The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Goofyernmost]

Some guys can pull it off.
Do you perchance look anything like this?

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I, sadly, am not one of the guys that can pull that off. As an infant, my mother was obsessed with "baby placement". She confessed to turning me over constantly while I was sleeping to insure that I had a round head. (you know Charlie Brown type). She did the same thing with my sister.

She was successful, now with no hair, if you were to paint vertical stripes on my head I would resemble a basketball. Thanks Mom, but, I realize that your intention was to achieve perfection for me. Everything else did turn out that way, so all is forgiven. (This is what I look like when I smile... )

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Fortunately, I don't smile that often.

 

[betty rose]

Woo for turning 30 today. Gotta love feeling old, lol.

You're not quite there yet! Happy belated Birthday.

 

[donaldtoo]

Update on step grandfather: They think he may have broken his hip. My grandmother texted and said they are getting x-rays done.

Oh no. Sympathy like.
Hope he gets well soon.

 

[betty rose]

Old? I've got socks older then that. In fact I have two daughters older then that. I don't feel old, although the body has been throwing a number of hints to the contrary, the brain hasn't acknowledged them yet.

Right there with you, except for the sock part.

 

[donaldtoo]

It really has not been a good few weeks in our circle.

First off, instead of being told I need PT for my thumb or a bit more healing time, I'm told I need surgery plus several weeks in a cast.
Last weekend, my brother's best friend, who is like another little brother for me, broke both bones in his ankle playing soccer and can't even go back to school for a few weeks because of it.
And now my step-grandfather breaks his hip, which is the worst out of all of these.

This has not been a few good weeks.

Wow. Another sympathy like.
Hope things start trending better for all of y'all.

 

[betty rose]

Yay i'm not old.

I'm over that hurdle, by a long shot!

 

[betty rose]

Crystal Palace is already on the list...it was one of the 4 we were already planning to do. Which meal is the best for Chef Mickey's?

I vote for breakfast. But, that's my favorite meal of the day!

 

[betty rose]

Definitely nothing fancy for us. We're not real fancy folk, especially with the kids. One year, hubby got a gift card for this really fancy restaurant as a bonus from work. It was the kind of place where you can't pronounce half the things on the menu and they came and brushed bread crumbs from the table in between courses, etc. The food was excellent, but we felt SO out of place there. It was a nice experience to have one time, but neither of us mind if we never have another.

I totally agree, I'm much more comfortable with family kind of meals. If you like pot roast, or fried chicken, I love prime time 50's. But the servers can kid around with you. I think it's fun and funny. Usually when it's just me and hubby, we are left alone from the fun. So we watch the "entertainment" around us. Some people don't like that, but it's all in the fun to me.

 

[betty rose]

He's actually not home quite yet. I spoke to my grandmother today, and she said he's doing excellent, but they need to keep him for a few more days in the hospital, then he'll be transferred to a rehab facility for a week or so, possibly longer. She said he can stand, but his blood pressure dropped when he did, so they're keeping him until that no longer happens. He's quite a character. My grandmother found him doing leg lifts and she said, "Doesn't that hurt?" and he said, "Yeah, a little" and continued doing them. But he's doing well. Thank you for asking.

He has quite a bit of fight left in him, good for him! I like "characters".

 

[betty rose]

That's normal. After a certain age I stopped even thinking about how old I actually was in the terms of old or not. However, when I went to my Daughters 40th birthday all of a sudden I really felt old. When I see my girls as grownup, mothers and business women, all I can do is wonder how we got there this quickly. Just a few weeks ago they were sitting on my lap watching Sesame Street.

My grandkids don't affect me yet, but, I'm sure they will if I remain lucky enough to hang around to see it.

Speaking from experience, grandkids were one of the reasons hubby retired.

 

[donaldtoo]

Well, after a stressful day, I am going to read a book and then watch some Netflix. And to all the men out there: If you're about to do something stupid, and your wife tells you not to do it, listen to your wife.

After almost 27 years of marriage, I'm pretty sure that's a two-way street.

 

[betty rose]

You are VERY sympathetic. Not.

I actually did laugh out loud at that.

I hate to admit it, but I did too.

 

[betty rose]

All I cared about was turning 21 so I could go to more dance clubs, being able to drink was secondary. After that, I stopped paying attention to how old I was getting.

21 was a fun year for me too. I was a few month's older than hubby, and I could drink and he couldn't. Now it's pay back time for him, he tell's me that I'm "so old".

 

[betty rose]

Thinking bringing him back would be difficult, think he has been dead a long time already.

He's eternal....he's on re runs!

 

[donaldtoo]

I'd like to understand the fascination of men with getting on the roof. What the heck?

My BIL maybe 30 at the time fell off the roof cleaning the gutters and really tore up his knee. I looked out my back window years back and watched 5 middle school boys next door running all around the garage roof. The fascination starts young.

Yep, I've posted here before that my favorite place to hide during hide and seek when I was a kiddo was on the roof of our house. I was never, not even once, found. Then, just before we moved back to Texas, I jumped off the roof into the yard in front of them and scared the carp out of them. My secret was out, and that was now the first place they looked.

 

[betty rose]

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Happy Labor Day!

Thanks for the doggie picture, there is nothing like a sleeping puppy or kitten. Or any baby animal.

 

[betty rose]

Ive given up on baseball now that football is starting up lol

Yup, Denver is a big football city. Go Bronco's.

 

[betty rose]

While I was too old for Sesame Street it was ground breaking for Children's TV. Prior to that it was mostly old men entertaining small children. Sesame Street went at it a whole different way. As time went on it only got better minus the duds. My kids had very different taste in TV programming. My DS liked to be entertained while my DD liked the shows that taught something after she got over the annoying purple Dinosaur.

Funny, I really hated Barney and I tried to limit her viewing of Barney shows and VHS tapes to keep my own sanity. My Mom was annoyed with that. She left my house and came back with a small TV with a built in VHS player for my 2 year olds room so she could watch Barney anytime she wanted to. Oddly I think I was 16 years old before I had a TV in my room at my folks home.

Wow, I never got a TV. Of course when I was growing up, we were still listening to radio.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Thank you.
It will be 30 years this November; although I knew him from school three years before we started dating.

We like to spend time with each other, and I hope it shows.

Congrats on 30 years! It does seem from your posts that you and your husband like to hang out with each other and have a great respect for each other. That is exactly how a marriage should be.

 

[JenniferS]

Congrats on 30 years! It does seem from your posts that you and your husband like to hang out with each other and have a great respect for each other. That is exactly how a marriage should be.

Amen.
(Plus, it's kind of in the vows.)