WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2015
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GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »
No, you're not sarcastic at all.
Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
fanncy0626 wrote: »Good morning ladies. I feel some sarcasm for asking that we refrain from politics. If you would have lost a loved one in 9/11 or in France you might have a different opinion about immigration until we have ISIS under control.
My daughter is in surgery now. Hopefully all will go well.
Joyce - I'm glad you got Melody in safely! My daughter's cats always are trying to sneak out when I am there. I have to be very careful.
Allison- I hope you feel better! 2 more days and you will be in the warm sunshine!
Gloria - scary story! Now I'm curious about the frogs though!
Karen - it sounds like you have a nice weekend planned for Christmas. I loved sightseeing there.
Penny- they showed the Northern Lights on my weather app. Beautiful! I can see why that gingerbread house won!
Lillian- what fun you are going to have! Enjoy your family!
Lisa - I wish you could come over and advise me on how to refinish the top of my antique dining table. Hopefully I will be able to match the stain. What do you recommend for sealing it? An oil or a polyurethane? You are so talented!
Barbie- you are so inspirational! I hope they find out what will relieve the pain in your legs.
Have a great day everyone!
Mary from Minnesota
What's with your daughter, prayers for sure!! Gayle Minneapolis0 -
Elaine352962 wrote: »
Hope you feel better soon Katia49.
Love this!!!!! Did you do it????? Nice!!! Gayle Minneapolis0 -
fanncy0626 wrote: »Allison I hope you feel better before your trip Saturday morning!
Carol NC you must be so proud! Beautiful picture! She looks so happy and excited.
Miriam - I am sorry for your loss!
Thank you everyone for your prayers and well wishes for my DD's surgery. I left her in good hands this evening with her DH. I am heading home before the snowstorm hits tomorrow morning.
Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota
Sorry have skipped some chats, trouble with iPad. Glad to hear your daughter is doing fine!!! Very warm today, lots of rain no snow. Are u coming to the city for anything during the season?? Vikings starting, go Vikes!!!! Gayle Minneapolis0 -
MFP Advent Calendar
Dec 10th~ This was the sign they long hoped for.
The day was now at hand, when a great king would come
to bring peace to all the land.
Well this morning as I was coming around the bed corner, and between the bed and the computer desk, my left baby toe whacked the side of the computer desk corner.... So my baby toes nail is easily removable, but I dare not touch it. Maybe it will tighten back in like a tooth? It's next to a toe that I broke completely over about 5 yrs ago. Funny story actually....
It was summer, kids are playing in the pool and I am going down the hall for something. The hallway has a jog in it and as I was turning, I hit my husbands foot mid stride. So the force of that broke the toe next to my baby toe on my right foot over. I am yelling like a banshee and say, "Do you think its broken!!!!!?" My husband yells back, "Ya THINK?" It was months of having my toe with a metal spike down the thing....crazy times. I would call the taxi to go get my kids from school, (the schools in CA don't provide bus service)...and all I had to say was, "Spike-Toed Lady needs a ride" and the dispatcher would say Okeedookee!!
Having a boo-boo is hard on me. I didn't go to the aquatics center because I thought treading in the water would definitely have my nail come off. uuuck I can't think about it...
watched "Miracle on 34th Street" today. Love that little girl, Natalie Wood...and that spitfire Maureen O'Hara...well they just don't make actress's like that anymore, (my opinion anyways).
Oh Janet from OK I got your pic THANKS!
Becca
Oregon
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Katla and Alison hope you are feeling better. :flowerforyou:
DH and I went to see Brooklyn the other night. DH loves old movies and this had that kind of appeal. It is about an Irish girl who immigrates in the 1950's. I thought it was well done.
Got my Shutterfly calendar that I make for my mom done. An adventure for me because I rarely use Shutterfly. I go to Target to get my photos done. I rarely print them anymore especially after sorting through my mom's and mine this past summer. Margaret 0 -
stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 12.23min, 14.4amph, 144mhr, 2.9mi = 125c
ski machine- 30min, 5incl, 20-35resist, 40mhr, 1.54mi = 266c
rope pull- 5.06min, 105mhr, midset, lvl1, 87ftpmin, 464ft = 38c
ride gym 2 dome- 7.14min, 11/3amph, 143mhr, 1.3mi = 95c
ride dome 2 hm- 21.18min, 7.7amph, 157mhr, 2.7mi = 241c
total cal 765
resist- resistance
incl- incline
ftpmin- feet per minute
ft- feet
lvl- level (rope pull machine, level 1-7)
midset, topset, bottomset - setting on machine, middle, bottom, top for rope pull
ahr = average heart rate
mhr = maximum heart rate
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Did 1 hr advanced strength DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a workout in the water.
My heel is really hurting, I'm thinking that I have a pulled achilles tendon. that happened to me 2 years ago and it feels about the same way. Fortunately, I still have some of the voltaren left from then so I'm putting that on my heel. I go to see the foot MD on Jan 6 (yes, that far in advance!)
Tomorrow there is a Christmas party for mahjongg. To be honest, I'd really prefer if there wasn't one. But I feel obligated to attend. I'm supposed to bring a side so I'm going to bring a broccoli casserole. Then in the evening there is a ceramics Christmas party. Again, I'd prefer not to go but I feel obligated. I'm planning to take a ceramic cookie jar (no not one I made) but what I thought was cool about this cookie jar was that there is a chalkboard on the front that you can write on. I have about 3 different types of cookies that I plan to put in it. I'm going to take these pizza appetizers. Personally, I made them when we had the murder mystery dinner and people really loved them. I wasn't so crazy, but that's just me.
Sylvia - you are truly one in a million grandmother
Joyce - so glad Melody is safe
Alison - how did they diagnose that you had plantar faciatis? Did it just eventually go away?
Penny - computers are so nice when they work properly. Boy, does it ever get dark there
Gloria - I'm sure Vince's idea of holding a plank is standing with a plank of wood in his hand....lol He thinks I'd get along well with the lady who cuts his hair because she's into exercising and all. He said to me "she was talking about that thing you do and Loki thinks its neat". "Oh, you mean a plank, he thinks I made a good bridge!". I could never do a cartwheel
Lillian - have fun on your hunt
pip - I read (and I don't know how true this is) that when doing a plank, you shouldn't clasp your hands together, it puts too much added strain on the shoulders but you should keep your arms flat. Who knows?
Miriam - I like the colors in your chair
Mindy - wonderful NSV!!!!
Vicki - tell me about how this week is flying by!
katla - what's the matter??? Elaine - your pic is beautiful!
drkatiebug - first off, congrats on the wonderful choice and forgoing the cupcake place. As for a plank, my advice would be at first to monitor yourself in a mirror and you'll know when your body "feels" right. Then occasionally check yourself in the mirror that you're not lifting your butt.
Wish I could say that I had the packages at least bought much less wrapped. Don't know why Vince procrastinates so on it. But it is what it is. Like last year, he'll go the week before Christmas and buy. I was ready to say "if it ain't bought by now, it ain't gonna get bought" but not him.....
Vince got out some inflatables and finished putting the lights out. After the Green Room I went to Aldi, then didn't have some of the things I needed so I went to WalMart
Michele in NC0 -
A friend painted two of these for me
This was my toy chest when I was a child.....Jake painted it for me in a patriotic design
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Tomorrow I'm taking off work to go with DH to have pre-op consult with his plastic surgeon. I haven't seen or heard anything from pathology so will chase down an answer tomorrow. Thank you all for your concern. He's taking this all with tremendous grace and hasn't had much pain between procedures. I'm tired, but grateful that it's not anything worse and we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
Mary hope your daughter gets well very soon.
Katla, you, too!
Grandmallie: Safe travels
Lisa: I'll be in Midland-Odessa next week for about 24 hours. If all goes well with my meeting I'll be going back there multiple times in 2016.
Cutting this short tonight and getting back to work on my cards.
Stay well. We can do this.
Rori
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Gayle - my DD got kicked in her face by her horse three years ago Labor Day weekend. She has had five surgeries this is her six. She is getting a bone graft on her upper jaw so that she can get implants. She had her upper jaw broke into places and lost a lot of bone.
Becca - i'm sorry that you are having issues and not able to do your normal exercises. I hope you feel better really soon.
Barbie - Beautiful painted furniture!
Pip - Nice stats!
Michele - I hope your foot feels better soon!
I just got home about 40 minutes ago and I am in the process of doing my StrongLifts 5X5. Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
A long day today!
Younger son is being pulled from school and will receive home tutoring until the end of the first semester. His migraines and sporadic attendance have made it impossible for him to catch up without instruction. Saddened by this. We had really hoped he would do better in his senior year. Second semester the school is devising a reduced schedule to just meet his senior requirements so he can graduate. College is off the table ... He needs to heal and have time to consistently function.
Tomorrow I am hosting and preparing a breakfast for my Friday guys... Retired gentlemen who help me do things at work i can't or won't do. Expect about 25 including their wives. Lots of work but my guys are worth it!
Love seeing the painted furniture pieces. But not something I would probably do.
Sylvia ... You rock! What a precious story.
Michele ... Sorry you're having heel problems.
Mary... Glad you got home before the storm ...we're expecting 60 degrees this weekend! And glad daughter is doing well.
Rori ... Glad your husband is seeing an end to his health situation
Katla ... Hugs. Get well.
Becca ... Ouch!
Good night ladies!
Beth
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Beth - I'm sorry that your DS is having such a hard time with his migraine headaches. I use to be the home school teacher. He will have a good chance at graduating with one on one help.
Mary from Minnesota0 -
:sick: Thanks for the well wishes. You're the best people around. :flowerforyou:0
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Becca - glad you got the pic. I hope its not too big to work on the tree. Sorry about your toe, makes me cringe just thinking of it. Hang in there (no pun intending to the little toe nail) Ha!
Janetr OKC0 -
Ran to the grocery store this morning, then came home and baked two big batches of cookies. When I started to pack them for the freezer, Jack said leave some out for me. lol Rode the stationary bike for an hour. How did all that take most of the day? I may be getting old and moving slower
Back to water aerobics in the morning. Have a good night ladies.
Janetr OKC0 -
Stronglifts 5X5
Squats-1X5X 65/75/85/95/105/115, 5X5X 120
Sumo squats-5X5X105
OHP- 1X5X 45/50/55, 2X5X 60, 3X5X55
DL- 1X5X 150
The OHP is not pretty! Still trying to get 5 sets of 60. Only got 2. My form was awful! 55 lbs is nice but I've got to challenge myself.
Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
Two more Christmas pageants tonight, then came home and made candy for a party tomorrow. The first batch of pralines set up too fast and looked ugly but tasted fine. The second batch look pretty. Hubby offered to get rid of the first batch for me. What a good helper.
Now it's bedtime. Sweet dreams!
Sylvia0 -
Pip - they are so adorable! Love the scarfs. Your tree and your house is beautiful!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Good Evening Ladies,
CarolNC, I’d be proud of my DD, too. That is wonderful! My friend that I was staying with that just had hip replacement is doing all her PT at home. Her doctor doesn’t normally send his patients to PT or a rehab facility and doesn’t like home nursing care. He things it all disrupts the day and schedule and has his staff P Therapist show the exercises in the hospital and sends them home. I have to admit, she is doing great.
Sylvia, what a sweet story about your DGD. I’m glad you stood up!!
Katla, good luck with your Christmas shopping. I just love to get gifts when I know of something they will like and/or appreciate but I hate it when I can’t think of a good gift.
Janetr, any time, my friend. That is why I wear these boots.
Joyce, glad your kitty was okay.
Karen, have a wonderful trip to DC. It is on my bucket list.
Gloria, I don’t care if scorpions are poisonous or not, keep ‘em away from me. But your picture is cute.
Penny, cool ginger bread houses. I love that you don’t complain about a lack of seasons!
Lillian, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I’ll be thinking about you with all those people.
Lisa, that thing looks like a handy tool. Thanks for the link because I didn’t know what it was.
Heather, golly gee, that is a walk.
Mindy, congrats on being out of pain. It is amazing the health benefits from losing weight.
Beth, sorry about your DS. I know that was not what you wanted but I hope all will work out in the end.
Pip, love the pictures of the pups.
My friend’s daughter came back today so I got to come home. She lives 3 hours away in Columbia and has a sick hubby at home. The HVAC guys showed up about 8:45 this morning to put in the new unit. They were getting close to finished by the time I left around 12:30. It was good to get home. She needs me to come again next week for the same time. Hopefully after that she will be able to stay alone. Her biggest fear is dropping something that she can’t pick up off the floor. I told her if it was anything other than her phone to just leave it. lol I started taking notes this morning at my friends house but that was on a different computer, so those aren't here. I had so many posts tonight that I had to read fast and scanned some. Just know I think of you all and care about you.
I hope all of you have a healthy and happy day.
Words I live by:
Savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.
and
Opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC
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Barbie, my daughter would LOVE the penguin stool! Adorable. And so neat that you still have and use your old toy chest.
Pip, love the dogs, but also your Hoosier cabinet! Mine is a painted one- I love the real wood ones.0 -
Good morning all!
We were meant to go to Sete today, but woke up to find DH had been up a lot in the night with his diarrhoea again. It must be a bug as he definitely didn't eat anything suspect yesterday. It's such a shame as he was on such good form yesterday. He loves open spaces and the sea.
Sete is especially famous for seafood - a whole quayside lined with restaurants, so I don't think he would appreciate it today!
I have been before - when the children were young. My DS#1 threw a hissy fit in the car and wouldn't get out. We left him and walked around for a bit then came back to get him. He hated fish in those days, even kid's fish fingers. When we eventually dragged him into a restaurant he had the only things on the menu that weren't fish - chicken and fries for starters and steak and fries for entrée. :laugh: Boy, was he full up!
It's going to be nice weather again today so a seaside jaunt would have been nice.
Drkatie - so happy to have inspired you! I really enjoy sitting down and being looked after. One of my big gripes about the UK is that so many places are self service, especially cafés. In France you sit down at a café, probably outside under an umbrella and someone serves you. I hate loading up my tray with cups etc. Paying good money for that? ? I find if I am dining on my own sometimes the waiters kind of adopt you and are extra friendly. Just occasionally you are obviously not welcome as a single diner, but I have rarely had that experience.
DJ - the bit of the walk in my pic was only about half of it! :noway:
Katla - Sorry you are not feeling good. :flowerforyou: Nice card Elaine!
Beth - I am sure the home tutoring will be a blessing in disguise. :flowerforyou:
I was awake in the night worrying about my tooth filling which is grumbling. Hope it doesn't get any worse before we get home. It isn't hurting, but I know it's there. :ohwell: I do seem to have the start of a cold, so that might have set it off. DH also feels coldy. We will nurture ourselves today.
Just gentle walking.
Might go down to the train station to buy advance tickets for Avignon on Monday. We can always get a refund if we buy the Hi flex option. Just saves a lot of time on the day as we can't really understand the machines and the ticket office has a very rigid queuing system which is very good, but you have to allow time. The weather forecast is not good for Monday though. But I anticipate spending time indoors at the Popes' Palace. We've both been to the town before.
Must have breakfast. DH is limiting himself to water again. :ohwell:
Heather
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Sylvia - my eyes are tearing up at your story about your granddaughter singing with the middle school choir. Maybe part of the power of the occasion was all the mutual respect. She was showing respect to veterans by singing the songs, and when you stood up for "your" song - even though you felt uncomfortable standing up - you were showing respect for her respect.
Lisa - I note you mention "the cold and the damp" together as being the worst thing about Oregon. I'm not sure you would suffer from the cold here. Before we moved I was expecting to freeze my tootsie off, but it's so dry that the cold is powerless to chill. It still amazes me every time I go out on a cold day and am completely unfazed by it. The best adjective I can find for the cold is that it's "friendly".
(And I notice that in the post right after yours, Lisa, Elaine calls her weather "cold, wet and miserable". Yep, I'm convinced it's the damp in combination with the cold that gets you.)
Heather - that causeway out to the cathedral calls to my jogging reflexes! And if there are birds to look at in the shallows on either side I could probably run back and forth for hours on end.
Elaine - the detective in me senses you often paint flowers in watercolor. Right? The get-well-soon bouquet for Katla and your profile pic are both beautiful.
Pip - when your dogs go to France, they won't be told off about not wearing a "foulard" Also I've been meaning to write that when I first saw the pic of Kirby with his new glasses, I was stunned. They did great things for his face - not that it needed any help. Good choice of frames, girl!
Today I hope to get some actual work done. We (meaning my computers and I) have recovered enough that it should be possible.
Meanwhile, here's a picture to show why I love this place. Everyone has heard of the midnight sun, but what about the noonday full moon? This was taken a couple years ago from our kitchen window, looking north. In winter, the moon circles around the sky, just like the midnight sun. On clear days in mid-winter with a full moon, the blue color perfuses our entire world. Even hard-nosed macho miners drive out into the valley away from the lights of the city to admire it.
/Penny at the
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Morning ladies,
Well slept well and was asleep at 5:30 last night.got up at 2:45.a.m.,
Have to wash the floors this morning ,take a shower, walk the dogs and go down to see DFIL.
Then work 9-5 stop at subway to get sandwiches for the ride..
Michelle-went to the podiatrist and it took at least 2 shots of cortisone in the heel to fix it.0 -
I thought things would ease a little as my groups broke up for Christmas and New Year, but so many invitations have filled the gaps. I am reading the posts as often as I can but finding time to comment hasn't happened. I love all the photos, and especially the lovely watercolour done by Elaine.
It's a lovely morning so I am planning to spend some time outdoors. Healing thoughts and prayers to those who need them! 
Welcome to our Newbies. Sit a spell! 
Let your light shine out in the darkness Each one of us is a vital cog in an infinite universe.
We may not know our purpose, but each cog needs to be oiled and tended.
Irish Terri
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Penny at the pole~ just a stunning picture.... love your stories about your place at the pole and enjoying Heather's stories of her and the DH adventures...nice to travel to different places in the comfort of your own home...
floors done,and will hop in the shower next..0
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