WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016
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Here's the kids. Clay (L) works at an industrial carpet cleaning company. Lee is a graphic artist and web developer at FSU (with me). Tye (R) is a lab scientist, lately of UGA and now on his way to the USDA to work in food safety. (You're in excellent hands.)
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Good lookin' boys/young men, Noreen!0
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PIp- Did you start the "gaggler" conversation? I looked it up! It reminded me of a few years back I painted my kitchen in a style that was/is called "frottage". So...when I was explaining the painting style to friends on facebook and I used that term; my french speaking daughter commented "MOM! I don't think that is what it was called! Frottage in french is slang for "rubbing yourself/creating friction or to *kitten*". Well the painting style IS called frottage, and there is rubbing involved; just no body involvement.0
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SERIOUSLY???? I can't say the m word on here? They censored the term for self pleasure. Wow. Time to go all Dr. Seuss and use words that rhyme with what you mean. spasterbate0
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Been too chicken to do the Sit and Rise test.
Will try tomorrow. Don't want to do it after exercise when my legs are like jelly. 
Been watching on TV a railroad trip across the States. So far from Chicago, through Minesota and North Dakota to Montana and on to Seattle. The presenter went to the Minesota State Fair. All very interesting. I love trains! Tonight he carries on through California etc. Thinking of you all as he proceeds.
Internet still #×÷@ . They need to COME AND FIX IT. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Phone crackling. Even when we're connected it all takes an age.
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Noreen ~ Thanks for sharing your pics. Was that you in your wedding dress? Lovely.
Miller ~ Where is your daughter's shop in Marietta. Lovely throw.
Beth ~ So glad your son is feeling better.
Today, I was brought my son's 12 yr old black cat. I don't know how I feel about that. It was either for him to get rid of his giant dog or give me the cat. The cat is presently sitting in the recliner beside me and has wandered all over the computer tables. I just hope he is old enough that he won't ruin our furniture with his claws.
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Grammy, I am starting to work out a pattern for the bookshelf quilt. I decided to title all the books after important things in my life, not necessarily "books", so I have a whole row of gardening titles (perennials, trees, composting, mulch, weed identification, etc.), Rehab counseling and psych titles, medical titles, cats, photo albums for each of my five kids, types of music I like as titles (classical, R&B, etc.), Victorian houses, history, religions of the world... you get the idea. I may have to make a bigger quilt than I thought! LOL I have way too many interests!0
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Just watched the sequel - Washington, California, Arizona and Texas.
Sorry Noreen my Internet won't let me see your kids.
I'm sure they are great.
DDIL has said she's fine with us going up on Monday 18th. Hooray! We'll just see the kids and baby for a few hours, but it's worth the journey.
Sorry if I'm not replying properly to you all, but I'm struggling with this Internet nonsense. :sad:
Heather UK
Noreen - Just got to see their faces! Lovely! They remind me of my elder son with their beards. 0 -
nb1959: Nice looking kids. You have quite a lot to be proud of. :flowerforyou:
Heather: I hope your internet access is fixed soon. I don't understand why it is taking so long. Is it a widespread problem with many people having trouble? Good luck for a return to easy communication.
I had a lovely time at yoga today followed by a long walk with my neighbor. I've thoroughly enjoyed he day. The thermometer in my kitchen window shows 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside. That is unusual in April.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison0 -
evening ladies~
well I am home from work and here I sit,Chester is hounding me for treats...
didnt eat to well today.. and am kind of tired...
Now I dont know any of you who do latch hook rugs.. I have 5 full boxes of latch hook yarn, a few rugs that are started and not finished.. Should I put them on Craiglist, Freecycle? I don't want to just throw them out...0 -
Katla - The problem is the connection between our house and the road. It's just a wire between the house and a pole. BT who run the infrastructure won't listen to us. You have to call a call centre in India and you get no sense at all from them. They are meant to be monitoring the line - #÷×$÷=%$# is what I say to that! We can't even use the phone it crackles so much. The system is #@×÷ with a capital S.
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Heather ~ In the US, we have been told if you get a foreigner on the line that you can ask to speak to an English speaking person.0
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drkatiebug wrote: »Ok, wish I hadn't done that.....
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just file that info in your file titled "useless mindless stuff"0 -
Day 6. I have decided not to weigh myself. After 30 years of doing so, I conclude that doesn't work; just too frustrating, pound by pound by tedious pound. Instead, I am going to celebrate going down a size with you, my awesome new and numerous new buddies! Size 18 now...Size 16, watch out! Here I come! Sleep well ladies. As Scarlett said, "Tomorrow is another day!"
Good for you! I stare at my scale and yelling in my mind...."numbers shall not define me!!"
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Hi gals,
Chris – you can do this… look at some old pics and remember how far you’ve come…
Clare – wishing you well, this is a very supportive friendly group..
Sylvia – you are doing great!!! Think of typing as PT
Newbies – welcome!!
Larisa – It seems to be worth a few hours to get to know this man and see after that.
Patsy – Cool! I have always wanted to weave.
Allie – good job on spending time with a friend and letting him figure it out on his own… so proud of you! I already knew he wasn’t too bright as he doesn’t value YOU!
Miriam – I love the quilt!!!
Becca and Pip – of course now I had to look it up too… my question is how does Pip know this?
Heather – Oh dear ! I just watched the youtube sit rise test, and I think I’d get a zero…. I’ll try it later.
Today was tough on food, I logged everything and will be under due to exercise calories but was hungry most of the day… don’t know what was up with that. Made a HUGE dinner, 2 cups of chard, onion, mushrooms, tofu and a bit of rice– sauted, filled a big fry pan and only 250 calories… that will hold me I hope!
Kim from N. California
I think Pip mis spoke...and I am so not a gaggler....shoot I have a sore throat for gosh sakes!!! hahahahaha...0 -
Michele in NC~ It was interesting that my paternal grandmother did that for me. After my mom and dad divorced, every time I saw her all she did was cry. Very devout Catholic woman. So it was touching that she did that for me. My Mom and I sugar starched it so I could frame it. I have yet to do that. Maybe not ready to put it in a frame where I can't touch it. My maternal grandmother gave me a blanket she knitted using all of her left over colors. I remember her knitting it, and I always told her it was wonderful, and then she gives it to me as a wedding gift. Gifts can just be gifts that fill a registry listing from a store, or gifts can be literally pieces of that person, and extension of themselves to you. I was lucky. After 32 yrs I don't have many of my wedding gifts, but I do have that blanket.
Becca
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Here's the kids. Clay (L) works at an industrial carpet cleaning company. Lee is a graphic artist and web developer at FSU (with me). Tye (R) is a lab scientist, lately of UGA and now on his way to the USDA to work in food safety. (You're in excellent hands.)
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I look at them and see a large grocery bill!! Very handsome guys, you did good Mom!!0 -
This is the group I've been looking for...I am heading into my mid-fifties and lately I've been feeling a little lost. There are days when I feel like Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes, "I'm to young to be old and I'm to old to be young." So it will be nice to connect with all of you. Next week I start the third phase of the Real Age Workout plan, strength training. I'm walking every day and doing core work several times a week. So my goal for April will be to walk for at least 30 minutes every day, core work every other day, drink at least 100 ounces of water daily, eat at least 80g of protein a day, 30g fiber every day, and keep my added sugar count to 25g or less. I'm working on a bariatric cookbook and plan to test one recipe a week for the next four weeks.0
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Hello Marci, Welcome! It's sounds like you got great goals set for this month :-) I have a phrase that really speaks to me presently.
Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's unbecoming everything that isn't you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Powerful eh? I love that and the mindset that I can be perfectly imperfect. That there is perfection in the realization that my scars, my life's story, gives me strength. I'm like those beautiful Japanese pottery bowls that have been broken but repaired with gold shining in the seams of the cracks connecting it, and making it really strong. Welcome again!
Becca
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Peach1848, here's the website. http://www.redhenfabrics.com/ I'm sure she won't mind a little advertising from me--Patsy0
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Margaret – I think most of us try to decide what our ‘stressors’ are and try our best to avoid them whenever possible. Admittedly, it is more difficult when that ‘stressor’ is a family member. I get tired of the ‘oh, poor me; you love them more than you’ll ever love us’. Maybe if she had changed that ‘we to me’ I might have been able to agree with her; but, my DOS isn’t like that. But, to tell him, he would only take her side, no matter what … because she will ‘slant the truth or good side’ her way. It hasn’t changed in almost 17 years … little doubt that it will change now; so I don’t make the effort. She can believe what she wants to, and does. Nothing I could ever say would change her. I’ve torn off that last ‘chance’ ticket and put it aside.
Barbiecat – I took my ‘good’ clothes to the “Thrift Store’ in hopes they will seel enough that I took for a good price and I will use to towards something I need (like shorts). None of them could be altered without doing so much to try to make them NOT look altered. Some had already been altered this past summer. The rest I took to Goodwill.
As for me, I travel a little over 2 hours to get to a MD that I like; lost all trust in any MD in that field because of what one in Albany did to me. She’s in the wrong field of medicine. Most mean-spirited B**** I’ve ever met; beforehand or since. I did prove to her that ‘just because I was where I was when we met, did NOT make me stupid’. She thought she had the ‘upper hand’ and I proved her wrong. Apparently, she has not changed; she has bounced all around this area and can’t keep a job. I wonder why? If your DH went to the small town hospital … and a MD saw him who might only be a GP; they’d have to transfer him to a much larger place if he needed help. I think he would do better to find another MD in the practice, even if it is far away. To me, well worth the change. Too many things go on in the local ‘city’ hospital that should not happen.
Carol and Miriam – I think when a man retires for a ‘white-collar’ job; that his ‘ties’ would make great scraps. We have enough ties to tie a ribbon around the house; only need a few of them. But, the second I were to take them; they’d need that exact tie.
Katla – We had to put up a pull-down shade from Lowe’s to go on our back deck so that we could enjoy sitting out in the swing and reading in the late afternoon. Once the sun gets blocked by a tree on the other side of our drive-way it gets better.
Vicki – I don’t blame you for being ‘mad’. I would have been mad, too. More because she called the boss, at home, at night; then the fact that he caved and made you do the same (she’d know that it wasn’t really a ‘good’ thing to do by going over your head; but, I think it was Katla that said I was probably a ‘mean girl’ because of something I posted something that could be taken as being ‘mean’. It helps to have a boss who supports his supervisors. They are trying to see where your line in the sand lies (or so it seems).
Nb1959 – Good looking young men. I know you’re proud of them. Obviously 3 totally different personalities. My sons are polar opposites; but, they get alone very well. DOS is the ‘quiet’ one; but, he is beginning to stand up for himself more; DYS is a ‘go-geter’. If his Plan A doesn’t work he will work all the way to Plan B about his work.
KJL – I did not know we had ‘censorship’ here; they ought to go to some other sites. Some of them are downright raunchy. Leave us 50+ women alone; let us say words that we grew up with all the time. LOL!
I guess I miss the test y'all are talking about; must have been one of those that fell through the cracks. I don't often go to the websites listed her.
Lenora
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pip ... I'm afraid to do the sit and rise ... I suspect my results will tell me I'll be dead next week!
Margaret ... I read your latest reflection about assuming blame and being bumped at the gym. Then I went grocery shopping ... On a Friday afternoon no less ... And found myself saying "excuse me" three times when it was the other person who ran into me. None of those people even acknowledged me!! I also watched a woman get extremely angry with her cart because the toddler seat wouldn't fold down so she could put her purse down ... What are the odds she had a miserable shopping experience?? I'm enjoying your book!
Carol NC ... I'm glad your eye procedure is now behind you!
Vicki ... Hang in there! It will take time for your voice and authority to be respected.
I am on track for another day within calorie goals!! Woohoo! Tonight I made a new stir fry with asparagus and shrimp ... Very tasty and very low cal. I did put it over a brown rice blend ... But it could have stood on its own or been served over something else. Sometimes I put this kind of thing in a salad.
It's been a long week and tomorrow, Lisa, I'm going to hit an early estate sale. Preview pics showed some lovely teacups and end tables that caught my eye!
Have a good evening!
Beth near Buffalo ... Where it's been cold and snowing!0 -
DH just told me that DDnL#1 is going 'bar-hopping' with one of her 'friends' to celebrate her 'divorce'. I'm not so sure that DOS was particularly happy about it. DGDs are old enough to know what's going on. Mmmmm, wonder which one of them (or who else) might be the D.D. tonight. It's going to be an 'interesting' weekend, for sure. LOL!!!!! I told Louis that 'divorce seems to be catching'. Another one of her friends came very close to getting one; but, 3 small children, no HS education, and hubby making a lot of money that she could spend it as fast as he could make it = jealous hubby who keeps close tabs on her now. Was surprised to see her out here, alone; but, she did not stay long. I think she told him a 'fib' about where she was.0
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Kim in Northern California, may I ask where in Northern California you are? My hometown is way up north.0
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Larissa, when we've had to go to see Jake's cardiologist in Seattle, we parked the car at Bainbridge Island and walked onto the ferry and took a cab to the doctor's office. Because it was downhill to the ferry, we walked back and stopped for lunch at O'Asian, a great restaurant along the way to the ferry. I'll keep in mind connecting with you next time we go to Seattle.....in May, the doctor will be coming over here for the last time. After that, we'll be going to Seattle for appointments.Kim walking over 10,000 steps with Levi is a great way to get your day going.Noreen, good looking sons Line dance class today was great. After lunch Jake and I went on a shopping excursion to Home Depot and Office Depot...now it's time to relax.
Barbie from beautiful sunny NW Washington 
My word for 2016 is "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness
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MarciBkonTrk wrote: »This is the group I've been looking for...I am heading into my mid-fifties and lately I've been feeling a little lost. There are days when I feel like Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes, "I'm to young to be old and I'm to old to be young." So it will be nice to connect with all of you. Next week I start the third phase of the Real Age Workout plan, strength training. I'm walking every day and doing core work several times a week. So my goal for April will be to walk for at least 30 minutes every day, core work every other day, drink at least 100 ounces of water daily, eat at least 80g of protein a day, 30g fiber every day, and keep my added sugar count to 25g or less. I'm working on a bariatric cookbook and plan to test one recipe a week for the next four weeks.
Welcome, Marci!0
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