[Gail Norusis]

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[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14904

Hi Colleen,
We did the same thing in grade school. Just played on the playground at recess and after lunch. It seems like they didn’t have to separate the boys and girls. We just did it naturally. You are right the nuns could really control a whole room full of kids. I guess that’s because they had fear on their side. That educational philosophy is long gone.
You are right it is Earth Brands now that Sally Coombs is a representative for. She was always so lively and energetic and had really long hair. gosh the people that I have seen come and go over the years. I wonder what happened to Lisa Mason. She came back for a few shows and now she is gone again. Maybe she found that she could not physically handle it. I know she has lupus and maybe she had problems with that.
I wish Quacker would do some chats again on the Q site too but i doubt that will happen as everyone seems so concentrated on Facebook. As to twitter and Instagram and all that-who has the time or the inclination. People are so busy interacting with their devices that they forget to talk to real people in real life. It annoys me no end.
We have stayed in this weekend too. Besides the hot and humid weather my back is still bothering me. i was hoping to get out and do something but things aren’t working that way.
It’s good to hear that it isn’t just me and someone else has the same problem with the Vionics. Another thing to eventually go into the donation bag I suppose.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14903

Hi Adele,
I’ll be right over for some of the Boston Cream Pie. Tell Gary happy birthday! I guess if I am coming I will need to bring a gift. What does he need besides a sense of humor? lol Perhaps some DVD’s of those unfunny comedies that you like to watch. lol We can explain the humor.
I have a night guard too-which I’m not the fondest of. They nagged me to get one for years because I grind my teeth-have since I was a child- so I think about a little over a year ago I finally broke down and got one. Expensive too if you don’t have any dental insurance which we don’t. I have never fully gotten used to it and wear it sporadically. I try but a lot of times if I have fallen asleep on the couch when I get up and get in bed i just don’t want to take the time to get it and brush it and all that other stuff. Every dentist visit i resolve to do better. Debbie has a night guard too so I guess we are all stressors.
Got an e-mail from my SIL. Her house has finally sold so now she is getting ready to move in with her fiance.I guess they will be living in sin( lol )since as far as we know no wedding plans are in the works. I Iove to tease Greg about his sister’s love life so that he has to cover his ears and sing Lalalalala.
I can’t believe that even in an all girl school that you didn’t have gym in high school. You were a lucky duck! Speaking of all girls or all boys schools I have a funny story. When I went to the U of I in Chicago I did some work at a local Catholic grade school in the neighborhood. Parts of the neighborhood around the college were kind of sketchy so instead of walking down the blocks to get to the school on days when I was working I would cut kitty corner across a local high school campus. It was shorter and I avoided some borderline areas. I always thought it was weird that if there were guys outdoors playing basketball or something when I walked across the high school grounds they would always stop and just stare at me when I walked through. It wasn’t until I met Greg later on that I discovered it was an all boys what he called EggHead Catholic school called Saint Ignatius. (that’s where he and his brothers went) So when I was wondering when they were staring if they had ever seen a girl before many of those little budding Bill Gates really didn’t have a lot of experiences with girls at an all boys school. lol
So far my weekend has been boring. My back is still hurting from those wooden pews so I have done basically nothing. I am good when I am sitting but standing and walking hurts. So I have been on my butt in my pajamas all weekend. Not what I envisioned. I’m glad that Jenny’s off tomorrow so that I don’t have to babysit. All that sitting on the hard surface must have pinched or squeezed something in the back. isn’t it weird how the smallest thing will set something off. So I wanted to do something fun but instead have been the most boring person in the universe. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14890

Hi Colleen,
We didn’t have any gym in grade school. However it would have been interesting if we had. I would like to have seen one of the nuns in full habit teaching a gym class. That would have been interesting. When I think of it they must have been incredibly hot back then-teaching in all those layers of clothes in unairconditioned rooms.
When we were in high school we had gym at the same time as the guys but there was a girl’s gym and a boy’s gym so we were in two different places. And when we were outdoors we were in different fields. We did have co-rec volley ball which I hated as the guys always hogged the ball. Because I’m short they could just reach over my head and get the ball. We also had co-rec square dancing. Even though everyone said they hated it-it was kind of fun just because it was something different.
A live audience Falloween show would have been lots of fun. I did enjoy the photos of the animals in their costumes.
I’m with you on the Vionics. Even though I have flat feet-so they should really help me I find that they rub in a funny spot for me. However I do pronate because of the flat feet so I am always tempted to draw those lines on my legs and feet and put a shoe on and see if it changes. lol After a couple of tries i will stick with my Birkenstocks. After watching the Q for over 20 years I have a good collection of many styles and colors. People always compliment me on the unusual ones and want to know where they can get them. Unfortunately I think a lot of those colors and patterns were made only for the Q so in the marketplace you can only get the standard designs for the most part. Zappos is a good place for shoes-I like them because I can find wides. Gosh-what did I do before internet shopping? I wasted all that time slugging around to different places looking for stuff. Well I guess back then I was younger and didn’t mind-shopping was also a social event but now it just wears me out. I’m glad that I can get most things that i want with the click of a button. Actually, years ago i did a lot of catalog shopping which in a way is the precursor of online shopping. Have you tried the Skechers yet. They don’t have as much support as Rykas and Birks but the Go Walks are so light-I just love them! Even talked Greg into getting a pair.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

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Hi Adele,
Gosh I hope that Marissa can find three more classes to get into. That’s terrible that everything is already filled up. Does she have a loan or scholarship or something that requires her to take a certain amount of hours? I hope that once she gets started that she enjoys school. Refresh my memory-was she going into nursing? I hope the counselor can help her find some other course to take.
What happened with the toothache? I hope it was nothing serious. I guess things can come up between cleanings unexpectedly.
My back is still hurting. Who would think that sitting on a hard bench for three hours could be so debilitating but I guess backs can sometimes get out of whack from the smallest thing. It’s okay when I sit but not so much when I stand and walk so I’m not getting much done. I will have to take Colleen’s advice now and try some ice. If there is inflammation that should help.
Greg’s out golfing this morning. He missed it for two weeks when he was off fishing. I’ll bet he’s glad to get back to it. Nothing else really going on.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

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Hi Colleen,
We wore those blue bloomers with a white shirt for gym. Those were goofy looking. I wonder why we could not just wear regular shorts?
I hope that you like the wine DJ’s-they had a lot of pretty colors. I think the wine is especially nice for the fall and winter. Do you wear the capri DJs in the summer? I have capris, pedal pushers and shorts that I wear.
Are you going to that Labor Day festival that you have talked about? I don’t know if we will do anything. I feel bad because pretty soon we will have to take the boat out of the water and Greg has only used it once to go out fishing and we have not gone riding in it at all. Without Brent here he just has not used it much. This should be interesting getting it back out-I suppose that I will have to help now. Have not done this in awhile so we may have to call in the support troops.
I wonder when they are going to announce the winners of the witch hats. That was so nice that they gave one to Jane for hosting the Spooktacular.
Has anyone tried those Alegria shoes that they had as a TSV the other day. I’ve tried the Vionics but I don’t like them as well as the Birkenstocks which you can’t get from the Q anymore. Right now I mostly wear Birkenstocks, Ryka or Skechers. I have to go for comfort not style with my ankle and my bunions. What brands to you girls like to wear?
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14880

Hi Cynthia,
How did listening to himself snore get your husband to do something about it? I thought there really wasn’t any solution to it. Unless of course the person has sleep apnea and then they need one of those machines.
I’m sorry that the MS has gotten so bad this summer. Pain meds in the middle of the night is no picnic. You do seem to keep a good attitude and a sense of humor in spite of it all-which is a hard thing to do when you are in pain. It’s nice to have the cats to snuggle with if you have been in bed a lot. Do you have conversations with them? I talk to the dog all the time when Greg is at work and now the dog is more deaf than my husband so it’s still like talking to myself. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

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Hi Adele,
Hope that you had a good dinner last night. Adam was off last night because he is working tonight so the whole big group of us went out to eat. Gabby and Enya were there too as Adam was taking them to the high school football game after dinner. I asked Jenny if they really wanted to go to a high school game with their father and she said they asked him to go. I wore one of my patriotic shirts too. It was a polo shirt with a collar and a basket with flags on the left hand side and (of course) two little butterflies flying over it. Piper noticed my butterflies right away.
I guess school is going better for Kendall so hopefully each year the transition will get easier and easier. They are going to the lake to the beach this weekend for probably the last time of the season. it’s going to be hot still this weekend and then cool down next week. The girls went in shirtsleeves to the football game last night but by the end of the season they will be bundled up. Greg used to take his “‘lava buns” seat cushion to sit on in the bleachers to keep him warm. We don’t really have any plans for the weekend-we’ll wing it.
By the way the naked lady mailbox holder is sporting a yellow hard hat in honor of Labor Day.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14872

Hi Colleen,
That’s funny that everyone thinks of me now when they see butterfly Quacker. I actually saw that one butterfly shirt with the sunflowers online a few weeks back and ordered it then. And I had the leopard butterfly shirt from last year. I also have a collection of butterfly jewelry. When you think of it-isn’t butterfly an odd name for an animal? I get the fly part but why the butter? Hmmm-I guess that’s another question for Google-if I had an I phone instead of a Samsung I could ask Siri. As frustrating as technology can be how nice is it that instead of getting in the car and driving to the library to look that up in an encyclopedia we now can just Google the question and nine times out of ten will get an answer.
I went to a public high school so there were no uniforms. In grade school they had no uniforms until they built the new school and then when we moved over there we had to wear them in 7th and 8th grade. They were blue plaid jumpers-so i guess our shirts were already tucked in.
Well that memorial wasn’t exactly a service as there weren’t any prayers said. I guess you would call it more a celebration of her life. It when on for so long since she was a member of the local folk music community there were a lot of people that wanted to get up and sing. Greg did not sing even though Keith (who was Judy’s singing partner) said he wished he would. Greg only sings solo every once in a while in public if I really twist his arm-even though he sings all the time. I guess he likes being with the trio better. I was surprised that there were still so many people there when we left at 10:00. I’m surprised that Greg wasn’t falling asleep in the pew by then. If he had started snoring I would have had to give him the elbow in the ribs. lol Speaking of that we have the split king sleep number bed and they always advertise how you can raise the head of your partner’s bed if they are snoring. I have done it a couple of times just and inch or so but there are some nights when he is snoring so much that he would be entirely upright by the time morning came around if I raised it every time he started. When it is one of those nights I have to threaten that i am going to put a pillow over his head. lol
Anyone have any plans for the Labor Day weekend? I guess we are just going to chill as far as I know. There is a really nice county fair but it might be just too hot to walk around.
Gail

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