WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2018

pipcd34

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coastalgosgal

So I paid bills today... I had balanced the checkbook last week, so I knew that this would be easy. Only about 5 debit card transactions to check to see if they had cleared, take my checkbooks balance , add the 1 of 3 insurance mental deductions back in, and voila, it should balance what the bank shows. Ok, husband made a $100 error, a $3 error and listed one of the debit card amounts as .10 instead of .02 in the cents part. Really husband?? So I had already listed all the bills in the checkbook, and had a balance. I first had used that handy dandy white out for the $100 error, but then noticed I would have to change all the blinkin math, so in the area of the white out I put a sad face and the word Aack! Good news is that we have a bit more money to fiddle-fart with!

Once we get son's stuff in here, it will be not so echo-ish in this house. We had a pest control service come and spray around, checking here and there. I guess that is a thing the owner set up, and pays for. So we got her card, and if we see any critters all we need to do is call her up. The fact that the owner has it, makes me leary. Sending evil rodent thoughts about my house now.....

I am feeling better today. All that news about my blood tests, upcoming procedures, had me in a tailspin. Plus that grazing of too much protein, and dairy on Sunday had to be worked out.
Hugs to those transitioning, moving, may you find peace in your chaos!
My goals are simple for MAY
A
-ADAPT
-ADJUST
-ADMIT I'M HUMAN
P
-PERSEVERE
-PROGRESS IN MY JOURNEY
-PROJECT HAPPINESS.
E
-EVOLVE
-ENGAGE WITH SOCIETY!
-ENJOY LIFE.

APE IS MY WORD OF MONTH!I

Rebecca
Islander-in-heart

coastalgosgal

2aycocks

lilnoramitchellandre wrote: »

Kay from Texas - Sorry for your loss. We lost a granddaughter due to an accident involving her as a pedestrian, sun in the eyes of a teen a bit high on something, crossing the 4-lane road (in Marietta, GA) and I know the pain. But, I think the hardest loss was losing the daughter, who for whatever reason turned her back on us shortly after her daughter was killed. That's been 11 years ago, and one child - who we have not had any contact with since she was one-years-old.

Lenora

Lenora I'm so sorry you have lost a grandchild as well. It's just devastating. My daughter has done exactly as yours did! I have been unable to see her since our Bradley died. She has misdirected anger and unfortunately it is aimed at me. She has caused such an upset in our family because of it and won't even let us talk to her two little ones, ages 5 and 6, on the phone. And her oldest son, our other grandson who is 22, is doing the same thing! He sent some scathing text messages to me and my husband a few days ago making all kinds of accusations. And none of it even made any sense. It's just insane. I pray that both of our daughters will finally come around and heal these relationships.

And thank you everyone for the warm welcome and cyber hugs. ❤️️

TrishasTime

Morning everyone

Got up this morning and was expecting to be notified to read X amount of posts - but there were none. I forgot to mark this a favourite.

Very very busy at work -home at 10.30pm and leaving again in a second at 6am - should be over by the weekend

In Oz May signals that winter is comng

Trish from OZ

margaretturk

2aycocks wrote: »

lilnoramitchellandre wrote: »

Kay from Texas - Sorry for your loss. We lost a granddaughter due to an accident involving her as a pedestrian, sun in the eyes of a teen a bit high on something, crossing the 4-lane road (in Marietta, GA) and I know the pain. But, I think the hardest loss was losing the daughter, who for whatever reason turned her back on us shortly after her daughter was killed. That's been 11 years ago, and one child - who we have not had any contact with since she was one-years-old.

Lenora

Lenora I'm so sorry you have lost a grandchild as well. It's just devastating. My daughter has done exactly as yours did! I have been unable to see her since our Bradley died. She has misdirected anger and unfortunately it is aimed at me. She has caused such an upset in our family because of it and won't even let us talk to her two little ones, ages 5 and 6, on the phone. And her oldest son, our other grandson who is 22, is doing the same thing! He sent some scathing text messages to me and my husband a few days ago making all kinds of accusations. And none of it even made any sense. It's just insane. I pray that both of our daughters will finally come around and heal these relationships.

And thank you everyone for the warm welcome and cyber hugs. ❤️️

Thoughts and prayers for both of you for your losses.

margaretturk

Subbed in a delightful class today. In writing they did 10 min goal setting. I find this intriguing i.e. set mini goals. Goal for dinner one taco and small salad. Short walk after dinner. Bed by 10:30 asleep by 11:00. I found when I went to bed too early I would wake up too early in the morning. Wake up time goal 7. When I do this I'd like to try 3 mini goals that meat my long term goals. Better eating, exercising, and sleeping.

Magaret

campfirequeen1

Thanks to those who welcomed me and to the one that said you are a very chatty group and it can be a challenge to keep up, oh girl, you are ever so right about that! I haven't really kept up at all. I have near 250 to read just to catch up. Maybe I'll just start over again, since I dropped out of my previous threads. With good weather I'm outside a lot and I'm working on my Family Tree, which consumes huge amounts of time. My diet has not gone so well lately because of eating too much sodium because we've been eating out too much mostly. Today I will start to log again and say no to eating out. The fluid retention and the weight are really bothering me and it's just STUPID to continue to do what doesn't work!!!
To my surprise I posted this on April, not thinking about it being May 1st, then went back and read that page only to find it was on the wrong month and now I'm three pages behind! Guess I better do some reading tonight to try and catch up!
Holly in Nashville, TN

grandmallie

evening ladies~
long day.. and will get a new microwave out of the inspection.... but thats it.. will take what I can get.. meeting the park and rec directore tomorrow am to go over wedding details for my daughter and where to park ice cream truck.

boomintruman2002

Well my goal for May is to start living a little healthier. It seems once I hit 50, weight loss, energy and proper sleep seem to escape me. I'm hoping MFP will be my new friend and will keep me honest with myself. It's May 1st and I will make this my mission. Start eating smarter, healthier and get the heck outside to enjoy some nicer weather.

coastalgosgal

Holly, welcome!
I would rather spend a couple of times a day reading a couple of comments then have to read a bunch of pages every couple of days. Then I put my own bookmark on that, and delete the old one. That's how I digest all your comments anyhow... Lol!
Rebecca
Whidbey island WA

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LaceyM1967

Hi ladies, I'm a complete newbie and really enjoying the community posts! I am 51, from Dublin, Ireland.
Need to lose well over a stone but I'll be happy if I can lose over half a stone by my holiday in late June, I'm very lazy about exercise and find it hard to give up the chocolate but have managed to lose 4lb in the past two weeks.
One of my main aims also is to try to get to bed at a reasonable time as I'm a real night owl which doesn't go too well with getting up for work in the morning!

ljdw99

SophieRosieMom

Catching up-

Welcome new ladies!

Lanette
SW WA State

pipcd34

Kkjjik

langman22

Just stopped in to say goodnight ladies.

Terry in VT

csofled

kevrit

April goals all tolled about 70% successful. Not so good. Bad month with winds, heat, and depression.

May daily goals:
3 miles (7,000 steps) 7/7
10 min stretches/strength/yoga 2/7
9.3cups (74.4 oz) water
4- 1/2 cup servings veggies
3 - 1/2 cup servings fruit
1 serving dairy

Lose 3 pounds to get to 187.2 or less by May 30.

Starting weight 190.2 up one pound over April.

Lannete No one here to walk with. On private property and we are the only ones here.
Katla I'll give the D3 another try. I used to take it daily when I lived in New England. Stopped when I landed in New Mexico because of all the sun here.
Kim My family never connected before either. Unless they physically got together, they never keep in touch with each other.
Katla I too have a high school friend who is in a nursing home due to health and weight problems. My sister in law is in an assisted living facility and she is younger than me too. She is overweight, smokes, drinks, and does drugs. Scary thinking about this and the possibilities..
Trish I am much like you. When someone hurts me or to avoid confrontation, I walk away and try to stay away.
Gofergal(I think?) You got your 'lifetime quota of rain' living in the NW, well I got my lifetime quota of snow, rain, and clouds from living in the North East (CT). Living in an RV in New Mexico for the last 6 months and loving it!

RV Rita in Columbus New Mexico for now.

csofled

Had a wonderful time at library book club this evening. We read and discussed The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman. We also had a chance to pick up some advance copy books the librarian had on hand. So thankful for this library here in College Station as it is the place I go to for book club, adult coloring and adult crafting and have made some really nice acquaintances.

My young niece, Heather, the mother of 4 young children under 7 yo age was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer last month. It has been quite a blow to the family but they have an extremely supportive support system. I wanted to do something for her and had asked her what I could provide from a distance. She asked me to not worry and to ponder something scary as she is facing the scariest thing she has ever had to. So I decided, as I was giving my husband his monthly haircut (Wahl clippers #4) that I would cut my hair. Ultra short. I've worn my hair short always, except those few times when I thought I could grow it into long flowing locks, jokes on me. But as I buzzed my hubs head for the umpteenth time I thought could I let him do this to me? Could I look and feel good with really short hair? Well the results were wonderful! I love my hair! Scary yes. Going out in public scary yes! But we think it looks great. And I feel a kinship with my niece and she gave me strength to do something during a time when her own strength is being tested. I may never enter a hair cuttery again!



Cheri
CS, Tx