Senior Golden Sneakers
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Just letting you guys know that I simply cannot get back to my home page. Blocked all the time by 2 annoying ads. So if I'm not around its not abandonment but unable to move anywhere. Cheers, Anne.0
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Thank you dear friends! I had this idea of having a birthday every other year or maybe every third year. It would serve as a sort of fountain of youth or maybe fountain of middle age! John wouldn't allow it. He wanted someone to share his tube of liniment and Metamucil with. Gasp!
Patsy0 -
Happy happy birthday Patsy~~!
Lin0 -
Here's a clown for you Patsy........
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PATSY, birthday girl, I LIKE having a birthday every year, if only to be naughty, food wise. I practise "mind over matter" and I tell myself all the time "Annsie my girl, you are only 50 years old". I've been 50 years old for the last 30 years, whatever MFP insists on my profile, and I am now younger than my sons! It really works. If there's something I have difficulty with like climbing on a chair (for dusting light fittings etc) I say "come on, you're only 50." By the way you will note I'm back here again bugging you. However I must now follow JACKIES example and go and pick the red currants before they get over ripe and then freeze them for some vitamin C in the winter on my cornflakes.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATSY AND CONNIE!!
So many stories and things happening to each other. Lucky to have you gals to listen to all our problems.
Some good news, some not so good but we are all here for each other. Thanking you for all the support.
As you know summer has been busy for us. Since Dave retired we have been going, going, going. I can't believe
its almost the end of July. I got on the scale and gained 3.2 pounds from my week away on the boat.
This was after two bike rides and 20,000 steps, can you imagine if I didn't exercise. I still haven't changed
my ticker, oh yeah, we don't have that anymore. I joined the 20 lbs until Thanksgiving Day maybe that will give
me incentive to say No, to some things I have eating.
So I will be going to my daughter's tonight, Kristina, and stay overnight so we can get a good start driving
to Kingston, ON for the Yoga Retreat. We have to catch a ferry over to an island. Dave is taking our friend
Tom up to the cottage and do some fishing while I am away. I will tell you all about it.
Yesterday was spending 2 1/2 hours in the bank signing all the papers for consoldiating all our money and
Dave's pensions to the bank. So glad that is done and we had to tell our finanacial guy that we have
changed institutions. Andrew was a one man operation and that worried us. Now we can breathe and feel
good about the future.
I still have to get my walk in today so i better get going. I am hoping too that when Fall rolls around
I can be here more and not just hurry on comments and reading everyone posts. Until then ----
Shirley
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Hi, everybody, I have give up on desserts for 3 days now, and am up 2 ounces! I will have to accept that for me,
being elderly is looking like a barrel! As long as my health keeps up, who cares???
PATSY---
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Buzz 0 -
And dear CONNIE, I hope it's never too late to tell you I wish you, a bit later than I wanted, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Wishing everybody a super weekend. I appreciate all the support, and it really helped raise my spirits. Thank you all, and JUDY, I followed your link, and we'll see if they agree
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happy birthday, Patsy! Hope you're having a great day.
Busy day, see ya tomorrow
Phoebe0 -
Thanks again everyone for all the lovely birthday wishes. I was truly touched. It meant so much to me. In fact you all mean so much to me, it is really hard to explain. Thank you, one and all for being my friends and reading my nonsense, giving me needed advice, and support.
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Happy Birthday Patsy0 -
I just received the following from MFP in my email (very shortened version!)
Bonjour delraybuzz, .....Votre compteur de connexion a été réglé à 1732 jours consécutifs! Nous espérons que vous appréciez MyFitnessPal et que notre aide vous a été utile !
Veuillez ne pas répondre à cette adresse e-mail. Les réponses seront automatiquement supprimées. .....
I couldn't if I wanted to, as my French is pretty depleted these days! But wasn't that nice?
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Patsy ~~~
So sorry I missed your day yesterday. Put it down to time zones rather than anything to do with my brain PLEASE!! I do hope you had a wonderful day, especially if you have to wait 3 years for the next one!
Jackie0 -
Good morning everyone. Weighed in to the pound a week club at 1 lb up so have one week before my health check at my GP practice to try to lose a couple although on a programme I watched in the week a doctor was telling us BMI is not important, just keep a check on your waistline.... personally I'm happier with BMI because however much weight I lose nothing seems to come off my middle region! I've walked this morning and now plan a bit of housework before going to the allotment for a few hours. My back has been aching and slowing me up since I got out of bed so have finally given in and taken painkillers and thought the wait while they take effect a good opportunity to catch up here.
Buzz ~ My schoolgirl French tells me MFP has increased your visits by 1001, is that right? Did you request it or is someone in France looking out for you? LOL Merci would have been a good enough response if you'd been able! Perhaps your body is still working on the desserts you were eating before you gave them up and it will take a little bit longer before you see any effect. My weight never follows a logical pattern!
Shirley ~ Have a wonderfully peaceful visit to the retreat. It sounds a great idea to get away from "civilization" for a few days and hopefully by the time you come out you will be relaxed and using muscles you didn't know you had!
Anne ~ Your red currents are slightly ahead of ours but freezing them is best for flavour isn't it, especially when you discover them at the back of the freezer one cold winter's day. In my head I'm 41 which is just 2 years more than when I moved into my cottage so I look at the sort of jobs I was doing back then and go into shock if my body says "you must be joking!!" These days even opening a new jar is a struggle for my hands and I wonder just where that strength has gone but like you, mind over matter is the only answer.
Sandy ~ Throw a sheet over that barbeque gear in your apartment and pretend it isn't there rather than have to look at it all the time. Also you won't then be tempted to light it!! LOL
Time to see if my back is going to behave while I carry the vacuum cleaner upstairs. If not it's a good excuse to leave the job to another day and just flit a duster about the place.
Have a good Friday everyone..... Lin, Marie, Jeri (hoping no news is still good?) Barbie (missing you!)
Jackie
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delraybuzz wrote: »I just received the following from MFP in my email (very shortened version!)
Bonjour delraybuzz, .....Votre compteur de connexion a été réglé à 1732 jours consécutifs! Nous espérons que vous appréciez MyFitnessPal et que notre aide vous a été utile !
Veuillez ne pas répondre à cette adresse e-mail. Les réponses seront automatiquement supprimées. .....
I couldn't if I wanted to, as my French is pretty depleted these days! But wasn't that nice? Buzz
Translated:
Hello delraybuzz, ..... Your connection counter was set to 1732 consecutive days! We hope you enjoy MyFitnessPal and that our assistance has been helpful!
Please do not reply to this email address. The answers will be automatically removed. .0 -
Happy Friday!!
Just got back from therapy and forgot to weigh in this morning but just ate my breakfast.
It is hot and steamy outside so although Lisa and Robby can't go to the pool today I will be going shortly.
Finally finished my balcony and things are back to normal including my bike which was moved and out of commission so will be happy to start pedaling.
Have a great day, summer is so short it is hard to stay indoors when the sun is shining.
Sandy
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Lol, Sandy, I planned to translate it and saw you already did it. Well, it could be someone French working there that sometimes forgets what country they are in!!
hope you are all well. I've been on the phone with multitudes of insurance and billing people today. More to come, I suspect. I finally wrote a note and sent it via fax to one of the insurance people I am dealing with. She called today and sounded a bit 'snitty'.. as well she should be, since I told her I thought the insurance company was doing their best to avoid paying anything.
Time to lunch and then clean out the fridge, easily a two hour or more job. I place a container of once used cooking oil in the door, and the container leaked!! I saw Honey licking the floor, turns out she loves cooking oil!! I'm sure it will work like mineral oil on her.. whee.. TMI !!
have a warm day,
Lin hope you are feeling ok.
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Good afternoon sneakers. We are looking at a few miserable hot days. Whatever gets done outside will need to be done early morning or evening. Mainly watering to keep things green and watching for wildfires. Strange weather is upsetting.
Watched an amazing PBS program on emergency medical treatment for wild animals. It reminded me of that wonderful video Jackie shared concerning the vet who helped the little cat with prosthetic feet. I cannot explain this overwhelming emotional attachment I have to all animals.
The book agent is great because she keeps me on task. I tend to wonder and get lost on several ideas or projects at once. Not good for progress on any one project. My painting is going well. It is okay to work on several at once in this regard. I use heavy textual paint...needs to harden up and dry before I can continue. Still gathering stuff to do a natural earth painting. I could even glue in a few dead bugs. I have plenty just lying around. I find dead ladybugs sometimes in my flower pots. Beautiful little red and black spotted empty shells?
Well, enough blather! Have a peaceful evening my friends,
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Hi JACKIE, actually, I think the count is pretty accurate as my computer went down just a bit before that count! I hadn't planned to do anything about it until Judy sent me the link, and I couldn't resist. Forgive my vanity, please!!! I'm trying to follow your suggestions about sweet responses; will report after a few days!
PHOEBE, the oil should be gorgeous for Honey's coat, and I hope her digestion can absorb it. I hope no one here works for insurance companies, but I'm convinced they work for their investors rather than their patients! The blood pressure from arguing with them doesn't help one bit, either!
SANDY, your patio plans sound delightful, so take good advantage of lazy summer days! Thank you for translating!
PATSY, you sound so creative! Would you like to add a few gekkos to an earth medium painting? It just so happens.....!!!
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Oh no Patsy ~~~ Ladybird, ladybird fly away home, your house is on fire and your children all gone..... except you can't because you're now in one of Patsy's paintings!! Not sure I know any nursery rhymes about gekkos.
Almost midnight here so off to bed!
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my computer is acting like a *kitten*
have lost every post I started. So will try to catch you tomorrow
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Good evening. I finally have my new recliner. Ahhhhhhhh. Love it. All the other furniture is now moved back in place and I've ordered my couch which I'll get in September........yeah!
Meanwhile, still having relatively nasty joint problems and have purchased a cane because my knees are so unreliable right now. I guess they didn't want my hands to feel lonely since they'd unreliable for quite a while now. I think I need to look at what I'm eating. I may try to go without grains for a while and just go with beans, lentils, etc. I read that grains can cause some people to have more problems with autoimmune disorders, arthritis, etc. Boy, I hope not---I adore oatmeal and I think quinoa would be on a "not often' list. Rice I probably wouldn't miss at all.
Meanwhile, I'm going to make some tea and curl up and enjoy this chair. I ADORE it!
Hugs.......
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Congratulations on new char Lin! Glad you LOVE it!0 -
Yesterday was a very but rather enjoyable strange day. For a start it rained all day, and maybe that was why in all the 5 stores I went into the servers were all zombie like and lethargic. Really strange, as though the world was standing still. Then I read everybody's posts and it still seemed sorta strange. BUZZ getting messages in French, and me spending time translating poorly and finding out later on scrolling down that SANDY had already translated it beautifully! HONEY then deciding to clean PHOEBES floor by mopping up the cooking oil and I had visions of PATSY running around with a butterfly net and a dustpan collecting bugs for her earth painting. JACKIE capped it all off with not being able to think of a nursery rhyme about geckos. Me neither except I couldn't get the song "geckos (because) God made you mine I'll cherish thee" out of my head for the rest of the evening. When I used to say about something "I'm curious" my grumpy old photography friend used to answer "you're curious all right" so I guess you can add me to the list of a very strange day.
MARIES computer was also acting strange and I finally did the same as LIN, had a cup of tea on my not so new chair and read a Peter Robinson novel.
I wonder what today will bring for us all! At least our lives aren't dull!!!
Cheerio everyone, Anne.
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Happy Saturday!! Another hot and humid day, so another pool day although I do feel cooked from yesterday.
I will just go for a short time today, unless a friend comes and joins me. Rob, Lisa and Robby are going to a picnic so they won't be joining me. Babe had oral surgery done and is on soft foods so if we go to Church we probably won't be going to dinner, but at least I will see Daisy.
By the way, I translated with google translator, I know no French. LOL
Have a wonderful day.
Sandy
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My boys. I decided to get 2 kittens. my sister in law brought 2 by for me to choose from. I could not choose so I took both of them. glad I did for they can keep each other co. They have taken over My computer chair so having to unused another one. here's The Boys PJ And JR.
marie
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Marie, sooooooooo cute!! Congratulations!! Enjoy them!!!0
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MARIE, your kittens are so sweet!0
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Proud of you Marie, for taking two. They will love being together. Okie has outdoor fever. He's been out for several hours, just came indoors, and seems ready to go out again!
Jim has volunteered us(which means me) to cook dinner for our company owner. She lost her husband ,our boss, in December. Turns out she has three people living with her, so it's for at least six. Off I go to the grocery. Glad it's a simple dinner. Tried the recipe for a one layer sponge cake today. It's easy and will be delish with sweet ripe peaches and whipped cream. Hungry yet?
Patsy, that sounds like a fun painting, do you know any kids willing to sell their bug collection?
Anne, if it was raining and cool here, I'd be asleep on my feet! Our summers are filled with afternoon thunderstorms, and one is brewing now.
Lin, glad your in a comfortable chair, have you tried a heating pad.
Better go now,
Phoebe0
