WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2016
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Joyce and Janet. Sending you healing
Grace. Glo's advice is spot on--have a talk with DD and lay down some new guidelines You are generous in so many other ways, time for you to sleep in more!!
At DH insistence, I didn't pop out of bed at 2 a.m. But stayed until 5:30. Feel so much better.
Going to do some TED talk research on habits and curiosity. Anybody hear the shonda rhimes talk on the year of saying yes?? Heard it was a good one.
Here's to a great day everyone. NYKAREN
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Thank you logging! Yesterday was a tough day. No, it was a FUN day! I had a lunch time potluck Christmas party at work and my running club christmas potluck in the evening. Of course my diet was "off" yesterday. You know what? Thanks to MFP, I planned for it. I enjoyed some goodies at both events so I didn't feel deprived. I also drove away from both events not feeling like a stuffed whale from over indulging. When I am not logging, I get into that "well, I blew it. I might as well stuff my face" mindset. Not yesterday. At my running club potluck, they had "show and tell". People got up and showed medals they earned over the year and why that race was so special to them. I got to hear some very amazing and inspiring stories.
Sherry-when the site loses a long post.... that just sucks.
Gloria - Congrats on the loss!!
Janet - Hope you get some answers and feel better soon.
Kim-I am not a super huge expert on reactive dogs but I might have some ideas. What is your springer reactive about? Is he food or toy guarding? Is he reactive to other dogs? People? Usually the reactivity is fear driven and often it is just management. Feel free to email me if you rather. ann.smorado262@gmail.com
Lenora-Cracker sounds like an adorable little spitfire! Jack Rat says it all. LOL! They are fast. Small but mighty.
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Hi all.
The family trauma has come to its resolution for the near future and it is better than expected. I think everyone has a sense of relief that there will now be a time for regrouping and reflection and we hope that the main actor will find peace.
I slept last night for the first time in days and woke up late for me at 7.42!!!
Going to attack my Christmas cards now. Love you all, Heather UK xxxxxxx6 -
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morning ladies~
well you never know what you'll see when out walking here
once I figure out how to post it from my phone, I was walking back up to the house here and 3 bobcat ran across the road think it was a mom and 2 little ones, and she was stalking a squirrel.. got some beautiful pictures, but Tom will take the dogs out for a walk one at a time now..and carry something with him..at last count when I went to bed last night I had 11,900 steps..
Mary is coming to pick me up in a 1/2 hr for the Christmas coffee hour,,,had a good breakfast so I will only have a cup of tea there ... no donuts
then going out to lunch with a couple of other's, going to an indian restaurant.. I dont eat spicy or hot foods so we shall see about that..4 -
Janet and Joyce healing thoughts.
JantrWe live near a park and I have found deer ticks on me. I have twice gone on antibiotics as a preventative against Lymes. I have not given up gardening, but I try to take the best precautions that I can. One problem with deer ticks is in the spring they are the size of a poppy seed, so unless you develop the tell tale rash you may not even realize you were bitten. I was tested once for it too. At that time it was negative, but it does not always show up in blood tests. Your symptoms can be a better indicator. My brother got Rocky Mountain tick fever a few years ago. He thinks he got it in Arizonia.
I hope they can get to the bottom of what is causing your symptoms Any medical condition stress can make it worse. Margaret 3 -
2nd week of UTI, third round of antibiotics.
Vet said Chewy's eye getting better, but doesn't look it this morning.
DH got trazadone which is working on his hives and referral to pain management doc.
Chiro for me this morning.
Rita from CT
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Heather - I'm so happy to hear your family trauma is resolved for the time being. No wonder you slept late! Here are some (((hugs))) for you. Virtual hugs. The best kind, eh?
CJ - Since the pics I posted yesterday weren't exactly OF the high north, just FROM the high north, here's another one. This I shot more or less randomly out the window of the light rail train on my way to my son's house back on Sunday.
I'm struggling with my weight now, after a couple months of putting too much focus on work and deadlines and not enough on myself and living well. Also I have a strange pain in my ribs just below and to the right of my breastbone. I think it's a bruise or something. It started on the plane up. I had dropped my cell phone and it slid under my seat. I was by the window and the center seat was unoccupied, but still it was a bit tight reaching down to the floor under the seat where the phone was. The guy in the aisle seat looked me in the eye and gave me a thumbs up when I emerged with the cell phone in my hand. I guess that was nice of him.
I wonder how professional contortionists feel when they start to get old and stiff...
Anyway, it's time for me to crank up the discipline again.
/Penny, feeling a bit like a beached whale at the North Pole3 -
Thanks Penny! Those contortions can give you pains. I have a small hernia around that spot I think. It doesn't often cause me problems now I am thinner, but I used to catch it quite often.
My new Polar heart monitor arrived at lunch time. I've set it up and given it a try out, just jumping up and down in the front room. (Being careful of my knee) It worked brilliantly. I had previously worked out my 5 zones from YOUNGER NEXT YEAR, so I was able to set High and Low alarm beeps. I will write out the others on a Post It and keep them on my machines. I also tested my recovery rate and was pleased to see I dropped 30 beats in one minute. That's good. Previously I had to grab handles on my machines, which affected the rate and took a while to register, so this will be better. I have certainly worked a bit harder since reading the book. 
I was also surprised how much of a workout I got just jumping about on the hearth rug! :laugh: I did wave my arms a lot. :bigsmile: The chest monitors are more accurate than the solely wrist ones. The important thing is to get the rate UP!
Done some cards. Now to finish the others.
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Sherry: It worked. Cats have staff, or perhaps they have worshipers. :devil:
Heather: Hugs to you and DH. Take a deep breath and enjoy a moment of peace for yourselves.
Penny: (((HUGS)))
I had hoped to travel to Salem and take Christmas Wreaths to my parent's graves, but the weather seems pretty iffy today. There is snow in the forecast and we'll wait for a better day. Snow is not a common event here in Western Oregon, and too many people don't know how to drive in it. I trust myself and my all wheel drive car but not others on the road. :noway: It does look like I'll be able to go to yoga today. Yay!!! :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
"So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun."
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Well not going home.. As I said at one time, my blood count has always been a little low at 10 when it should be 12. But when. I came in with my nasal bleed it was 8.2 yesterday 7.2 and today 6.9. The gi guy said the striatum sin my stomach which he said was evidence of gastritis could be previous bleeding. So I stay today and get 2 units of blood today. He also red red another blood pressure medicine and chest X-ray. I can also have some basal ocean spray to loosen my stuff in my nose. One person who came in today wh did not know what I was here for asked if I had a nose bleed since she could see stuff at the end of my nose. Sure enough, this huge long buger, old clot/crust seems to be sliding out my nose!1
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Margaret, thanks for the info. I am not aware of getting a tick bite, but doctor too said it could happen without me realizing it. But if it is Lymes I want to get working on eradicating it.
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Joyce - I won't hug you too hard in case that thing slides out of your nose (!), but I am sending you virtual hugs.
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janetr7476 wrote: »Margaret, thanks for the info. I am not aware of getting a tick bite, but doctor too said it could happen without me realizing it. But if it is Lymes I want to get working on eradicating it.
Janetr okc
Regular antibiotics did not work for me as well as several other people that I know that have been fighting Lymes disease for a long time. Because it attacks other body systems other than the blood it appears that it has been eradicated when they do another blood test however, it has left the blood system and is now hiding out in or attacking your neurological system or maybe it is in your muscular system or hiding out in your skeletal system. I went to a homeo pathic Doctor who did an electro acupuncture test to determine that Lymes was present in my body. The pastors wife from our church was diagnosed with MS for several years until they realize it was Lymes disease. She even wrote a book about living with it and how to get rid of it. A lot of the people that I know took the homeopathic route because it works. Even though I am still being treated the first treatment got rid of the Lymes disease and now I am working on the weaker mutated Lymes. I have complete faith that this will be taken care of. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. I do know that people come from all over the country to get treatment from the homeopathic doctor that I go to. I did take the normal antibiotic treatment not once but three times and was told each time that I no longer had it… I will never waste my time with that route again.
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Good morning lovelies......been up since the butt-crack of dawn.......I had too much fun posting those gifs last night!!.....lol......uh oh, just looked out the window and it's starting to snow, pretty good now too.....look out below Katla and Becca.....the storm is here and the snow is comin' your way!!.....
Joyce - eeewwwwww.....I'll give you a hug but from behind you, OK?....I don't want that thing comin' out your nose to get me!!.....lol....IT'S ALIVE!!!!!........
Heather - YAY!!!!!.....I am sooooo happy for you and your DH!!! I'm glad you got some good sleep too, you needed it.....now get your cards done dangit!....lol....
Mary, Margaret and Janetr - I echo your sentiments on antibiotics and won't take them unless ABSOLUTELY necessary, they give me bad yeast infections no matter which ones I take and it's just aweful!.....and most of the time they don't seem to have any effect on whatever it is I am taking them for......fortunately I have a pretty strong immune system, I don't catch colds or get infections and such, I consider myself pretty lucky there....I do however get a flu shot every year on my doc's orders as I am Diabetic and haven't had the flu for many years now, I've been real lucky there too....the only time the doc would make me take them was when something went wonky with my lungs....after smoking heavily for 40 years I am DAMN lucky I don't have lung cancer.....Mary, I hope you can finally kick it in the butt once and for all....Margaret, it sounds like you managed to dodge it....and Janetr, I really hope you don't have it....
Uh oh.....again......there just went the Ambulance pulling out of the firehouse here lights and sirens going.....it's been snowing steadily since I looked out earlier.....it's beginning to really accumulate out there.....I hope it's a house call and it's not a wreck out on the highway....not that a house call is any better but you know what I mean.....
Katla - good decision on not going to Salem today!!.....I'm only at 1,322 ft elevation but if it's snowing like this this low, I'm sure it won't be long till it hits the valley floor.....jeez, if Portland gets any kind of accumulation it will almost shut the city down....this is not looking good for getting my TV service tomorrow....I sure hope the DirecTV tech actually has some cahones (did I spell that right?) and can drive in this stuff....otherwise my entertainment might become building some creative snowmen, wink, wink......if it's already snowing there please be extra careful going to and from Yoga......
Penny - beautiful pic!....it's starting to look like that here too.....
Kate UK - keep tryin'......I tried highlighting the text in the box marked "BBCode" that pops up when you select one of the gifs and copying and pasting it into the reply box on MFP.....that seemed to work great!.....try it, it might work that way for you too.....
Why does it snow whenever I am due to have someone out to set up my satellite TV??....Do you think someone is trying to tell me something??.....think I'll medicate now and reflect on that....lol....
Sherry in "white sunshine" Dufur2 -
OK folks - just to add to the festive grandchild pictures.
Max the sheep. After the school nativity. (Not allowed to take pics during) 
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
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Sherry - thanks! I feel that I am on the road to recovery. I hope you get your satellite set up really quickly!
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Marcelyn – I don’t remember how many words I typed on a manual; but, I was pretty fast; only the seniors or ones who had taken (or were in the 3rd year) got to type on the few electric ones we had in school. I sat next to the last row with 2 guys behind me. The teacher would get really upset if you ‘zipped’ out the paper; which happened a lot as soon as she turned her back on us. I’d hand over the one I was typing on to my friend behind me. He hated taking typing; but, I also think he thought it was going to be an ‘easy’ class to take. The other one, was the school bully; and, whenever he could, when he got up (especially if we had a substitute) who stomp on the keys and mess them up royally. He’d usually do it to someone else’s typewriter so they’d get into trouble and not him. I’ve almost worn off my little nibs on my computers that you feel for to make sure you are on the correct keys. I’ve definitely rubbed off the lettering on a few. My typing was about as fast in my first year, on a manual.
I don’t think most schools even have an electric one, all things now-a-days seem to be geared to the computer; but, they still have to learn to type; but, they are more skilled at typing with 8 fingers instead of 10. We did not have but a little over that (from 8th grade through 12th) … in a small town in middle Georgia. I do remember that we went to regional, district, and state competitions. But, short-hand was also taught. I never took it; but, when I worked I had my own system and it worked for me (had to do it when the Investigator hogged the shared Dictaphone. My boss started putting the receiver in his drawer so that the Investigator could not get on it. Typing up his work was so repetitive I wanted to scream! Every report he ever dictated went back to bring one up to speed. Basically I would type it for every report he made. I was the ‘new girl’ on the block and I did not dare go say anything to him; but, my boss finally did. His work came first. One reason I did my ‘own’ short-hand’. I guess you might call it ‘speed writing’.
Pip – Our neighbors, two doors down, have a Golden Retrieve who has her ‘own’ sofa and you had better not ever sit down on it. She’d come over and give you the ‘death stare’ if you did. My rug in my house is exactly like yours, except that where yours is wine, mine is dark navy blue.
Janetr OKC – I will be praying for you that it is NOT Lyme’s Disease. I’ve heard it is a really taxing disorder if you have it.
Gloria – That’s what we said to our sons, when one decided that he did NOT want to own anything with his brother. One is ‘in over his head’ and the other ‘makes enough to not worry’. I told them both, that the ONLY way they will inherit anything is when we are BOTH DEAD and they could figure it out. Only thing that needs to be done, would be for each of them to sign over their ½-undivided interest in the 2 tracts of land (less the 3 acres that the oldest one owns) and after that all I wanted to make sure of is that my DOGD gets my diamond and sapphire wedding ring; the rest they could divide; and, I did NOT want ‘any’ DDnL present. If they wanted something specific, then they could tell them what it is. I’d ‘like’ to think that the family pieces I inherited would be ‘kept in the family’; but, if I am DEAD, I won’t know and it won’t matter.
Sherry – Probably all RV’s fall into the class of being ‘tiny homes’ … especially if there is more than one person living there. A friend of my DYS who was a professional basketball player had a ‘huge’ Airstream that was costumed made just for him. I have no idea how big it is; but my son says it is “HUGE”.
Don’t feel too bad about losing your typing; I think many of us have done that. Sometimes after I have typed a ‘long’ one and cannot get it to ‘paste’ from my WPP, I figure, maybe it was not meant to be said. LOL! What I usually do is paste it back to my WPP and try it later, then it might work. I sort of think that if you are going to be the last one to post on a page and it is too large to fit on it, it won’t let you type it, or you will lose it; if someone else beats you to the ‘post’ key. That is just MY theory.
I don’t think that anybody ought to think they are ‘indispensable’ … cause if you get sick or die (or quit) somebody will come in and take you place. Might take them a while to learn what you do in your job; but, my DDnL#1, who thought she was ‘indispensable’ Threatened to walk out (again) and was told ‘if she walked out the door to NOT come back’. She did and ‘they’ meant it. Went for 6 weeks looking feverishly for a job, now she has one that she gets ‘great’ benefits, but a lower hourly salary. But, when she talked to her DH about ‘quitting’ and looking for another one … he told her, ‘do it and I will file for a divorce the next day’. The health insurance pays to cover their 20-year-old daughter until the age of 26; provided she is ‘still in college, hasn’t gotten a job with benefits of her own, or gets married; whichever comes first.
In some states, like Georgia, it is an ‘at will’ employment state, you can get fired or walk out without giving notice. But, if you do, you will lose any vacation or built up ‘sick leave’. Most employers do NOT want a worker who has ‘given notice’ to work because of what they can do to ‘try to cripple’ the company, such as setting or changing passwords, or talking bad about them to customers.
Because of how my computer’s security is set up, it won’t allow me to put on any program of emoticons; because they always detect problems with them, so they get kicked out. I cannot change it. But, I have a reading pane, so I can ‘see’ what is in an email without having to actual ‘open’ it up. A lot get deleted and some get sent to my ‘junk’ folder with the ‘do not send me emails from this website’.
I’ve really had problems with MFP ‘freezing up’ on me and it will ‘stop responding’ and the only way I can make it go back to working is to “X” out of it; then open it back up and it will take me directly to the point I was typing. I don’t ‘log out’ under these circumstances. I’ve found that I cannot do anything other than to “X” out of it or do a “Ctrl, Alt, Delete”.
Maybe if you want to post something specific to all or many of us; then type it and post it separately, maybe that will work.
Ann262 – Cracker is a ‘spitfire’; but she also knows that she is ‘spoiled to the highest doggie spoiled degree as well’. She is ‘suck a love’. Our Tux, who is an ‘outside’ cat gets all the attention at the vet as possible. He will go directly to whoever comes to get him, put his arms around their necks, starts purring, and gets overly relaxed so that his body will hang down to their knees. They are amazed that he does that since he is an ‘outside’ cat. They say that most ‘outside’ cats do not want anybody to touch them, especially a stranger. All the ‘dog owner’ on the other side of the reception’s office, just think he is adorable. He is beginning to put on his winter weight and he usually weighs about 20lbs when he does, about the same amount as Cracker is. IF I had known ahead of time that the breed is called “Tuxedo” (because of the black and white coloring) … I would have named him something more ‘catchy’. But Tux fits him. His markings really look like he has a tuxedo on with a ‘top hat’ and ‘tails’. He is also a ‘shelter’ cat; but, he had the run of the back yard of the “Cat Lady’s yard.” I figured since she told me that ‘some’ of the cats around the house were not adopted, he would not have been. Brought him home in one of those cardboard boxes meant to carry cats; and he busted his head through it. I don’t know how, because I had to actually ‘stuff him in’ so that he’d fit in it. He is a long cat from tip to tail.
NYKAREN – Was that the extremely thin woman that was on FB video? If so, I got it; but, just could not sit through it. Seeing her brought back too many ‘bad memories’ of losing my first child. I had lost so much weight that I looked like a Holocaust survivor … all hands, feet, elbows, knees, pelvic bones and shoulder blades. My DH took a picture of me and I weighed only 90lbs. I’m about 5’4”. Looked pitiful. I know she was talking about having a disease that prevents her from gaining weight and how others had treated her. But, she had a positive outlook on thing because she had learned to say, ‘YES, to those things that were important to her in every facet of her life’.
Heather – I am happy that you were able to fall asleep and stay asleep. I did not go to bed until early this AM; but, got up to let Cracker out at her usual time and then went back to sleep. When I did finally get up she was standing at the door with her nose I the crack. That is what she does when she is ‘ready’ to come it. Only scratches if she ‘thinks’ you don’t get the message telegraphically. She’s also good about ‘not’ barking … unless she want something. Normally, she ‘huffs’ at us to get our attention. Then if we say, ‘do you want to go outside’ or ‘do you need food in your dish’ … she turns round and round, she gets ‘so excited’. I bought some Kibbles & Bits for small breeds, and mixed it in with some of the food we had bought that she did not like, she woofed it down, even when I was in the kitchen with my DOGD. Normally, she hasn’t liked for us to watch her eat, I don’t know why. She gets a cup in the AM and she picks at it (most of the time); then by supper she had eaten it all; but, at night … she eats what we give her. Crazy Cracker!
Margaret – We have ticks here, and when my DH comes in from hunting and takes a shower, I have to check where he cannot see for ticks. UGH! They look too much like spiders to me. I then put Vaseline on them; and they will let go and I don’t have to worry about pulling them off and leaving the head in them. OOooo!!!
Penny – The professional contortionists just ‘hope’ they are not in some strange position when it suddenly ‘’hits’.
Katla – My cat has staff; I want HIM to worship me.
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Heather - he's so darn cute!! Why don't they let you take pics during??? Those are the best, the "live action" shots!!......
Just got a call from DirecTV..........they just want to double check my identity and that my info and phone number really belong to me as a final security measure before they send the tech out.....kinda smart I guess.....I don't think the lady on the other end took me seriously when I laughingly asked her if they really were still going to send a tech out......lol.....at this point it is still on the schedule for tomorrow afternoon.....maybe he can drive in this stuff, maybe he has chains and 4-wheel drive, maybe, maybe, maybe.....lol....heh, I'm not holding my breath....expect the worst that way if it turns out better, then happy happy joy joy for everybody!!.....and if it don't, then you're prepared.....make sense?????......
Don't mind me.....I'm just lurking and waiting for my fitbit to finish charging before I brave the elements and go for a walk to go check my mail.....
Sherry in "it's gonna be a white Christmas" Dufur0 -
good evening ladies~
it has been a long day... went to the Christmas Coffee Hr, that was fun, then came home for a bit, left with Esther and Helene and went for indian food, tried a few things... then came home and went to the pool for an hour, then Tom wanted to go to Sonny's BBQ and I ended up getting a burger
didn't get in as many steps as I wanted to today.. now I am just pooped as I didn't sleep well last night..
tomorrow night is bingo, the night after is Voices of LaCasa and the night after that is the dance.. so I am keeping busy.. think Tom feels a little left out.. but hey it is an active adult community and if he doesn't really want to spend time with me, lets see how busy I can be..
was going to go to Sanibel on my own, but he wants to go now, and we will take the dogs... so that will curtail some of my activities...0 -
Waiting for DH to come home from golf so we can go out to our last party dinner before we leave tomorrow.
I am almost ready just some last minute things to pack.
Tried to charge my Nike fuel band this morning and it shows it is fully charged but when I put it on and check it, it shows it needs charging. Oh me, must be broken.
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Lol....Missy fell asleep earlier on one of the Captain's chairs up front before it started snowing.....then she just woke up from her 'lil nappy and looked out the window and turned and looked at me with the cutest expression of "WTH?????"..... I would swear she is a person reincarnated as a cat........
Wow....it is still really comin' down out there..... all the bare ground that was left from last week's storm is now covered quite thickly.....when I go for my walk I will have to take my clear plastic ruler and see how much has fallen.....
Here's some food for thought.....I noticed there seems to be an aweful lot of newbies posting here once or twice and then disappear never to be heard from again.....do you think they go to the same place as that one lone sock that somehow disappeared from the dryer?????......lol.....
Sherry in "pondering Newbie disappearances" Dufur1 -
Here's more food for thought.....do you think lost posts go to the same place as the "disappearing newbies" and that one lone sock from the dryer???....lol.....just wonderin'......
Sherry in "please help me I need my TV!" Dufur
P.S. - can you tell I am bored and have had too much caffeine today????.....this is what too much Diet Mt. Dew will do to ya!!.....fitbit is charged and I am ready to burn off some of this energy, so off I go.....wonder if the guy clearing off my street with the Bobcat would give me a ride up and down the street in the bucket??....lol.....1
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