WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2017
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Hmmmm...not sure if that worked. How do you attach a video? Anyway, if you search "googly eye gardener" it will bring up the video. Christopher Walken on SNL. Hilarious!2
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morning ladies~
think I am fighting a cold or maybe the change in weather.. I am stuffed up and just bone tired... like I said I talked to Margie for an hour and a 1/2 and went to sleep around 9 which is late for me. and then didnt wake up until close to 7...the rain is coming down and it makes it feel cozy in here having my cup of tea and then going to feed DFIL.. although if I have a cold I dont want to pass it along to any of the elderly..
i should go talk with my dad and see if I can get him into see his Dr using the ruse that he needs a Flu shot.. will call the Dr when they open up to see if his Dr has any opens this afternoon.2 -
fanncy0626 wrote: »Terry- I think that the 10 pound kettle bell would be a great starting point for both you and your daughter. Look at the link that I am posting here for videos and information on the four week/five-week program that I recommend. Then ask me questions about things that you're unsure of and I will help you out. Most important thing is correct form which you can practice with the video that is attached. There are also videos of the goblet squat that you need to practice as well. Don't forget to get the swing timer app on your phone.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10449355/update-stronglifts-and-kettlebell-transformation-pictures#latest
Mary from Arizona
Thanks for the help! Terry2 -
Good morning,
Barbie, you got a good DH there. Hope they can figure our what’s up with his back.
Pip, oh no…sorry to hear you are sick. Get well soon. ((HUGS))
Mary, thanks for the help.
Evelyn, it is awful when you can’t sleep and I agree it is probably why your eating has been off. Maybe you can have some “good” things prepared for when you want to grab something. Hope you start sleeping better.
Sharon, the girls are beautiful. Maybe I’ll do my face like that for Halloween. Sounds like you have been having a stress in your life. Larry sounds like a total control freak. Don’t even try to convince him, you know what’s going on. Strange that he now wants to go everywhere with you. I think he gets that you are getting more independent and doesn’t like it. He wants to keep track of what you are doing. Sounds like you are in a cage right now. Can you get away at all on your own? If you don’t want to change your bank account, open a new one (nothing says you can’t open more than one) and don’t tell him. Slowly put in a little money. Maybe at another bank? I worry about you. Please stay safe. ((HUGS))
Lisa, wow, quite a shake up at work. Hopefully for the best. Were you affected in any way? I hate traveling when there is so much traffic and construction. Feels like you will never get to your destination. Yup, you have a stress/exhaustion headache. Time for a massage?
Barbara, yes, growing up is difficult. lol
Kelley, good choice not to go to the pool. Rest up and get better soon. ((HUGS))
Allie, sounds like you are another one of our group feel lousy. Take care of yourself. I get a flu shot here at work every year.
Got to start work. Hope everyone has a great day.
Terry
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Good morning,
Lisa, wow, quite a shake up at work. Hopefully for the best. Were you affected in any way? I hate traveling when there is so much traffic and construction. Feels like you will never get to your destination. Yup, you have a stress/exhaustion headache. Time for a massage?
Terry
Thanks for the thought, Terry, but heck no! I've had one professional massage in my life, by someone I trusted utterly, and never again. It so weirds me out to have someone who is not my husband touching me in places that are private to me. Hard to explain, but it creeps me out beyond belief. Also only ever had one pedicure - for my wedding. Never again there, either. Just one of my little foibles. I've decided that, if I were perfect, I would be completely annoying, instead of just partially.
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Oregan Barbara Why are you taking cod liver oil? Is it for the Vitamin D? How do you make it tolerable?
KJ - what a giggle! Googly Eyes Gardener
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/googly-eyes-gardener/n12229
Sharon (((Hugs))) I hope you are safe.
Here is a little Olivia fix:
Karen in Virginia8 -
Lisa, I don't care for massages or pedicures either. I have found my own ways of self care that help me in times of stress---walking, knitting, riding my exercise bike, watching TV, listening to music, and meditating are some of them. Your travel ordeal and the shake-up at work were pretty powerful. Best wishes for a speedy recovery from them.
Barbara, one of my favorite childhood memories is one of my mother sitting in the car on the Oregon side of the agricultural check eating the peaches she had that she wasn't allowed to bring into California.
Sharon, if your marriage is at the point where you can't decline your husband's offers of help (driving, cooking, etc.), that's a pretty good signal that something has to change. Best wishes to you as you seek a safe solution.
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Sharon ~ What beautiful girls. Their eyes are lovely. Did you daughter do the painting?
Karen ~ Olivia has the sweetest smile and such big brown eyes and plump baby arms.
Lisa ~ I absolutely hate driving on the interstate and commiserate with you in all those traffic jams. Hope today is better.
Alison and All who are suffering with colds. Hope you feel better.
Kay ~ Your bathroom remodel sounds fabulous. Our house is 30 yrs old and could really use remodeling in the baths. I have made it a project to scrub the shower tiles each time I shower and hope at some point they will look better. My DH is so set in his ways, he would not go along with a remodel even though I tell him updating the house makes it more valuable.
Carol in GA
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Busy weekend ahead ... organising/hosting/running 3 cycling events while trying to study for a final exam!!
Machka in Oz4 -
Lenora: I use ice cubes to water orchids, too. I even make orchid fertilizer into ice cubes and use them to water the orchids. I am currently without any orchids but I'll get another one of these days when I see a special one at the store. :flowerforyou:
Pip: Thanks for the explanation of carb loading.
Becca: The photo of the eagle's favorite roosting tree is nice. :bigsmile:
Heather: Scotland is one of those places on my bucket list, because DH's mom was born there. At this point, getting there with him is unlikely because of his health issues. :ohwell: I'm getting my "fix" watching the Outlander movies on Starz, a cable channel. I've read every one of those books more than once, and am usually disappointed in what moviemakers do to the books I love. In this case, I'm very pleased with the productions. Good luck with keeping your patience with your difficult friend. (((hugs)))
Mary: Love the alphabet quilt! :flowerforyou:
Barbie: I hope there is a good solution for Jake's back pain.
Sharon: The girls look wonderful with butterfly eyes!
Karen: DH took cod liver oil when he was going to the acupuncture doctor, at her suggestion. He doesn't still do this. He was going to her for relief from MS symptoms and my insurance paid for this. It is not a benefit in our current insurance coverage so he stopped. He goes to an MS specialist now, and that has been a very good thing. It took years for me to persuade (nag, nag, nag) him to do this.
Saturday we will have our bedroom painted. We have chosen our color, have paint to order, and need to start getting the room ready for the painter. I have bookshelves to unload and furniture to push or pull away from walls. That will certainly keep us both busy.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
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Karen NY ... so glad your labs were normal and hoping that the dermatologist has an answer for you!
Karen VA ... Olivia is precious! Why can't you make a commitment to yourself (asks she who does the same)?
Lisa... "an accessory to murder" ... love it! When are you going to make time to write the sequel to your book!!
Michele ... hoping you can enjoy the wedding on some level ...
Remodeling ... incredibly expensive which is why my husband did most of ours. The projects we have left will have to be contracted out. Not looking forward to that.
Barbie ... In this age of MRIs haven't heard of anyone having a myelogram in years! So sorry your husband had to go through that procedure. Praying that he gets definitive results.
Sharon ... I love the girls' face paint! And I am very worried about you ...
My husband had his back surgery on Tuesday. All seems to have went well and I brought him home last night. It annoys me to no end that they send you home without any sort of home plan. He has a tortoise shell like back brace (think overgrown ninja turtle that has grown out of his half shell) that he is to wear when out of bed. Exactly how does he sit in a rigid chair (another order) in that? Our goal today will be to find a chair that accommodates the brace and is moderately comfortable so he can be up which he most definitely needs to do. Our neighbor brought over something I'll try today. Have a few options in the basement that will need major modifications before I can even try them with him. Argh.
My diet the past 2 days has consisted of water and a bag of Kit Kats candy ... stress eating at its finest!
Beth near Buffalo
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Massage/pedicure You are not the only ones, ladies! The idea of strangers touching me ‘sqicks’ me out and I have never gotten either of these. My relax, you’ve had it hard spoil myself answer is a luxurious bath with bubbles, salts, the works!
Lisa That day sounds nightmarish, glad you got home ok, your DH sounds heavenly!
Michelle I’m glad there is at least one treadmill to help you exercise the stress away, take care of yourself this weekend!
I’m sure hit and run lately but I’m in training at new job so I’ve had sone inhuman hours like 2pm to 8pm on Tuesday and then 5am to 2pm on Wednesday. When we are no longer doubling my shift the hours will regularize - but right now these ones are not leaving me much time to do anything other than sleep. Looking forward to this weekend for sure!
I’d sure love to join Mary and y’all in the kettle bell workouts, but they are way beyond my ability to make heads or tails of in those videos so I know i’d only achieve proper form accidentally. I sure would like to get stronger, but circumstances (lack of money for a trainer to babysit me mostly) are still making it impossible for me to do any weight stuff safely.
I have also had to put the bike in the garage, we will probably try to sell it - it is just too hard and not getting any better. DH put his foot down and said he’s just too worried I’ll crash it and truth be told I’ve almost done so on approx every other ride. It is so hard to ride, and therefore not any fun, and probably dangerous - I’m very disappointed- I really hoped it would get easier and honestly I expected it to get easier when I rode it two or three days a week for months - but it remained as difficult to bike a mile as the first day I rode it. Probably my form and technique would have to get right before I could get better and that wasn’t happening.
Swimming, of course is great. But with me, that is always the happy place. I just wish there were something I find enjoyable that I could do to change things up on the exercise front. Or that I could lift weights like normal people do. Oh fudge it, I’m just wishing I were normal again blues, sorry, I’ll get over it in a few days as usual.
My job is a 1/2 hour walk and that has been great except my DH is worried about me walking home at 8pm. So he’s driving over and waiting in the car and driving me home. I feel like a burden and I had hoped the bike would be the answer - but now I’ll have to figure out something else. That is probably what brought on these blues.
Job is going well, and the best part is how much I like the people I work with. I have mostly worked in law firms- and honestly never really liked the folks I worked with except one or two here or there. The work hours are not ideal, but I knew that going in, and being able to walk to work mitigates that factor a lot. I’m listening to podcasts on the walk now, but I think I’ll try out audiobooks to keep me company on the walk next week.
Oops, it got late while I spent time with y’all and I have to run. Sending out well wishes to everybody!
Cin Cin a tutti!
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katla - " if you eat stuff that you normally eat, that would be a mistake too," i meant to say if you eat stuff that you normally don't eat is a mistake0
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Barbie - I hope your husband gets some answers. I had to google the test he had done to see what it was. It sounds awful!0
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Katla Was the cod liver oil unpalatable? I just can't imagine taking it.
________________________________________________________________________________________________Karen NY ... so glad your labs were normal and hoping that the dermatologist has an answer for you!
Karen VA ... Olivia is precious! Why can't you make a commitment to yourself (asks she who does the same)?
Beth near Buffalo
Beth I don't know. I was struck by Heather's post some months back when she described getting a little teary-eyed when she realized she is a person who keeps her commitments to herself. I got a little teary-eyed realizing I am not. I'm a Wanna Be, LOL! I'll keep trying. The last 3 days have been better.
Karen in Virginia3 -
As a good citizen of my adopted country Norway, I have a spoonful of cod liver oil every morning. Some Norwegians my age will wrinkle their noses and reminisce about how gosh-awful it smelled back when they lived next to a cod liver oil refinery, but modern oil doesn't smell or taste bad at all. We buy a brand that has a hint of lemon flavor. It's pretty good!
Today marks the beginning of the dark season here in Longyearbyen. That doesn't mean it's dark, though. Not yet. We got 11 whole hours of twilight today! It won't be fully dark all day until November 14. But then it WILL be dark 24/7 for 10 weeks, unless there's a moon. The sun won't go above the horizon again until mid-February.
Hmmm... You see why we need to take cod liver oil.
I'm almost through checking the homework from one of the three courses. Ugh. Keep slogging, Penny...
/Penny at the (Yay! I finally found another North Pole icon!)
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Karen NY ... so glad your labs were normal and hoping that the dermatologist has an answer for you!
My husband had his back surgery on Tuesday. All seems to have went well and I brought him home last night. It annoys me to no end that they send you home without any sort of home plan. He has a tortoise shell like back brace (think overgrown ninja turtle that has grown out of his half shell) that he is to wear when out of bed. Exactly how does he sit in a rigid chair (another order) in that? Our goal today will be to find a chair that accommodates the brace and is moderately comfortable so he can be up which he most definitely needs to do. Our neighbor brought over something I'll try today. Have a few options in the basement that will need major modifications before I can even try them with him. Argh.
My diet the past 2 days has consisted of water and a bag of Kit Kats candy ... stress eating at its finest!
Beth near Buffalo
Beth - my DH wore the "clamshell" backbrace for several months after he broke his back. He was able to sit on the sofa but had pillows behind him to keep his back straight. Our sofa wasn't a "mushy" one, but high backed one, fairly stiff.
Not exactly a rigid chair. Can't recall if the doc OK'd it or if he came up with it himself. Anyhow, he healed just fine - didn't have surgery however as it was a cracked vertebra.
Good luck! Hope is pain is lots better (and yours too - I hear you on the Kit Kats! For medicinal purposes they are just fine.)
Lanette
SW WA State2 -
So much to get to and I've been procrastinating this morn.
Terry - I love that your Mom helps you find things.
Wendy- When I was growing up our dog, Pal, went on a chicken killing spree. Money was tight and it was quite a loss. We all thought that would be the end of Pal but my Dad hung one of the dead chickens around Pal's neck and gave him a stern talking to. He herded after that but never killed. I'll have to see if I can find a pic of him. He was a hard worker and a good friend.
Heather - Best wishes for your friend trip. It is so great that you can do this.
Marcelyn - Identity theft has become such a big thing these days. The crooks are so smart , imagine if they put that intelligence towards honest endeavours. I am sorry that you are dealing with this.
Loving that on my day off I am still in my pyjamas and actually enjoyed my breakfast and my coffee.
Time to buckle down and get to my never ending to do list.
On the list today, drop off dress so DD can morph it into an Ursula costume.
Laundry, laundry, laundry
Finally take disability papers and drop off.
Touch base with my cousin who works for Legal Aid and see if she has any suggestions. Thank goodness that I know she has a lot of practice keeping her mouth closed.
Float with my DSIL and DB. His first time.
Fill in our stuff for passports.
I will talk to you ladies later today. I can't believe they are texting me about stuff from work. Shouldn't my boss know how to do these things. Oh well, one day (soon I hope) they won't be calling me any more. I have a lot planned for those days but for now I will get through these days.
Sun is shining , birds are singing, it's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood.
-Sharon in Lethbridge hoping to be productive.2 -
Made it to pg 57. just a reminder to myself because as I stuff new things into my brain old things seem to be falling out the other side.0
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It's Howl At The Moon Day!
"Part time monstrous, part time noble, no other animal has been quite as controversial as the Wolf, but one thing remains constant throughout. Wolves are regularly shown as howling at the moon, and Howl at the Moon day is your opportunity to join them in their celebration of the wild."
Heather - I applaud your forbearance in getting through time with your "difficult friend" peacefully!
Drkatiebug - We had vinyl plank flooring at the condo where we lived between selling our previous house and buying this one. It was great! Easy to care for, hard to damage, and visitors usually mistook it for wood flooring.
Barbie - 23,000 steps?! Wow!
Machka - Your comment about your hat this morning gave me a nice flashback to Philip's and my wedding reception (which was actually a huge party a week after the actual wedding). Three of my women friends hit up a local Goodwill and showed up in the ugliest bridesmaid's dresses they could find, complete with ginormous hats. They's customized the hats with ridiculous stuff... I think one of them had a fake mouse dangling over the brim. Your hat is much classier, but the big hat just gave me a flashback. Fun times!
Mary - Holy mole, you look good. You're a walking advertisement for kettlebells (and weights in general) and should ask some manufacturer to pay you! Thank you for sharing what you've learned so generously. I'm on the fence about having to buy equipment, but I'm interested in giving this a try. I'm lazy too!
Sharon - You have my sympathies over the InstaPot meals. I think I'd go mad if I had to live on Philip's cooking. It works for a skinny guy like him, but not for me.
Barbara - Deal! I need to turn on the poor, long-neglected Wii to make sure it still works and let it update itself. The pad probably needs batteries too.
Kelly - Thank you for sharing the SNL "googly eyes" video. Hilarious! He is so good at that slightly crazed thing.
Lisa - Everybody's got their own comfort zone. Sorry massage wasn't an option for you. I have a friend who's the same way about pedicures - just doesn't like to have her feet touched.
Today is also Pumpkin Day. Despite the pumpkin spice hysteria that overtakes us this time of year, I love pumpkins. I'll never forget the first time I drove past a field of them after we moved to New Mexico. I'd never seen them growing here in Texas, and a field of pumpkins in the sun is a beautiful sight.
A neat thing happened for Philip yesterday... his work sent out an email saying they had a couple of massage clients with special needs. One had a head injury and one has Parkinson's. Philip has worked with both, and has been working with our friend who has Parkinson's on a weekly basis for a couple of years so he's got experience. Looks like he'll pick up a new client!
I've been on a cottage cheese kick lately. I'm not fond of it plain, but I've been buying these Breakstone's "cottage doubles" with a little bit of jammy stuff you flip in before eating. As long as I'm experimenting with making yogurt at home, maybe I'll try my hand at homemade cottage cheese too. Then I could put whatever I want to in it for flavoring. I like the protein count.
Wishing you all a healthy day and a good howl at the moon tonight if you need it.
-Yvonne in TX5
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