WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2016

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  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 9,807 Member
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    Morning ladies~
    Kim~ your right and I feel bad as her boyfriend Kyle is much much worse than Tom, he whistles for both Tracy and Kyle like a dog. he badmouths our whole side of the family... and he is living with my dad , everything revolves around his side of the family~ if you remember Tracy and I had a blow out labor day weekend when she came up to the cottage and was on the phone with him and Taliah talked with her dad,as soon as Tal got out of the car getting there she said I was in time out,because I was bad, and the second time she talked to him she comes up to me and this poor child is 8 and tells me I should be ashamed of myself.Now you know she was getting this fed to her by her father..
    So yes Tom might not treat me as well as he should,but Tracy has the worse of it..he has had her on a headlock years ago...
    Well enough about that.. have to go into work an hour early to watch a hazmat video so going in at noon..will see how much leaves I can get raked up before that..
    welcome to all the newbies you will find this a wonderful place for friendship and help..
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
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    glo I agree that DGS#1 needs to be responsible for his homework and you can't do it for him, just let him know that you are still going to support his effort at trying to figure it out, he needs to know you are his champion-which you are- even when he pushes against you. I say all of this cause my 18 yo nephew has been ignored and neglected by his parents and is spiraling out of control- he has no direction and at 18 he knows he doesn't have to finish high school. Essentially he doesn't have anyone who is there for him--your grandsons do, you won't give up on them and that is the biggest gift you can give to them. They may not be able to show it but you are the reason they are safe and loved and can push back a little because you love and care for them.

    Rori. We found an extra $400 a month cutting down our cable to basic, only drinking coffee I make at home , no takeout lunches, reconfiguring our home and car insurance and believe it or not taking the credit card out my wallet (except for travel) using cash changed my behavior in any store!!!

    GEESH! I am full of advice and it is only 6:00 a.m. Lookout world! :p
    NYKAREN

  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    Barbara aka auntiebk: Welcome back. :flowerforyou:

    SouthernSue: Welcome to a great group. If you want sitting exercises to ramp up your metabolism, I recommend a real or stationary bicycle. Good luck. :smiley:

    I am heading home today and will spend most of the day in the air or in airports. I will miss DD but I'm really ready to be at home. So far I'm the only one up and I can't find a favorite shirt that I want to wear for travel. I'll have to wait for some others in the household to wake up before I'm able to track it down. I miss my home and am really ready to be there, but I'll miss my daughter and grandkids very much.

    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. Edison
  • Lagopus
    Lagopus Posts: 1,016 Member
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    Katla - :laugh:
  • southernsue1961
    southernsue1961 Posts: 8 Member
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    Katia-if only!
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 16,716 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,358 Member
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    Gloria - I never knew anything about my boys' homework and never asked about it. I never really saw them doing any, though DOS got some help from my ex for a design project. Both got good grades and went to uni. My parents never knew what I was doing and I did the least possible. I also got through and ended up in university. As you say, the best direction is self direction. No one can do it for you.

    Carey - Many congratulations on the 4 lbs. WTG!

    Welcome new people! :flowerforyou:

    Still waiting to hear about the house. I got in a bit of a panic this morning, but DH talked me down. The option of not doing the full refurb on the place is a possibility. We are moving for the lifestyle and the grandchildren, not a super kitchen. :)
    Anyway, we still don't know if the vendor will go for our offer. The estate agent has a job on his hands nursing her through this.

    Friends arriving this afternoon on their way back from Australia. Could really do without it, but we promised to put them up ages ago. I've sorted most of the food. I'm off to London tomorrow so I hope they don't hang about. Got to get my exercises done first thing. :noway: Also got to leave the house in good shape for the viewing on Friday. :sad:

    Love to all, Heather UK
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 9,807 Member
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    Heather- if any deserves a super kitchen it's you!!! Maybe do that remodel first and leave the rest for later.. amazing what a can of paint can do
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    Heather: Best luck with your relocation project. I hope things go smoothly and you are able to get what you want and need. :flowerforyou:
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
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    Joyce – Could be … but, for our small town, we had about 500+ early voters. I’ll just be glad when it is all over with; one way or the other. I’m just tired of politics and politicians which as in most cases … SNAFU!

    Thankfully, living out in the country we don’t have Trick or Treaters, so I don’t have to buy any candy to be tempted with.


    Glo – Growing up, we were ‘expected’ to do our own homework; and, Mother [a teacher herself] would help; but, only if we asked for it. She would check it and tell us which ones we had gotten incorrect. It was up to us if we corrected it or not. When my DOS decided to get our attention when in 7th grade when he wanted to attend public school, with the neighborhood boys; at his parochial school by making failing grades during the 2nd semester/quarter; and, I pitched a real ‘*kitten*’ about it. I thought that the school would have called and asked if something was different at home, since he went from making A’s and B’s to making D’s and F’s; but, when I went to the school the first thing I got asked was ‘did I do homework with him’. NO, because it is his place to do his homework himself’, I took him out of parochial school and enrolled him in public school and his grades shot back up to A’s and B’s. I also told the ‘nun’ principal that she had better NEVER call my DYS out of his class (over the loud speaker) without calling me first. That way I could go down and get him and bring him to the office myself. We had left him there because we did not want to move him in the first part of 5th grade. He liked his teachers and was making good grades. I agree that you have to give them enough rope to hang themselves is need be; if they are not ‘allowed’ to fall on their face during their lifetime, they don’t know what it takes to succeed. DOGD got DMGD’s attention when she was going into the 8th grade; that she’d never get into college if she slouched out about doing homework. In HS, they WOULD hold her back. Starting in 8th grade she was on the Honors Society and still is as a sophomore. My DH had told her the best way to get even with the snobby girls was to show them she was just as smart, if not smarter, as they are. Boy, what a huge difference that made. A change in boyfriends also made a huge difference.


    NYKAREN – I put all my credit cards into a container with water and froze them in my freezer; I did not ‘close’ the accounts; because to do so affects my credit score; but, all the balances were transferred over to a card, which had no interest for about a year to 15 months; and, the only started getting interest charged on the balance at the time; at a much lower rate than most all the others. Certainly after I added up together what I was paying high interest on each one. The total payout I make monthly is less that what I was paying on each. I have not charged anything to the card since and I see the balance coming down very quickly. I do have another charge card, for clothes only. But, I never buy anything that is not ‘on sale’. Sometimes I buy something that I don’t have something to wear with it, specifically at the time; but, something I can interchange with other things in my closet. Then at the end of the season, I usually find something that it really goes with. I have the basic black, gray, brown, and off white pants and a lot of tops that go with all of them. I buy a lot of ¾ quarter sleeves that I can wear all seasons (and also covers a really bad scar on my left arm).

    Lenora
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 3,959 Member
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    Good morning Ladies!
    Read all posts up to here. Had oatmeal with raspberries from my yard. Yes, the bush is still producing! Now getting dressed then walking dogs.

    Later,
    Rita from CT
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    Good morning all. Very busy week.

    Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan
  • SSC1958
    SSC1958 Posts: 411 Member
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    Good morning all:

    Katla: Safe travels

    Rori: I'd like to know what Tabatas is too

    Sherry: Congrats on 48 days smoke free! What an accomplishment!

    Mary: Hope your shoulder starts to feel better soon.

    Heather: Love the vibe of the new house. I have everything crossed for you.

    Sharon: Too bad it was raining for Halloween. Your November goals should help to get you back on the path you want. Good news about your younger brother.

    KJ: Prevent lump day .. I love the concept. :)

    Lillian: Good morning...hmm didn't you retire recently (tongue in cheek)? I hope you find some time in your busy week for you.

    I'm waiting for an appointment with a specialist. I keep getting different information about what is causing my eye issues. So now I'm on a new strategy which involves putting a salt soln into my eyes twice a day to try and get the layers of skin covering the cornea to adhere to each other and my cornea. And then I have to add hydrating eye drops...one seems to defeat the purpose of the other.


    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 intake
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
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    Carey, that's so exciting to hear of your progress in October. Congrats!!!

    Katla you have a long travel day today, but you will get to sleep in your own bed. So glad you were able to be there for the new grandbaby' s birth, but I'm sure your husband and doggy will be thrilled to have you home. Love the idea of setting the scale back. :)

    Heather, love the Halloween pics of the grandkids. I miss all of that. Even tho you and I are the same age my daughters started young. My six grandkids range in age from 9 to 23. The new house looks perfect. Thanks for the maps showing us whete it's located. Perfect.

    Re - I actually am a little tanned (for me, cuz I don't tan) from spending time in the pool and just being outdoors more in general.

    Our plan is to leave Tampa in the morning and drive up the east coast, perhaps as far as Virginia, then back west to his Mom's in Missouri to spend Thanksgiving with her and then home around the first week in December. We leave December 27th to spend January and February in Arizona.

    My oldest sister, almost 80, was hospitalized yesterday with a serious UTI. Unable to even sit up on her own. I worry about her. She is very very over weight and has pretty much lost all mobility.

    Janetr okc (about to leave beautiful Tampa on our next big adventure
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,358 Member
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    Still haven't heard if our offer has been accepted. :o

    Our friends are on their way from my ex's house.

    DH took another car load full to the dump. :D We are making progress. Yesterday we threw out a whole load of old travel guides, language tapes etc. Plus a rug I bought 45 years ago. Plus, plus, plus. Hooray!

    Love Heather UK
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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    Heather

    Your experience sounds so much like what we just went through with our move from Ohio to Texas. We've been here for 3 months and this morning I asked Mitch if there was anything he was missing from the boxes we still have stored. He thought for a second and I thought for a second and we both concluded the only thing we need to find is our heavier coats! So starting next week I will have him bring one box out and I will go through them again and whittle down our stash! I must say it is a very freeing feeling to scale down!

    The very best to you on this journey!

    Cheri
    in College Station, TX where it is a beautiful sunny day
  • Elizabeth2360
    Elizabeth2360 Posts: 181 Member
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    Hello

    Slow morning start. I have been eating lots of salads , kale, spinach, spring mix. Veggies no real starchy ones but I enjoy it everything ok. Today my system is saying no ugh! Not feeling good! I need to shrug this off get moving it will help.

    Today is a day to catch up on paperwork, Tidy up the house, go to the Y. I need to wrong to the store at one point. Pretty basic but at this moment I am wrapped in a blanket .

    I enjoy cooking in a slow cooker too. I love how the food taste, also how easy it is get the food in , clean up the kitchen and let it do its thing. Makes cooking so nice no worries!

    Have a good day!
    Liz
    Idaho

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