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in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #20481
Boy, Cynthia, between what you know and what your Dad told you-you really could write a book. I must say actors, musicians and other artistic types seem to lead rather unconventional lives. It must have been troubling in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s to have to live a lie in order to keep the public going to your movies. Especially when these things were not a secret among the Hollywood crowd anyway. I think now most people could care less about an actors sexuality-I know it doesn’t bother me one way or the other. To me it’s only a matter of if I enjoy that persons body of work or not. Although, personally, I must say I never cared for Tom Cruise and don’t watch his movies. I think I’m the only person in America who has never seen Top Gun. And after he jumped all over Brooke Shield’s for taking anti-depressants because of post partum depression I just concluded that he is an idiot and if that’s the kind of bull that goes along with Scientology anyone who follows it must be brainwashed. I don’t really know much about his first wife-is it Mimi Rogers? Another thing I always thought was odd was that he and Nichole adopted kids-then she had biological kids with Keith Urban and then he and Katie Holmes had a biological child-makes you wonder if he is the biological father. We always thought it was interesting that Johnny Mathis was able to keep his private life private despite obviously being gay. Maybe he was one of the lucky ones back then who was just respected for his talent. Your Dad must surely have seen a ton of interesting things during his career. Also I bet you learned a lot of great makeup tips from him. Nothing like a great makeup job to make a woman feel like a princess.
GailToday I am grateful for each passing birthday.
Hi Colleen,
Yes, the Hallmark Channel has lots of commercials too. I guess they are showing the new movies on the weekends. But if they are having 24 hours of Christmas movies for two months it would be too expensive to have all new movies so they have to repeat them. I usually end up watching them all several times over by the time the season is over. They are good to watch when I get out of bed in the middle of the night wide awake. I wish I could watch them on the TV in the bedroom and just stay in bed but it bothers Greg if I put the TV on in there. It wouldn’t bother me at all if he wanted to watch TV all night-in fact I like to sleep with a TV on even though they say it’s not good for your sleep patterns. When he is out of town I always leave the TV on in the bedroom.
Speaking of TV it seems like the last couple of days everything that we watched had tons of commercials for all different drugs. I would think that this would be annoying for doctors as now people are probably coming into their offices and asking for these different drugs that they see on TV. I swear they cover every body part and every body function! lol
Does your Mom want Quacker tops with long sleeves or just regular tops? Any of those things should be pretty easy to find on the Q. If you want just plain tops most of the lines have their essentials tops which are usually just plain and even Quacker has some things with just a little rhinestones around the collar. It should be pretty easy to find some nice tops for her. What colors does she like?
That last set of pearls from Honora were really pretty. I would keep them if I were you and just wear them whenever you feel like it. Pearls are so classic that they go with everything and that lavender color is pretty. After all Mrs. Cleaver always wore pearls with her Apron around the house-why shouldn’t you? I have several sets from Honora so I didn’t get that last TSV but I loved all the colors that it came in-it was hard to resist. I have also given some sets as gifts over the years. I didn’t know that you didn’t have pierced ears-it just seems like everyone back in the 60’s had them so I just kind of assume that everyone does-but I’m sure that is not the case. Do your daughters have pierced ears-or your granddaughters? Maybe one of them would wear the earrings? Anyway, I’m of the opinion that life is too short-if you like something wear it! What was the old poem-something like when I am old I will wear purple…?
I have bought that mac and cheese and the sweet potato casserole before. I served the mac and cheese because Greg and I don’t really like it but the kids and the grandkids do and it went over really well. In fact thanks for reminding me-I think I will order one for Christmas dinner that the kids can have. That’s a good idea to get some premade foods to make Thanksgiving easier on you. I don’t think the dinner matters as much as everyone being gathered all together for the holiday. That’s what counts.
I think Dan Wheeler has two daughters and a couple of grandkids so hopefully they all live close and can be around to support him. It will be a difficult holiday season for him with all the first times without his wife. I wish the best for him but I have seen for myself that only time will really help to heel the wound. It’s not something that happens overnight. I wish him peace.
GailHi Adele,
I’ll probably just wait and not do fall decorating since it will be time to decorate for Christmas before we know it. It’s good to hear that those stuffing balls were a big hit. I keep thinking how can one go wrong-stuffing and bacon together??? Both are so good.
I’ve had people ask me also if I had made a Quacker piece. Really when you look at the workmanship they are the equivalent of what they would be charging 2 or 3 times the price for in a little boutique store. We used to have a store around here called Fit For A Queen which carried only plus sizes and my Quacker stuff could stand up to anything that I found there. Plus when I shopped there I usually went to the sale racks as the regular stuff was quite pricey. If you had to buy something for a special occasion that was the place to go as their dressy clothes were really nice in the plus sizes and not just all matronly and old looking like the dressy stuff for plusses is in other stores. Unfortunately they closed up shop a couple years ago. I still miss them for when I wanted something different not from the Q. However, with QVC clothes you never see yourself coming and going. I never see anyone around here in Q stuff although there must be some around.
I know what you mean about missing Jeanne. I think we all miss her stories and sense of humor and positive attitude. I think we all felt like someday we might have the opportunity to sit down and have a cup of coffee with her and just laugh and chat.
I think you’re the only one who watches Grey’s so I have to ask you this as it has bothered me since Derrick died-now keep in mind that I have not seen the last two episodes so try not to do spoilers. Here’s what bothers me-they always acted like Derrick and Meredith had this world’s greatest love story and for the most part I always think about them arguing and fighting and deciding if they really wanted to be together and if they wanted the same things out of life. Just because they kind of finally found an agreement right before he died we’re supposed to forget everything that came before. I still always remember years ago when she did the choose me-pick me thing. Maybe it’s just that I always found her to be kind of a whiner rather than the strong women that she is cracked up to be. But maybe that is just how I interpret her. Sometimes I just wanted to tell her to suck it up and grow up. Another thing is about Alex-I just finished watching the episode about the two babies and how he worked so hard to save them both and kept thinking about how he has changed and really matured from his original character. I like the direction that he is going and who would have thought that he would end up in pediatrics. Plus I wonder what is in store for Jackson and April-it seemed out of character for her to just go off and leave him like that. Okay, just had to have that discussion. Kim was the only other person in the family that watched Grey’s so I used to have those conversations with her.
Hope that you have a good weekend and that your back won’t be too sore after the shot.
GailHi Adele,
I did the same thing and forgot to check the box at first. On the other site once you checked once that you wanted to be notified of any follow up postings it just happened. However if someone started a new discussion you had to respond at least once before you started getting notices. I guess each site is different.
My mouth feels better without the stitches. I think that they were getting irritating and just catching food and stuff back there.
I have done no fall decorating. I am getting so lazy. I have this really cute village too that I really like and it can go from September through November as it has pumpkins, turkeys, corn stalks all the fall stuff-not specifically a certain holiday. I just have not been motivated and usually I am looking forward to bringing out my cute stuff for each season.
I saw bits and pieces of The Chew this week but not all of one show. I tuned in yesterday just to catch the last bit of the gravy making. I must admit that I have never made homemade gravy I am ashamed to say. Somehow I can’t remember if my mother ever made it or not-maybe because we were all big stuffing fans and I just don’t remember if we had mashed potatoes and gravy or not. Speaking of stuffing I am still thinking about those bacon wrapped stuffing balls from last year’s Chew-I think I will have to go to the website and get that recipe and break down and make them sometime as I have been fascinated ever since I heard about them.
I have not gotten into the Christmas movies on the Hallmark channel yet this year. Sometimes I am into them from the first of November on but this year I am not interested yet. it doesn’t really matter as they will all be shown 100 times by the time that Christmas comes around.
Don’t have any plans yet for the weekend. I’m trying to find something interesting to do. Besides housework. lol I hope that you get your throws. Mine just came the other day and is really cute. I think the new movie may start today. Maybe if Jenny is taking her kids I will go with them as Mr. Grinch won’t go. lol although I’d bet that he would go with the grandkids.
GailHi Colleen,
I’m lucky that Greg doesn’t listen to the political shows and if he does watch a debate he doesn’t get all hot and bothered about it. You have a long way to go as the election is not for another year. None of the politicians are perfect but we are lucky that we live in a country where we can choose who our leader will be. Thank goodness we don’t live in a country where the ruler is the guy who just comes in and takes over by force-or a country where women have no rights-or a Communist country with no free enterprise. Things could be a lot worse. Of course I don’t believe anyone agrees with all of every politician’s policies so we have to pick and chose and elect the person with the ideas closest to our own. No matter how flawed our political system might be-we still live in the best country around and we never give up trying to make it better. Look at all the people from around the world who want to come here either to live or to go to college. Maybe you should tell Ron to run for public office himself if he is not satisfied with what the politicians are doing-that way he could work for the things that he wants changed. Plus then he would be too busy to watch all those shows and drive you nuts. lol there’s a method to my madness. I do understand though it’s annoying when someone watches all those shows and gets themselves all upset about everything and then you have to listen to them complain when it’s not your fault and you can’t do anything about it. I guess a lot of men like to vent that way. I think it would just drive up my blood pressure to get so worked up about something that I have no control over. You’ll have to get yourself a good pair of noise cancelling headphones as it is a long time until next November and there will be a lot of political shows working up to the election. Maybe you should get those channels dropped from your satellite. lol
Have you started to watch any of the Hallmark movies yet? I just have not been in the mood to watch them yet. Also it just seems that this year QVC does not have as much cute stuff as they used to and doesn’t have as many good gift ideas. Or maybe I have just watched it for so long now that it all seems the same. Thank goodness for online shopping though as I no longer have the energy to go out and get everything that I want.
I don’t think the time change affects the cardinal. It has affected Rocky though. He gets dinner at six and now at five he’s up and looking in his bowl because even though the clock says it’s 5 his stomach says it’s 6. It will take him a couple weeks to readjust.
It sounds like you are making progress with the doctor finally. That’s a good idea about buying the pies instead of making them. Especially if you are not feeling well and have to do the whole dinner yourself this year. Maybe Ron will help you and you can always use paper plates and plastic utensils to save on work.
Have you heard in the news about the police officer that shot himself and tried to make it look like a homicide because he had been embezzling and was about to get caught. It’s been on the national news. That town is about a half hour away from here. What a strange turn of events. And to think of all the man hours that were spent searching for the killers and that this guy got a hero’s funeral. People do crazy things that’s for sure.
Did you hear that the Q host Dan Wheeler’s wife passed away? I guess she had some sort of cancer that she has been battling for a few years. I am not on Facebook but you can rad the hosts Facebook pages without signing up and he posted some really heart wrenching things about her passing. It made me cry for his sorrow. I read that he posted photos from her funeral but I did not look at those. That seemed too personal but I guess because he is a public figure of sorts that he wished to do that. I say whatever will help you feel better in the time of such extreme sadness.
Gailin reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #20369I’ve been seeing her making the rounds of the talk shows speaking about her book. It sounds interesting. I always thought Scientology was an odd “religion.” After all it was started by a guy-L Ron Hubbard who was originally a science fiction author. It wouldn’t be any different than if you or I went out and started our own religion. It doesn’t seem like a very spiritual religion. Nichole Kidman and Katy Homes were wise to get as far away from Tom and the religion as possible. Funny how they never spoke out against the whole situation-it makes you wonder if Tom made them sign some sort of prenup saying they couldn’t talk about him or the religion if the marriages dissolved. It does make you wonder about the religion and it’s followers as it all seems so hush hush and secretive. People sure do weird things!
in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #20338I just finished Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier. Obviously a cozy mystery set around Halloween. She writes a series of mysteries mostly centered around different holidays. This was just a short easy read in the spirit of the season.
Hi All,
Today I am grateful that even though my ankle will never be fixed at least it hurts a lot less than it used to. Not much happening around here it seems. Everyone is being very quiet. I got my stitches out yesterday and she said it looks like it is healing well so that’s a good thing. The stitches were starting to get irritating so my mouth feels better without them. Hopefully this will be the end of the tooth/gum problems for a long, long, long, long time. Rocky gets a haircut tomorrow so he will have a busy day. He is always tired when he comes home from the groomers. We have had some beautiful Indian Summer days recently. Someone said only 50 days until Christmas. Plus it’s only three weeks until Thanksgiving-gosh-where does the time go? Santa is coming to the mall this Friday so the Season will be in full swing. My crazy cardinal is out knocking at the window. I hope everyone is okay-just too busy to check in. Colleen, hope you got that appointment and it will be sometime soon.
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