WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016
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Jane, I'm so pleased the news is good on your DMIL!0
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I found this decluttering/organizing program.
http://www.home-storage-solutions-101.com/organized-home.html
Here is her January calendar:
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Sign up with your email and you will get all the calendars and the year week-by-week as a downloadable PDF.
I sent in my email address and THAT was a HUGE mistake. I got 15-20 emails from this site and 90% of them were 'selling' stuff. I unsubscribed to this. I'd like the calendar; but, don't see any way to copy it from this site to one in Word or Outlook 2013.
Cheri NE Ohio
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Jane - I'm glad that you have good news about your MIL. (((Hugs))) to you and your family.
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Excuse me it was Flylady or something like that ... whatever it was I unsubscribed to it. I'll try this site and see what it does for me.0
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cosfled - where are you getting your calendar on this site? I'm not seeing it; but, maybe I expected to see it when I download the pfd=pdf (whatever) and all it had was just a blank calendar. I tried to copy yours but it would not let me highlight to print it.0
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Cracker got 2 'new' toys (actually Christmas toys); but, that won't matter - they were 'on sale' for 75% off. She has constantly played with them since we got home. One in particular. Now she is laying down outside the bathroom waiting for DH to get out of the bathroom. She is fast becoming his 'shadow' as well as still being mine!
She is constantly chewing (or getting things in her mouth); this time I felt the rug after having her come to me (nothing in her mouth); but, went to check the area and DH had dropped a piece of tobacco. I'll have to get on to him about that. When I opened the page and went to January ... I don't know how many posts were on it; but it took up 4 solid pages.0 -
fanncy0626 wrote: »Penny - thanks for the pictures! Your kids look absolutely delighted to hold those baby kids!
Elaine - sound advice from PIP! I really do love your artwork!
Mary from Minnesota
Thank you. I will try the music that Pip suggested. Went for a 45 minute walk with my husband and have not long been home. Really enjoyed it but it is cold outside tonight. Trying to do different exercise combinations. My daughter came at tea time and she helped me de-clutter the back bedroom. - Feeling a lot happier.0 -
GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »cosfled - where are you getting your calendar on this site? I'm not seeing it; but, maybe I expected to see it when I download the pfd=pdf (whatever) and all it had was just a blank calendar. I tried to copy yours but it would not let me highlight to print it.
http://www.home-storage-solutions-101.com/organized-home.html
Scroll down the page past the red email box to get her updates ect. and past the 1 page year summary. You should then see: Click here for your free 2016 schedule
(opens as PDF in new window)
If you click on this the PDF should open with a 19 page entity with her introduction, explanations and 12 monthly calendars. If you still have trouble I can email the PDF to you!
Today's task was kitchen counters. Mine look significantly better.
Cheri NE Ohio0 -
Cheri - I've tried it twice and don't get what you are showing us ... just pages and pages of instructions or how to do things weekly. You can PM if you want to so that I will be able to copy it from there. Thanks.0
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Just to clarify: Flylady WILL SEND YOU UMPTEEN HUNDRED EMAILS (MOSTLY SELLING HER PRODUCTS). But her program (which you can follow on her website) is good for getting in a cleaning of the home routine. Taylor Flanery's program has sent me nothing as of yet and she is the program that provides the monthly 15 organizational tasks.
Cheri NE OHio0 -
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Just to clarify: Flylady WILL SEND YOU UMPTEEN HUNDRED EMAILS (MOSTLY SELLING HER PRODUCTS). But her program (which you can follow on her website) is good for getting in a cleaning of the home routine. Taylor Flanery's program has sent me nothing as of yet and she is the program that provides the monthly 15 organizational tasks.
Cheri NE OHio
Yep ... You can get email reminders ... But that's your call. I really like her.
I'm feeling positively Heather-esque! Made Baked Flounder with Fresh Lemon Pepper (Cooking Light recipe), fresh steamed broccoli and found in the freezer previously made brown and wild rice with soft wheat and rye ! Yum!
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GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »Cheri - I've tried it twice and don't get what you are showing us ... just pages and pages of instructions or how to do things weekly. You can PM if you want to so that I will be able to copy it from there. Thanks.
Sent you a message! Email me your address and I will send the PDF to you!
Cheri NE Ohio0 -
Chris loved the lobster trap decorated tree!0
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I love FlyLady. I really do. Her book, Sink Reflections is great. The emails drove me bananas, though. I do not need an email to tell me to go to bed. LOL! And her website could use a serious declutter itself. And like Lenora said, the testimonials are not very cleverly disguised sales pitches. I will say her calendar is the best one I've ever used. I used it for years. Then the website was down or something when I tried to order the 2015 one, so we got an Erin Condren wall calendar instead. Talk about stupid tax! When my 2016 Flylady calendar came in (which actually started in August of 2015), we immediately started using it.
Taylor's website and decluttering calendar are much less invasive, but if you sign up for the email and the Facebbok group, you will get double reminders. Her articles will contain links to storage options from Amazon, but that is how she makes money yo keep her website free. She isn't obnoxious about it at all.
If you like the idea of FlyLady, have an iPhone or iPad, and are motivated by apps, I strongly recommend the app called HomeRoutines. You can customize the chore lists. It has also divided the month into zones where you can spend 15 minutes at a time in the current zone. The zones are not customizable, but the chores within them are. This app cost $4.99 when I bought it. I think it is worth every penny, but YMMV. You can customize weekly chores by the day if the week, biweekly chores, etc. you can put your exercise in your daily routine. It is a really nice app for the price. Last time I checked, however, there was no android version.
I think I've visited every decluttering website/blog out there. I have my favorites, but then I probably need an intervention. My nephew says I have organizers for my organizers. I wish I was as faithful to the cleaning routines, although I am getting better.
I'm really enjoying my new gym routine. I skipped yesterday because my thighs were so sore from steps and squats that I couldn't even get up and down from the potty without holding on. I did manage to do Sweating to the Oldies instead. I was back today and it went well.0 -
Thanks for the write up drkatiebug!
Unfortunately I cannot find HomeRoutines for Android but there are several other ones that am will look into.
Cheri NE Ohio0 -
stats for the day:
Bike ride hm 2 gym- 12min, 144mhr, 14.8amph, 2.9mi = 111c
Rowing machine- 20min, 51aw, 132mhr, 3164merers = 125c
Physical therapy exercises at gym- 18min, 2sets, 10ea of 6 diff exercises = 31c
Bike ride gym 2 dome- 6.30min, 143mhr, 12.6amph, 1.4mi = 77c
Bike ride dome 2 hom, left on lincoln- 18.36min, 8.6amph, 155mhr, 2.6mi = 210c
toal cal 5540 -
Did an hour of deep water class today. The plan for tomorrow is to do an Ultimate Weight Training and Cardio DVD. Well, time got by me and I couldn't post last night. Did the Ultimate DVD today. The plan for tomorrow (Fri) is to do a Rebound Fit DVD
Tomorrow afternoon we're supposed to go out to lunch with the Newcomers. I already know that I'm going to order the grilled chicken breast from the children's menu and then the steamed broccoli and just have water to drink
Yesterday I went to the foot MD, he took x-rays and there's nothing in my foot so he's treating my heel pain as if it was plantar faciatis (?sp). He put a bandage on my foot and gave me some exercises to do. Weird thing is that I do most of them anyway. I guess I'll just do them more often, I found I can do some while standing brushing my teeth....lol
Then went to ceramics last night. I declare the welcome sign to be completed except for the parts that the lady who works there will do for me. she wasn't there this week, so next week I'll ask her to do them and then fire it. Pray real hard that the sign doesn't "shiver". Did start on the worm, Vince is doing the log that the worm sits on, I need to find pics of turtles
Yee gads, over 100 posts. I'll probably skim a bit then we go to the lunch.
Oh, had a unpleasant experience at the food store last night. In the past whenever an internet coupon didn't scan, the cashier would always input it manually. Last night I was told "if it doesn't scan, we can't accept it". It's not my fault that their scanner doesn't have a high enough resolution. Well, I did write to the corporate office to see if this is their policy or if maybe it's this manager's policy.
Linda - I usually wash the dishes and leave them to dry overnight.
Joyce - Matt looks so happy. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that he was a heroin addict at one time. So glad you got that armoir
drkatiebug - I have these Polar insulated water bottles. Got them at D***'s. The thing that I like about them is if in the summer I leave them in the car, they don't get boiling hot. I forget how much I paid, actually I got them on sale. Be pickey. Like I said, what I like is if I leave the water bottle in the car, in summer the water isn't boiling hot
Heather - good thoughts for your DIL
Lisa - I knew you'd be a great asset, and I bet the interviewer knew it too.
Chris - thanks for sharing the pic of the Christmas tree. Very different
Bandit Sylvia - good for you! Good looking computer case
Welcome everyone new!
mary - what a horrible experience you had. I agree with Dee. When we first moved to NC we had a vet that was near where we lived since one of our cats was diabetc. Now that we've moved, we like him so much that we travel 20 minutes (about) to go there, even tho there are vets closer to here
Kim - loved your hair
Carol - good choice on the salad
kimses - you asked how anyone could be mean to a puppy? I ask how could anyone be mean to ANY animal!
Went with some friends to go see the Star Wars movie. They were going out to dinner afterward, but for one thing Vince told Denise that he'd call her tonight and walk her thru taking the antivirus off her old computer so he can put it on her new one. Also, he's been having constipation lately. He remembers how it was when he had the blocked colon and now he's taking some of the Mira-Lax stuff.
pip - oh, Bullwinkle looks so cute on the bed!
Marie - let us know what the final result is, we all care
terri - for Christmas I got a t-shirt that says "move over boys, let a girl show you how to bowl".
I sent Bryan an email thanking him for his honesty to me in his email and saying that while we can't change the past, perhaps his therapist can help us with the future and would he be open to a Skype session? I also mentioned that I'd worked with therapists in the past and whenever there was a family problem, they always wanted to speak to the entire family. Now I leave the ball in his court.
Elaine - good for you wanting to succeed in a lifestyle change
katla - doing a happy dance for you
Vince is low on his cookies so I made a pineapple angel food cake. He said "you know, I also need devil's food". I just told him that I want to change things up. Which is true. But it's also true that this is somethig that I'll eat
lpdjones - great walking!
Chris - what an inspiring post. Thanks for sharing your journey with us
wardshelia - sometimes it takes our bodies a while to catch up with itself. Also, you might very well be putting on muscle (which is better than fat). don't get discouraged
Cheri - thanks for posting what the words mean. Really liked it.
Pole Penny - I can see why your heart resides in that house. Mine would, too.
Mary - trust your gut. I wouldn't use a vet, no matter how good he was, if my pet was treated the way Shep was. Well...maybe I'd use the vet because I'd be there and most of the time I'd be with the pet. There are times when they have to take our cats in the back for blood, etc. But there is no way on this green earth that I'd ever ever ever leave my pet there for any length of time. I'd have a horrible vacation. that's not what vacations are supposed to be for.
Jane - glad to hear MIL is improving
Lenora - we put a lot of our Christmas toys for the cats away, then bring them out the next year. Like kids, they treat them like new toys
Michele in NC0 -
Just logging in folks. Still not up to snuff. Cold is definitely getting me down. Today I awoke at 9 AM, took daytime medicine and went to bed until 2 PM. Crazy. I ate two Van's Ancient Grains waffles, then at dinnertime I ate a BLT wrap. I still don't have any energy for much of anything.
One thing that got me down was watching "Biggest Loser" and seeing their beginning weight, (which their weights are about the same as mine around 230-40). They look with such disgust at their bodies, and feel like total failures. I sometimes think that maybe I should feel like that when I look at mine. In order to improve my well being, I need to hit a certain low. Maybe coming to terms and accepting the fact that I was (and am) an obese woman, isn't such a good thing. I look at myself and see areas I wish to improve on, but in general I am content. Is this not a realistic approach? To think back and remember when I was larger, a weekend nudist where legally acceptable, and what I would term an active obese woman, kind of amazes me. I was an "in your face" personality, not concerning how people judged me. I played tennis at the resort, with my sons, in the nude, not worrying about much of anything, and my boys have said now, they admired my tenacity. I think being a large woman I taught them some valuable lessons in acceptance. But that is not me now.
I have a certain seriousness to my life now. Having shared a tough disease like liver failure to transplant with my husband has brought a clarity to what life means to me. There is a sense of wanting to complete this task of getting to a certain point physically that carries a stress all its own. Then there is the time I have wasted. It's the time wasted that is holding me back.
I wish to walk thru this world with grace. To move through my world with a willowy sense about me. I wish there to be less of me and more of living. Looking back to how I felt when I was bigger, I made it a point to take up space. It mattered that I was a large obese woman with ideas, and opinions. Now, I would just love to enter a room and have someone say, "wow, that is a really nice sweater". It's not so much about changing societies opinion of how obese people acclimate. It's not so much about making a statement, its about living whole and at peace with myself. Having typed what I just typed, maybe I'm not as content as I let on....
Becca
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Thanks for the write up drkatiebug! Unfortunately I cannot find HomeRoutines for Android but there are several other ones that am will look into.
Cheri NE Ohio
I don't think there is an Android version. That is really too bad, because it is great. I hate it when you learn of a great app and they don't have it in your version. Android has a super duper graphing calculator app but there is no iOS version.
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Too tired to post normally --just wanted to say good night.
Carol in foggy NC0 -
Becca, Biggest Loser is all about the drama. Your body is not disgusting. Don't let that hyped up non-reality get to you.
Thanks for all the water bottle suggestions. I needed one, so I picked one at Kroger. This is not to say that I won't keep looking for the perfect one. This one is pretty. It is made by Bubba and is aqua and pinkish purple. It holds 24 ounces, has a double layer so it won't sweat and is dishwasher safe. I paid a little less than $12. I don't think it will hold up to being left in a hot car, so I may look for one that will before summer gets here. It fits in my cup holder but not well. I wish it was just a tad bit slimmer.
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Dr Katiebug- My Chevy Spark has a big round cutout in the door area, so my 32 oz water bottle fits in there. You need to search for a car that your new water bottle fits in.... (heehee) You are right about the drama in that show. I need to not let those affect me so.
Becca0 -
Carol in foggy NC (((nighttime hugs))
Becca0 -
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT.
Strategy is stronger than willpower.
Stats for today:
11,000 steps
130 minutes of dog walking
94 minutes riding the exercise bike
two minute plank
line dance class
nap with hubby and the petsKatla, that is great news about the brace for your wrist and having the use of your fingers...hope the riding is OK soon
to all the new members of our community....keep coming back and you'll find some of us that you identify with and conversations that you want to be part of. Jake had an appointment with a doctor who will likely be taking care of what ails his back I got the paperwork to fill out for the appointment with the neurologist who may have answers to what ails my legs.
Barbie from beautiful chilly NW Washington
My word for 2016 is "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness
“The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."-- Yutang Lin
January Resolutions (with week one comments)
*meditate for 10 minutes a day four or more days a week (great, so far)
*sort and discard papers for 15 minutes four or more days a week (making a good start)
*treat myself like a toddler (as suggested by Gretchen Rubin) ( yes)
*get income tax papers gathered in one place (making a good start)
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My son called today to say that they called the new pulmonologist (the one he has an appointment with on the 19th) and begged them for an earlier appointment, so he's going there (to Joplin) tomorrow at 10:30. He believes that he will be admitted to the hospital, so he's making arrangements for the kids. I'm picking them up in the morning, at which time they will load their weekend bags into my van. After I pick them up from school I am driving them up to meet their mom (about 30 miles away) when she gets off work, and they will stay with her for the weekend, then I will pick them up Sunday and bring them home with me. At the same time, I'll be taking the step-son to his dad's place in the same town.
I have fears about him being admitted though. When he falls asleep at home, somebody has to watch him and see that he doesn't stop breathing. The "wife" does that all night, which is something I didn't know about until recently, and the kids take turns if he naps during the day, when they are home. Anyway, I'm afraid that if he stops breathing in the hospital, nobody will notice until it's too late. I know I've been in the hospital, even in ICU, and had machines making all kinds of alarms and nobody came to check on me for a long, long time.
So, I'm a little tense about it, but I'm glad he's finally getting in to see the doctor. Hopefully he can get back on his Alpha 1 infusion meds. It's hard to think about much else tonight.
I hope you are all having a great evening.
Sylvia0 -
Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Good Evening Ladies,
L, congrats on your progress. I think 30 minutes of cardio is great!!!
I’m proud that I’ve built up to 10 min.
Chris, way to go on exercising when you don’t like it. You are so true about the health benefits of not only losing weight but exercising and getting in better condition for what each day older holds in store. You are still a baby as I’m barely over a year from turning 70, but I do feel better than I have in years and plan to feel better still in a few months. Thanks for sharing and reminding us that it’s not always fun, but always worth it.
Sheila, are you eating a balanced diet within your calorie limits? If so maybe try to mix up the exercise a bit. How long have you been eating what you eat now?
Cheri, great definitions!
PolePenny, love the pictures but especially the one with the kids holding the kids. What fun!!!!
Karen, what part of NY are you in?? Cause due south in SC It’s only Thursday night. I don’t mean to burst your bubble! But in just 24 hours it will be.
Pip, I love, love, love the doggie pics!!!
Mary, thanks for the invite but I prefer to only compete against myself. Good luck to you.
Beth, sorry your pup is puny. Hope he recovers quickly.
Mrbmit, welcome. This is a great place for support and information. Come often to help reach your goals. Please tell us a bit more about yourself and sign each post with the name you want to be called along with a location, general or specific.
Jane, glad MIL is better and sorry that you can’t go see her. You get well soon.
Barbie, I hope you get some answers about your leg ailment. (((Hugs)))
to any Newbies that I missed. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.
I had a good day. Finally got most of the Christmas decorations in the attic. Got some things done around the house and now need to attack my office. I’m way behind on filing and need to organize my paperwork for our HOA since I am on the BOD for next year. Well, I guess that’s this year. Gosh how time flies. I'm off to bed.
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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