WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2019
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Lisa in AR, i understand your feelings about your mom’s note. I had one from my late husband saying how much he loved me - unheard of from him - that was in a purse somewhere. I don’t know which purse or what I did with it, probably donated it. I’ve not found it in several years of sporadic searches. I DID find a letter my mother sent me not long after I’d left for my freshman year at college in a batch of memorabilia my late stepmother sent me before she died. I was among things dad had that he’d never sorted through. That’s a real treasure to me, because my mom was ill with the cancer that killed her a few months later, though we didn’t know what the trouble was yet.
Sharon In Seattle[\b]5 -
Heather, Writing your memoir is a major passion and force in your life. It is the right thing to spend some money to have the very best tools for your work. It is just like buying the best ingredients for your cooking or choosing the best cruise for your special trips.
Barbie 5 -
Lannette glad you are home and the anti nausea patch is doing its job. Take it easy and don’t try to do too much too soon, even if you feel up to it.
NYKAREN2 -
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Lanette, glad you're home and doing well! 0
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drkatiebug wrote: »TerriRichardson112 wrote: »DrKatie: Your cluttering philosophies almost matches mine to a T! 😂 I pick and choose tips that suit my lifestyle from lots of places. Haven't come across the Sunday Basket method. Will check that out.
Terri,
The cliff notes version of Sunday basket is that you sort mail as it comes in, trash what needs trashing and put the rest in your Sunday basket. Once a week ( she does Sunday) you go through it, pay the bills and file.
Mine has been known to go past a week, but I always grab the bills out and pay them. It at least corrals the papers to file in one place.
Ahhh! I already operate a similar system for mail, but without the basket. I have an old toast rack that sits on the hall cupboard and file bills there. Trash goes straight into recycle bin. Most of our monthly utilities bills are paid automatically. We get discount for doing it that way. Also set reminders on my phone to pay other bills just in time.0 -
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1948Peachy wrote: »Anniversary Dinner I like that you are snuggled up close to each other. Happy Anniversary. 3
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snowflake1968, that’s one of the sweetest wedding videos I’ve ever seen. Your daughter and her husband are both glowing.
Sharon Near Seattle2 -
Peachy-Happy Anniversary!!!I love the picture of y’all!
Debby In Va2 -
Kate! i just love the PinkShamrocks username! It gives me a mental picture of a perky little plant standing out from the others. “Hello!” to you and all the other many new gals recently!
Sharon Near Seattle2 -
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Lanette I'm glad you're home and doing well. Thanks for letting us know.
Carol love the anniversary picture. After three marriages for me, Jack and I will celebrate our 10th in a couple of months. I've never made it to 10 before.
My daughter just messaged me that my granddaughter 's boyfriend was taken to the ER in his small SW Texas town and once again sent up to Lubbock. They had to insert a chest tube as he has fluid in his lung and heart. She said its fairly common with broken ribs and punctured lung. P!ease pray and/or send good healing thoughts for him
I have an appointment Thursday morning with the surgeon regarding my left knee replacement that has slipped. I really really don't want more surgery. The actual surgery doesn't bother me and I have a high threshold for pain, but since my gastric bypass I cannot seem to handle any type of pain meds. I get killer headaches and have hallucinations and I don't want to go through it again. I've had 10 surgeries in my adult life and I am so done.
I had a full blown sinus infection last week and was miserable, feeling better now.
Love you my friends,
Janetr OKC
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Happy National Women's Equality Day!
"The United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women full and equal voting rights on this day in 1920. Every year on August 26, we commemorate this right with National Women’s Equality Day." A little ironic perhaps, considering all efforts to ensure equal pay for the same work have failed, but at least we still have the vote.
Michele - I don't know about making flavored yogurt from the get-go. I just make plain yogurt and add fruit or flavorings to it as needed when I dish out a serving.
Okie - We are lucky to have high ceilings in our home, which means that there's about two feet of empty space up above the pantry that isn't in use. My eventual plan is to open up the wall there and add a door so we'll have space to store canning jars, appliances we don't use real often, etc. I'll have to keep a stepstool handy to get to it, but it would free up some space in the pantry.
Meg - !! Glad you are feeling better!
Bananas - My favorite part of the State Fair is the livestock. Doesn't matter to me if it's buggy races, eight-in-hand exhibits, draft horse pulls, chickens, lambs, rabbits... I'll go to any exhibit where I get to see animals. I used Fly Lady for awhile years ago... a lot of her ideas were helpful but I swear all I really needed was whatever kind of drugs that woman was taking. She had enough energy for about five people!
Heather - Congratulations on the lotto win! I sympathize about the laptop. I do not like Windows 10, and I don't appreciate the fact that all the software companies basically want you to rent their software these days. I just had to drop a large sum to keep using the Corel tool I need for work, and anticipate eventually having to do the same thing for Adobe Acrobat although for now I'm nursing along an ancient version. Have a feeling once I'm forced to "upgrade" to Windows 10 from Windows 7 next year I'll have to spend a bunch more to keep everything running. Makes me highly resentful.
Annie - Glad you had fun at the renaissance festival. People aren't kidding when they say youth is wasted on the young! We still go to a lot of festivals too, but we spend more time resting between wanders than we used to!
Katla - We had a big upright deep freeze but when we moved to this house we had nowhere to put it we got rid of it and replaced it with a small chest freezer. The new one fits better, but I hate it! You have to unload the blasted thing to get to anything. Think I'm going to have to buy some bins or something to help organize the freezer if we ever want to see anything from the bottom layer again.
Tracey - Think you should tell the daughter that any of her stuff doesn't spark happiness at your house either is going bye-bye! Philip and I desperately need to declutter, and I think we're ready but the size of the job is just so overwhelming I have a hard time getting started. I need to look into paying someone to help us with it.
Rebecca - Oh, I love the Mehmood quote! Reminds me of the Isak Dinesen quote about salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea - being the cure for anything.
Philip and I did some work on the catio Friday afternoon but it was SO HOT. We sat and rested for two or three hours but I was still feeling worn out when we got to the blood bank and sure enough my hematocrit was too low to donate so we made the trip for nothing. The whole anemia thing is getting really really old - nobody seems to be able to tell me why. I eat a good diet, I take an iron supplement, and I still have chronic issues with anemia. After doing some reading, I'm going to try cutting down on coffee. There's no clear evidence that it inhibits iron absorption in most people, but I do drink a LOT of coffee. So maybe limiting myself to a more reasonable intake will help. At any rate, I don't have much to lose by trying it. Anything to help me get my dragging hiney up off the ground.
Speaking of which, time to drag that hiney onto the Nordic Track for a workout. Have a lovely evening!
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janetr7476 wrote: »Lanette I'm glad you're home and doing well. Thanks for letting us know.
Carol love the anniversary picture. After three marriages for me, Jack and I will celebrate our 10th in a couple of months. I've never made it to 10 before.
My daughter just messaged me that my granddaughter 's boyfriend was taken to the ER in his small SW Texas town and once again sent up to Lubbock. They had to insert a chest tube as he has fluid in his lung and heart. She said its fairly common with broken ribs and punctured lung. P!ease pray and/or send good healing thoughts for him
I have an appointment Thursday morning with the surgeon regarding my left knee replacement that has slipped. I really really don't want more surgery. The actual surgery doesn't bother me and I have a high threshold for pain, but since my gastric bypass I cannot seem to handle any type of pain meds. I get killer headaches and have hallucinations and I don't want to go through it again. I've had 10 surgeries in my adult life and I am so done.
I had a full blown sinus infection last week and was miserable, feeling better now.
Love you my friends,
Janetr OKC
Hoping for the best, both for the boy, and for your appt with the surgeon, dear heart.
Lisa2 -
stats for the day:
no gym workout
riding winter bike
bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.58min, 11.7amph, 139mhr, 1.55mi= 81c
apple watch- 64c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 5.23min, 16.4amph, 132mhr, 1.46mi= 53c
apple watch- 49c
bike ride puy 2 sumn station- 13.51min, 13amph, 144mhr,3mi= 129c
apple watch- 114c
jog station 2 wrk- 4.56min, 147mhr, 10min mi, .49mi= 66c
apple watch- 62c
jog wrk 2 sta- est,min, 10min mi, 144mhr, .49mi= 63c
apple watch- 58c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 9.23min, 148mhr, 7.9amph, 2.56mi= 181c
apple watch- 146c
total cal 5731 -
Barbie: Thanks for the wise advice on the trip. You are helping me make hard choices. I wanted my adventure and I will be dumped into airports instead. Clearly, I’m going to have to compromise but I’m not happy about it. :flowerforyou:
Mary from MN and AZ: Thanks for your encouragement. I don’t have many options. “You can’t always get what you wa-ant . . .” :ohwell:
I want and need to see my grandchildren. I’ve been trying my best to have DH participate, too, but he won’t. I wanted to do the RV road trip for the adventure of it, but DH is clearly not able to spend that many hours in a vehicle at this time. I’m going to make DH find and book the flights, though. :devil: (Color me passive-aggressive.)
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Unfortunately, we don't always get what we want.
I want to see my family and friends in Canada, and spend some time travelling and cycling there.
I'd like to travel in general ... I had a dream the other night that my husband and I popped over to New Zealand for Christmas. It was lovely.
But I have two options:
1) Stay in Tasmania.
2) Arrange some sort of care for my husband and go by myself.
I'm getting bored with the first option (Tasmania isn't that big!) but I definitely don't want to take the second option.
So ... we stay in Tasmania.
Unfortunately, that's life ... attempting to make the best of what we've got.klanders30 wrote: »Katla I’m glad you’re moving towards the visit. And I’m with you on getting DH to help with the flights.
I’m leaning toward a treadmill purchase. Starting the research phase of things. I still gave my gym until the end of September.
NYKAREN
My research phase was about a month before I settled on one that I like. And it is lovely having a treadmill at home! Many times in the past, I would have skipped exercise in the evenings ... now I hop on even for just 10 or 15 minutes which often turns into more.
Machka in Oz2 -
AZTeri2016 wrote: »I started working out with a trainer last year, and three weeks ago upped my sessions to 3 times a week. On the off days, I do cardio and my husband and I take long bike rides on Saturday.
Welcome ... from another cyclist!
Machka in Oz
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TerriRichardson112 wrote: »drkatiebug wrote: »TerriRichardson112 wrote: »DrKatie: Your cluttering philosophies almost matches mine to a T! 😂 I pick and choose tips that suit my lifestyle from lots of places. Haven't come across the Sunday Basket method. Will check that out.
Terri,
The cliff notes version of Sunday basket is that you sort mail as it comes in, trash what needs trashing and put the rest in your Sunday basket. Once a week ( she does Sunday) you go through it, pay the bills and file.
Mine has been known to go past a week, but I always grab the bills out and pay them. It at least corrals the papers to file in one place.
Ahhh! I already operate a similar system for mail, but without the basket. I have an old toast rack that sits on the hall cupboard and file bills there. Trash goes straight into recycle bin. Most of our monthly utilities bills are paid automatically. We get discount for doing it that way. Also set reminders on my phone to pay other bills just in time.
This is the way we operate too ...
Rubbish is tossed right away.
The few other bits of snail mail are placed on my computer for me to see when I get home from work. These days, most of the mail we get are letters to remind or notify my husband about upcoming appointments.
Bills are mostly paid automatically ... in fact, this has just reminded me that I might try to set another one up to be automatic. It annoys me.
M in Oz1
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