WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2018
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Thanks Sunny, that is a good idea. I could use a crock pot to heat up soup. And Barbara OR, I could bring in an electric fry pan so I could make tortillas stuffed with salad, cheese and green chilli sauce, which is what i like to eat when I'm at home. Good ideas, thanks.
Machka, how fascinating. There certainly is an overload of data available, but making sense of all the information...especially when it seems conflicting, that's the hard part. You will be learning some valuable skills!
Terry, that snow! I don't envy you. Driving on icy roads is not for me.
Well, another hour and I will hit the sack. So far I have managed to stay on my fast, as long as I can get through this last hour. I only had a mildly active day so I'm not expecting a huge drop on the scales but I will be getting closer to my Happy Place. Have to go in to work tomorrow so don't know if a 3rd day of fasting will work out for me. I also really need to do some bee work and that almost always triggers an eating episode for me, LOL. Will just take each day as it comes and if I don't reach my goal this time, I will try again in a few days.
Trying not to think about food:
Wendy
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Kelly, Cathy and Suebdew - Great that you were able to meet up! I hear you on the "concerned relatives". When I was expecting Heather's visit two summers ago, I imagined how I would react if I heard one of my kids was planning to meet "someone they met online".
Everything went swimmingly, though. We both survived. :laugh:
Karen in VA - Curmudgeon that I am, I have a pretty high threshold for cute, but that picture of Olivia playing with the kitten sent me flying over it.
I can just imagine the baby-giggles!
Allie - Sorry about all your troubles. It feels like the last straw that you have to take down your bird feeder. Like you, I love watching birds. Better than TV, in my opinion. With everything going on in your life now, you need some birds.
This month I'm editing the annual report for a conglomerate of scientific institutes. This report is one I started doing more than a decade ago. When I started, it was mainly dusty dry summaries of more or less obscure research findings. Over the years, it has evolved into a glossy magazine intended for a general readership. The scientists have figured out that they can use it as way to get their research popularized in correct, accessible English, free of charge. (Free for them - it's the conglomerate that pays.) Back when I started, the publication was 16 pages long. Now I think I have material for 160 pages! Lots of work, though. Time to hop to it!
/Penny, putting nose to the grindstone at the
Incidentally, when I was out jogging yesterday, I encountered four reindeer. Rather reindeer than polar bears!8 -
wildhorsewendy wrote: »Machka, how fascinating. There certainly is an overload of data available, but making sense of all the information...especially when it seems conflicting, that's the hard part. You will be learning some valuable skills!
Yes ... my director, manager, and a more senior colleague are all quite pleased I'm taking this course. They don't mind my other courses, which are all related, but this is one of the ones specifically related to what I do at work, and they'd like to get me into doing a whole lot more!! It's the main reason why my employer is willing to let me take these courses during work time.
Machka in Oz3 -
Barbara- Good for your husband learning the computer. I feel that learning is important in keeping us young.
Meg - I was more thinking of writing the book myself. I am determined that something positive will come out of this whole mess.
Heather - Your DH shouldn't get a false positive as they can differentiate between the types of blood. If there is anything in the test they just request that you come in for a colonoscopy any how. The poo test sent me for a colonoscopy and saved my life. I'm all for it.
KJ - So great that you were able to mee up with SueBDew and Cathy. Joaquin must have stolen their hearts. He is such a cutie.
Karen - the photo of Olivia with the kitty is so precious.
Allie- My heart goes out to you. I might have skipped the tea with Bailey's and just poured it over ice. You certainly have your plate full but you are a strong woman and will handle it all with grace. Praying for the situation with your Dad.
Pip - I'm sorry about the mishap with your lens. Headaches are no fun. Hope you feel better.
Michele - I'm sure that Vince's throat would feel much better with Amaretto. lol. Delivered in one of those hefty medicinal doses.
Penny - So glad it was reindeer instead of polar bears for sure !
I didn't feel well this morning. Light headed, woozy and my throat was sore. I stayed home. Too bad I couldn't have stayed home on one of those cold days. Today I watched quite a few people walk by the window. Chico did his best to convince me but I stayed inside.
Larry was so nice today. He got my coffee, got me a blanket, etc. He talked to me really nicely. He is now talking as if nothing has been going on. So confusing. Still putting things in place. If I don't need it (my preference) then fine and if I do I won't have to scramble to do it. I am trying to figure out how I am going to afford a good lawyer. As my brother said it won't be easy but it might not be as hard as some of the other challenges I've had in my life. He tells me that I am a survivor. My brothers are the best and I know they will help me as much as they can.
Not much going on here. Lots of water, tea, coffee and rest along with chicken soup. I thought I would watch some TV but I think I only saw one show all the way through. Oh well, almost time for my annual break from technology. I won't be giving up you ladies though.
Did the No Sugar thing today. It wasn't difficult as most of the treats have disappeared anyhow. The bread was made without sugar. My treat day will be Harmony's birthday party that has been postponed to the 14th. This Grandma better find the present soon. It doesn't matter what I give her she will open the present and say "OOh! Just what I wanted". She is a little sweetie.
Ryan (my stepson) is having problems that I am talking to Holly. I don't agree with the way she has handled this but I don't agree with things that he did either. I hate that they are going through this. I understand that he is hurt and lashing out but I have cautioned him to be careful as she is the Mother of his sons.
I wonder if he knows that his Dad is texting his Mother (Larry's ex) about the state of our marriage among other things. I love both Ryan and Holly and just want them happy. He sent me a text that seemed to lay blame on Holly for Steve's suicide. It was really unfair and I had to remind him that he had also had enough of Steve living with them and had fought with him the last day he saw him. I didn't want to remind him but I also don't want a twisted perception of what really happened to get out to all their friends. These things are never pretty.
I don't know how to get through his anger and bitterness. I guess I respond kindly and remind him over and over that he is loved.
-Sharon in Lethbridge (enjoying the rise in temperature)6 -
Sharon - Masses of (((((((hugs))))))) 2
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Good morning ladies!
It's another dull and damp day here in South Wales, UK. We had a tiny bit of snow just before Christmas. It's hard to imagine the amount of snow that a lot of you have had.
I can only remember one time that we had enough snow to block roads etc.and that was about 35 years ago!
I enjoy so much reading about all of your lives, mine seems so boring in comparison. I have been encouraged by you all to look at spening less money on buying things that will not enhance my life!
Allie:- my dear old Dad also has CHF and dementia. He has Parkinson's too. He lives in a nursing home close by and is 91.
Take care all;-
Karen UK4 -
Quick question:-
What would you all enter in your exercise for a Lesley Sansome "Walk at home" workout, please?0 -
karenwatkins22 wrote: »Quick question:-
What would you all enter in your exercise for a Lesley Sansome "Walk at home" workout, please?
What is that?
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You know all those things that only happen once in a blue moon ... brace yourselves ...
A blue supermoon lunar eclipse coming for the first time in 150 years
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/a-blue-supermoon-lunar-eclipse-coming-for-the-first-time-in-150-years/news-story/d55d65bf53382a94e3aa5e602e9839fd
"MARK the date, the blood moon or blue supermoon is coming in a rare lunar event which happens only every 150 years.
Three separate celestial events — a supermoon, a blue moon and a full lunar eclipse — will occur simultaneously on January 31.
Just weeks after 2018’s first supermoon of January 1 and 2, this astronomical rarity of events is being called a super blue blood moon eclipse."
Machka in Oz3 -
karenwatkins22 wrote: »Quick question:-
What would you all enter in your exercise for a Lesley Sansome "Walk at home" workout, please?
What is that?
I'm sorry, it's Leslie Sansone and it's on YouTube. I wondered what people would enter it as on MFP exercise.0 -
karenwatkins22 wrote: »Quick question:-
What would you all enter in your exercise for a Lesley Sansome "Walk at home" workout, please?
I do a lot of Leslies workouts and I think I read at one stage that she advised adding as aerobics general I did that until I got Fitbit, now I use FB figure
Kate UK 3 -
You know all those things that only happen once in a blue moon ... brace yourselves ...
A blue supermoon lunar eclipse coming for the first time in 150 years
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/a-blue-supermoon-lunar-eclipse-coming-for-the-first-time-in-150-years/news-story/d55d65bf53382a94e3aa5e602e9839fd
"MARK the date, the blood moon or blue supermoon is coming in a rare lunar event which happens only every 150 years.
Three separate celestial events — a supermoon, a blue moon and a full lunar eclipse — will occur simultaneously on January 31.
Just weeks after 2018’s first supermoon of January 1 and 2, this astronomical rarity of events is being called a super blue blood moon eclipse."
Machka in Oz
I saw that on some news feed and rejoiced, then I read that "it will only be visible in Australia and New Zealand" and stopped rejoicing. Then, at dinner, my husband mentioned that it WOULD SO be visible way up here as well, and I rejoiced again. That's the advantage of living up at the top of the world. When you guys "down under" see the moon, we can peek over the North Pole and see the same thing you're seeing.
As usual, www.timeanddate.com has all the information you ever need about it. Love that website! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-january-31
From their graphics, it's clear that the statement "only Australia and New Zealand" ignores not just Svalbard (which is excusable), but also the entire Pacific, half of China, most of Russia, all of East Asia, plus Alaska and northwestern Canada.
Now we just have to send humble supplications to the Weather Gods so the sky is clear on the 31st.
/Penny, planning on peeking over the
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spikeyhair wrote: »karenwatkins22 wrote: »Quick question:-
What would you all enter in your exercise for a Lesley Sansome "Walk at home" workout, please?
I do a lot of Leslies workouts and I think I read at one stage that she advised adding as aerobics general I did that until I got Fitbit, now I use FB figure
Kate UK
Thanks Kate. I have only been walking for exercise up until now. Since having a stroke 4 years ago my balance has not been good. I also line dance(in my own fashion!) once a week. I have been doing Leslie's workout for a week and have been entering under low impact aerobics but will now change it to your suggestion. Thanks again.
Karen- in a very windy here UK!
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SNOW DAY!! Hip hip hooray, i'm cuddled under my cozy blanket with my second cup of coffee! Will get moving once I feel like it. Gonna batch cook some freezer and pantry items as well as invite a neighbor over for coffee later today. Won't be going to the gym today, cause I'm happy to leave the car parked and burn some calories shoveling--we're only expecting 8" Beth I know that's nothing to you intrepid upstaters, but I am a snow wuss and am happy to stay indoors! I think I may just check out that Leslie Sansone youtube clip, sounds like my cup of tea. Stay cozy ladies. NYKAREN 4
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Weather is finally back to normal here! I’m glad to see the teens gone!! That was COLD for us!
Okie in the TX Hill Country6 -
okiewoman510 wrote: »Weather is finally back to normal here! I’m glad to see the teens gone!! That was COLD for us!
Okie in the TX Hill Country
It's been in the low-20s here ... but is supposed to hit 33 on Saturday.
Oh, oops ... that's Celcius! 4 -
Lunch I bring a canister of old fashioned oatmeal to my work - just have to add some boiling water and stir. It isn’t the instant kind but that still works.2
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Rant ahead.
I need to work on asking myself if this is the right person to help me. If they are not I need to request to work with another person before I or they get frustrated.
It started when I went to our local bank to get some business with an old investment closed out. The red flag was when the person assigning me to work with some one said when we get you someone who understands this investment.
First I sat for 10 minutes waiting for this person who was supposed to know what they were doing.
Then I sat there for 30 minutes listening to him talk to someone on the phone to guide his way through to get this done. Meanwhile I told him three times this is how this investment works. I knew more about this than he did but he would not listen. As he wasted this other person's time and mine he kept saying what an amazing customer I was. Unfortunately it only made me more irritated because I wanted an amazing person that could get this done.
I went to exercise after the experience trying to shake off the experience. When I got home there was an e-mail and a phone call that there was some manual form (Most of what you sign is on computer pads) that needed to be signed.
I had to drive back to the bank at 2:15. I started this at 10:15 in the morning. He was at lunch. This is when I said if I do not get to sign this form in 5 minutes I want another person to get this done. They called him and he sauntered back to get the form. He started to apologize in his same annoying tone he had used on me for 30 minutes in the morning. That is when I said don't say another word. I will not write this up as an official complaint just do not say another word. I signed the form and left. One could tell I was not happy.
Unfortunately I have had one experience too many lately when I think something is done. No wait a minute there is just one more thing you have to do. I think this only added to my frustration.
The reason I was angry was not being heard and being treated with a condescending attitude. When this happens I need to step back and decide if it is time to use my walking feet.
Where was GRACE when I needed it?
I believe thirteen days of below 0 windchill factor is not helping in the mix plus I did not sleep well the night before.
I did sleep well last night. Margaret 9 -
coastalgosgal wrote: »coastalgosgal wrote: »Oooh Baileys...... Once when we were moving from Japan to stateside, I had a bottle of Bailey's. (Like I'm telling you all a great bedtime story....). So I had a gallon of vanilla ice cream too, so every evening I would put a couple of scoops in a soup bowl, and then pour the Bailey's over, until I had soup..... Slept quite well every night, and finished the Bailey's before we transferred. The end..
Becca
Yeah, my husband and I were doing that during our last few months in Victoria (State in Australia) just before we moved to Tasmania (another State in Australia) ... large bowls of ice cream topped with Bailey's and others.
In fact, while we were packing, that was often dinner ... with a side of whatever we wanted to use up in the cupboards.
It's probably no wonder I hit my highest weight ever not long after.
Machka in Oz
With stuff in refrigerators and freezers, if its a long move, well then I usually call all my friends up and they haggle over all of it. I have no problem giving opened boxes of pasta, frozen chicken to friends. It beats throwing it away! I have only done it twice, because the Navy most often gives you a heads up with moves.
Becca
When we moved home from Shanghai, I put all the things I wasn't packing to take home with us in our dining room and invited the neighbors in to take what they wanted. It was entertaining to watch them go through and grab things they wanted.
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margaretturk wrote: »Rant ahead.
I need to work on asking myself if this is the right person to help me. If they are not I need to request to work with another person before I or they get frustrated.
It started when I went to our local bank to get some business with an old investment closed out. The red flag was when the person assigning me to work with some one said when we get you someone who understands this investment.
First I sat for 10 minutes waiting for this person who was supposed to know what they were doing.
Then I sat there for 30 minutes listening to him talk to someone on the phone to guide his way through to get this done. Meanwhile I told him three times this is how this investment works. I knew more about this than he did but he would not listen. As he wasted this other person's time and mine he kept saying what an amazing customer I was. Unfortunately it only made me more irritated because I wanted an amazing person that could get this done.
I went to exercise after the experience trying to shake off the experience. When I got home there was an e-mail and a phone call that there was some manual form (Most of what you sign is on computer pads) that needed to be signed.
I had to drive back to the bank at 2:15. I started this at 10:15 in the morning. He was at lunch. This is when I said if I do not get to sign this form in 5 minutes I want another person to get this done. They called him and he sauntered back to get the form. He started to apologize in his same annoying tone he had used on me for 30 minutes in the morning. That is when I said don't say another word. I will not write this up as an official complaint just do not say another word. I signed the form and left. One could tell I was not happy.
Unfortunately I have had one experience too many lately when I think something is done. No wait a minute there is just one more thing you have to do. I think this only added to my frustration.
The reason I was angry was not being heard and being treated with a condescending attitude. When this happens I need to step back and decide if it is time to use my walking feet.
Where was GRACE when I needed it?
I believe thirteen days of below 0 windchill factor is not helping in the mix plus I did not sleep well the night before.
I did sleep well last night. Margaret
Margaret - you are much more patient than I would have been.
I've been known to speak to a supervisor or manager when it's taking way too long or the employee is floundering.
I attribute this type of customer service to bad management - so I start with these questions to them: has the employee had training? How would the manager/supervisor feel if they were me? Would they have faith the transaction was done correctly and even so, if I have other accounts or investments there - can I trust they are being handled well?
I actually think we are doing a disservice if we don't speak up in cases like this. We never know - perhaps the employee has messed up many times before and is clearly not able to handle the job, but there's not enough in his file to merit a transfer or termination. Maybe the employee has a very ill family member and clearly needs to take sick time. Maybe the employee was hastily "trained" by a lazy supervisor and now has to muddle through it himself.
So I wouldn't be hesitant to call the bank today and speak to the manager about the situation. It's hard for them to improve if they aren't aware of the problem.
Hope you have a better day today!
Lanette
SW WA State5
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