Good evening, ladies. Just a quick one tonight because I'm on a borrowed laptop. We are in Lancaster, PA to shop the next 2 days then on to Hershey for the Quilt Odessy Quilt Show. Be back late Sunday so I'll catch up with you Monday.
gma22 , 07-29-2011 04:40 AM
Good morning gals! I sure wish I could turn around Fortune's clock. He gets up at the same time every morning and is insistent in going out so I have to schlepp downstairs and let him out then I just give up going back to sleep. He is sitting behind me right now and I know he wants me to feed him. Like a bad mother, I gave in and fed him around 4:30 yesterday as I was tired and cranky.
Looks like I have to send some of the stuff I ordered back. The one shirt I couldn't even get my arms into even though the site gives chest and hips measurements and I chose the size that was closest to my own so back it goes as well as the two capri pants which they sent me long pants so I have to send them back and get them to send the capris now. Hopefully they will get back there and come back to me in time. I also ordered a pair of sandals from Penneys and though they were not cheap in price were cheap in quality and didn't fit so they have to go back too. I may take them to my local Penney's and get a refund on them and just go and get a pair in town somewhere or forget it completely.
I have gotten nothing done the last few days and am a big grouch because of it. The heat and humidity are really oppressive here right now and the upstairs is so warm except in the bedroom where the ac unit is that it makes it hard to work up there. I don't want to clean downstairs as we are going to shampoo carpets this weekend from Marty being here so I see no sense in doing double work and having to go back and remop the linoleum after going back and forth from wet carpets on it. All in all, I feel a big grump on top of the fact the female stuff is rearing its ugly head again making me grumpy, hungry all the time and uncomfortable. Like Jack said yesterday, "I just need a vacation."
Thought you might like to see a couple beautiful photos from their Alaskan cruise. My son in law is quite the photographer. Kelly said the weather wasn't bad either 60's and 70's. I am sure she is excited to start her new job on Monday. I hope she loves it. I know when she worked for Alsac/St Judes before she enjoyed it though what she is doing now is much much different.
Keeping our fingers crossed that the SUV will be ready today. I guess the glitch was that every time they ordered a ford part using the vin number, they would send a part for a different vehicle so he was having to order each part twice to get the right one. Jack called last night and the lady at the repair place said they had finally gotten the last part yesterday and it should be ready today. I hope so, I want my car back and give the rental back to Enterprise.
You gals have a great weekend. Lots of errands this weekend as I need to send everything back and try and get you gals your slippers finally. I have to find envelopes to send them in and I have a birthday gift that has to go out to and get a birthday card to go with it. Faye
gma22 , 07-30-2011 09:27 AM
Good morning to you all. Today and tomorrow is shampoo carpets and clean house day. I also have a bunch of errands to do this morning but have to wait for our dang post office to open at 10. Yep, that's right ladies, I am mailing out your slippers today. As I told Gail, if you find they are a bit too small, wet them in cold water, wring them out then put a flat style pair of shoes or flat Keds type tennies inside them and let them dry that way. Hopefully the will fit you though.
I am pooped this morning at Fortune drove me crazy last night. Jack and I stayed up until around 11 to watch a movie and then went to bed. From 2 am on Fortune would bark at me (I ended up staying downstairs) I let him out, I gave up and fed him around 4:30, that still didn't satisfy him. Seemed like everytime I would doze off he would bark at me. By 7:30 Jack had come downstairs and I gave up and decided to just get the day started.
I have to go to Penny's and return the crappy sandals I ordered. They weren't cheap, but they are cheaply made and don't fit properly so back they go, have to go to the post office, then to the grocery store to get milk and bread and diet mountain dew for Jack. I am making "fried" chicken for dinner tonight so am thawing it out in salted ice water too. Before I go I am going to go into the dining area and vacuum so Jack can shampoo that rug while I am gone then we will do the living room one tomorrow. It is too hot to do both of them on one day.
Not much else going on it my part of the world. Have a good one today and stay cool and dry. Faye
gma22 , 07-30-2011 12:28 PM
PS: Your slippers are now winging their way to you, or in this case USPS first classing their way to you so you should have them sometime next week!
gma22 , 07-31-2011 08:39 AM
Good morning everyone. Just a short post this morning as I need to hop to getting the living room rug vacuumed so Jack can shampoo first thing this morning before it gets too hot. It is major sticky outside this morning as we had a thunder boomer yesterday evening that dumped rain but not cooler temps on us.
I am going to put off the actual cleaning of the house until tomorrow as it makes no sense trying to dodge and weave Jack while he is shampooing and then trying and get a nice dinner going and cleaning that up, etc.
I got all the errands ran yesterday but came home all sweaty. The shops and stores are trying to save money and so they crank the temp of their ac up. I was in the post office, which was barely even cool, then Penneys and it wasn't that cool either and finally Krogers, which I knew to be a bit warmer. I did get all the mailing done and took back the sandals and got a few groceries that we needed.
Well I see Jack is up and making his breakfast so I need to do the same. TTFN Faye
gma22 , 08-01-2011 05:33 AM
Good morning to you all. Please put my sister Alberta in your prayers or on a prayer list if you belong to one. She is currently in the ICC unit of the hospital. She hurt her hip on Friday, but when they took her to the ER the doctor found that she only had a 70% oxygen level. She told my sister there was no way she could go home. Come to find out she now has congestive heart disease, her lungs are full of fluid, and the diuretics they had her on to help combat both the fluid on the lungs and around her heart were messing with her kidneys. She is in a lot of pain from the hip, but they have her on both morphine and vicodan. Unfortunately, this woman has been on c-pap for several years now, and why because she smokes and won't give it up!!!
We finished up all the carpets, but I decided not to clean until this morning as I made a mess cooking dinner yesterday. Today I will tackle it.
Jean: Your slippers will be coming in a large manilla envelope. Sounds like the trip to the lake wasn't much fun. Does that mean the cabin doesn't have ac? It is wet and sticky here also. I let Fortune out at 4 and you could almost feel it on your skin. Jack looked at Branson's temps and they were hot and sticky also. We still have about 7 weeks until we go, but at this rate I don't see it being much better.
Well I hear Jack up and around. He is going to be down soon and always likes to play free cell when he eats his cereal. You all have a great day. Faye