new and future flat sister, with questions
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ND: what do you put in the shoeboxes? Sounds like more than shoes. Hope the snowstorm will not impact you getting to Mayo.Z: I have my diagnostic mammo on the 17th . Sending out much good energy for the both of us. Hate all this scary stuff. Sucks.
I use the Trifexis too. Fleas are so bad in FL. This is so much easier than the topical stuff, most of which the fleas have built up resistance to. Lot of dogs with flea allergies here too. Bobo dog has them.
M: looking forward to hearing about beauty day.
Back later.
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Glennie, in the pocket for you too, only good results for you and Zills, (and everyone)! no shoes in shoe boxes.. things like crayons, markers, headbands, ponytail holders, anything cute for girls hair, soap, toothbrushes and paste, socks, beads, little books toys, nothing that is liquid or chocolate or any war-like toy, We just all bring things and sort them age appropiate, from 2- teens. Gives me a good feeling to do this.
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What a great thing to do, ND. A friend of mine is from the Philippines and is going back next summer for a visit. Her goal is to bring 1,000 toothbrushes with her and hand them out at her old school. We take so much for granted here. When she was a kid, they would walk to school. It was miles away and they would take their shoes off and go barefoot until they got to school....that way they wouldn't wear their shoes out.
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Yes, we sure do take things for granted, a guy dh works with was over to the Philippines this summer and he was astonished how far $20.00 could go. He is actually going to marry a gal from there if all the paper work ever gets done. She will have a real culture shock if it happens, dont think she could even imagine how cold it gets in ND and it is very rural and she would be so used to many people around her, think he said 13 of her family live in just a very small house. Hope some of the boxes reach needy children, they also go to many in the USA as well. We always complain but at least we have a warm home and food enough for family. Guess it is just human nature to complain without really thinking things through.
Wanting a BOBO and MD update... will be a good one I am thinking... poor gal, she has a load, mothers should be there for daughters with bc (and without).. I know mine would have but not everyone is that fortunate... we are here for you bobo!!
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Hi girls, I love that you do that ndgirl. I got very involved with the Vietnamese Refugees, that is where Vi came from. I could not believe what these kids had to put up with either. Vi was always so appreciative of everything we gave him. I will never forget his face, when we bought him a bike for Christmas, but he would be just as grateful for a small thing I might leave on his bed for him, after I had been out shopping. Every bit of cash he was given, would find its way back to his siblings and Parents in a little village in Vietnam, he desperately wanted to look after everyone.
I am waiting for Bobo update too. I hope she and the family had fun with the nephews and that MD behaved herself.
I just posted about the success of the beauty day on the other thread. It was all good! M x
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dear moira thankyou for the suncatcher and we realy appreciate it. and guess what i did today? today i did some math and social studies. andi also went to dance class.0
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That is from our princess! What do you think of that?
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Hmmmmmm, very nice, but wasn't that over a year ago? LOL
Hello Princess!
I hope you enjoyed your classes! What kind of dance class do you have? I still have your drawing in my house and I look at it often! It was just lovely to hear from you!
Love and Hugs,
Moira xxx (Aussie Grandma)
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What a nice letter from the Princess! So sweet! What kind of dance does she do??0 -
I have little rainbows all over the walls and the floor from the sun catcher! Thanks, M!!! 0 -
Well, It's not the best picture, but you get the idea!!0 -
I get them around the time I take a shower. Our princess always says I am 'taking a shower with Moira'!
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You guys in Florida get way too much sun. You need to share it with us poor people of the north.
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You get more in the summertime than we do. One of the things I hated about living in NYC was the really short days,, it was pitch dark at 5 PM. But the summers were light until almost 10,,,, that was nice.
You are welcome to come and visit!! Ava LOVES company. She will sit on your foot, or put her head in your lap if you are on the couch. She just suckered two of the neighbors out of treats,,, it's like Halloween every day for her,,, one neighbor gave her Milk Bones and the other one gave her Pup-a-roni.
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OOOhh lovely Glennie, that's what they are made for, all that lovely energy! Glad you like it!
Aww, that's so sweet Bobo!
Good morning everyone, lovely day here, having my hair cut this afternoon, but not much else needing done, so a quiet one for me today! M x
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DP, this is for you:
Shopping channel star Lisa Robertson told a judge: 'I haven't felt safe in a long time. I check my alarm constantly'
Peter Ferreira has been following the QVC beauty for 12 years, declaring his passion with creepy entreaties like 'So what is it to be, heaven on earth or hell'
The former Miss Tennessee says she watches her rear view mirror all the time and takes different routes if she thinks someone is following her
When middle-aged father of two was arrested for stalking Lisa he had two boxes of wedding and engagement rings strapped to his chest
Another stalker became so menacing, he emailed 'Obviously, you wouldn't profess your love for me on the air if you're a lesbian
By ANNETTE WITHERIDGE IN WEST CHESTER, PA.
PUBLISHED: 13:50 EST, 15 April 2014 | UPDATED: 17:42 EST, 15 April 2014
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When ex beauty queen Lisa Robertson first joined home-shopping network QVC she joked about how she had to deal with drunken callers during her middle-of-the-night cooking shows.
But the laughter soon turned to terror. Today, the shopping channel's most popular hostess - with 20 millions views on an given week - is constantly looking over her shoulder. In the last 20 years she has had four stalkers what have forced her to become a prisoner of her own fear.
At one point, three men were following her at the same time.
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Alluring: Stunning QVC queen Lisa Robertson is watched by an audience of over 200 million viewers. Known for her sensational style, she hosted at a red carpet event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills last year
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Pageant princess: Lisa was crowned Miss Tennessee in 1989. She caught the attention of her first stalker soon after she joined QVC in 1995
As QVC’s queen bee, 48-year-old Lisa should be enjoying the fruits of her hard work. Instead, she lives behind high-tech security alarms and jumps at the slightest sound after attracting the attention of the four separate men.
'I haven’t felt safe in a long time,” she confessed, in court papers obtained by MailOnline during a hearing for one of her most persistent followers last year.
'I lock myself in my house every day. I check my alarm constantly. It’s on when I am home.
'I watch my rear view mirror when I go home at night and take different routes if I think anyone might be following me. If there is a sound at night, I lay awake wondering.”
Begging a judge to stop 50-year-old Peter Ferreira harassing her, she added: 'I need to be able to live without being afraid.”
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Stalker terror: Peter Ferreira has been stalking Lisa for 12 years. 'I need to be able to live without being afraid', the popular QVC host begged a judge. Ferreira has been sentenced to seven years probation and warned if he attempts to contact her again he'll go to jail for five years
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Unhinged: Court documents show Ferreira sent scores of messages to Lisa on her Facebook page, professing his love for her. Here he writes: 'So what is it to be, heaven on earth, Lisa, (pilaging me for all eternity) or hell"
Ferreira, 50, had been jailed previously for following Lisa around America.
In December, he was sentenced to seven years' probation and warned if he attempted to contact Lisa in any way, even via Facebook, he would be jailed for up to five years.
At the height of Ferreira’s madness, his nephew’s wife called QVC security because she was so concerned about his obsession. She said she was 'grossed out' by the details he knew of Lisa’s travels.
According to legal papers, amongst the seven-inch file of documents relating to the case, the woman told security: 'Peter was following her everywhere. She said he followed her down South for a shoot in Florida and again to the Mall of America.
He tracked down her family and tailed her to the movies near her home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he bragged he sat so close he could smell the popcorn she was eating.
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Jewel: Jewelry, bags and clothes are Lisa's thing. When she first got to QVC she was selling cookware in the wee hours
The Plainfield, Connecticut, loner is convinced that he’s in a 'secret relationship” with Lisa and that 'QVC is standing between them.”
For the past 12 years, his messages became more unhinged, leading Lisa to fear he was going to harm her. And it transpires that three other men have reacted in similar manner after misreading her flirty on-air persona.
The bubbly Miss Tennessee 1989 gained her first ardent admirer not long after she joined QVC in 1995.
One of her cooking segment fans, Philip Young, started showering her with letters, gifts and telegrams. At one stage he even sent her a honeymoon brochure, then flew from his home in Arizona to see her.
QVC quickly sought an injunction – the first of several the company’s lawyers have obtained on Lisa’s behalf over the years – to keep Young away.
The middle-aged father-of-two was sentenced to seven years' probation but broke the terms by flying back to Pennsylvania, where he turned up at another QVC presenter’s home asking for help with an introduction to Lisa.
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In the bag: Lisa is arguably the most popular--and most beautiful--host on the shopping channel. She is often teamed up with famed designer Isaac Mizrahi for events that benefit ovarian cancer. Her mother Charlene died of the disease in 2009
When police arrested him, they found two boxes containing wedding and engagement rings strapped to his chest.
By now Lisa had progressed to presenting her own late-night beauty and fashion shows and was often the face of QVC at charity events and design shows.
And as her star rose, her army of stalkers grew. By 2003, she was hiding from Ferreira, Young and Brendon Song, who flew from his home in California on Christmas Eve to Pennsylvania seeking a date.
He spent the holidays in jail after it emerged he’d spent $2,000 on 31 different gifts for Lisa.
Her next stalker Andrew Groton started off posting social media messages declaring his love for Lisa but by 2010 his emails had become menacing, often questioning her sexuality.
'Obviously, you wouldn’t profess your love for me on the air, if you’re a lesbian,” he wrote in one angry missive.
Once again, QVC’s lawyers obtained an order to keep Groton away, saying Lisa was concerned for her safety because his messages demonstrated 'intent to cause substantial emotional distress…and to place her in reasonable fear of bodily injury.”
But he ignored the injunctions and in 2012 was arrested for harassing her. At one stage, two different Pennsylvania courts were dealing with Lisa’s unhinged admirers, as Ferreira was also back on stalking charges.
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She's got sole: Lisa attends the QVC FFANY Shoes On Sale at the Waldorf=Astoria to benefit breat cancer
The constant threats have left Lisa a nervous wreck, according to her friends. But others question QVC’s attitude.
Chester County Times managing editor Kathy Brady Shea has covered many of the court hearings and told Mail Online: 'All of these cases involved sad, lonely, alienated men with apparent mental health issues.
'I was taken aback by QVC’s outrage. Yes, Lisa Robertson is a victim and some of these folks are scary but her show is a magnate for these guys.
'She’s on late at night, she comes across as provocative with a come-hither attitude. She’s perky, coiffed, manicured and heavily made up.
'And after the third stalking case I kept thinking that she had to change her show because she was clearly drawing in some pretty unsavory, pathetic characters.
'But QVC just keeps using their legal hammer to come down hard on these people. They still have her on late at night, they really have not learned from this experience'.
Launched in 1986, QVC has expanded rapidly into an eight-billion-dollar-a-year business with 200 million viewers across the world.
The 24-hour network has grown from short segments featuring cheap kitchenware and gadgets into full-blown fashion and beauty shows.
It has certainly been good for Lisa’s career. She now has her own designer clothes label, is a regular at New York Fashion Week and often hosts QVC red carpet events in Hollywood.
She lives alone in a grand, $800,000 four-bedroom house on the outskirts of historic West Chester, enjoys long, exotic holidays in far flung places like India and dines in the finest restaurants.
Yet she remains wary of strangers, is constantly jumpy and rarely socializes outside a small circle of trusted friends, including Jim Barnes the owner of her favorite local restaurants.
Part of her job involves plugging QVC on social media and blogging about her life. She has even invited the QVC cameras into her home to show off the three different Christmas trees she decorates with hundreds or ornaments.
She’s mentioned constantly on fan websites with viewers wanting to know everything from her sexual orientation to her vacation plans. After showing off her home holiday decorations, fans wanted to know why she needed such a big house with 'no husband, kids or pets.”
Millionaire businessman Tom Ciccarone, who became friends with Lisa when they met at a local charity fund- raiser, told MailOnline: 'All she does is work. If it’s not QVC, it’s helping others.
'She is a very gracious, wonderful woman. When she discovered my daughter Meg was going through a hard time because her boyfriend had cheated on her, Lisa turned up with a big bag of beauty products for her.
'Lisa took the time to ask about her life and make her feel special. She’s a real sweetheart.
'I knew Lisa originally because she was a customer at my dry cleaning business but I got to know her properly when we worked on the cancer fundraiser.
'We have a mutual friend Jim Barnes, who owns several restaurants here, and after he lost his mother to cancer he decided to do a wine tasting festival in aid of the local cancer hospital.
'Lisa’s mother had just died of ovarian cancer and I’d lost mine too. So we got together to work on the silent auction.
'I donated my Lamborghini sports car for a weekend and Lisa put
up many of her clothes and QVC products'.
Lisa, who hosts ovarian cancer awareness shows on QVC and last summer roped in Kelly Rippa to promote the event in the Hamptons, New York, spends much of her spare time with her dad Charles in Tennessee and younger sister Kimberly in South Carolina.
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Gracious: Lisa and her escort Cameron Silver arrive at the 21st Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar Viewing Party in Los Angeles last year. She's known for her charitable works
'She’s always travelling,” Tom, 59, said. 'She doesn’t have much time to find a significant other. But she does love to flirt.
'She phoned me up about a year-and-a-half ago and invited me out to lunch. I told her I wasn’t interested – I had one wife go crazy on me and that was enough to put me off relationships.
'But she deserves someone to love her. She’s a real class act.”
Lisa’s mother Charlene died of ovarian cancer, aged 76, in 2009. On 50 cent postcards featuring Lisa sold in the QVC studio shop, she says: 'My mother always said I would never get a job shopping and talking on the phone. It was the only thing she was ever wrong about.”
Growing up in tiny Ooltewah, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lisa said: 'Home shopping television didn’t exist. I had no idea this would be a career for me.”
She learned to play the violin and fiddle – skills that helped her win the coveted Miss Tennessee beauty crown –while studying health care administration at university.
During her pageant reign, she sang at the New Jersey Mets Stadium, paraded with the Pride of the South Marching Band and won an outstanding service award from Tennessee’s governor for her work promoting his drug-free program at local schools.
Lisa, who declined an interview request from Mail Online, started her TV career with Knoxville’s Shop At Home network in 1991 and was snapped up by QVC four years later.
During an early promotion, she gushed about her growing army of fans, saying: 'QVC shoppers are like having lots of friends that you run into all the time.”
But after being constantly stalked, it is a probably a comment she regrets making.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605126/EXCLUSIVE-If-theres-sound-night-I-lay-awake-wondering-QVC-queen-Lisa-Robertson-lives-fear-having-FOUR-stalkers-one-bragging-got-close-movie-smell-popcorn-eating.html#ixzz3Ina2JcDv
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Holy crap, that's dangerous work! Poor girl, there are so many crazies out there.
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Poor Lisa! That's horrible!0 -
How scary! Obsessed people are capable of harm because they aren't dealing with reality. Makes me glad to be anonymous.
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That is scary.
Snow on Sunday! Very chilly.
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thanks bobo. Wow poor girl. People are sick. And how dare that twit say it's QVCs fault and feel sorry for the stalkers. Her shows are not provocative! Seriously? And even if they were, she wouldn't deserve to be threatened by crazies. Mental illness is a scary thing.
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Z I remember one christmas as a kid, we had quite a bit of snow. But we were going to grandparents in Lburg. I was so worried Santa couldn't get out to the farm. When we got there, was NO snow. Crazy weather up there
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hey y'all 8-D
I have written 2 long notes on here and both wouldn't submit for whatever the reason . Sooooo took a little break
Ariom. So very glad Colin no 1 is doing well. Sorry Colin no 2 is having such a hard time.
Nd Great electric fire place . I have one and love mine!!
Glennie..... Walking to Canada????? What a super idea. Call
If you get tired and need a ride.
Bobo . You sound better... More pep in your posts. Hope all,is well. Hope MD is behaving!!
Nothing new to tell you. I keep up with y'all but my computer in kitchen doesn't submit what I write.
Got a new dutche oven... Lodge enameled cast iron . Cannot wait to try soups and chillies when it gets cold!!!!!
Nothing new my way...... Love reading all your posts!!!!
Stay warm
O2
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yay the thing worked this time
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Hi 02, good to see you! M x
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Z fro you from Warm and Fuzzy thread
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That's perfect Spookiesmom! M x
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Thanks Spookie. Trainer said they learn bite restraint about 8 weeks and if they don't learn it then, they never will. That being said, never trust an animal.
Her dog takes off her socks, gets a drink from the fridge and her sisters dog pushes a carriage and rides a scooter. So I think she's pretty knowledgable.
Glennie. What do you know about Fareston?
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Z: not much. Haven't had experience with that drug. Need me to look anything up for you?Ava peed on the floor again. I'm really thinking this dose is too low for her, but I want to hold out until next week when she gets her blood tested. I'm running out of scrap rugs.
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