WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2018

coastalgosgal

The price of moving is I look a little beaten up!



But I took a long shower, coconuted myself from head to ankles, tonight I'm looking at feet), and sat at my vanity to dry my hair. I'm wild woman, but feeling better!

Getting used to life, eating well, taking my vitamins!
Hugs to each and every one of you!!
Rebecca

margaretturk

Machka I will say what you are going through is the pits. Take whatever breaks you can for yourself!

trisH_7183

Will try the new...to me...info on sending a pic.
LOL.....my Vionic slippers. DD needed a pic to find herself the same ones.

cityjaneLondon

A whole lot of lawyer's stuff arrived by email. I let DH open the 9 docs and peruse them. Nothing scary, just the usual purchase stuff. At least that means our vendors are serious. We have asked the lawyers to send hard copies. Not going to print out loads of bumpff. One is 50 pages long! One step nearer.

Allie - I agree with the others. If there is no money in it for you WALK AWAY! Let the mortgage company and the creditors fight it out between them. You are not responsible for your father's mess. Don’t touch it.

Tomorrow I hope to get the text of my book finalised. Hope I sleep tonight. Maybe the cover too.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

trisH_7183

Tried again,no dice. Weird MFP...

pipcd34

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Vickil57

Blessings, Vicki GI NE

exermom

Did a DVD on the bosu today. The plan for tomorrow is to do Michelle Dozios' Pure Strength DVD

Cindy - put your feet up, pour yourself a glass of unsweet tea, and jump right in. What is CAKE, tell more about it. Never heard of it

katla - lately I've noticed fewer and fewer people posting on Facebook. hmmm...wonder why???? Arrow has come so far with you, you should be proud.

Heather - You hear so much about restricting calories and what restaurants, etc are doing to help you (offering healthy choices) but I believe more healthy choices would be chosen if the price of the item were dependent on the calories in the item. So you could buy a salad for much less than a Big Mac. It's not that you can't buy a Big Mac, but people who are watching their budget are more likely to choose the lower cost item. But that's only my opinion

okie - I didn't realize how much you lost in the year you've been here. Way to go girl! Good for you getting that fruit and yogurt finished. Do you get your yogurt in the small containers (I think they're about 5oz) or the larger ones (I think they're about 32oz). I usually get the ones in the smaller containers since they are sealed and they can go past the expiration date.

Michele in NC

okiewoman510

Michelle - I buy the small single serve ones. If I am getting the plain for baked potatoes or stroganoff, I will try to meal plan around using it up and get a big one of that. I like to vary my flavor every day for breakfast. I have been obsessed with the toasted marshmallow that was a limited edition and I have been having one every day as a dip for my apples as dessert . I'm very sad that the run has come to an end and I won't be able to get any more. I have enough to last me about 3 more weeks.

Okie in the TX Hill Country

1948Peachy

Allie ~ When I let go of co-ownership of my mom's estate, it was like a rock had been lifted off me. I think others have given you good advice.

Becca ~ Love your house. It looks good inside and out. Sorry about all the bruises. And, it sounds like you got a wonderful deal on your rental.

Lenora ~ So sorry you have to redo the colonoscopy. I have never had one but did do the initial test you can not do at home and send into the lab.

I've read off and on all day and took no notes. So, good wishes and good health to all!

Carol in GA

GodMomKim

Hi Gals,

Janetr – Olivia is super cute – watch out when she is 16!

Machka – I am not surprised at the priority of things and “little things” like broken bones which seem big in most of our lives are so small in this situation. Glad you are seeing progress and that you have managed to get some walking in, thinking of you! Sending good thoughts to both of you.

Okie – Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Becca/Rebecca – so happy for you

Terry – breathe!!! You can do this, just one meal at a time.

Sharon you are being a good roll model for Harmony, both in appropriate snacks and in not being a push over.

Allie – yes no one to take care of you, but also no one to tell you that you should be doing ______

Pip – my Guess is Kirby, but no I don’t remember chic-o-sticks

Busy but not crazy week, I am starting to look at things I might want to see while I am in Boston in May for my god-daughter’s college graduation. I’ll only be there 4 days and one of them is Graduation, so it will be a quick visit. I’ve not been there before, and love the history, my favorite characters in history were Amelia Earhart and Paul Revere, so am hoping to see Paul Revere’s home.

She and I have also talked about what she wants for graduation – a quilted wall hanging so I’ll be working on that as well.

I’m going down to have lunch with my nephew at the end of the week, and will be explaining things he will need to understand with his dad’s terminal cancer. DNR, power of attorney, health care power of attorney, what is cremation…. The list goes on. I’m also bringing forms if maybe his dad would fill one out. I recently found out that my mom’s description of cremation is a human BBQ – that will not be what my nephew hears!!!!

Smiles

Kim from N. California

megblair1

Hi friends. I’d say spring has sprung but we are getting snow over the weekend. Today is a very frustrating work day. The room situation here is intolerable. We have rooms booked for classes, and somehow other people book “over” you. So you look like an idiot. Monday at noon, there were a dozen pizza boxes from over the weekend in my class, and half of them were still full of old, cold pizza. Yesterday I had to go to three different rooms for class, and that happened again today. It’s getting very frustrating! On the good news side DH is doing well, and we had a newcomer at S-anon last night who really needed to be there. So that was awesome.

Rye: sending you hugs for the bad stuff life brings

Allie: glad you are feeling better!

OK I’ll bite…what’s a chick-o-stick?

Rebecca: awesome pictures of deer!! What clutter? All I saw was a gorgeous kitchen!

Ccindy: welcome!

Katla: I’m missing something…can you explain what you were talking about with the photo and using your horse? Those colonoscopy preps are bad!

Wendy: retiring??? OMG you don’t look anywhere near old enough for that! But if you’re excited, I’m excited!

Heather: I love cruising too!

Okie: I do a good job of planning my dinners, but I realize now I need to plan breakfast and lunch too…then don’t turn the alarm off so I can get up in time to actually put them together!

Allie: why would the bank get pissy with you, or was it someone else?

Karen: love the haiku

Well I am going to head home after this very frustrating day and take a nice, long, hot shower! Take care everyone! Meg from Omaha where it might be spring one day.

coastalgosgal

All done. My dear husband needed to put the car in the garage so he's been a bit of a ornery guy today. He had 4 or so heavy boxes, and instead of being SMART and taking books out, he was carrying heavy boxes IN. And complaining that I wasn't helping. So in a git of (inner rage), I carried 4 boxes in! My dear husband has the patience of a gnat sometimes! So now, the house is done, every rubber band, and tack put away, pictures hung. I will walk around and do a video of some sort.
Resting now, and putting my feet up. Oh earlier, saw a squirrel and there are big gray ones here, the size of a cat!!
Oh and I have a robin the is mental, keeps flying into a back window!!! What do I do?
Rebecca

okiewoman510

Kim - Thanks! I'm pretty excited to have made it to maintenance!

Meg - Yes, I plan everything, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. It is all pre logged and I know just where I am at and where I have room to add. On weekends I have convinced the hub we only need to eat out once a day, almost always lunch. That way, I know what I'm having for dinner and I know how much I can afford for lunch calorie wise. My breakfast, lunch and snacks tend to be the same every day so that is easy. I shift weekday lunch to weekend dinner, so it is also easy. For my salads, I go ahead and cut up all my veggies and my meat so all I have to do is dump it together into a bowl and eat it. The veggies I don't worry about weighing every time, I spot check myself occasionally, but they are so low cal in the amounts I use I don't worry with weighing every time. The meat is pre-bagged by serving after I cut it up so I just grab one and I'm good to go. It helps keep me on track. If I don't do that, I'll use time as an excuse to eat something else.

Okie

grandmallie

Becca ~ get some type of cling decal that is dark and put it on the window, they dont know its a window , many birds killed that way.home from work, feeling much better still sound like i smoke 5 packs a day but got laundry done earlier and will make the bed and tuck myself in.. going to my friends house tomorrow,

barbiecat

Jake put Bessie in his lap while watching TV and Bernie, the cat, jumped up to sit with them.

KetoneKaren

Barbie

klanders30

Becca it's probably an agressive male bird...they don't percieve the window as a barrier. I've read that using a plastic model of a predator, say a plastic hawk, owl, etc. and stake it nearby the window to act as a warning. Occasionally move the model....I've also heard of putting netting over the window to darken it a bit.

Good luck and enjoy your new wonderful home. NYKAREN

TrishasTime

langman22

You are such wise women and full of such good advice. I appreciate all of you.

Almost in tears at work today. For weeks now all I’ve done is screw up. The more I try to be careful the more I screw up. I think most of it is me being too hard on myself. Years ago I went through something like this so I know it will straighten itself out. Too much on my mind. Ankle, DH heart, retirement, DD...I’ve given myself permission to stop tracking and focus on eating better. Given up weighing myself and will check in with that the end of the month. Right now DH’s heart is ok and he will wear the monitor for a month so going to let that go, ankle is what it is and I won’t know about surgery until the MRI so going to let that go for now as well.

I do suffer from depression and sometimes even with the medicine I’ll have a week or two like this so just need to ride it out.

Well I’ll stop moaning as I’m sure you all get what’s going on with me right now.

Terry in VT wishing for spring to arrive.