for a little bit too. It’s funny but our little peekapoo Belle-who was very touchy and I thought she would be the last one to wear a sweater loved hers. Whenever it got really cold she would wear it for days-inside and out.
Will Gary watch the games that are on today too? I’m sure that Greg will. It’s funny how now people watch the Super Bowl as much for the commercials as for the game-unless your own team is in it-then you actually care about the game too. We haven’t had that problem-if you can consider it that- for many years. lol
Hopefully we’ll hear something from Colleen and Barbara soon. I e-mailed Debbie last week but haven’t heard anything yet. I hope everything is good with everyone. Have a great day-stay warm and upright!
GailHi Adele,
Glad the neck is better as I know Gary will want you in your cheerleader outfit for the big game. lol You can’t cheer with a stiff neck. Could you picture the look on his face if you came out with pompoms and a cheerleader outfit? That would be priceless!
Speaking of commercials I just remembered another one that is actually gross. The skittles one where the guy has skittles pox and the girl takes one off his face and eats it. That makes me want to throw up rather than eat skittles-what is it reverse advertising?
Aizen will never know the difference about the stocking as long as he gets it eventually. Does everyone have stockings handmade by you? My kids had stockings that Greg’s Mom made. One knitted and one needlepointed.
Newborns are sweet. They are so dependent on us for everything. It’s amazing to watch them grow and change and become little people.
Yes I have heard the stories how people think cardinals are their deceased loved ones-but I know that’s not my Mom or Greg’s Mom. That’s why I keep asking why is Jane Treacy’s mother trying to get into my house since she is the one who talks about her mother and the cardinals. Greg has said if we had won the powerball he would have hired a bird wrangler to come out and capture this bird and relocate him. He is pounding as I write this. It’s funny because at first you feel bad for him but after months and months and months you just think he’s stupid and want him to leave.
We went over to Jenny’s last night. We hadn’t seen the kids for a couple of weeks. They were all excited from being at the water park and Piper told me and Greg a twenty minute story about ghosts and monsters and costumes and dragons and unicorns-she just went on and on. Who knows where she gets this stuff. I swear she’s going to be an actress.
May the best teams win today as long as the Packers lose. lol
GailHi Adele,
I hope that you are feeling better today. That’s bad that you can hurt yourself while you are sleeping just by turning the wrong way or something. There’s no way to control that. I hope you will feel better soon and can get out for that lunch next week providing the weather cooperates.
Well the couple who won the powerball in Tennessee were on the Today show this morning and it wasn’t Barbara and Jerry sadly. lol
That Bobby was a saint for doing all that shoveling last year. I hope you at least had a snow blower. You should needlepoint him a picture saying I work for Cookies! lol Speaking of that did you ever get Aizen’s stocking done by Christmas?
Yes Telenovela has a good cast of characters but is not very funny. Sometimes there are comedies that are lukewarm at first and then they improve or they tank-only time will tell. Speaking of TV-have you seen the commercial with the miniature horse who is shunned by the regular horses so the owner buys him a doggie door so that he can come in the house for company. I love that commercial!! I’m not sure what it’s even for-maybe Amazon. That little horse reminds me of the miniature horses that they bring to ONP-they are therapy horses and and just so darn cute and chubby-I just want to squeeze them. By the same token that ( I think it’s Verizon commercial) with the colored balls is just l plain stupid-I don’t get what the balls have to do with anything. I would love to sit in on a brainstorming session for commercials and hear what kind of goofy ideas that they come up with.
No our team-the Bears- are out of the playoffs. I think the Patriots are playing the Kansas City Chiefs which would be more in Colleen’s area although since we have been to KC many times I do have a soft spot for them-just like I have for the Colts since my sister has lived in Indy for so long and we have been there many times too.
We are supposed to have another really cold spell coming in by Sunday again. What a difference between the thirties and 5 degrees or minus degrees-then the furnace runs practically all the time and you still don’t feel warm.
Hopefully we will get some news from Colleen soon about the baby. Jenny,Adam and the kids went to a place where there’s an indoor water park for Kendall’s birthday last night and then they spent the night at the hotel there.
Our cardinal friend is pounding at the window again. Maybe he wants me to put in a birdie door. lol
Gailin reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #23571That’s nice of you to help. Maybe you could say something on the Quacker Factory Facebook as probably more people read that.
in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #23567I have read a few books since I was on here last. The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge by Charlie Lovett. It was a novella about what happened to Scrooge after his three ghostly visits. It was a cute story to read during the Christmas season.
Then I read The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans. He always writes such sweet uplifting books with a message. I know I can go to him for a quick feel good read.
I just finished V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton. We are getting to the end of this series and it’s making me so sad as I have read and loved and followed Kinsey Millhone for all these years. She’s become almost like a real person that I know. W and X are already written and then she still has to write Y and Z.in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #23565Hi Sue,
I have seen that Gardenman has a book out as I follow the book club forum. That was quite a blow him losing his Mom and brother within a few weeks of each other. I forgot that you are a BB fan-I don’t watch it so I didn’t see him on that forum. I saw where Lori Lori ( I think) announced about his book. I didn’t realize it was self published-for some reason I had the thought that he had a publisher. My brother has two self published books on Amazon too. Anyway, I have checked it out and am debating on whether to try the paper back or use my kindle app on my tablet to download it-as I only have nooks and he is not on Barnes and Nobles-at least not yet.
GailHi Adele,
Well we are not billionaires today. Boo Hoo Maybe Barbara is as one of the winning tickets was bought in Tennessee and it looks like it was close to Memphis.
Eating late doesn’t bother me as we have always eaten late-even growing up as a kid. Except if it was a huge meal and then it just sort of sits there in your stomach. I never thought about the cross contamination in the fryers in the smaller restaurants. Personally even though it’s not fashionable to say so I like McDonalds french fries about the best anyway. I like the thinness of them.
You must not have a garage if you have to move the cars around in the driveway. That must be tough in your area of the country. And it must have been awful last year with all the snow. We have a garage and Greg keeps the pickup with the plow in the barn.
You are right a house is always a work in progress. Except we got kind of spoiled building the house brand new for a lot of years there were not things to have to keep up with and now it all is changing at once. We have several things that need to be redone now after almost 20 years. I have no idea when we will get to them or which should come first. Have you watched the new shoes Superstore and Telenovella. So far I like Superstore-Telenovella not so much-we’ll see how it goes or if either of them will stay on the air. I have not watched one episode of the Blacklist yet this year. They are all copied but i just have not gotten to any of them yet. Sometimes it’s too much TV-too little time. That’s okay-i will catch up eventually and I just make it a point not to read any spoilers. Not sure what’s cooking tonight-I still have to figure it out.
GailHi Colleen,
Danyielle is just two days past due-right? That would be kind of cool if she has it on Saturday which is Kendall’s birthday-then we would have another thing in common. We could help each other remember our granddaughter’s birthdays. lol Actually my hair stylist also has a birthday on the 16th too.
I hope that you all get things figured out so that your Mom is happy and all you kids feel that she is safer. It’s so good to hear that she is doing better-she sounds like she is really resilient. That was very informative to know from Adele that often older people are really adversely affected by UTI’s. It’s a good thing to remember for ourselves as we age.
We had just a little bit of snow yesterday nothing bad at all. I think they were getting more of that lake effect snow in Ohio and such-east of here.
I forgot that you had the Kansas City Chiefs-you would think I would remember as we have gone to KC every year for about the last 8 years. I could never get used to the Rams being in Saint Louis anyway-I always thought of them as the LA Rams from way back. You are having a very busy week. By the time the baby comes and you get your Mom all squared away you will be ready for a vacation. Hang in there!
GailHi Adele,
Yes sometimes all the family connections are confusing. It’s nice that everyone lives nearby. Somehow though I remember something about your parents house-did they have a house close to where you live now or something? I think that’s what’s confusing me. I’ll bet Marissa gets lots of good use walking to classes in those Uggs. I remember walking to classes in freezing weather in College. That’s a good enough reason to choose a college in a warm weather state. Except that I could get tuition scholarships for schools in my own state but not in others so i guess that figured into the decisions of going to ISU and U of I. My nephew went to Boston College for some of his undergrad studies. My parents had friends from Boston and it seems I remember conversations about real estate in that area being some of the highest in the country. I don’t know if that would still be true or not. I know around San Francisco you can only get a tiny little house for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I am addicted to House Hunters on HGTV and it amazes me the difference in real estate prices throughout the country and the world. It really is location location location. I miss the days before the real estate bust when they used to have Parades of Homes and things like that. Those houses were fun to walk through and get new ideas of things to do with your own home. We walked through hundreds of homes getting ideas before we built this house and amazingly enough because we planned so well there were few things that I would have changed afterwards. Of course now after almost 20 years there are things that need to be changed and updated but for the most part the general design has stood up to the test of time.
It’s the fresh garlic that bothers me. My Dad was like that and a friend of Jenny’s is like that so I wonder if some people have a stomach enzyme or something that reacts to the garlic. I often hear Rachel Ray say how she always smells of garlic so I’m wondering if i could ever even eat her cooking.
I hope that you get your lunch in this week. I am like in lockdown mode and just don’t want to leave the house unless absolutely necessary. I can’t believe I am this sick of winter already and it is only the beginning of January. Fortunately I should have enough food in here to cook all week. Thank goodness for frozen and canned foods. These are good crock pot days. Maybe I’ll do a crock pot meal this week.
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