WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2019

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  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,037 Member
    @ReginaH2018 (and other new girls): Welcome to the group. This is a great bunch of accepting, supportive, women. Jump in when the spirit moves you.
    Allie: 💖 Mental,Health Day 🎉
    Viv: (((hugs))) So sorry that your SiL is ill. 😤 Workmen not listening! If You pay! You call the tune! I would want to know why they made changes. Hope you can get a satisfactory resolution.
    Lanette:
    Kelly - I'll bet the Being Mortal was a great help in understanding your MIL's situation, and from her eyes. Some thoughts ....
    You are right. All the more reason for us to take care of our health and keep our "wits" as long as we can!
    I'm miffed with myself because I didn't start doing this much sooner.

    Karen in VA: Good news about Bailey. It's such a worry when our fur babies get hurt.
    @auntiebk 😍 Adorable animals AND hunky Firefighters 😍 😂 😂 😂
    Rebecca: 💕💖💕 Glad you enjoyed your visit 🎉 not gaining
    Cari: and Barbie: Also feel the cold now that my extra padding is gone. I find it helps if I keep my feet and hands warm. 🎉 for smaller sizes.
    Machka: Have suffered from both in my younger days. 😏 Good to have a name to put to them.

    I had bought some Halloween candy, but caller numbers have been dropping off over the last few years and we had none this year. Halloween Dance Party was fun, though. Yesterday was very wet, but I had Latin Study Group in the morning and Parchment Craft after lunch. This morning it's fine again, so hope to get the rest of my planters done for the winter.

    I'm in a number of MFP challenges, and find the accountability very helpful.
    • Ultimate Accountability Challenge: log daily activity/calories/tracking
    • 👣 Sole Mates 👣 Private Walking Group: assistant coach, recording/reporting on optional strength challenge
    • Just Give Me 10 Days Weight Loss Challenge
    • Just For Today - One Day at a time Daily Commitment Thread
    • 3 Month Weight Loss Challenge

    I think I'm all caught up for now 😂 😂 😂 Time for breakfast, and to go get the Sunday roast.

    (((Hugs))) and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 For those in extremis

    ✌🏻 pax vobiscum ✌🏻

    ☘️ Terri
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,037 Member
    edited November 2019
    Machka9 wrote: »
    SuziQ113 wrote: »
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    SuziQ113 wrote: »
    It looks like Machka beat me to the spoiler tip. Machka, do you ever sleep?! :wink:

    Not in the middle of the afternoon! :)

    I answered that question about 1 pm on Saturday afternoon. :)

    I am still getting used to your time zone! :smiley: It's a little before 6 am here. I should probably bookmark a world time zone map which would make it easier for me to visualize where everyone is in their day.

    It's 9 pm Saturday here in Tasmania. :)

    And 10.30 am here in Northern Ireland 😂 I'm having my morning cuppa and catching up with you all! Nothing urgent today, although I do have a piece to write for my Creative Writers' Group for Monday morning.
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Saturday morning here. :)

    Barbie I too hate losing my "credit" for walking when my app doesn't sync up. Of course, you're still doing the exercise and ultimately that is what counts. My back up for accountability is my penny jar, a penny gets dropped into the jar each time I work out. Yesterday I added hand weights to the treadmill and it felt pretty good!

    Beth that halloween event in the gym sounds like a great success, do you think they will make it annual or just weather dependent? My favorite student costume this year was a chatty little student of mine who dressed as a mime, boy did we have fun trying to make her talk while she was trying so hard to stay in mime character, too cute!

    DH is recovering well from the knee scope surgery and we intend to start tackling some back yard projects today (including the gutters, oooh, how I hate the gutter clean out :s ) Meal prep, laundry and a catchup with my bff are on the list of to dos this weekend as well.

    NYKAREN

  • ginnytez
    ginnytez Posts: 1,403 Member
    Slowly starting my Saturday. Got a chair ordered from Amazon (just a little swivel accent chair). I sold my lift chair to SIL because it takes up way too much room in my living room. Have to get the bonded (fake) leather due to cats-didn't want to spend lots of money. No real furniture stores in my town that have anything other than the expensive stuff. So I will take a chance. Also ordered a deep red chair (couch is dark brown). May not sound daring to any of you, but it is definitely pushing my comfort zone. Bottom line was--I wanted a red chair so I go it.

    Going to area meeting for church stuff a couple of hours this afternoon. Want to get house picked up before I go. Need to get in first set of PT stretches. They still aren't sure what is going on with my left leg. I am beginning to wonder if it may have anything to do with cerclage wire used for that hip/femur (right had none). I have read that sometimes the wire needs removed. Will give pt a couple of weeks then maybe have doc order X-ray to check that out. Then I would go back to ortho. I hope I am wrong, but I know something isn't right. So, will keep investigating.

    Not ready for the cold. When I was little I always wanted snow for my birthday (which is Tuesday). I no longer ask for that!

    Best wishes for all as we go through our individual stuff. Hope Saturday is peaceful and relaxing.

    Ginny in Ohio
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    Most of the emails in my Inbox have to do with my cycling club. Guess I'm going to have to do something about that ... like address them. Eventually.

    Meanwhile, it's just after midnight and I'm going to bed!!

    Machka in Oz
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,200 Member
    :) Today is my "relaxing" day. What that means is that I didn't look at the clock when I woke up and just lay there enjoying the warmth of my bed and snuggling with Bernie the cat. When I finally got up it was 5:30 which would be too late if I were meeting my walking friend, but she cancelled because of early plans. I have no place to go or anyone to meet after dog walking so I can walk for two hours or more after breakfast. I can just let the rest of the day flow and do whatever I want and I'll enjoy every minute of it even if it's the same stuff I do every other day. Jake is making some new bean recipe in the slow cooker and is excited about it.

    :)Barbara, my new hair style is that I am letting it grow, so on dance days I can wear it in a pony tail to keep it off my neck and keep me cooler.

    :)Heather, Bravo to you for dressing right and going out in the storm.

    :) Today is the darkest it will be in the morning until December. Sunrise here is at 7:59 AM. The strongest opponents to year round daylight savings time are teachers who worry about kids walking to school in the dark. I like walking in the dark so it's not a problem for me. My quarrel is with the abrupt time change twice a year.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    edited November 2019
    Karen I would use his interest in cars and cats as cornerstones to his learning. Cars for the math, reading, engineering. The cats for social skills. Taking care of something other than yourself. Art use either as a starting point design computer graphics. I had a fellow teacher once say to me find the interest and use that as the gasoline to get the engine going!

    He will think and react not in ways you expect him too. I still think the film about Temple Grandin is a wonderful film to watch for anyone who is working with someone with autism. I also just recently watched the interview of her on line that was wonderful. Someone here recommended it and there was a link. Sorry I to not remember who made that post. Thank you again. I thought so highly of it that I wish when teachers have to come back and sit through one more workshop on teaching a math strategy that this was so much better because she is inspiring. I will take inspiration any day. I can always go back and learn another technique. Inspiration is rarer.

    Often it is very difficult for children with this to make transitions well and to connect socially. Often their nervous system are very sensitive so touch and loud noises are difficult for them. It always amazes me that that does not stop they from screaming themselves. As a teacher been there done that with them more than I wished to.

    Ask yourself what lead up to you getting so frustrated. Easy to have happen when working with children with this condition. When you find the things are starting to escalate that is the time to change the channel.

    He is so lucky so have you in his life.
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,528 Member
    Well, took the cake that I made for the Newcomers out of the pan and even tho I let it cool for 2 hours, it still stuck. I can't take something like that with me! Vince will get it. So I'm making another one, but this time I'll let it cool for 3 hours.

    Michele NC
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    Just finished reading Keep Pain in the Past by Chris Cortman

    Some of the examples he uses are heart breaking. The up side was reading about those working through the steps of grieving the trauma so the trauma no longer holds power over their lives.

    He does suggest writing about what you learned after each chapter. I did not do this on the the first read through.

    He did have some clients that when they told of him of their traumas they were not able to come back to see treatment through with him. I can understand how that can happen. Stating the trauma was all they could handle at the time.

    The note that really rang true for me was what he called Mr. Avoidance. The way I interpreted this was the habits I have that numb me so I don't deal with the pain that is causing the problem.

    I also liked the analogy he used how the root of the problem can be like a splinter in your big toe and it will cause you pain until the splinter comes out. Once it is out healing begins.

    I think a better title for the book is Healing the Pain in Your Past. The title might already be out there so he choose this one instead. Because it really wasn't about keeping the pain rather working through the pain and letting it go.

    I know the book had an effect on me. I do feel lighter in spirit after reading this book. Beauty in the Broken Places also helped me spiritually.

    I think both books touched that place that people do make through horrendous events in their lives and find a way to not let those events have destructive power over them any longer. There is no right or wrong way to achieve this. Sometimes people me included just find they are in a place they are relieved they survived.

    I have a saying in my meditation spot. Grow through what you go through. Seems fitting.

    :heart: Margaret

  • SuziQ113
    SuziQ113 Posts: 1,520 Member
    exermom wrote: »
    SuziQ – I try to say to people “is there anything I can get for you sir” or “here you go sir”. Just gives people a sense of dignity. It may not work for some people, but I do get a lot of “thank you”s. I just say “you’re very welcome” Do others do this? I don’t know. But I’ll just continue to do it. What do you do with the food you pick? Donate it? What a beautiful park! Avocados are on sale at Aldi so I’ll get some on my way back from exercise Monday. Can’t wait. Then have to leave them out to ripen.

    Michele NC

    Hi Michele.
    I think your volunteer spirit is wonderful. The non-profit coordinating the gleaning brings the vegetables to soup kitchens and food banks throughout Palm Beach County. It's a big organization. Over the years they have bought trucks, forklifts, crates, etc. to bring the produce in from the fields and to deliver it. If a group of volunteers from a specific organization gathers to pick for its food bank the non-profit will directly deliver it there. My boss is a member of the Junior League and I gleaned with her group one weekend. All of those vegetables went to the Junior League's food band for distribution. It's a really cool and inventive way to feed the food challenged. The farms closest to me grow mostly peppers and tomatoes. There are a few farms further north in Palm Beach where cabbage, cauliflower and corn are grown and the farmers allow those fields to be gleaned too.
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    welcome willowsbough let us know what you would like to be called and your location. We are a chatty, positive, supportive bunch. Keep coming back and chime in whenever you feel like it. No need to reply to everyone, love your goals, btw

    NYKAREN
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    Thank you Karen :heart:
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
    Soup 🥣 soup 🍜 soup 🍲- my now go to for winter dieting lol.

    Turkey chili lots of veggies not spicy. Crystal light peach 🍑 mango 🥭 tea. Last of a pasta dish I made.

    Sw 195
    Cw 154

    Walked a lot today with JR getting his candy highs out (1 piece = 💯 loop de loops)
    Amber Tx
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,094 Member
    done and dusted, I have my clocks turned back, jammies on and having lemon jasmine tea, and watching lifetime movies ~
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,037 Member
    Another day done and dusted! Planters are planted!
    Heather:You inspired me today and I walked to our local shops for meat and the paper, instead of walking indoors. The weather stayed dry, but I was prepared for rain!

    ☘️ Terri
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,200 Member
    :) Part of what I did today was to spend time on my exercise bike while watching the latest episode of "The Great Canadian Baking Show" and "Battle of the Blades". We are so fortunate to get CBC as a station from our cable provider. Thanks to DVR recordings, I was able to watch both those evening shows in the afternoon and pause them when the dogs wanted to go for a walk.

    :) I sent the photo of the line dance class in Halloween costumes to my class email list so I've gotten lots of nice replies including several from class members who are out of state and weren't able to be in class with us.

    :)willowsbough, Welcome. I hope you will come back daily to check in with us and get the support of others who are walking a similar path.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA

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