WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017

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  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Karen VA- thanks for the picture of Olivia she is adorable!
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,466 Member
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  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    Karen in VA ~ Your granddaughter's picture and letter were so sweet. I am sad about the little ducks. Olivia is beautiful.

    Re ~ Congrats on your success. Keep up the good work.

    Carol
  • thingeringer
    thingeringer Posts: 241 Member
    Goals? What a novel idea! Maybe that's what I needed for motivation. Newbie or possibly returning group member. Still maintaining a 40 lb weight loss after 4 years - but it used to be 50, so need to diligent. Gale (WY)
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,466 Member
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  • megblair1
    megblair1 Posts: 1,226 Member
    Hi friends. I am a nervous Nellie today because DH has an appointment with the attorney at 5:30 tonight. He thinks it is to discuss bargaining strategies but I am worried the lawyer already has the best deal he could get and we will be left to say yes or no. My stomach is in knots.

    I need an ultrasound; had a bit of bleeding. My doctor tried an endometrial biopsy yesterday without much success (lots of scarring there) so that is the next step.

    Dana: I hope you are safe in all the storms.

    TNToni: what a mess! How can an insurance company decide what dose of drug to be on?

    Heather: I think I missed your story about the outburst but I hope it works out in the end.

    Becca: I agree with Lisa! Hubby may set a new fashion trend. Sending get well wishes!

    Peach: omg what a cutie in that tie!

    Lenora: I am so glad in this house we have a concrete back porch instead of wood. I got so tired of power washing, refinishing and staining it!

    Joyce: I loved your quilting story…so sweet

    Karen: sending you (((hugs))). The baby is a doll.

    Jag: welcome to our group!

    Katla: power washing is so tiring! See above…I am so happy with my concrete patio!

    Sharon: I agree with you! These people are not helpful! I called to get a new GYN and was told she is not taking new patients, so I asked who else could see me (this in a practice of 10) and was told “I really don’t know”. Good grief.

    Re: good plan! Congrats on reaching onederland!

    Grandmallie: maybe your nightmare was about stress?

    DJ: Welcome back! I’m glad you had a wonderful time

    OK well it’s time to get to work! Have a good day all. Take care, Meg from Omaha


  • lhannon062709
    lhannon062709 Posts: 1,140 Member
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  • pitegny
    pitegny Posts: 1,006 Member
    Morning everyone. It is French taxes day for me so I will be quick.

    Re: Congratulations on make onederland!

    Sharon: I think it is wrong that people cannot freely choose their own doctors. Finding one you can relate to is so important to the health process!

    Welcome to everyone who is new!

    - Leigh in France
  • DanaReel180
    DanaReel180 Posts: 463 Member
    Good morning!
    More rain is forecast for Arkansas. OMG, it has been raining for 2 days! We had lightning all day yesterday. It was crazy! The TV dish was knocked off and on but is back on. NE Arkansas is flooding badly. A levee broke in several places so it's bad. Even down here where we are hilly there was flooding. :(

    Lanette I love your Bee picture! Those AWW are downright mean creatures. I was stung underneath my arms when I moved a hanging basket not knowing the little AWW's where hiding out in it! They really hurt!!
    I hope you get your A/C repaired quickly. We have ceiling fans in every room of the house, so with some iced tea and a breeze 80* feels like heaven!!

    GaleWY Welcome back! Sounds like you have been maintaining fairly well!

    KarenVA Baby Olivia is so precious! Very squeezable!! Love, love, love!

    Kelly Homemade pretzels sound so yummy! I guess you make them from bread dough?

    Have a great day, I'm posting a picture of Dolly looking towards the woods.
    Much love, Dana in Arkansas
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  • csofled
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    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    Re in TX
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,857 Member
    edited May 2017
    Hi all,
    Katla - Our vendor has made an offer on a place she likes and is being pressurised by their agents. She has been incredibly patient, but needs to sell. For the moment she is holding out for us. DH rang our agents to tell them to get their finger out. Sorry about the bossy busybody. <3

    Just paid the balance on our August cruise :o and booked the same table we had as last year. :D

    Re - Fantastic job! Make sure you reward yourself <3

    Meg - (((HUGS)))

    I went out to lunch in my red dress and told my nice friend I did not want to have any more reunions with my difficult friend. She was quite upset, but I have to protect myself. I am simply not able to put up with her self deceiving nonsense. The nice friend had emailed the difficult friend explaining why we find her difficult and suggesting she went for therapy. The reply was a tirade, as expected. My nice friend's view is that she is really quite mentally disturbed and we should ignore it or try to help. I don't feel able to do either right now.
    I managed to eat two slimming salads and had one preplanned small spritzer. One and a half units. My stickers arrived today, so I think that merits a smiley. :) My gold stars for AF days haven't arrived yet. :(

    My elder son is still anxious and depressed. His only comfort is the dogs. Feel a bit helpless there. :'( He seems to be getting more circumscribed in his lifestyle. No job, no money etc.

    Sea bass and asparagus tonight.

    I got my whole 600 calories exercise in this morning, but stressed my arm in the process. Grrrrrrrrrr! It is taking me well over 2 hrs without the rower. I burnt 50 calories walking to and from the polling station to cast my vote for the local council election.

    Heather in Hampshire UK , feeling a bit frustrated. XXXXXXXX


  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    edited May 2017
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    RE hooray the you made it to Onederland!!! That's awesome! Very proud of you!
    DJ Glad you had a great time on your Birthday Cruise! We have missed you! ((((Hugs)))))!!!
    Well husband can take off pressure bandage later today, then we can view the wound. He's hurting but says its not too bad.
    Today I have nothing planned.....and the foggy day will suit me just fine.
    Have a good day y'all!
    Becca
    Oregon
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Sharon – The breast shields that is what I thought you were talking about and no I don’t think I could use one that had an opened box or package. I nursed both my boys; but, I found that because I leaked at the sound any child crying I would leak a lot and they’d pull apart and stick to my breasts. I finally bought a box of men’s handkerchiefs and folded them and stuck them down I my bra. I had enough milk that I could have nursed twins without any problems. When I took a hot shower, that would also cause me to 'let down'. Funny to see as it comes out in a whirlwind, like one of those things that twirls around with the wind that is a child's toy.

    YEAH! The sound of rain on my roof! We certainly need it. It could rain like this for a good while and we’d end up still short of getting our water tables in this area.

    Walk to the mail box, provided it is at the street, park close to the grocery store and then when you feel better about that park your car one over (if you can find a spot), continue doing that [of course, I am assuming you are not wheelchair bound].

    Louis’ Urologist is taking a medical leave; and, that was the best thing that ever occurred to him; he had a procedure (about the 8th or more) and he felt comfortable with his new MD. When he told him that the last time his regular Urologist had done the procedure when he was wide awake. He should have done it while he was asleep, regardless of anything he might have eaten, or schedule it for the next day.

    I had the same problem, which is ongoing, my Neurologist moved to Atlanta and her partner could not take on any more patients, so the hospital hired one, part-time. I can’t stand his nurse, she is rude to be honest. He is a bit ‘quirky’ himself; but, the last time I went he spend a lot more time with me and ordered a MRI, without contrast. After 3 weeks of not hearing from them, I called to see if they had gotten the results. She read them off but gave no other information; and, while I had asked to have them sent to my GP that never got done. So I went over and got them myself. Same with records to our insurance carrier, never mailed to the company that does their copying, so she went up there and got them, showing them the release I had signed for them to send them. They gave her a number to call and they said they had not received a request; but, apparently they were looking under the wrong name. Tell your children who are having babies or grandbabies to never name a girl something that the first name isn’t what they call them, it will make for a lot of irritation if they do.

    When you take the time to listen to a little on you will be surprised at the things they will tell you, being a grandmother – it is easier for them to ‘be themselves’, especially if you don’t interrupt them.

    Re – Our DOGD has gained the “Freshman 15” every year she’s been at college; and, on a 5’nothing frame it is not a pretty sight; but, now she is eating healthier – thank goodness. Congrats on getting to Onederland!

    Kate UK - Hopefully they will put you in ‘la-la-land’ or maybe it is just that you will have to drink some awful, thick stuff to have them do repeated x-rays to see how it is going down. I can’t remember why I had that done (maybe acid reflex).

    Karen in Virginia – Pix of Olivia is so cute; it is difficult to see that she ever spent time in NICU.

    Lanette – Our house faces West; so we get the afternoon hot sun; this AM I have my French doors to the porch open … it isn’t using any A/C from the house and it is actually cooler out there than in the house. Since you face south, you never get a break from the sun. My studio faces south; but, with French Doors and a porch, I have enough light to paint; but, I wish it had been built behind the tree on the other side of the driveway and that I had had a bank of windows facing north; but, nobody asks me what I want anymore. So now, I voice what I want to do or get and it has been working so far. For once (again) we are now ‘debt-free’, little retirement amount; but, I expect that our DYS would help us out financially if we ever needed him to. He paid the last $2500 to pay off the FASFA loan I had gotten when he started school. I asked and he gladly obliged. DOS won’t ever be able to financially help either of us; but, he will be the one who checks on us physically as long as we are able to stay in our house.

    One of our neighbors has planted tomatoes this year; his wife died right before the season finished a couple of years ago; so he called them “Sarah’s Tomatoes” and sold what few he felt like picking. His bushes look wonderful! So, hopefully with this rain we’re getting today, they will make a lot of tomatoes. He does had a watering system and doesn’t have weeds to contend with since he puts plastic down around them.

    Carpenter bees look like the Bumblebee; but like the *kitten* with Wings, they don’t have any fuzz on them. If you live in a wood-sided house, they can eat holes in them. Thankfully, our bug man sprays them. Shooting the stuff up in the hole, so if there is one in there, they die; or they won’t come back to the hole. Sometimes Louis will shoot brown caulk in them; because it won't show as they bore their holes in the bottom of the wood. Our problem with our grapes is 2 years ago, the deer found them. Now we’ve got to do something to deter them. Louis bought some stuff that has human urine in it. That is supposed to help. I guess we will see.

    thingringer – It is a lot easier to set achievable goals such as 10lbs at a time; then reward yourself with a NSV – such as clothes, shoes, art supplies, or anything you enjoy doing. Let us know what you prefer to be called, a location (general or specify) and something about yourself and family and hobbies.

    Dana – Dolly is ‘cute’. Does that sign say: Bigfoot area? Is that an area that will never be built on? We had that in Albany, about 15 acres of a wetland behind our house. All the neighborhood boys played out there. One year I came home and someone had a fire going and it was pretty large; I walked back there in my work clothes and found that the older teens (15) were having a party and smoking. I called the Fire Department and reamed these boys out, because they had been running off the younger kid; and, told them that there was probably 2 or 3 million dollars’ worth of houses that backed up to the woods and it was too dry to be having a fire. One of the boys begged me not to tell his parents and I told him it would not be something I did; the firemen would. They got sufficiently reprimanded and they never came back. So Louis and a couple of other Dads of the younger ones went out and dug a ditch all the way around the place they could burn and it also gave them a place to sit down.

    If anyone could go ‘kick her @$$’ – Pip would and could do it. Or run over her with her bike.

    Heather – One thing I have found out to be true; is you sometimes have to prevent or remove yourself from a stressful relationship. Sounds like this lady does have some mental issues. That is what prevents me from having a decent relationship with DDnL#1 – she can be so critical of everybody, including my son. But, she also gets involved with friends and family and I have told her that I would ‘kick her @$$ if she ever posted anything about us; and, I had ways of finding out about it, too. Louis and I don’t understand ‘how she knows the things she does’; but, apparently they aren’t willing to stop putting their personal business out there for all to see.
    Our DOS and DDnL#1 filed for bankruptcy and had a ‘huge’ fight about it a few weeks back. She was upset that ‘everybody thought it was because of her’ and son said, ‘basically, it is’. Actually, both of them were, she for not paying bills she had maxed out; and, him for not stopping her. Quitting her job without saying anything to him until he came home that afternoon was pretty much a ‘stupid’ thing to have done. She had talked about quitting and I had told her ‘not until you have another one to go to the following Monday’. She went without a pay check for a little more than 4 months; and, they took one helluva hit because of it.

    Lenora
  • tngram2seven
    tngram2seven Posts: 465 Member
    Hi there!

    Been to another deep water class. The teacher on Thursday loves doing all cardio so it was a great workout. My doctor is working on the prescription issue. Meanwhile I have 2 weeks of pills (paid for by insurance) Time will tell if they let me keep my sanity or not. Had a wonderful conversation with my son. He and DDIL are wanting to be supportive and helpful. Helping me with house clean out, selling some antiques/old fashioned treasures, and helping me move if that ends up my decision. They are so tender hearted. I have never burdened him with problems like this before but this one is so major he needed to know. I'm glad I told him. He just wants me "to be happy". Right now I don't know what could ever bring me happiness. It seems so impossible right now!

    Oh, my I sound as gloomy as the Tennessee weather today!

    Lanette - appreciate the bee pictures.

    Re - Yeah for you! Congrats!

    Dana - Dolly is a doll.

    Katla - sorry about the landscaping situation. Pip's got your back!

    Heather - too bad hubby's cricket event didn't go as planned for him,

    Meg - thinking of you and hoping your health situation is resolved soon.

    DJ - I missed you. Welcome back!

    Working today 4-9. Hope all of you have a wonderful day.

    TNToni



  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,857 Member
    edited May 2017
    Thank you all for your support. I hate upsetting my nice friends and I do care about my difficult friend, but I am choosing, right now, not to be around her.
    I spent some time on Google looking up "tax exile " and the result of a recent judgement in court on the matter. There should be "a distinct break from social and family ties in the UK" and "the UK should not be the centre of gravity of his life and interests". Well, he lives in Gibraltar, (a tax haven), but buying property in the UK in the names of his wife and children does not seem to me to be compliant.
    DH had a long chat with me about it and I realised that my blow up with my friend was to do with the fact that her behaviour and thwarted reasoning reminded me of my mother. I used to blow up at my mum occasionally because she was such a moaner and so illogical about it. (Plus of course I blamed her for all the abuse I suffered) I can't stand to hear people moaning on and then never doing anything to change things, let alone being associated with dodgy characters and being blind to it.
    I will just say to my friends that, for the moment, I don't have it in me to be peaceable around her. Life changes all the time, so who knows about the future.

    It's all pretty exhausting, but I haven't had another drink, nor gone over my calories, despite eating a posh lunch. o:):D

    My cleaner's father collapsed just as she was about to come here and she's gone off with him to hospital. Don't know how he's doing. I've known her for six years so we are quite close.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
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