TGI-Friday 10-11-13 chat

@Tina

@sharismom

If this is what happens at 46, I'm dreading 66. LOL

I missed yesterday chat....caught up this morning.  Cathy your cookout sounds great.( I would have sugested pulled pork also :) .. ..I wanna go have lasagna with Glenda and I am sorry but I will have to pass on Karen's cheese pringles and wine

I used to love to decorate but have slowing scaled back ( it goes along with what Tina said)  My pet peve is not receiving a thank you when a gift is received.  Wedding,Graduation, Birthday it doesnt matter...email, phone call, card it doesnt matter, I just want to hear something.  A co-worker has children and they are like grandkids to me.   She has always had them send thank you's.  Even before they could write she would put a crayon in their hand and they would scribble :).. I have a few of my own grandkids that dont bother to even call.  Call me a bad Grandma but after several years of that, they also quit getting gifts.  Hope I dont trip getting off my soap box

I am so happy that it is Friday.  Lots of stuff goin on in NWA.  Our small town has homecoming tonight which is an all day thing with a parade and pep rally and everything.  Also it is home coming for the University of Arkansas so that is a whole weekend with lots of people.  I think we will just stick close to home,  Beautiful day today, wish it was a day off... 

I need a pick me up is Deb still on vacation???? 

Jackie you and I should  go into the card writing business, lol.

I guess Deb must be on vacation since we've got no Tiki Bar drink.   I'm happy it's Friday too.

The weather is a little cloudy and threatening rain. It's very warm and muggy.  Where is the cooler weather?

We were going to go to the coast this weekend but we blew that off.  Water heater repair and garage clean up instead.  The fun never stops. lol

@shadowsgin

Even before they could write she would put a crayon in their hand and they would scribble :).. I have a few of my own grandkids that dont bother to even call.  Call me a bad Grandma but after several years of that, they also quit getting gifts.

Ginger, I don't think you're a bad Grandma; I think stopping the gifts is a perfectly reasonable response to continued lack of gratitude or appreciation!  

As for the crayon-scribble notes from very young children:  I've got several in my "keepsake" drawer.  My friend's kids always sent us scribbles and drawings, and she'd write, "Thank you for the books!" (or whatever the gift was) for them.  She'd also write what the drawings were supposed to be, because often they were not obvious to us!  :-)  

One of my favorite drawings is hanging on my bulletin board over my desk at home.  Our friends' daughter painted a picture of Tonka for us, with clouds and a sun overhead.  She was about 4 at the time.  I love it.

Tina, you're in good company with the nodding off to sleep early-ish in the evenings.  It happens rather often in our house, too.  Be glad you were only sending a text.  More than once, DH has been holding a cup of coffee, watching TV, nods off and then jolts awake with an arm jerk, spilling coffee everywhere.  One time when I was in high school, my Mom fell asleep in her recliner while reading a textbook from her night class, and she was in the middle of highlighting something . . . the yellow line dragged down the whole page and made a big yellow blob where it stayed until I came in and woke her!

I better get back to my tasks . . . I have a lunch date with my former coworker, so I have to ready to leave right at 1pm.  She finally found a new job (since last December), so we're celebrating today!

Tina, THANKS for the Box Tops!! :D

@JackieG

Water heater repair and garage clean up instead.  The fun never stops. lol

We did our water heater repair on Wed.  Both of our youngest Granddaughters were supposed to have a birthday party but it has been postponed a week so I have an open weekend...so far.  I may just veg out.  Need to get the plant room ready for my tropicals to come back in before temps start dropping.  We have had cool evenings but we havent had but just a couple of cool days.  I usually have everything in by now.

I know what you mean about the saved scribbles...I have a couple on the fridge and a few here at the office.   That is so sweet about the Pic of Tonka...awwww..

@janobonano

Tina, THANKS for the Box Tops!! :D

You are very welcome!

Gin - you are not a bad grandma at all. My dad did the same thing with my sister's kids when they got older. I don't think they ever learned but my sister wasn't much different. My mom was a big letter writer. Her mom and sisters lived in South Carolina and phone calls were too expensive, so they were a rare treat. We would sit together usually on a Sunday afternoon and each write a letter to my grandma and/or my aunts. It's one of my very fondest memories.

Everybody is invited to the party Sunday. We will be grilling chicken and tri-tip but I will be sure that the chicken is cooked thoroughly. :)

I went grocery shopping this morning and then came home and raked up 23 bags of leaves. My back hurts and I have a blister on my hand but by golly, it looks so much better out back. DH said we didn't need to rake and it would just turn into mulch. That was code for "I'm sure not gonna do it". DH's sister is allowed to burn debris where they live, so I asked her if she'd mind taking them with them on Sunday and she said "no problem". Sort of like a goody bag, right? ;)

Wow.  Today was soooo busy and man am I ever glad it's over.  Had a great day, but it lasted far too long.

My oldest sisters kids...and they aren't youngsters, one is 49, the other is 41,.....have gotten handmade Christmas ornaments for years.  Between the niece, nephew and their kids, that's an extra 6 ornaments I was making each year and never once got a thank you for them.  I finally stopped making them.  Too much time, effort and expense for inconsiderate little snots that can't send an email.  Bah humbug!

I'm gonna take my unimaginative glass of wine and curl up in my chair.