WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2019

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,840 Member
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    spikeyhair wrote: »
    I'm 74 in 2 weeks, born and bred in Liverpool UK married for 54 years in June

    :open_mouth::love:

    spikeyhair wrote: »
    We are both retired, I was a College librarian.

    My dream job! :)


    M in Oz

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,840 Member
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    Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of rowing)
    Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
    Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
    May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
    Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
    Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
    Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
    Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
    Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
    Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
    Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
    Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
    Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
    Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
    May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
    Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
    Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
    Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
    Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
    Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
    Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
    Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
    Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
    Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
    Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
    Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
    May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
    Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
    Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
    Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
    Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
    Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
    Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
    Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
    Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
    Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
    Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
    May -18 … 167.6 km (104.1 miles) = 29 hours 08 min
    June-18 … 349.9 km (217.4 miles) = 36 hours 58 minutes
    July-18 ... 324.2 km (201.5 miles) = 24 hours 26 minutes
    Aug-18 ... 210.1 km (130.6 miles) = 25 hours 59 minutes
    Sep-18 ... 261.7 km (162.6 miles) = 25 hours 11 minutes
    Oct-18 ... 230.8 km (143.4 miles) = 30 hours 15 minutes
    Nov-18 ... 216.8 km (134.7 miles) = 30 hours 3 minutes
    Dec-18 ... 285.2 km (177.2 miles) = 37 hours 49 minutes
    Jan-19 ... 241.6 km (150.1 miles) = 27 hours 2 minutes
    Feb-19 ... 175.5 km (109 miles) = 19 hours 8 minutes
    Mar-19 ... 170.3 km (105.8 miles) = 28 hours 21 minutes
    Apr-19 ... 160.3 km (99.6 miles) = 25 hours 4 minutes

    Goal: More than April. Actually, it looks like I kinda need to step up my game. I haven't cracked 30 hours of exercise in a month yet this year!! Health ... I need health!!


    Wednesday, 1 May 2019 … 1.4 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 4 flights of stairs
    Thursday, 2 May 2019 … 4.2 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 4 flights of stairs


    2019 Monthly May
    Walking Distance (km): 5.6
    Walking Time (min): 70.0
    Cycling Distance (km): 0.0
    Cycling Time (min): 0.0
    Flights Stairs Climbed Number: 8.0
    Flights Stairs Climbed Time (min): 6.4
    Rowing Distance (km): 0.0
    Rowing Time (min): 0.0
    Other Distance: 0.0
    Other Time: 0.0

    Totals
    Total Distance (km): 5.6
    Total Distance (miles): 3.5
    Total Time (min): 76.4
    Total Time (hr): 1:16:24
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    midday checkin
    I awoke at 4a m to finish something
    at 1pm it feels like late in day.

    yesterday
    ✔️ 1. weighed
    ✔️2. tracked all yesterday
    ✔️ 3. 30 min exercise
    ✔️4. five minutes meditation
    ✔️5.Spend at least 2h on long term writing project
    ✔️ 6.produce at least 2 pages per day
    x 7. Take care of at least one short term (1 pagish) writing or administrative task/bill
    ✔️ 8. At least 15 min/day filing/cleaning. 1+ hour. yes
    ✔️ 9.average 1100 calories net.

    so far today
    - 1. weighed
    - 2. tracked all so far I think so
    not yet 3. 30 min exercise d
    not yet4. five minutes meditation a
    not yet5.Spend at least 2h on long term writing project c
    not yet 6.produce at least 2 pages per day
    ✔️7. Take care of at least one short term (1 pagish) writing or administrative task/bill. yes, much more than 1 page
    not yet 8. At least 15 min/day filing/cleaning. 1+ hour. yes b
    - 9.average 1100 calories net, let's see


    • Overall Feeling: medium
    • Tracking : medium, I weighed breakfast then stressed getting home. I'm not sure if I forgot something (like a chocolate square)
    • Exercise: not yet
    • 1100 calories net : already at 900+at 1pm. Gonna be a veggie evening? Salad, green beans, condiments and a lean protein?
    • Long term writing: good yesterday, it's working out with good corrector
    • Short term writing/admin : was up in wee hours listening to typescript for 3+ hours and taking notes.glad that's over.
    • Bright Spots today : I think I may have tracked all even if I was and am feeling pretty anxious

    Today im grateful for
    1. it's working out with corrector
    2. checked almost all of yesterday
    3. I have to leave work I worked on this morning to others to do next steps
    4. green earl gray tea
    5. I'm able to stop somewhat even though I'm feeling pretty anxious
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    NYKaren, are you retiring soon, or planning for early retirement or something?
    I've been teaching for ages. though it's a vocation I've been thinking I might like to move onto something else. I have sometimes thought teaching is good to do for just part of a career. my brother left tech and went into teaching at around 50. I have mostly taught. the idea of not teaching appeals to me.

    Kate I think I might have liked being a librarian. did you like it? where in Greece and spain do you go?

    Kim Awesome about the nice hotel and travel buddy. Lovely wedding gifts. I was thinking when going to an event like that I don't hesitate to hunker down in my room when I need to. hopefully there will be something or someone really worthwhile to connect with. so sorry about your brother and what you went through with him.

    Hi Ruby, I'm new too, just 1 week old on this thread.

    Tracey congratulations on weight loss and maintenance. I hope you get a job you like soon. what field are you looking into?

    Connie great news about your health!

    Machka. thanks for the question.

    I checked in and then read up backwards and saw this recurring "who am I" question as a notable pattern! (lol!)

    I'm gonna come back to that.

    At present I'm mostly gonna whinge. I need to blow off a little steam. I'm feeling super stressed at present. I'm 55, a teacher. was a union rep last year; am still following up on some union stuff today and it stresses me out as the direction is not upright.
    when I was young I would just leave if I didn't like something about a place, but at 55 it's less simple and also the economy is less good then in my youngun days.

    though nothing super stressful happened, going to deal with this union thing today (I also had to wake up very early to listen to typescript and correct very erroneous minutes (the direction omits and twists things around).

    So back home at 11ish to send something, some little mindless sweet eating (but still can maybe stay on track today) I had some dairy free coconut ice cream and a GF chocolate chunk cookie m&s, not a huge thing. but also good breakfast and an egg and lean meat for lunch.

    I feel pain and chills and tired partly from stress, partly maybe from getting up so early.
    I tend to feel chills when I feel stressed and want to crawl into bed.

    I would like to chill after an intense long morning but my correctors are expecting to hear from me today.
    also I'm stressed because the cheaper, less qualified one is available and I have to cancel out on the also good but less specialised and slightly more expensive (but not very expensive) one.

    I would like to take a nap but need to contact the one I'm cancelling on and get some work done to send to the one I'm not cancelling on.

    looking at my undone list, checking off some of that might make me feel good. 5 minutes meditation, then cleaning, then walk, then only the 2h will remain.

    I think if I wasn't on this thread I would have had a mini indulgence. as it is I maybe caught myself in time. I'll see.

    I enjoy reading your "who am I?"s and want to take the time to read them a few at a time.

    thanks
  • Jen8000LM
    Jen8000LM Posts: 8 Member
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    Happy "May Day" plus 1!

    Great day to hit the "reset" button for me. I started tracking and exercising in August. It has taken me all this time to lose 10 lbs, but I am ok with that. The problem now is that I have not been faithful tracking and 3 lbs. have crept back. Urghhhhhhh! I know that if I don't get back to my routines of exercising and tracking, I will gain it all back.

    Goal for this month is to lose the 3 lbs. that I gained. I know what I need to do--I just need to do it! Have a great day ladies!
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,840 Member
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    margaretturk wrote: »
    Thanks for all your support.

    I have heard nothing from the letters I sent.

    Way too early to hear anything.

    You'll get one of two reactions:

    1) The letter will be considered one of many complaint letters which will either be ignored along with hundreds of others or you'll eventually get a formal letter thanking you for your letter and telling you they'll take it under consideration. If you get this kind of response, it will likely take 2-3 weeks, at least, because there are likely a pile of them to do and the office person might send out a dozen a day or something.

    2) They'll consider it important enough to give you a real response, but in order to do so they'll have to send your letter to the lawyers and let the lawyers come up with a legally appropriate response. That'll take at least a month, probably more like 2 or 3 months.


    Be patient! If you're going to get a good response from them, it will be a while.


    M in Oz
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 9,692 Member
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    Morning ladies
    Just checking in.. had a good time last night working 10-5 today and will come down and feed DFIL tonight.. I'm down here waiting for them to get him up now..
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,336 Member
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    Did a DVD for the rebounder today. The plan for tomorrow is to do Jillian Michaels 30 Day shred DVD

    Evelyn – Our cat one time brought a live bird into the house and proceeded to let it go. Poor bird was scared s***less. He went all over my walls, my curtains, etc. I swear the cat had a smile on his face with feathers from the bird sticking out of his mouth while he watched us trying to catch this bird.

    Shannon – what kind of surgery are you having? Hope everything goes well. Those cats eating look like our cats when they’re eating

    Barbara – I’m trying to imagine baby’s breath for the dust storm for PigPen. How are you thinking that it should be?

    Welcome everyone new!

    Thursday here: did Jillian Michael’s 30 Day shred DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to take the water class.

    Need to volunteer at the Green Room. First, I’ll go to Food Lion (right by my house), I need to return one item and get Gatorade while I’m there since it’s on sale and I get $2 off. Then stop at the soup kitchen to make a donation from the church. When I get home I’ll make the ricotta cookies for Denise and the cake for Sunday.

    Heather – sure hope you get better fast

    Vicki – I like the idea of the thing from Halloween to be Pig Pen’s “dust”. I probably should starch it (the netting) so that it doesn’t just flop over on him. Put Charlie Brown in to be fired last night

    Shari – yea for waistlines! You SHOULD be proud

    Bananas – I’m not sure exactly how many people are on this thread, but seeings how it goes so very fast and so many people talk about how they can’t keep up, I would say a lot

    Rori – you sure do have a good way of looking at the fractures. Wish I was closer to help you out

    Laura – I actually prefer shirataki noodles now to regular spaghetti. Every time I put them in soup, I think of Heather who gave me the idea

    Want to post this before I have to leave.

    Michele in NC
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,483 Member
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    Barbie thank you very much for keeping us going. Makes me think of your walking emojis, you energizer bunny, you! Your 2019 word "pause" was the focus of today's dog group training. Teaching our dogs to pause at every curb, threshold etc as a way of calming them and helpin them focus on us. Great word!

    Welcome Nerys, asolita, dives371, Shari, ChrisCatMama, ShellyBell999, rubyslipperss1 in Houston and Jen8000LM! Whew!

    Kim loved what you and Lisa and all said to Rori about her breathing a sigh of relief over 2 cracked ankles and a broken foot :). Ditto Karen in VA's, Kate's and NYKaren's comments about your feather patches. Brilliant! So happy events transpired so that you can look forward to this wedding. You'll want to see all the grins as people receive their "favors".

    I am Barbara, an Ageing Hippie, Mother of Dogs (Skye Terriers, Scooter male, 14 from the shelter, and Tumble, female 4, from a breeder at 4 months.) Born in SF, lived in the East Bay as a child, teen years in rural Northern Califiornia and then Bay Area again from college forward.

    Joe and I met at 35, married at 38, that was 31 years ago, you do the math ;)

    Our only children have four paws and fur, though we did foster 3 nephews for a couple of years (a very long story).

    Worked in transportation since childhood (Papa was a Railway Express Agent who taught me the names of the states and their capitals before I was in kindergarten, Mama taught me to read). Back in the late 70's when the first "mini" computers came on board, I was the only one in the office who was stubborn enough to make it do what I wanted it to, so slid by the seat of my pants into an IT career in the shipping industry. That career moved us from the SF Bay Area to Boise Idaho in '97.

    20 years later we retired and moved back to the ocean, but in remote, rural, forested southern Oregon, to a 30 yr old manufactured home on 15 vertical acres with a distant ocean "peek" between the trees.

    Joined mfp in 2008, took off 15 lbs. At 4'11" I've been schelpping the remaining extra 40-50 lbs around for way too long. Even though my food choices have gotten healthier (still a way to go, too much sugar!) and I'm Alcohol Free 70% of the time, have barely taken off 1 lb/month since returning to MFP in 2017.

    If it weren't for line dancing, T'ai Chi, walking with Tumble and dinking around in the dirt, my only exercise would be turning pages, clicking or rolling over. I love to read and nap!!! ;}

    April intention was to: 1. try something new this month (either keyboard or sewing machine); 2. bring all the percentages up. Strategy is to invest 5 minutes in one of the goals after each spider/free cell game. Linking to something I know I'll do every day might help.

    Forgot my strategy played way too much Spider and Free Cell. :persevere:

    May intention same as April, no more solitaire before meditation!

    Daily: walk one more step, 60 g protein, meditate, knee exercises, 10 minutes play training Tumble.
    Twice weekly: SWSY
    Weekly: hang or purge 1 piece of art
    Monthly: try one new thing (keyboard, or hebrew alphabet or sewing machine or ???)
    Bonus: AF days

    results:
    Apr: walk one more step 67%, 60 g protein=90% rx/vits=88% meditate 27%, knee exercises=27% SWSY up 0% SWSY low 0% core= 0% Tumble=60% hang up or purge art 0, AF 70% one new thing: Redwood Nature Trail Hike-Y (showed me how unfit I am :< )

    Mar: walk one more step 100%, 60 g protein=90% rx/vits=92% meditate 39%, knee exercises=39% SWSY up 13% SWSY low 13% core= 13% Tumble=61% hang up or purge art 0, AF 61%
    Feb: walk one more step 75%, 60 g protein=100% rx/vits=96% meditate 86%, knee exercises=86% SWSY up 63% SWSY low 63% core= 63% Tumble=43% hang up or purge art 0, AF 71%
    Jan: walk one more step 94%, 60 g protein=94% rx/vits=90% meditate 97%, knee exercises=97% SWSY up 100% SWSY low 100% core= 100% Tumble=39% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%
    Dec: walk one more step 71%, 60 g protein=71% rx/vits=76% meditate 81%, knee exercises=81% SWSY up 0% SWSY low 0% core= 0% Tumble=44% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%
    Nov: walk one more step 63%, 60 g protein=77% rx/vits=77% meditate 80%, knee exercises=83% SWSY up 13% SWSY low 10% core=13% Tumble=37% hang up or purge art 1, AF 77%
    Oct: walk one more step 74%, 60 g protein=71% rx/vits=58% meditate 42%, knee exercises=42% SWSY 0% core=13% Tumble=19% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%


    Lighter, lovelies!
    f8qt1s098sxm.gifBarbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
    walk one more step 1/31, 60 g protein 1/31, rx/vits 1/31, meditate 0/31, knee exercises 1/31, SWSY 0/9, play with Tumble 1/31, hang up or purge art 0/4 AF 1/31.
    Word for 2019: "GOOD" good attitude, good food, good times, good choices, good enough, feel good, GOOD!
    05/01: CFRFPD minutes-N MT: Dog group-Y ST: stuff to rummage sale-Y
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 16,906 Member
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    :)Kim, I am so happy that a miraculous solution appeared to make it possible for you to go to your friends' wedding. The favors you are making are beautiful.

    :)Kay, what a fabulous change from before to now.

    :)Bananas, you have a very full life with lots to do. I am amazed at how much you accomplish. You keep finding ways to fit in more things and stay on your healthy path.

    :)Barbara Where did you live in "rural Northern California"?

    :)Carol, Your life sounds very satisfying and sustaining. Slow and steady will bring you great recovery from your surgery.

    :) Book recommendation for anyone wanting to build better habits---"Better Than Before" by Gretchen Rubin

    81824br5uyrfrsr.gif Barbie from beautiful sunny NW Washington
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,328 Member
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    Barbie - thank you for getting us charging into May! Great job on the steps for both you and Jake, so glad he's feeling good.

    Katla - several years ago we had those little carpet beetles. I had a basket of felted wool balls - cat toys shoved in the corner of our living room. Dug into it one day and was horrified to see the little beetles had eaten channels through most the balls. I got out the vacuum and tossed everything....managed to save the basket - I cannot remember what I used to treat it, but I aired it out before bringing it back into the house. Yesterday, I accessed the Master Gardener "Pestsense" feature which NOW says chemical pesticides are not recommended, use natural means like vacuuming, etc. Poppycock, lol. You have large rugs. Glad you could order pyrethin (sp) - it's fairly safe as compared to most.

    Heather     - I too wonder if your DH wore the nail varnish to the restaurant? LOL. He is such a good sport to act as a patient when they play doctor and as a model.

    Rori - So glad to hear you will be able to be mobile with the boot. You are made out of tough stuff! B) Thank goodness for automatic transmissions, eh?

    Welcome to all new ladies - I am thoroughly enjoying reading everyone's "story". Here's mine:

    I was born and raised on a farm in Indiana. Graduated from IU. Married a Marine, we lived in VA for a while then moved to the Seattle area where I worked in the seafood business - administrative - then moved on to a job with a seafood accountant. In the mid-90's we moved to a farm close to Olympia, WA and raised sheep and I got an administrative job at the 911 Center which I eventually managed for 4 years. Retired from that for a few years, then got a part time job with the county road department-engineering & property management, mainly for the insurance to and fund my state pension. Retired at 65 - I am now 67. Our kids are our dogs, lol. Been married 42 years. My husband has RA - diagnosed in the mid 90's. Has dealt with it pretty well until the past couple years and I've also starting having some health issues. But overall, life is wonderful and I find many things to be grateful for every day. And what I'm not grateful for, I visualize kicking in the tushie, lol.

    Or PIP kicking it in the tushie! :D with her famous boot!!

    Have a good day ladies!

    Lanette
    Sunny SW WA State
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
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    bananas I have 26 years of service in NYS as a teacher, I will need to teach four more years to get a "safe pension amount" so I am making peace with sticking around. I admire your service to Union work, it is such an important service to the teaching profession IMHO.

    Having another stressful day, but checking in here is a comforting activity for me!

    NYKAREN
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
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    I meditated 5 min and cleaned a good hour: ironed, put away laundry, tossed some expired herb tea, cleaned the stovetop, straightened the spice and tea shelf, shoe shelves, coat closet, paper and plastic bags.
    Was planning to go for a walk/errands but there's a downpour right now; and I'm exhausted! even doing a few errands seems hard for me to fathom at present.

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