WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2017

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  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    edited August 2017
    DJ Congrats on the good biopsy news. Whew!

    Penny Lovely to hear from you. I was wondering about eclipses at the North Pole just yesterday when I was doing my homework on the current eclipse. We will have only 86% here and I, alas, have no glasses! B)

    Machka Ouch. I had a painful broken tooth the Wed before Thanksgiving once. I was working the whole weekend, and dentist's office didn't open 'til Tuesday. That was a long week.

    Heather Wonderful photos.

    KJ Joaquin is stylin'! You sound really busy. Love reading your posts, you are such a dynamic active person!

    Karen in Virginia
  • terewilliams
    terewilliams Posts: 341 Member
    Hey Ladies!

    Didn't post this weekend but did occassionally scan through your posts.

    Picked up a sinus infection which is much better today although I am feeling druggy.

    Did quite a bit of emotional eating while trying to deal with my mom's disposal of my grandmother's house. Still haven't made peace with myself about it all. I know part of it is not wanting to release the last tangible part of my grandmother. Although my mother and I are extremely close I felt closer to my grandmother. Unfortunately, my mother did not care for her and from time to time shares her dislike and it makes me feel bad. Anyway, the house is on the market. I am not sure that it will sell as it is located in a economically depressed area and is just a very old small house with no air conditioning. Life goes on.

    I have a second job interview on Thursday. Pray everyone....it would be a fantastic blessing to get this job.

    Michele: Glad you made it successfully through your journey. Do what you want to do for your daughter and nothing more. She may not give you the loud appreciation she gives her future MIL, but I bet my last dollar that later on she will let you know how much all you've done was appreciated. Besides we tend to be more effusive with our spoken thanks to someone that we don't particularly care for or when our thoughts are opposite of what we are saying.....How about "fake emotions". Just saying....

    Heather: I have loved each picture and felt like I was on a vacation. Everytime you mention something you ate I looked it up to see what it was. It is always good to be home.

    Pip: Loved the curtains. Love the idea of the airstream. Hope we will get there in the next couple of years. Enjoy!

    DJ: Glad you had great results from the biopsy.

    Tere in RVA

  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,321 Member
    Happy Monday Ladies. I had a busy weekend with the hub. We met some friends halfway between our houses (about 1 1/2 hours for each of us) for lunch on Saturday and had a great visit with them. We used to live in the same town and went to dinner together almost every Saturday night. Now that we live 3 hours apart (we have both moved), we are trying to get together at least every other month to catchup. Life sometimes intervenes, but we try. I bit my lip while we were eating lunch and you know how that goes. I continue to bite the same place every time I chew so I have put myself on a liquid diet for a couple of days to give it time to heal. I've only had one liquid meal so far (last night) and I don't know how people do the shake type diets to lose weight. I was not at all satisfied with drinking my smoothie I made. It was good, but it wasn't a meal to me. Since it is short term, it is fine. Voluntarily doing it for weeks/months, I could never do! I hope everyone has a great week!

    Okie in Central Texas
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,369 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,800 Member
    Just seen Oregon's total eclipse live on our news. :D:D:D
    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • Lagopus
    Lagopus Posts: 1,016 Member
    edited August 2017
    Already planning to visit my sister in Montpelier, VT for the total eclipse on 8 April 2024. :D

    /Penny, spoiled for totality at the North Pole
  • miakoda40
    miakoda40 Posts: 467 Member
    The clouds moved away in time for us to view the eclipse. Not totality, but still spectacular. I was fortunate enough to be on a Caribbean cruise during a total eclipse. It still ranks high up on my list of incredible life experiences. Number 1 remains being present during the birth of friend's children.

    Mia in MI
  • tngram2seven
    tngram2seven Posts: 465 Member
    Eclipse alert!

    I viewed it from my front porch - far away from the hundreds of thousands celebrating in downtown Nashville. Our totality was at the time when the sun was highest in the sky. I didn't have the glasses but only glanced up 3 times. First the crickets started chirping really loudly. Then the air felt a little cooler. Just before the total coverage there was a red "spot" at the lower left area. I just happened to glance at that moment. The most delightful thing was seeing the neighbors' solar lights come on when it got dark and then after a minute begin going out one by one! I forgot to look for stars - Duh! All and all, an enchanting experience. (Even with my quick glances my eyes are tired - like being on the lake in the summer without good sun glasses)

    Toni in middle Tennessee (getting nice and sunny again)

  • trulydivyn725
    trulydivyn725 Posts: 92 Member
    Struggling to stay awake - no eclipse story here, as it was overcast and raining throughout the morning...already trying to decide where I want to be for April 8th, 2024 - either Indianapolis, Dallas, or San Antonio - the path will cross over all three locations and I have close friends in all three locations. Well, maybe not in 2024...LOL!

    Forgot to mention I got my bloodwork and mammo done on Friday, as well as pre-visit for my sleep study coming up this weekend. I told them all they needed to do was attach all the gear when I'm in my office here at work, and get all the readings they need since I don't seem to be able to fall asleep at home! LOL! It's pretty disconcerting to be honest.

    Also, first experience with left hand carpal tunnel pain. I'm not pleased, grateful I'm right handed. VERY painful when I woke up in the middle of the night to Friday morning and couldn't grip anything. Extremely difficult getting dressed...reminded me of when I broke my left wrist in 5th grade, but at that point, I didn't require a bra....LOL! Ibuprofen, and I put a wrist brace on at night, which helped alleviate the pain somewhat. Yesterday I was able to close my fist, but couldn't really grip anything, and I had numbness and tingling going on. This morning there was only a small amount of tenderness, but I will for sure be wearing my wrist brace at night from now on!

    Much love and respect from Vegas,
    Dorrie aka TrulyDivyn
    "Once you label me, you negate me" --- S. Kierkegaard
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,296 Member
    Penny eclipse sounds fantastic from the north pole. I know when we flew back from Sweden the sites over Greenland and Hudson Bay will stay with me forever. I watch it on T.V. I saw the one the showed in the Tetons with the Mountains in the back. That did seem worth going to. I just wish the newsman would learn let things speak for themselves and be quiet. Here I did see about three quarters of our eclipse through a colander. Right at our 83% a big cloud blocked the view. It is now raining here. It appears St. Louis will get another one in 2024. We will see if it works out to go. Good to see you.

    :heart: Margaret
  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    (((((Dorrie))))) you are due for a break - you've had enough challenges the past few weeks <3<3<3
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
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  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    Okie adding protein powder to a smoothie is the secret to making you feel full :)
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,369 Member
    Walking the bike w/a backpack will b an added calorie burn
  • DamitJanit
    DamitJanit Posts: 1,315 Member
    I'm off to the Moose meeting. The eclipse was anti-climatic. It was very cloudy so nothing was clear but it did get quite dark for a short time. I hope most of you had better views. Check with you tomorrow.

    Sending much love and best wishes,
    DJ
    Myrtle Beach, SC where the clouds blocked the sun.
  • DanaReel180
    DanaReel180 Posts: 463 Member
    Solar eclipse we watched the eclipse here in Hot Springs with a little disappointment. It got dim and a little cooler for a minute or two. We had 87% coverage too! One thing was interesting about taking pictures was shadows of leaves on the ground. There were crescent shapes!

    Lanette My daughter and her husband are working things out. Thanking for asking!
    The fish fry was absolutely wonderful!!
    How have you been?

    Ginger in TX Gish, it sounds like you have your hands full with you mom and dad's stuff. I know how that is. I wouldn't be too hard in yourself. If you need a break once and a while. It's ok! Get back on track when you can!!

    I've been off track lately. Hopefully I get back on track starting today!!

    Have a good evening!
    Dana in Arkansas
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    DD was excited about the eclipse due to her astronomy class. We didn't have glasses so used the colander-yep crescent shadows and notice the crescent shadows off the leaves. We've made a date to go to Niagra in 2024 to see the full path (and the falls of course). Kind of fun to think about her being 26 years old :#

    Marcelyn that pic is a keeper--what a beautiful family!! <3

    NYKAREN
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Michele – At least the Mother of the Groom ‘waited’ until after you got yours. I had a friend (Mother of the Bride) and the Mother of the Groom bought her dress early. When my friend found out, she was NOT at all happy. Especially, when she bought the same one. Her daughter told her about it. I know when I was the Mother of the Groom for DYS (who actually got married in a church), I told my soon-to-be DDnL#2 to let me know what color of dress she had picked. When I went to go buy mine, I had two choices, a dress or a suit (which I probably would have burnt up in and it was the more expensive one. Took pictures of them and sent it to DDnL#2 and asked her which one she liked best. She chose the dress, which was ‘teal’ sheath with a lace overdress. He mother’s dress was not exactly like it but she had one that had lace over it in an orange sherbet color. The suit was ‘orange sherbet’ colored. I am glad she told me she liked the teal dress better than the teal one. It was hotter than Hades and the church did not have A/C … just every thick walls, so it was cooler. We all had to go to the restroom because it also only had an outhouse. I haven’t been to an ‘outhouse’ since my grandmamma was alive.

    Daddy and one of my uncles put in a full bathroom. She asked them what they were doing and Daddy told her getting running water to the house. Then he got the first bill and got the electric company to come out to see if the meter needed replaced. When he got there every faucet was running at full speed. He asked her why. Her answer was ‘Well, you said you were putting in running water, so now it is running.

    Why does Denise what her hair and make-up done before the final fitting. I would think she would want it to be done on the day of the wedding. Tami does it all the time, usually putting on the veil at the same time. One of her co-workers does the make-up. She usually does the entire party, bridesmaids, maid of honor, mothers, and the bride. Usually each pays for their own. Tami did my hair, I did my own make-up. Her mother has very short hair so she did not get it done. Her 2 bridesmaids had theirs done. One in a very 40’s fashion and the other also had a dated haircut. One did Tami’s make-up, complete with false lashed. She was beautiful!

    Anne – On the last day of the month, Barbiecat will post a link to the next month. You need to ‘bookmark’ it by clicking the outline of a star, it will turn yellow. Then to find us, click on the gray star between the bell and gear. Sometimes you will find that when the bar drops down you might find that some have posted before the link is, you might want to go to them to read, then you’d have to go back up and click on the gray star again. Now, it only takes you back to the beginning of the last page. It ‘used’ to take you back to where you posted last. Personally, I don’t like this change. So I will usually write down the last page I was one and find my last post that way. I will post to the person that they need to go back up until they see the blue link in Barbiecat’slast post of the month. Sometimes others will also post the link.

    It is easier to find if you leave a mark of some type after your last post. A letter, number, or a special character, or a ‘face’ which you will find up at the top of the box you type on.

    Machka – I had a broken tooth split in quarters and they took it out along with all the nerves running to it, they I had a post and a permanent cap. Not everybody can have a successful post put in. My oldest sister was one, so she had to get a removable bridge.

    I treated my cactus/succulents with Margaret’s recipe. I sure hope it works. While I only paid $10 for this huge plant, I don’t want to lose it. I’m going to wash it off in few minutes and wash out all the dirt around the roots and repot it, then put it down into another post, both have drainage holes in them. If I did not kill all those pesky little mealy bugs with that combination of household products, they never will be. I decided to repot it …

    OMGoodness, look like I have had a fight with my cat. I finally wrapped a towel around it. Did a little cursing. Then decided, ‘while you are out here, what don’t you repot your orchids’? So I did that, only lost one. Leaving them out under the covered deck of my studio. They’ve been on my porch and I think maybe it has gotten too hot out there in the afternoons. I spend 2 ½ hours out there doing manual labor. My body doesn’t take the heat all that well.

    Spent 2 ½ hours working with my plants and reporting all but one of them. I was drenched in sweat. A shower felt ‘wonderful’. My face stayed beet read for another hour. Got something in my eye and had to come in to wash it out. I think it was the dish soap and alcohol mixture, splashed up when I was washing the plant off after 20 or 30 minutes.

    DJ – I was working out in the yard and we were supposed to get a 90+ part of the eclipse. I expected that it would get darker; but, not that I could tell. I’ll watch it on TV, I am sure it will be on it. Great news about the biopsy.

    Toni – I hope you did not damage your eyes with your quick looks at it; they say it doesn’t take much to do that.

    Lenora
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
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  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,157 Member
    edited August 2017
    evening ladies~
    Home from work, they had glasses so I peaked at the eclipse..
    I did tell Tom that I signed a lease and I was moving out on Oct 1st.. and I also told him I also would'nt be able to have the dogs there, and he said he would never ever keep the dogs from me, and that he was planning on keeping the house here... so we shall see..
    Tracy -DD just sent me pictures of her in her wedding dress, very beautiful long sleeves sweetheart neckline and open in the back.. needs alterations ,and I know a woman who is awesome..
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,321 Member
    Gloworm - Thanks for the tip on the protein powder. I don't plan to do this long enough to need to buy any. It's not that I'm hungry, I just want to chew! It doesn't help that I browned up a couple of pounds of hamburger to freeze in individual servings for those days the hub is traveling and I don't want to cook. Smelling that is making me crazy! Hopefully Wednesday my lip will be in good shape and I'll eat a huge salad for lunch and something yummy for dinner. When I bit it again yesterday at lunch I almost cried. Luckily I was down to my last bite of food.
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Just seen Oregon's total eclipse live on our news. :D:D:D
    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

    Me too awesome

    Kate UK
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,369 Member
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  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,557 Member
    Did 45 min of a Band Camp DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a DVD by Traci Long.

    Had to get up at 3 this morning to leave by 5. I wanted to get home before the eclipse. I got home about 12:30.

    Didn't go to ceramics tonight. Trying to get caught up. Plus, the gal whose house I usually go to cancelled mahongg. She went to Greenville SC to see the eclipse. Personally, I was a bit surprised that she was even going to have it. She said they got tied up in traffic. I thought that might happen. It might be a blessing in disguise for me because now I can get to sleep early. Am supposed to volunteer at the Green Room tomorrow (it's starting up again!), then I want to go to this Prime of Life expo mainly for the free bags, which are good for groceries. Then I'm thinking of going to pick up the placq for Denise. Next I get to figure out how to get them wrapped.

    I know that I'm tired because I have this craving for carbs (you know, candies and cookies)

    On the way home the a/c in my car froze up. So lucky me got to drive in the heat. I might go out in a few just to start the car up and be sure that the a/c does work.

    Joyce - it makes me sad to hear you're in such pain. Hope it doesn't last too long

    I'll probably make this short, need to take a shower and I'm really tired. It's catching up with me. But know that I read every post

    KJ - hope the kids are going to wear their clothes backwards Friday! What a cool helmet for Joaquim. He's so so cute

    Jessica wanted me to use her IP, but I don't have one and am not sure about it. What I should have done is hard boiled some eggs for her. Instead I bought some h.b. eggs because I thought I might want some and I knew that she liked them.

    Heather - great pics, as usual

    Has DeeDee posted lately and I've missed it?

    Denise called and said that she and Pete watched the eclipse, she thanked me for the glasses. It seems she can't thank me for something in person, but she can call. I don't know, maybe it's because it's expected of ma.

    tere - I feel my grandmother raised me. Of course, my situation was different from yours.

    Toni - your eclipse sounds awesome. I'd just gotten home and watched it on TV. The good part was that I got to see it multiple times. The guy from the astronomy club who talked to Newcomers said to expect your pets to act differently. When the eclipse happened, Clyde made this sound, not like he was in pain, it was just different. Then the cats started running all over the house, Bonnie was looking out the window. I swear, they knew when it was over because they all laid down.

    Gloria - adding protein powder would make you full. I tried some of the protein powder that Jess had and I couldn't finish even a full scoop

    Lenora - the mother of the groom didn't wait until after I got my dress. She picked out her dress a year ago! She showed me the dress when we went dress shopping. However, what happened is that by the time she ordered it, it was out of stock so she had to get another one. THAT was when she asked (Denise) what color my dress was. That's what I did with my dress. I went shopping and found about 7 that I felt comfortable in. Some Denise rejected immediately. It was down to 3 and Pete finally picked it out. Fortunately, it was the one I liked best. Denise did tell me that she wants my dress. Was she just being nice to me? I don't know, I do know that I'll get it cleaned and give it to her, probably when they come to pick up her cat at Jess' after the honeymoon. Oh, Denise wants the hair and makeup BOTH the day of the wedding and at the final fitting. I guess she wants it for the final fitting to see how the entire look is.

    Seems Pete's brother (who is a piece of work) didn't go for his tux so Pete took him the last day they could go. Pete told him that there was a $20 deposit, was the brother OK with that. He said he was but when they got there, he didn't have any money. Then after Pete paid, he actually asked Pete for money! Of course, Pete didn't give it to him.

    Michele back in NC
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    skuehn48 Posts: 3,078 Member
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