WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2019

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  • b4leaving
    b4leaving Posts: 90 Member
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »

    What service is that Shannon?

    Tracey - the one I am using is www.photoscanning.ca (it's Canadian, so it could work for you too!) I got an "EZBox", 1250 scans $149 (300 dpi) or $249 (600 dpi).



  • b4leaving
    b4leaving Posts: 90 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    . I'm not going to pay monthly for something fancy. I only bought it to type out my memoir as my old steam driven laptop was driving me crazy.
    Heather - you can get LibreOffice software. It is free and it will read all your old Word/Excel/etc files and I believe all the commands are the same. Good luck!

    -Shannon

  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,202 Member
    :) I read Marie Kondo's book and watched her show on Netflix. I also read lots of other books on organization, decluttering, and minimalism. I found something that works for me that is mixture of parts of all the things I read. One book I read was written by a man who had so few items in his home that he could live in an apartment about the size of an ordinary motel room and when he moved to a new place could pack everything he owned including furniture into his car. I looked for principles that would work for me. The best book I read was "Outer Order, Inner Calm" by Gretchen Rubin. This book is a gathering of great principles and practices from many other books.

    :)bananasandoranges, Last year when I had to spend almost all day lying down for a month because of a compression fracture in my spine, I read tons of e books and listened to a lot of audio books and podcasts. I just don't want to be at the computer when I could be walking, dancing, riding my exercise bike, or moving about in the house. Screens are wonderful for people who are confined to sitting or lying down for long periods.

    :) Jake's bread with chopped pecans turned out great. I don't know yet, how to log it in my food diary, but I know that I'd better be extra active today because of it.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,037 Member
    edited August 2019
    Barbie:
    :) Jake's bread with chopped pecans turned out great. I don't know yet, how to log it in my food diary, but I know that I'd better be extra active today because of it.
    I entered my bread recipe in the MFP recipe builder, with the number of slices I can cut as helpings. Then it’s easy to log the number of helpings you eat.
    GoGoGirl1111 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    jojoSwanson wrote: »
    Hi, I am really struggling to log every day, I am struggling to make a plan for myself for the day for the week, and I’m struggling to stick to any plans since I haven’t really made a super good plan in the first place. I could use a little extra motivation on how you go about making your eating plan for the day and week to make sure you get your nutrients. Do you plan out a perfect day and then try to follow something similar to that every day? Do you plan out a week of what y’all and we are basically? Are you conscious and checking in every two hours and logging everything you eat to make sure you’re staying in track and then making decisions as you go during the day? Or are you planning your day and your week in advance and then just following the plan?

    I eat basically the same things every day, so I go in and prelog my week.

    Then if I make some changes, it's just one or two things.


    M in Oz

    I do the same daily. I log my eating diary in the morning with a menu and stay with it during the day. If it changes it would be just one thing... I find that keeps me motivated .. / Dea for Oz

    We eat similar things on specific days, so I usually copy most of my daily logs to the next week. Eg, I copied today’s log to next Sunday. Then next week I will make small adjustments, (like a different meat roast for Next Sunday)
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,264 Member
    bananasandoranges wrote: »
    @1948 I think it depends on where the tear is. I think if it's medial it has no vasculality and thus no healing possibility, and can't be operated. Did the knee replacement make it better than before surgery, after tear? I had a youngish friend (mid 40s) who had hip replacement and she was great afterwards, went from hobbling to dancing literally. I'm sorry about the haircut disappointment. I know the feeling. Thank goodness it'll grow quickly, though that doesn't help for now.

    @barbiecat I agree about screens. I find some solace when I can't move too much, but in fact when I was away I only had my cellphone so was reading the paper, and finding offscreen entertainment and activity. thanks for the shout out.

    @TerriRichardson112 did you and your DH have tears, or something else? How has that been?I know zilch about that other than what I've learned over the past 13 days. ok for walking. I bookmarked the site you recommended to look at later.

    @evie1958 I didn't know they had ys in Canada, too, but it's not surprising.thanks for your understanding! wow, what a difference air in the tires makes. so much energy!!

    @pipcd34 Are you doing secret code? Do you want to explain it to us? Thanks!

    @exermom I agree you never know for clothes. there have been some real and fictional stories of people who found they had overdone the Marie-condo-ing. in one fictional series a woman suddenly sold her house without telling her spouse in the movement to get rid of things that didn't spark joy. but on a more common level some say we need those old t shirts etc, for the gym even if they don't spark joy, and given away clothes isn't always used by anyone...yet after 3 years of NEVER having worn that item, I figure it's really time.

    @coastalgosgal it sounds great and full of care and attention

    @b4leaving hi Shanon

    @cityjaneLondon awesome for the lottery! I had a topnotch cleanser a few yers ago, but often they are medium. after a long break (more than a year) I just got another one who's come 2x as I can't keep up. she's clearly doing this temp and not really into it, not very happy (not that pleasant) and not topnotch, but it's better than nothing. she's young and it's clearly stopgap (she said). sounds like a nice balance between you two.

    @Workoutahloic50 I can relate about not having the same energy as 5 10 years ago! maybe you can leave stuff for him to do? a friend did that as a sort of honest "tactic" . she sat on the sofa saying I'm so tired to do the laundry, and he offers to do things, and negotiates to cook dinner on 2 nights a week (and she lets it be just pasta if it hast to be). she says it's not second nature to her but works pretty well when she does it.

    ok I'm running late gonna go out for a coffee w friend

    no secret. just marking my spot where I left off lmao!!!
  • 1948Peachy
    1948Peachy Posts: 1,511 Member
    Dana ~ Great to hear from you! Did your daughter get her house repaired yet. My in-laws had a house in PC about a block from the beach. I always wonder what happened to it after the storm.

    Carol in GA
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member
    Hi Gals,

    Carol – sorry to hear about the cut , but from the profile pic it looks good. *ok now seen the other pic. It is shorter than you are use to, but it will grow! And here’s the flip - This is a great time to wear earrings and show off any you don’t usually wear!

    Machka – a bit late but happy anniversary!

    Julie – I had an ACL and meniscus tear – while mine required major surgery (I’m the proud owner of a knee with 16 screws ) in addition to taking it at your pace, is do exercises that strengthen the muscles that support the knee area – those on the inside and on the outside of your leg.

    Heather – additional freezer space for “staging” future entertaining and meals is exactly the right usage in my mind. It keeps the day of the event simple and more enjoyable.

    Rori – glad your DB is doing well.



    Kim from N. California
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    Allie what are the taxes on your townhome? The escrow is to pay the taxes. Is insurance included or is that separate.
    Unfortunately in these time $3500 does not sound that unusual for taxes. The least we ever paid was about $2000 and that was 30 years ago.

    Depending on how your state treats it you might get some on your tax money back by filling a property tax refund form. Son will get some back because he rents from us. We got about $200 back on our bill. The taxes have to be paid first. Hence in your case the escrow. Because you have a mortgage you have to have insurance on your property. It is like you have to have collision on your car if you have a loan on your car. The lenders want to make sure they will be paid.

    If the taxes are not paid on a property the city could take the property you are living in. Escrow ensures the taxes are paid.

    The escrow should have been part of your mortgage payment from the start. Unfortunately there is also an added insurance charge depending on how much you put down. Your realtor when you bought your home and the mortgage lender are the go to people to ask these questions.

    <3 Margaret
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,264 Member
    stats for the day:

    Arm/ski machine- 15min, 38aw, 92ahr, 2164meters= 55c
    Apple Watch 95c
    hand spin machine-15min, 55arpm 2.74mi-= 100c
    Apple Watch- 82c
    arm dip, chin-up assist and other machine-13.14min, 5sets of 10ea, 1 175# tire flip one way= 99c
    Apple Watch- 75c

    no leg stuff
    total cal 254c
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »
    margaretturk wrote: »
    Adding to the coelius show. This is from one plant. I pinch them back as they start to grow so it fills out.

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    <3
    Margaret

    Margaret, does pinching back work with all plants? I have the ugliest plant in my living room and I’m ready to throw it out. It’s green leaves with little pink dots on it. It has long stems that are quite woody with leaves only at the top. If pinching back would work to make it bushier I might be inclined to keep it, but I’m not at all sure how to even go about it. Can you tell I’m not a gardener? 🙂

    I have some of these in my garden in my garden too. They are also a type of coelius if I am thinking of the right plants. I call them polka dot plants. Yes if you cut them back as they grow it helps them to get thicker. You want to cut them back where there is two branches are. Because yours went so long you may have to cut it further back and they start pruning on the new growth to get it to thicken.

    Ideally you start pruning when the plant is younger.

    <3 Margaret
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Absolutely stunning day, clear blue sky and comfortable temps, feeling fortunate for so many beautiful days this summer. I spent some time weeding and cutting back overgrown ivy growing over from the neighbors yard as well as time reading on the back porch—my happy place. :)

    Lannette . Good luck tomorrow and hoping for a speedy successful procedure. Thinking of you ((( <3 ))))

    NYKAREN
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,037 Member
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  • LuciBThinner
    LuciBThinner Posts: 207 Member
    Machka I love your wedding pictures! So glad you had a nice anniversary celebration!

    Terri and Decluttering Women I have been working on this myself. I have so much to do to get our home ready for our future grand baby. I've studied Marie Kondo's book and show, FlyLady online, and the website Terri mentioned, and more recently "Swedish Death Cleaning" (see attached link) which is based on the main reason I want to do it...not leaving a bunch of stuff for my children to have to clean when I'm gone.

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/gyanyankovich/what-is-swedish-death-cleaning?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharecopy

    You All have great ideas and I am impressed at the work that has already been done by Terri and others. I am starting later in the program.

    Bananas So very sorry to hear about your knee!

    Sarah If you are anywhere near Newton and/or Hendersonville, you should meet up with Michele and me when we meet.

    Shannon Your kitties are adorable!!

    Carol I like your hair! Also, I know (especially with short cuts) it takes a couple of days for the hair to get out of the shock of the cut. I think you will be happier in a couple days!

    Debby Glad hubby has agreed to you going to see your daughter and the grands. Good that he will take you to the airport.

    Amber Love your cleaning list!

    <3 Luci in WNC
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,528 Member
    Did training games on the Wii today. The plan for tomorrow is to do one segment of the 10MS Butt Lift DVD then take the extremepump class

    Shannon – adorable cats, I especially like the black and white one. So sorry about the guinea pigs.

    Heather – big congrats on your win!!!

    JR – a while ago Jess gave me this really nice pair of white pants. Lined and everything. Fortunately, they fit me so I didn’t donate them. As a matter of fact, I got rid of the white pants I had because I liked these better. She never knew. Like I said, I came in at the end of the financial aid conversation. Something about (I think) they allow a certain amount for each school and they allotted more for Ross than for Iowa State. At least, that’s what I was able to garner. I’ll try to talk to Vince about it today. He spoke to her the whole time. But I could tell in her voice that she was almost crying. Talk about stress!

    Allie – I wore contacts years and years ago. I started when they first had the hard contacts (that tells you how long ago it was!) To me, the worst part was getting used to putting something in your eye.

    K – I’d love to go to a cat café, but I’m almost afraid to take Vince to one. I’m afraid he’d come home with all them!!!!

    About cleaning: Vince usually makes the bed because he gets up later than I do. He’ll put the dishes in the dishwasher and even start it! I do wish sometimes that he’d just get something done. Like for years I’ve been asking him to go thru these VHS tapes and decide which he wants to keep. I know they’ll be hard for him to watch because they are of his parents. I suspect he’s thinking of transferring them to DVD. Only thing is, the kids really won’t be interested in keeping them after we’re gone. Sometimes he procrastinates and that bothers me. Otherwise, not much of a problem. He has said that he’d only get me a maid if I absolutely needed one because he knows me and I’d clean before she got here because I didn’t want her to see it a mess and I’d clean after she left because she didn’t do it my way. Which is true. He can’t understand why before we go somewhere I clean the floors, the counters, etc. He says “what, are you cleaning for the robbers”. I just don’t like coming home to a mess

    Regarding snow: the people in NC are very religious about their snow (remember, this is the bible belt!). God put it here, God will take it away. Actually, I think they share a snow plow with another county

    Rita – I hope your hubby gets better fast and that it’s only the meds

    Heather – Vince absolutely HATES Windows 10. I’m not crazy about it, either

    Bananas (Barbara is it?) – Jess is getting rid of her clothes because they don’t fit her. I know that she’s under a lot of stress, what with school, paying for it, etc. I just had a shirt that I decided I no longer liked the way it fits me so I’m going to wash it and give it to the Salvation Army. I don’t feel bad since that’s where I bought it…

    Dana – welcome back

    Finished rescreening the porch. Had to go to Lowes Hardware for one more roll of screen. Also bought another trap for wasps, etc. for next year. I think another would be helpful by the other end of the pool

    Margaret – you can hardly see Joe!

    Michele in NC
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,202 Member
    edited August 2019
    :) My computer updated itself to Windows 10 and at first I was freaked out. Then I started to notice and use the features and have had not one bit of trouble.

    <3Lanette, Sending your warm wishes for your surgery tomorrow and a an easy recovery and return to the things you love to do.

    :)Machka, My husband and I celebrated our anniversary a little bit each day for a week. We didn't want to go out of town because we didn't want to board the dogs and since we don't stay up late, we did things that we could do in the morning or afternoon.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • ginnytez
    ginnytez Posts: 1,403 Member
    Had a restful Sunday. After church I got in a good walk. Got laundry and ironing done, cleaned my purse out, picked up some stuff, got some work done for church, and had nice FaceTime chat with youngest son. Hope things are calmer at work this week. One of my department heads retires Friday, so that will be a sad and happy time.

    Decluttering seems to take forever, but I know it took a number of years for the clutter to accumulate. I am just trying to chip away at it a bit at a time. I checked out the website some recommended and the idea of tackling one area a week is really good. I think that sort of approach might help now that I have the major cleanup done-it's those final things to decide about. This winter I want to scan the family pictures and get rid of the old albums, the pics are starting to fade. I already have quite a few done from doing funeral dvds and graduation dvds. Those pics I just need to organize in files.

    Glad it seems like most had a good weekend. Good luck to those with physical problems right now-hopefully all are healed soon.

    Ginny in Ohio
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,950 Member
    b4leaving wrote: »
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »

    What service is that Shannon?

    Tracey - the one I am using is www.photoscanning.ca (it's Canadian, so it could work for you too!) I got an "EZBox", 1250 scans $149 (300 dpi) or $249 (600 dpi).



    Thank you Shannon
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,950 Member
    edited August 2019
    Margaret - thank you! Do I cut two new branches off or cut below where they meet?

    Michele - you never know about your girls not wanting the home movies. I wasn’t interested at their age, but I’m sure was when it came time to make those decisions later in life. I would put them on DVD for sure.

  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    edited August 2019
    Tracey because it got so leggy you might want cut it back further. I would cut it about a third of it off. No more than a third though. Try to find spots where they branch. Slightly above where they meet. I looked it up and their are so you-tube too. I think it is easier to see on the coleus videos than on the polka dot video. As I said earlier to polka dot is a kind of coleus so I hope this helps. There was also one one the care of the polka dot plant as a house plant. Good luck hope it revives your plant.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    b4leaving wrote: »
    I am SO HAPPY to have found a scanning service; you pay a flat fee, they send you a prepaid box to put a maximum number of photos in, you send it in the post and they return it to you in a couple weeks.

    -Shannon in Ontario Canada

    That is the sort of thing I'm looking for!


    M in Oz

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    I can't afford to buy Word again, which is what I bought the laptop for. My old laptop has 2003, which is perfectly fine for me, but I don't know how to put it on this one. I should be able to use it on three machines for nothing. I'm not going to pay monthly for something fancy. I only bought it to type out my memoir as my old steam driven laptop was driving me crazy.

    You won't likely buy Word again. As with music, the MS Office package is a subscription now. You would subscribe to Office 365. Although I see you can buy a very limited package.

    Here's the Great Britain page:
    https://products.office.com/en-GB/compare-all-microsoft-office-products?activetab=tab:primaryr1

    So you would either go with Personal which would give you one copy or Home which would give you 6 of them. If I weren't receiving it free from the University because I'm a student, I would go with Home because we have that many computers etc.

    You could opt to buy that limited package if you wouldn't miss the missing bits. I would so it's not even a consideration for me.

    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    The second thing was that England won the third match of the Ashes by a miracle! Poor DH could hardly bear it. It was sooooooooooooo close! I had to revive him with a Pernod! Now the series is drawn with two matches to go.

    :(:'(


    Machka in Australia ... the other team in the Ashes!!

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    barbiecat wrote: »
    :) My computer updated itself to Windows 10 and at first I was freaked out. Then I started to notice and use the features and have had not one bit of trouble.

    <3Lanette, Sending your warm wishes for your surgery tomorrow and a an easy recovery and return to the things you love to do.

    :)Machka, My husband and I celebrated our anniversary a little bit each day for a week. We didn't want to go out of town because we didn't want to board the dogs and since we don't stay up late, we did things that we could do in the morning or afternoon.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA

    I deliberately updated to Windows 10 and it did take a little while to get used to it, but now I love it and don't want to see any of the old versions of Windows anymore. It was a great relief when they finally upgraded my work computer to Windows 10 and Office 365!!


    We've always celebrated birthdays and anniversaries over at least 2 days, and sometimes more. 2 days because August 24 (for example) here in Australia is August 23 in Canada. And technically we were married on August 24 in Canada which is August 25 here!

    Now we just tone things done ... don't do as much. :)


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    Thank you to everyone for the Anniversary greetings!! :)
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    Monday -- and I'm done 2 of 3 medical appointments for the week!

    Now to actually get some work done!

    M in Oz

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