WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR NOVEMBER 2017
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Michelle I think you can reheat the stuffing in a 350 oven for about 45 minutes, make sure it is well covered in foil and maybe add a little stock to it so it doesn't dry out. I always like it better the next day!
Oh joy, today is like Friday for me, DH and I will both have a day off together for a change, yippee. Should be a busy but productive day for me and I can tick off another medical appt, my annual visit with the gynecologist.
strength &
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Hi all!
All packed and mostly tidied for the viewing. Off in just over an hour. My son and DDIL should be landing in Cyprus in a few minutes.
I actually slept for six and a half hours last night! Pleased with myself!
Speak later, Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
Good morning all! No swimming this morning for me. We had to leave our two jeeps at the shop so that the tires can be switched on them. Not rotated. Just switched. Both of them are leased vehicles, but this summer,we had to put new tires on the one that we are turning in this weekend. SO...we are having the new tires put on our other jeep (that we will keep). At first, when my DH suggested we do this, I just thought he was being nit picky and a tight wad. Then I found out the tires cost $600!!!
Ummm...yes, please. Let's not spend that again if we don't have to! We will not get another car, and will just be a one car family. We will probably buy out the jeep we are keeping at the end of the lease contract. Anyway, long story, short. No car to take me to the pool. I was going to walk or ride my bike (brrrr), but we are getting freezing rain this morning! So...my goal is pool tomorrow.
I got my hair cut last night. DH hates it. Had a real nice little hissy fit about it. Sucks to be him, I guess.
I love it. It is a graduated bob. Shorter in back (it shows my tattoo) and jaw length in front. Sassy! 
He will get over it, in time.
Meg- Sending hugs to you as you and DH proceed in this next step in life. I am sure it is somewhat of a relief to know where he is going to be and for how long. Sometimes I think the waiting for news is the hardest and most stressful. Now, you both can begin making plans for afterwards. Onward and upward! Sorry about the difficulties you are having with DIL!
Felicia- Is your son the little "scientist" in the orange (I think he was wearing orange)? You are right, all the kids were cute. I love to see kids talking about what they want to be when they grow up and why. And that building set is AWESOME! Sometimes I wish I had older kids all day every day. I would love to get kits like this and work on them with my kids. I am going to pass the link along to my daycare families, though. I have many former daycare kids that would love something like this.
Heather-Enjoy your trip! I will be listening in to your DIL's Tedtalk on Saturday.
Joyce- Oh, I have stories of kids doing strange things! Putting things in their noses are the least of the weird. I had a group of boys (ages 2-3) who were playing house, and decided the bathroom was going to be behind the couch by the window. They, then, ALL pulled their pants down and put their bare buns on the window sills (I have a five panel window, there). Neighbors walking by got a nice view of four little "moons" in my window!
These are the same boys (a few years later), who spent a good amount of time in secret discussion, then finally asked me "Does baby Rowan weigh as much as an elephant poop?" The inner workings of a five and six year old mind. I did end up googling "how much does an elephant poop" so I could tell them that it would take 18 baby Rowans to weigh as much as elephant poo. I hope no one ever looks into my computer history. I am sure they will find other crazy things I have had to look up!
I got the new (september release) book of the Millenium/The Girl Who series; The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye. Long title, but it is wonderful to have another installment of the Lisbeth Salander stories. She is right up there as one of my favorite literary characters. I will have to hit some used book shops and get the whole series. Just to have them in my personal library. I read about the first 24 pages last night, but then had to get some sleep. Going to be a practice in restraint for me, today, as I won't have time to read, at all.
well, kiddos beginning to arrive. Thinking of you all! Loving all of the pics and updates! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)2 -
Just found this blog and I see that it has monthly goals which I like the go by month instead of what is my overall goal , so here is my monthly goal November goals
Exercise: strength training and walking 3 times per week
Logging: log my meals every BLT ( bite lick and taste)
Menu planning: weekly
Beginning date Nov. 9th 20172 -
We had a huge windstorm in the evening and overnight. The dogs were a bit confused when we went out at bedtime and I was hoping that no huge branch would break off and clobber us as we walked. This morning it is calm and the streets are covered with debris. The community maintenance team will clear the streets sometime during the day and if Jake gets busy early, he can blow a lot of the debris from our driveway and yard into the street and they'll pick it up as they clean the streets.Kelly, we have been a one car household for awhile and it has worked well. One of the blessings of it is that we talk about our plans and coordinate rather than operating so separately. Also we have found joy in doing errands together (we call it an "errand date").Stellafgus, welcome. Your goals sound a perfect plan. I hope you'll bookmark this thread and keep coming back and tell us more about yourself.Joyce, I've had the same experience in dance class as you have in choir. We are working hard on the dances for our holiday performances in December and the teacher thinks we need to learn new dances so we don't get bored.Katla, wow, bareback riding! You keep growing and expanding your horse skills. Bravo.Heather, best wishes on the house viewing. Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 2 -
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Meg, I have been thinking about you and your husband for awhile wonderimg when his time would come. Prayers to all involved. Glad he will have an instant friend and you can have some one drive with you to see him. Take care. You have so much stress right now. Crying is a big relief.
100 gall stones! Yee gads!!!!!!! Hope he is OK. I remember when I was working that was a long time ago! Anyway, those gall stones were something to talk about so the surgeon would always give them to the patient after surgery. Well one time about all the gall stones was as sludge. Back then after surgery the first diet you are on is a clear liquid diet. So this person had some pretty bad eye sight. Pretty much everything on a c,ear liquid diet comes on the tray in a small round container with a lid on it. So did the sludge. So he complained that what he was eating didn't taste good at all. Some one went to check and sure enough he was trying to spoon in that awful sludge. Well there was the time when we had cataract surgeries that you stayed in the hosptial for two day. When you co,e out of surgery, your eye is bandaged up pretty good. The surgeon also have the family the cataract in what looks like what you give your urine specimen in. It had a screw top lid. So this old mad called out and said his meal was real nasty. He had taken off the lid and drank his cataract. Of course it was give to the patient in fermaldenyde! Right after that the policy was changed. We also had the old lady that was kind of sick in her head that ate her thermometer. Yep, it was the old Mercury kind. Now that story got around the hosptial fast! Once housekeeping heard any story it spread like a wild fire. You never knew if it was true or not but I was on the unit that all of these stories happened. Wow, has nursing changed.
Kelly, tell us how many kids have put something up their noses in your day care???
Choir practice was good tonight. We are trying to work on new music while still working on the Christmas cantata. A new guy joined the choir tonight. He's a neat kid, mist graduated from high school and a very polite guy. I'm not sure what his voice is like but I know being in the youth group is very important to him and being a leader is. He says he is a bass and we really need them so we will see if he stays. It's kind of hard to walk into choir practice when we are doing this hard stuff and most of us are getting it pretty well and he doesn't know a thing. Directors policy is that you attend three practices before you sing on a Sunday. That way she knows you are serious and half way know the music. He was put beside two basses that know their music real well. He has the most beautiful long wavy blonde hair. And blue eyes! He has a twin sister. She sang beside me last Wednesday night when the multigenerational choir was practicing and she can't sing at all.
My sis is gong to come over tomorrow and we are going to fill a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child. And we might go shopping or Culvers for iced custard. She hasn't seen Mozart for awhile so I a, anxious to see what she thingks of my little boy. Had my routine hair appointment today and she has a 3 year old dog and 5 month old puppy. They acted just like my two. The puppy just irritating the dickens out of the adult dog.
Pip, saw on tv tonight a story of a group that raises golden retrievers as hug dogs. They take me to areas of disasters. They were there in the small town in Texas just to let people hug them. They looked exactly liked yours. The eyes have so much compassion in them.,
Joyce, Imdiana
My Golden’s would b good hug dogs now that they r older, theirs are probably therapy dogs like rocky was
Katla- thx for your kind words,?that means aliot1 -
Good morning everyone! I'm still unable to make comments on posts on my newsfeed and my wall. Regarding my bacon and egg fast my husband and I have both lost weight every day. Today we invited my sister and her husband over for bacon and eggs! We will also be going swimming and hot tubing. Love Arizona weather!
Kettlebell Workout
Morning workout
Goblet squat-3X5X 40
Russian kettle bell swing-14 X7X 40
Evening workout
Goblet squat-3X5X 40
Russian kettle bell swing-14 X7X 40
Have a great day everyone!
Mary from Arizona1 -
Felicia ~ What a cute video. I remember which one is yours from the earlier photo you posted.
Meg ~ We will all think about you as you have to make this transition.
PIP ~ Those pics of Kirby's accident are scary. He is lucky to be alive and has made great achievements in his recovery.
Spent over an hour talking to online reps from X-Finity trying to get my mobile phone and Fire tablet back on the internet. Was finally sent to the top advisor and he got me straightened out. Love reading on the tablet and hated
being without it.
Carol in GA
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I slept in today. I have one heck of a headache today, likely further exacerbated by our needing to have the heater on for the first time this season. The dry heater air always gives me sinus headaches. I didn’t have this problem in radiator buildings up North, only when the heated air is moved by fan does it give me headaches.
I have to go to work at 4om so since I don’t feel great I think I’m going to lounge in the bed and doze until noon. I’ll be walking to work so I should still get in a good amount of steps today. I think I’ll skip swimming until Saturday though.
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good mid morning from Ct. I got the munchkin on the bus and ran some errands and walked the boys .now home and getting stuff done here..Pandora is on, and playing just lovely music, Patsy Cline, Gene Kelly right now Singin in the Rain, Frank Sinatra.. my friend is coming to put the WIFI thermostats in this afternoon so trying to get things done that I need to now.. making lists for thanksgiving and christmas
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Heather: Good luck with your viewing.
KJ: Your new haircut sounds sassy and fun. WTG! :bigsmile:
stellafgus: Welcome to a great group of supportive women. You can find us again by clicking on the blank star at the top of the page. It will turn yellow. After that, you find us by clicking on the gray star.
Barbie: I'm going to have to get a bareback pad to cushion myself from Arrow's boney back. Ouch. I think it is a toss up as to whose bones inflicted more discomfort on the other. (The bareback work is needed for improving my balance & core strength. Yoga is also a big help in this skill-set.)
Pip: Is there a training course for therapy dogs? When my mom was in an assisted living facility we took our previous dog in to visit. The dog was still a pup & too young to be around frail elderly people. She liked to jump up on people. Our current old boy would be stellar in the job. He's been wonderful with the grandchildren, no matter how young and grabby they are. All the dogs in our family are seniors now. In fact, all but one is ten years old. The eldest dog in the family belongs to DDIL. He is closer to 16 & is on daily dialysis at home.
Yoga today! Yay!!!!
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
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Kelly - I hope you write a book about your daycare experiences! Reminds me of the old Art Linkletter program, "Kids say the Darndest Things", lol. Your haircut sounds adorable! Good idea on switching the jeep tires. Freezing rain...ah, the good old Midwest. I wonder if you are in for a cold and snowy winter? I am still amazed the Great Lakes freeze over sometimes.
Pip - wow, those photos of Kirby are something! So glad he healed so well and can do the things he loves to do! He's a tough cookie - of course, he had plenty of your TLC to help him!
Meg - glad you'll have someone to carpool with on your visits to your DH.
Heather - hope Jessamy's presentation is archived so we can pop in and watch it in case we miss it live. Great they have a nanny to help keep track of the kids during the day!
Felicia - that's a cute ad, lots for parents to think about and also showing kids with critical thinking. Your son is a natural! I would have been stuttering and crying at that age (or even the age I am now if I knew someone was taping me, lol.)
Katla - how is your dog faring? Doing better I hope?
Terry - be kind to yourself, you will get there when the time is right. I sure enjoy your posts!
Joyce - oh my word, those were some stories about people getting mixed up with eating sludge and drinking the cataract! I once had a test for H Pylori as I recall, where they needed a poo sample. It had to be refrigerated... I took it to work with me and put it in the fridge (carefully wrapped and sterile) until I could run it over to the lab at the hospital. I didn't have it packaged in anything that looked like lunch, lol, but your story made me think about that. Lunch stealers, beware!!
Allie and Kim - we keep the thermostat to below 65.... right now I have it on the highest of 62. We have a little woodstove in the living room that keeps us toasty, and we like a cold bedroom for sleeping at night. Before we got the woodstove, we'd use one or two of those oil filled heaters, they look like little radiators but they aren't radiant heat so aren't energy suckers. We still use them from time to time. I think they are $30 to $40 at Home Depot and other big box stores.
Rye - OUCH! Did you ice it? I have done that too. And I hear you on the dry air/sinus headaches! I use a lot of Neilmed Nasogel - seems to coat the sinuses and keep humidity up there. Even tho we run a humidifier, it's not enough.
Machka - glad you are recovering from that tooth extraction. I think I have a cavity starting under an old crown... my last experience at a dentist working on those molars, I had a bad reaction to the painful shot...there was plenty of screaming and crying and shaking, I had never done that in my life. The evil hygienist just kept pumping the novocaine in and wasn't giving it time to freeze the nerve. I have since switched dentists, will likely need a root canal and in that case, I am considering finding an endodontist who will just knock me out.
Right now I have a big pot of tomatoes simmering down into sauce. I froze a lot of ripe ones this summer - too hot to cook and can - so today I'm starting to process them. It was a good year for tomatoes, they are very sweet.
Got the results of the DXA bone density scan back. My doc said it's a little worse than it was 3 years ago, still not bad enough to warrant taking medication. She said 6 months of strength training isn't long enough to really show much improvement, but keep it up and keep taking Vitamin D3 and calcium, eating healthy. We'll do a recheck in 2 years. It occurs to me that there might have been a little improvement, but of course it doesn't undo all of the prior 2 1/2 years when I had a "sit down" job and my main exercise was walking.
I read in "Strong Women - Strong Bones" yesterday that gals with BMI's over 26 have fewer hip fractures. It said the gals at most risk are tall and thin... which I was for several years, especially for the time period I was borderline anorexic. So carrying a few extra pounds and staying in the higher BMI range of 25 is my goal and I think will help me in the long run. My mother and grandfather (her dad) both had hip fractures, and were not active in their later years, so the genetic predisposition is something on my mind.
I am adding "jumping" (hopping a little) and "heel drops" - up on tiptoes then boom down on heels several times a day - in shoes, on carpeting. I told my doc don't worry, I don't plan to leap from the coffee table or anything.
Welcome newcomers, by the way -- we can be daunting just from the sheer volume - just jump on in so we can get to know you!!
Time to get the shoes on and see what's happening in the neighborhood.
Have a great Thursday!!
Lanette
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Felicia ~ What a cute video. I remember which one is yours from the earlier photo you posted.
Meg ~ We will all think about you as you have to make this transition.
PIP ~ Those pics of Kirby's accident are scary. He is lucky to be alive and has made great achievements in his recovery.
Spent over an hour talking to online reps from X-Finity trying to get my mobile phone and Fire tablet back on the internet. Was finally sent to the top advisor and he got me straightened out. Love reading on the tablet and hated
being without it.
Carol in GA
i agree. i tell him all the time and remind him of how far he's come. especially when he doesn't run or do as well as he used to0 -
Heather: Good luck with your viewing.
KJ: Your new haircut sounds sassy and fun. WTG! :bigsmile:
stellafgus: Welcome to a great group of supportive women. You can find us again by clicking on the blank star at the top of the page. It will turn yellow. After that, you find us by clicking on the gray star.
Barbie: I'm going to have to get a bareback pad to cushion myself from Arrow's boney back. Ouch. I think it is a toss up as to whose bones inflicted more discomfort on the other. (The bareback work is needed for improving my balance & core strength. Yoga is also a big help in this skill-set.)
Pip: Is there a training course for therapy dogs? When my mom was in an assisted living facility we took our previous dog in to visit. The dog was still a pup & too young to be around frail elderly people. She liked to jump up on people. Our current old boy would be stellar in the job. He's been wonderful with the grandchildren, no matter how young and grabby they are. All the dogs in our family are seniors now. In fact, all but one is ten years old. The eldest dog in the family belongs to DDIL. He is closer to 16 & is on daily dialysis at home.
Yoga today! Yay!!!!
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
a good thing to start for a dog is basic manners then get him to pass the CGC course (canine good citizen). we went thru the Pet Partners program, you can google it. we had to get him re-re-registered every 2 years, go thru the tests n all. you can google the cgc process and tests in your area.
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Advice needed! as everyone knows we moved from Minnesota to Arizona because of my Lymes disease and that my husband could possibly transfer jobs. As you know the job transfer did not happen. He is still looking for full-time work but he did file for Social Security benefits starting in January. I have been retired since November 2012 and have a very difficult time with brain fog and malaise. I on the other hand could get a teaching position very easily here as they are over 1300 teachers short for this school year. I also am licensed in math and science which are sought after fields of expertise. Just for the heck of it I have been applying online and several schools are interested in me. I'm not sure if I can physically or mentally work a full-time job because of my illness. I substituted after my retirement and ended up with migraines almost every day that I did. Mainly because if you are not the classroom teacher students that are disrespectful for their normal teacher will act out generally for a substitute as well as students that don't usually act up will try to see what they could get away with. I have excellent classroom management skills but it always seemed as though I was in a battle. I actually hate substituting. There is also an opportunity to teach English to online Chinese students. The problem with that is it is from 3:30 AM to 7:30 AM my time. We really don't need the extra money. Working would be mainly for healthcare since we decided that we would not pay $1300 a month for insurance. My DH will be eligible for Medicare in one year next December. I have five more years before I can collect Medicare. So, to work or not to work that is the question!
Mary from Arizona2 -
Rye Ouch! Hope you feel better soon.grogers511 wrote: »Yvonne - I made the English Muffin from a recipe I found online. Only took a couple of minutes. I have a Corningwsre dish - 4 inch square. I melted a tablespoon of butter in the microwave. Added 3 Tablespoons of almond flour, 1/2 tablespoon of coconut flour, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, a pinch of salt, and an egg. Mixed it all together. Let it sit s few seconds to thicken uo. Then microwaved it for 90 seconds. Let it cool a little. Split it and toasted it in my toaster. While it was toasting I used the same 4 inch dish and added scrambled egg and chopped sausage patty. Cooked a minute. Flipped, added shredded cheese and cooked another 30 seconds.
I've made a few of these "muffins" to store in the fridge and toast as needed. Then I can use them as sandwich buns too.
This low carb Muffin has 7g carbs and 3.5g fiber. The original Thomas English Muffin has 25g carbs and 1g fiber. The difference in carbs/fiber is worth making my own.
--Ginger in Texas
Ginger and Yvonne Neato! This English Muffin is a variation of an Atkins MIM (Muffin in a Minute)! - the originial MIM recipe calls for flax meal and baking powder, but people do use almond and coconut flour and make MIMs savory or sweet. I imagine this version comes out like an English Muffin because you use baking soda instead of baking powder. If you Google the term Muffin in a Minute, you will find tons of variations. Some people think they are too eggy or too heavy, but I like them. If you want a taller muffin (not flat like an English Muffin), it's important to use very fresh baking powder so it will "rise" while cooking.
Cauliflower Crust Another great low carb alternative! You gals are rockin' this low carb approach. Not that that's the only way to lose weight, of course. I had great cauliflower pizza crust success once and then two epic failures so I order them now from Amazon or from this website: https://www.califlourfoods.com
Kelly LOL! Elephant poop. Of course, if any of them grow up to be overweight adults and join MFP, they can go to this link to find out how much an elephant penis weighs: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/660835/ive-lost-an-elephant-penis/p1
Felicia What a cute little zoologist! Adorable.
Katla One therapy dog course is AKCGoodDog. There are others. Our Bailey failed to become a therapy dog because he screamed every time he was brushed. LOL! Bad dog.
Mary I think you should become a personal trainer. You could work when you wanted, make decent money, satisfy your teaching desire, and help people...you could also be a life coach...just sayin'. I don't know what training/credentials you would need, but you'd be excellent at both.
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Mary ~ I would do the online teaching job! I did a long term sub for an expecting teacher for 4 month and it was OK with the exception that my style of teaching and class management was completely opposite of hers. I think the students eventually fell into my ways. The next year I tried subbing and quit after discovering that it was like baby sitting which I hated.
JMHO ~ Carol in GA1 -
Mary is there any chance you could find a part-time teaching job? I totally agree with you about subbing, it is tough!!Margaret is an angel for being so good at it. I could never sub. but is it possible to work part time at a school with a routine, not as much pressure, but a routine? I don't know about tutoring in the middle of the night! Yeesh, that doesn't sound easy. Keep looking, like you say, the teacher shortage should work in your favor, you might be able to arrange your own job!
Barbie my DH and I often go out on "errand dates", he really likes them cause he's lousy at shopping. We do have similar styles of shopping, keep it short and stick to the list!
Heather I'm trying to find your DIL's ted talk, help!!
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Felicia- Is your son the little "scientist" in the orange (I think he was wearing orange)? You are right, all the kids were cute. I love to see kids talking about what they want to be when they grow up and why. And that building set is AWESOME! Sometimes I wish I had older kids all day every day. I would love to get kits like this and work on them with my kids. I am going to pass the link along to my daycare families, though. I have many former daycare kids that would love something like this.
No. He's the last one, in the striped shirt, who wants to be a zoologist. I was annoyed that he wouldn't look at them when he was talking. One of my pet peeves. I'm always having to turn him around and whisper to him, "Look at people when you talk to them." My oldest son took the youngest out trick or treating and texted me to say that his "social anxiety disorder is crippling him." Well. That's a little extreme. He is very shy around people he doesn't know, but I wouldn't say he has a social anxiety disorder. He just didn't want to go to houses with their lights off. Well, duh.
And the Piper is amazing. My youngest got it for Christmas last year and had it put together that afternoon. And now that it's built, he can play Minecraft on it. Lol
This weather is so cold! I know we'll get used to it, but these first few mornings are killers.
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon
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fanncy0626 wrote: »Advice needed! as everyone knows we moved from Minnesota to Arizona because of my Lymes disease and that my husband could possibly transfer jobs. As you know the job transfer did not happen. He is still looking for full-time work but he did file for Social Security benefits starting in January. I have been retired since November 2012 and have a very difficult time with brain fog and malaise. I on the other hand could get a teaching position very easily here as they are over 1300 teachers short for this school year. I also am licensed in math and science which are sought after fields of expertise. Just for the heck of it I have been applying online and several schools are interested in me. I'm not sure if I can physically or mentally work a full-time job because of my illness. I substituted after my retirement and ended up with migraines almost every day that I did. Mainly because if you are not the classroom teacher students that are disrespectful for their normal teacher will act out generally for a substitute as well as students that don't usually act up will try to see what they could get away with. I have excellent classroom management skills but it always seemed as though I was in a battle. I actually hate substituting. There is also an opportunity to teach English to online Chinese students. The problem with that is it is from 3:30 AM to 7:30 AM my time. We really don't need the extra money. Working would be mainly for healthcare since we decided that we would not pay $1300 a month for insurance. My DH will be eligible for Medicare in one year next December. I have five more years before I can collect Medicare. So, to work or not to work that is the question!
Mary from Arizona
Mary - I agree with Karen, maybe something part time wouldn't be bad. If your disease is in remission, maybe you'd be better able to handle the classroom without developing a migraine.
Also, are any of these jobs in private and/or parochial schools? I think discipline is probably encouraged in those situations and it wouldn't be so much like babysitting, lol. My DH taught in both private and public funded vocational schools, and far preferred the private. Those students were there to learn.
So that might be an option you'd like if available.
How close are you to Tucson? I did a little searching and there's a Direct Care clinic there that costs $40 per month with a little extra for office visits. Not sure what kind of insurance you'd get for $1300 per month, but if you can find an inexpensive catastrophic policy and a Direct Care office for regular stuff, that might make health care more affordable. I am glad to see more of these types of clinics popping up; we love ours.
Good luck!
Lanette
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Today is Chaos Never Dies Day!
"Chaos Never Dies Day takes the stance that the perfect, quiet moment we’re all striving for and anticipating doesn’t – and likely never will – exist, and that we should make the most of now, chaos-and-all, and embrace the moment."
Karen - I'd be more willing to comply with the doc's advice on lab work if it didn't cost so much! ;D
Vicki - Sounds like your sister left you a wonderful treasure box!
Meg - I couldn't find the soup recipe I liked so much last time, so tonight I'm making the one below, which is a little more involved. The one I used before was super simple, and I'm determined to find it again. http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/roasted-cauliflower-soup-0
Becca - Thank you! I sang "What A Wonderful World" to myself on your behalf.
Ginger - Thanks! I didn't realize until after I'd posted that your recipe link was for the muffins... I thought it was for the breakfast sandwiches! Anyhow, I'll try making my own next time, but last night I got the makings for some using "light" English muffins, which will still make some nice hot breakfasts for us.
Barbara - Photographs are what first led me to work on my weight too. It seems like some people put on weight when they're stressed and others lose it. I remember a friend, going through a divorce about the same time I was, commenting that she looked "like a scarecrow" in family pictures. And I looked like a stuffed turkey in mine.
Michelle - If you can't expand your mother-in-law's quilt, it might make a dramatic wall hanging. I like to use them behind beds, sofas, etc.
Rye - Ouch! Typical cats, pigging out while Mom's bleeding on the floor.
Pip - Congratulations to Kirby on attaining his marathon goals! That's a heck of a come-back story, and I agree that it would probably be inspirational to other runners.
Today is my last work day before another long weekend at Dad's river house, sans cell phone and internet. Hopefully I'll at least manage to get in cell range long enough to check in every day. I'm taking a small trailer down there (goes behind a riding mower), so I have to take the older car and the utility trailer. Not looking forward to that... I've already scouted out a slightly longer route that doen't involve getting on the interstate or the toll road.
Anyhow, I'd better get on it if I want to finish work at a reasonable hour today.
Wish you all a beautiful day.
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Meg - Found it! https://www.skinnytaste.com/turmeric-roasted-cauliflower-soup/1
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fanncy0626 wrote: »Advice needed! as everyone knows we moved from Minnesota to Arizona because of my Lymes disease and that my husband could possibly transfer jobs. As you know the job transfer did not happen. He is still looking for full-time work but he did file for Social Security benefits starting in January. I have been retired since November 2012 and have a very difficult time with brain fog and malaise. I on the other hand could get a teaching position very easily here as they are over 1300 teachers short for this school year. I also am licensed in math and science which are sought after fields of expertise. Just for the heck of it I have been applying online and several schools are interested in me. I'm not sure if I can physically or mentally work a full-time job because of my illness. I substituted after my retirement and ended up with migraines almost every day that I did. Mainly because if you are not the classroom teacher students that are disrespectful for their normal teacher will act out generally for a substitute as well as students that don't usually act up will try to see what they could get away with. I have excellent classroom management skills but it always seemed as though I was in a battle. I actually hate substituting. There is also an opportunity to teach English to online Chinese students. The problem with that is it is from 3:30 AM to 7:30 AM my time. We really don't need the extra money. Working would be mainly for healthcare since we decided that we would not pay $1300 a month for insurance. My DH will be eligible for Medicare in one year next December. I have five more years before I can collect Medicare. So, to work or not to work that is the question!
Mary from Arizona
Mary - I agree with Karen, maybe something part time wouldn't be bad. If your disease is in remission, maybe you'd be better able to handle the classroom without developing a migraine.
Also, are any of these jobs in private and/or parochial schools? I think discipline is probably encouraged in those situations and it wouldn't be so much like babysitting, lol. My DH taught in both private and public funded vocational schools, and far preferred the private. Those students were there to learn.
So that might be an option you'd like if available.
How close are you to Tucson? I did a little searching and there's a Direct Care clinic there that costs $40 per month with a little extra for office visits. Not sure what kind of insurance you'd get for $1300 per month, but if you can find an inexpensive catastrophic policy and a Direct Care office for regular stuff, that might make health care more affordable. I am glad to see more of these types of clinics popping up; we love ours.
Good luck!
Lanette
Thanks for the information on healthcare I had no idea that the direct care clinic. Does that count as having insurance for the government taxes? I will check into that. We are two hours away from Tucson so maybe there is something closer. I will also look at the private and parochial schools for full-time employment. I just got off the phone with somebody that wants me to work for them. It's kind of unsettling when I really don't know if I would be able to be successful.
KarenVA,KarenNY, and Carol - thanks for the feedback! I would very much like to be a personal trainer or life coach. I thought about that as well. The main reason I would be working though to get health benefits. Not sure if that would be a benefit. Thanks for your thoughts on my dilemma! All your feedback is given me a lot to think about!
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fanncy0626 wrote: »fanncy0626 wrote: »Advice needed! as everyone knows we moved from Minnesota to Arizona because of my Lymes disease and that my husband could possibly transfer jobs. As you know the job transfer did not happen. He is still looking for full-time work but he did file for Social Security benefits starting in January. I have been retired since November 2012 and have a very difficult time with brain fog and malaise. I on the other hand could get a teaching position very easily here as they are over 1300 teachers short for this school year. I also am licensed in math and science which are sought after fields of expertise. Just for the heck of it I have been applying online and several schools are interested in me. I'm not sure if I can physically or mentally work a full-time job because of my illness. I substituted after my retirement and ended up with migraines almost every day that I did. Mainly because if you are not the classroom teacher students that are disrespectful for their normal teacher will act out generally for a substitute as well as students that don't usually act up will try to see what they could get away with. I have excellent classroom management skills but it always seemed as though I was in a battle. I actually hate substituting. There is also an opportunity to teach English to online Chinese students. The problem with that is it is from 3:30 AM to 7:30 AM my time. We really don't need the extra money. Working would be mainly for healthcare since we decided that we would not pay $1300 a month for insurance. My DH will be eligible for Medicare in one year next December. I have five more years before I can collect Medicare. So, to work or not to work that is the question!
Mary from Arizona
Mary - I agree with Karen, maybe something part time wouldn't be bad. If your disease is in remission, maybe you'd be better able to handle the classroom without developing a migraine.
Also, are any of these jobs in private and/or parochial schools? I think discipline is probably encouraged in those situations and it wouldn't be so much like babysitting, lol. My DH taught in both private and public funded vocational schools, and far preferred the private. Those students were there to learn.
So that might be an option you'd like if available.
How close are you to Tucson? I did a little searching and there's a Direct Care clinic there that costs $40 per month with a little extra for office visits. Not sure what kind of insurance you'd get for $1300 per month, but if you can find an inexpensive catastrophic policy and a Direct Care office for regular stuff, that might make health care more affordable. I am glad to see more of these types of clinics popping up; we love ours.
Good luck!
Lanette
Thanks for the information on healthcare I had no idea that the direct care clinic. Does that count as having insurance for the government taxes? I will check into that. We are two hours away from Tucson so maybe there is something closer. I will also look at the private and parochial schools for full-time employment. I just got off the phone with somebody that wants me to work for them. It's kind of unsettling when I really don't know if I would be able to be successful.
Mary from Arizona
Mary - this is the clinic in Tucson: http://www.tucsondirectcare.com/individuals/ This one is very similar to the clinic DH and I go to.
There should be resources, even an insurance broker you could call and ask what it would cost for high deductible health insurance that qualifies for Obamacare. I would think they'd have the lowest premiums. Also, that clinic in Tucson can help with that as well and explain how it works per their website. They might even know of a Direct Care type clinic closer to where you are.
Luckily, I had high deductible insurance at work when DH and I started going to our Direct Care clinic. Since it wasn't put through insurance, the monthly fee didn't go toward the deductible or out of pocket, but we didn't care. The savings on lab fees and procedures was really great and we did save $$.
Lanette0 -
Lanette- thanks for the information! We will definitely look into that. We had 5500 out-of-pocket per person before benefits would kick in. So, we are very used to paying through the nose. John's cobra insurance is 1300 a month if we wanted to continue with them. What was really disheartening is that when John was applying for jobs he applied to be an health insurance salesman. I wonder if the American public would be happy to know that as a health insurance salesman he would have gotten 55% of your premium! That doesn't even count the percentage that the insurance company it self makes.
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Mary – Are you retired due to age, or a disability? I never worked after I was disabled because of the job I had – I could not do it – could not have done it even ½ time and I definitely was not going to work somewhere that my 'new' disability (if I could not do the job would be considerably lower than it is now). My bring home pay dropped about 75% - It was a 'shocker'. My husband wanted me to start painting again, and get a foothold into that saying I could supplement my income. I’ve done several paintings on commission; but, if I don’t have a venue to hang my paintings or drawings, I won’t get the business to make it worth my time. I volunteered to help the art teacher at the school my granddaughters go to; but, after the first time she never called me back. I think she was a bit on the jealous side; I majored in art, she only took a few courses. I had the attention of the 3rd graders. She said that I’d do great helping her with the older kids (middle school); but, like I said, never heard from her again. The next year, due to health reasons, she did not teach. Again I volunteered by nothing. After the 3rd year I gave up on it. But, I don't want to make what is something I love doing as a hobby to become a job that I would end up hating.
Did you retire because of the Lyme disease? Would it be too late to apply for disability? Maybe talk to a SS Disability attorney? You’re right that math and science teacher are in demand. My DOGD is a biology major; but, while she could name her price for teaching, I don’t think she knows what to do. Gets a 50/50 good/bad of teaching. She still might need to. She’d want to teach in middle school, if she does. I would not do ‘anything’ that required me to be up at 3:30am to 7:30AM … I’d be dead on my feet for the rest of the day; or need to sleep all AM.
This year I asked Louis is he thought I should try to get a part-time job and he wondered what I wanted to do or if I thought I could handle it. We did not talk about it further. I think you have to ask yourself … why do you want to go back to work? Will it affect you with Lyme Disease and how? It isn’t worth it if you are not going to make enough to justify working or if you think you’d give it up if it wasn’t. After our discussion just got tabled … I discovered that I probably would not be able to take the stress of working because of my bipolar disorder and seizures (even though they are controlled by medication. I also did not want to run the risk of having my disability check cut by what I made working a job. While I called the SSA, I never got 2 answers about it at any time. Nah, I wasn’t going to risk it.
Just found out yesterday that I can get our COBRA-ed insurance for almost $200 less, provided that we always go to a PPO, which we already do. Since we are on Medicare, BC/BS comes in and pays what they don’t at a %. But, we’ve never had to pay the difference because once Medicare and Insurance has paid, they have to write off the balance. Much better than trying to find out what Medicare offers for other things that it doesn’t pay for that my insurance does.
Also, if your husband only has one more year until he retires; I think I would be working toward getting your monthly bills low enough for his SSI to cover them and then you could go whenever you wanted to. We have no credit card debt other than the one he has for his business which he rarely uses to pay for painting supplies because he doesn’t want to pay the interest on them, when he could buy them out-of-pocket and the people he pays for basically pay for it anyway.
If you teach, I would say look into private or parochial schools. While you might find they are more willing to work, I don’t know that I would say they would be any easier to deal with (depending on their age) … they’d still be a little too young or too old and even they are not necessarily better mannered, even ‘if’ their parents are paying for them to go to school. I’d say if it hasn’t presented a problem for you not working since you moved there, I would say, no, it would not be worth it; but, that is IMHO only.
OMGoodness … you pay $1300 per month for insurance (assuming it is health care); do you have something you had to purchase due to The Affordable Health Care Act (ObamaCare). I know my son (who works for DH – his Dad) looked into the exchanges and they were going to cost him about that and still have a $5000 deductible. He chose to ‘not apply for it’ and thankfully DDnL#1 got a job before they were going to be charge a fee – about $1900 a piece for not having it when they filed to the IRS. They get you coming and going.
Lenora
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Did Bob Harper's Ultimate Cardio DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do Cathe Legs with Weights and Barre DVD.
Rye - how far away is it to your SIL's?
Had the Newcomer general meeting. The speaker next month will be this lady who is a survivor of the Miracle on the Hudson, only we won't be here to see her talk. Boo... We'll be driving to VA to go see TSO. However, the gal who is arranging it is going to have a showing of the movie "Sully". We volunteered our house to have it. So did one other couple. We figure we can handle 8 people including Vince and myself.
NYKaren - how long do you think the stuffing will need to be in the oven after we get there? It's just me, but I can't go someplace empty handed. It will be all cooked.
Lisa - do you leave the door open at night, too? I'm not surprised that you haven't gained anything since leaving Texas. You've been pretty busy
Pat - I'm sorry your DH had to go thru all that. How wonderful that your family was so supportive!
Carol - I doubt I can bake the stuffing after I arrive since we probably won't be leaving until around 9:30-10 (Loki needs his med). By the time we get up there it'll probably be around 6 or 7. The stuffing probably takes at least 45 minutes to an hour to bake. That'll probably be too late. But thanks for the suggestion. I usually do freeze the desserts and other things I take up to Jess' for thanksgiving and let them thaw in the car on the way up. If I was making the stuffing for Jess, I could probably bake it at her place since we'll be there already. But not this time. Well, maybe we won't be going to their house after all.
Wondering if someone bought the house across the street from us. It looks like someone moved in yesterday. Vince didn't see any activity, maybe they work. Guess we'll see tonight. I'll probably take something over there, maybe next week. To be honest, I'm a curious one. But I also want them to feel welcome and to be know that they can call us if they need us.
KJ - How terrible that you may have to bring Joaquim with you <snicker>. Colorful snot...interesting. I'm with you, I always called them "helicopters" too!
Got 2 pairs of pants in the mail that I ordered from Belk. I wasn't sure if a 6 Short would be too small for me, but they fit OK.
Vicki - your post about quilts reminded me that I have from MIL what was probably going to be the top of a quilt. It's all hand quilted. Only problem is that it must have been made for either a single or maybe a double bed. I only have queen and king size beds. I wonder how it'll look if I somehow put material on the sides to make it bigger?
Meg - I've made the pizza crust pizza. I thought it was quite good
Katla - The lady who passed away (her hubby was the guy we took to ceramics Mon) had this recipe which I will probably make for the people across the street
Felicia - what an adorable son you have
Barbara - welcome! We're here to stand behind you all the way
Michele in NC
The oven might be full depending on what they are cooking for Thanksgiving I'd wrap the stuffing in aluminum foil and heat it that way. That way you aren't trying to fit another casserole dish in the oven. I'm hungry just thinking about it!0 -
Michele - if you take it out of the oven, wrap it in foil and put it in an empty ice chest, it will keeps it hot for a while. I don’t know about several hours though.
Okie0
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