Gloria: The CUBS clinched the division last night and Jack said so did the RED SOX. We are just thrilled that maybe, just maybe they will get into the world series this year.
Jean: I keep forgetting to ask everytime I am in here. How is that young man that is your relative doing since his injury? Isn't he named Ryan too? I am losing it I just know it. Can't keep anything straight. Believe me, we will vote. I want to get some big changes in this city, but being the color we are, it isn't likely. Sad that the crook of a mayor might just get re-elected because he is black. Even the blacks are fed up with him but will go back to the same old thing and put up with him. I surely hope they would choose someone else.
I am a bit on the woozy side. I didn't go to bed until well after 11 and Jack's watch alarm went off at 5 so the dog thought it was time to get up so I had to come down and let him out then feed him. He is now all curled up on the sofa back to sleep while I am now up and awake! Doesn't seem fair somehow!
I got a gift for my birthday from one of my close friends yesterday. I know she spent a lot of money for it as she works part time in a fancy restaurant and the building has a bunch of little boutique shops and she gets a discount. Well the bag, I think is awful. It is an old fashion still, what my grandma used to call a pocketbook with the metal clip at the top, it is fabric in a baby blue with a pink handle and a pink fabric section in front with these yellowish green diamonds sewn on it and then dark pink sequins criss crossed all down the pink panel. I don't know who thought this is stylish, but..... I imagine I will take it with me when I go to Indiana and use it whether I hate it or not so my friend thinks I really like it. I wouldn't hurt her feelings for the world. She knows I am nuts about handbags and Lucy and last year I got a bunch of cute lucy stuff from her.
Well, I am going to go and knit on the vest awhile. It is kind of hard on the hands as it is a 3x size so has lots of stitches and I am doing the back, which would be the widest part. I work on it some then put it down when it starts to hurt my hands a bit. I would have put it on circular needles then knit it straight to hold the weight better, but I looked and didn't have the correct size. This is the button I bought for her vest. She works for the school system in South Bend and I thought she could wear the vest to work. I am using the honey colored yarn I bought for Tom's sweater and I still have skeins and skeins of.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Faye
This morning I went to all of the drug places in town and no one has it, but "they can order it" for me. Just to see what happens I gave them my name and phone # so we'll see if any of them call me to tell me it's been discontinued. That makes me so mad! My thumbs are better than they have been for months and I wanted some more! 
The schoolhouse button is sure cute -- you do find the best buttons!
Iowa!
This piece has malleting and chimes along with the ringing so I really needed to concentrate. The gal (Leslie) on one side of me is more musically talented than I am and never hesitates to let anyone know when they play a wrong bell, wrong timing, etc. She "forgot" we were playing this morning and the director had to call her and get her out of bed! The gal on Leslie's other side always gets Leslie's bells out and set up because she is usually late, but today that gal wasn't there and the sub didn't do it. Neither did I 
and Leslie was a bit frazzled when she realized she'd have to get her own stuff lined up. 
This is the same gal who took her wedding dress to the cleaners and never picked it up! 
I know you had fun spending it! 
Not too long ago our grocery store rearranged some of their stuff. I used to be able to tell Bob which aisle whatever was in and he would stop on his way home from the office. The Mexicans buy water from the machine and they moved that clear to the back of the store. Some of them fill the huge jugs that only two can fit into a cart; I would hate to have to lug those through the store. 
This store has downsized quite a bit of their selection -- only one brand available in many items and that is the store brand which isn't all that great. Life would be so simple if we didn't have to eat!
We really already have visited with them because they graduated from the same college we did; he is on the nursing home board with Bob and she plays bells with me. 
from Iowa!