gma22 , 07-22-2015 07:43 AM
Good morning to you all. It rained overnight and supposed to rain more the next several days including Saturday for the baseball game so we shall see what will happen with that.
Today I have an off day from cleaning so I imagine I will get a lot of reading done and I can watch last night's episode of Rizzoli and Isles on my Ipad. TNT has their main shows online to watch for free the day after the episode airs so we can watch the Cubs game then I can watch the two programs during the week that I miss; Rizzoli and Isles and Major Crimes.
When Jack was in the eye dr's last Saturday she gave his two pair of contacts to try, one has better distance vision and one has better close up vision. He was supposed to wear the distance vision until this morning then wear the close up today until Saturday when he picks up his prescription for whichever one he prefers. He said he thought he wanted the close up vision one as he has to read schematics at work that have smaller print so we shall see how he likes them overall. I have to go in next month and she had to do something because my overall vision stinks. I know my right eye is worse for some reason and hopefully it isn't something serious. She found cataracts in Jack's eyes and said down the road they will have to be fixed, but Medicare won't pay for it until his vision is only 20/40 correctable. I imagine, Susan, you know what that is about if you used Medicare to have yours taken care of.
My dress comes today (I bought another crinkle knit dress as the yellow one won't work being packed because it wrinkles terribly) and my handbags on Friday. They have shipped my sunglasses finally, but they use Endicia and it takes forever for them to move into the USPS system. I paid for priority mail but it is ridiculous and we won't be ordering anything from them again even with the discount. They called me last week and said they had the sunglasses in and they didn't ship them until Monday and they are still sitting in Austin TX and should have been here today with priority. Grrrr!
Jean: You are not going to believe it, but I got a very nice email back from the manager with a big apology and a guarantee he will look into it and find out how many cashiers are being scheduled, etc, etc. He said we were very valued customers and he wants us to continue to shop at the commissary. I mean he actually sounded like he was going to do something about it not just give you blah, blah, blah. Jack thought he had a virus on his laptop because he can't log into a couple websites at all. He has his cookies cleared after every use and there was no virus, but it will not let him into the sites. He can get into them on our pc and Ipads fine, but not on the laptop so I am wondering about a registry error or something like that. Who knows?
Everyone have a great day. I need to shower and get breakfast. Today is my once a week shampoo where I use my red pigment shampoo and conditioner. I should have done it yesterday but didn't. I can't do it in the shower as you have to leave the conditioner in for 10 minutes so I have to wash it down here in the sink. I will just wet my hair in the shower this morning then come down and wash it in the sink. I will see if it helps extend the color as the darn stuff was $60, so if it doesn't seem to keep the color bright, I will use it up and not buy it again.
gma22 , 07-23-2015 07:51 AM
Good morning to you all. It isn't too bad yet, but rain moved through last night and more today so it is going to be sticky in a real short time. I am staying into today though so no worries.
Got my dress yesterday, too big and too long so back it goes. The color is nice but the fit is awful. The thing dragged the floor it was so long and it looked like a moo moo on me. I did find out that with the room we have on next cruise that they have pressing free on night of fancy dress so I will get it pressed but wear it the next night as it isn't fancy dress. I went ahead and ordered an all black long dress, but don't know if I am going to like it at all. We shall see when it gets here tomorrow. It make end up looking like a nightgown and if so, it will go back and I won't order anything else. I will dig around and use some of my older stuff to make up the rest of the clothes I need.
I have to call the dr's office today as I forgot yesterday. I just hope the appointments aren't all gone already if they have the schedule up. I'm really thinking about going on Belviq and seeing if that will help with the being hungry all the time. I will have to pay for the whole thing, which is about $220 a month as Tricare won't pay and the company that makes Belviq gives you a prescription card to get it for $75 a month, but does not allow, Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare patients to use it so I would have to put out the whole darn amount. I am tired of trying hard and succeeding then something happens with the female stuff and I start overeating again. I don't have bad stuff in the house, but you can still overeat. I keep my weight the same, I am not gaining but am not losing either. I stayed on the full plate diet almost a month and I guess because my colon is so short or for some other reason I had very loose stools all the time so had to quit it. The second day after I quit eating so many veg, my gut settled back down. I now eat a veg for lunch and two with dinner and it crops up sometimes, but not always. It was so bad that I couldn't leave the house a lot of the times.
Jean: I saw on tv they are advertising stuff with Staples, Office Depot and the like for school, but school starts here 3 weeks from Monday. I can't believe the kids summer is already over with. Jay and Alicia are coming the weekend of July 17th. I am not sure when Jackson starts back to school, but he didn't get out until the 12th because of extra snow days. Sounds like you had a profitable day at the gift shop. I always look for the sales online then go and try and find coupons online besides that. I can get some pretty good deals. I did go to that Oakley site but then did some research about it and consensus was they were selling fakes so I bypassed it. It wasn't a sure thing that they were fakes, but a bunch of people posted that it was a fake site. How they are getting away putting the Oakley name on the site I have no idea, but I didn't want to chance it.
Everyone have a great day!
Good evening, ladies! A lovely day in the middle 80s. Monday it was 115 degrees! It's rained every night for over a week.
I've been busy with quilting, so what's new about that, and quilting bees.
Faye, Doesn't Jack get Tricare? I have a Medicare Advantage Plan with Humana and all my bills go directly to Humana and they approve all procedures. They paid for my cataract surgeries. Cataract are rated 1-5 with 5 begin practically blind. They approve surgery at 2 or more. Insurance only pays for the basic surgery. If you want toric lenses or one eye near and one far lenses, you have to pay extra, about $2,500 per eye. It's also extra for laser surgery. My very honest surgeon told me he could correct my astigmatism with the surgery so I only needed to basic surgery but I'd have to get reading glasses and he advised me to get them at the Dollar Tree. I've been very pleased with the results. They surgery itself takes 7 minutes. My doc told me to tell the drugstore to not run medications I have a coupon for through my insurance. Then it goes through. Apparently there was a change this year and Medicare is now allowing some of them because I never could get balance reward points at Walgreens for my prescriptions but now I get 100 for every prescription. The 3 drops I had to use before and after my cataract surgery were $475 with 1 of them covered by insurance. The rest were out of pocket.
Jean, the kids here go back the week before Labor Day. The school supplies are out in the stores along with the lists the various schools require - including things like Kleenix, hand cleaner and cleaning things. It costs over $100 to get the supplies so I'm sure parents are glad they have plenty of time to get the stuff together, especially if they have more than one child. The Y has a list of 10 items that they request donations of. The fill 150 backpacks for poor children. I try to do 5-10, depending on my budget.
Thursday & a Very Nice HOT Day
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GOOD AFTERNOON IN JULY MAGNOLIAS ☺♫
It is 103˚ here in the ♥-Land and it is good to be home now in my office where the air conditioner and ceiling fan keep me nice and comfortable. I am just going to make a boxed meal and fresh salad for dinner.
When we were at Wal*Mart today and finished and were leaving I said to Will “lets stop at Wendy’s and get Josh the cart man a nice cold soda.” We took it to him and the look on his face was precious. We like doing random acts of kindness. Then when Will went into another market to get some fresh salad fixing’s, the man in there gave Will a large bouquet of beautiful yellow flowers to give to his wife. Just gave it to him. Proves to me once again that random acts of kindness do ~ ”what goes around comes around.” The green grocer asked Will what his wife’s favorite color was and Will told him “definitely not pink.” So I now have a beautiful bouquet of different kinds of yellow flowers. Life is good.
DONNA FAYE I am sure you will find something suitable to wear in what you already have. No one will remember seeing what you wear anyway if you wore it before.
SUSAN Quilting is a good thing to keep you busy.
JEAN What a neat way to run a sale. Bet you were real busy.
Bob is picky about his dresser drawers so I put his pile on top and he puts it where and how he wants it. Since I iron whatever he wears in public, he doesn't ever complain. I hope the ball game is a good one!
The meeting was at the college and the program was the life history of a man who never graduated from high school let alone college, but became lifelong friends with a local banker. He left millions (oil entrepreneur) to the college and it was very interesting. There is an office, which we got to tour, with all of his personal papers and many treasures from his world travels. Now I have no ambition for the rest of the day! We are invited to a gathering in memory of our school nurse who died unexpectedly in Texas where they retired. Her husband is visiting relatives in eastern Iowa and will be here for a few days. Those attending will be all the "oldies" since the new teachers and staff wouldn't have known them. I am looking forward to it.
Hope you all enjoy a nice evening! 
Did you see my FB message about the sunglasses? I thought the one pair looked like the picture you had shared here. I have the beginning of a cataract but it measures less than 1 on a scale of 1-5. I hope Jack can get the contacts to work; I have a friend who wears one for close and one for distance; she said it didn't take long to adjust to them. It will be interesting what you find out when you go. For years my prescription never changed and now it seems to be every couple years. Here's to red shampoo success! 
