WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2017

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  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Dr. Katie: I love your wedding picture! My wedding was at the Oregon Coast in a public park where we overlooked the ocean and whales were going by. I wore a dress my mom made for me, and I still have it somewhere. It was March 21, 1970, during the first Saturday of spring break and we were given the gift of absolutely gorgeous weather. My cat was there on a leash, and the photographers brought their dog. DMIL brought us baby clothes and furniture. My husband was furious. The baby she was sure I was carrying was born six years later. :wink:


    Thank you to everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes. Pip, I like the idea of barking if I want to. I've had a great day so far. DH took me to the County Fair and we had a good day watching 4H horsemanship, seeing plants, quilts, bunnies & chickens, and doing all the fun things at a fair. I even ate an Elephant Ear and I'll be sure to say within my calories despite it. :heart:

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dan11Nil7Vs/Svr5rxH4o2I/AAAAAAAAxc0/4bxLqZNKTzo/s640/202a-cemetery-fort-stevens.jpg
    This is the Fort Stevens military cemetery that husband wishes to be at. As his wife, I can too. Interestingly enough its also where we are to report to if there is a tsunami! We both want to be cremated, just have a get together with friends and reminisce.
    Becca
    Oregon
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Machka – Do you have a room that you could use one wall as an accent wall and hang up your bikes and other biking stuff? Just a thought. On “Fixer Upper” they took an old rusty bike and cut some of the parts in ½ and hung it up on the wall in the study. It was a most unusual art piece.

    Next year when I get the chairs paid off, we’ll find a sofa; but, will have the same problem of finding one that fits us (not too deep or too high). I’ve sat on some really ‘cute’; but, totally ‘miserable’ sofas in the store. A sofa bed by LazyBoy fits and it would be able to be used as a 3rd room for sleeping especially when Will, Tami, and Mallory come; or if the kids come over to ‘ride out a storm’. I will probably get something with a pattern or texture since all the other chairs ‘look’ a solid cover but one of the platform rockers and the stool has a texture and pattern to it; and, the wingback has some texture.

    Tami planned her own wedding and bought a dress (beautiful) for $125. A lot of her co-workers did a lot of other things to help them out. Her BF, in the wedding, took all the posed pictures, and, someone else was taking casual ones. The only thing they did not get a picture of was of them on their first dance or his dance with Mallory (who walked her Mama down the aisle and ‘joined’ them in marriage (she did not ‘give’ her away. She did have a hardback book of wedding pictures made up and gave it to us the following Christmas. Of course, that was when I was at my heaviest and I had on ‘flats’ after the wedding because the ground was so soggy I could not walk in heels. Will’s BF from college and Trey were his only grooms and I don’t think that Trey was the best man.

    Lanette and Becca – In HS, my sister and the others in the ‘drama club’ put on “Arsenic and Old Lace” but, for the life of me I can’t remember what it was about. I do remember that sister brought in one of her ‘teacup services’ and Maria (the one who lied like a dog all the time) dropped it (on purpose). She was like that, and would act all innocent about things. At least it wasn’t one of Margaret’s most prized one. She collected antique teacup services in HS. Daddy and Mother bought her the prettiest mahogany china cabinet with diamond shaped glass in the doors.

    KJ – We’re also Catholic; Louis would prefer to be buried and has also told me to just put in him a ‘pine’ box. Thinking of it (death) and funeral … I know it would be less expensive to be cremated. I think I will just leave that up to Louis and the boys. Either way, my ‘soul’ isn’t going to be around; and, I have not been back to the cemetery but once, and that was when my BF from HS’s mother died. Spanky the funeral director showed me where they were buried; and, it is a cemetery where they only allow a plack. I can remember my Mother telling my oldest sister that she wanted ‘all’ her affiantions on a plack; of course, she did not get it. It’s a good thing we didn’t even know them (other than Women’s Club and DAR). When one of my first friends’ mother died, she sent me a plate that my mother had paid in china painting class and a roll of adding machine paper that was literally 5’ long, listing all the achievements for announcing her to others. OMGoodness, I would have fallen asleep before she even got to make her speech. But, it was interesting to see what all she had done since my first year in HS. Little wonder that she was rarely at home.

    My middle granddaughter’s birthday is 12/24. I was supposed to go in the labor room; but, she changed her mind. Taylor’s birth was a C-section so only 2 could be in there, Trey was one, and a friend who filmed it was the other. But, I was in when Emilee was born; but, I stayed up beside her; she got SOOOO upset with her Mama for ‘looking’ while the baby was actually being born. I thought she was going to curse her out, she kept screaming at her. She is overly ‘modest’. I remember once Trey threw the girls in the shower with her, because as he told her ‘they needed to know’ what they were going to ‘look like’ when they got mature. Boobs and pubic hair. I don’t know who was the most ‘mortified’ … she or the girls. None of them expected it.

    Becca – Acid Reflux maybe? I know that I cannot ‘eat’ one of my ‘protein bars’ at any other time than in the evening after supper with coffee. If I do, it makes me nauseous; but, I can have a shake anytime … they don’t upset my tummy.

    Karen in Virginia – I think flowers at a funeral are a waste; I want mine while I am still alive so I can ‘enjoy’ them. I rarely send the normal funeral sprays; I don’t even buy ‘cut flowers’. I will send a nice plant; but, ask that they NOT send a peace lily – you have to keep them damp all the time. Not wet, just damp to prevent them from drooping over.

    Katla – I don’t think ‘living with family’ even on a short-term basis is good. I know we lived with our son and DDnL#1 while we were building our house. Nothing I did or said was ‘right’ and Jenn *kitten* about us (especially me) being there and what she called ‘snooping’. I wasn’t snooping; all I did was put the dishes in the dishwasher and wash them and make up all the beds. Something I do at home. I could not figure out how their TVs worked (with 3 remotes) and I would call son to find out how to get it to a station. When he turned it on in the morning, that was ok; but, at noon when the ‘soap operas’ came on I was stuck. I finally cried enough that Louis had my 16’x20’ studio and we set up our king-sized bed; and stacked all the boxes that had been in storage. Had our TV set up with DirecTV, a small two-burner oven top and our coffee maker. We used my porta-potty from when I had my wreck. It was outside the door, had a lid and Louis would empty it out into the woods, wash it out, and I would go over to their house only to take a shower. We would have been tearing each other’s hair out by the roots if we had continued staying there.

    My Mother was heavy (really heavy considering she was really short); someone pulled the wool over her eyes to rent to own one of those 3-wheeled scooters. When my sister came down, she ‘flipped out’ and told mother she could NOT keep it, too unstable; and we bought her one of those rolling walkers that had a seat. We also bought/rented actually one of those recliners that would stand you up or lay you back so she was able to get into it and get out. It took us several months or working with her, so she’d stop trying to get up before it actually ‘stood her up’. I just don’t want to be a burden on my family. I know Trey (and maybe even Jenn) would come over and check on me … I’d just hate to lose my ability to drive (for any reason). Even now Louis will not let me drive on the Interstate to Macon to see one of my MDs, he takes off, we meet some of my HS friends and some of their spouses for lunch, go to Bass Pro Shop, and to the MD’s office then back home. Usually on trips he doesn’t want me to drive either. That will never change.

    I think if I was wheelchair bound, I would want one of those the make for wounded vets; the one with the movement area like on a tank.

    Both of us are donors; but, I am sure there isn’t going to be much other than my eye parts will ever be usable. I cannot even donate blood due to the issue with my first pregnancy.

    Allie – You’re just a nurse-maid for anyone who asks you. That can be good; but, you’ve been sick so you need to take care of yourself. I know it will be something you have to learn; but, occasionally you just have to ‘admit’ that you’re sick and are afraid of ‘exposing’ someone to what you have.

    The funeral director in my home town is very laid back; but, he is also the only funeral home in town, other than the black one.

    O.J. Simpson should NOT benefit from what he has been accuse of; he owes Nichole and Ron’s families millions of dollars. He should just go off and be a quiet person and not go for charging for taking selfies or signing autographs. Whoever has to be beside him to make sure he doesn’t collect without turning over the allotted percentage is going to have their hands full. I’ll be surprised if he stays ‘out of prison’ for long. At least in there he did not have to worry about paying for his upkeep. We did. If he has money put up; then someone is going to find out about it.

    Katla – We’re going to make a wide loop through NOLA and Texas before going to Will and Tami’s. Then we will spend Rosh Hashanah in Daytona Beach with sisters and spouses/SO. Both will be a lot of fun!

    Machka – Both Louis and I are drawn to ‘earthy tones’ … maybe more because he is an outdoorsman. Hunting and fishing.

    Joyce – Your house looks so much better with all that tall landscaping cut down. Is it just you and your husband living there? Sure hope y’all have a MBR on the main floor. I grew up in a 2-story house and there were 2 sets of stairs going up; both had doors so that when all of us moved out, they had a way to shut off the 2nd story; and, they had already moved their bedroom downstairs after Daddy fell UP the stairs and broke his leg.
    If I had had my way, I would have used basically the first house we bought after being transferred back to Albany because the market had exploded and it was what we could afford. We made the best out of it. It had so much charm; but, Louis did not want a 2nd story. He did not even want a ‘split-level’; I wasn’t wild about the split-level we had in Macon; but, only having a part of the house as the ‘living area’ is sure easier to keep clean/straighter when you can put stuff out of sight.

    Michele – A root beer float is the only kind I ever liked. There is just something about the mixture of root beer and vanilla ice cream.

    You basically ‘don’t have any control’ over what Denise’s soon-to-be MnL talks her into. She must be very ‘impressionable’ to go along with the things she tells her to do. Then she wants to run it by you; but, then takes her future MnL’s idea. But, at some point, maybe Denise will understand why you feel the way you do. I can’t imagine what will happen if they have a child. But, there again … that also isn’t anything you can do anything about.

    Dana – I will write down the name of Trudy’s since we will be going to Austin, TX on our vacation.

    Aw, such a cute picture of your Husband and the ‘baby’ of the house. I even wear my Cpap when I am just taking a nap. Usually, if I happen to fall asleep in my chair, I will wake up in a ‘start’ as if someone has covered my face with something. Last year, my DDnL#2 said that I scared her when I stopped breathing for more than a minutes
    Louis cracked up and could not even talk at the gravesite when his Mother died. He started with how she had driven him around on his paper route when it was raining and she did not even have a license to drive. Basically, that was a learning lesson for them. I’m sure that if his Dad had not been off in the service he would have made him take his bike anyway.

    Re – I just do not want for whoever is speaking at my funeral to take the opportunity to ‘preach’ to others. Our neighbor did that when he spoke at another neighbor’s funeral. To me, it was totally inappropriate as were his ‘comments’ about the ‘pine box’ he was in. Nobody would have even know it, if he had not made a point about him ‘choosing it’, and it wasn’t that he could not afford any better. What a prick.

    Machka – Beautiful area for a wedding; and, it isn’t important to have a bunch of people at a wedding; you’ve got great pictures and memories.

    Becca – That reminds me of the cemetery (military) one in Marietta, GA where my grandparents were buried. After they got their plots one of her friends wanted to change with her ‘so she could “see” what was going on in town’. Mimi did not mind because where she moved to could be seen from her home. Worked out for both of them. She had moved to Forsyth prior to her death; but, she was taken back to Marietta to be buried. A girl down the street that I would play with (her Dad was the overseer). It was really hilly and we’d go over and ride our bikes since he kept the gated closed for the general public. My Mimi had a nip-ups when she found out that was where we were allowed to play. But, she got over it. We could only ride in the area where he could watch what we were doing and we not allowed to get off bikes or off the roads.

    Lenora
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,570 Member
    Katla49 wrote: »
    I'm planning to go to the county fair this morning and watch the 4H kids on their horses. It seems to be an overcast day & I'm keeping my fingers crossed for relatively cool weather. DH insists that we have an elephant ear while we're there. Elephant ears will be my "birthday cake." I turned 68 today.

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    Happy Birthday ... and you're going to have to take a photo of this "elephant ear". I'm presuming it is a sweet treat, but I've never heard of it. :)

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,570 Member
    jmkmomm wrote: »
    . Muscha, just looked at your wedding album. Wow, I opened it expecting to see the traditional white dress and all. But it was a wedding celebrating who you guys are. Loved where you had it, method of transportation, just everything.

    Thanks!

    My first wedding was the whole white dress in a church with a reception in a hall after ... bridesmaids, decorated car honking through town, flowers, white crepe paper bells, multi-tier cake, etc. etc. It was relatively simple and inexpensive compared to a lot of weddings, but it was traditional.

    The one in the wedding album I linked is my second wedding. We had both been married before, and we were both older, and we really didn't want a repeat of the traditional wedding.

    He's Australian and was living in Australia then. I'm Canadian, and was living in Canada then. He was planning a visit in August 2008, and about a month before he came, he rang me up and in the course of conversation said, "Why don't we get married while I'm there." Oh ... OK. Good idea. We were planning to spend some time cycling in the Rockies so chose that as our location, and selected the specific location the day before. My mother knew that my cousin (the mayor of Banff then) was a marriage celebrant, so she called him and asked if he'd do it ... and it all just came together.

    Because we had met on a long distance cycling event in France, we cycled a century (100 miles) earlier in the day, then everyone (all 6 of us) gathered on the dock late in the afternoon for the ceremony ... then we went out to dinner in one of the restaurants in Jasper. :)

    10 days later he returned to Australia and I returned to university for the final year of my degree.


    Machka in Oz
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    Happy Birthday Katla!
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,223 Member
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  • IremiaRe
    IremiaRe Posts: 801 Member
    Happy Birthday, Katla!

    I am with you on the Elephant Ear = I would have chosen that over cake, any day.

    Hugs!!

    Re in TX
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,223 Member
    stats for the day:

    **wahoo hrm not recording :0/ **
    all apple watch-

    bike ride hm 2 gym- 11.58min, 14.7mph. 2.9mi = 95c
    Plyometrics exercises- 17.30min, 2ets of 10each, burpees, squats, running stationary lunges, single leg toe touches, ceiling to fl single leg touches, hamstring leglifts, push-ups, all 4's elbow to knee, crunches, sit-ups, pelvic lifts, reverse bicycles, leg lifts. multiple sets of 5 each leg- single leg squats and walking single leg balancing fl to ceiling = 171c
    bike ride gym 2 sumn station- 1hr 4min 59sec., 12.9amph, 13.9mi = 529c
    run sta 2 wk- 4.55min, 9.53min mi, .4mi = 57c
    run wk 2 sta- 4.32min, 9.55min mi, .4mi = 62c
    bike ride dome 2 hm- 19.20min, 8.1amph, WINDY! 2.6mi = 141c

    total cal 1054
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,185 Member
    :)Joyce, your landscaping is great and looks like it won't be a lot of work except for cutting the grass

    :)<3Katla, Happy Birthday

    :) I danced in my regular class this morning and then went to lunch with the class then practiced for two hours with the performance group

    <3 Barbie from beautiful NW Washington
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,507 Member
    Did 1-1/4 hr of Stephanie Vitorio's Body Target DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Cardio Metabolic Interval DVD (one of the new ones I got)

    Dana - what a great deal you got!

    Went to the farmer's market and got some red okra (love that), some red potatoes only because this one guy is real nice. Some tomatoes but mainly because Nancie was helping the lady. She also had a Burpee Hybrid cantaloupe. I hope that's the real sweet one I had last year. If it is, I'll get more. Wish you could freeze cantaloupe. No one is having the golden beets. Then went to WalMart Neighborhood Market since I had some time to kill and I needed to pick up Vince's prescription anyway. They had Hamburger Helper (well, it was really Tuna Helper) on sale for 25 cents and I had coupons for 75cents off three, so the soup kitchen is getting some. Then got my hair cut (in a way I wish she had cut it shorter), went to WalMart and found these packets of seeds for the shower favor that were only 20cents. I don't really care if they're good or not. At that price, why not. Then went to Sally's to get this thing that covers your curling iron so that you can put it away hot and it won't melt the wires. Then went to Aldi since Vince needed milk. They're expanding, and I guess what they're doing is when things are gone, they don't restock until they reopen.

    Home and Denise called crying. Seems she got a flat tire. She called Pete who had to leave work. Really! For a flat tire. I would think that wouldn't say much to his boss that he had to leave because his girlfriend had a flat tire. As Vince was talking to her he asked her if there was anyone she could call like a friend to come help her. He said there was absolute silence. That's one reason I wish they'd move away. So that they'd HAVE to make friends. It's OK to call us for guidance, but not be so dependent. I kept telling her it was OK to call us for advice, but she can do this. Instead she called Pete who left work. She called after he'd gotten home and we could tell in her voice that she was much calmer. Really? For a flat? Welcome to the real world, things like that happen to everyone. Then she was all upset because they put the donut on and (of course) it "felt funny driving it". Yea, that's because you have the donut on. Oh, well, poor girl.

    A friend is coming over tomorrow (I'm supposed to meet her at ACMoore) and she's going to help me make wine charms for the favor bag. She also showed me this wine cork keychain that shouldn't be hard to make. I need to go to Sam's, I want to try their London Broil, get the cheese and crackers for the shower bag, I'll get the mints, too. I'm thinking that I'll just look at the Salvation Army for wine glasses. Hey, no one needs to know that they came from the Salvation Army! And a glass is a glass, if it'll save me more money, why not?

    I need to put the root coloring on my roots. Well, she washed my hair today when I got it cut so I should probably wait a day or so.

    machka - what a beautiful area you got married in!

    Heather - one good way to get over a fear is to just do it! I know from experience

    katla - happy birthday!

    DJ - when you have a dinner at the Moose, is there usually a theme? You have to tell me about this California Dreamin' theme dinner. Do they have decorations and all?

    okiewoman - we're always taking new people who want to join us. Just jump right in.

    everyone's wedding sounds so great

    Lenora - a good friend of ours recently passed and she received a lot of flowers. What her husband did was after the service, he sent all the flowers to the hospice where she had been.

    Had dinner then went to Sam's club, got these cheese and crackers and some nuts to put in the shower bags along with a London Broil. I think it'll be pretty good. Angus beef. I just wish they didn't sell such large quantities. Well, we'll cook it and if it's as good as I think it'll be, I'll give some to Jess to take home. While I was at Sam's I met someone from ceramics and she suggested that chocolates would go well with wine. So I went to WalMart (yes, again) and got 3 bags of Dove and soft mints. The only size of mints they had at Sam's was 350 and there's no way I would use that many. So I have everything (I think) for the bags. Now to make the charms and the keychain and buy the bags. A friend at ceramics works at Hobby Lobby so I'll ask her how much she can get them for.

    Michele in NC
  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,090 Member
    Happy birthday, Katla!
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    Joyce    : Your house looks really good! So happy for you.

    Our wedding was in Waimea Falls Park, a botanical garden on the North Shore of Oahu. B) We were poor and there wasn't any parental support, so we only invited one girlfriend, and another couple who happened to live near the park. Literally just enough to legally witness. Fortunately for us, one guest was a photographer, so we have exquisite photos of us surrounded by waterfalls and tropical foliage. :smiley: My girlfriend took the liberty of renting a Lincoln towncar to drive us there, bought the cake and champagne and got us to the airport to catch our flight to Kauai for our weekend honeymoon. Of course in typical Hawaiian fashion, our simple off the rack attire was augmented by fragrant flower leis.

    As I write this it occurs to me that Waimea Falls Park would be a lovely and spiritual place to scatter my cremated ashes. I have asked that my organs be donated. I have also asked my family to have a seance every year on my birthday so I can visit from beyond. :D

    Stay well friends. We can do this.

    Rori
    Colorado Foothills

  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
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  • DanaReel180
    DanaReel180 Posts: 463 Member
    edited July 2017
    Marcelyn OMG! Your story about the caskets being loaded up with ice had me laughing!!

    When my Aunt's MIL died, she was embalmed and put into a casket but they were 100 miles away from the church and cemetery. So my Uncle, in order to save money, drove the casket in the back of their station wagon to my Grandma's house to spend the night. When my parents went over to my Grandmas house the next morning, there it was parked in the driveway!! At least they threw a tarp over it! I can't imagine keeping my mother in the driveway overnight!

    When my Dad died, my mom had him cremated. She didn't want to pick up the urn, so I had to. It was kind of weird. So I strapped him in on the front seat next to me! I kept him at my house until we drove him from Austin to Ft. Sam Houston Natl Cemetery in San Antonio for the services. My mom wasn't there when he passed either. She left after last rites. I had to run after her.

    So much on death and dying! Eh?

    A giant tree roach (3" long) was walking on the ceiling tonight!! He was way up there, about 10' up so I sprayed hornet spray on him. He flew off behind the TV. Still haven't found him! I might have to wash the wall down tomorrow. Bummer!

    Have a good evening!
    Dana in Arkansas
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Our wedding, although it was a traditional white church wedding was small, we had an attendant each. Charlies best friend wore his Air Force dress as did Charlie wore his Nav dress for his. My sister wore a nice long dress. It was weird, it had a shirt veil which she kep up all the time. Very small reception in our fellowship hall church free, reception hall free. We did have a proffesional photographer which I am glad of. I think it was his cheapest package. Main problem was with the dress. Wedding on Sarurday, we went to pick up the dress of Frisay. It wasn't there. We had taken it out for my engagement pictures but took it back for storage. They finally found it. The same day we went to our local civic center to pick up the license. It was CLOSED! Tha meant no wedding on Saturday. Panic mode. But we knew a friend that knew a friend that new a friend that was running for city clerk that year. She got at least 2 more votes from us since she opened the civic center just for us to pick them up. Let's see. My Dad left his best suit and dress shoes so he had to go out shopping. Did he do that on purpose????

    Well I have family in town because my sister and my sister in law from out of town are all going to a women's conference Friday evening and Saturday morning. So they decided we would have a nice lunch at Golden Corral. I am glad I gave a huge salad first.

    Bathroom is done. It is small so we only got a quart of paint. The full gallon took care of the bedroom. But it wasn't enough for the bathroom. We could let it go, Charlie says it is fine with him. But it needs some touch up. Plus Michelle accidentally pulled a towel rack off the wall so more sparkling. We only have a few more of my project list to do. When my brother came over today, I told him all the projects we had left and he did not volunteer himself so I didn't ask. It sure would hel thou. Michelle is making sure I sit down she can't do that with her Dad. He won't obey.

    Michelle I feel so sorry for you. You and your hubby should just elope from this wedding and take a trip.

    Joyce, indiana
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,683 Member
    edited July 2017
    I'm awake very early with estate agent business on my mind. The original buyers are still pressing, so the estate agent has been calling us. I do not want to go ahead with the sale and start the business of looking for places all over again. I am more than content in this house. But I don't want to pay the cancellation fee. :o:*
    We said if we didn't call back by midday today then it was finished. If I feel so disturbed by this small amount of pressure, then it's not right for us at the moment.

    I did a bit of memoir yesterday while DH was out. That is the most important thing at the moment.

    I will probably do my roots today. They are looking quite grey.

    I'm doing some historical reading for my cruise. The history of the Baltic is fascinating. I've read all about the Baltic States. My latest book is Ghosts of the Shore. It's about the part of the North German coast where our ship is docking in the old East Germany. Terrible tragedies of bombing and torpedoing of refugees etc. at the end of WW 2. Some by us. I shall be thinking of those lives lost as we sail past. We dock at Wismar. I am now 43% fluent in German. :laugh: I hope to be able to buy a cup of coffee. :D The historical lectures on our last cruise were excellent, so I hope to enjoy those again.

    I cooked a big batch of steel cut oats in the IP yesterday and had 200 calories worth for a snack.I like them with just salt. I have enough for 5 more days, so some will be frozen. I also cooked tinned tomatoes to make a sauce. It was excellent. I hope to do a bigger batch soon. Had it with king prawns and peas. For me no pasta, just green beans. Think I might do the pigs cheeks today. :laugh:

    My "difficult friend" is back on the email circuit. My Portsmouth friend had to head her off at the pass when she asked to join us for our lunch next week!!! We will see her in September to have lunch in Winchester and inspect the new mansion they bought with her husband's ill gotten gains. My Glasgow friend wants us to go up there for our next reunion. In some ways I think I could handle that better as it's in her home and her husband is there, being a charming host. Somehow that takes the edge off her for me. Her nonsense is diffused.

    Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxx

    Welcome new lady! :drinker:
  • IremiaRe
    IremiaRe Posts: 801 Member
    July Goals for the week 7/16 – 7/22
    400 calories under budget 5X: XXXXX
    Weights/Abdominals 3X: OXX
    Planks 3X: OOX

    Hugs for Everybody!

    Re in TX
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,570 Member
    Nice lunchtime walk in the sunshine today ...

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    Nice evening walk to the beach with my husband tonight ...

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    The photos were taken on other, very similar, walks. :)
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
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  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Hello all! Happy Friday! Yesterday was a rainy morning and early afternoon, here; which was good because the kids were ready for a day to just "be". After our field trip on Wednesday, they arrived yesterday like lumps. Tired and a little grumpy. So the rain was welcome; as was the movie in the morning and a bowl of popcorn before lunch. It ended up being a quiet day with the kids resting. I had to turn the air on because it was the high 80's and very humid. It is the humidity that pushes me to close things up and turn on the air. I have a beach morning planned for the kids. It is supposed to hit 90+, high humidity again, but we will be at the lake and able to jump in the water to cool down. A fifteen minute walk (as the kids walk) back to my house and into the air conditioning. Lunch and nap. I see a great day coming!
    I have been tense and anxious for the past two/three weeks due to waiting for state payment on two of my families. They are on assistance. One family is single mom, no father support neither financially nor physically. Without warning, the state has cut her aid in half. She has two kids in my care, which means that she has to pay me $125/week for care. Usually the state will send out letters to the both of us a few weeks in advance of the change of coverage. No letters. So, I am short $500, and the mama is scrambling trying to figure out how she is going to come up with this money. I advised her to contact her caseworker to have her case reviewed again. The other family is a "divorcing" family. The mother works full time in a factory and has applied for state assistance. The dad works (sometimes). This is my newest family. Just started June 19. Two kids and I am still waiting to be paid. The total owed, so far, for this family is $1,250. So...between the two families this is a big chunk of my summer income and things are TIGHT. Anyway, I find myself pacing a lot. And carb loading. I am sure I don't pace enough to negate the carbs. Ah well, it will all work out. Just not able to do the projects that I had planned on doing this summer to prepare my house for the fall. Hopefully, I will receive payment within the next couple weeks and have August to get some of it done. Fingers crossed.
    Heather- I agree about the house/buyers. IF it is causing you anxiety; the time isn't right. I think, when the time is right, you will know and be ready and there won't be the anxiety because it will feel right and not hurried or forced. I am glad your other friends understand and commiserate with you in regards to the "one" friend. And I know exactly what you mean about her acting differently around her DH. I know many women who are that way. I am to a point. I do, tone down my "jocularity" a bit when DH and I are out together.
    Leigh- I think your weight loss journey is so inspiring! And hearing about all of the adventures you are able to be a part of due to the weight loss and just feeling better, adds to the joy!
    Happy birthday- Katla, Karen, is it Bullwinkle? or Floyd? Chrisalso just celebrated. Am I forgetting any one? Some of you hid it and put it at the very bottom of a post as if it's not important. Of course it is important! You were born, lived full lives, touching other's lives with joy, grace, and love and I for one, am happy I have gotten to know you all, even a little bit!
    New girls- Hello and welcome! Feel free to glean any and all info that you like from this wonderful group of ladies. Chime in when you feel so inclined. Tell us a little about yourselves and your journey to better health. Remember to sign your post with your name or what you would like us to call you. Remember to bookmark this site (the little star on the same line as the Women 50+). On the last day of each month, our fearless leader, Barbie will post a link to take us to the next month.
    Well, I better sign off and get the kiddos ready to walk over to the beach. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Morning, happy Friday.

    Well the orchestra committee called me, but not with the result I expected. They didn't reject me and they didn't hire me out right for the conductin gig! They are on the fence and unable to choose between me and one other guy--right??!

    That sounds really unprofessional yes??

    so they've asked if I would be willing to conduct half the season and he would do the other half season. I was quite flustered on the phone call and mumbled a few questions, kinda sounded like I still wanted the job but they would have some details to work out! Couldn't sleep last night, DH and DD think it's not worth the trouble. I feel I have don't have the committee's full confidence and would be micromanaged/under a microscope for the whole time I worked there. Chime in please! I don't need the money, I wanted the experience as a potential side gig I could continue for many years to come in retirement. I feel like the runner up---second fiddle (pun intended) and am leaning on saying thanks but no thanks. I'm waiting for the weekend to stew on it and talk with another colleague. Also, who knows, the other candidate might say no and then it's all mine (but without their 100% backing). Yuck, not easy. So I'm hanging on Eleanor's words again "no one can Make you feel inferior without your consent"

    I am going for a long hot walk to the gym this morning to push through the stress.

    NYKAREN
  • jennyf55
    jennyf55 Posts: 24 Member
    edited July 2017
    Joyce: Although I don't know you, I have some advice. If your Vet does in fact declaw your cat, find a new Vet because any Vet that will do it now days should have his license revoked. It's not really a matter of removing the cat's "claw"s, they remove all the cat's finger's up to the first knuckle joint. How would you fair in life if someone removed the front thirds of your fingers? This is very painful and torturous. Why not just clip the cat's claws short and keep them that way. Training goes a long ways.
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,683 Member
    NY KAREN - What a difficult situation! I don't have any advice other than to sit on it for a while and go with your best instincts. <3

    KJ - I realise my post isn't clear. It's my Glasgow friend that has the husband, not the difficult friend. Now the DF is throwing spanners in the works re dates etc so I am already feeling really annoyed! Can I really stand her for 2 days.? I'm not sure. >:)

    I'm ploughing on with washing my sofa cushion covers. The ones I have done look good. (It is a big sofa) Then to have a go at washing DH's sofa covers, which have never been washed. He has had it 27 years. He eats dinner on it every day. :o:|:*

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • pitegny
    pitegny Posts: 1,006 Member
    NYKaren: It sounds like glass half full, glass half empty. I think it is flattering. Obviously there are two excellent candidates and each of you is good enough that they could not bear to lose you. I think I would say yes, but be sure that the contract you sign gives you full control. It is a hard decision.
  • terewilliams
    terewilliams Posts: 337 Member
    I've been watching "My 600 Pound Life" for motivation and I've picked up some good reminders...portion control...elimination of carbs...the importance of exercise no matter how little I think it is. My asthma and the heat do not work well together so I am working out with the Wii keeping in mind that I must exercise and control my portions. I hate not going to the gym but have to be realistic about what I am physically able to do.

    NYKaren: It is nice to be able to make a decision based in part on whether or not I needed the money. I vote for doing it if it is what you want to do! Don't turn this into a could have...should have....situation. I also agree with Pitegny make sure that the contract you sign is what you want. In the long run it may be that you wouldn't want it full time. It sure sounds like a lot of committment to me! It's different from what you wanted but that is not necessarily bad. For instance I am working as an hourly temporary consultant now after being laid off from a full time permanent job. So I don't get benefits. I was added onto DH's insurance policy for just $30 more per payday than I was paying and I don't get paid for holidays or vacation days. The upside is that when I don't feel able to go into the office I can work from home which I would not have been able to do on my old job. So there are pros and cons and of course there has been a change in my mindset about work. Again, I'll say "Do what YOU want to do!

    Tere in RVA

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