WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2017
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Another light day. I love ❤️ having Kirby home4
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Oooh today after taking my ponytails out, I have a great curl going on!! So thinking that is a nice way to prepare my hair without having a blowdryer.
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Katla - would you believe that the Salvation Army near us now locks its dressing room? I asked why and the lady told me that they've had people go into the dressing room with "buggies" (shopping carts -- I'll never get used to that name) and put clothing inside other things in the cart. I was shocked! We're not talking a lot of money. But then again, Vince always says that I'm too trusting. I would never have thought of someone trying to steal something, but it makes sense now that I think about it. One time they had a neighborhood garage sale and this lady asked me to be in it. I told her that all I would have would be less than one card table, it isn't worth it.
Lisa - breathtaking! At first I thought it was stained glass.
Carmen - welcome
I just found my first driver's license. No picture (they didn't do that in those days). It listed my weight as 103. That was probably the last time I was ever that weight
Lanette - there's no place around here where you can take a dead or even older TV. Everyone wants only flatscreens
It's supposed to be nice weather next week so Vince actually suggested that we'll start opening the pool. YYYYEEEAAAAA
Beth - I'm so so sorry you were in the ER
abhamilton - keep coming back here for encouragement and tips. Welcome!
Michele in NC
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beth sending healing thoughts
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Barbie what a fun day.
(((Beth))) sorry about your knee. Like Lanette I could always walk on it. Although sometimes it was more of a hobble. I think mine is more tendonitis for me too. Mine hit when I was under intense stress. Do what you need to do to heal. I feel for you because I know how painful it can be. At the worst I also used a cane. For sleeping I had to learn to sleep on my back and not have any blankets or sheets on it. I found when it first hit sleeping on a couch helped because I could not toss and turn. Every time I rolled over it hurt.
Since I am not on a blood thinner I put ginger on about everything and that seemed to help. If you use an over the counter you will probably need to up the dose to make it effective. If you can get ahead of the pain make sure you take your dose before it hurts.
Sending you healing thoughts. Margaret 2 -
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Pics inside the airstream
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The couch material will change, the curtains alone will make a big difference and I want something like this to separate the bedroom.
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Michele – Some people will ‘steal’ something for the sake of ‘stealing’ it; quite often they will say something stupid like, “Gee, I don’t remember picking this up, I don’t really need it.” and give it back to whoever stopped them. That might work for a young teenager (once or twice) – in a small town where the store owner knows the parents back in the ’60’s; but, kids are going to large stores such as Wal-Mart and walking out of the store with things as large as TVs and trying to get away with it. That isn’t something that you ‘just forgot you picked up’. That is consciously stealing. Same thing for ‘putting something inside of something else’; or sticking it in or under your clothes. Legally, if you stick a pack of gum in your shirt pocket, even if you have not left the store, you could be charged with ‘shoplifting’. You know the temptation of all the candy and chewing gum as you check out of the grocery store; when Trey was little, still sitting in the 'seat' (Will wasn't even born at the time), I did not see him pick up a pack of gum until we got out to the parking lot. He was about to open it, and I told him 'I did not pay for that, you stole it, so now we have to go back and take it back to the store and you have to apologize for taking it'. So, I marched his young little butt back in the store to the Clerk who had checked us out and told her that 'my son has something to give you and something to say'. He handed it back and told her 'I stole this, because I did not ask my Mama if I could have it'. And she turned and (I guess was more embarrassed for him) and said, 'oh, baby, that's ok'. "NO M'ham it is NOT ok, ... Trey give it back to the lady." As we turned to leave the lady being checked out said, 'bet he'll never be tempted to lean over and grab one of those 'baby' charmers'. I laughed and told her that 'we sure hoped so'. He still remembers it and he is 40. Our DYS was quite a bit older when he 'learned that lesson'; but, he sure 'did learn it'. Thankfully, he was allowed to plead out on it. They had raided a bonfire party he had been at; so several of them were at the Sheriff's Department when we got there to pick him up, all being charged for 'under-age drinking'. One of the convenience store were selling to under-age kids; I think the store owner was in 'more trouble than Will was for a 'snatch and grab'. Louis and I went to go pick up his truck (thankfully he had not gotten into it) and I wanted to take my trusty little belt with me; but, Louis would not let me take it 'inside'. That cured him of taking something he did not intend on paying for.
Some people have been ‘black-balled’ from some stores and get ‘escorted out’ if they come in. I’ve never seen anything I wanted bad enough to go to ‘jail’ for. One day I went with a couple of HS friends of mine; and, I saw one pick up something on our way to the elevator and stick it in her pocket; I immediately turned around and left and went to another store that I knew they’d come to in a little while. I’m just glad they did not get caught and I had been innocent of anything. I’ve seen others doing the same thing, some of them not so much on the sly … it is almost like they want to get caught or they are covering for someone else to steal something larger. When some of the stores cut back on help and put the cash registers in the cross-walks of the store, I can understand why it'd be easy for someone to stick something somewhere and walks out … no security, no help from a clerk.
I’ve walked clean across Belk’s from the women’s section at the mall entrance to the shoe department by the back door to pay for items because nobody was in the clothes’ department. I've even checked out clothes at the make-up counter before. People steal from ‘garage sales’. I generally put a sign up, “If you want something bad enough to steal; talk to me – I can make it an easy to deal!” But, I would probably walk up behind them and say something like, 'it is obvious that you needed that item more than I did', and leave it like that. I don't think I would ever confront them or call the police. I will ‘only’ have a garage sale if it is going in with 2 or 3 other people. But, then you have to figure out a way to keep each item so the owner gets the money’.
I think I weighed 116lbs in HS, soaking wet with shoes on; weight 125lbs when I married; weight 90lbs after losing my first pregnancy and chemo; and, back to 125lbs until I retired and went from 125lbs about 1 or 2 lbs a month until I ended up weighing 200lbs.
Becca – Both my 2 oldest granddaughters (who have extremely thick hair) will braid their hair and let it dry. Or they will comb through it and let it dry naturally. But, after it is dry they don’t comb through it again, because if they do it will make it either frizz or stick out like they have double the hair. Both my 2 youngest granddaughter also have very thick hair! Only my step-granddaughter doesn’t have a tender head. Her mother is the cosmetologist; and, she has made sure she did not have one. I enjoyed being able to have her sitting in front of me and allowing me to comb/brush her wet/dry hair. I’ve never had that pleasure before.
Grandchild (step) killed her first turkey yesterday. They made a short video of it and posted it to my FB page. Becca and Michele, you can see it on my page. Fair warning, it is a bit gruesome if you are not someone familiar with hunting things. They are really dead, just flapping around anyway. They sent me ‘still’ pictures of her carrying it over her shoulder … it came down to her knees. First thing she asked Will was, ‘so now I can have a turkey on my wall (or something; it was a big bird but not a ‘huge’ one; so a full mount is totally out of the question). They will probably have the ‘fan, spurs, and beard’ framed out.
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I just saw a video about a book titled "The Happiest Kids in the World" and those children live in the Netherlands - so Penny I may just have to move to Holland! US children are at the bottom of the list. Very sad
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Accountability Post
Saturday's Progress (4/8)
1. Carbs 50-75g (limit 25g/meal)
(B7, L18, D8, BBS261 = 293g)
✔2. Fiber 30g (51g)
✔3. Track/complete entry daily
✔4. Vegetables - big salad daily
5. Exercise - log 30 Fitbit minutes, 2 miles, 5000 steps. And the elliptical 5 days a week. (Tues, Thur)
6. No eating after 9pm.
7. In bed by midnight.
8. Declutter: Electronics, Craft Supplies, Pantry, ✔Fridge, Cooking and Baking, Dishes and Serving, ✔Linen Closet, Laundry Closet, ✔Medicine Cabinets, ✔Personal Care.
✔9. Digital Detox. Track daily timeouts.
• Fiber. Missed my big veggie salad yesterday - I'm out of salad fixings. I substituted a large bowl of steamed broccoli - about 2 cups steamed. I'm counting it as a big bowl of broccoli salad. And... I had Quest protein bar which packs a heavy wallop of fiber. Okay I had 2 of them. Fortunately, I'm not constipated today.
• Carbs. It. Was. Not. Pretty. But... it is what it is. I had finished eating for the day. It was 9pm. I suppose I wanted something else - I hadn't really eaten enough throughout the day. (Key point.)
I half-jokingly said to DH... why don't you run up to Sonic and get us some ice cream. He laughed and said nope - it's not on your diet. A little later he announced he had ordered pizza. (He had planned to make himself hot dogs. As he was watching baseball.) I was prepared to resist the pizza. I really was. I went to bed. Laying in bed I had an urge for a snack and I paused as I've been doing with some success recently. But... I caved. I started with - I'll just eat the toppings off a slice. Then I ate almost the whole slice - leaving some of the bread. But... he also had a pan of brownies and a cookie pizza. As I said. It wasn't pretty. I don't know why I did it. I told myself I hadn't eaten enough. It's just one day. I'll get back on track tomorrow. The quest bar was an emergency "Hail Mary" pass - hoping to feel full and properly "treated"... before diving into the chocolate chip cookie pizza and having a brownie. Then adding a few mini snickers and milky ways. DH buys those for DM90. And she loves them. I can usually resist them. Or have one or two without causing a landslide binge.
• Exercise. Didn't do it. Total steps 2,182.
• Digital Detox. Didn't do nearly enough time-outs. But I did do some. And I slept with Netflix.
Yesterday was a strange day. I felt off all day. Overwhelmed with tasks I "should" do. Frustrated with the sleep schedule here. Mine and DH's and actually DM's. I'm getting into bed before midnight - but not sleeping. Time for a talk with DH.
Today is Sunday. My day for reflection. To refocus myself. To plan my direction for the week. I'm forgiving myself and moving forward. I've felt both lazy and overwhelmed and incredibly proud and accomplished all at the same time this week. Very confusing. But... it's a balancing act and some areas of my life need more attention. (Sleep schedule!) So, I'll work on those this week.
I'll pop back later. Have a great day folks.
-- Ginger in Texas3 -
Aftenoon ladies.
Hugs Beth. You can only do what you can. And it that is what you do, you have done your best.
We have had quite a few yard sales in our days. They are fun and help get rid of stuff and things in your home. I have had really good ones and some mediocre ones. My sister and Mom would always join me. My sister would do nothing to prepare her items for sale and they wouldn't sell at all or people would try to get her down to a really low price. Mom knew how to price and how to bargain. She grew up during the depression and knew the value of a dollar. Mainly they are fun. You meet all sorts of new people. But the set up and clean up is the one part i hate the most. One time I went to a sale inside a house but no one lived there. I think it ws parents who had died and they were selling everything so that they didn't have to move it themselves. They had some one in every room to make sure no one came in and tried to steal. One thing I would always sell was ice cold water or soft drinks for $1. Made a lot of money off that. I also had a free box and as things didn't sell during the day, would add things to them. Several days ago some one said they bought racks from a store that had gone out of business. We used ladders with a pole set between them. I don't think I could ever do another one though. Just to much work for the money you make.
Easter baskets. Have meant to write this for several days. We did the typical baskets when our girls were little. As they grew, I did scavenger hunts through the house, some clues even outside. The final clue would end up where the basket was. When Michelle was younger than Christina and couldn't read, I would start her out with a colored shape which she had to find and the next colored shape would be there. When they were teenagers, I didn't hide things though but still gave them 'baskets'. But the basket would be something they could use. One year the 'basket' was a shower caddy for christina and for Michelle got a big CD case and I had the partitions in half of it and put something special in it.
I think I have told the 'old' ones in here about my sexual abuses. They don't bother me now. The only thing tthat bothered me about them when they happened, besides the fact I felt violated, was that I felt I couldn't talk about it. One man was a pillar in our state Southern Baptists and a very good friend to my parents and any other pastor I might feel I could talk to. The other was my Mom's uncle. The first one happened when I went up to Indianapolis to take my nursing state boards. I had my hotel reservations but it was going to be a long evening so my parents asked this couple if they could have me over that evening before i took my exams. When the man took me back to the hotel, he gave me a hug when I got to the hotel. Now I had many hugs by this guy through the years so that wasn't anything unusual for me. But them he wanted to keep me there and hands became groping. I held this in my heart for years. Southern Baptists had an annual offering in his name and on this one Sunday they were telling all the wonderful things this man had done in his years in Indiana and what good this offering would be. After church, I went in the church office, closed the door and told my pastor why it was so hard for me to listen to all of that. Throughout my years in that church, my preacher told me of other women who finally had the courage to do the same thing I did. They dropped that offering. my parents died never knowing of this. The other was Mom's brother. We would go tot their farm in southern Illinois and he would take us around their farm on his tractor. Of course the only place to ride at that time was the drivers lap. Years later when I told my sister, she said he groped her also. Mom never knew.
Had a wonderful time yesterday. Am paying for it today but that's OK. We got to this burger joint that Christina told her hubbie that she wanted to eat at for lunch and we got their 10 minutes earlier so we could get the table set up, the wheelchair all decorated and then meet her outside when they drove up. She had an inkling something was up for that auspicious occasion of a 40th birthday but didn't know what all it would be and that ehr sister was coming. I got some caution tape that said 'caution, having midlife crisis' and made a sash out of that, got a tiara that had a big 40 on it, black balloons tied on the wheel chair and was there to meet her. After dinner we jsut hung out at her house then had supper and came home. We left at 8 and got home at 10 PM. I had to do our pill keepers so finally got my mind settled down at midnight then up this morning for church.
We are going through a new plan for home and auto insurance after getting a non-renewal letters for both. Surprise, surprise!
big hugs all around, Joyce, Indiana
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Chris in MA - Thank you for sharing your story. So proud of you for lifting yourself up. Way to go!. Yes, writing it down and having someone to share with does help. This is such a supportive group of women.
Off to work for a few hours - volunteering this time. Will check back in later.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Paula Y.2 -
After reading all about your art, and seeing some wonderful examples, thought I would show you some of the art m grand daughters did for their Moms birthday. Trinity is 15 and drew one panel and is till working on the other two which she will. Give later. Ellie is the creative one, you never know what she will come up with. She took one of their favorite pictures as a family, had it laminated and then drew it on a piece of cardboard that she had covered the entire back of it with duct tape. She then cut it all in pieces as a jigsaw puzzle and put it in a box she decorated with finger nail polish. She wrote a nice verse she made up. She then took another piece of cardboard and took the word mother and made a word for each letter . I hope they all show up on the pictures. Here goes
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Lisa: I love your peacock painting. You have many talents & one of them is a way with words. I'm going to remember crapweasel. I hope you and Corey enjoy your adventure between jobs. :flowerforyou:
Carman from OK: Welcome! :bigsmile:
Lanette: We have taken things to Goodwill, too. When we got our new refrigerator a couple of years ago we couldn't find a place to donate the old one and I was sad about that. The old one worked fine, but we wanted a larger one. :ohwell: The mattress we replaced recently was accepted by our local Habitat for Humanity group. They will sell it cheaply & someone will have a spot to sleep because of that. Walking shoes were a problem for me, too. I wear boat shoes, sandals or hiking boots most of the time. I have some dressy knee-high boots that get to come out of the box for fancier occasions. I love your inspirational message.
Beth: I am so sorry about your knee. I can understand anger and frustration. I have a bad knee, too. It is the final straw that led me to find this website and lose weight. Don't play the self-blame game. You are not at fault. My first resort in a situation like this is ICE or ACE--ibuprofen+ice+elevation or aspirin+ice+elevation. Take care of yourself. (((HUGS)))
abhamilton: Welcome!
Pip: I love your Airstream. Thanks for the interior photos. The second photo is full of great ideas.
Tomorrow is the first day of work on replacing the insulation under our house that was damaged/destroyed by raccoons. The access hatch to get under the hosue is in the floor of my pantry, so we have removed the contents of the shelf that is just above the hatch and tucked them away further back in the space under the stairs. We've been told the pest control company has a work crew of people of very short stature who fit into small spaces. I'll take photos if I can. I couldn't go under there without a claustrophobia panic attack and I'm grateful I don't have to try.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn
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Pip - your Airstream is very nice! I see all the cushy spots where your pupsters will get to relax. Will you and Kirby get to bunk on the table? LOL. Sometimes at our house between 2 cats and the dog and DH, I'm left without a place to sit in the living room. Generally one of the cats gets bumped.
That checkerboard counter and little lampshade - so cute!
Hey Ginger, that snack devil
grabbed me too the last couple nights - almost the exact same MO as what hit you! Today I decided to really take some time to outsmart him....he (evil twin of Little Debbie!) was trying his stuff after lunch (I had a light one - wasn't very hungry at noon). I quickly made a low-carb muffin, ate half while it was steamy and hot....YUM! Followed with a small apple and cup of tea. That sent the little rat back into his hole.
Wish I could get Katla's pest control here to take him out once and for all, but they don't do brain surgery. Best I can do is just try to retrain him I reckon. I'm going out for a walk in the sunshine.... it's around 60 right now and 80 in the greenhouse. Tomatoes are smiling.
Later super models!
Lanette
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Lenora - Denise did something like Trey did when she was about 3 or 4. She took a pack of gum and was eating it. When I found out, I took her right back to the store and the clerk said to me "that's OK" I would NOT take that, she had to give it back (even if all the store did was throw it out). Then I made her take all her allowance and give it to the Salvation Army. A few years later she was at a party and told me how this one boy had taken something and should she say something. Well, since his mother was there, I told her not to say anything. I didn't want her to get a reputation as a "snitch". But she still remembered what happened to her when she took that gum.
Michele in NC
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FourLynne - welcome. Tell us more about yourself. You'll get lots of encouragement here, that's for sure
Michele in NC
Thanks for the welcome, Michele. So, to share a bit more about myself. I am 54 years of age, and I am married. We have six grown children, and four grandchildren (all boys). We live in Maryland. I don't seem to ever have time for hobbies, so I have interests. If I had time, I would love to get back in touch with my creative side: writing, photography, drawing/art. I would also like to travel and see as many of the states, as possible. We have been to a few. As far as activity, my top three likes are walking/hiking, swimming and biking. Unfortunately, with my current knee issues, it has limited me. I have been overweight for many years, but its now starting to impact me from a physical standpoint. Knee surgery and knee problems and high blood pressure. I weigh 234lbs, but I would like to weigh 145-150lbs. So, its time ... past time for me to get my stuff together and get healthy.3 -
Pip - your Airstream is very nice! I see all the cushy spots where your pupsters will get to relax. Will you and Kirby get to bunk on the table? LOL. Sometimes at our house between 2 cats and the dog and DH, I'm left without a place to sit in the living room. Generally one of the cats gets bumped.
That checkerboard counter and little lampshade - so cute!
Hey Ginger, that snack devil grabbed me too the last couple nights - almost the exact same MO as what hit you! Today I decided to really take some time to outsmart him....he (evil twin of Little Debbie!) was trying his stuff after lunch (I had a light one - wasn't very hungry at noon). I quickly made a low-carb muffin, ate half while it was steamy and hot....YUM! Followed with a small apple and cup of tea. That sent the little rat back into his hole.
Wish I could get Katla's pest control here to take him out once and for all, but they don't do brain surgery. Best I can do is just try to retrain him I reckon. I'm going out for a walk in the sunshine.... it's around 60 right now and 80 in the greenhouse. Tomatoes are smiling.
Later super models!
Lanette
SW WA State
We r not retiring until 4 more years. Bullwinkle will b 12 this next month and Floyd will b 8 so in 4 more years, more than likely the only one that will b left is yogi and he is the smallest of the 3. We plan on removing the dinette area for more room
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