WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2020
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From the time I was about 10 or 11 years old, perhaps even earlier to some extent, I started drawing house plans. My mother had a collection of house plans books and magazines and house plans intrigued me. When my mother saw what I was attempting to do, she taught me a bit ... making the house to scale, several of the architectural drafting techniques etc. She was a nurse, but I guess she had an interest in house design too.
So I would spend hours planning and drawing a house ... and then furnishing and decorating it. In those days I just had fat Sears catalogues at my disposal to find furnishings and decorative items. Now I'd have an entire internet! Nevertheless, I'd pour over the Sears catalogues, pick items and put them into my house. If they showed measurements, all the better because I'd put them in to scale as well. I would list each item with its price and add up the totals ... how much it would cost to do each room.
I took great delight in doing that over and over with different houses I would create all the way into my early 20s. And then for some reason, I stopped. Too busy, I guess. It was very time consuming.
However, certain themes would appear in many of the houses and those are probably the things I'd still like in a house, if I were able to design one for real.
One thing was a 25 metre 2-lane lap pool. I'm not one to just sit in a pool ... if I'm there, I like to attempt to swim. And it would be 2-lane so my husband and I could swim together.
Another thing was indoor/outdoor room(s) ... a recreational room and/or a bathroom with rock walls, trees growing in or through it, a stream or small waterfall. I was so excited when I saw pictures of Falling Water for the first time many years later. These things can be done!!
In my late 20s I started a course where we took 1 month of each of Architectural Drafting, HVAC Systems, Structural Drafting, and Machine Drafting and then we had to choose the one we wanted to focus on for the remaining 8 months. I was sure I'd go for the Architectural Drafting and I did quite well in it, but amazingly, the one I liked the best was Machine Drafting -- Engineering Technology.
Still ... when I'm on a long, long, long bicycle ride, my mind will drift to designing houses again.
Anyway, maybe one day if I ever have a lotto win, I'll get my 25 metre 2-lane lap pool and indoor/outdoor room(s).
Machka in Oz6 -
beth your course of action with hearing aids sounds smart—good luck with this next step
Mary you look so fit and healthy, sorry the grands gave you both colds
Ginny love your backsplash and am impressed with your DYI skills. I have a similar pattern, but with glass tile
I don’t have a clear pic of my perfect day just that it will include the outdoors and the people I love. For this week off I chose to keep the itinerary pretty open, a MD appointment, 2 social lunches with old and new colleagues and a smattering of cleaning, decluttering, cooking and treadmill + stretching time. And yes, I am staying in my pjs for as long as I like!!
Here’s an IRS question; DD received some internship $ ($3,500) and was told it was not taxable-yet she got a 1099, our accountant says that means it’s taxable
thoughts??
NYKAREN
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Flashed on Facebook this morning 139.9
Taken this morning 123.3
I didn't realize how much it showed in my face!
Kylia
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Machka and KJ - I read LOADS of house magazines about interior decorating and remodeling houses. I love the idea of creating new spaces. I mostly read them on my tablet so I don't get a lot of clutter. Most are free with Amazon Prime. DH isn't interested and can't see the need. I'm happy to dream and buy the occasional cushion!
We also watch at least three antique auction programmes a day, while we are eating. For those I have fantasy homes to put the things I like into.
One is our house, which suits Arts and Crafts and Art Deco, one is 'my Paris flat' which has ornate antique items, one is my 'loft' which has industrial chic, and I also have a barn conversion for rustic items. DH always says, your loft etc is full up! :laugh:
Oh well, it keeps me amused.
Off to singing!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx9 -
Good morning and welcome Jane in England!
I don't know what happened to your positive approach post. It showed up in my notifications, but not here......
I love it! I get frustrated with people saying you can't have this or that. I will put this to use!3 -
Quiet night + Tide coming in + 1 metre swell = Noisy waves out there!
My music is off and I'm listening to the waves while reading research articles.
M in Oz6 -
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Kylia - Yes it is showing! Looking good!
More meals to make today hubby y me both hitting the diet trays of food so needing more for today only 2 meal ones y 4 snack one left. Hubby doesn’t seem to like the snack ones this time tho. I’m out of strawberries 🍓 so no choice.First meals maybe 1-2snacks for hubby see if he approves lol. I’m not sure what I want to make yet the salads in it are hard if theirs meat too had to remove salad put on the lid as I heated it up. Learning curse still.
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I have been reflecting on the questions about perfect day and what I'm longing for and realized that as a retired healthy person I have a lot of options that are not available to others so it is more likely that I will have the days I want. However, I remember that when I was working, there was a period of months when on my way to work, I drove past a woman walking her Golden Retriever and felt a sort of longing to be able to do that. Years later when I retired and moved up here, we had a Golden Retriever and lived in a perfect neighborhood for me to walk the dog. Since then the dog family has changed but I have walked one or two dogs nearly every morning and for as long as I wanted to, I am living my dream. During my years teaching in public school I loved the work I did. One year I had an exceptionally difficult class and came home in despair every day. I told anyone who would listen,how challenging the class was and by bedtime I was emotionally exhausted. One day I realized that by talking about my challenging day, I was just living it over and filling my resting hours with the stress. I decided at that moment to say nothing about my job to anyone and to reflect only on my behaviour and not on the behaviour of others. If I liked how I had acted that day, I put a sticker on my calendar. Not surprisingly, my evenings and weekends improved, my stress lessened, and I survived the year in good health. When I concentrate on the problem, the problem increases...when I concentrate on the solution, the solution increases. Barbie in NW WA 12
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Kelly, I'll let you know when "The Happiness Project" is on the way to you. It's one of the few books I own because I like to refer back to things I've read. I hope you enjoy it. Barbie 2
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Barbie- I should live like you with the job I have. Instead of kvetching about it .keep my mouth shut and just deal until something new comes along.. I started sneezing which I dont need ,so will stop at Walgreens and get some Zicam and take it with me.. will also take a few.bottles of water with me overnight . Laundry done and will take the garbage out and then take the boys down to Toms.then I'll be ready to roll6
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Kylia - you're a beautiful lady in both pictures, but your face definitely changed with the weight loss. Well done!3
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Love this... I felt this way too in that when I go over a problem it sometimes makes the problem worse. I love the idea of focusing on my behavior is it helping or not helping. I have been reflecting on the questions about perfect day and what I'm longing for and realized that as a retired healthy person I have a lot of options that are not available to others so it is more likely that I will have the days I want. However, I remember that when I was working, there was a period of months when on my way to work, I drove past a woman walking her Golden Retriever and felt a sort of longing to be able to do that. Years later when I retired and moved up here, we had a Golden Retriever and lived in a perfect neighborhood for me to walk the dog. Since then the dog family has changed but I have walked one or two dogs nearly every morning and for as long as I wanted to, I am living my dream.During my years teaching in public school I loved the work I did. One year I had an exceptionally difficult class and came home in despair every day. I told anyone who would listen,how challenging the class was and by bedtime I was emotionally exhausted. One day I realized that by talking about my challenging day, I was just living it over and filling my resting hours with the stress. I decided at that moment to say nothing about my job to anyone and to reflect only on my behaviour and not on the behaviour of others. If I liked how I had acted that day, I put a sticker on my calendar. Not surprisingly, my evenings and weekends improved, my stress lessened, and I survived the year in good health. When I concentrate on the problem, the problem increases...when I concentrate on the solution, the solution increases. Barbie in NW WA
I will ask a student are your actions helping or not helping! I am here to help you make the good choices today. Margaret
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Pissed off 😤 tried to order cups off nuby company site it showed I’m blocked. So had different relatives try same for them. So sounds like their sites having problems. So called the company to place the orders but no one answered at all. Left a message to call us back. Not sure what’s going on with them. Could a part be made in China so their at a stand still? Or is it just a site issue needing fixed? Can’t know since no ones answering. We buy them for workers y us makes a nice gift since many have little ones too. Lol hubby the old guy in the group even he has a toddler.
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Type in Nuby.com you’ll get the blocked messages too today2 -
Barbie love your actions concerning a difficult teaching year. I journal quite a bit and start each day with an index card that lists —“things I get a chance to do” and end with “decisions I made today that were positive.” This has helped me tremendously with handling the toxic environment and has led to better results for my students and for me! Love how succinctly you put things!
NYKAREN6 -
Jane from England: Welcome!
Kylia: You look wonderful!!!
Barbie: This is brilliant! “When I concentrate on the problem, the problem increases...when I concentrate on the solution, the solution increases.”
Today is DH’s yoga day and I plan to go with him. DH takes chair yoga and the teacher is excellent. It has been a while since he went and I hope he’s willing to go today.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Kylia - Great job!!!!
Jane England, I lost over 4 stone, so it can be done. It took me 18 months, so it wasn't quick, but it was sure.
Singing was different to the norm because our wonderful leader has gone on holiday. We had a substitute, who did a valiant job, but didn't have the star quality. I had a few sweet nibbles at the celebration tea, but didn't go over the top and have foregone my normal snack.
We still enjoyed ourselves hugely.
Allie - HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME! We want pics and updates.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3
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