WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2015

mollywhippet

I'm back home. My procedure was a huge waste of time. They found some scar tissue inside the colon and could not get their instruments past it. Also, the small intestine is attached at a strange backward angle and they couldn't make the turn. So, my options are to have full blown surgery, which will only create even more scar tissue, or to just try to live with it. That would mean a very limited diet with only soft foods. So, I feel stuck. I'm too tired to think about it now. The anesthetic hasn't quite worn off. So, I'm going to lie down for a little while.

The funny part is that my son called about 1:00, while I was still in the recovery room, and asked if I was going to pick up the kids from school. I told him several times that this would take all day. He has no short term memory left at all.

More later.

Sylvia

pipcd34

janetr - sorry to hear about your itchies.... sound painful, hope you get help...
whippet - sorry to hear oabout your procedure.. take it easy...

barbiecat

Katla, This is how I get a picture from Facebook to post on MFP (it may not work for commercially produced stuff)....first, click on the picture, you want and it will get bigger...then right click on the picture and choose the option that says "save image as".....then it should show some weird code name for the picture and under it say that it is a jpeg which is what a picture is.....then change the weird code name to something short like "photo 1" and save it on your desktop to find easily (or if it's something you want to keep, then save it in one of your photo files with your other pictures)....then you can post it on MFP just like any picture you have on your computer. This is what works for me......if you have a different operating system, it may not work for you, or the language may be different. I just found out by experimenting and trying different things.

miriamwithcats

Sylvia, what a drag!

Janet,I would definitely complain.

mollywhippet

Grits, our doggie door fits thirty pound dogs, so an adult human can't get through it. But other animals can. I think spanking your dog is counter productive. That's not the best way to train a dog. Positive reinforcement works SO much better.

DamitJanit

Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding.

Good Evening, Ladies.

Sylvia, that "is" great custome service on your doggie door. I'm glad you responded about the infusions because that did confuse me. (which is not always hard to do. LOL)

CarolGA, the little dresses sound so cute. It must be fun to shop for those.

Cullie, welcome. You will find this a great place for support and information. If you make this a lifestyle change I'm sure you will be successful. Congrats on acknowledging that life is great.... many people just don't see it. Come often and join right in.

Terri, that is sad for your Dad to be cold in Arizona. lol

Vicki, a huge congrats for not having any of the Christmas goodies at work. Sorry about your uncle.

Rosi, I agree that the gym should be a temptation free zone.

Mary, I hope your DH had a good birthday. I also hope it was a good day for you.

kimses, I laughed about you saying the specialist asked if your husband was thin. When we are FAT, we act so insulted that someone incinuates that we are overweight, but we know that we are.

Sylvia, I have been reading rather quickly lately so must have missed why you are in a hotel for your prep? Are your tests in KC?? I'm betting that is it. Sounds like fun taking all 3 kids at once. You are the best!!

Michele NC, you know when you are on the board of any group that you will never please everyone. It is sad how much some people complain.

Mindy, such a sweet picture. I love the sweater.

Heather, so glad the water wasn't worse.

Lillian, sorry you can't leave the house but you know what they say. "You play, you pay!" Feel better.

Heather, sounds like you are going to have some visitors? Try to enjoy!

I'm only at the top of page 33 but too tired to read more so I will post what I have so far. My friend that thad the hip surgery is doing great. She is walking without a cane and getting around great. I had a board meeting this afternoon and we have so much to get done in the next few weeks. Not easy at this time of year but we will do what we can. I'm off to bed but wanted to share a quote I heard today:

"Life is like a book with many chapters. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book."

I hope you all have a happy and healthy day.

Words I live by:
Savor: I have to slow down and savor every bite.
Opportunity: Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.

Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC

grandmallie

Evening ladies, long long day..will check in tomorrow

Annr

Made messy greasy burgers for the son and husband, and fries...so I am typing here with you all... lol!!

MFP Advent Calendar

Dec 17th~ A man named Joseph greeted them, his face was worn and thin.
"We have been quartered here", he said, "for there's no room at the Inn".

Rain rain RAIN that is my life for the next couple of days.... Coastal weather has its charm, don't get me wrong, but steady downpours have a way of dampening not only your life, but your spirit. I listened to happy sunny music before I went to volunteer and that helps :-) There was a gentleman there that was playing on his electric piano, and had it on "calliope" mode, so I felt like I was at a circus....but he switched to "piano" mode and did Christmas music so that was nice. He let me play on it before he put it back in his car. While I like the convenience of it, I like the FEEL of a real piano better.

When I was in California, there was a thrift store in our town. Pianos would come and go, but I played about 10 or so of them, before they went to their new homes. Each one with a personality, and some were such old souls, to play them was an honor. Silly I know, but that is how I feel about pianos.

My Mom re-furbished an old player piano. The player piano part was long since gone out of its innerds, but the upright piano still was quite grand. My middle sister played exceptionally well, being the accompanist for all the different glee clubs at her high school. I remember her learning "Rachmaninov's Prelude in C Sharp Minor", for her piano teacher. That echoing around the house, freaking out my cat, and putting a lump in my throat, (its quite awesome to see someone play that firsthand) is a memory I won't ever forget :-)

Talked with some of my TOPS friends today. One is the lead person coordinator for the volunteer serving. She had picked me up this morning. One of the other gals has been taking a "leave of absence" from TOPS like I have been. The cook today is our TOPS leader, and she hugged me saying I am missed. She whispered in my ear, "You don't have to play the games you know". I answered, "Life is a game :-)... But I did say its nice to be missed. I will probably start attending again in January. I feel like these past months I haven't been attending, is like I have been on vacation. I have to admit, that I do like the comradery of the ladies, and I have missed that strength, and that drive I felt to succeed.

Be well every one.
My husband is moaning in the living room because I turned on all the Christmas things, then I leave the room......he is my SCROOGE hahaha.
Becca

exermom

Did 1-1/4 hr of Stephanie Vitorrio Body Target DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do exercise in the water.

barbie - loved your pic about worrying. How true!

Joyce - it looks like you really enjoyed Blue Man Group. How great you had such great seats. I remember the year we went to see TSO when Jess was training the service dog, they put us in a box. I must say, it was really nice. The dog slept thru the entire concert....lol I, also, thought about how I donate the cookies to the soup kitchen. You know what they say -- GMTA. Good find on that band for your fitbit

This am after giving Loki his medicine, went to Aldi, brought things home and am now making two of those spinach/feta quiches to take Sat (I'll freeze them). Hopefully, this afternoon we can do wrapping, got everything out in the kitchen ready to do it.

Sylvia - thinking of you

Lisa - glad you got your Internet back. I hate when ours goes out

Betty - I keep reading how this Christmas it's supposed to be unseasonably warm. I'm hoping I got everything needed to do the cooking Christmas Eve

Lenora - feel better fast

pip - you have some wonderful coworkers. They decorate and now this lovely gift.

Elaine - I do hope you feel better fast

Barbara - welcome!

Was waiting for Vince to start wrapping, but it never happened. He said he thought I'd do it. I used to do it all when he was working and it took days. Of course, the kids were smaller so got more presents. Last year (and I think the year before) we did it together and it went so fast. I'm hoping that tomorrow we can do it before I have to go to get my hair done at 3:30. Update: he's going to go shopping around 10, after exercising I'll go to WalMart then home. Maybe I'll start wrapping things that are already in a box. That's the one part of wrapping that I'm not crazy about, finding a box the right size.

If it weren't so close to the holidays and I'm going to get my hair colored, I'm thinking that next time I need to get my hair trimmed, I just may try the gal Vince goes to. I originally went to one gal but she was booked so I booked it with another gal. Today she called to say that she won't be in until the afternoon. I'm sorry, the reason I started going here was because they were right on my way home from the Y and I could get my hair done after exercising. Now with all these schedule changes.......I can probably get my hair done after volunteering at the Green Room if I go to the place Vince goes to. I can just walk there from the Green Room. Vince says he thinks that I'll get along well with the gal since she's into exercising, too. I may give it a try, maybe in Feb. before we go to FL

Sylvia - so sorry to hear about your procedure. What an awful choice you have to make!

Lenora - I agree with Sylvia, positive reinforcement for doggie training. That's how we trained the service dog.

DJ - so glad you friend's surgery went so well.

Michele in NC

janetr7476

pipcd34

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fanncy0626

Mary from Minnesota

jmkmomm

Janetr, love it. That's about how it is in my house. Hope you get the issue with this rash,taken care of.

Sylvia, I feel I had sympathetic diarrhea for colonoscopy tonight. But I guess I had it to late. I don't know what I ate, nothing unusual but my heavens, pooped in my britches 3 times. Luckily I was at home all 3 times!!! TMI?????? I don't think you should say the procedure wasn't worth anything. At least you do know now that you have scar tissue and that your natural anatomy is kind of messed up. Hope you get your rest now so you can continue to be super Grandma.

Barbie, can I change the weird code to something like blue man #1 and then #2? Or does it have to be picture 1? I know on forums on face book and other groups you can 'pin' notes. An explanation of how to put up pictures would be a very helpful 'pin'. I will try doing that, but not tonight.


Heather, glad you are safely in your home and then the wonderful (????) news that you are having a group for Christmas! I don't particularly love the smell of a freshly painted room but i love that it is freshly painted and how ti looks, it takes on a new life.

Lisa, glad you have all your internet up.

Pip, I absolutely love your design. The dog with the halo, is that one that has died? It almost looks like Kirby's bike is pulling your Airstream. Is that intended??? I know he will love it.

Took a long trip to Walmart all by myself to try to finish up my shopping. I put ornaments in all the ladies stockings so I got those. I tried to pick each one for the individual. They were only $1.94 so I liked that. I have always thought that stockings can hold wonderful little gifts that mean a lot. Charlie has never been one to look at the check book or to ask me what I spend or even to notice that a daughter is wearing a new ring. So they have always known not to let him see everything they get in their stocking. I know this isn't honest but he can be so giving at one time and then a pincher another so this is the way I have always given something extra. So after they got to be adults, I always put a $25 gift card to a favorite restaurant in the stocking. Christina loves Steak and Shake and her hubbie doesn't so in order for her to use that it is not only a gift from me it is also a gift of love from her husband. Michelle doesn't go out at all unless she is with us and we always pay. She had several small things on her Amazon wish list that I didn't get her and I don't know if anyone else did either. So I ordered her a $25 gift card from there. I love it that you order the one to be printed off at home. So I am almost all done. I went downstairs to the laundry room tonight and it reminded me that I haven't put the tree up yet. I think if it wasn't for the fact we have the big family Christmas here and I have young grand kids, I wouldn't put one up. We don't have room in our living room where it would be seen from the outside. So it goes in the family room, which is Charlie's man cave and I never see it unless I am doing laundry. He cleans up after himself and vacuums down there so I rarely have a need to go there and see the tree. So it is lit on Christmas day, well Jan 2nd, only.

Nite nite my friends, Joyce, Indiana where it is finally getting to be cool enough to be December.

Gilly139

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU and hope you have a wonderful time with family or friends. I will be away in Birmingham from tomorrow and so will not be able to post anything (not allowed internet access while there!). I hope to get back on track in the New Year.
Gilly, Suffolk UK

Elaine352962

Morning everyone. Wishing you all a great day.

Will be doing some bulk cooking today - vegetable curry using lots of different vegetables including things I am not keen on ie celery parsnips. I use Mayflower Curry Powder which is tasty and I love it. Will also be trying to eat more vegetables for snacks instead of fruit. Will make a dip using quark mixed with curry powder, black pepper and a little rock salt.

I usually only cook one meal at a time for my husband and myself, I am going to start cooking bulk meals and freeze them. Hopefully this will save time and be able to eat good prepared meals and this will stop snacking on sugary foods.

Have a great day everyone.

Lagopus

Well the Christmas dinner is over. Sort of. Its spirit lingers on in my house and both my refrigerators. My husband was worried there might not be enough food but in the end I think we had three times as much as we needed.
I'm posting pictures of some of the food. I forgot to take a picture of the dessert table.

First the main buffet with the cold food. Turkey bottom left, salted and dried meats top middle, salads in the big bowls, left to right: beet, shrimp, Waldorf, and potato.


Here's the cold food that didn't fit on the same table. Roast beef and head cheese, veggie platter, and two kinds of salmon (left to right).


MFP thinks that's enough and won't let me upload any more pictures of food. I'll have to continue in a new post.

Lagopus

So here's the warm food.

First the pork section: spare ribs, bratwurst and burgers, served with cooked prunes and apple slices.


Here's the same stuff along with mashed rutabaga and stewed purple cabbage (the only two things this dinner had in common with what I serve on my own Christmas table).


And last but not least, the crowning glory of any Norwegian Christmas dinner, the one item no red-blooded Norwegian can imaging not eating on Christmas Eve: pinnekjøtt. This traditional dish is made from sides of mutton (sheep or lamb). They are soaked in brine for a couple weeks then hung up to dry for 6-8 weeks. At that stage they keep essentially forever. When Christmas comes, the ribs are soaked in water overnight then steamed until the meat is tender, 3-5 hours. The name pinnekjøtt literally means "stick meat" and that isn't because the bones look like sticks, but because you steam the meat on a nest of peeled birch sticks.


When everyone had eaten themselves full, but before dessert, this is what we had left over on just one of the tables.


And at the end of the evening we were all so exhausted that NOBODY took any food home with them! Luckily some of the leftovers were transported to their workplace for lunch the next day. But I still have plenty left...

Lagopus

...and having all those leftovers may be a good thing because we're in for a humdinger of an Arctic storm! The wind has been shaking the house all night and is predicted to continue increasing steadily for 12 more hours, reaching hurricane force at midnight.


Here's what our door and one window looked like this morning. That's real snow, not the stuff that comes in a spray can.



My husband went off to work as usual this morning but he said he'd keep an eye on the weather and come home if it started to look really dangerous.

Hey, I LOVE it!
/Penny at the

Lagopus

The Governor's office has implored people not to go out unnecessarily. All flights in and out of Svalbard are cancelled today, including the extra flight that most families with small children intended to take this afternoon after school ended for the term. The school festivity marking the start of the holiday break has been moved from the church to the school itself so the kids don't have to go outdoors, and busses are being arranged to transport every child to his/her door. Last but not least, the postal service has cancelled delivery of all mail, though we're welcome to stop by the post office in person and ask for our letters.

Now how did it go again, the creed of the US postal service?

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

miriamwithcats

Wow Penny!

Pip, I love your designs!

This is for all of you that struggle with overeating over the holidays, like I do:

janetr7476

Penny - Wow thank you so much for the pictures and the description of all we were seeing. Stay safe in your home during the storm.

bwcetc

Penny ... Love the food photos! Funny ... Every time I enlarged one of them for detail (I'm on phone) and then tried to go back to your post ... It took me to Miriam's cat photo!!! MFP has a sense of humor!

Miriam ... Love your post too!

Remember our vitamin D conversation a while back? Well I haven't been taking my 10,000 vitamin d3 ... Ran out a couple weeks and decided to stop. Bad move I think.... My knees are throbbing with inflammation. Started vitamin back this morning. Will see if they get better. I believe it helps my joints.

Have a great day ladies!
Beth

Lilymay2

Pip... that is a very nice present for Kirby

lhannon062709

Penny - VERY cool pics... inspired me to add mine... We've already sent off 15 pounds of pecans, 6 pounds to each kid, and 3 pounds to my best friend, but more remain on the tree... so I convinced my amazing husband to climb up and shake a branch or two. And ended up with ten more pounds. He's nine years younger than me, at 46, and less breakable. One hopes.

Lilymay2

Penny - thanks for posting the traditional Norwegian Christmas dinner. My maternal great grandparents came from Norway, so maybe they would have had some of these dishes for their Christmas.

Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan

miriamwithcats

Lisa aka Cougar! LOL Love the food photos from all!

janetr7476

This morning my entire left hip is on fire. Will be glad to get to the doctor's appointment at 9:30. I'll let you know the out come.

Good thots to all you special ladies.

Janetr OLD

GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS

Mollywhippet - we don't whip Cracker if she poops on the deck; because, we don't catch her. We 'try' to get her to come to us so we can show her that 'it is not the place to poop'; she's gotten better about it. I tell her to go 'out into the grass' to pee and poop. She's done much better; about the only time that we know she is going to do it is if it I raining out. We tried a raincoat on her that did not work at all so I took it back to Pet Smart and got my $$$ back. We spray the area with a pet spray that is supposed to make it so it doesn't smell like a place to poop. Same thing if she pees or poops in the house; and, I tell my DOS, DDnL#1, and my DGDs not to come into the carpeted area until Cracker greets them in the kitchen and does her piddling because she is so excited to see them. Normally, she does not piddle if she has gotten it out then. About the only time we pop her on the butt is if she poops in the house and tell her 'no, go outside'.

Gave her a bath last week in the tub; and I think I was wetter than she was afterwards. She smelled good, I smelled like a dog. She likes to be blow dried and that is the only thing she likes about bath time. I dread the times that Louis will bathe her outside under the hose. But, he is calmer than I am with making her stay calm. She loves to run and play and be outside with him. He keeps talking about how much she likes it outside; but, I keep telling him that being inside makes her the companion dog that I want her to be for me. I guess it will depend on how 'doggy smelling' she is when he comes home.

Migraine seems to have gone away; sure hope so because after NOON there will be 'not a MD to be found in town unless I go to the ER'. My GP doesn't go to the hospital to see patients. He'd only see me afterwards as a follow-up. I try to stay away from the city hospital if I can do that. Don't even feel comfortable going to its "Convenient Care" spots. Although if you have insurance, they will take you in before those who do not have insurance.

GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS

grandmallie

Morning ladies~
Yesterday and the day before were long long days... we had our old next door neighbors from Ct, who have a place on the east coast over for a couple of days...had a marvelous time.. we went to Sanibel Island yesterday and it was a long long day left around 9:30 yesterday morning and didnt get back until almost 7 last night, leaving the dogs that long almost drove Tom crazy.. the dogs were fine and lucky the didnt go in the house...
Bought Tom a national parks senior pass at Ding Darling Wildlife refuge.
If any of you live near a national park and are over 62 do yourself a favor and get a senior pass it is 10.00 and will get the senior and 3 other people into any of the national parks..yellowstone, grand teton, grand canyon, everglades.. and it is a lifetime pass..rainy here today so have nothing much planned thank goodness...
will go down to see Toms aunt and uncle in Ft Myers later on.
then tomorrow night we are going out to dinner with our friends here in the park...
I just want to hang out for goodness sake..