WOMEN ages 50+ FOR JULY 2016
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KarenE - Can I come to dinner?
Love Heather0 -
Wise Words
Do the small work, the moment to moment choices.
Time to participate in today's performance. No more indulging in self-recrimination.
Thank you ladies!
Today's performance was mauuuvalous! I played tennis with the teenager and we giggled like crazy. He plays "Lunar tennis" and its hard to keep that kids balls in the correct court. (ok that sounded strange) I confessed it was going to be strange to play tennis with my clothes on. I am not as out of shape as I thought I would be. Swimming helped!
Becca
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Well, I am now my neighbor's Denture Technician.. This is my elderly lady that I have adopted. She knocked on my door today and asked if I would help her with something. So after she did laundry she knocked on my door, and motioned me into her apartment. Her upper denture was in the sink on a washcloth, along with a booklight highlighting the area. The tooth that needed gluing in the washcloth. I guess most of her teeth she has super-glued them back in place, but now with her eyesight, its difficult for her, poor thing. I super glued it in, and I chatted with her, while it set for a bit. Then she put her teeth in and chatted. She confessed that she is annoyed most of the time, with the world, the people she has to deal with that are morons, and life in general. It's tough getting old! Her attitude will see her through many more years though. She has moxie!
It was a great lesson in being thankful for what you have. I have my health, and I have you all!
Becca
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Karen, there are several reasons that I am able to walk so many steps in a day--first, I don't have a full time job outside my home so I have a lot of discretionary time, second, I have redesigned my day to go to bed early and get up early so I have time for a very long walk in the morning with my dogs before I have to shower and dress for a class or appointment, third, my husband is recovering from spine surgery so I have to do all the dog walking every day, and fourth, I seek every opportunity to be active and walk rather than sit.Clair, Happy Birthday...I started on MFP at age 62 and lost all the weight that had plagued me since I was in my 40's.
DJ, A poodle just home from the groomer is one of life's great joys
I got a call today to reschedule my MRI to the imaging center at the hospital instead of at the place closer to where I live....I was able to schedule it for the same day and someone told me that the MRI machine at the hospital is less confining than the other one so it appears to be a blessing.
Barbie from beautiful sunny NW Washington 
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Clair- Happy Birthday! Have a fun time celebrating!
KarenE- great news! I hope you enjoy the benefits of the workout!
Mary from Minnesota1 -
Well, I am now my neighbor's Denture Technician.. This is my elderly lady that I have adopted. She knocked on my door today and asked if I would help her with something. So after she did laundry she knocked on my door, and motioned me into her apartment. Her upper denture was in the sink on a washcloth, along with a booklight highlighting the area. The tooth that needed gluing in the washcloth. I guess most of her teeth she has super-glued them back in place, but now with her eyesight, its difficult for her, poor thing. I super glued it in, and I chatted with her, while it set for a bit. Then she put her teeth in and chatted. She confessed that she is annoyed most of the time, with the world, the people she has to deal with that are morons, and life in general. It's tough getting old! Her attitude will see her through many more years though. She has moxie!
It was a great lesson in being thankful for what you have. I have my health, and I have you all!
Becca
Oregon
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Karen and Becca – My DH wears dentures. But, he cannot ‘eat’ with them in; so he takes them out to eat. My DOS just gets ‘so irritated’ with him because he waits until he is ‘in the restaurant before taking them out, putting them in a napkin, and putting them in his shirt pocket.
Twice in 2 weeks at the same restaurant; he dropped one of the plates and they went ‘skittering across the floor’. My DOS could have dug a hole in the seat and gone to China because of it. When he told me the story … DOS telling it … I started laughing so hard that I had tears rolling down my cheeks. The 2nd time someone saw them and said, ‘well someone is going to be missing those’; and, DH said, ‘oh, that would be me’. Just picked them up and put them down in his shirt pocket. There is NOT way that he is going to take them out until he gets ready to eat. He says it is like eating cardboard when he tried to eat with them ‘in’. Of course, now there are a few things that he just can’t eat; but, for the most part he has learned how to compensate.
Lenora
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stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 10.06in, 15.2amph, 123mhr, 2.5mi = 67c
SPIN- 55min, 86r, 74w, 9ag, 137mhr, 13.4mi = 381c
ride gym 2 wk- 52.45min, 12.5amph, 149mhr, 10.9mi = 437c
ride wk 2 hm-56.16min, 10.8amph, 150mhr, 10.1mi = 471c
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Lisa, loved the pictures. Either their Mom is a crafty person to do those with feet and hand prints or they went to a wonderful class. Very framable.
Was a busy and long day. First they told us that since Charlie took all his morning medicine without thinking, he took his blood thinner and he would need to wait 48 hours before anything could be done. Then the surgeon came in and i guess he appreciates medical professionals who are a bit gutsy. He went down to radiology to talk to the radiologist who would be doing this procedure. Now tell me why I was so worried about who would be putting this drain in??? Anyway, just a few minutes later the tech came in with a cart. Charlie was going for a CT scan. Not long later he is back with a drain in! They had an immediate output of 60 cc or 2 ounces. Through out the day it looked like another half an ounce or so. Of course there was the amount that went on the floor. By the time I left, around 7 PM, his temp had broke enough they had to do a complete linen and gon change. So he has an IV, IV antibiotic and drain in and looked so much better when I left than when I took him there.
Guess I should see why the sirens are going off outside.3 -
Becca: I thought you were going to say you were grateful for having your teeth...:
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Joyce
Charlie will be feeling better now.
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Joyce, glad things are going better for Charlie Stats for today:
19,000 steps
188 minutes of dog walking
line dance class
Now off to bed early
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Did 1 hr of Prevention's Personal Training DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Tracie Long Back Up DVD.
Joyce - wouldn't surprise me one bit if you had "white coat" syndrome. Vince used to have it.
KJ - Congratulations!!!! Sending only positive thoughts
We skyped with Bryan today. It was a very short one, he said he was "tired". At 7 in the evening???? Even WE don't go to bed that early! He said to us "I don't feel like talking. I've had a rough day.". In a sense, I hope he never becomes a parent. when your child wants to talk, regardless of how hard a day you've had, you have to put that aside and talk. So I went outside and worked about 2 hours on the weeds. I'm getting there! I was going to go in the pool, but I remembered that I need to make cookies for when Jess comes down this weekend. I also want to give some of them to my neighbor who I saw on facebook just had knee replacement surgery. Hard boiled some eggs to have later in the week
We're supposed to meet a friend of Vince's who he used to work with for tomorrow for lunch
Lisa - what adorable gifts!
Katie - I love jerky. The only problem I find is that no matter which type you buy, it's all high in sodium. I guess the only way around that is to make it yourself. Happy birthday to you dh. Take care of yourself. We don't want any more popped stitches. You were lucky this time. But I don't know about the next time...
clairblue - welcome back! Congrats on the weight loss. Happy Birthday you youngun!
Joyce - (((HUGS)))
DJ - that hydromassage looks so wonderful, no wonder you want to use it!
pip - starting Tuesday I can drive!!! I've already planned that next Thursday I'll use the spinning bike at the Y. How I've missed that and some of their other machines (like doing HIIT). The only time I got to do HIIT was when we were at the hotel in VA for the wedding. And that was back in May! Oh happy day, oh happy day.....
hmmm...I can't seem to log my food. I keep getting a message that there was an error.
Michele in NC
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Phew, Joyce, that must be a wonderful sight to see all that gunk coming out! I'm not a medic, but I hope they are ashamed of themselves for letting it get to that stage.
Up early, but I slept well. I am excited about going to Hove/Brighton. My DDIL texted me last night to say they had engaged the nanny we saw being interviewed while we were down there. She has to work out her notice for a month, so can only do one day a week for a while and start full time end of August. My DDIL will be going back two afternoons a week up in London in September and will have some work to do at home with writing, website etc, but the rest of the time she will be a hands on mother, so the nanny will be cleaning etc. She seems happy to do that, which is a blessing, as most won't. I liked her and DDIL says she was great with the kids and baby on a trial run last Sunday.
Now just got to see if DGS can get into their nearest school. 
It is a big problem over here with popular schools, which are full. They are waiting for a vacancy to come up. They do have other choices, but further away and not as good.
DDIL is starting an Instagram website to help mothers after their babies are born. She was meeting a designer when we were up last time and we had the kids. She wants it to be a friendly and accessible way of telling the truth about how you might feel and why you are not alone. It will be a free service in preparation for her writing a book. I was very pleased when she said it would be a way of her reaching out to more people who could not afford the incredible fees she charges for her London practice. It's the one thing I have always felt critical about, though I have never said anything to her. She has written six self help books, but this is a nice venture for her and will improve her profile.
Happy mother-in-law!
Love Heather, near the south coast of England2 -
morning ladies~
I awoke at 2:30 this morning ,got out of bed at 3:15 ..
Last night I told Tom off.. the night before I told you he was being nasty..
we went down to see DFIL ,since Tom will be gone, and I will be working full time and not be able to get there during the week..
Well I waited until he was ready for bed, he gets a little bit frenzied when he is getting ready for a trip..
He didn't want to listen ...he walked away, I followed, he went into his office and was going to slam the door on me and decided better of it..
asked him if he has been a bully and a control freak since he was young or was he perfecting it as he ages, he called me a spoiled B and I said uhh who is spoiled. you have dinners made ,lunches made,laundry done, lawn done..and who is spoiled? told him it is all about his agenda ,doesn't care about my feelings or my family..that I bend over backwards to take care of his father and his family, and he wouldn't do one thing for my family ,and think on that for awhile because it's all the truth.. he always wants the last word.. well I got it last night.. I walked away and went to bed and to sleep..
he got up at his regular time,and had breakfast and got his stuff packed and took dogs for a walk...they were back in bed with me, he gave them kisses and then came to my side and gave me a peck on the cheek and told me he would call and text on his journey down.. I do hope he thinks about what I said and some of it sinks into his thick skull..10 -
Proud of you, Allie!1
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Allie- Good for you!
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Good going Allie, you know we were all beside you cheering you on as you told Tom what he needed to hear.
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Good morning all! Happy Friday! First things first!
Allie- YES! I am so proud of you! It feels so good to give the hubbies a good "shake up" to wake them up to the way they are treating us. If your hubby is like mine. You might not get an apology, but the confrontation method has always worked to let him know when he is being disrespectful to me. Some times guys are so thick.
Lisa- Love the grands artwork! I especially love the bees and the tractors! I might have to try those with my kiddos. You know, if you are collecting a lot of artwork from them, you could have their art put onto quilting squares and stitched into a quilt. It's a nice way to keep them.
Heather- your dil sounds like a very warm and giving person. I am glad she is getting everything squared away with finding/hiring a caregiver for the kids. That can be stressful.
Joyce- Hooray for the good news on Charlie! Wow, what a relief, huh? Sending continued prayers for complete and speedy healing/recovery!
Gotta fly. Putting lasagna in the oven for the kiddos for lunch today. Love and hugs to all!
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well Tom is on his way to Florida, and I will be holding the fort down for the next 9 days, I hope he remember's what I said, because he has alot to lose if he doesn't.. we are getting much needed rain, now as much as we need but will take it... well off to walk the dogs and then feed DFIL. and then to work..0
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DH rolled his mobility scooter twice at Monticello. The first time was on the lawn when he decided to take a short cut. That time he knocked me over in the process. Nobody was hurt either time but he's sore today. The scooter we rented had one wheel in front and two in back. This seems to be a less than optimal design when you're on uneven ground. It sure has given him the ability to get around and get things done, and the battery life is amazing. I'm sure we'll be shopping for one in the near future. We did eat at the Miche Tavern after Montecello and enjoyed our meal. I'm not sure what is on the list today. The kids were talking about an outdoor concert but the weather looks a bit iffy right now. I hope it is dry by concert time.
Karen in VA & Becca: I agree with your comments to Becca. Your advice is very wise.
Joyce: (((HUGS)))
This is our last full day in VA, and we leave for home tomorrow. We have been very busy seeing the sights, and not much time for anything else. I have loved our time here, but am ready to be home, cuddle my dog and rest.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
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katla is it really hot in VA.? I loved visiting Mt Verjin and Monticello. Amazing history. Happy travel back home (I love the trip back home more than the actual travel, what does that tell you about me??)
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Clair Happy Birthday! :flowerforyou:0
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Allie Yay! Now - no regrets, no softening, no backing down, no apologies. Give him time to process. You go, girl!!!
I'm off to Jazzercise.0 -
Allie - good for you! Tom needed to hear that. But wait -- he called you a spoiled B???? Unacceptable. Our husbands don't get to speak to us that way. Let's cut that off too. You're on a roll.1
Oh that goes without saying...but I will say it... I am grateful for having my teeth!!!
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