WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,209 Member
    stat for the day;
    jog- 60min, 6.1sp 3 songs 0 incl, then 2 songs. .5incl, up to 66.4sp, 9.42ap, 137ahr, 169mhr 6.19mi = 572c
    apple watch - 636c, 134ahr
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    marni happy birthday-pajama days are the best. Love your pics--amazing
    NYKAREN
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Marni- Happy Birthday! Have a great day tomorrow Celebrating!

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota
  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    Barbiecat - Bess will be so lucky to have you and DH and Sasha as her new family! cute-dog-smiley-emoticon.gif
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Marni happy birthday - love your photos

    Barbie bet you can't wait for new doggie to arrive

    Kate UK
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    pipcd34 Posts: 17,209 Member
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  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    Marni smiley-says-happy-birthday.gif

    Penny Very interesting, complex music. I like some of it. Neat video! Sorry your travel experience was less than ideal.

    Barbie I feel as if I am sitting in the waiting room for the doctor to come out and announce, "it's a doggie!"

    Busy, but good day at work. It helps to have my retirement countdown running on my phone!

    Karen in Virginia
  • SGCFAb5320162016
    SGCFAb5320162016 Posts: 13 Member
    Mavisjones58
    Sounds like you are on the right track.we have a lot in common.i would just love to see 170 lbs right now.i weigh 190 lbs.have gained about 10 lbs a year for the past 8 years.ive been wearing a fit bit since Christmas but have a knee problem now.seeing Dr Wednesday. Hope can exercise soon.my goal for now is 160 .might take a while at rate I'm going.lol.have been eating healthier though
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,209 Member
    cutting up my old running-amazon t-shirts getting them together so I can have someone make my quilt.
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,634 Member
    Where to begin..

    Re in Texas, I love reading your newsy updates. Happy belated birthday!

    Pip, the painting of you and Kirby with the puppies…fantastic. Neat what artists can do with a photo and added paint! Bet it tugs at our heart a teeny bit to see Floyd there….we have photos of our passed animals and I have to remember the joy they gave us instead of missing them. We have plenty of lively replacements to focus on.

    Joyce in Indiana, I had my Gallbladder out laparoscopically about 6 months after a laparoscopic appendectomy. Bellybutton took quite a beating that year….and I did have more pain after the 2nd one – I think the gallbladder is in a more tender area perhaps? And the maybe the gas they put in to “inflate” is harder to resorb? Glad to have those pesky things out but do NOT want any more surgeries if at all possible.

    Heather, am enjoying the updates on your trip and sorry to hear you were under the weather. If I were to go on any big trips, I’d prefer to go with a girlfriend & leave DH home to babysit the pets. I think he’d have a better time too ;-).

    Rita, your DH sounds like mine sometimes. When both of us are hurting a bit from arthritis or whatever, we get cranky with each other real fast and have learned to say STOP when it starts escalating (most of the time. )

    Sherri, I have a little Amazon “Fire” – I like it a lot. Mainly use it to play games/check FB and messaging and Yahoo email. Can’t get all apps to load but there are enough on there to keep me satisfied and the price is right – no roaming! Plenty of places have free WiFi. I was able to log into MFP on it – kind of teensy to log in food but the 50+ community is on the main screen. Fun!

    Mavis, welcome back – I have lots of friends who are vegan and they are the best cooks! Their food is always yummy. Good luck on your journey and hope your mom is doing OK!

    To those of you with dry eyes, I had to see my optometrist about it last year. He told me to use eyedrops with Ketotifen Fumarate in it twice a day which is an antihistamine, I get it at Walgreens or Walmart brand, and something like Systane or Blink during the day to keep eyes lubricated as often as needed. Helps a lot.

    Fitbit users – I have the “one” which I clip to my bra between the “girls” and it seems to be fairly accurate—sometimes when I walk I count steps then compare to what Fitbit registered, and it’s not that far off. I have friends who clip them on the waistband of their pants or in a pocket.

    Lenora and all, I don’t have clematis or wisteria – but do have a quite adventurous honeysuckle vine. I try to take starts from it each year to give away. Love the smell and the hummingbird action.

    Marni, love the Alaska and moose pictures, keep them coming! So neat to see that part of the world – thanks for sharing your neighborhood with us.

    I know I’ve left a lot out, you are all my favorites! ;-) Thanks again for welcoming me into your group!

    Have a great rest of the weekend!

    Lanette
    SW Washington State

  • SGCFAb5320162016
    SGCFAb5320162016 Posts: 13 Member
    csofled wrote: »
    Hello all!

    Got up early this morning and went to the gym with hubs. 40 mins on the elliptical. Came home and had a protein packed breakfast. Then hit the road to Houston to see our son. We took him to Ikea so he could buy a new desk chair. I got him to splurge on a $12 shelf unit for his bathroom which will hold his laundry stuff as the washer/dryer is stacked in a closet in the bathroom area and he had his laundry detergent etc strewn all over the floor. I picked up a thing or 2 at Ikea myself. I had know idea how reasonably priced things were there. I was in organizational heaven! We then ate at a local pizza joint. Good pizza (2 slices without the crusts) and house salad (split 3 ways). Went back to his apt. and put together the chair and shelves. On the way back home we stopped at the Outlet Mall. Hubs got some new shorts. Reached my step goal by walking around the mall. Back home now. Just had a bowl of jacked up oatmeal for dinner.

    Will read back through today's posts in a bit.

    Oh and a wonderful NSV! My size 18 jeans were getting a bit baggy. Hadn't wanted to pull out the 16s yet as I didn't want to be disappointed. They fit! A bit tight for my liking but could get them zipped and could sit in them. Came out of my room this morning dressed in them and a less baggy shirt and the hubs noticed the change! Go me!!!

    Cheri
    back home in College Station, TX from a day visit to Houston

    Go you.thats awesome if hubby notices.lol
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    Happy Birthday, Marni. Enjoy your special day. We visited Denali and spent one night there. Loved seeing all the animals.
    Cheri- yea for you and smaller jeans. It is great when hubbies notice.
    Penny- thanks for the video of the orchestra. You do ha e an exciting life. Most flights are deleyedthese days But gladyou made it in time for your event.
    Had to attend the funereal of the hu
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    There it goes again. Was saying the husband of one of my golf friends. Always a sad day.
    Better quit before something happens again
    SueBDew inTX
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,209 Member
    lhscapil Floyd is still with us, rocky is the one that Is gone... yes, I do miss him dearly.. actually, the older that Floyd get, the more his calmness and demeanor is more like rocky
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,634 Member
    Pip, sorry I got your pups confused! The second I hit the "send" button it occurred to me I should have verified that, lol. Way to go winning the fun run! What a nice photo of you two :-)

    Lanette
  • pyanko7
    pyanko7 Posts: 153 Member
    Janets & Karen - dry itchy eyes could actually be a medical problem. I had the same problem, thought it was allergies, however, my optometrist said it is a medical condition and told me to get Systane Ultra. It's a lubricating eye drop available over the counter at most drug stores. Works great. I use it every day.
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Congrats Cheri, happy birthday Marni

    Pip, we have half marathons here in Evansville. At one last year there was a dog that just happened upon the race and ran the whole thing. He didn't stay with anyone in particular, just enjoyed the run and the company. They gave him an honorary medal. There were many stories about that marathon and the friendships he made.

    Joyce, Indiana
  • tngram2seven
    tngram2seven Posts: 465 Member
    Hi ladies - well the basketball marathon at work was so much worse than I expected! Feeling kind of shell shocked right now and trying not to let my emotions lead to a marathon eat-a-thon!

    Pip - Ahhhhhhh! so sweet

    Marni - Happy early birthday, quirky friend! Have fun tomorrow!

    I plan to check in later.

    Toni in Tennessee
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Katla – You’re so right! “Cracker” is so stinky, spoiled, rotten it is unreal. She’s our ‘baby’ and so smart and entertaining. We gave our sons a pretty wide berth; but, still holding a strong hand on them. I don’t believe that ‘human’ children can really ‘learn’ something unless you allow them to occasionally ‘face-plant’ themselves and figure out how to ‘get up’ and decide ‘what’s the best way to handle something’. We had rules and consequences for breaking them. Cracker minds us and I was surprised when I adopted her at the age of 4 months how it seemed like someone had taken up a lot of time with her. Never a problem getting into her crate. She’d walk up next to my heel, only had a couple of accidents before she knew that ‘outside’ was where to go whenever she needed to. Best ‘mutt’ we’ve ever own; actually, the ‘only’ one we have ever owned. She is a “Jack Rat” … long legs like a Rat Terrier; and that ‘sweet little face of a Jack Russell. We haven’t quite decided where she get the ‘curved’ tail.

    Marni – DH and I usually have a ‘date night’ about every other weekend or so. No matter where we go, I always cut whatever I order in ½; and bring home the other ½ for the next day. They had a get one, take one; and, we brought it home … I think we ended up with about 6 meals beside what we ate at the restaurant. Their chicken pot pie (not what is on the menu by name) would be too much for us, even if we shared it. I got 4 dishes out of one of them.
    Is that the same moose or do y’all have more wandering around? Landscape is beautiful. Your ‘babies’ are cute, too. Reminds me of an email I got sent where the ‘human mama’ was asking the two labs which one of them had done something. They both sat there and looked at her. She asked them 3 or 4 times, different ways … ‘which one had done whatever’ … then she put it to them a ‘different’ way and one of them put his paw on the other one, like he was telling her ‘who had done the dirty deed’.
    Happy Birthday!

    Gloria – Not a ‘made up word’ … named after a “Bishop.”

    SGCFAb5320 – It is easy to ‘gain’ 10 – 18 lbs a year; I did it for about 6 myself; and justified it by saying I was only gaining .5 – 1.5 lbs a month, on average. MD said, well, that means you are gaining about 12 – 18 lbs a year; so we need to start doing something about it. My mother was heavy and I certainly did not want to weigh what she did at her heaviest. She was ‘short’ to boot. It’s come off slowly but I am now down to 160lbs; but, for the past 6 weeks, I have been losing and finding the same 1 – 2 lbs every week. UGH! We upped my water intake, we upped my exercise, and we ‘upped’ my protein. I have overeaten for the past 2 days. DYS will be coming back through tomorrow and we might take him out to eat, so I will ‘save’ up my calories until later in the afternoon. A lot will depend on where we go, too. DH always cooks breakfast for us on weekends. I am not quite down to where my BMI would show me as ‘normal’ weight for my age and height.

    Cheri – Great NSV – I can remember when I went from a 16 to nearly a 14; I had all my jeans taken up; but, tailor told me that he would not be able to take them up again, because it would ruin them because of the pockets. So I waited until after I had outgrown them to start buying 12’s. I bought my first size 10’s; but, they had a little stretch to the material; but, now it is difficult to really say my size since all my other pants are yoga pants or skinny jeans. I can still remember how it made me feel when my DH started noticing that I had lost weight and said something about it.

    Lanette – Yeah, it was Systane that I put in my eyes daily.

    Sue – We live in a small town and between an even smaller town which has a A.L.F. combined with a nursing home. My DBnL reads the local paper (Albany, GA) because they lived there for years and years and he grew up there. He called and asked me if I knew any of the people who had died in Bronwood. I told him, ‘no’; but that we had the ALF/nursing home here. He said, ‘well, I’ve always heard they come in 3’s; I was wondering ‘if’ y’all were having an epidemic or something.

    Paula – I think when my DBnL had a major stroke; it got my DH’s attention; not so much about how he eats or exercises; but, just the ‘age’ thing. He was 75 in November and he is really beginning to ‘feel’ older. He still works as a house painter and does things that our son ½ his age does and complains about. He never complains, he just falls asleep at a certain time; so much so that we can almost ‘set a clock to it’.

    Lenora
  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    Caught up again after not getting on yesterday. I realized yesterday how much I love working. I am a very social person always telling everyone hello as I go past their office. I did have a little problem with the other paralegal this week shooting down every idea I had about how to do something. When I got into work one day I had an email from the office manager about our naming convention for files and why our ISD folks have us do it a special way. I know that I work best if someone tells me why we need to do something a certain way so went and talked to the other paralegal and apologized if I had seemed snarky and explained my learning style to her. I told her that when people tell me how to do something opposite to the way I would do it without explaining why it needs to be that way I start feeling micro-managed. She thanked me for talking to her as she had sensed something was off this week. I grew up with a very controlling father and never was allowed to be around the adults when they came to visit. We were always sent to our rooms and I to babysit. It took me years to teach myself how to use my freedom wisely after I left home. Anyway I am there to help the other paralegal with this case not to cause her more stress! It would be much easier if we were on the same floor but they had no room to put me up there so I'm a floor below. Not good for getting up to speed on a complex case and learning new software etc.

    I bought a speaker for my laptop last night. This laptop has never had very loud speakers and after the download of Windows10 I could barely hear when I was trying to stream. This speaker clips to the top of the screen and has great volume and sound. Now I can start watching the shows I like again and not try to lip read!

    Sherry - I have a Kindle Fire 10" something and I love it. My only wish is that I it had a place for an SD card or port for a thumbdrive. Maybe the newer ones have that now but I've had mine for about 5yrs. I mostly use it for reading ebooks now.

    I have to run to Lowes to get another board cut for DGS#1's bed as the mattress keeps falling through! Wasn't like that when I got it.

    Later gators!

    Gloria in WA
  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,089 Member
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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,183 Member
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  • PackerFanInGB
    PackerFanInGB Posts: 3,423 Member
    edited January 2017
    Marni: Happy birthday! Love the Alaska pics!

    Charleen: that quilt is gorgeous! I wish I had 1/10 of your talent. I love quilts but am a horrible seamstress. I subscribe to Quilting magazine and dream..,

    Barbie: Is tomorrow the day of Bess's arrival? How exciting!

    My daughter and I took granddaughter shopping to make sure she has everything she will need when the twins arrive. Was so much fun. I can't wait to meet the little munchkins! ❤

    I hope everyone has a great night! Love reading the chatter on this thread! :)

    Tracie who is currently sitting near her very gaseous black lab in Wisconsin
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,183 Member
    1056287i3zmwzup2m.gifStats for today:
    20,000 steps
    209 minutes walking Sasha
    75 minutes riding the exercise bike (watching European figure skating championships)


    :) This is especially amazing since I was at a meeting today that required sitting for six hours.

    :) We are very excited about Bess's arrival tomorrow....one question I have is what will happen if she likes walking as much as Sasha does...are there enough minutes in the day?

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