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Hi Colleen,
I’m sure Piper will like having me to herself next year-although right now she totally monopolizes my time and doesn’t like if I want to do something with Lachlan. She doesn’t want anyone interfering with her Gigi time. lol
How nice that you will shop and have lunch with two of your daughters today. That is a good day. I hope that you find a good toy for Aliza.
I must say Jenny never complained about weight or size in high school. I hope that means that I gave her a healthy body image. Of course she had nothing to complain about anyway. And now working full time and having three kids keeps her in great shape. lol She never sits down!
The guy that we are seeing Saturday sings blues-not blue grass-I actually don’t mind blue grass. He is kind of famous for playing the harmonica. I’m sure it will be fine. The people we are going with wanted us to meet at their house and drive with them to the restaurant and concert-but I told Greg I would rather drive ourselves as I think they will want to go somewhere after the concert and I want to be able to leave when we want to without seeming like a party pooper. I don’t like to leave Rocky for hours and hours. So he is supposed to call the guy today and tell him that we will meet them at the restaurant. I just don’t like feeling like someone else is in charge of when I get home. I know that sounds stupid but I like controlling my own fate when I can.
I don’t think Greg is crazy about flying-I think he dislikes it less than I do but sometimes situations occur where you just have to fly. Especially for business. You can’t take a week off of work to drive to a meeting in Texas. Or sometimes we have things to go to cross country but Greg just can’t be away from work long enough for us to drive there so we have to fly. Neither of us really like it-as it is now a huge pain in the butt-but sometimes you have to do it to get somewhere within a limited amount of time.
Has anyone been to the Q site. They are having lots of contests to win things in honor of their 30th anniversary. I think there is something to sign up for every day. Gosh, I can’t believe that I have been shopping at the Q for almost all of those 30 years. Wow!
GailHi Danielle,
I heard about the Egypt Air flight crashing too-but I thought that it hasn’t been determined what caused it yet-although they are leaning towards a terrorist attack-no one has come forward to claim responsibility. What a crazy world!
I have those Genie bras but I only wear them around the house as to me they don’t seem very supportive. But they are comfortable but they do kind of smash you down instead of support-especially if you take the cup thingies (technical term) out. You are supposed to step into them and pull them up which is hard for me as all my weight is in my stomach and butt-I have tried putting it over my head but then you have to have eight arms like an octopus in order to pull it down. So it is comfortable but by the time that I get into it I am sweating so much that I need another shower. lol
GailHi Adele,
I don’t think Piper really understood that she won’t be going to school there. But she will be at preschool next year. I don’t know if they know who Lachlan’s teachers will be next year. I’m assuming that he will go to the dual language classes like Kendall so if that’s the case he will have two teachers-one for Spanish and one for English.
Maybe some day Gary will feel comfortable enough to come over and whisper “penis” in your ear. lol Talk about sweet nothings! The poor man-how we abuse him. lol
Every time you talk about your old job it reminds me of how similar your work background is to my sister’s. She too dealt with a lot of child abuse cases. Did you have that doll that they sometimes use when talking to the kids when abuse is suspected? She never talked a lot about her cases but I imagine she sometimes heard and saw things that made it hard to sleep at night. How anyone can hurt a child in any way is beyond me. Those people are sick!
Poor little Aizen. No cookies at Nana’s. You should keep a stock of candy or something on hand just for these types of emergencies.
I agree sometimes the skinny people will complain about being fat just to have you say that they are perfect. However, I won’t play into that. I’m more likely to point out that if they are fat that must make me a whale. Fortunately, at this stage of my life most women don’t do stuff like that anymore. Sometimes, I will say something first about being fat to deflect the negativity of people towards heavy people. Believe me-I never imagined that I would be a 1x-I’m not sure how I got here either as I don’t sit around eating bon bons all day long. However, I expect to be treated with kindness and respect and I’m going to live my life and be happy no matter what my size because I deserve it. Now I sound like Al Franken from SNL doing my morning affirmations. lol
I like those Carole Hochman PJ’s too-although in the summer I wear the ones that have the Bermuda shorts.
Talking about dribbling on our chests you won’t believe what I did. I have so many shirts (Greg does too) with one spot of grease on them which didn’t come out in the wash and I am tired of having some of my pretty Quacker ruined because I can no longer keep my food in my mouth. So I went on Amazon and ordered two adult bibs. One for me and one for Greg. I’ve tried sticking a paper towel or a dish towel into the neck of my shirt but they keep falling off-sometimes i would wear an apron just to keep my shirt clean while eating. So I just got these bibs instead. Greg will not wear his but i wore mine the other night-I would much rather do that than have a favorite shirt ruined. Especially with summer coming-we eat a lot of corn on the cob and I always drip butter on my shirt and that doesn’t come out a lot of times if you don’t pretreat – and half the time I forget so I will stop the problem where it starts. lol
Boy Adele you are going to have a hard time keeping those easy pays in check with a Quacker TSV coming up next week.
GailHi Dianne,
Love the picture of Jewell-that’s her name right? I like her cat perch too.
I’m with you-not a morning person.
You are right-we just talk about anything and everything here. I imagine sometimes James’ and Tiago’s ears might be burning if they ever happen upon something that we have written.
I have bought Breezies bras. I like the wild rose style without the underwire.
We are finally getting some nicer weather. 70 today. Now if we could only get the rototiller back to prepare the garden. Otherwise we won’t have any fresh veggies til September at this rate. Nothing is better than garden tomatoes and cukes and fresh corn on the cob. Hooray for summer.
GailHi Adele,
I think we all have a bit of a Lock n Lock addiction. I am particularly drawn to the ones that have a design on them. (of course-as it does seem very Quackery). I am on a wait list for the set of two pitchers that they had yesterday. I had two at one time but right now we are using one for dry dog food and the other has disappeared…hmmm.
Poor Gary-he must have had a repressed childhood if he can’t even say “penis”-can he use slang terms for “it.” Gosh, I’m afraid the conversations around here sometimes could have him turning beet red. lol I do understand that it would be important to a man-but can also understand where the guy talking about writing a letter to the donor’s family would be enough to tickle your funny bone. It’s kind of like dark humor-like getting the giggles at a funeral-like the old Chuckles the clown Mary Tyler Moore episode. Poor Gary really does need to get a sense of humor. (don’t tell him I said that). I think Greg told me about the penis transplant the other day-I don’t remember what we said but I imagine we had some sort of conversation about it. Personally, if it was me I think I’d rather just have it be private-not public-if that is even possible in this day and age. To me it is beyond understanding why the younger generation thinks anyone cares where they are, what they’re doing and what they are eating at all times of the day and night. Nobody cares what i am doing or thinking or wearing all day long and i know that. Maybe this is why people think the younger generations are so self involved. I don’t know.
I think we are finally getting some warmer weather. I will be breaking out my Quacker Americana this weekend. Hooray!!!
Here I have been commenting on all the four hour lines to go through security at O’Hare airport and saying how glad I was that we weren’t going anywhere by air anytime soon and then poor Greg comes home and tells me he has to go to Houston sometime in the next several weeks. We’re hoping that he can get a flight out of Milwaukee instead of having to go to Chicago.
I hope that you had fun with JJ-how nice that you had one of his favorite meals on hand. Will he be out of school soon? Our kids are out next week. Yesterday, Lachlan’s preschool class went to tour the kindergarten rooms for next year and Piper was in line with him (wearing her red cowboy boots-of course) because she thought that she would be going too. lol She will probably love it next year when she has me alone for an hour before Kendall and Lachlan come home from school. she dominates the conversation now anyway-and poor Lachlan can’t get a word in edgewise. As she says, “I just love to talk.” lol
GailHi Colleen,
The kids used to like those pop up toys. I remember I gave one to Kendall that was a Sesame Street one and I think all three kids played with it. Our WalMart is a very small one even though it’s a super WalMart and the toy section is pretty bad so I usually end up ordering online from WalMart just for the variety. Wally usually has better prices on the same toys than Toy’s r Us.
One thing that I think all mothers can do to help their daughters with body image is not to be complaining about what they feel are their own figure flaws in front of their daughters all the time. I know when I was younger (and smaller) I still had what would be considered a “pear” shape. But when the kids were little they never heard me complain about anything that I didn’t like about my physical appearance-I kept that to myself. I think it’s important for kids to grow up thinking that we are all beautiful “just the way we are.” Also I hate when perfectly lovely woman with perfectly fine bodies put themselves down about something that doesn’t even exist. It’s not setting a good example-plus it just ticks me off and I want to just slap them. lol Boy, I’m mean-aren’t I? But it’s just something that really bothers me. The other day on the Today Show-the anchor-Savannah Guthrie-who is tall and thin-said something bad about her figure-and it just made me cringe-plus she has a baby daughter and I’m sure she would never want her daughter to hear her say things like that-if she just thought about it. Okay-I’m done.
That’s funny that Ron’s BIL talked him into using a window air unit but he has central air. Maybe he should take his own advice. lol
Some friends of ours had tickets to a Corky Siegel concert this weekend so we will probably go out to diner before the concert and to the concert with them. I’m not that crazy about blues but the guy that has the tickets is a big fan. Plus Corky has been around forever-heck I used to go see him in Chicago when he used to play all the time at a little bar under the El tracks on Belmont Avenue about three blocks from my apartment. Anyway, just going out with friends and hearing live music is fun.
GailHi Barbara,
I’m glad things worked out well for Jerry and his Mom. I imagine the case worker has to deal with a lot of similar situations so she has a feeling when someone has staked a false claim. It saddens me when I think of how greedy family members can get. We have a similar situation on Greg’s side of the family and sometimes I wonder how this woman sleeps at night after alienating everyone-and as far as I am concerned she is the one most hurt by the whole situation.
Yes, back in the old days we wore maternity tops and now everyone shows off their bellies. Times have changed that’s for sure.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who’s boobs no longer stand at attention. How does this happen? One day they’re facing forward and the next they are pointing at our toes. lol I never could tolerate an underwire either-another thing probably invented by a man. lol How can one put wires next to their rib cage and expect them not to poke.
That bike shirt is really cute. It looks so festive! I can’t wait to wear my Quacker Americana.
GailSue,
Congratulations on your upcoming retirement. I’m sure they will miss you at work but I’ll bet that you won’t miss having to go out on days when the weather is bad.
GailHi Colleen,
I hope that you found some new toys for Aliza. They have so many cute toys for babies now.
We are lucky and can just switch the thermostat from heat to AC. You must be really freezing without heat. We had a frost again this morning. However, we are supposed to see some 70’s soon so that will be nice.
I wouldn’t put the sauerkraut on the hamburger either. For some reason though here lately I think I could eat a hamburger every other day. I guess our tastes change as we age-sometimes now I would rather have hamburger than steak and I never thought that would happen.
Talking about corsets-have you seen those waist trainers that some women wear nowadays. I think Kim Kardashian might use one-they are like torture devices. I saw a woman on Dr. Oz (don’t normally watch his show as I don’t really like him) who had it like cinched down to 17 inches and she actually looked terrible-so out of proportion because her chest was really big. I think what those people need is a good psychiatrist to deal with their distorted body images. I actually find it sad-to me she looked like a sideshow “freak.” What strange things people do to themselves in the name of “beauty.” If only they could come to terms with the fact that true beauty comes from within.
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