MORNING GALS!

Maggie: My new dil is half Mexican and we adore her. You are right about the illegals problem and it keeps gettting worse and worse. It seems to me the Mexicans that are citizens or at least green carders would be just as irate that an illegal is taking food from their kids mouths too!

Jean: I used to think I was pretty unbiased, but like you I have a spouse who is very bigoted against one race and thre is a reason. He grew up in New Mexico and so lived in a large biracial area, but while he was in the Navy, he was walking to his barracks after work one evening and about 3 feet from the back door was jumped by 4 men all of the same race, who beat him to a pulp, broke all the bones in his sinus area, broke his nose etc and for what? He had $4 in his pocket. He is not outwardly bigoted, but he does express it around me a lot. Now as for me, living here, I have become more of a cynic. There is such a majority here that are rude, nasty and feel you owe them something that it is hard not to become prejudiced against them. I get pretty fed up with the superiority routine and have to really watch myself to not get irritated about it all the time. I still have the integrity to go on a person by person basis.

I had a hard night last night, but I guess I am getting better. I took some meds and cough syrup and did sleep, though I had a real bout of coughing sometime in the night. Thing is, I am not congested in my chest, just coughing from a tickle in my throat so I think it is allergies.

I need to get over this so I can get back to my food plan and exercise and such as I was doing so great before we left for Indiana. You know how it is when you are sick, you don't want to do anything and grab the easiest thing there is to eat.

I guess I better get going

Faye

morning girls!

Maggie: Hope those new shoes will fit you better than the new shoes did... Sounds like your "hot dog man" knows where it is at!

Jean: Geez, it is nice to have your health insurance paid, but they are kind of puny on the life insurance policy aren't they? Because I don't have income, I just have a $10,000 with AARP so he can bury me! Don't want him getting ideas about getting rich off me...

I am getting better except like an idiot, I took my bagless vacuum canister out and emptied it on a windy day and got it blown back in my face so got sick all over again. I am coming around. I think I will be back 100% tomorrow so I can get back to what I need to do to get skinny.

I cleaned the downstairs on Saturday and Sunday we went to Home Depot to check out tile for the downstairs, Jack got sick in the store and I had to rush him home. Problem is, with his heart meds, he has very few meds he can take OTC. I checked all of them and found he could take immodium so loaded him up and he was better by evening. I guess we will go back sometime today to pick out the kitchen style. We are in no hurry as we are not getting it installed until next year, but we have nothing to do today (City employees get off today because of MLK assassination was today) so he is hanging out at home. He is making breakfast so I guess I better hop to it.

Faye

morning girls!

Jean: Ahhh, that tells a lot regarding the insurance!

It is nice and warm and sunny for the moment here today. It is supposed to cloud up and rain though this afternoon. I noticed my tree out back is finally budding so maybe spring has sprung. It seemed a lot more springy in Indiana and they have had serious cold weather and lots of snow. In fact it snowed the day we got up there. My friend's crocuses were all beautiful and in bloom and I know my grandma always gaged spring up there according to when her crocuses bloomed.

I have some housecleaning I want to get done. I felt bad yesterday with a lot of coughing and such and just didn't feel like dealing with the upstairs so need to get it done today I guess. Jack went back to work today so it is pretty boring around here.

We went looking at tile again yesterday afternoon and Jack nixed the idea of the original one we picked out (or rather HE picked out) We couldn't find anything we liked and was within our budget so we went to Lowe's and found the perfect tile and have decided on it. It will blend with all the wall colors downstairs so we can put just one tile color in the whole downstairs. I also decided to repaper the hall bathroom and found a pretty paper for it, though I think I am going to go online to the wallpaper place and see if I can find something I like better. I painted the woodwork a lavender and need to blend a paper with that as I am NOT repainting it and the cabinets except to touch up. It is that time of year again when I drag out the paint and do touchups on everything. I want to get everything except the floors done before my sister comes down to visit after school gets out for the year and they usually end in June sometime. Looks like I don't have a lot I have to do this year. I am still deciding whether or not I want to paint the kitchen cabinets another coat of white or just touch them up in places. That was an exhausting job doing it alone last year, with all the doors, taking off handles and such. I usually put a new coat on the countertops in the kitchen and bathroom to brighten them up and I have a couple little spots on the bathroom wall to touchup where I splashed red hair dye on the wall a little.

I guess talking is not getting the cleaning done. Have a good day everybody

Faye

Morning gals!

Jean: I have two sisters and a brother. My younger sister lives in Calif and my brother lives in a Chicago suburb. My older sister is the one that lives in Indiana and her dh is the one with MS. She has has a pretty hard adult life. Her love interest in college up and married her roommate and best friend pretty much out of the blue. She was so traumatized by it she came home from college and didn't go back. She started slinging hash at this diner and met this Hungarian man 20 years her senior and up and marries him just a few months later (bigtime rebound booboo) He was physically, mentally and verbally abuse to her and their three children and ended up committing suicide with my nephew's hunting rifle in my nephew's bedroom when the kids were 13, 14 and 16. The oldest has had a severe drinking problem ever since then as it was his gun and his room and never got any therapy for any of it. She had little skills and struggled to get her kids through school. The two oldest dropped out of school but went to work as brick layer laborers, learned the trade and have a business together. I have to brag and say they are probably the best I have ever seen at their job. After they were all three grown, she met her current husband who she knew had MS but at the time was totally mobile, even played golf etc and was an accountant at a hospital in patient accounts for like 20 years until he could no longer work. She has made poor choices when it comes to husbands but with regards to the second one, I think she was just plain lonely. He has been a royal pain since I have known him with a big chip on his shoulder and has always let his disease rule him instead of the other way around. He plays for sympathy and has always made her be his maid even when he could still get around on his own. Sometimes I feel her kids kind of ignore her, but in their defense until about a year ago, she was impossible to deal with and I had very little to do with her myself. I guess I came to realize that her attitude stemmed from her life and though she chose it, she did not chose to be treated the way she was. She has been pretty miserable and now on top of everything is of course the only bread winner, they are both 6-10 years out from retirement (though of course he does not work and is on disability such as it it) and she has to put 20 years in with the school city to get a pension and to continue any kind of insurance for them. It is a lot to put on one person so I kicked myself in the pants, gave myself a good talking to, and made a real effort to really get back in her life. It has paid off big time as her personality has shifted a little and I can enjoy being with her now. I have tried to convince her to move her and her dh down here when she retires as there is an assisted living retirement community not more than 1/2 mile from my condo where they could live. She actually has said she wants to move down here (Her two sons both have older wives and no children and her dd has two girls but they are 16 and 17 so unlike me, grandchildren would not be an issue) Anyway, that is her story and one I would not like to live. I have to applaud her courage for sticking it out. I adore Jack, but it would be really difficult to endure what she has endured the past 5 years.

I had a rough night last night coughing and spent part of it in the recliner. I am still kind of runny nosed etc but at least not coughing. It is kind of worse than a cold, because you cough but don't cough anything up to make it better. The reason I am not over it by now is that I have allergies to other things besides cats, ie pollen and our pollen is extremely high right now with the trees budding etc so there you go! lol

I am pretty miffed at the USPS. I needed stamps to get bills out today and went in to use their machines as the windows don't open until 9 am. I bought 10 stamps instead of 20 because I had a $5 and a bunch of quarters and it wouldn't take my quarters. The 20 book of stamps was the regular price of $7.40 but they charged $4.50 for the 10 stamps! I went ahead and bought them because I needed to get my ds and dil anniversary card out and my sister's bd card as they are the same day but burned me right up. What a rip off!

Well, I need to finish chores as I left to take Jack to work before I got them done.

Faye

morning ladies!

It is beautiful out this morning. I had to run to the store and get something for Jack for his lunch as I need to go to the grocery store and shop and haven't gotten to it yet. It is so nice and warm and spring like. It is supposed to be upper 70's near 80 for the next week.

Jean: Poor Maddy! Thomas has had pneumonia every year since he was a year old except this one and they had to go through the same routine with him. He is used to it now and just accepts it but he still cries having to put the stuff on. I think it is scary for them, poor things. Your poor co-worker. What an awful thing to happen. I would think she would be pretty much incapacitated as you said, you pretty much use elbows for everything!

We watched the "after" funeral this morning on tv. I have never seen so many people in my life. I kept telling Jack boy if the terrorists wanted a prime place to wipe out people, that would have been it. I guess air space was restricted and several countries including ours had Naval ships on the bay and our Navy planes were at an alert status ready to scramble in case of any kind of attack.

Tomorrow is my little guys first soccer practice. I can't wait to see him and see how he takes to being on a team. He goes to preschool three days a week but other than that, doesn't have kids he plays with and is with adults all the time. You can't count his Nonny who ACTS like a kid with him. I don't play soccer though!

Oh BTW, any of you readers absolutely must read The Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King. It is a wonderful book and one I think you would enjoy very much.

I guess I should get up and get my chores done as I zoomed out of the house this morning while Jack was showering to go to the store

Have a good weekend everyone

Faye

Good Morning!

It is rather cool this morning but the last few days have been sunny and delightful. DH is out walking a neighbor'd dog and I have a few minutes for the computer.

Next Friday we will have DD#2's dog Moshup for a week while she, SIL, & their 2 kids go to DC for 5 days. They hope to see as much as they can but are staying with his cousin in VA and I don't know how much time will be spent in DC itself. Should be a beautiful time for DC, not too hot.

Of course, with Moshup here it means that the neighborhood dogs can only look out their windows and cry.

Have had another funeral this past week. Another one of DH's Air Force buddies died at 81. It is to be expected as they grow older but hard on DH as there are fewer and fewer of his buddies left. He had a long list of friends that he would call once a week or every other week and it is growing short. We also heard from his best friend, since high school, that he had to put his wife in a nursing home. She has Parkinson's and now an old cancer has come back and is in her lungs and liver and she is showing signs of Althimzer {sp.}. They have no children and he could not longer care for her at home. It is so sad. I don't think the drs gave her too much time.

We did get to the Cape for a few hours on Tuesday and stopped at my girl friends. They have weathered the winter and for, 83 & 86, are doing well. He, too has Parkinson's but the last visit to the DR. he was told his cholesterol was better that 3 years ago and that is without any medication. Actually he takes no medication and doesn't even wear glasses.

JEAN: So sorry to hear that Maddie has pneumonia. Hope that now it has been discovered she will be on the way to her old self soon. I know you are expecting more grandkids but I've forgotton when they are due. With all your school woes just remember that SUMMER VACATION will be here soon.

MAGGIE: So nice to see you back again. Hope you connection will hold up for a long while. I think shoe buying is one of the hardest if you can not try them on first. My feet are about half a size apart and on some styles it is impossible to get a fit for they will be too tight on one or slip off on the other. My, what would we do if we couldn't complain.

FATE: You are the Queen of Clean....I need to get you up here and get me started. I will clean a room but than I will look at the next one and it just makes me tired to think of doing it again. I keep up with the everyday stuff but deep down takes a lot more energy than I seem to have.

Gloria in MA....That's all for now! Have a great day and weekend!!!