WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2017

margaretturk

Kelly Frank Abagnale was a great speaker. He did tell about the things they added or did not include like his siblings to add dramatic effect. He is the reason I bought a cross shredder. They do not want that is our recycle here.

Vickil57

SophieRosieMom

Kelly - I don't think it would hurt to use the plastic bag/boiling water cooking method a couple times unless the plastic would impart a taste. Looks like a good idea for camping. But I try to avoid plastic with food - storage or cooking - as much as possible.

Regarding shredding and recycle, our curbside recycling will take shredded paper, but it must not be "loose" - can be bagged up into clear plastic bags and tossed into the container. I think they hire folks to sort the stuff as it comes down a line - cans, plastic bottles, etc - they said little things jam up the works.

I pay with bills with on-line bill pay through the credit union and generally pay cash when shopping in town for groceries, and small items. Use credit cards for gas and large purchases. No debit card.

Making another pot roast in the Instant Pot today! DH really loved it last time and I didn't have to cook for several days- those are the kind of leftovers he'll eat.

Lanette
SW WA State

cityjaneLondon

My sweet potato /Barbecoa beef/salsa/creme fraiche/sugar snap peas was heavenly.

DH hardly slept last night (anxiety) and I lost two hours somewhere in the middle, but we both read enjoyable books and survived. Still did our exercises today and DH went for a walk. I cooked and did some memoir. Yeah! We both feel fine. Amazing on how well you can do with little sleep. I would like a decent night though sometime soon. :grumble:

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

pipcd34

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grandmallie

Afternoon ladies~
had just a lovely time with our dear friends, and as per usual Dad talked everyones ear off... but the families have been life long friends and as we are the middle agers and our parents progress it is wonderful to get friends together when we can..
I think Tom's Karma is coming knocking on his door big time health wise. the arthritis in the top of his feet is doing him in, and now his back is giving out.. doing what I need to do around here, but not everything..like I used to.. I was going to go on a garden tour today at a friend of mines home, but just not up to it... he will be having another one next month so will check that out then..
had a lovely dinner with my friend Bev and her mom and dined al fresco , Tom did walk by with the dogs and stopped to say hello to Bev.. think he is sorry now that he didn't pay more attention when he should of.. well you snooze you lose..
Hope everyone is enjoying there weekend, its almost over.. but the joy of a new day gives us all hope. xoxo

bwcetc

Machka ... I use only the occasional check. My bank account is called a Money Market "Checking" Account ... but I do everything though online bill pay (not auto deductions) ... the bank encourages you to be paperless. The only checks I write are to the church, the water company (who won't accept online payments?), and a loan payment that won't accept online payments unless you pay a $7.00 fee?? I think not!

Kelly ... my husband used the plastic bag/omelette thing with a large group of young boys on a camping trip a few years ago. They had a blast! I doubt they cared about plastic leaching since they were also having contests to see who could eat the most worms...

We had church services in a local park today ... the services started out under clouds but halfway through the sun came out and I started to fry. We were expecting rain, but it never did come.

I'm in the middle of a crafty-type project. I can't even describe it I'm so craft-challenged, but so far it's not looking like I envisioned! I'm painting some frames and some art to hang in the bathroom. I just told my husband that it may very well end up in the garbage can.

I have decided that I've been fooling myself long enough. I was so disgusted when I went to get dressed this morning. I am not eating healthy. I am not eating within calorie goals. I am not losing weight. And I am done making excuses. This morning ... in the middle of a particularly atrocious looking potluck at church ... I said "that's enough." I walked away from the buffet and waited until I came home to eat something. I am only sorry it has taken me this long to be fed up! I've had each and everyone of you in my head today as I've had to stop myself from losing my resolve!

Beth

jmkmomm

Good afternoon! Today is a much better day temperature wise. I was able to leave the patio door open for about 45 minutes this morning and the cats let me get ready for church without getting in my way since they were sitting by each other at eh open door. It rained and rained last night. I woke up with what sounded like a baby whaling this morning which totally confused me. Why would a whaling baby be in my house. At church they were talking about phones going off with a weather alert so I guess that was it. Then it rained in church. It was funny. The pastor had jut said the words 'and God spoke' and their was a huge and I mean huge clap of thunder. I have seen quite a few face book posts about the explosion that people heard and it was that clap of thunder. Or maybe it was God 'speaking'? We have two really nice sopranos in our choir. One is a professionally trained lady and that's the way she likes to sing. The other is a lady that is just blessed with a beautiful voice. She is the one sho sang a solo today. I prefer who kind of singing. But the other lady is the one who is very puffed up eith how good she is and all of her accomplishments.

I am still pretty tired but much better today. Many years ago when my MS was first diagnosed it was t unusual for me to have a 36 hour sleep after a trip or if I was very tired. I would keep water army bedside and my medicine but I basically slept for up to 36 hours. Is rare for me to do anything close to that now.

We just had the guy who mows my nephews yard come buy and give us an estimate to mow our hard and use weed eater. $30/week, I'll take it. Nderneath our deck is terrible and he will take care of that. Anytime our nephew helps us with a referral, he makes sure we get a 'friends and family discount'. I wish he would stop that. I have asked him to but he says that if he could he would come and mow for free. He says he loves us enough that he wants to help us all he can.

I love that archeological collection. It s so beautiful. I am proud if anyone who wants to preserve a piece of history and do it with dignity.

Lenora, I wouldn't say that Charlies 'stepmom' was wicked, but I'm glad I don't have to deal with her anymore. Charlies Dad had a big Karaoke set up in his man cave. He told Charlie it would be his. What no one knew but her was that she had already arranged to have all of his things taken away the mment he died. I remember when we went over the moment her died in Hospic in their home. Her family said she needed her B/P meds picked u. So I volunteered to do that. Christina wanted his cowboy bat and Mivhelle wanted something else of his so when I took the medicine over about 90 minutes later, the house had been emptied of all his things. Gone. All of Charlie Sr gone. It was really weird that she moved to the big senior high rise that Charlies Mom lived in. His Mom could never even say this ladies name. She would always call her that Patmore woman. But they actually became friends!

Joyce, indiana

Peach1948

Joyce ~ We all have our stories. When my mom was in the nursing home, she convinced her roommate that they had gone to Fla together. The roommate said that was why she had all those bites on her legs because of sand fleas. The probably flea bites from the cats that liked to sleep with her in the nursing home.

klanders30

beth fed up is a good place to be, pun intended. You've got this.
NYKAREN

pipcd34

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Marcelynh

Found another coral snake on my morning walk today. Second coral snake this week in my neighborhood that I've seen. The first one was a big one. 3 ft. that's a big coral snake. If it had been in my yard it would have quickly been a dead snake. I don't tolerate poisonous snakes in my yard with small grandchildren. And coral snakes are so pretty I worry the kids would be attracted to them. I've had a couple of copperheads in the yard too, my neighbors had a cottonmouth in their yard. Those are very aggressive. At least coral snakes are basically passive.

Only 3 days until my daughter and family are home from Russia. I have missed them so much this past month. They've had a great time and my son-in-law complains he will have to buy new pants because he's enjoyed the food so much. Nothing like food made by your mom is there.

Husband in NM seeing his dad. It's not going so well there and he is terribly worried about his father. I've told him that his dad is always welcome to move in with us but it would be a terrible shock to move to a different state and go from a desert climate to Houston humidity. He would be surrounded by family here though, no doubt about that. I'm sure my husband and his siblings will figure it out when the need arises.

Up early in the morning to run. Just a timed run, no set distance tomorrow.

Marcelyn
piddling about it the pottery in Houston

pipcd34

stats for the day:

no hrm strictly estimates-
rowing machine - 20min, 3210meters 53aw -
boss bal- 16.54min, 3sets of 15ea, some w/8# weights, 4 diff erexercises-
floor exercises- 26.17min, 3sets of 15ea some with 8# weights, 10 diff exercises
single leg squats w/10# backpack- 4.23min, 5sets of 10 each leg

total estimate 345

Machka9

I am having a really Monday Monday.

One of those Mondays where things are just not flowing smoothly!

It is going to take me a week or two to get used to this semester's schedule and to make sure I have everything!! The rest of the week is just a normal work week, but Mondays are a combination of work, university and gym.

barbiecat

This afternoon I joined in with a group of folk dancers led by one of my line dance friends to dance at one of the lavender farms. It was fun, but I still prefer line dance. While I was gone, Jake met with the man who is going to dismantle the deck in the back yard that is connected to the house. This is the next step in preparation to get the house painted.

Barbie

GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS

suebdew

So hot here it is impossible to do anything outside. The bad news is next week is suppose to hotter. We took our grands back To Fort Worth to meet their mom. That was half way for both of us. I got overheated and got a severe headache. Still not 100%.
Beth- I am proud of you for getting your self back on track.
SueBDew and n TX

okiewoman510

Beth - good for you that you have reached your limit and are ready to recommit to your goals. We have a neighbor that is a wonderful cook and he will invite us over 2 or 3 times a month for dinner. There are usually 3 families, sometimes a few more. Everyone brings sides to go with whatever meats he has cooked. My strategy has become to take a big green salad and fill 1/2 (or more) of my plate with that and eat whatever meat he has cooked to go with it. I told them tonight that for future reference, when they invite us to dinner to just know that I am bringing a big salad. They all said good, it's nice to have something good for us with dinner That seems to work for me. We have a very social neighborhood. Another one of the neighbors texted us to come down last night for patio therapy, adult beverages on the patio. I had one mai tai left in my fridge I had made a couple of weeks ago when friends were here and one wine slushy left from another gathering in a ziplock bag in my freezer. I took both of those for her to drink to get the space back in my fridge. About an hour after we got there she asked me what I had in my yeti....I told her water with two tea cubes in it. She laughed and said you haven't drank anything since your husbands gallbladder problems, have you. I told her know, I would rather eat my calories than drink them.

Okie in the TX Hill Country

exermom

Did an hour of a Leslie Sansone DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a segment of Crunch Bikini Body DVD, hold my plank, then take the extremepump class.

katla - I'm sure the woman who owns the stable really appreciates all the work and time you spend with Arrow.

Jess went back today. I said to her "one advantage to you having a larger vehicle is that now I can give you more food to take home! She's always complaining that I give her too much and that she doesn't have room for it. Now she said to me "that's OK, I'm poor having just bought the car. You can give me as much as you want".

NYKaren - yesterday the pool temp was 92 degrees! that means the air temp must have been higher.

Put two of the beads on the wine charms, now have to wait for the larger beads to come in, then I can put them and the two other smaller ones on the charms. I'm still a bit p***ed that his mother bought shower favors even tho I asked her not to. I did send a message to her on facebook asking her that since I had asked her not to get the favors, was she able to return them. I doubt she did.

Went in the pool, but didn't stay in for very long as it started to rain. Now back in the house, maybe I'll watch some TV to try to clear the DVD.

Allie - do you think that Tom could be using your good heart and trying to get you to feel sorry for him if he tells you that his arthritis and back hurt so you'll give up?

Beth - when you go to pay your taxes, I think it's the Federal government that wants you to pay online but then they charge you to. Silly. It's bad enough they want my money, but in order to make things easier for THEM *I'M* supposed to incur an additional cost? I think not. So glad to hear you got your resolve. Better now than never, that's for sure!

Marcelyn - we moved MIL from FL to PA. It was hard on her, but she managed and I'm sure your husband's father will too if he needs to

Michele in NC

barbiecat

Stats for today:
*18,000 steps
*164 minutes walking Bessie and Sasha
*74 minutes riding the exercise bike
*74 minutes puttering in the garden
*60 minutes folk dancing at the lavender festival