WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2018

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  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Went to the gym with husband today. Pushed myself a bit in the weight room. We do 30 minutes of going around the machines. I do 15 reps, and when it gets easier, I will put it up ten lbs. Most of the machines I'm doing 20 lbs, some I can do 30, and a couple I do 75 lbs. The one where you put your legs on a pad in front of you, and press backwards. The other is leaning towards your knees you then push with your back arching. That one feels really good actually. It's the same feeling if you are doing floor exercises and arch like a cat, pull into yourself and arch again.
    We then do 30 minutes on the treadmill. Husband is such a nut, I will be walking and sense he is looking at me, turn and he is smiling like a silly! I swat at him and he swats at me, like we are 12! He does make life interesting! I average 3.0 mph, and do 1.5 mile, and burned up my breakfast! It's now noon, and my body still is humming!
    Dear husband wanted a big messy hamburger though, as we were driving home. Times like today, I am glad to tell him we can't afford to go out! Actually we can, but I tell him that anyway!
    Feeling better about things. Hopeful. Miss my TOPS friends, and my friends in Oregon though. Might start in a couple months with the group here. Just need to settle out our finances. See what we're looking at to fiddle with.
    Everyone, y'all are doing great! Keep on, keeping on!
    Love
    Rebecca
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,285 Member
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  • wildhorsewendy
    wildhorsewendy Posts: 563 Member
    Karen, we are on the same page about home schooling the grandies. I also want to help empower my daughter and son in law so that they can afford to give the very best individually tailored education to my grandies. My son in law is a teacher, and he is very disillusioned with the system here. My daughter has a teaching certificate to teach English to non-English speakers. They both want to work part-time and share the joy of educating their two children at home. They are looking for alternative ways in order to achieve this goal. (Right now they are living with son in law's mum rent free and renting out their own home, trying to save up money.) My goal is to make enough money through the honey business and possibly buy a wild bush block where we can build eco-friendly dwellings and live mortgage free and they can help in the bee business and we can all help educate the grandies! What a vision! We are going to stay with them this weekend. Can't wait to see my loved ones. Love to you all, <3 Wendy
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    Sitting on my patio waiting for the sun to go behind the house so I can work in my flower beds. I did a little after we can back fro, grocery shopping but it got too hot in the sun.
    Rebecca- your gym story made me smile. My DH wears bright colored shirts to the Y so I can always find him. If he sees me looking his way he will smile and wave. We were coming out of the mall one time and the security guard drove up and said it was nice to see people holding hands. I told him we were holding each other up.
    Rori- enjoy your trip, isn’twonderful to be able to go whenever you feel like it.
    Thanks Terry. Sending good thoughts to you and hope you feel better soon. My GS just broke his foot in PE. Six weeks with no weight on it. It is called a Jones fracture and if not treated right can hurt for the rest of his life. He is 13! We leave in 7 weeks for the Baltic cruise.
    Starsub99- sure hope you will tell us a little more about yourself like a name we can call you and general area where you live. Be sure to bookmark the thread so you can come back again.
    Heather- My daughter who was born in England is going to London at the end of the month so she ask me what our addresses were when we lived there. She was able to pull up the exact houses! Technology can be wonderful. She thinks she will take a train up to Essex County for a day trip.
    Better get to clipping dead roses.
    Suebdew in TX
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
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  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,049 Member
    Hi all: Cloudy and cool so I am going to try to get some mowing done this afternoon. Went to get groceries this morning. We got a new field mower and trimmer. DD tried it out last night. I think it will work out really well for our acreage. Now I just have to learn to use it. LOL I have been doing fairly well with the 8:16 intermittent fasting. DD is trying it too so it is nice to have both of us doing it and supporting each other.

    Wendy - Congrats on the round pen and enjoy it. We are in the process of putting one together here. Have it partly up. We are also trying to train our goats to stake out so we can move them around the property to clear things out. They do that well.

    Rori - enjoy your trip.

    Everyone take care, Sue in WA
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    edited May 2018
    Suebdew in TX, haha, bright shirts work! My husband opens the car door for me, and yep I do know how to open to open it, it's just him being old fashioned. We have gotten the, "Oh you are so cute together". We really are a package deal. God, I love that man!
    Love
    Rebecca
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
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  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,261 Member
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  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,666 Member
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  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,318 Member
    Rye - Eight hour shifts and no breaks?!? That stinks!

    Okie
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Tricia OH: I followed your link and it sent me to advertising quicksand. I had to restart my computer. Not your fault that they do things like that. :grumble:

    Rebecca: Good for you to start going to the gym. I hope it turns out to be a very positive experience. :flowerforyou:

    Sue: It is wonderful that you and your DD can support one another with eating choices and ranch work. :star:


    We took DH's car in to a local tire shop for a new battery and things went wrong. We ended up having it towed to the VW dealer, and they've finally isolated the problem. We'll pick it up tomorrow. Yay!!! We need two functioning cars so nobody is trapped at home. DH si intrigued with Lisa's recommendation of a Terrain. My guess is that he'll take a closer look after our current car trouble has been put behind us.

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,104 Member
    Been up since 5 am and over 11,000 steps
  • trisH_7183
    trisH_7183 Posts: 1,486 Member
    Katla49 wrote: »
    Tricia OH: I followed your link and it sent me to advertising quicksand. I had to restart my computer. Not your fault that they do things like that. :grumble:

    Rebecca: Good for you to start going to the gym. I hope it turns out to be a very positive experience. :flowerforyou:

    Sue: It is wonderful that you and your DD can support one another with eating choices and ranch work. :star:


    We took DH's car in to a local tire shop for a new battery and things went wrong. We ended up having it towed to the VW dealer, and they've finally isolated the problem. We'll pick it up tomorrow. Yay!!! We need two functioning cars so nobody is trapped at home. DH si intrigued with Lisa's recommendation of a Terrain. My guess is that he'll take a closer look after our current car trouble has been put behind us.

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    Katla,my apologies....I seldom send sites for that very reason & have deleted the one I sent....Sorry!

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,285 Member
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  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member

    Hi Gals,

    Karen NY – working from home in my experience is as different as each employer is different. I had one that had a keystroke monitor on my computer and I had to be working the hours they picked…. And one that was if I was on the phone for meetings, and the work was done in a timely manner when I worked did not matter. I will say the most freedom, is working from home for myself! I am a pretty understanding boss.

    I would agree with Lisa, it is easy to get sucked into working far more than the 8 hours you are paid for…

    Seems like I had something else to say, but can’t think of what!!!!


    Smiles

    Kim from N. California
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,285 Member
    stats for the day:

    rode again to work:

    bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.49min, 128mhr, 12.3amph. 1.6mi= 66c
    apple watch- 62c
    LATERAL MACHINE- 30min, fat burn program, 113ahr, 129mhr, 54arpm, 59aw, 3.35mi= 202c
    apple watch- 180c
    bike ride gym 2 sumn sta- 51.14min, 120ahr, 147mhr, 13.9amph, 11.9mi= 456c
    apple watch- 473c
    jog sumn sta 2 wk- 5.03min, 148mhr, 133ahr, 9.41min mi, .5mi= 60c
    apple watch- 68c
    jog wk 2 sumn sta- 3.50min, 8.28min mi, 123agr, 153mhr, .4mi= 70c
    apple watch- 60c
    Bike ride dome 2 hm- WINDY!!18.54min, 8.2amph, 144mhr, 2.5mi= 181c
    apple watch- 143c

    total cal 1035
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
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  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,092 Member
    LisaInNCNow wrote: »
    Rori - enjoy the Poconos! It's lovely to see you taking advantage of your retirement to pack your days with joy and experiences that feed the heart.

    Katla - we had just that experience the other night with a whole chicken. We seldom buy them, because there's just the two of us. It was literally inedible. So, the next morning, I pitched the whole blinking thing in the big pot with lots of water and spices, simmered it all day and turned it into five quart jars of chicken stock. More than made up for the price we paid, as chicken stock is getting expensive, and should be terrific in soups, stews, sauces, using it to cook rice, etc. If I had dogs, I would have cut up the shredded chicken meat and fed it to them, but we just chucked it--all the flavor is now in that stock.

    Karen in VA - I've worked from my home for quite a bit of my professional life, and I love it. At some point, I always have to visit the office of whatever firm I'm working for, and find myself frustrated by the chaos and distractions that always seem to arise in offices--and also find myself completely unproductive, I might add. I have a hard time working in office situations, and when I've absolutely had to, end up shutting my door a lot. Things I've had to do in order to be successful at home:
    1. Got a headset for my phone. Over the years, it's morphed from a wired one to a bluetooth, but I have to be able to write notes, usually on the keyboard, and need both hands. Crooking your neck to keep a phone at your ear will do really bad things to your neck very quickly. You're also on the phone much more than in a traditional office to get things done. Headsets make it so much easier.
    2. Spent the money on a good office chair. I'm in it at least nine hours a day, sometimes 12. All kitchen chairs are tall enough that my feet dangle. Not an option for long with my knees.
    3. Had a separate space where, when I'm done, I can shut a door, or go on the other side of a room screen, or whatever it takes, and be done with work. If you don't provide some separation, you're always at work, and risk burning out quickly.
    4. Declined to work at the kitchen table, not because of physical comfort, but because the kitchen and the food are right there, and I was constantly in the refrigerator.
    5. Set the expectation with my co-workers that, at a specific time at least somewhat matching their quitting time, I'm done for the day. I don't answer the phone or answer e-mails after that point.

    The benefits of working at home far outweigh the inconveniences. I'm often three or four times as productive as my coworkers. My commute is 30 seconds, from the coffee machine to my office. The only traffic is possibly tripping over Egg the cat. And, since I have a bluetooth and my e-mail routes to my phone as well, if I have to go to the store, I go, without any eyebrows raised as I depart my office. And, honestly, it keeps me out of most of the office gossip, backbiting and drama. I love that, possibly, most of all.

    Lisa in Arkansas

    Karen: I second everything Lisa has listed here. I would also add that I set a schedule and (mostly) stuck to it. And, a BIG computer monitor for remote meetings and webinars. I was instrumental in creating some telecommuting 'do's and don'ts for our office, because I got tired of being the forgotten one during our large department meetings. I've done both: home and office work. I'd take working from home every time.

    Michele: This will be a quick trip = 4 nights. DH gets anxious if we are away from home longer than that. We'll be near Hamlin, PA.

    Rori
    packed and ready to fly from Colorado to East Coast
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Lanette & Lisa: Once we get the Passat back from VW I foresee DH taking a close look at the Terrain. :star:

    Karen: The biscuits were great. I would call them a success. :star:

    Meg: I am delighted to hear that you've found a way to get good sleep. It is essential for everyone to get enough rest so they can meet the challenges of each day and stay healthy. :flowerforyou:


    We have had a couple of appliances in our kitchen repaired by a local family owned and operated business and they did a great job. They have not sent us a bill for parts or labor for either appliance, and one of them dates back to before Christmas, so we went in to talk to the office manager. She said the owner, her father-in-law, is not ready to bill us yet. She even called him while we were there. He is almost as old as Methuselah and it is his business so things are done his way. Small towns are quirky and interesting, in my experience. This business is a fine example of quirky.

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    edited May 2018
    Poerava14 wrote: »
    Karen: I second everything Lisa has listed here. I would also add that I set a schedule and (mostly) stuck to it. And, a BIG computer monitor for remote meetings and webinars. I was instrumental in creating some telecommuting 'do's and don'ts for our office, because I got tired of being the forgotten one during our large department meetings. I've done both: home and office work. I'd take working from home every time. Rori
    packed and ready to fly from Colorado to East Coast

    Rori - enjoy the trip!

    Karen in VA: Second what Rori said. I actually use an HDMI cord and hook my laptop up to a 32" flatscreen to be able to push two documents up next to each other, as well as sit at the correct distance to match my glasses strength comfortably. It makes a big difference for my eye strain and fatigue at the end of the day. So used to it, I forget that other people don't. And totally agree with working from home being my first choice. I don't do well with offices anymore, so tend to only look for remote work--but then I've never had a situation like Kim's where my every keystroke is logged. I would NOT like that.

    Oh, and I have screaming fast Internet, for which I pay a premium. I can usually write it off as a deduction for my other business pursuits, as a writer.

    Lisa in AR
  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,092 Member
    megblair1 wrote: »

    DD#2 and I are still planning our trip to Colorado to see DH the 2nd weekend in June. I'm getting excited for it! I never get excited in anticipation of anything, so chalk that up to feeling better too! Rori I hope we can catch up!

    Well it's nearly 8 pm and I should get some things done around here. Take care all, Meg in hot and sunny Omaha

    You are on my calendar, Meg. PM me when you have more details. So glad to hear you are sleeping and feeling better. Stay well, my friend.

  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,533 Member
    Took the deep water class. The plan for tomorrow is to do Debbie Sieber’s Shape It Up DVD.

    Lisa – what great tips you gave Karen! They make a lot of sense now that you mention them. Since I’ve never worked from home, these are things I would never have thought of. But someone who’s BTDT really knows, and that’s you.

    Looks like it’s raining out. I wish we could get the rest of the mulch down. According to weather.com it wasn’t supposed to start until later in the day. Oh well….. at least the majority of the work is done and hopefully where we put down the mulch it’ll settle some with the rain and we’ll know where to add more.

    Got Vince to put up the ceramics on the pergola and go into the room where we have boxes for when we transport the ceramics or buy some. Some of those boxes should be thrown out and I needed him to look at which ones. Unfortunately, he wanted to throw out one that I definitely wanted to keep since it’s a very sturdy box so I just exchanged that one for another one that he wanted to keep (it didn’t even have a top!). Then ceramics at night. I finished one of my seahorses and one of the gals is going to do the eyes and teeth of my mushroom. She has a very steady hand, not like me. I started on my snail. I must be getting better because things seem to be going faster.

    Starsub – welcome! You’ve come to a great place for support and motivation. These ladies are awesome

    Rebecca – some of the things we do! What our husbands don’t know won’t hurt them.

    We bought a whole house generator when we lived in PA. We moved it to NC thinking that there’s more ice here so power lines would probably go down more. Well…most (if not all) of the power lines are beneath ground. In the 10 years we’ve been here, we’ve never used it once. Wonder if it still works? I would think so, it was new when we moved here

    Katla – you sure have your share of car problems. Hope everything gets sorted out quickly.

    I feel a hot flash coming on. Good thing I have some of those applesauce cups in the freezer, I think I’ll have one.

    Rori – when we lived in the Poconos we lived in Stroudsburg.

    Michele in NC
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