WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2019
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I just have to add this! It is funny and sad when you know your spouse so well and can predict the way they will respond to something (that I find) very small and inconsequential. My kids all know that I have been busting my butt with preparations for my daughter's family's arrival. Things that, perhaps, don't NEED to be done, but I WANT them done. My hubby, Tim, has not said a word, agreed with my activities/plans with no objections (at least not voiced) and has helped out where he can (he has RA so his "muscle" help has been limited). A couple of days ago, my son, Colin, commented on his father's compliance to everything, and I said, "Just wait until I have to move my clothes back into the closet in our bedroom! He is going to completely lose his marbles!" Well, the moment of truth came last night! I began with moving his folded clothes off the top shelf of our closet and into the top two drawers of a dresser in our room. No biggie, because it is mostly sweaters and clothes for colder weather. As I placed my folded clothes on that top shelf, I asked him if he was okay with that and he said that he was, because he couldn't even reach up there in the first place. (all good, so far) I then grabbed my hanging clothes out of the closet in the spare room. I don't have much; hung tightly together, all of my things take up maybe two feet of space. Now, my husband has dozens of dress shirts. He has always hung them with about a half inch between each shirt "so the collars don't get crushed". Because he is no longer working, my brain RATIONALLY thought, "He doesn't really wear these any more, so they don't need to be spread out this much". BUT I KNEW...I just knew this was going to drive him crazy. I did it anyway; I did it as he stood and watched me do it. And there was a small, evil, part of me, that took great joy in doing it!
I pushed all of his dress shirts to one half of the closet and began to hang my things up! I could hear him sputtering behind me! LOL! I got my stuff in and moved it tightly to the left and spread his shirts back out a little, and got out of his way. lol I giggled silently as he made a couple of trips to the basement with some dress shirts as he mumbled and groused about crushed collars and how he was going to have to iron them all! I am still laughing as I write this. I am pretty sure I won't go to hell for it; but it was a "naughty" enough action that it made me feel really good/bad! 
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Kelly ~ Your story about the shirts is cute! My husband still has clothes he wore 30 yrs ago and clothes that his dad had when he passed away. But, we do share the closet pretty well. I don't have that many clothes either.
Have a great visit with your daughter's family. I am so excited for you.
Meg ~ Your story about the paper you wrote is also cute.
Allie ~ Sounds like you are surrounded by a lot of folks that count you as a special friend. That says a lot about you!
That's all I can remember...everyone have a peaceful and happy weekend.
Carol in GA2 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Whole Wheat Nursing
That sounds holesome.
Barbie: Don't Feed the Horses'
That tweaks the imagination! It begs to be finished. Don't Feed the Horses' Arses, perhaps.
I went to a laundromat years ago and found this sign on the wall:
Absolutely No Dying
Karen in Virginia
Karen, you and I would have a blast going through life together reading signs.
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@1948peachy I think any decent higher ed job is super competitive!
@exermom I'm not great at limiting carbs, but some days are better than others. I had a habit of eating lots of fruit, especially bananas..and like crackers, GF bread, dark chocolate. cheese is low carb I think.0 -
Health
1. Write what I'm grateful for here daily✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
2. At least 30 min exercise 6 days a week✔️✔️✔️✔️
3.Track all ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
4. Five minutes meditation 5 days a week ✔️
5. Average 1100 calories net average✔️✔️
6. Lose 1-2 kilos/month
7. Take measurements every 2 weeks (?) ]not yet
8. Go to free coaching session ✔️
9. Try one class per week at gym (I had signed up-annual sign up- for the 7 euros a month extra for classes and havent gone since the "zen" stretching classes weren't great.) ✔️
10. Use city bike 1x a week (I also signed up many months ago at about 3-4 euros per month, there was no bike free the first time I wanted to use it and I had completely forgotten about it, it's not in my habits). not yet
11. eat fresh leafy greens 4 days a week ✔️✔️✔️
12. try skipping breakfast had breakfast at 10 ✔️✔️✔️xx
13. less than 50 carbs ✔️x xxxx
Long term writing
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Home
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Paper
15. Make a list of short term tasks, etc and prioritise them, x
16. Take care of at least 2 short term (1 pagish) writing or administrative task/bill per week not yet
17. Taxes not yet
18. 1 h per week filing not yet
Art
19. 1 hour on art project (other than sketching) per week not yet
Work
20. do one work-related thing per week other than the above, to progress (I have to network and take initiative etc, in my job and I haven't been doing so much since focusing on thesis ) not specifically
Remaining from May to do some day : Make appointment with dentist 2
Grateful:
slept ok
weather ok
some help2 -
not feeling great today.5
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Back to basics - going to give that a try here’s hoping we can master straws by 2 1/2yr s Old fingers crossed 🤞
Silverware 🥄 still projectiles so hopefully by age 3
Amber Tx
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I'm eating out lunch and dinner today and dinner tomorrow. I'm torn between just letting it be an exception vs vowing to stay on the straight and narrow. I guess I can aim for a reasonable exception. Not entirely gluttony, but no way am I going to hit my fiber goal and stay under 1200. I've been very good; one weekend will not kill the program if I don't go crazy. Just worried about it.3
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yo peeps.
we got a thoughtful surprise in the mail yesterday. THANK YOU SO MUCH for the sympathy card it was very unexpected and so sweet.
it's killing me to ask but I know it must be from one of you cuz it says 'dear kirby and pip" no one calls me pip but when it's someone from here.
Vickyi and Steve in Nebraska, who are you... what's your screen name........
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Saturday -- this has been a surprisingly long and challenging day for me.
First, it's cold for Tasmania. Granted, it is winter, but it has been quite a nice winter till now. For whatever reason, I've felt half frozen all day. I was holding my husband's hands at one point and told him that my hands are warm. "No their NOT!" he said. "Well", I said, "I can't feel them anymore, so I'm telling myself they're warm."
I found myself hunching my shoulders a lot today against the cold and now my neck and shoulders feel a bit sore.
Our new treadmill arrived fairly early in the day, and it was set up for us so that was nice. I walked (and jogged a little bit) for 30 minutes. Since I finished my last class at uni, I haven't walked all that much, or that briskly, so I'm feeling it now.
Then I did a lot of research to see if I could connect the treadmill to Zwift. Apparently, not without a foot pod. I'll have to find a foot pod.
Then my husband and I set up our Apple TVs so we could use them for Zwift with our bicycles on trainers. That was fraught with difficulties.
I don't use Apple products. I begrudgingly use the Mac computers at Uni when we're stuck in one of the Mac labs but I'm a die-hard PC user. Now I've got an Apple account.
And I made many treks downstairs where our home gym is ... and back up to my PC to look something up on the internet ... and back down to the home gym armed with new information ... and back up to my PC when that didn't work ... and back down again ... I lost count the number of trips I made. Finally, I got Zwift working.
But then we had to connect to it. We bough Wahoo bluetooth sensors for that ... and could we get them working?? Of course not. Nothing was easy today. I was picking up my husband's sensors. My husband was picking up my sensors. Then both wouldn't work ... so more trips up to my PC to look up troubleshooting information and down to try something and up to look up something else and down to try something. Finally, about 9:30 pm, I got them working.
Well, mostly. For some reason, although I rode 1 km, it didn't transfer to Strava. But I'll deal with that tomorrow.
It is so cold down there, where our home gym is. That's great when I'm exercising because I warm up very quickly, but when I'm standing there trying to set things up ... I froze. Despite the fact that I was wearing a tank top, hoodie sweat top and a big fleece jacket. The outside temp was about 6C with a "feels like" temp of about 0-3C with all the wind. Our very drafty basement was probably around 10C.
To try to eliminate some of the draftiness and cold we've laid down interlocking mats on the floor which have helped a little bit, and today my husband put up a thermal curtain over the window. It was hard to tell if it was helping today because I was so frozen I felt cold even when I was upstairs where the heat was. But I might notice a difference tomorrow.
Watching the cyclists roll through France.
Machka in Oz5 -
Did Belly Butt and Thigh DVD (this one’s on the ball). Not bad. The plan for tomorrow is to ride the recumbent bike.
Went to Hallmark to get ornaments we had ordered. Vince is really into the ornaments. In a few I’m going to go get honey. This man right down the street has hives in his backyard. How much more local can you get? Unless you have hives in your backyard. Then I’m going to pick up some corn. This guy has GOOOOODDDDD corn, so sweet. I know what I’ll be doing the rest of the day….taking the husks off and cooking the corn to freeze. I don’t want the sugars to turn to starch. Supposed to meet Jess and her bf so that she can get Shadow and I’ll probably give them some. Vince had diarrhea last night so he’s not going to go with me. He did go to get the ornaments. At the ornament preview they had candies and water. I admit, I WAS tempted by the candies, but I just had the water.
Meg – whole wheat nursing! I bet your professor got a good laugh out of that one
Terri – how well I remember that paper. Vince had to buy an Apple computer for Jess (she was only about 1 at the time). Any excuse….
Lisa – here in the bible belt the absolute best time to go shopping is on Sunday morning. Everyone is in church. Oh, there are a few “heathens” (I go on Saturday night), but not that many.
KJ – regarding swearing: I always told my kids “small minds use small words”
Kelly and Carol – Vince wears this bathrobe that was his father’s.
Bananas (Julie?) – feel better fast
Annie – you’re right, one weekend won’t hurt that much. Just watch what you eat and enjoy yourself.
Michele in NC
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My spell check story is from the late 90's. I lived in Southern California and worked for a very large, well established Civil Engineering firm. At one point I was in the department that worked for different county and city entities in regard to new electrical service to public street lights etc in housing developments being constructed. Needless to say the word "public" is used repetitively. If you accidentally leave the "l" out of public, spell check doesn't flag it, and you get..... yep "pubic". Fortunately, I had a lay-back boss at the time and he got quite a chuckle out of "pubic lighting" . I was a bright red. Thankfully, it had not gone out of the office like that.
Love you my friends,
Janetr OKC4 -
We finally got the wee boat back in the water this morning, and the new engine is uber quiet. And NO nasty fumes!
Tomorrow we are going to my younger grandson's birthday celebration. His 16th birthday was on 8 July, but if a birthday is on a weekday, we always celebrate it on the following Sunday. I'll be taking an official day off tomorrow, but I will log just to see what I have consumed.
I have two loads of laundry drying on the line, and I will sort it, then leave out the clothe that I am taking to Connemara next Saturday. I have printed out a packing list and am gathering items together ready to pack and load into the cars next Friday. Daughter doesn't drive so we take both our cars with us. Much more comfortable than all 6 of us squeezing into the people carrier with all luggage. (Mike has a 7 seater Zafira). The grandkids call my car the Nanamobile. My granddaughter usually travels with me. I will do a grocery list and shop on Wednesday for the self-catered meals for Sat/Sun. After that we will use the local shops or eat out. We usually clear out any produce we have in the garden and take it with us.
...to all our new members. May you find comfort and support in our fellowship.
Prayers for those of you suffering the vagaries of the weather, or in troubled waters, either physically, mentally or spirituallly.
Congratulations to those of you enjoying positive outcomes to your endeavours.
🦋 May peace and joy permeate your weekend. 🕊
☘️ Terri6 -
JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Back to basics - going to give that a try here’s hoping we can master straws by 2 1/2yr s Old fingers crossed 🤞
Silverware 🥄 still projectiles so hopefully by age 3
Amber Tx
There is no try. There is only do it not do.
(Yoda-speak from Star Wars.💖
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Happy Saturday!
Kelly – my DH still has work clothes and dress shirts in the closet – most of them haven’t fit him for years. Your Tim’s concern about collars is likely a trait that made him so good at his IT job. My DH was the same way – so interesting to see how their brains organize all kinds of things. Safe travels to Lauren and family! Wish we could see the happy reunion tonight!
Heather – I’ve been spending the past half hour updating my datebook – I use a paper one, easier to access and flip pages. I took note of the events and things I had scheduled, and how GLAD I was the social things were over and even GLADDER at the ones I didn’t attend. Thinking about how much I love the planning and idea of doing things, but actually doing them…. Nope. So I have a new mental condition for your Jess to write about. I call it “Foreplay Syndrome”, lol. All talk and no action.
I’ve decided this is de-clutter weekend. I found a big box of wound-care supplies in our closet from when DH injured his leg, plus have lots of feminine supplies stuck here and there (those days are long gone! Jeeze!). Our visiting nurses are glad for them. And still more bags for the mission and the thrift store. Feels good!
Katla - so sorry to hear about Arrow's laminitis. I know of so many horses around here who are confined to small pens and fed hay all spring and summer to avoid green grass or because they are recovering. Keeps the farriers busy. Is there another horse you can ride?
Looks like many of us have similar public/pubic typing error stories!
I find that not only has my handwriting deteriorated as I’ve gotten older, so has my writing – meaning grammar, sentence structure. I tend leave out a lot of words like subjects and sometimes verbs! Trained throughout the years to avoid extra keystrokes, some social media like Twitter are very finite. Nothing verbose allowed.
Back to clutter busting. I think I have DH talked into tossing a few things onto the pile.
Lanette
SW WA State
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Pretty day here, working in the back yard on never ending weed pulling! I’m also moving gravel from the back to fill in spots in the front driveway,
My gym tried to increase my monthly fee, those sneaks! I objected and they apologized and lowered the fee back down—never hurts to argue, I acted as if I would quit right then and there!
Take care all those facing weather worries, NYKAREN7 -
what's wrong with this picture
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Lanette: The quake north of Seattle might have been near our friend, Sue. She is on the east side of I-5 if I understand correctly. I’m not sure how far north of Seattle she lives.
Luci WNC: Welcome to a great group. Post often and get to know us. :smley:
TerriRichards: The English language is a doozy, indeed, mostly in a good way. Here we all are, from all over the world, chatting happily. I’d call that a success. I keep auto-correct turned off. :devil:
Rita: Stay cool and hydrated. Your health is important and especially vulnerable in super-hot weather.
Lisa: Great going with grant writing. Won’t it be a rush if you get the $100,00,000! :bigsmile:
The horse I have ridden for the past couple of years has a serious health problem and won’t be rideable for a long while. Someone let him out into lush green grass and he ate himself sick. The result is laminitis, a nasty hoof problem. He is under veterinary care and I hope it all works out well. My friend who owns him is sad and I don’t blame her.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Sorry to hear about the horse 🐎:0(2 -
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Hi Gals,
Anniesquat – when I have days like that I try hard to have the meals I am in control of be healthy and then the meals I don’t have full control of I try to make acceptable choices, and then get back to it as quick as I can.
Amber – why is learning to use a straw important? I can do it, but rarely use one.
Banana – response to your graph – NOTHING is wrong with that graph in 7 days you averaged 1026 per day. You ate more when you were hungry and less when you were not.
Kim from N. California
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Kirby is giving Lenny’s tree area a facelift. (Some of his ashes are in there when we planted the tree, hence the name
Before
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What’s this
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PIP ~ That does look better!2
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Just finished up to the end of page 10. So much to comment on.
Allie - I hope you either learn and conquer the insurance and get a huge raise or that you find another job soon. It’s overwhelming learning new things but you may find you enjoy it when you get it straight in your head.
Pip - I am so sorry about Bullwinkle. Hugs to you and Kirby.
Beth - what a stressful time you have had, I hope things calm for you soon.
Margaret - I hope your son is home now and recovering well. I’ll keep reading and may find the answer.
Heather - I know how you feel about seeing yourself in the video. I felt beautiful and slim the day of the wedding and wanted to cry when I saw the videos and pictures. I decided I would remember how I felt and use the pictures as motivation to try harder.
I’ll keep reading and comment again shortly
Tracey In Edmonton2 -
bananasandoranges wrote: »what's wrong with this picture
Depends on what it is? 😂 Now, if it’s calories burned, it’s been an energetic day! 😂0 -
Pip and Kirby-I love the pictures and the love behind it.Because of where my shepherds are buried,they each have a statue and hostas.
Debby In Va1 -
Woohoo! Finally caught up! Rode the bike to work again today, my backside wasn't quite as grumpy, but is still not happy with me, not sure if I'm going to ride tomorrow or not.... I really should, I won't be able to next weekend, too many evening plans that start right after work and I won't ride home in the dark. I also wouldn't feel comfortable leaving the bike locked up somewhere outside. It would probably be fine, but..... since it's a loaner, I really don't want it stolen (even with a good lock that does happen - some real low-lifes in the neighborhood). I had to talk myself into it today, and did some talking to myself yesterday too! And it was a good ride! The first time I did it, it took me an hour, the second time a little less, today was only 50 min! I did have some good luck with some traffic lights tho and not so much traffic this morning so the pedestrian controlled lights turned sooner. And yes, I do walk the bike across the road when I'm using a crosswalk! I figure I have to, I am perfectly willing to grouch about folks who ride on the crosswalks, so really don't want to be one of them.
Son, daughter in law and grandkids over for dinner last night. Granddaughter fussy, it was immunization day, but I did get to cuddle her quite a bit. Was sitting in hubby's rocker recliner, she just settled down so nicely and was pretty much asleep when they decided they had to leave, baby was not happy and let everyone know it! In their defense, son has bad cold and they were already talking about leaving. My grandson doesn't always like to give hugs and I don't want to force him to, so I've come up with a few things that work (can gramma give you a hug? how about a high-five/fistbump), well, last night I knelt down and he just came right to me, arms outstretched, it brought a tear to my eye! A very enjoyable evening. Hubby did take a couple of photos of me with our granddaughter, I will have to post, she is just so precious!
Tracy, the wedding photos are lovely!
I got quite a chuckle out of all the spelling stories and I have one too. I was out of work for a few years and sending out resumes to anything that looked even remotely interesting. Sent one out that I thought would be an awesome job, re-read the cover letter AFTER I emailed the whole thing, I had messed up the postal code (US equivalent is zip code, but ours have letters and numbers). Needless to say I did not get that job. sigh. It did make me pay more attention to what I was doing!
Anyway, at work and it's calling!
Hoping everyone has a great day!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island5 -
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