WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2017

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  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,826 Member
    Kate ... I don't think you'll be able to go to the gym ... take a break and heal completely. Others here no more about cataract surgery than I do though...
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    bwcetc wrote: »
    Kate ... I don't think you'll be able to go to the gym ... take a break and heal completely. Others here no more about cataract surgery than I do though...

    Sure you're right but do love my exercise
  • gotu52
    gotu52 Posts: 315 Member
    Hello everyone and thank you for all the nice comments about my daughter in the lavender fields. She went on a trip with a friend to France, Italy and Spain and they organized it all by themselves. I was very impressed. The Internet has made traveling very easy. Her friend took that pic and I can just smell the lavender.

    Katia I wrote the rant and don't encourage me too much or we may get a weekly!

    I just bought this at the grocery, it is soya noodles, to be used like pasta and is 30 calories for the whole bag which looks to be a little more than a cup. I will let you know how they taste. <3 Sarah

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  • pamfgil
    pamfgil Posts: 449 Member
    Leigh ear vacuuming is what I call going to the specialist and getting my ears cleaned with a suction tube
    Pam in Adelaide
  • grogers511
    grogers511 Posts: 477 Member
    edited March 2017
    Kelly - there are a couple of reasons why no basements depending on the area. As mentioned by others here... High water table, the clay soil causing ground shifting and cracking basements. In Texas we have a bedrock of Limestone - it's a softer stone - but still would be quite expensive to blast/dig through. And... our frost line here is probably less than a foot deep. So we don't have to dig deeper to bury pipes to prevent freezing and that makes building less expensive.

    The flip side of this question... Why do houses up north have basements? Deeper frost lines. Building codes require a house’s footing to be below the frost line, so as long as you’re digging down there you might as well make it a basement -otherwise you have to step down to your first floor.

    Some folks here in the south do have basements - but it's rare... and expensive. When I was a kid - I had family members out in west Texas who had storm cellars - outside their homes. But even that's not common now.

    --Ginger in Texas
  • grogers511
    grogers511 Posts: 477 Member
    edited March 2017
    Cheri - we're having the same sogginess down in my corner of Texas. I've been doing a scrub down and declutter in our home. When I did our bathroom tile grout - I used Clorox toilet bowl cleanser on the grout. Squirt it in the grout. Lightly agitate. Let set for 10 minutes. Scrub. Rinse. Clean. Easy. Didn't take a lot of scrubbing.

    I'll find a photo and attach it.

    --Ginger in Texas
  • grogers511
    grogers511 Posts: 477 Member
    Kate - take it easy.... I've always heard: Don't do any heavy lifting or strenuous activity for a few weeks.

    -Ginger in Texas
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,690 Member
    Lanette - I think you might find something if you search drjessamy.leadpages.co
    Or just Google Dr Jessamy Hibberd.
    She is popping up all over the place including the online Huffington Post.

    A "spiritual" writer I find very helpful is Jack Kornfield, a kind of Western Buddhist, but not too Buddhisty. I have The Wise Heart on my phone to read on the train and it makes me feel very peaceful. :D

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,251 Member
    I like Jack Kornfield too.

    Worked a half day today.

    Love the lavender fields!!

    I have to have noticed communication and focus is harder for the younger set.

    :heart: Margaret
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Heather: "I remember vividly the day when I realised I'd changed. "I'm the kind of person who keeps my commitments to myself", I thought and I felt tears come to my eyes. I never thought I could say that about myself.
    Amazing what "going on a diet" and doing some exercise can do for you!!!!!! The biggest NSV of all."

    I feel this way as well. Thank you for putting it into words. :heart:


    DH has an appointment with the eye doctor tomorrow to get a prescription for new glasses. He intends to have the prescription filled before we leave the place. I think that may be overly optimistic on his part, but I'm not saying a negative word. Tomorrow will bring whatever it brings and we'll get the glasses when they are ready. He is so excited about being able to see well again. :bigsmile: I'm excited, too. :heart:

    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
  • grogers511
    grogers511 Posts: 477 Member
    edited March 2017
    Coming up to the end of March... thinking about goals for April. My thoughts....
    • I'll continue my 8 goals from March.
    • Might give myself a range on fiber 25-30g as it's been hard to get the 30g. I sometimes land at 27-29g and that seems close enough. Really looking at ways to get more fiber from real food.
    • Another goal I'd like to work on - a digital detox - a way to cut back on - or limit my use of my cell phone, iPad, Kindle and laptop. The technology is useful and I won't give it up entirely... but I'm far more engaged in the internet than I should be and I fear other areas of my life are suffering. I've pulled back from my hobbies and that means I've pulled back from time spent engaging DM90 in activites and perhaps not enjoying the things I use to enjoy. So scares me about it being an addiction. Anyway - feels right to get it in check.
    • Do my April Task Bingo. (BTW - not my original idea... this is an idea floating around in the bullet journal community. Folks do it for restaurants to try. Vacation places. And other focus ideas.)

    Are you planning any new goals for April?
    --Ginger in Texas
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    grogers511 wrote: »
    Cheri - forgot to add the pic of my cleaner grout - using the Clorox toilet bowl cleanser. My grout is a tan or sand color. It had turned chocolate brown. Back to its lighter color now.

    --Ginger in Texas

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    Thanks for the tip. The grout here is horrible! I'll give it a try. May have to buy some knee pads or use my garden knee pads cause it's going to take a bit of time!

    Cheri
    currently watching a Nicholas Sparks movie
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    ginger. Thanks for the grout cleaning tip, I'm gonna try it when my spring cleaning is in full swing.

    Becca you are a <3

    Today I feel like spring is in the air, went for a walk in the sun and oh what a joy to feel that warmth again!

    NYKAREN
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,038 Member
    Hi all: I am ready for the rain to end even if the sun does not come out. DD and I worked on our backyard pasture last weekend and got all of our posts up and about 2/3 of the tape. We thought we had all of the parts but discovered that we did not have gate handles. Kind of need those with electric fence. There is a mouse coming into our master bath cupboard. We thought we had her blocked out but she is back. Tore up a huge piece of paper toweling I am sure for her nest. We have tried poisoning pellets but those don't seem to have worked. I think we have an entire community coming in from outside. Our barn cat has killed several in the barn and adjacent buildings. Went to yoga this morning but I was really cold. Hard to relax and breathe.

    Cheri - Nice afghans!

    Charlotte - That letter from your son is awesome.

    Lisa - Congrats on blood tests.

    Everyone take care, Sue in WA
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,244 Member
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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,244 Member
    stats for the day:

    wahoo hrm not working, all applewatch-
    bike ride hm 2 gym- 13.28min, 13.1amph, 2.9mi = 160c
    SPIN CLASS- 45min, 88ar, 119aw, 11-17g, 19.4mi = 482c
    bike ride gym 2 dome train station- 6.58min, 12.2amph, 1.4mi = 61c
    jog station 2 wk- 5.14min, 10.05min mi, .5mi = 52c
    jog wk 2 sta- 4.34min, 9.39min mi, .4mi = 52c
    bike ride dome 2 hm- 22.57min, 6.9amph,17mph winds!!, 2.6mi = 216c

    total cal 1023
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    We had a scary nite last night with straight line winds in Our community. A friend clocked the winds at 79 mph. Spent all day (literally) picking up tree limbs and branches. A lot of people had much worse damage with Hugh trees down and roof damage.
    Re-I look forward to your posts because you are so caring and real. You just do what works and it will begin to happen for you.
    Nite all
    SueBDew in TX
  • DamitJanit
    DamitJanit Posts: 1,329 Member
    Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .

    Good Evening My Dear Friends

    Heather, so happy to hear that you did some writing today. You know I want to encourage that as much as possible without being too pushy. (((Hugs)))

    Kim, great job on the horse blankets. Congrats on finding your FitBit.

    Chris, watch out or you will be in the girls sizes soon. Woo hoo.

    Charlene, how can that quilter work with that “thing” looking at her through the window? ROF

    KarenVA, your pups are sooooo cute.

    Rori, sounds like you will be busy after being home for a spell. We want a picture of you in your dress. Actually Heather is the only one I know that wears dresses a lot but then she goes a lot too.

    Katla, you said, “: I just reread my post and I am embarrassed that it was so negative about Keurig. I apologize. I am not usually so thoughtless. “ I certainly can’t imagine that anyone was offended. We each like and dislike different things. I occasionally use the K-Cups but I have three so I don’t have to rinse one out to re-use while it’s wet. We normally make coffee in our 10 cup pot and just don’t make it full. I’m due for my bone density test also. Mine have always been fine which surprised me after two different stress fractures in my tibia.

    Allie, sorry for your loss. I do hope you will be able to go to Minn for the services.

    Sarah, how nice to lose weight when you’ve been eating out and expected a gain. You must be doing something right!!!

    CarolGA, how exciting for your DGS in his baseball game. They are so much fun at that age.

    Charleen, your quilt is absolutely stunning.

    Lanette, I had to laugh at the cartoon of the garage. My DH just had a cousin pass away that was a collector and a hoarder. We can only imagine what his house, garage and storeroom look like. I sorta hate we don’t’ live near so I can see and help.

    Sarah, you are the bomb with your plank. Great going if you never get to 3 minutes.

    Rita, sooo sorry you got scammed. I’ve had a two occasions to try me on that but always go to the bank and ask them to call to verify the funds while I wait. Even if they did verify (which they don’t) I would wait a few days before refunding their money. But on Craig’s list I only take cash. I keep thinking I’ll get passed some counterfeit hundred dollar bills when making a large sale but so far so good.

    MicheleNC, I love your bumble bee. I think that might be my favorite.

    Janet#2, Mia is such a doll. I hope the oxygen is off soon.

    pretty-pink-welcome-smiley-emoticon.gifto any Newbies. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.

    Well I’ve been busy with the Moose and trying to sell some things on Craig’s list so I’m behind again. I just want you all to know I think of you often and wish you only the best. I also did a lot of sorting and tossing out things in my tiny office today. I’ll be putting some things from the guest room in here so that closet will be empty when DD moves back in. I’m glad to be getting things sorted and clean but needed the pressure to make me do it. Tomorrow I go to the next town about an hour away to pick up two clothes racks that I’m buying from Craig’s list to use at the garage sale.

    Sending love, good thoughts and sunshine to all of you.

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    DJ
    Myrtle Beach, SC
  • IremiaRe
    IremiaRe Posts: 801 Member
    edited March 2017
    Pip! you burn those calories, Chickie-Baby!

    SueBDew - Aw, thank you. (Hugs!)

    Goodnight, Beautiful People! I am off to grab and eggplant so I can make the best spaghetti sauce ever... Step One in an experimental lasagna-like casserole with layers of Portobello Mushrooms, various Italian cheeses and some lovely eggplant meat sauce.

    Hugs for Everybody!

    Re in TX
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,190 Member
    :'( Jake is still suffering so much from his cold that he saw the doctor this afternoon. She ordered a chest x-ray and confirmed that he doesn't have pneumonia and suggested several OTC remedies which he is following. He feels so awful and there's nothing I can do for him....so I took care of me and the dogs and did things to make us feel better:

    196 minutes walking Sasha and Bessie
    85 minutes riding the exercise bike while knitting and watching figure skating on TV
    line dance class
    15 minutes pulling weeds.

    meditation next and then off to bed.

    <3 Barbie

    It's time to review your resolutions and goals for March and plan some for April. :)

  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Becca – When my boys were younger we lived first in a split-level house, so all their toys were downstairs. They could bring up as many as 3; but, if they wanted something else, they had to replace one for the other. Later we lived is a really cute 2 story, with a high pitched roof that was over the ‘attic’ room. We had it sheet-rocked and that was their playroom. I'm not even sure we even got it painted; but, it opened off my DOS's bedroom and was a couple of steps up. Again, toys downstairs were limited to 3. By the time we moved to the house where they were teenagers, we did not have the ‘toys’; but, they had all the sports stuff … about as bad; sometimes worse, when they brought them in after a hard-fought game and smelled sweaty. Finally, they got the idea that dropping them in the carport outside was best. Oh, I’ve picked up a ‘lot’ of toys on the floor. Now, Cracker can’t stand anything that makes noise, she acts like we’re being attacked. I finally just end up either putting her outside or in her crate for the duration.

    KJ and Lanette – Seems like most kids of this generation have ‘withdrawals’ if you decide to ‘take their phones away’. My DMGD will move her thumbs like she is still typing. It is sort of sad that they do this.

    We don’t have basements in South GA; or should I say very few houses have basements. We’re on a bed of limestone, with a clay-base over it and it can sometimes be unstable depending on the rain, how much, whether it floods, many reasons. Pip – Luna, my DOS’s lab was bad about tearing up ‘everything that was stuffed’. I gave my son a pillow with ‘Dog Rules’ … she has never even tried chewing it up. In fact, they will put it under her head and she will sleep for hours. Cracker chews up any toys we have bought her. She can sleep in any position. If we got into the same positions, somebody would have to go to the chiropractor … if they could unwind themselves to get there.

    Beth – How I see some things; as someone who has a ‘mental disorder’ (manic/depression – “Bipolar” … call it what you will) is sort of like walking around with a red “M” on your forehead if you mention it. You find out 'who your REAL friends are. Like cancer was 50 years ago; as if the name the "C" word, it would suddenly become contagious. My ‘disorder’ can be ‘controlled’ by medication. Some are not so lucky. Some MDs treat people with a ‘mental disorder’ as if they are ‘stupid’. Whenever I start feeling like this, I Google “Famous People with Bipolar Disorder”. Quite frankly, although it is hard – I sort of ‘like’ belonging to such a well-heeled group. LOL! I think we all have our ‘quirks’ … we just have to find where we are comfortable and make the best of it. My favorite mantra is "I don't suffer from mental illness; I enjoy every minute of it!"

    My ‘middle’ sister says all the time that she ‘is scared of the world as it has become’. So far I am ‘not’ scared; just a lot more cautious and less trusting. I think the men and women we sent to represent us in Washington are not representing the people that sent them there - Democrats and Republicans, Independents, and RINOS. Tell your Congressman/woman to stop acting like children, grow up and put their big girl and boys panties on and get over it. It is the same no matter what side your on. We need a 9th Justice on the SCOTUS and personally I think a good Judge has been nominated - so 'confirm' him already. You in office do not represent just the Democrat or Republicans, you represent all of us! Do your job or 'get out';

    We’ve got a couple of generations who have never known a time without a hand-held computer/phone. I’d venture to say that some of us can remember a ‘time without a TV; or a B&W one, or one that had ‘test patterns’ from midnight until the first news (usually some farming guy) giving information about what to plant when. Then the color pictures came out. They don’t know what a telephone booth is; they laugh when you tell them when you were a ‘teenager’ … you took a $1 worth of quarters with you out on a date. We could call ‘collect’ and leave a message. While they still have ‘pay phones’ in some places, they are also getting few and far between.

    Mummoid – Sweet letter, you should definitely have it framed!

    Joyce – She still hasn’t had that baby???? My goodness, let’s hope she isn’t an elephant; you’ll have another year to wait.

    Re – And ‘thank you’ in return for the exact same reasons!!!!!

    Lenora
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Wow, weird thing. When I get on each time I click on the MFP site, go to Community and then bookmarks so that it takes me to my last post. Well, it took me to a spot where it is the empty space where we type. It had a post in it that I suppose went poof into cyber land. It was dated way back on the 20th.

    I am going to have to U-tube Canticle of hope and see what it is. I'm so glad you have a song that gives you such peace.

    Choir practice tonight. We are finishing up our music for Easter. I asked if we can sing the special from Easter Sunday every Sunday. The tenors said a very loud NO!!! It is a very high song for them. Our pastor has suchh a wonderful tenor voice. I just love sitting in front of him and listening. But sometimes I think our choir director needs to sing a difficult tenor song without him singing. I think they depend on him to much.

    I know it has made national news earlier but I don't know if the latest has made it. We had an amber alert last July when a disabled teen went missing. She used a power chair, could not walk at all, barely feed herself. When she went missing, her power chair was at home and all her medicines. After numerous tips that proved false, it went cold. This Monday a call came in of a decomposed body in an abandoned building. This morning it was confirmed it was this teen. Now it is a murder investigation.

    Got our boxes from our United Health Care of our Essentials order. We got 4 pair of diabetis socks, Neopsorin, Antifungal ointment, Cortisone cream and 3 bottles of saline nasal spray. All free!!!!! Can't beat that. We get to order every 3 months. Last year I lost the username and password and I think we ordered the first 3 months and lost out on all the others. That was $300 I wasted!

    ODD called as usual this afternoon. Her girls are thinking about the summer and wanting to make money. The 15 year old will work at Zaxby's which is a chicken place I hope they never want me to go there. Sky high in sodium! But the 10 year old can't do things like that. So she has 2 clients already that she will start immediately as a pooper scooper for them. Her other job that she is going to do is to read for hire. Now for me as a Mom I don't think I would want my kid to charge for reading to people even if the person agrees to it since she is such a cute kid. This daughter is the one who is still job searching even though she has a good job. Her employer provides her with a cell phone and laptop. So if she takes another job there goes her phone calls to me almost every day.

    Joyce, Indiana beautiful tonight but will be stormy tomorrow

  • grogers511
    grogers511 Posts: 477 Member
    edited March 2017
    Here's what I'm planning for a digital detox as one of my April goals.

    Digital Detox Action Plan
    1. Estimate my current usage. Get a realistic picture of my usage now.
    • Almost 24/7. Includes bathroom breaks, bath time. I fall asleep with ear buds listening to something... video or audio book.
    • I get antsy when I don't have my iPhone or iPad at my fingertips. Watch the clock when I decide to set it aside for an hour.

    2. Make a list of essential digital tasks. Estimate time needed to do these.
    • Clear text messages
    • Clear email
    • Pay bills (Wed and Fri as follow-through back-up)
    • MFP - Track my food and post accountability
    • Check in with my 3 sisters via group text

    3. What will I do instead?
    • Analog art
    • Work with DM90 on crafts
    • Spend time outside tending to plants and enjoying the space
    • Exercise - go for walks
    • Journal
    • Practice mindfulness
    • Get more done!

    4. Create a daily plan... time allowance.
    • I'll lock (in the kSafe) my 3 main gadgets: iPhone, iPad and Kindle.
    • Set a time period for morning and evening to cover the essentials and a bit of play time - perhaps after I get my chores done and during DM's afternoon nap. Thinking about this.
    • I'll create a "taper down" time table. Amount of time for the gadgets to be in timeout.

    5. Create my chart of new analog habits for all my triggers/cues by 3/31.
    • Identify my triggers.
    • Create my chart. When I ______ (trigger/cue) I will ____ (new behavior) and this will make me feel ___ (reward).
    • Print chart and place it in my command center station.

    Welcome your feedback.
    --Ginger in Texas
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    I just listened to Canticle of hope. Beautiful. And such a meaning to it and the story behind it. I will have to tell our choir director about it. But our pastor has his whole sermons planned out for the entire year and alll music, congregational and choir is planned around the sermons. But I think that song could be used with anything. I listened to one that must have had a full orchestra behind it. We use a lot of songs with CD accompany and some of it is quite elaborate. I would hope there is a CD with less.

    Lenora, how long is an elephant pregnant???? I don't know how in the world anyone human can go over due date much less 15 months.

    Joyce

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