Morning gals!

Jean: I am still doing the runaround from my slip and fall. The hospital has still not been paid and I keep getting paperwork from my insurance to fill out. I think I have filled out the same questionaire about it 4 times. Don't insurance companies coordinate at all? Anyway, I just keep referring them to my insurer and sooner or later it will get paid. Now I see why people get so frustrated with insurance. The GM at the body shop says when a part doesn't fit and has already been painted, the body shop takes the loss not the insurance company even though the insurer is the one that insisted on the cheap part and paint. You pay these awful premiums for years and years and then when you do use it, they try and screw you.

Maggie: I took the test you sent me and got a 17. I think I missed Studebaker being the car that looked the same front to back (which is a total hoot because the car was manufactured in MY hometown completely and my grandparents had one. In fact, my grandma was a seamstress with them for years and years until they closed down production sometime in the 60's.) I also missed the Taxi and the Howdy Doody ?. Some of it was pretty much before my time, but I am a pretty good guesser.

I am going to spend the day with dd. I hope we can make some kind of headway on our rocky relationship. Maybe she is gonna grow up and except responsibility for being so difficult about everything with everyone. I sure hope so because I miss doing what we used to several years ago. We were really close when she was in high school and then she got too big for her britches from college on.

Have a good day girls. We are expecting heavy rain tomorrow possibly. We can use rain but can't handle a deluge here as we have a rotten drainage system. (Besides, heavy rain usually means poor dh gets stuck working a lot of overtime because their pumps and stuff shut down out at the plant)

Faye

Hey ladies!

Jean: Umm, did this man or his wife either one have MS by any chance do you know or Glaucoma? I know that if he is not a drug DEALER but it is for one of them that is may be a health related thing. I guess they have found it to be really beneficial for MS patients and their pain. It is still illegal though so even if you do use it for medicinal, you take your chances. As for the wrap sandwiches, we went to a place called Roly Poly and she and I are HOOKED! I had a cobb salad half wrap and it was yummy and her total veggie wrap was just as good.

I had a great time with dd and you all know the problems I have had with her. She even offered to let us take T to the movies in a couple weeks by ourselves! She also asked if I wanted to go with her and T to Nashville on a shopping trip, spend the night then come back the next day. I talked to dh about this change and to be honest, I am wondering if it involves her weight. Her husband is one of those skinny only wives jerks and so she got down to 125 but she creeps back up to the weight she was in high school. Thing is, at her current weight she is still like a size 10-8 on top and looks tiny not overweight. You know how losing more weight than is healthy can screw up hormones etc. Maybe she was hungry so she was B***** all the time? I don't care as long as we are able to have a good relationship with her.

I got out in the dark and walked this am. Normally I would never ever do that here, but it is supposed to start raining soon from Ivan and I had ice cream yesterday!

You gals have a great Thurs and keep an eye out for plants that don't look normal or the smell of rope burning...........

Faye

Jean: Ahhhhhh, those old hippy types are something else. it is like, "Grow up for gosh sakes!" I did something with my mil's wedding rings. Before she died, she gave them to me and said that they were supposed to go to Kelly when she was an adult. Now it got ugly because my mil HAS a dd, but she wanted the oldest grandchild to have them so I took them. Caused a brouhaha but that is another story. What I did was made dd a garter to wear in her wedding and sewed the wedding rings onto the garter. She wore it and then she lent it to my dil to wear at her wedding. Cool, huh? I thought it was kind of nifty and then when her son marries she can give them to her dil since she won't have a girl or give them to my ds's daughter if he has one, which is what I would like her to do.

Maggie: I am trying to get an account with the board but can't get a validation code no matter what I do so I don't know if I will be able to post over there or not. If won't be very often with me having 3 to do here and everything.

I have a bunch of stuff I need to accomplish today so better get going. Oh, my car finally is done. They even detailed it! It looks beautiful, but they found a valve called an EGF valve that has to be replaced so that comes next week I guess. The car looks like brand new almost.

Have a good day ladies

Faye

Good morning Magnolias!

I am sure you are all sleeping in since it is Saturday but I never sleep in like I used to. Guess I have too much time on my hands.

Jean: Hope you have fun with the kids this weekend. I can't wait until I have more grandkids and my son is my only hope now! My only hope is that it isn't born between June and Dec! We have all birthdays and anniversaries between the end of June and Nov 18 then stick in Thanksgiving and Christmas and there you go, broke for the year! I am struggling with birthday and Christmas presents this year. Jack and I bought ourselves an expensive digital camera in place of our birthday presents and he is buying me a wedding ring for Christmas (mine burned up in a car fire 15 years ago and we have never replaced it) and he wants some kind of a dvd recorder and that is what I am getting him for Christmas. As for the kids, the in-laws and dgs birthday and their anniversaries have passed but I have to face Christmas. Even T is getting hard to buy for because the little stinker has everything under the sun. With having an unmarried aunt and an uncle who just married with no kids, plus both sets of grandparents living, his every wish is fullfilled. I have a pretty good idea for my dd, but my sil is impossible as is dil and ds. Oh, well, I will have an inspiration sooner or later I am sure!

Everyone, have a good weekend.

Faye

Morning ladies!

Jean: I can't wait to buy baby stuff again. DD and I went into a fancy boutique for children called Little Lambs and Ivy and whoooo what prices, $68 for a little boy's sweater. I did see some beautiful baby clothes and a little boy's outfit I just might have to buy and set aside hoping our son has a boy somewhere down the road. Poor man is the only boy to pass on the Wilkinson name so it all hinges on him! We would like to have a Jack the 4th though what we would call him is ????? Jack's dad was Jack, Jack was Jackie (though I refused to call him that) my son was Jay so if you have suggestions, speak up!

We have a great Saturday. We went and got our hair cut then I came home and covered all the gray! The stylist had cut all my color off and boy!!!!!!! Then we decided to go see Mr 3000 and went downtown and had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe and they have a Blues band that plays outside on Beale street during the day on Sat so we sat and listened to that then went to the movies and decided to go back to Beale street. We roamed around on Beale and listened some more to the band, had a drink then went to Wally's for some stuff, got a pizza for dinner and went home. It was a fun "day" date. Yesterday we just hung around the house and Jack grilled skinless chicken in the evening and I had taken some new red potatoes, sliced them in half and took lowfat butter and fresh garlic and melted it and added the potatoes then put them in foil and on the grill and it was quit a treat.

Well, walking is calling so better get to it!

Faye

Morning flowers!

Jean: How can you get huffy at a card club unless you are one of those crazy people who can't stand to lose? What kind of cards do you play again? I have looked all over for card clubs but except for bridge, which I have NOOOOO idea how to play, I can't find any. I wouldn't even know where else to look to see if there are any here in town. We have a big bridge league here but that is all I could find.

Got my walk in and now have to tackle cleaning the downstairs today. I am supposed to have lunch again with dd tomorrow, then Thur have to have the car repaired and Friday is doggy shots so don't have time except for today to get it done. It is a little early as I just did it last Friday, but oh well at least it will be a snap to do!

I think we are going to have salmon patties and fried potatoes (well fried in the sense I cook them in a frying pan but I only use Pam) and grean beans. I like canned salmon but I don't like salmon steaks and whatnot. Now Jack really likes salmon steaks. I usually lemon pepper them for him. I need to do something from my crockpot cookbook that I haven't yet tried. It has some great recipes in it.

I guess fooling around here is not going to get the downstairs cleaned nor a shower for me.

have a great day (don't get wet looks like rain in your part of the country, Jean)

Faye