WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2019

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  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,153 Member
    Barbie: Battle of the Blades? Is that like Dancing on Ice? Absolutely adore ice skating!
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,259 Member
    TerriRichardson112 wrote: »
    Barbie: Battle of the Blades? Is that like Dancing on Ice? Absolutely adore ice skating!

    The pairs are a championship figure skater with a championship hockey player. The hockey players are from league or Olympic teams from th US and Canada. The figure skaters are medal winners in pairs or ice dancing from several different countries. The judges are a mixture of hockey players and figure skaters. It's not as loud and showy as Dancing With the Stars
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,557 Member
    That cake cooled for over 3 hours, but it did come out in one piece. Made icing and iced that cake and the cake for Vince

    SuziQ – how heart warming!

    Welcome everyone new!

    Oh willow – three months, and the three worst months on top of that. Come in here lots for lots of support and hints. This’ll work out, I know it

    Went to church and when I came home, Vince had this diagram of our pool. It’s for digging the pool but it gives the dimension in every 4 feet. It’s really for knowing how to dig for the pool, but if we spread the cover out on the driveway, we think we can use this diagram to cut the cover. Sure will be easier than laying it on the water and then estimating where to cut. Vince even said that maybe we can do it tomorrow. We’ll see. Right now I’d just be happy to get it cut in half.

    Michele in NC
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
    Ended with 350cal over uggghh winter 🥶 go away! Frustrating. Oh well some folks it’s winter others summer that is their worst food munchie moments . I need to stop 🛑 before I munch it’s mind over matter yet keep slipping. Weights staying in a certain area luckily but getting tougher on myself.
    Hubby succumbed to a box of 🍪 cookies 🍪 70cal a piece! We’re both struggling but being good in other areas go figure. Eating healthy Brunch y Dinners then bam snack craving ruins us in one minute!

    Amber Tx

    Oh well every days a new day will try hard every day do our best .Exercising more but mainly because JR can’t go outside so more “messes “ as JR puts it proudly lol 😂. Toddlers job to blurt out random things as they make a mess clap because they built a house (a giant pile of toys with a toy person right in the pretend door 🚪). Cousin said her granddaughter same age is doing the same stuff so darn it’s my genes 🧬 shhh 🤫 don’t tell Hubby lol 😂. Her 2 grand babies they stopped listening to the Doctors bam their thriving! Told ya so they don’t know nothing anymore. Went from skin y bones to a chunkie cute little girls ! The way God intended!
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,557 Member
    Kim – I normally use a piece of parchment paper on my cakes. Only this one was in a bundt cake pan and for the life of me, I can’t find a way to get parchment paper in it. Or at least so that the cake will still come out with the bundt pan ridges.

    Michele NC
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,153 Member
    Barrie: Thanks for the info. Strictly Come Dancing is on here at the minute. We usually have Dancing on Ice after Christmas.

    Having a relaxed morning. I have a busy week ahead. Just a piece to write for Creative Writing Group tomorrow. I gave them a painting as a prompt. Now I have to write something.

    We will go for our usual Sunday visit to DED and grandsons after lunch.

    ☘️ Terri
  • SuziQ113
    SuziQ113 Posts: 1,520 Member
    exermom wrote: »
    Kim – I normally use a piece of parchment paper on my cakes. Only this one was in a bundt cake pan and for the life of me, I can’t find a way to get parchment paper in it. Or at least so that the cake will still come out with the bundt pan ridges.

    Michele NC

    Hello Michele and Kim. I love parchment paper and use it cake, cookie and bread baking. But, with ridged bunts the only thing that works for me is really greasing and flouring of the pan and making sure the cake is fully cooled before I attempt to remove it from the pan. That and loosening the cake as much as I can using a thin rubber spatula. It has been so long since I baked, too much temptation for me, my first few attempts will probably look like my home economics versions (high school) - LOL!
  • SuziQ113
    SuziQ113 Posts: 1,520 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Sunday -- we participated in a shorter version of the first ride of the Audax season!! It was a lovely ride, and the organiser and his family put on a good BBQ after. There were about 17 or 18 riders, a good turnout for us, and I think everyone else rode the official 100 km.

    Machka in Oz

    It looks like it was just the perfect day for a ride. What great scenery! I am happy you were able to enjoy the day and not worry about organizing it.
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,153 Member
    morning ladies~
    we changed our clocks back, so it will be getting dark at 4 something at night.
    finally got my place all cleaned up... that was an accomplishment.. and makes me feel so much better..
    Have a cup of hot tea and enjoying the birds.. i put freeze dried meal worms on my retaining wall early so by the time all the nosey rosies are out its basically gone...first bird morning and night is the male cardinal..think its my dad just checking in
    putting a pot roast in the crock pot today ,no vegetables but will put bone broth in..and I have mashed cauliflower with it..
    my friend Trudy is going to help with my resume today.
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,706 Member
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  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,319 Member
    Allie - Why are you having to redo your resume again? You have been looking for a job for months. Have your duties at work changed so you are needing to update what you have been sending out? Good luck!

    Michelle - I haven't made a bundt cake in forever but used to spray and flour the pan heavily and then like the others have said let it cool completely before removing it from the pan.

    Machka - Yeah for the ride!

    Barbara - Glad you enjoyed the festival.

    On Ramen - I too think it is overhyped. It is fine, I will go if a group really wants to, but it wouldn't be my choice. To each their own.

    Karen - I too missed that the grands are moved back. Is this a good thing?

    Have a great Sunday ladies. Hubs is off today and we are going to a concert tonight not too far from our house. Our handyman texted me last night and asked if he could come hang our Christmas lights today but then didn't reply when I asked what time he was wanting to come so I don't know if that will happen or not. We won't turn them on until Thanksgiving.


    Okie in the TX Hill Country
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    Morning, afternoon and evening, all...

    Been writing a lot of late, as if some small dam burst again. Not back into the fiction side yet, guys, so my apologies for those who asked for a sequel to my first novel... Flak may never come back, it appears she may have served her purpose. She's headed toward a cave somewhere in West Texas the last I saw of her.

    Still waiting on the university provost to approve the federal collaborative grant, but it's just pushing a button once they do, unless they require substantive changes, which would be a complete PITA.

    Small triumph yesterday - actually logged everything! (first time I've made it through an entire day in a long time and not just thrown my hands up and given up). Ate under my calories. Not my set calories, but set plus exercise. Baby steps, you know. Each day that I'm under my 1250 set calories plus my exercise calories this week, I'm calling it a win. Then I'll inch it down over the rest of the month, a few hundred calories at a time. Trying to sneak it past my reluctant psyche.

    Also trying to convince myself now to go to the gym and do my resistance work. Not my favorite thing, expecially on a freezy morning... but shall drag myself out the door. Once I'm there, I'll be fine... And then I need to come back and see how far I can get on one of the grand's quilts, and not be tempted outside by a sunny day.

    Welcome back Rebecca! We missed your smiling face, and we're glad you're home.

    Welcome back, Cari from North Texas, as well. Well done on your weight loss!

    Welcome to the new ones. We're glad you're here! Come back and post often.

    Love y'all,
    Lisa in AR
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,153 Member
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  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,836 Member
    exermom wrote: »
    Kim – I normally use a piece of parchment paper on my cakes. Only this one was in a bundt cake pan and for the life of me, I can’t find a way to get parchment paper in it. Or at least so that the cake will still come out with the bundt pan ridges.

    Michele NC

    Not sure what kind of cake you were baking in the bundt pan. But did you heavily grease with shortening and then flour?
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Good morning all! Got my extra hour of sleep in and still woke up at a "respectable" 6am! (this is what I love about the autumn time change). Unlike many others, I don't mind the getting darker earlier in the day. As a morning person, I will take the extra light in the morning; when I like to do my walks. So...for a couple of weeks, I will have a bit of light in the morning. lol Then the daylight become shorter, still, and I will be walking in darkness (sounds like a very dramatic book title) again.
    Rebecca- So glad you had a good time with your sis! I have never been to a "noodle" place, but I would love to try one. Ramen noodles are my comfort food. I also love to watch the travel shows and see people eating at the local "noodle" vendors or "street food" vendors.
    Barbara- My CDA is a child development associate certification. It is not an associates degree; but it means we have taken the extra training needed to be preschool lead teachers. I am a bit ambivalent about the whole thing; as it is pretty much a meaningless piece of paper that I will have to take a test and pay for the certificate. I have no plans of being a lead teacher in a preschool. I don't need it to continue being a childcare provider. BUT...I am going to get it as a "just in case" something were to happen to me or my home and I would need to be employed at a center. I, personally, would rather take some college classes and get an actual degree in child dev. or business management and take my childcare home into another direction; but haven't got the money right now to do that. SO...I am getting things in place to get my CDA, if my zoning approval for a group daycare comes through, and I can start taking more children, I might just sign up for some online classes and go for the degree, instead.
    Michele- count me in with the ladies who grease and flour the bundt pans! The cooling before removal is key, though.
    Machka- I love to hear about your organized rides! So inspiring that you and DH are still enjoying those! I remember when you posted a pic of DH's first ride after the accident. <3

    Well, more of you I wanted to chat with but I have been up and down doing little chores (laundry, dinner in crock pot, dishes washed) as I have been reading and writing, here. Time has gotten away from me and I still need to get my walk in for the day. It is another "gray" fall day and I guess I better get that in before the rain/slush/hail begins. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,792 Member
    Michele - have you ever used the non-stick cake spray? I never have, but there are some great reviews on Amazon.

    Bananas - I have often read that post menopausal women should have a BMI in the higher range of healthy, so yours sounds just about right now. It is so much better for the bones.
    Mine is around 24 normally, but I am slightly up at the moment and trying to lose it. I would love to be back at 23.9. :D
    I also don't want to look 'scraggy' which is not a good look at my age. :#
    I was going out for a run, but it seems to be drizzling. I will get on the elliptical instead.

    Love Heather UK XXXXXX
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,259 Member
    :)bananasandoranges, I'm glad to see you posting again. I've missed your newsy and thought provoking posts.

    :# I hate the time change. Just leave the clocks alone and stop confusing me.

    :) Jake cooked spicy beans in the slow cooker yesterday and today we'll eat them with pork chops. It is so great to see him enthusiastic about cooking even if it isn't exactly what I would normally eat.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,979 Member
    Allie - when I was looking for work from Jan to June I sent out close to 1000 resumes and only had 5 calls. I did talk to 2 professional career consultants and together we worked on my resume. I would happily share my resume with you if you would like to see the format. I did learn through it all though that it needs to be maximum 2 pages and the cover letter is more important. I hope you find something soon you deserve a break.

    Rebecca - you and your sister are beautiful and happy looking.

    I noticed yesterday people in my neighbourhood took advantage of the nice weather and have put their Christmas decorations out. I hope they aren’t turned on at night already but won’t be surprised if they are. I don’t know if I am totally against early decorating, people spend thousands on them, they should enjoy them.

    I am off to go figure out what to do with my day.

    Tracey in Edmonton

  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,153 Member
    Tracey , that would be great, I have been in alot of deverse jobs in my career.the one I am in now has been the longest at 13 yrs.. but I know longer want to be in this job, I want the rest of my working years to be in some semi stress free enviorment, I feel my calling is to work with the elderly and so I am looking into all avenues of that..
    would love to work at a senior center ,but we have a small one , and there are already quite a few people working there
    I am sure the good lord has something in the works for me, he has always steered me in the right direction
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