WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2016
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Gloria in WA: I love the Lessons People Often Learn too Late. Thank you for sharing.
Lenora: I agree that physicians and their helpers need to have some personal experience with the procedures they use on patients. You are absolutely right in my opinion. :flowerforyou:
Our project under the stairs is nearly completed. All that is left is to get and install doors into the hallway. I put everything away this evening, and there is room to move around plus see the things you're looking for. This is a big improvement. DH initiated this to give himself something to do while I was away. He chose well.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn
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Good evening, lovelies!
3 hrs scanning at the vet clinic, surprised no backache, maybe strength training is helping:? Cable tech checked and replaced fittings bout outside and in, no more "server not found" issues so far. Short on veggies today so will snack on them tonight instead of sweets. Super moon was bright here but nowhere near as H U G E as some of our Harvest Moons have been...
Karen your neighbor story made me chuckle, thanks!
Heather Kudos and Brava! Alas, I do not like throwing things away, instead of liberation I feel loss and grief... ;{
Becca, ROTFLMAO! Sherry too! I am SO into pain avoidance that I would never voluntarily allow someone to tattoo or pierce me. Eeeuuuwww!
Lenora cream cheese pecan pie sounds yummy!
Glo Bless you for letting the boys sleep there again after the other disaster. Thanks for the lessons, I need to be reminded as I always get too focused on what I'm doing and don't pay enough attention to DH.
Tere agree about understanding tech, and I used to do systems support for a living. Now I'm hesitating to buy a FireStick and figure out how to watch Amazon TV... ;}
Carol so sorry about your mother.
Barbie, love to you and Brandy.
Kelly sending good thoughts for tomorrow's followup.
Welcome Marilynena, sweet dreams!
Toni what a great hubs!
Re Congrats on "too small" teal top. Well done!
Katla Really hope the MD notices and validates all your DH is doing. Sometimes guys don't "hear" encouragement from their wives, but do from a male they respect... }
Rori, ditto and wish I'd said that!
Hugs to all,
Barbara, the SW Idaho AHMOD who is happy to be here.
Intentions:
Smile then listen
Today: Log like Mary MSH, every bite lick or sip whether over, under or sidewise. . . EVERY day ;}
November: Strength Training 3 days/week. Zumba, H20 Fit or Line Dance Class 4 times/week.
Nov-Dec-Jan: Vitamin D 3 x day.
Log: 100%
Cardio: G/S, B/H20/LD, G/B/AZ, Z, 0, G, H20, S, LD, AZ, Z, G, 0, S
Strength: 0, non-legs, legs, 1/2 non-legs, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0
Vit 'D': x x 100% 100% 100% 100% 66%* 66%* 66%* 66%* 66%* 66%* 66%* 66%*
*2/day but 1 is doublestrength0 -
Hey everyone - busy day today and no extra kids tonight. Finally got a new doctor after mine left 6 or 7 months ago. Of course now my insurance plan will not be contracting with this clinic next year so I have to either change insurance companies or change doctors again. Anyway the doctor said I am healthy and my heart is strong. She is referring me to PT for my hip and shoulders but don't know how many visits I will be able to do since it's a $40 copay. I've had trouble with my hands falling asleep for some time now and it's a nerve getting pinched close to the top of my shoulder. When it happens I just massage the area and it goes away and my hand wakes up. She is sending me to a cardiologist just because I've never been to one. My Dad had congestive heart failure and my bio Mom did also as well as emphysema. But then they both smoked and drank. I do neither - well a little wine now and then. I think I take after my grandfather who lived to 99.
I'm loving the new toilet they put in the bathroom that flooded. It's higher than the old one so the next time the MB
toilet overflows (and it will) I'm asking them to replace it too!
Well friends I'm off to feed my parakeets and then to bed to read my book.
See you all tomorrow!
Gloria in WA
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Watched "Final Destination 3".... now watching " Terminator: Salvation".....
Barbara - Lol! I can understand the pain avoidance! It actually didn't hurt as bad as I thought it would. A friend went with me and held my hand while they did it. She said I didn't even squeeze tight.
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Hi girls!
Up early again, but it feels like I have enough sleep. Getting around 6 hours. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
I am spending too much money on all this computer business, but I tell myself I am future proofing and if I ever earn any money it can come off tax. :laugh: Of course I also have been buying Christmas presents and nearly finished that. :noway: Looking at clocks for the grandchildren's playroom. DDIL wanted one for Christmas, as part of their present, but I want to get her OK first. I've emailed her.
I think I woke up this morning thinking about all the money I'm spending, but I count myself fortunate to have any at all.
Bit worried that no one has been to see the house recently. Only had one viewing. The agent of our potential purchase rang Monday to check we were still interested.
Barbie - My best wishes to you. At least our pets do not spend all their time worrying about what might happen. That is the human's burden. ((((HUGS))))
Oh well, it's cup of tea time again.
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxx1 -
Mary - thanks. We are really enjoying the trip. We do belong to God Sam's but actually only for the benefits and discounts that gives us. We have never traveled with a group or attended rallies, etc. We enjoy doing our own thing. We do take trips with our best friends a couple times a year. We will go with them to Arizona in January and February. We actually leave two days after Christmas. Jack and I will be home for about three weeks before leaving for AZ. After Arizona we will decide if we are ready to stay home for a while or plan our next big adventure.
How is your neck and shoulder feeling? Hope it continues to improve.
Janetr okc
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My scanning is ready to pick up! Going to get it tomorrow pm when DH can drive me. Boy, that was quick!
My new laptop is arriving today, plus the hard drive. Gosh, amazing!
I had a voucher from a company, so I ordered the same soap I bought last year with the same voucher. The soap has lasted me all year.
Free soap. 
They enclosed a voucher for flowers by post, so I've sent my cancer friend some flowers. With the voucher they were very reasonable and they are delivered through the letterbox, so it doesn't matter if she's visiting the hospital.
Didn't do my memoir this morning, so will have to get down to it this afternoon.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx1 -
Good morning everyone
It is apparently "fast food day" today. Ummmmm.....I am off to the city again today where they have fast food....eeeeekkkkkkkk1 -
Good morning my friends!
I am up much earliest than usual for me. Back hurting keeping me awake. I sat too long yesterday finishing up my curtain project. Today I hope to put the up but need D H's help. So wish me luck with that! He has been grumpy lately as with the rain, his hives is acting up and I think there is something else wrong he is not telling me.
My mom called me yesterday asking where a certain hospital was. She was scheduled to have a trigger finger fixed at her local hospital but they have closed the or due to sterilization problems. The doc wanted to reschedule, but she wants it done now! My sis who lives near her was to take her but won't take her to the other hospital as she doesn't drive anywhere she has never been. Told my mom to call me. I live 90 miles from my mom, the hospital is about 45 miles from mom, then I was to bring mom to my sis house that is about 60 miles from hospital, then I was to drive back home, about 100 miles from my sis! I volunteered but explained to mother how much driving that was gonna be. She decided to call my uncle to see if he would take her. After talking to my sis, I find out they were going to postpone the operation only for a week! Mom is 80 and nervous. Sheesh! Will see today. No one called me back last night. Oh yes, did I mention that turkey day was to be hosted by my DSIL who is coming to CT from PA to cook a t at my mom's house?
No wonder I didn't sleep well last night!
Traveling Rita from gloomy CT1 -
Okay...no more checking in with my tablet.... it is too Hungry! Eating parts of my posts1
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Good morning ladies! Happy Wednesday! So glad to hear of everyone's continued good health and improving health/recoveries post surgeries! Good news from the call back mamm. Just very dense fibroid tissue. They ended up doing four more pics in poses that I had not done before in regular mammogram appointments. Some of them were VERY uncomfortable. My normal mode is "breathe". I can breathe my way through most things. In the case of the two poses that they put me and my breast in- breathing wasn't going to make it better. I chose holding my breath instead. LOL! They also did the ultra sound just to be sure it wasn't more than dense tissue. So...I am very happy that they found nothing of concern.
DYS took me to a place called Mos Eisley's in Grand Rapids. Very professional tattoo establishment. Great decor. Great people. Showed them what I wanted and got it done! Whoot! I will post a pic as soon as DYS sends it to me. It didn't hurt, just was uncomfortable at times. My son was impressed that I didn't squirm, complain, cry or cry out. I was also able to participate in the Star Wars shop talk the artist was having with my son. I got a giggle, because mid way through the process, my DD called my son looking for me. She didn't believe him when he told her I was getting a tattoo. She was upset I didn't inform her I was getting one. I told her that I did tell her, at the same time I told her about the new hair cut/style I was going to get. I told her she has gestational amnesia. It's a thing. I know. I had it! Oh well, getting a tattoo was fun. I have had another tattoo in my mind for a couple of years. I will give it a while to stew in my brain; but if my mind doesn't change, I will get that one done one day. They have an artist at Mos Eisley's that can do images and make them look 3D. If you check out the site, there is a butterfly that looks like it will fly off the person's skin! Amazing!
Here come the kiddos...gotta fly!7 -
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Gloria: Loved the lessons people learn. Thank you!
Kelly: Great news about the mammogram! Way to "Carpe Diem"!
Lillian: Sorry to hear about the hungry tablet.
Have a good day friends,
Carey - Northern Alberta
Goals for Nov:
- Increase walking by at least 100 steps per day
- Get to Tai Chi at least once a week
- Increase daily water intake1 -
Morning!
Currently getting a neck massage from the cat. Little goober thinks he has to get in my hair daily and knead bread on my neck.
Belly dance... I danced for several years and made a bit of money performing in coffee houses and teaching. When my teacher moved away, fell off and never found another teacher. Then, entering my late forties I kind of aged out of the money making side. BUT! Dance is in my heart and body and I still danced regularly at home and taught friends until I had to take on full time care of my grandfather. That was five years ago, and he passed peacefully, but I never got back into a routine.
That! is why I'm starting all over now.
Tattoos... I don't have any. Yet. I realllllly want my eyebrows done. Someday, I'd like to have a dragon tat... European style.
I have only pierced my ears. I'm too much of a perfectionist and need matching earrings in my double piercing and I simply would NOT be able to afford more gemstones. LOL
RV trips... Oh my! I miss our RV! Someday we hope to buy a smallish one and travel more. Your vacation pics are so wonderful, All.
When DH and I moved back to NM from CA, we downsized thinking we would only need a small home and a nice yard for gardens and chickens....then our adult daughter moved in. Ce la vie! Thus also go plans for a lot of things. Life could be harder, but it isn't easy!
Breast fibroids... When I was 36 I went for a baseline mammo where they found a lump. This was two days before 9/11. Most stressful time of my life. The Drs insisted on a biopsy that confirmed a benign lump, that to.this.day I have to explain every year is not cancer, and is exactly as it looked when it was first seen. Since I have change healthcare plans a lot, the Drs are always way more stressed about Litlle Noma than I will ever be again. Yes, she has a nick name.
someday I will learn all your names and figure out how to reply to individuals! Can't do side by side on an iPad though. I may just start taking notes. Hahaha
Off to day three! I think I'll dance.
Katy, forgetting to sign off in NM1 -
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Morning Ladies~
Tom went to podiatrist last night,has arthritis in both his feet, and somewhere along the line he broke small bones in both his feet, so they have reset themselves. on steriods for a week and we shall see where that will lead.
Homer is a little eating machine we think it is the thyroid meds they have him on... will ask the Dr tomorrow if there is something we should be doing to control it other than meds, going in a couple hrs early for training online.. and then assisting from 1-60 -
Kelly, that's great news about the mammogram....now you can breathe all you wantHeather, I don't have precious writings like you do, but for years I've had many boxes of saved documents from old income tax and things related to my parents and various real estate transactions and every time we move, Jake makes some comment about all my "stuff". That's when we had to make a rule about not commenting on each other's boxes of "stuff". Finally, just before our last move, I talked to our accountant about what I needed to keep and with her suggestions, decided to thin out some of the boxes. I cried as I discarded and shredded papers remembering how carefully I'd assembled all the paperwork. Your writings would be much more precious. I think it's worth all the expense for you to keep it electronically. What a fabulous solution. I wanted to get my ears pierced when I was a teenager and my mother told me that when turned 21 my body would be mine to do with as I chose and I could then decide to get my ears pierced if I still wanted to. Knowing about how many girls got drunk and got their ears pierced by a friend in the dorm, she said she would pay for me to have it done by a doctor and she did just that. I sat on the examining table at the doctor's office and remember hearing the crunch in my ears and then fainted. It was such a big deal then and now I have about three pairs of earrings and most of the time wear none of them.
we are doing morning dog walking as a one day at a time plan.....I got up early and walked the dogs one at a time before breakfast....Jake said he wanted to walk Brandy after breakfast....unfortunately Brandy expects to be walked first after breakfast so I can't walk Sasha until he gets up to walk Brandy...I've been up for almost two hours and he's not up yet. Barbie 1 -
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Janet ~ Love your pics.
Kelly ~ So happy for your good news!
Barbie ~ Good for you being able to walk that pooches again. I know how much that means to you.
I have no desire to get a tattoo! But, I have thought it would be nice to have eye liner inked on. My only fear is that it would be too much and not fine enough. I can no longer see well enough to apply liner and have practically no eye lashes so don't bother. My eyes have always been my best feature so hate not being able to enhance with makeup.
Carol
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I am making a quick stop in this morning because we're off to DH's doctor appt. Have a great day!
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My new laptop has arrived and it is charging right now. :noway:
I am a complete scaredycat about new technology, so will be spending far too much mental energy worrying if I am doing it right.
It is Windows 10, so I have to up my game from Windows 7. :sad: I know I will love it in the end. Poor DH will have to bear with my angst in the meantime.
Hairy Bikers Spanish style Chicken tonight.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx1 -
Got a lot done so far today: walked dogs for 45 min. Took down old curtains which are in wash right now and put ones I made. They came out nice! Made a pin cushion because my DH thinks he can sew and had stuff all in fishing tackle boxes and I can't find anything so starting my own kit. Added Velcro to be a led to adjust the chihuahua 'a harness as she can spin and escape. Velcro should help. Combined all the different doggie treats. Didn't realize how much we have! Now waiting for spin cycle to stop to put curtains in dryer then helpin DH make dinner. He is the chef and complains about everyone else's cooking, so I just am the "sous " chef! Lol
Rita from now sunny CT1 -
Sick with food poisoning. I'm never eating out again! Just got home from hospital. I'm going to bed. Feel exhausted and weak. Maybe post later.
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Rita ~ You are lucky to have a DH who cooks. I am very proud that mine has gotten into the habit of making his own breakfast. I am still in charge of lunch and always dinner.
The second HVAC repairman this week came and I think got the heating system repaired. Yeah! We did buy a Lasko space heater to help and was pleased with what it could do.
I have decided that the low carb diet must not be for me. I read a lot about the "carb flu" symptons, but, on day 9 I felt so hungry I could have committed a crime to get some carbs. So, it's back to measuring and weighing. CI vs CO
Carol
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Sherry ~ Sorry you are sick!
Katla ~ Your storage closet sounds great. When you said it was under the stairs, I was think outside but now i realize it must be under the stairs inside your house.0 -
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