WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2019
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Sending best wishes to all those with struggling family and friends.
I have one younger brother with health issues - diabetes, retinas etc. He is very cheerful and has at last realised that he has to change his diet. For years he just breezed along regardless.We are close, but I would like to see more of him. He has 6 children and 10 grandchildren, plus his wife's big family, so they are very busy.
My DH's daughter has recently had a bowel operation for prolapsed piles. She is in a lot of pain and panicking a bit. Her mother is staying with her and sleeping on the sofa! It was her first ever visit to a hospital, at age 45!
I didn't run today. I had my hair cut and then the weather did not look attractive. I did some elliptical and some recumbent bike instead. Notched up a bonus 250. Thank goodness, because I've eaten it all.
Debating what to do tomorrow. We have Bea in the morning from 9 am. Going to set the alarm and do some exercise first thing. Then I am supposed to be going to my creative dance class, but I didn't enjoy it much last week. The format isn't working for me. I may give it a miss and go for a run instead. We also could practice our Swing, as I've downloaded a big band track.
We have decided to go out for a Thai meal in the evening and then go on to a live music pub, called The Paris House. It's going to be Cuban music.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
It’s snowing 🌨!!!! 😀3
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Goals for March... adding more protein,
definitely eating slower.
Going to try to get my will back to exercise... this has been a tough one. Need lots of encouragement for this one!2 -
evening ladies, I love checking in with you all
Sometimes it feels like sanity to just read about your triumphs, struggles, wisdom and humor. I'm hanging in there, NYKAREN
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Tracey-So sorry for your loss. I too lost an Uncle this week. He was the last surviving on my father's side. ((HUGS))
Michele- Rant!!! Then Breathe!!!!! We have your back! You have stuck in there longer than I would have, wait, okay, I put up with this same s**! every day at work. Sorry, now I want to rant-smh! Anyhow, the garage heater is an industrial radiant heater, that hangs off the ceiling. We use it when it gets extremely cold. Otherwise we use two little heaters that are infrared. As you can see, we spend a lot of time in the garage-aka the man cave.
Drove to Cincinnati for a training class today. It was informative so that is good. Left at 630 this morning, got back to shop at 4, worked until 530. One of these days, I am going to learn to play hooky at least until closer to closing time. I love my sister in law, but as a employee/owner, she sucks! She can't handle any issues, she leaves them for me. She left an hour before I got back. She didn't call the folks whose parts came in this morning.My husband is making comments about equipment that has been there for a while.... well, his sister was there...she could have made phone calls! RRRR! Sorry. He makes me mad and then acts like everything is okay and I get even more pissed. Came home to two phone messages from doctor offices that made no sense to me. Will figure it out tomorrow, I reckon. I really need to make the trip home....
Moving on to page 16. Good news is my scale actually went down this morning! Only .3# but I will take it!
Kylia freezing and feeling pissy in Ohio3 -
Mothers and fathers.....that is a tough subject for me. Both mine are/were alcoholics. Mom has been in recovery almost 30 years, Father deceased from drinking and smoking. They divorced when I was 16. I am not sure how well I remember a lot of those years, but my brother and sister consider me their mom. They said I was always there for them when the parents weren't. Because of the divorce and the alcohol, they both missed out on a lot of important events in our lives. My mother is self centered. She is a recovering alcoholic, hoarder, and I am pretty sure bipolar. She unfriended all of us three years ago, quit answering phone and texts, then sends us all an email that she had moved. Well, other than the obligatory mother's day, birthday, and christmas card, there hasn't been much contact up until Aubrey was born and her sister broke her neck. I know that my girls are grateful that their father and I chose to co-parent even after the divorce. No things weren't always easy, but our girls are the beautiful part of our marriage. We haven't missed any important events. I am proud to say, I did/do a better job at parenting and grandparenting than my parents did.
So happy to hear of RV trips getting go aheads! That is wonderful!
Barbara- We have natural gas to the right of us and to the left of us. To run it to our house would be over $15,000! Propane tank is on the side of the house with no windows, so it works. We converted the house to propane heat in 1995. Added the garage heater around 2000. Next is the stove!
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Elizabeth- Congratulations on your goal weight! That is fabulous!
Janey in MO- Prayers for your father and family! ((HUGS))
Yvonne-I love all your information! So clever and usually thought provoking. Thank you!
Rebecca- Love the cat pictures! We are expecting another 2-3 inches of snow tomorrow night. We haven't gotten out of the low 20s all week. BRRR! Warmth in sight for the weekend though with lots of rain! At least not snow.
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jlose65- Just keep checking in. Let us know what to call you as well as a general location so we can sort you in our minds. Don't forget to tag the star at the top of the page. It will turn yellow. That book marks the page so that you can easily find us. We talk a lot, so check in often, reply as you feel the need. And WELCOME!
So all my posts landed together as I was reading one page, commenting, posting, then moving to next. One of these days I will get as good as you other ladies and figure out how to copy and paste with a split screen. I am still struggling with posting pictures some days.
Somehow just deleted the last of this post. grumble.
Husband needing assistance.....
Kylia going crazy in Ohio2 -
Pip! that is a lot of snow in a few hours! Stay safe!1
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Hi Gals,
Driving the RV in the city, made me think of a story with my maternal grandparents; I would have been about 17-18 years old, so many many a year ago! But they had retired bought a travel trailer and traveled the US for a couple of years, they came out to visit us in Northern California, they came the southern route from FL to CA; so came north up the CA coast. According to google maps the route was about 440 miles (704 km) they decided to come up the coast route which is one lane each way, with sharp drop offs into the ocean on one side, and almost no where to pull off for long stretches. This was a big heavy car and a 14(ish) foot travel trailer, it took them 18 plus hours. If they had come the inland route it would have been 8 hours at the most. These were the days before cell phones; and my mom was frantic! I remember the relief on both my parents faces when they rolled up to the house. I stayed up with my folks worried about my grandparents.
Parents - I still have my mom she’ll turn 90 on Saturday, she still driving (well!), cleaning a 2700 sq. foot house on her own, and except for the pool boy and a mow and blow guy for the small grass area she maintains a full acre in gardens. And while we have very regular contact and I do love her, I know she’ll never have my back. Which affects a relationship tremendously. My dad died in 1977 and I was (am) a Daddy’s girl and the apple of his eye; I miss him everyday. He was the families guiding light and when he died the family was never the same; Mom has done her best but she is ill-equipped to be a parent without my dad. She plays favorites, tells you what she thinks is best for you to hear-even if it has no connection to the truth. And is very happy to judge. I will miss her when she goes. But probably not at the level I miss my Dad.
Siblings, cousins and – I have a sister and a brother; and a boat load of cousins. None of whom I am close. The cousins are in CT and if I could afford the flight they would love to see me, they are my mom’s brother’s kids and they all have big families- I have not been back in years! My nephew and my god-kids are my family, and those ties are very tight
Kim from N. California
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stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 8.26min, 11.4amph, 135mhr, 1.5mi= 92c
HELIX Machine- 27min, 131mhr, 52arpm,lvl5-6, 2.73mi= 185c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 5.50min, 139mhr, 15.1amph, 1.4mi= 63c
bike ride puy 2 sumn sta- 16.33min, 11amph, 139mhr, 3mi= 160c
jog sta 2 wrk- 5.06min, 9.44min mi, 152mhr, .5mi= 66c
jog wrk 2 sta- 4.37min, 10.07min mi, 164mhr, .4mi= 74c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 20.04min, 7.8amph, 147mhr,2.6mi= 205c
total cal 8463 -
Well, here I am. MFP has changed so much since I joined 10 years ago.
I decided to reactivate and my old login is still here. There are a few familiar faces in another group that i still came up in as a member.
I managed to find this group by searching (Thanks Barbiecat), but I'll be hanged if i can figure out how to add myself in. So maybe someone can send me a message and tell me how, bnb or invite me or??
Thanks.
Barb4 -
Went to the deep water class today. The plan for tomorrow is to do Karen Voit’s Strength DVD
Dr. Katie – there are times when I wish I didn’t have kids, I worry sometimes too much. But that’s the price you pay. As my father used to say “you play, you pay”
Noegrand – I self-sabotage when I think “tonight’s IT, tomorrow I watch”. Like last night, I could only think “tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, I’m giving up eating anything but fruit after dinner”. BTW – what name would you like to be called?
Okie – I am going to step away. As of the end of this month, I will no longer be doing hospitality. But it really isn’t fair to the new president for me to suddenly bow out of membership. I’ll continue to do it until they find someone else to do it. My only fear is that they won’t find anyone. If it comes to that, I’ll give them a deadline. It just frustrates me. Greg asked me if certain people are members because they need to be “activated”. From my understanding, people can’t get onto the website anyway, so I’m in no rush to answer him.
Talked to Denise last night. See, Maria had sent me a link for these cakes. I said to her “I don’t know why you’re sending me this, most of those cakes are made with fondant and I know Denise doesn’t like fondant”. Do you know that Denise told me that Maria had no idea what I was talking about? I can understand a 20 year old not knowing what fondant is, but a 50 year old????
It’s getting to be somewhat of a pain to log my foods on two separate sites. I’m thinking more and more that I won’t log here. Unfortunately, nutritionix doesn’t have groups where you can ask questions. But it does look like their database is much more complete. But I will continue to come here. You all mean so much to me!
Elizabeth – woo hoo!
Welcome everyone new!
Greg wants everyone to update their own information on the web. Yea, like that’s gonna happen! I’m not even going to bother wasting my breath. He’s going to do what he wants to do, even if I tell him that it’s not going to happen and he does what he wants and it doesn’t happen. Like he wanted everyone to get their own email. I told him that we have members who either won’t get one or don’t want to share their email. So what did he do? He asked everyone to get their own email. What happened? He got responses like “use my email for my husband” I just sat back and smiled. He wants to have a training session on the web. Come on! Most of our members are retired, they either didn’t work with computers and are intimidated by them or they worked with them, are tired of them, and just want someone else to do the work.
JLose – I’m so sorry about your dad!
Janet in MO – I’m so sorry about your dad. Yes, dads are “superman”
Kylia – at least you get paid to put up with s***! I’m volunteering and I want to volunteer at something that is enjoyable. I guess in a way this is...keeps me laughing if anything. I’d love an industrial heater in the garage
Put one of the gnomes in to fire at ceramics tonight. I should get it back Monday when we go. Finished except for one coat of the clear glaze on the other gnome. But I am waiting for them to pour me this bird that he’ll have in his hand.
Michele in NC
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Hi Barb, Good to see you here. This is a thread, not a group so you don't have to join. All you have to do is post. The way to find us again is to bookmark the page by clicking on the open star at the top and the star will turn yellow. Then you find us again by clicking on the gray star and this thread will be on the list. I hope you will be a regular part of our friendly supportive community.
Barbie
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My friend gave me some old costume jewelry that was her Grandmother’s for Michaela and for me to do a project with. Today was the first day Michaela has seen her new treasures and she had to wear it all!
After supper we had this conversation:
She was all about jewelry today and after supper noticed my rings. She asked me if I was taking them off, I said “no, these are my wedding rings”.
She stepped back with the most incredulous voice and says “you married?” I said, “yes, I’m married to Grampie”. She runs into Rodger and tells him that I am married to him. He says, yes we’ve been married for a long long time. She asks him why, he says “I don’t know”. 😂😂😂
Family - I used to be very close to my cousins, aunts and uncles. Every Sunday we visited one relative or another and until my Dad passed in 2012 I knew what was going on in most of their lives. My Mom was an only child, I feel now that some of my friends are closer than family, and one cousin I consider more friend than family. Family dynamics sure is tough at times.
Will check in tomorrow
Tracey in Edmonton8 -
So all my posts landed together as I was reading one page, commenting, posting, then moving to next. One of these days I will get as good as you other ladies and figure out how to copy and paste with a split screen. I am still struggling with posting pictures some days.
Kylia going crazy in Ohio
I use two tabs ... open MFP twice.
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weaklink109 wrote: »Well, here I am. MFP has changed so much since I joined 10 years ago.
I decided to reactivate and my old login is still here. There are a few familiar faces in another group that i still came up in as a member.
I managed to find this group by searching (Thanks Barbiecat), but I'll be hanged if i can figure out how to add myself in. So maybe someone can send me a message and tell me how, bnb or invite me or??
Thanks.
Barb
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