[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44268

Hi All,
I’m back from my sick bed finally. My temperature is actually normal this morning and for that I am grateful. I don’t know if this was a flu or from my post nasal drip but i do know next time i see my doctor i will ask her for a refill on my nasal spray just in case. I hadn’t been bothered the last few years so i let that prescription lapse and I probably could have used it. Anyway, i finally remembered it helps to take mucinex so i started taking some of that and that helped the chest congestion. I am still coughing like crazy though. Anyway, I feel a lot better with the fever gone. I slept all day on Tuesday-fortunately i changed my dentist appointment when they called to remind me on Monday. No way that I could have gone-plus who would want their hands in my mouth? So i did them a service by cancelling . lol
I’m not really watching the convention. I watch the Today show every morning so i get updated when i watch that. That’s really all I need. I do wonder why it takes them a week to nominate a president. I wonder if it’s more of a big party.
Adele, glad to know that you are 2/3 through with the knee shots and the floors are getting put in soon.
Colleen, I hope the stomach pills help your problem.
That’s funny that you said Kaylee will be a lawyer because she loves to argue and has to win. Brent was exactly the same way and i swear he would have made a great lawyer.
We have had several watermelons. Some were really good and other’s mediocre. You just never know what you will get. I do like watermelon when it is really hot out as it is hydrating too. The local farm stand is opening with the marai corn tomorrow. I cannot wait. if you would ever taste this corn you would never want to eat anything else. I wish that I could just teleport you all some through the air so that you could try it.
I don’t have anything exciting going on as i have spent the last four days in bed. Now i have to catch up on all my housework that i just let go and I was already behind just from feeling lazy. Greg did cook our dinners so that was good.
Hope everyone is well.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44065

Adele,
Your wishes weren’t late. I believe Colleen’s birthday is actually today. I just wished her a day early as I wasn’t sure if i would be on today with the way that I am feeling.
I have a sore throat,cough and fever. Poop!
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44055

Hi Adele,
That’s hysterical that JJ complimented the electrician. Maybe he will be our future political peace keeper.
How nice to know that you made a child happy with your outdoor Christmas decor. It’s hard to let go when we realize that can no longer do all that.
When we first moved to this house i decorated all throughout for every season and holiday. Now I kind of do the minimum and much of the decor sits in boxes. I just don’t have the energy for it anymore.
Gotta go rest up. Am under the weather today. Here I was so proud of myself for not getting sick all winter. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44053

Hi Colleen,
This will be short as I am under the weather today. I used to have a prescription nasal spray for my post nasal drip but it hasn’t bothered me the last few years so I let the prescription lapse and now I am having a bout of it. When I had the nasal spray I could use it when I felt the symptoms coming on. Without it my chest gets congested and my throat gets sore and I often run a fever so that’s where I am today. I had to tell Jenny I couldn’t babysit and she had a job interview after work too and i didn’t want to mess that up for her. Fortunately, it’s summer so she will try to get Enya or Gabby to sit for her. I feel bad when i have to cancel but i just couldn’t do it today.
One of Greg’s golfing buddies got layed off work so we are hiring him to pull up the basement floor and lay the new tile down there. It works out well for both of us. We give him some work and it keeps Greg from trying to do it himself-as i have been nagging him to hire someone to do the work so he doesn’t irritate his back more.
I think a lot of people from our parents and grandparents generation had to drop out of school in order to work. Especially during the depression. It is sad that Ron’s Dad never had the opportunity to learn how to read. Could you imagine not being able to read for pleasure? I remember Greg had a man that he did business with in Arkansas who started several very successful businesses and he never learned how to read but he was a genius with figures. I don’t know how he did it but he was quite a character and had all sorts of stories to tell about his early life.
I’m going to get off now and nap some more.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44046

Hi Dianne,
Yes, chocolate is an important food group. The CIJ shows were nice. I did get a couple of things-not that I need anymore decorations but I kind of fell in love with the deer with the candles. I like to watch the Valerie shows as she always has everything decorated so beautifully.
It is sad what is happening in this country. Unfortunately I have no answers except to keep praying.
I hope that your summer comes back this week.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44044

Hi Barbara,
I’m glad that Sarah, baby and Neal are okay after her fall. I’ll bet that scared them both. I will pray that she has a speedy recovery as she has a big day in her life coming up.
Yes, I remember as a kid playing from morning until night during the summer months. Those long glorious summer days-full of possibilities.
Greg and his buddy’s usually have an early morning tee time when they play. Yesterday it was pouring rain when they went to golf-so they all went home regrouped and waited for the rain to stop and then they all went to a local nine hole course to golf instead. They will get that game in any way that they can.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44005

Hi Colleen,
Yes years ago people tended to only marry their same ethnicity or religion. I actually think Greg’s Mom would have preferred if her kids had married other Lithuanians-but by the time it got to Greg his older brothers had already married people who weren’t so they kind of paved the way. Personally, I think it’s better that everyone intermingles now. It shows that we are all humans and more alike as people than the things that some might want to use to separate us like race or religion. I hope it fosters greater understanding which we need a lot of in this world right now.
You would probably like the James Michener books as if I remember correctly they were all based on history and then he just adds fictional characters to the mix. I wonder if all of his books are still in print as it has been a while since he passed away. I know I read Hawaii and Poland and several others. I think there might have been one about Israel. I can’t quite remember as it was long ago that I read them. probably in the 70’s and 80’s. I just remember that they are all long books and some take a while to get into them but they all ended up being quite interesting.
Greg says the steroids have actually made him golf better-he says they made him play like he did 15 yeas ago. Unfortunately you want to be on them for as short a period as possible as they have some bad side effects too. I think he just had a weeks time on them and now is tapered off. I think the foot is still numb but a little better. I hope the pills do the trick and he doesn’t need the shot. When I was first diagnosed with RA I was on prednisone for about a year and half. it does take it’s toll as I gained a lot of my weight then and by the time i finally got off I had that steroid ” moon face” which i was really glad to get rid of. Unfortunately, I never got rid of the excess weight. Between quitting smoking, taking prednisone and slowing down I gained a ton of weight as I aged. There’s twice as much of me to love now! lol
Well Aliza picked a beautiful place to take her family on vacation. I wonder where in Colorado they traveled to. It will be her first plane ride. That was nice of her to go to Colorado to meet her aunt. There might be snow on the mountaintops in the upper elevations but there wouldn’t be skiing in July. I know most people love the mountains but they just make me so nervous to drive through. Greg would be looking at the scenery and I would practically be on the floor of the car telling him to keep his eyes on the road. lol You can tell I am from a flat state. Even the people of Wisconsin call us from Illinois flatlanders. lol
I want to wish you a Happy Birthday a day early. I hope that you get a dinner out and have a wonderful, wonderful day.
Hugs,
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #44003

Hi Barbara,
How sad that your uncle’s plane was lost and him along with it. It’s almost worse not to know what happened at all as there is no finality and one would always wonder what happened. It makes me think of the stories that I have heard of mother’s losing all of their sons during WWII. I just heard or read of someone recently who lost either 4 or 5 sons-I wish I could remember where I heard or read that story. How terribly sad.
So Colleen has bootleggers in her family tree and you have horse thieves. That was a pretty stiff penalty to pay for stealing a horse. I guess they were very valuable back then. I’m glad that things have changed in that regard.
I think for some reason most of us know more about our Mom’s side of the family than we do our Dad’s. It goes back to my theory about the different things that men and women talk about with each other.
I was lucky as both sets of my grandparents were very kind. My Dad’s parents were a bit more “old country” than my Mom’s. Also we lived with my Mom’s parents for a while so I was quite attached to my grandmother. She was my playmate. My Dad’s Mom was an excellent cook who could make the simplest things taste delicious.
I hope Jerry found his Mom’s keys. It is frustrating when we can’t remember where we put things. It happens to us all the time.
There are many other things at DQ that I will volunteer to taste test for you all if need be. I haven’t yet tried the brownie or the cookie sundaes-just sayin’. I will say that I highly endorse their ice cream cakes too.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's July! Let's Celebrate America! #43926

Hi Adele,
I hope the orthovisc shots will make your knee feel better. My friend has those too-although I’m not sure if it is orthovisc or synvisc-trying to stave off the knee replacement for as long as possible.
I think you are right-woman are much better about learning family things than the guys. If I want to know something about Greg’s family that he doesn’t remember I usually ask his sister as she will know. I always laugh about how Greg can play golf with a guy for years and not know if he has a wife or kids or anything. Woman talk about family and feelings and men talk about events.
I just heard this morning that Mick Jagger is having another baby at 72. I’m just shaking my head. lol
Did you see AGT? I wish they would have kept the rubiks cube guy and let the Estonian contortionist guy go-plus Howie really kind of wasted his golden button putting the 90 year old stripper through. You know these people will never make it when the audience starts voting. I just hope they don’t put any of the gross acts through. I can’t even watch those on TV so why would I pay good money in Vegas to see that.
I can’t believe that there has been another terrorist attack in France. How is the world going to stop these horrible atrocities? How can you stop these individual radicals? I just heard that many of the dead might be children and teenagers. How awful!
My sister is planning on going to France in November and now I am worried about that. I’m getting to the point where I don’t want to go anywhere anymore but yet I don’t want to stop living life either. What a sad scary world. Why does there have to be so much hate?
I hope we all have a happy peaceful weekend and I am praying for all those affected by the tragedy.
Hugs,
Gail

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