WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR JANUARY 2019
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I have been eyeing the frozen pizza with cauliflower crust at the grocery store for several weeks. Today we bought one and had it for lunch. Jake was willing to try something new. It was delicious--great spices along with fewer calories and less sodium than the other "healthier" frozen pizzas we've bought before He said he would eat it again. It seems to me that the problem with pizza is that the crust has most of the calories along with the nutritional equivalent of eating the cardboard box.
Heather, congrats to you for saying No to your friends about an outing that doesn't suit you.
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »CONSTELLATION
In the distance you can see the cream Regency terraces that Brighton and Hove is famous for. The skeleton object in the sea is the remains of the West Pier which burnt down years ago. The tall needle is the i360 that you can go up in a pod.
I LOVE my run.
Heather UK XXXXXX
Very nice!
And it's good to have an interesting place to run ... it can be motivational.
M in Oz2 -
Been spending a lot of time watching the docu series so kind of missed a lot here. I did skim over the posts so I know what’s happening. Cold with 45 mph wind today.
Rori- Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary
I have been 19 days with limiting sugar. Must say I am proud of myself.
Suebdew in TX6 -
cariwaldick wrote: »The recent ones have these little boxes of questions and conversation starters, called Table Topics. I'll post a few here, if anyone's interested in sharing their answers.
What tiny object is most precious to you?
When you've had a tough day, what makes you feel better?
What would you like to celebrate?
What's your biggest wish in life?
Tiny object: The thing that leaps to mind is my wedding band. It's a simple tungsten band. Not expensive. But it is more about what it symbolises.
Tough Day: Music & prayer.
Celebrate: Life.
Biggest Wish: If I could win the lottery, I would ... buy a house in Canada, buy a house in mainland Australia, and buy a house in France (I have locations in mind). I'd rent them out on a 6-12 month basis ... I've got a rough schedule in mind. Then I'd pack up our stuff and put most of it into storage (again), and we'd travel the world.
But this is where the rent schedule would come in. We might live in France for 6-12 months, attend the language school in Royan, and travel around Europe. Then we might live in Australia for 6-12 months while I finish my current degree, and travel around Australia. Then we might live in Canada for 6-12 months, and I might look at starting/doing a PhD, and travel around Canada. Then we might rent out all the properties and travel around Asia for a while. And so on. Any time we felt like settling for a bit, we'd pick a house and stay there for a while. If we felt like a change of scenery, we'd pick a different house or just go travelling.
Now I've just got to win a lottery.
If you were to send a Thank you not to someone, whom would it be?
I rarely send thank you notes.
I prefer to tell people face to face or in emails or whatever ... a more immediate communication.
Who is a good friend to you?
My best friend is my husband ... that's partly why this past year has been so difficult. It's not just having everything change between marriage partners, it's also losing an element of the friendship as well.
My mother is also a good friend. We haven't always had a great relationship, but I think it gets better with age.
What small thing did you do recently, that made someone very happy?
One of the new side effects of my husband's brain injury is that it is very easy to do small things to make him happy ... suggesting that we have ice cream, for example, can have him beaming.
What's the biggest surprise you have ever had?
That I'd actually be living in Australia.
What color do you most like to wear?
Blue ... and there's a certain shade of blue I'm most attracted to.
Oddly enough, if you were to ask, what's the most common colour in your wardrobe, it's actually black. For years I wore black ... and people started commenting. "Why don't you wear something with more colour?" It's still almost an effort for me to buy clothes with colour, and I don't have very many things in my favourite shade of blue. But I like wearing that blue ... I feel good in it.
Machka in Oz4 -
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Did Ab workout with Gilad DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do some training games on the Wii.
M – I’m glad this root canal is going better for you and hope it continues to do so.
I don’t think I’d like a class reunion with multiple classes. Not that I’d go if we had a high school reunion. I just didn’t think those years were anything special. We had a 25 year reunion of our grammar school a while back (over 20 years ago) and that I made sure to go to. It’s surprising how many of our classmates were no longer with us
Supposed to lector at the church tomorrow am so I won’t be going to mass tonight. I really don’t like the Sunday morning service. Why did I say that I’d do it?
Made some more chocolate bran muffins. Just realized that I was getting low.
Rita – thanks so much for the big smile you gave me. Illegal alien…priceless
Barbie – even some restaurants are offering the cauliflower crust! Personally, I really like it.
Clothing: I need to have light colors on top and dark colors on bottom. Sometimes this can be a real challenge
Michele in NC
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Katla... I had to research the yellow squash with green stripes ... it’s a delicata! Now to find the best way to cook it.3
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We have vinyl flooring in our bathroom.
We have a scale with little rubber feet.
We've got yellow spots on the vinyl flooring where the rubber feet of the scale have touched.
We did not know that there's a chemical reaction between between vinyl and rubber which causes yellow spots!!
http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/how-to-remove-yellowing-from-vinyl-flooring/
Now I'm trying some of those methods to remove it.
It's all about Googling these days.
Machka in Oz3 -
Janetr - I can definitely see that Olivia takes after her grandma
Mary from Arizona2 -
Hanging on by a thread
Karen5 -
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DH still awful. I didn't get to sleep until 1.30, turning over my crossness with my 'difficult friend' who doesn't get NO for an answer. She's accepted it at last, but doesn't like it and is still agitating everyone but me to go to France to her house and to Bordeaux. Well, I'm not going, but my brain is still arguing. Grrrrrrrrrr!
I read for a bit . I'm in the guest bedroom/my study. Too much coughing to share a bed! I'm reading a biography of Winston Churchill.
Will do my exercises, slowly. Have a quiet day. DH is barely creeping about.
I would love to run, but I will listen to my body. The worst thing is how depressed you feel.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
HEATHER so sorry to hear about your friends attitude, stick to your guns. Re your cold virus, from watching the docu series Vit C is wonderful, DH and I take it every day but Im going to massively increase the dose. Sounds daft but Im waiting to see if it works when either of us starts with a cold. Just need to get DH on board as Ive ordered B vits as well he'll say not more supplements. He is 78 in March doesn't eat a very healthy diet so he probably needs them more than I do. Well we'll see
Kate UK2 -
morning ladies~
I am up and having my tea..... last night had a blast with my friends.. Trudy made chili, today she is making chicken cordon blue, but no breading on mine, thats a true friend knowing what i am eating and helping me stick to it..
I did gain a couple of lbs over yesterday but had quite a bit of sodium so i know it will come right back off.
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Morning, all,
Day 3 of a cold. Pushing zinc (Zicam) gummies every three hours, and am certainly feeling better today than yesterday, but I might have anyway, who knows? At least the sore throat part is over. Drank loads of hot tea yesterday, and napped a lot in between. Pretty much have the same plan for today. It's just not cool to feel crappy over a three-day weekend.
Oh, and we got our first snow (not much, a dusting) at this house yesterday, and the boys kept a roaring fire going all day, so it was a good day for Netflixing and chilling (OK, whining).
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR5 -
Thanks Kate UK. I've managed to drag through all my exercises except strength training and weights. Did machines and yoga stretching. I'm fending the worst of it off so far compared to poor DH.
I even managed 300 words of my memoir. And I did one 'change of address' I've been putting off. Phew! I still have a few more to do before the mail redirection runs out at the end of the month. Will do one more this pm.
The sun is shining. I have to go out to get beans for a lamb stew so can add a few steps to bring me up to 600 calories. That means I can eat.
By the way, in the photo of the seafront that I posted, in the middle distance is a small, brick oval building right in the middle of the promenade. Those are toilets and are the halfway point of my 5k, where I run round them to come home. I am happy when they come into my line of vision. They also mark the bottom of the road that leads up to my son's house and is the route the grandchildren take to the beach. The toilets are at the start of the Parkrun, by the café, and the route runs to either side of them, twice round, up and down. I haven’t done a Parkrun since November, but will start again soon.
Much love, Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
Good morning Ladies -
Things are plugging along at my house. I am finally down into the correct decade, 1.6 lbs and I'll be back at the top of my happy range, so 6.6 more to go to get to the bottom of my range and get my wiggle room back that will allow me to be a little more free and easy with my choices. We are heading home for a baby shower in two weeks so I'm trying to get within my happy zone before we leave. If I don't, that's OK too.
I am feeling quite accomplished this morning. I have been asking the hub for over a year to get our smart light bulbs working with our home kit so I can control them through Siri or have certain functions automated. He has tried half heartedly a couple of times but never gotten it done. I saw an article on how to do it this morning so I set myself up with his iPad and got it done. Yeah me! I set up an automation that will turn the back porch light on if we arrive after dark and turn it off 5 minutes later. I think I may have to swizzle a few settings, and that part I will wait until he is here for so I don't screw anything up.
Have a great day Ladies -
Okie in the TX Hill Country8 -
Beth - Delicata is one of my favorite squash, and it's generally on the sweeter side. I have a couple in the garage right now I'll peel with the potato peeler, then halve lengthwise, remove the seeds, then cut into 1" strips. Put on non-stick cookie sheet, dust with cinnamon, and roast at 400 for perhaps 20 minutes. There are lots of good recipes.
Kim - love the photo of precious Levi curled up for a nap. Are you able to take him along on your gardening jobs?
Barbie - I too was pleasantly surprised at how good a frozen pizza is with a cauliflower crust!
Heather - sorry to hear your DH got hit so hard with the cold and glad he's on antibiotics. Do they have the pneumonia shots in the UK? It's irritating when others can't take the "no" to your not wanting to go with them this time around. There's nothing wrong with wanting to stick around your new home. You don't need to travel on a train to some other city for an adventure - you have a lot to explore just outside your door. Love to hear about your shopping and what goes on at the waterfront.
Kate - my DH is like yours with not wanting to take another pill! He does take D3 but wish I could get some B vitamins, especially the B12 into his pill-holder.
Katla - glad you are enjoying the information brought forth on the health series. I saw Dr. Andrew Saul in a film several years ago, I think it was "The Vitamin Movie" - he's a big proponent of huge doses of Vitamin C. I take 1000 mg of it each day. Again, cheap insurance is how I see it.
DH and I were just commenting neither of us has had a cold or sore throat/bronchial crud in years. I think a big part of it is limited exposure. DH doesn't go out in public much with due to his compromised immune system from his RA meds, plus his increasing anxiety being around the general public. I do my grocery shopping when the stores are less crowded, avoid people with sniffles and sneezes and use hand sanitizer and wash my hands a lot when out and about. We aren't around kids so don't get to share their germs. . I no longer work in a crowded office environment where the bug used to race around.
Here's a Charlie Brown cartoon for you dog lovers:
Have a great day, ladies!
Lanette
SW WA State9
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