WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018
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JanetR - Well done on the weight loss! You inspire me to believe I can take my regained weight off every single time you post.
Heather - All sympathies on starting again on the house search. Hope this time is the right time. So sorry that the news isn't good for your friend. It can't be easy to bear.
The blog posting of the plans afoot for our own home-to-be is, oddly, helping me wait out the closing process. I've pretty much discarded the whole concept of not getting too attached to the house, in case something falls through. If it does, it does. Might as well just be the planner that I am in the meantime, and if it all works out, we'll go into the new (to us) house with a plan of action on getting it to livable fairly quickly.
Assisting the closing effort is the injection of cash from our son, who just paid us back for everything we've sent to him for groceries and rent in the last year, while he and we were working our way toward Arkansas and getting settled here. He lives an hour north of us, in Fayetteville.
Although, like many here, we never give money to anyone as a loan, but as a gift, I'm so proud of him for understanding that he was indebted to us, and for honoring that obligation. I think it's a massive step in his maturation, and an amazing grace note on getting him through his mental struggles in the meantime. He's also sent his uncle double what he sent us, as that uncle got him set up in an apartment in Denver for his abortive attempt to go to culinary school there. A large part of me wanted to say, "No, keep it, use it wisely." But I think, for his own sake, he needed to pay what he construed as a debt to be able to move on to his own next steps unencumbered. Proud doesn't even begin to cover it. He's growing up to be a very good man, and his father is his guiding star in that.
Today's the ninth anniversary of marrying Corey, of mothering the children he brought me, and I feel like the luckiest woman in the known world.
Love y'all,
Lisa in sunny Arkansas10 -
Micro managing is starting at work again. I am so stressed. When I came home yesterday, kirby made me an offer. He will work for another year and I can retire in two years. The catch is I will have to do the prep in getting the house ready to sell. Getting rid of stuff, freshening up the paint inside the house, etc.. I am thinking about it. I wish my stomach wasn’t in knots. Thank God that I exercise to help me forget for a minute14
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Lisa ~ Happy Anniversary
Pip ~ You can do this. Don't stress! I painted the entire inside of our rental house (and I mean everything) two years ago at age 68. Can you get help decluttering?
Carol in GA7 -
Oh Pip~I am so sorry your going through all that... me I have put that stuff in the back of my head... but would love to find a job where I could get bennies and work part time.. only place that would be is in the health care field,,, now i am sure it is tough to hire a 58 yr old.. but dont want the rug pulled out from under me,have to much at stake.4
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Pip - So sorry about the work stress. *kitten*!
Lisa - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY☆☆☆☆☆ :drinker: :flowerforyou:
Went big supermarket shopping with DH. Pretty empty because of the heatwave. Hairy Bikers tonight with green beans.
Off now to do my bonus calories while watching Hidden, a Welsh police drama.
My cancer friend rang just as I was about to do my weights. Will have to get those done as well.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx2 -
Wendy: It is great to see you again. I hope that retirement turns out to be a joy. I have confidence that your life will be filled with good times, honey and horses.
Heather: Good luck on the renewed house hunt. I hope you find something that you both will love.
Machka: I love the photos of your wedding & your first home/"shack." Thank you for sharing. It looks better and certainly more spacious than the first place DH & I lived after we married.
Carol in GA: DH seems quite a bit better this morning. Thank you for your kind wishes. :flowerforyou:
I was supposed to see the financial planner yesterday after getting my new glasses lens. I sat in the optician's office for several hours while they searched for the lens and never found it. Because of that, I missed the appointment with our financial planner. Today I need to contact her, and get a new appointment. Do you think "It's not my fault" would carry any weight? Neither do I. I hope she'll forgive me and we can reschedule.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
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Lisa Happy Anniversary! I hope you and Corey have a fantastic day!
Janetr Congratulations! So proud of you! You are doing fantastic!
Pip sorry that work is a bummer, but if you choose to retire in two years you are going to love it!
Heather I hope you find a fantastic house!
Our renters came last night to supposedly drop off a load but instead are moving in! They will now have to finish the cleaning themselves as I will not be able to work around people coming in and out like that. So in a way not bad for me because now I can finish the cabin up and we can go down and check into the hotel next to my daughter! Update on her is that she isn't telling me anything! They haven't done anything about the bowel obstruction yet. And tomorrow not today they are going to do an ultra sound. Not sure if I have confidence in that hospital staff. I haven't heard anything from my daughter-in-law yet this morning but I know that she was hoping to get out today instead of tomorrow.
Thanks again for your prayers, well wishes and support!
Mary from Minnesota \ Arizona7 -
Lisa - JanetR - "Well done on the weight loss! You inspire me to believe I can take my regained weight off every single time you post. "
Yes, Lisa you can do it if I can. I'm quickly sliding into 69 years old and have more strength and energy than I've ever had in my adult life. You've got this
Mary, thank you so much. You aren't aware of this, but I consider you my "personel" trainer and I'm thankful every day for you.
Thanks, ladies, you all keep me going!!
Janetr OKC5 -
Machka: I love the photos of your wedding & your first home/"shack." Thank you for sharing. It looks better and certainly more spacious than the first place DH & I lived after we married.
It was a 6 metre by 9 metre colourbond shed.
We (but mostly my husband) insulated it and lined the inside with fence palings (the wood on the inside). That helped. When we first moved in, it was COLD! June ... middle of winter. Nights outside would drop to freezing, and that's exactly what it would be inside too. I'd be tucked in bed under a down doona with a hot water bottle, and wouldn't want to get out in the mornings.
After it was insulated, it was much better. Freezing nights would only drop to about 10C inside.
The main problem was that the floor was sidewalk pavers on sand. When it rained heavily, the rain would come up through the pavers. The floor sloped slightly toward the middle of the place, so the water would pool in the kitchen, in the middle. We just wore rain boots inside and waded through it when that happened. And told each other that at least the rain tanks were filling so we'd have washing water!
M in Oz
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Pip ~ Guess I missed what you were saying about micromanagement. Sorry for the stress. What is micromanagement by the way?
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1948Peachy wrote: »Pip ~ Guess I missed what you were saying about micromanagement. Sorry for the stress. What is micromanagement by the way?
When a boss hangs over you and tells you how to do every little thing ... and also probably tells you what you're doing wrong with every little thing. It's horrible ... bordering on bullying.7 -
Going with husband to his military docs appointment today. He has a big toe that is growing inward, so last Monday they dealt with that. He had come home with a boot on, but has just been careful around the house going bare foot. The part they snipped off wasn't really attached anyway he stated. He came home last Monday with a bottle of oxycodin, which he hasn't needed. I have been extra waitress-ly getting and doing for that man!
I have yet to drive around this island. I don't know why I have such fear to. I have yet to venture beyond my safe bubble I've built.
Rebecca4 -
I weigh daily but only record here on Monday. Scale in downward pattern even though daily weight goes up as much as 5 pounds overnight. I have an app where I log my daily weight and glucose readings called Log Frog cute but very user friendly. I can get reports to give to my doc from there.
Moving to Winslow today. DH is doing fine now. He thinks it was a back spasm yesterday. We will see. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.
We also carry a small DH calls ‘satellite ‘ charcoal grill we use on occasion to get that flavor from some foods. My car looks like a homeless person’s living out of it when we get ready to move. Lol.
Gotta get busy!
RV Rita on the road again!3 -
Happy Anniversary, Lisa!
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »Snowflake1968 wrote: »M in OZ: I think cycling is one of the best forms of exercise, along with walking, swimming and yoga. Does your weather make it a pleasure during this season? I ride a stationary bike at the gym regularly before my yoga class. It gets my whole body tuned up for yoga & the day. :bigsmile:
No, the winter weather here isn't particularly nice. It's not like the Canadian prairie winters I'm used to ... it's like the Pacific Northwest winters: chilly, rainy, damp, windy. Nights get down to about freezing. Daytime highs hit about 10°C. It often snows at higher elevations, and will occasionally snow as far down as sea level.
Snow here is predicted by elevation. Today, there's supposed to be snow down to 800 metres ... we're at about 50 metres above sea level. Our local mountain is about 1200 metres, so it will be topped with snow.
Today is 10°C with winds gusting to 60 km/h providing us with a "feels like" temperature of about 6°C, and they're predicting that it is going to start raining here (snowing at higher elevations) within the next couple hours.
It's also very hilly here, so trying to battle all that plus haul my butt up hills is really unpleasant.
Also, since my husband had his accident and has been in hospital, it has been pitch dark by the time I get home after visiting him. I don't mind riding at night when the weather isn't too bad, but the idea of going out in the dark, cold, wind, and often rain after a long day of work and being at the hospital ... just ... nope.
So, I brought my bicycle and trainer into the lounge room, set it all up in front of the TV, and that's where I've been riding for the past month or 6 weeks or so.
Bright, climate controlled, and I can do as much or as little as I want to do.
A friend at work uses Zwift, so I got some information from him about how to set that up, and now I ride the Zwift courses. Yesterday I just wanted to do about half an hour, got on the course, and discovered that there were a series of sprints. First one I wasn't paying much attention, but I went flat out for the next two ... and today my legs are feeling it a bit!
Last Saturday, I did a longer course on Zwift and ended up riding an hour and 20 minutes. That's the longest ride I've done on a trainer in quite some time! Usually I only do 30-60 minutes. But the Zwift course was motivating enough for me to keep going.
I was running outside on weekends early in the day before going into the hospital, but I might have to give my feet a break from that for a little while.
I also walk quite a bit ... averaging about 30 km/week, but this week I'm down to 21 km. Again, trying to give my feet a break.
The one thing I do need to add back into my exercise routine is weights and core work. And a bit more stretching too!
Machka in Oz
What part of the Canadian Prairies are you from Machka?
Tracey in Edmonton
All of it!
Most of my life in Alberta, in several different locations including Edmonton (where I got one of my degrees) but mostly near Grande Prairie and Red Deer.
Next longest period in Manitoba ... Winnipeg.
And a few years in Saskatchewan ... Regina.
Machka, the Canadian in Oz
Wow, so how did you end up in Australia? If you don't want to answer, don't feel obligated, I just like hearing people's stories
I'm a long distance cyclist.
In early 2003, I mentioned on a cycling forum that I was planning to ride the Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 (in France) and someone from Australia commented that he was planning to do it too. Those rides are 1200 km in 90 hours or less including all breaks. That was about the extent of the conversation.
In August 2003, I rode the PBP, and at the very last control (rest stop), I was walking through the dining hall with a plate of green beans and mashed potatoes when someone called my online name. Who on earth would know that name here? I went over, and it was him. We chatted a bit while I ate, then went our separate ways. He continued cycling and I found a table to crawl under to nap for about 10 minutes before continuing.
Then he and I started chatting on cycling forums.
In 2004, I went to Australia with a British friend. He and I spent 3 months cycling around Australia. In the middle of that, we did the Great Southern 1200, along the Great Ocean Road, and my online Australian friend was there too. He told me and my British friend that we could stay with him when we got there on our cycling tour, and we did.
My British friend and I decided that things wouldn't work for us, and my Australian friend and I started chatting more ... then we started travelling to see each other in Canada, Australia, and Europe.
One day in about June 2008, he rang me from Australia and said that since he was coming to visit me in Australia (I knew that), we might as well get married. So we did!
We chose Jasper ... a dock on Lake Annette ... as the location, and we decided to include cycling. So we cycled a century (100 miles) first, and then cleaned up a bit, and were married by my cousin (then mayor of Banff), with his wife and my parents in attendance. And our bicycles.
10 days later, my husband returned to Australia, and I went back to uni to finish my degree.
February 2009, his place, and the whole surrounding area were wiped out in the Victorian 2009 bushfires. He had set the place up in preparation for me coming, but it was all gone, and he just barely escaped himself. Drove out through the flames.
I came to Australia in June that year.
The orchard where he was working then offered us a shack on the back of the orchard property ... completely off the grid. 2 km away from anything like a "grid". We heated the place with a large fireplace at one end, and I learned to cook over an open fire with a dutch oven. Water came from the rain. What little electricity we used came from a generator and later solar panels.
We lived there a year before places started opening up in a nearby town, and we found a place.
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And 3 months ago, I nearly lost him again. Slow recovery.
Machka in Oz
What an incredible love story! I started reading posts in this group shortly after your husband was injured, it was following his first few weeks in the hospital that kept me coming back. I was praying for him and kept looking for updates. I hope he makes a full recovery and you can ride long rides with him again.
Thanks for sharing your story
Tracey in Edmonton5 -
LisaInNCNow wrote: »JanetR - Well done on the weight loss! You inspire me to believe I can take my regained weight off every single time you post.
Heather - All sympathies on starting again on the house search. Hope this time is the right time. So sorry that the news isn't good for your friend. It can't be easy to bear.
The blog posting of the plans afoot for our own home-to-be is, oddly, helping me wait out the closing process. I've pretty much discarded the whole concept of not getting too attached to the house, in case something falls through. If it does, it does. Might as well just be the planner that I am in the meantime, and if it all works out, we'll go into the new (to us) house with a plan of action on getting it to livable fairly quickly.
Assisting the closing effort is the injection of cash from our son, who just paid us back for everything we've sent to him for groceries and rent in the last year, while he and we were working our way toward Arkansas and getting settled here. He lives an hour north of us, in Fayetteville.
Although, like many here, we never give money to anyone as a loan, but as a gift, I'm so proud of him for understanding that he was indebted to us, and for honoring that obligation. I think it's a massive step in his maturation, and an amazing grace note on getting him through his mental struggles in the meantime. He's also sent his uncle double what he sent us, as that uncle got him set up in an apartment in Denver for his abortive attempt to go to culinary school there. A large part of me wanted to say, "No, keep it, use it wisely." But I think, for his own sake, he needed to pay what he construed as a debt to be able to move on to his own next steps unencumbered. Proud doesn't even begin to cover it. He's growing up to be a very good man, and his father is his guiding star in that.
Today's the ninth anniversary of marrying Corey, of mothering the children he brought me, and I feel like the luckiest woman in the known world.
Love y'all,
Lisa in sunny Arkansas
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This is our guest room after we finally got my mom's bedroom suite out of our living room.
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Hi ladies, Just going to jump in here as I dropped out for a while. Don't know how much I will be able to post but I am thinking of all of you. Here is an update.
Me: foot surgery July 26th. In a cast and no weight on the foot for 4 weeks so going to take those 4 weeks off. We have air conditioning in the bedroom so plan to spend some time there. We are putting our extra TV in there. Hoping to order jump rings so I can do some jewelry while I'm out.
DH: Still having heart issues and not sleeping. July13th he is having a monitor inserted under the skin so that they can figure out which area of the heart is misfiring. They didn't tell him how long he will have it in.
DD: In her last semester of school and doing an internship in a helpdesk at one of the local high schools. Just lost her job so has no money coming in. He father retired from teaching and moved to Arizona. Told her he couldn't give her any more money as he had given her enough and she had to do it on her own. Of course he sold everything and is going to buy new out there but has no money for her. UUUGGGHH! It's not like she is sponging off him. She is a full-time student. Don't know what she will do. I made the first two payments on this semester's fee. I think she has another one coming up and her car payment. She hasn't asked me for any money yet, but I expect her to. She is living with us which has been working out fine. There are just no jobs around here. I think I'm worrying more than she is.
With not being able to walk without pain, I've been a little down. Weight is creeping up and I'm up about 10 lbs. My eating is definitely out of control. I'm hoping to get some of the weight off before the surgery. I'm not looking forward to being in a cast in August.
I'll check in when I feel I'm up to it. Hard to be social when you are depressed, but will try to at least read your posts. I do miss you all.
Hugs to all, Terry in VT10 -
Hi all. The funeral yesterday was really nice; lots of people got up and spoke. My friend was very funny and a great practical joker, so the stories were really hilarious. By the time it was over, everyone was laughing instead of crying. Of course the stories abound with theories on how he died. But really, who cares? He was a dear friend.
I had breakfast this morning with another dear friend who is moving away. She has been my “adopted” sister for years and honorary grandmother to my kids. We sat and blabbered for nearly 4 hours! It was fun.
Michele: I am so used to diet soda and sugar-free syrup that now I can’t stand the regular kind!
Mary: sending healing thoughts and prayers for you daughter and DIL. I had C diff once and got septic and when I got to the ER my blood pressure was in the 30s. That is one nasty disease!
DrKatie: sounds like you are at least starting to get on the mend! Your bathroom is beautful~!
Becca: LOVE it!
Lisa: Cat has anal gland issues if no one has told you that yet. They sometimes get filled up with pus and burst. YUK. They smell god-awful. A couple of my cats and one of my dogs had problems with that. The cure seems to be more fiber which is easy for dogs, but I don’t know about cats.
Rori: you looked as beautiful as ever when I saw you! Retirement is good to you!
Matchka: I loved your story. Thank you for sharing.
Peachy: lovely bedroom!
Well ladies I am heading out now to get my blood draw and have an appointment at the diabetic clinic. Stay cool in this heat! Meg from Omaha
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