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I'll find out eventually, but don't want to pry. At least I hadn't bought a gift yet. I am always the person stopping at a drug store for a greeting card and gift-card on the way to the event. 🙄 😁

I just checked to make sure of the address of a bridal shower I had to go tomorrow. It was just canceled at the very last minute. 1. I wonder what happened? (because I'm nosy) and 2. Yippee!! I'm so glad I don't have to go. Ahhhhh all my obligations are now done and dusted.

Just got home from the wake for Juan. So nice to see everyone...some I haven't seen in years, but for what an awful reason. I was shocked that they couldn't even have an open casket. I'm selfishly kind of glad though because now I can remember him the way I last saw him. It was in Chicago proper and I am so much a suburb person. I don't know how those of you that live in the city can stand the traffic. Don't even get me started on the parking situation. I'm so glad my daughter drove us. She loves living in the city. I used to go into Chicago all the time to see my husband's family, but since the pandemic we unfortunately got out of that habit. (plus my husband especially seemed to have aged a lot in those 3 years.) Funeral Mass is tomorrow. I'll be glad it's done. It broke my heart to see Juan's 21 yo daughter there..I can't even imagine losing my dad that young.😭

I had a bad experience with buying little squish toys from a Chinese website. I was supposed to get a squishy lemon, but when it came it was hard plastic! Not quite the same feel for my grandkid. That's why I'm trying to ask ahead of time. Also got burned buying something on Facebook. Never again.

That's so cute! Ok let me go check out both sites. 😁 Thanks!

I enjoyed the game with the big ball and the wearable bubble suits...mainly because I already own two of those bubble suits. (They were about $130.00 each when I bought them in 2019... I must been out of my grandkid loving mind at the time)🙄 Now I have a new idea for my grandkids to use them with. A game would be much better than just running at the other person full speed. It got kind of violent. Now I just need an exercise ball. So watching Buddy Games wasn't an entire waste of my time, plus I'm just really enjoying watching it.

Just plus size t-shirts. I don't care if they're cheaply made, because I swear whenever I put on an un-stained t-shirt , it never fails that I spill something on it. Always. I probably should look into adult bibs instead. 😆 I guess my real questions are more like did you always get what you ordered, no matter how crappily made it was? I'm guessing you have to buy a certain amount of things to get free shipping? ( I already assume it will come on a slow boat from China.) I don't know what Shein is.

Thank you all for your condolences. I really appreciate you all so much. @Jynnan tonnix your paintings are wonderful! @Scarlett45 and @jcbrown Happy Belated birthdays 🎂🎁🥳🎊 Question: have any of you ever bought anything off of Temu? Seems too cheap to be real. 😁

Life's too short...I just called and talked to my most favorite cousin. We haven't talked in a while, but after this I just needed to hear her voice. I am so sad 😞

Omg omg omg...I just got the worst phone call. My dil's youngest brother was just found dead in his apartment 😭 OMG He was only 41 yo. They think it was just an accident. He was standing on a bucket to change a light bulb, and they think he fell off and hit his head. OMG (and he lived alone and was dead for a few days) I just saw him at a family party on Sunday and he gave me a hug. 😭 R.I.P. Juan

Did...did Jill just call herself a bitch? (Female dog)

. No, the "faces" he was making is part of speaking in sign language. From Google: "Facial expressions are part of the grammar of signed languages. That’s one part of it. The other part of it is the visual needs of Deaf people: Deaf people need to see tones, moods, and so forth. Hearing people have a pair of fully working ears, so they don’t really need facial expressions. But Deaf people's ears don’t work as well …so what works for you, doesn’t work for them. So…instead of all this stuff that goes into a vocal inflection, they all go up on the face. All these inflections become visual, and become part of their signed languages. Remember,Deaf people are People Of The Eye. Auditory is always bad, and visual is always good." PS I'm not deaf but my niece's parents are, so I've seen this many times.

Very interesting. Note to Meri, women can have/want sex just like men...

I was just telling my daughter (her son is living with me) that parenting is hard, and I don't blame her for anything she did with her son (spoiling him, basically.) I also reminded her that I went through holy hell with some of MY kids (including her!😁) and she knows that now I am great friends with all 5 of my adult children. Plus I am way older now than when my kids were growing up, and I'm a stubborn old cuss that is not going to let a 19yo defeat me. Hee.

I would pick a smaller masseuse...maybe they'd be weaker? (I've never had a massage.) I really thought the smaller woman's body (Jocelyn?) was going to snap like a chicken bone.

I don't. Let them totally support themselves like my husband and I did. I got pregnant (and then got married) when I was 16, and we didn't have a TV show to support us. (I'm not bitter, 5 kids,and 14 grands,we're still married 54 years later.) My parents tried to warn me, but I thought I knew it all.. Just like Liz.🤣

I think she should not gone onto the show still addicted to nicotine. I know it's a really hard thing to try and quit. All of my family besides me were heavy smokers and they were nervous wrecks (and crabby as hell) when they tried numerous times to quit. Don't they have nicotine gums and patches and maybe some prescription to help quit nowadays? Why didn't she plan for this ahead of time? Instead she took somebody else's spot.

What is across the street? I think I used to know, but I forget. 😁

I'm going to remember the tribe colors by the first letters of the names...so Reba=Red, Bela=Blue, and Lulu= Lellow 😁

I freakin' hate Moriah's big fake eyelashes. Just wanted to get that off my chest. (I realize it's a trend, but I'm old)😁

I guess they do if they live in the Chicago suburbs 🤣 (I can't remember the last time I went to one myself)😁

I just wanted to share that my 19yo grandson has been VERY peeved that I turn off the WiFi every night(morning) at 2 am (he likes to play video games with other people on his computer.) Fine..whatever, play all dang day if you want...BUT. He was staying up until 6am playing (even when he knew he was scheduled to work the next morning at 10am.) So of course he overslept and was late for work...twice. 🙄 So I told him the WiFi was going off at 2 every night. He started complaining about,and I said "oh? guess you'll have to pay for your own WiFi then" and then walked away. Went in my room and wouldn't listen to him whine (I will NOT baby him like his parents were.) So. He has been giving me the silent treatment for 2 weeks, because I have held to it(oh well ) but just awhile ago he came downstairs, and cheerfully said, "I'm going to the mall Grammie" and as he walked out he said "love you!" 🤯 I feel like I did the right thing for him by giving him (a small) boundary. Yay me! 😂 😁 🥰 (baby steps)

He reminds me of Ichabod Crane. 😁

Maybe if he wore a paper bag on his head... 🤮

I agree 100%..when it comes to mistakes other people make. It's definitely a me thing. 😊