WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2019

Anniesquats100

Had my first PT session for my hip. They say they can fix it! Yay! I'm on my way back to the treadmill! It's expensive but I'm worth it.

pipcd34

GodMomKim

Hi Gals,

Rita – I wondered if you were using miracle Grow, the miracle grow products are kinda like us eating sugar they “hype” up the plant it puts out lots of green, flowers, fruit, but never develops a good healthy root structure, so with tomatoes you have to grow them in a combo of liquid calcium and miracle grow, or good soil with lots of calcium and NO miracle grow. I grow all my food products as “clean” as I can and miracle grow is not allowed in my garden.

Having a pretty successful day! Ate a healthy breakfast, a reasonable lunch, and am going out to Mexican food for dinner. Asked the gal I am going with to promise to keep the chips out of my reach. LOL

Kim from N. California

Katla49

We made the decision to have DH’s car hauled to the car dealership via AAA. It is too unreliable to drive safely just now.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

GodMomKim

Katla - what a mess! I hope the dealer is reasonable and willing to hear you.

Kim
PS Katla, thanks for the kind words....

cityjaneLondon

Day is over with my visitor. She's gone to bed. All went well and I got 350 extra calories walking in. Good job because we ate and drank well.
Tomorrow I'm going to take a rare day off from exercising. We have to leave the house in party finery before 10 am, so I will need to get ready and compose myself. DH is going to drive us to the station. Rain is expected.
One day won't kill me.
We bought our train tickets when I collected her today, so no worry about queues.
Hope I sleep tonight.

Katla - I do meet up with people at the dancing class etc but what I miss are real deep, one to one friends. The ones who get you and are your buddies through thick and thin. Who love you. I still see those kind of friends, but we have to travel to see each other. I have always had one or two really close friends nearby and miss that. My cancer friend who died recently was a deep friend. For me those friends are as important as my husband. In the book I am reading about introverts, she calls them 'move the body' friends. Ones you could call to help you move the body of someone you had inadvertently killed!

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

ginnytez

I have to be more an extrovert at work (due to my job). For years my husband complained that I was always running into someone I knew and had to talk to them. He was very impatient unless it was someone he want to talk to. Due to his emotional/mental/physical issues, we withdrew from many friends the last few years before he died. Since then, I discovered that many of the friends (especially if they were couples), will show up at the funeral and then you don't see them so much. I have a small but quality group I chat with when I feel like being social. Other times, I am also quite content being by myself and figuring out what I want to do when I grow up. I have also been the sort that near strangers think they can just start talking to me about anything! Those have been some interesting conversations . . . .

Those with joint issues--keep doing what you can to improve them!

pipcd34

kevrit

Thanks for all the tomato suggestions. Miracle Grow potting soil may be the issue. Live and learn!

RV Rita

Snowflake1968

I am a more of an extrovert living with an introvert so I have changed a lot over the years. I would much prefer going out and doing things but if I want to be with him I need to stay home. I have learned the art of compromise over the years, I go out with friends or invite them to visit. I have a couple of those “hide the body” friends and Heather I can’t imagine losing one of them.

Tracey In Edmonton

pipcd34

stats for the day:

day 6
no gym workout

bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.22min, 12.8amph, 135mhr, 1.56mi= 72c
apple watch- 64c
bike ride gym 2 sumn station- 51.22min, 13.8amph, 146mhr, 11.80mi= 496c
apple watch- 426c
jog station 2 wrk- 4.52min, 144mhr, 9.52min mi, .49mi= 67c
apple watch- 61c
jog wrk 2 sta- 4.25min, 9.46min mi, 144mhr, .45mi= 57c
apple watch- 52c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 17.18min, 8.8amph, 155mhr, 2.53mi= 190c
apple watch- 140c

total cal 882

skuehn48

Took the car to Les Schwab this morning to get new shocks and struts. The old ones were shot and causing uneven wear on the tires. I can't decide whether to sell the VW and just keep the truck, I need it to haul the horse trailer or keep the VW as a backup car. It is paid for but there is maintenance and insurance. I keep waffling on this decision. DD has her own car. Teaching water exercise at the YM tomorrow.

We planted cherry tomatoes this year and used compost from our pile to mix in the soil. We have nice looking tomatoes but the slugs eat them as soon as they start to turn ripe. I put epsom salt around them and that has usually worked but seems everytime I put some down it rains and washes it away.

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

okiewoman510

Sue - Is the cost of maintenance and insurance more than a cheap rental would be if you needed it as a backup?

Okie in the TX Hill Country

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exermom

Did one segment of the 10MS Pilates Slim and Sculpt DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do an Essential 12 Minute Workout DVD. This is a new one, so we shall see how it goes.

Kim --- how I wish you could come here for Christmas. Hey, maybe you can. Where in VA are you? Jess lived in Reston. Actually, she’s been there almost all summer (I can understand --- who wants to spend their summer with their parents?) but is supposed to come here today (she needs to sort thru her room here and her storage unit and identify what she wants to take with her)

Kate UK – Personally, I don’t find quilting to be relaxing at all. I know a lot of people do, but I don’t. I look for every excuse in the book to put off quilting something until I absolutely have to do it.

Lanette – I remember seeing this thing on Facebook that was a picture of a drink with a paper straw in a plastic cup. I thought that was cute. For anyone who lives in a state where plastic bags are outlawed – do they also outlaw those plastic bags that you put fruits and veges in?

We never hear from the people who bought the house next door. They have two little boys and even when they’re playing outside in the backyard, you really don’t hear them. The man across the street has said that he’s waved to them and they’ve never once acknowledge him. I can understand if someone doesn’t want to talk – but not even wave??? M and Lisa – can you shed some light on why someone wouldn’t even wave? Living in Alabama, Lisa, should be interesting for you. I know here in NC people will hold conversations in the grocery store whether they know you or not. It’s probably the same way in Alabama.

Tracey – Vince and I are like you and your hubby. I’m the extrovert, someone who is constantly doing something. Vince is the direct opposite. Every day I’m usually out of the house doing something. He can go for weeks on end not leaving the house.

Michele in NC

Poerava14

Heather: "Hide the body" friends. Love it. Will definitely find that book.

In my 30's I was the one who hosted dinner parties regularly and held an open house for every major holiday. I had many good friends and neighbors for the 17 years we lived in Honolulu. I'm still close to some of them, but moving to Colorado and being a road warrior for past 18 years put a damper on building a tight social network. But, it's okay. I am at a stage in life where it's quality encounters that matter more than quantity. I am an introvert who can play an extrovert if necessary, as it was for my career. DH's dementia has thrown another monkey wrench into meeting people with mutual interests. He's most comfortable with friends and family he remembers, but he's not beyond getting into a rambling conversation with a stranger who has no idea that everything DH is saying is delusional. Lately, he's been on a kick telling people he worked for the CIA. Oh good grief!

A couple weeks ago I pledged to start inviting people over for lunch. I put forward one invitation to a neighbor. She works full-time and has out of town visitors for next 2 weekends, but we will get together. I will next invite the neighbor who brings her two year old grand-daughter to the pool. DH and the baby get along great! Adjacent to the pool there are propane grills, so we could even make some fun kabobs with chicken and veges. We'll see.

I'll be getting a Reiki treatment tomorrow with a practitioner I haven't met before. Can't wait. I'm ready for my left foot to heal up so I can get back to usual gym activities by the time the pool closes in September.

Stay well, friends. We can do this.

Rori
SMILING from lips, eyes and heart
Colorado Foothills

barbiecat

Snowflake1968

Michele - my hubby doesn’t leave the house except to work. I have to drag him to go anywhere with me and I usually don’t even try. I really miss doing things together though and with the sudden death of my cousin I think we need to work on doing more things before it’s too late.

Rori - I laughed out loud at your husband saying he was in the CIA, I know it’s the disease talking but it must be a bit enjoyable listening to his tales. Maybe they were hidden dreams he had. I wish we knew more about how the brain works.

I was telling a friend of mine the other day that I wish people would just stop in to visit once in a while now. I miss that from when we lived in NB. The cousin that just passed is one that used to stop in for a coke every couple of days or I would go to her place for tea.

Tracey In Edmonton

Machka9

exermom wrote: »

We never hear from the people who bought the house next door. They have two little boys and even when they’re playing outside in the backyard, you really don’t hear them. The man across the street has said that he’s waved to them and they’ve never once acknowledge him. I can understand if someone doesn’t want to talk – but not even wave??? M and Lisa – can you shed some light on why someone wouldn’t even wave?
Michele in NC

I'd wave back, but there's a good chance I'd be thinking, "Please don't come over here and talk, please don't come over here and talk, please don't come over here and talk ... "


Part of my social avoidance is because I'm busy. I don't want to be invited over for a BBQ because that would eat into a perfectly good evening of getting stuff done. I don't want to be invited to the local ladies meeting because I would have to explain that I work full time and can't take 2 hours off in an early afternoon to make crafts (yes, I've actually had difficulty explaining this to 2 or 3 ladies groups over the years!!) I don't want to go listen to a lecture at lunch ... I attend uni and have my fill of lectures there. I'd like to go to the church across the road, and have been there a few times, but I got "scared off" on my second or third visit when someone started talking about getting me involved in the children's program and signing me up on the cleaning roster ... no, I've got enough on my plate! I just want to attend with no pressure.

On the other hand, I have invited people to come cycle or run with me, and no one takes me up on that either. I've also posted events that my husband and I are interested in on FB to see if anyone around our area is interested ... but nope. I've tried to arrange things with my husband's sister and boyfriend like going for hikes, taking a short harbour cruise on a wooden boat, etc. but they're not interested. I would much rather do something with someone and have a shared experience, than sit around and talk over a cup of coffee.

Fortunately, my husband is my best friend (although that's a bit difficult now) and we enjoy doing things together.

Machka in Oz

skuehn48