WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2018

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  • TrishasTime
    TrishasTime Posts: 588 Member
    Good morning everyone

    Machka - That is great news that he is opening his eyes - best wishes for you both

    Meg - Vent away - we are here to support each other

    Wendy - I love the comments about the filly responding so well and being a tent arab

    I worked from hom eyeserday and finally completed the testing for the new system, It is amazing just how much more you can get done if you are not accessable at your desk


    Trish from OZ
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    Congrats MAry on the new job. You will be great.
    Lisa- Hope you had a great non-Birthday. Also praying for a safe return for your SIL
    MEG - I agree with the comment to put the money away for the kids and let it accumulate without telling their Mom. Come vent whenever you need to. (((hugs)))
    Went to buy new underwear today’s. Can’t believe how expensive it is. Luckily I had some $$coupons and a 20% off one so the final cost wasn’t too bad.
    Wendy- I love the Name Lady, she sounds wonderful.
    Made potato soup for dinner so better go finish salad.
    Suebdew in TX
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,695 Member
    edited April 2018
    Lisa - Happy Birthday! I also have removed my birthday from social media - I kind of feel like Barbie and you - every day is a special day, not just the anniversary of when I popped into the world, lol.

    Lenora     - I hope the chiropractor can get a good "pop" with my back. I am hoping the chiro knows something about Jones Strain/Counterstrain where the leg is positioned so it no longer hurts and is held in that position for a few minutes while the muscles relax and forget how to hurt. I had this bad back thing about ten years ago and the PT I saw then used this technique and it was like night and day. I haven't found a PT since that really understands it. But I will look up trigger points and see if I can find them! Thanks for the tip!

    I forgot to mention my doctor is a D.O. - she basically does family medicine and hasn't integrated adjustments into her practice - I'll ask her why next time I see her. But that's why she knows the benefit of chiropractic and recommends them.

    Machka     - thank you for the update - glad he's in very good hands! And good that you are keeping things as far as work and school as "normal" as possible. Helps to keep your mind on something else while time does its job.

    Meg     - (((HUGS)))). My nephew who is adopted found his birth parents, or I guess they found him. After all the big reunion they discovered they didn't have much in common other than DNA. But my brother and SIL have been real good about helping keep in touch if he wishes - his birth grandfather was 1/2 native American and had a "tribal" funeral ceremony they all attended. But I know that's much different than having relatives in Russia. My heart is aching for you, girlfriend. You and your DH gave her every opportunity to live in this country. I don't think your actions and feelings are unreasonable.

    I agree it's kind of hard to find people now with faces gone from the profile pictures. A good reminder to please add your names and state or country/region you are from on every post. Helps us all keep each other straight. <3

    Lanette
    SW WA State



  • langman22
    langman22 Posts: 786 Member
    Lanette, I agree, we all to sign our posts now as we cant rely on pics so much any more.

    Meg, as an adoptive mother I feel your heartache. The year my DD graduated from high school she got a letter from her birth mother. She wanted to just run out and meet her. I cried all night. So I decided that since she was an adult there wasn’t much I could do. So we had a talk and I told her I was going to go with her. Fortunately, the meeting went Fine although a bit strange. Her birth mother kept in contact for a while but doesn’t any more. Sometimes the best thing to do is step back and give them what they want. Easier said than done I know. You deserve to be respected and have the right to ask for that. Once you “take the wind out of her sales” by pulling back and letting her get what she wants, she will probably learn pretty quickly that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Tough love is tough but sometimes the best course of action. She is also blackmailing you with the kids. Put the money in a college savings account for them. (((Hugs)))

    Mary, my DD is getting her AS through a local community college not on line. Good luck.

    Allie, sorry to hear of your struggles. Look in the front of your phone book for local senior services and just start calling. If you call someone and they can’t help ask them if they can direct you to an agency that could help. If they give you a name, ask if they happen to have the number. Also, I recommend getting a notebook so you can keep track of agencies, phone numbers and contact names. I would also check with local hospital social workers, churchs or even the United Way. ((Hugs))

    Well ready for bed and book.

    Terry in VT where it is snowing once again. Luckily it seems to turn to rain so isn’t accumulating
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,347 Member
    stats for the day:

    bike ride hm 2 gym- 8.01min, 129mhr, 11.1amph. 1.4mi= 77c
    apple watch- 64c
    LATERAL MACHINE- 20min, 115mhr, 56aw, lvl7, 7w 1.33mi= 116c
    apple watch- 111c
    Fl exercises- 7.258min, 1set of 20, 5diff exer, 134mhr= 44c
    apple watch- 50c
    bike ride 2 hm then 2 dome- 22.16min, 140mhr, 10.6amph, 3.9mi= 193c
    apple watch- 148c
    Bike ride puy 2 sumn sta- 16.40min, 11amph., 139mhr, 3mi= 144c
    apple watch- 116c
    jog sta 2 wk, 5.02min, 152mhr, 9.39min mi, .5mi= 62c
    apple watch- 56c
    jog wk 2 sta- 4.29min, 10min mi, 148mhr, .4mi= 61c
    apple watch- 52c
    bike ride dome 2 hm- 19.32min, 8amph, 145mhr, 2.6mi= 176c
    apple watch- 146c

    total cal 873
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    (((Machka))) I hope for the best for you and your DH. Thanks for letting us know how things are going. I'm so happy that your employer is being supportive. :flowerforyou:

    Heather: Between your book, your upcoming move, and your travel plans, you have a good reason for feeling tired and/or unsettled. Each of these things is positive, but good stress is also stress. (((HUGS)))

    Rori: In my experience, cats are masters at finding he best spot for a nap.


    Our homes are being painted, and the painters have found some dry rot in the siding of our house and the two townhomes in the next building. We will each have to take care of that separately. It isn't the job of the paint crew nor the responsibility of the HOA. :ohwell:

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

    - Lucille Ball
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    <3
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,244 Member
    :)<3Machka, when my husband had a serious surgery a few years ago, his daughter offered to come from two states away and stay with me and I declined the offer. I agree, if I don't have my husband with me, I'd rather be alone. Add my hugs to all the ones that others have been sending you.

    :)Rori, the cat always finds the best spot. This afternoon some friends came over for a visit right about the time we normally take a nap. We sat around the table and I dozed off for a few minutes while the others were talking.

    :) Stats for today:
    *19,000 steps
    *180 minutes walking Sasha and Bessie
    *128 minutes riding the exercise bike
    *two hour line dance class

    <3 Barbie from drizzly NW Washington
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    I have 199 posts on my home page and can’t figure out how to delete them. Can anyone help me.
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    edited April 2018
    SueBDew: What homepage are you talking about? There are loads of posts when I go to the MFP page marked "home." It is a simple news feed that includes some of my friends here on 50+, as well as some women who once were active on 50+ but are not posting here on a regular basis any more. There are also friends of friends and a few strangers. I don't do anything with the posts other than read those that catch my attention. I comment to friends. New comments are always on the top of the page. I respond to a few, but not the majority. I have no idea how far back in time it might go. I've never even tried to delete them. They don't seem to take up space on my computer's memory or my phone's memory so I don't worry about them. ;-) If I am terribly wrong about that, I hope someone will let me know.

    Katla
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    coastalgosgal wrote: »
    Machka, sending you all the positive calming thoughts I have four you and your husband. You are so strong, and handling things. Give yourself permission to feel all the emotions though. Somewhere safe, quiet, it will keep your body healthy, dealing with the chaos and uncertainty of life right now. I know for me, it was scary to let myself go there. Like if I cried, I'd never stop, but I did, and I got back up. I had to be strong for husband and my son. Brave faces do come off, but they can be put on again! Hugs to you!!!
    Rebecca

    I've had people offer to stay with me, thinking I'd be lonely in the evenings ... and I've turned them down.

    Yes, I am lonely in the evenings, for my husband, but when I finally get home in the evening, that's my time to have a complete meltdown for a while. If I had people staying, I couldn't do that.

    M in Oz
    ((((((((((Hugs)))))))))). Your meltdowns are your body's coping mechanism. Think of how you cope like a gage in an airplane. The gage that is an artificial horizon. Sometimes you soar upward, and sometimes you plunge downward. As long as you get back to that horizon you will be fine. Just keep flying.
    Take care you!
    Rebecca

  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    suebdew wrote: »
    I have 199 posts on my home page and can’t figure out how to delete them. Can anyone help me.

    Suebdew, is there a little "X" up in the right hand corner of the post box? If so you click it and it will ask if you want to delete that post or not. I'm not sure that works for all posters or just for the posts in your name. Not sure that's much help.

    Janetr OKC

  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,708 Member
    B)
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,067 Member
    :)
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    I have no idea how many pages I read today, and I reD them in several different times today so I really can't remember what I read earlier. I do know that Meg is hurting. Gentle hugs to you my friend. You have gone through so much this last year. You deserve womderful evenings with some one to talk to.

    Happy birthday Lisa. Love what you do and your dedication to the Girl Scouts.

    Heather, so glad about your buyer. Hope it goes seamlessly and you will be on the beach soon.

    Wendy, I wonder how musc longer it will be that your husband still hasn't noticed the second horse out there. I love the name and the fact that you are researching her lineage,

    I am sure there were many things I was wanting to comment about but I can't remember. I think the Lyrica makes me not remember some things, but it does help. I am ma,ing some changes along with the Lyrica. Since doing things like tying my shoes hurt, I have to make sure that I am completely dressed before I take my dose. The same At bedtime. The way my reading has worked out, I have been reading in the evening, but typing on the iPad is cold and mKes my fingers hurt, so even though it is after the time for my dose, I will type and then take my dose. I Can understand why people take extra doses of Lyrica. You hurt enough and you know what the reaction of the first hour after taking the medicine is like, you just tKe ans extra dose, last night I took my regular dose At 10 PM but using my fingers is the evening after I took my dose made me hurt enough that at mednight, I took another dose. I thing I M strong enough not to take a overdose of the medicine. But I do take the extra dose. I M just Lear ing when to take it in relation to my activities to the medicine.

    I went to choir practice tonight, I could really tell my voice was out of practice. t home to protect my left finger and thumb,mix wear my glove. But you can't wear a glove holding your black choir folder on Sunday morning. The outside of the folder is plastic and it is just so cold.and so is the music inside. I put up with it because I have to but it isn't nice. In thinking about why I have not been in choir practice, part of it was apathy. I had pain so stay home. But what I have to tell myself is Joyce, just get up there and do it. You can do it, part of if is confidence, what is the pain level going to be like? So I will be there anyway. There is no way it is going to get any better unless I just try it, plus I get the joy of singing amd listening to the others and just being with them. They are like medicine. Music is like medicine.

    Well one of the things we got to do these last clip.d of days when we were away was spend two days with the f
    Grand kids. I got to see Ellie's ventriloquist act. The dolls name is Jen and she does a very good job. She also showed me one of the other things she is working on. She could all this on utube but she bought this starter kit on Amazon to start building her tow lap top. It come with the base and then different things to help her with coding the first couple of things. It has Mine crafts on it which she likes. She also adopted a child in I think Paraguay through Comapssions international. Last year when her church had a loaf of people had adopted children in India and then compassion dropped out of India. Ellie was really upset over the young girl that she had adopted. What would happen to her school supplies and the food???? So she ans adopted another one now. They right back and forth to each other. The church plans to do an mission trip and hope to be able to meet each of the children that are adptees and send back info to the church members, especially the children. All Ellie's allowance goes to this young girl. So I looked in my purse and I had $4 so I gave $2 to Ellie for her Compassion fund and $2 to Trinity to help her in the two trips her senior class trips. I had to remind her about them but her mom will make sure they go towards those two trips, I am sure next year the fund raising will increase. Both trips are $1000, one to DC and the other for her show choir to go to Disney.

    Well, time to hang up and take my Lyrica to get my pain relieve and have a good night sleep. It gives me a wonderful nights sleep anyway, but it won't hurt before I go to bed.

    Joyce,, Indiana






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  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    DD is here for a couple of days and one of the grands. Love to see them but boy doesn't it upset the routine. I think DH and I need this now and again as we seem to be stuck in our life, is it an age thing? I think part of my problem is I worry about DH, is he upset or annoyed, stupid I know, he's a grown man but old fashioned and a bit baffled and frustrated at the things going on in the world.

    Going out later on a visit to Liverpool University to see pics and stuff associated with Eleanor Rathbone a great liverpool reformer. The ladies club I belong to was started by her in 1918 and has been meeting continuously since then. We then have afternoon tea (oh dear goodies!) never mind back on track tomorrow.

    Hugs for all who need them

    Kate UK <3
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    edited April 2018
    SueBDew In addition to what Katla and Janetr said:

    All friends who post on their own newsfeeds appear on your home page newsfeed. There isn't a lot of choice about what type of posts you see from friends. They control that. But if you click on the little x beside any of the posts, it should give you the option of removing that friend from your newsfeed. If you want to "unhide" them later, from MyHome go to Friends, find the friend's name, and click "unhide".

    If you want to control your own newsfeed, from MyHome go to Settings. Choose Automatic News Feed Update Settings, and go from there.

    Hope this helps.

    Karen in Virginia
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    (((Machka)))
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