doydie; that is great!! I know you had almost given up hope he would ever change the bag. You have finally been relieved.

We didn't have too many trick or treaters here either. Now; unfortunately, we have tooooo much candy left over. Oh well; we'll just have to figure out what to do with it.


Gerry

I had a visit from an old friend the other day. We worked together when we were just teenagers (at K-Mart!!) and stayed in touch off and on but I had not heard from her in years. Well, she found me and called and we arranged a time to visit at my house.

I explained to her that I have MS and am limited as to where I can go and what I can (comfortably) do.

She has Lupus now and is quite ill. Although she can still drive and gets around fairly well she cannot work and deals with severe fatigue.....something I can relate to.

We had a nice visit and caught up on many years! We used to have such fun as teenagers....shopping and going to the Mall, etc. Little did either of us know how our lives would so drastically change.

We promised not to lose touch again.

Sadly I have lost friends due to inability to participate in many get togethers the invites gradually dry up and before you know it you have lost touch. I don't believe it's intentional they just think she will say no so no longer ask. Of course I'd still like the invite and option to decline, because sometimes I surprise myself and I'm well enough to go.

I am so proud of my youngest grand daughter. She is almost and very outgoing and a very, happy and confident child.Several years ago on their way to church, they were going around one of the many crazy curves that rural Kentucky has and a car slammed into them. They ended up going up and embankment and flipping over. The poor kids were hanging upside down by their seat belts. So a local radio station was doing a Thanksgiving thing and this one day they were asking for stories about how kids are thankful for seat belts. So Ellie wrote her story and sent it in. They liked it and it was one that was picked. So they took her story and wrote a 15 second and 30 second script for her to read on air. My SIL has a recording studio in their home as that is his job so they let him record her and then sent it in.

One of the other radio stations heard her on the radio and liked it and they were having the head of the department of transportation on and asked her to be on the program with her. So she had a live interview to talk about her experience. At the end the woman with the department of transportation presented her with a medallion that she was an embassador of safety. She is the only child and about 7 adults have received it. While they were recording that, another station asked her to go there.

Oh Doydie that's wonderful! Congratulations to her!!

It's so nice to see children acknowledged for their achievements or even overcoming a hurdle. That accident must have been very frightening for her. Thank goodness she had her seat belt on. I bet she never forgets to buckle up!

Hi Everyone!

I know I have been MIA again. It's been a little hectic for me lately and time just slipped away. Additionally, I mostly use my phone and my Kindle and both are really hard for me to type on due to tremors and sensory issues. A keyboard is much easier.

I really haven't been up to anything really exciting. I've mostly been dealing with health issues (new and old). *sigh* I wish I had more exciting things to report like I was on a cruise or something. That would be cool. But, it's the usual fatigue (both mental and muscle), numbness, connective tissue stuff, possible asthma (that's a new one for me), etc., etc.

The weather is finally beginning to change!!! I'm so excited. Although, yesterday was in the 90s, I believe by the end of the week it's supposed to cool down about 20 degrees. It's been a long hot summer/fall. We have had above normal temperatures and for an extended amount of time. Ninety degrees in November is NOT normal for us. The mornings are cooling off and I've been able to get out walking again. That has been nice. Some days, I can only walk a little and other days I can go farther. I use my phone as a pedometer; however, sometimes it doesn't work quite right. This morning I walked probably 1 to 1 1/2 miles. My phone showed that I only walked 222 steps!!!

I hope you all have a great day!

Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving. As usual, I am just doing nothing about getting ready instead of doing it. I have done the grocery shopping for it if that counts. Our is having their own dinner tomorrow evening and I have no idea what to take. I could take something I had planned on fixing Thursday but that would mean going back to get those groceries again. Yet. if I don't use one of those things, I have to stop by on my home from the grocery store so I can fix it tomorrow afternoon.

Our microwave died today so we had to go to Lowes and buy another one. After searching the internet at all the stores I found pretty much everything had to be ordered. There were 8 microwaves in stock at Lowes and some were the same model, just different colors. It is not anything like what we had so I will have to learn how to use this. There isn't the thing on the side by the door where the whole panel is. And it has a dial to do your changing level of power, length of cooking etc. Plus it is stainless steel. So we have a black dishwasher, almond refrig, old avocado stove and all counter tops.

doydie;
Your decorating is quite "eclectic". Which can also be defined as "really cool" decorating.

Hope all comes together with shopping/Thanksgiving.
Enjoy!!!!!!!


Gerry

Hi Everyone!

Doydie - What a colorful kitchen you have! Thankfully, your microwave broke before Thanksgiving, not on Thanksgiving. That would not have been good. Although, after Thanksgiving would have been okay with all the sales coming up. I'm glad you were able to find a new one and hope it works well for you.

I am not up to much today. I am just relaxing and enjoying some cooler weather. It's cloudy and in the 60s. It's only temporary, but I'm going to soak it all in before it heats up again.

I feel like a won a lottery of sorts. I got to spend time with each of my daughters this weekend. It was the 2nd weekend in a row that it has happened. Last weekend I got to spend time with both of them at DD26's house. I sure do miss the fun we had when they both lived at home. It made me very nostalgic to be around them both at the same time. This weekend I spent the day with DD25 and GS on Saturday and the day with DD26 yesterday.

I hope you all have a great day and a Happy Thanksgiving (if I don't log in before then)!

Isn't daughter time the best! I don't get them together very often. We go down to Kentucky area every 3 months or so but when she is here in town our other daughter tries to be here all the time. Maybe it is so that the conversation stays away from politics which is pretty hot with my husband. At Thanksgiving both my daughter and I talked to our husbands and have them not talk politics but it didn't work out. My SIL is tactful enough that he was able to move on pretty quickly but I think my husband wants to talk politics all the time.

We are getting out tiny master bath done!!!!!!!!! I mean it is tiny. Very small shower with commode and vanity. We aren't doing anything with the shower since it is so small and we really don't like it. But it is so hard for Charlie to open up the pocket book. Well with his Parkinson's it is really hard for him to get into his billfold. Anyway, it was going to remove commode and vanity, put new floor in and then put commode and vanity back in. The compromise I did, pretty much everything. But in really looking into what the vanity he decided in buying a new one. So today the commode and vanity was removed,new flooring put in. He placed the vanity in the bathroom but it isn't hooked into the wall yet. Tomorrow they will finish and baseboards put down. Then I will have the hall bathroom back! Charlie can move his ileostomy supplies back to that bathroom I love him, I love the fact that he is so much healthier with the ileostomy but when he empties the back it stinks. AndI mean really S T I N K S. Got that??? Yep, it's that bad. All that aroma is removed as it goes through the lower intestine which he has had removed. But would I ever tell him he really stinks, no!

the floor and vanity are really close in color, didn't realize it would be that close until we got it all home. So although Charlie says he doesn't need a new shower curtain, curtain on the window (GASP) nice dish for soap and tooth brush, my youngest daughter and I will do all that. Oh, and another gast....paint on the wall. I have convinced him that it is my bathroom also even though I rarely use it. And now if we have company and the regular bathroom is in use, we have another one we can proudly direct them to. If we can just now keep his fists out of the wall.

Hope you all had the Thanksgiving you had planned on.Mine was wonderful, exhausting, made me realize that my frustrations of never hosting Christmas in my house would be impossible anyway. So I guess needed that message, just needed to experience it for myself. I think it wouldn't have been as bad as it was if I was not on the special medicine after a stent placed in the heart artery. I want my arthritis medicine back!!!!! And my Aleve or Advil.