WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2020
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I made it to the local yoga class for the first time in years. Yay! There was less stretch and hold and more movement than I expected. My hip is not up to par yet.
Annie in Delaware5 -
klanders30 wrote: »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!
NYKAREN
Thanks for this. I would have loved knowing you when I was teaching.3 -
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Did the Power Hour class. Since we are going to see my cousin tomorrow, the plan is to do some HIIT. I’m thinking that we’ll probably have to leave around 9
I signed up for a ladys lunch tomorrow then remembered that I won’t be here so I had to scratch my name out. It was at a place I’d like to go to since Vince won’t go with me. Hopefully, they’ll go again in the next few weeks.
After exercise went to Aldi for a few things then to Brevard Charities where I got 3 shirts. Then to the SPCA thrift store where I found another DVD and a platter for the cake for the next potluck for only 25 cents. Also got these two things they use when they play canasta. So I'll probably just donate them. I know, I know, I really need the DVD. But this was one I didn’t have yet
Viv – I got a friend request from that person and just declined it.
Neumann’s car landed (upside down) right in front of us. Honestly, I didn’t see anything in the winners circle. After they uprighted the car, they brought out the black screens. When they put the body in the ambulance, the screens were in front of him and behind. When we got back to the car, Vince checked NASCAR.com and it was posted that he’d been taken to the hospital. When the ambulance left the scene, it looked to me like there wasn’t any urgency. So my fear was that they took him to the hospital to declare him dead.
Normally, when there’s a crash they show replay upon replay upon replay of it. They didn’t show one replay of this. It wasn’t until we got back to the condo that I saw the replay. I’m thinking that NASCAR was being on the safe side and doing these things. His crew was huddled around the crash the entire time.
Mary – hope you feel better soon
Ginny – wonderful looking kitchen
Welcome everyone new!
Allie – have a wonderful trip. Can’t wait for pics
Kim – fantastic looking party setup. Wish I could come by
Margaret – I don’t even bother to find out if a guy is truly trying to be my friend. I just decline.
Kylia – lookin’ really good
Michele who is going in the pool since it’s so lovely out
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NYKaren - The IRS says any and all pay for work is taxable, so whom ever told her the internship money was not taxable was wrong, with a 1099 a copy of that form was mailed to her and to the IRS if there is not a return turned into the IRS by April 15 then the IRS will start penalties. She needs to do a return, if that was her only income she will not owe anything and an EZ form that she will be able to fill out herself will cover it. That may be what the person meant, not that the income was non-taxable but that if that was her only income she would not owe anything.
Kim3 -
Thanks everyone. I am still in bed! It’s 10:30 in the morning! I am trying to talk myself into getting up and swinging my Kettlebell. I think I will feel better if I get outside even to just sit in the sunshine. Maybe we will go to see a movie this afternoon. Or, maybe I will just roll over and go back to bed
Mary from Arizona/Minnesota9 -
Heather - I grew up beside my grandparents and I stomped off to their place several time’s throughout my teen years. At one point when I was 14 or 15 I decided to run away from home. I didn’t go to my grandparents because it was so close to Mom and Dad. I called a friend that drive and he took me to one of my friends houses. Their mother was wonderful and I loved her to death. She made me call and tell my parents where I was and that I was safe but allowed me to stay. I also had to attend school the next day. At school my grandparents showed up and took me out for lunch. They convinced me that I could live with them as long as I wanted and I didn’t need to speak or see my parents if I didn’t want to. So I lived with my grandparents for about a year. I was so very blessed to have my grandmother until I was almost 41 years old. She was a great friend and I hope I can be half the grandmother to my grands that she was to me.
My parents were very good to me, I was never abused in any manner, just a spoiled teenager who thought she should get her own way. I thought I should mention that part.
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Barbie - I love how you handled your difficult year. I adopted that mentality a couple years ago and it has made a huge difference in my life.
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"Todo"s and "done"Done: nothing yesterday, woozy so spent day in bed. So far today, voicemailed surgery nurse and Dr P re: Joe’s procedure, called CHN for DEXA scan, they aren’t scheduling until their machine is fixed.After a digestively explosive night, felt woozy so skipped all activity and slept yesterday away.
Bonus:
ToDo: invest 10 mins cleaning Living Rm, carry over 10 mins cleaning Master Bth, Kitchen/Laundry, Office, Master & Guest Bds, get up off my butt and go outside with the dogs, install iCloud for Win 10, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, bake bran muffins, call Carolyn D. Next week Shadow to Mini Pet Mart to shop for crate, get Shingrix vaccine. next month: follow up for DEXA scan appt. Reward: inventory seeds, plan garden, order replenishments.
Machka Beautiful pics! Do you ride on the sand? “booked a dentist appointment for that tooth” well done!
Heather “The trauma has so much less grip on me now.” Brava! Just read the dragon drawing review. Are you quite sure that socially acute Bea isn’t a pre-reincarnation of the Dalai Lama? Did your DH win the “Burping contest”? :laugh:
SuziQ so thankful you survived such a horrific year. your perfect day. The p color chart made me giggle.
Kylia you, Machka, Barbie, Katla, Lanette, KJ, (especially) Rori and others who care for loved ones have my deepest admiration and respect. What a cutie you are, and were!
NYKaren “notice the positive” inspiring. Even more so the starting with “things I get a chance to do” and ending with “decisions I made today that were positive.”
Welcome @taylordebraa8007 Debra in CA, Amber’s friend.
Karen in VA since we’re in coastal Oregon, I order seeds from Nichols Garden, Territorial or PeacefulValley/Grow Organic, but they don’t carry Katrina. See Johnny’s has F1 Katrina @ 10 seeds for $8.50, gulp, and not even organic. Our transplanted F1 Mercury Beit Alpha cukes ($2.95/30 seeds) produced all the way thru September in our cool, foggy flower bed.
Pip something is very wrong. How could you possibly suck at riding hills? Bullwinkle and Rocky (or Floyd?)
Sue in WA Hooray for the roofer, electrician and registering your cabin for rent with the Traveling Nurses Association.
Okie what do you do for your jobs 1 and 2?
Ginny in OH, impressive purge and flights of stairs! Really impressive tile backsplash job!
Kim your thoughts on time are sparking some reflection. Since I’ve been retired, freed from the external structure of work, I’ve been less mindful of how I use my time. If it weren’t for setting up external structures (church, firehall, line dance, dog group and BB&B) I’d laze away the rest of my days. Hmm. Food for thought. Thanks for your succinct IRS info to NYKaren. Is even paid church work subject to income tax?
Beth hope starting (and documenting) back at square 1 finds the sweet spot for you.
Cheri thank you for your catfisher warnings and wise words.
Lisa “sneaking up on myself.”
Mary fm AZ/MN the V-day pic.
Viv thank you for the “make those happy memories” reminder. Will take that to heart today, especially with Joe.
Welcome Jane from England!
Allie “son sleeping on the couch” is he going to look after your condo while you’re in Peru? Safe travels, hope the trip is all you want and more.
KJ I want your dream room too!
Michele How horrific to have the car land upside down in flames right in front of you. So relieved his serious injuries are not life threatening.
Tracey Loved your running away story, envy you your grandparents (mine all died before I could know them), laughed out loud at your “thought I should mention that part” confession. I resembled that remark!
Husbands and health rant:Joe reminded me of his eye Dr appt tomorrow, wanted to be sure I’d be home with the dogs. We haven’t left Shadow alone since we got her, and he’s concerned she’d be destructive. Yet he would oppose leaving her in her crate. I suggested he postpone the eye test as he’d be prepping for his colonoscopy and shouldn’t be that far from a toilet. There followed four or five loving conversations. He doesn’t want me driving him there and back, but wants to drive himself in the van. He can “rest” in the van’s bed afterward until he’s recovered. He rejected me driving him, with, or without the dogs. I pointed out the instructions that say you must have a driver. He read the instructions carefully, finding an “out” in the stop taking aspirins 7 days before. The warning about possible tears in colon requiring hospitalization and surgery set his resistance in concrete. I maintained soft answers for the first four, but got defensive/aggressive in the last, reminding him that his father had a “bag”. He said he, not me, should have the right to determine his health care. Instead of agreeing, I snottily asked him who he thought would be changing his bags. :ohno: me and my mean, nasty temper. Where we stand now: Joe doesn’t want the colonoscopy under any circumstances. He wants the poo test I kiboshed earlier this year, knowing he was past due for the colonoscopy. I have agreed to: 1-ask the surgery nurse if a postponement due his taking aspirin within the past 7 days and currently having the sniffles is appropriate. 2-ask the Dr. to re-order the poo test and 3-ask the Dr. to speak with Joe about the colonoscopy, whether or not it is necessary. Whether or not Joe will agree to listen to the Dr. is out of my hands, hard as that is to accept. 4- When the scheduler called back, I cancelled his appointment.
Barbie “When I concentrate on the problem, the problem increases...when I concentrate on the solution, the solution increases.” Will try to shift my focus from the “problem” of Joe’s resistance, to the “solution” of maintaining his health. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Off to prep some veggies and brown rice. :}
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMODFebruary: better than January.
daily: steps=783 vits=13 log=17 CI<CO=12 CI<250<CO=9 Tumble 5/10=11 mfp=17 outside=11 clean 10 mins=9 up hill=16
wkly: BB&B x3=6, rx=2 dance=4 pack walk=3
mnthly: board mtg= grant= review 20for20=16 -
Barbara - paid work (even if it is illegal ie; selling drugs or turning tricks) for any one or any organization is in the IRS's opinion subject to income tax review and they want a return, so they can review it - you may not owe anything, but they still want the return. My parents had me start doing returns at 13 years old and I had to declare my babysitting/pet sitting money.
Kim3 -
Made the 330cal meal trays canned chicken y dumplings 🥟 soup (heated at time of microwave not before),4 pickles a spot for some ghughes ketchup,y baked seasoned potato wedges garlic powder,Himalayan salt,y pepper on it olive oil Pam spray for pan y them only. (390* in oven 35-40minutes for potatoe wedges).
Made a few more snack packs 110cal 14pretzel deli style crisps gluten free, granola bar 90cal one , 40cal a piece peanut butter granola chocolate balls (hubby didn’t like them but I sure do their great on the side of a granola bar for added flavor) .
Pretzel crisps gluten free (350mg salt 🧂 )
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Snack-Factory-Pretzel-Crisps-Gluten-Free-Original-Flavor-5-Oz/50069159
http://www.walmart.com/ip/KIND-Bars-Dark-Chocolate-Nuts-Sea-Salt-Gluten-Free-5g-of-Sugar-1-4-Ounce-12-Count/139297127 type of bat but got cheaper mini’s on sale for $1 a box .
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nature-Valley-Peanut-Butter-Granola-Bites-Peanut-Butter-Chocolate-5-3-oz/453953453 balls only 2 per tray I added. 160 cal for 4 so half the serving. I got on sale $1.25
Amber Tx1 -
Barbara - HUGS,!! My DH went for a health check yesterday. I bet he didn't mention his prostate, Grrrrrr! or confess to the units we drink each week. He is going for a routine blood test on Thursday.
Because Edie is so socially acute she can be utterly charming, or she can decide to wind people up big time. She loves to be contrary. At the school concert she decided she wasn't going to cooperate. She is the ultimate tease. Poor future boyfriends.
Tracey - How wonderful! I hope to be the perfect grandma. I think I am unshockable.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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"Todo"s and "done"Done: nothing yesterday, woozy so spent day in bed. So far today, voicemailed surgery nurse and Dr P re: Joe’s procedure, called CHN for DEXA scan, they aren’t scheduling until their machine is fixed.After a digestively explosive night, felt woozy so skipped all activity and slept yesterday away.
Bonus:
ToDo: invest 10 mins cleaning Living Rm, carry over 10 mins cleaning Master Bth, Kitchen/Laundry, Office, Master & Guest Bds, get up off my butt and go outside with the dogs, install iCloud for Win 10, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, bake bran muffins, call Carolyn D. Next week Shadow to Mini Pet Mart to shop for crate, get Shingrix vaccine. next month: follow up for DEXA scan appt. Reward: inventory seeds, plan garden, order replenishments.
Machka Beautiful pics! Do you ride on the sand? “booked a dentist appointment for that tooth” well done!
Heather “The trauma has so much less grip on me now.” Brava! Just read the dragon drawing review. Are you quite sure that socially acute Bea isn’t a pre-reincarnation of the Dalai Lama? Did your DH win the “Burping contest”? :laugh:
SuziQ so thankful you survived such a horrific year. your perfect day. The p color chart made me giggle.
Kylia you, Machka, Barbie, Katla, Lanette, KJ, (especially) Rori and others who care for loved ones have my deepest admiration and respect. What a cutie you are, and were!
NYKaren “notice the positive” inspiring. Even more so the starting with “things I get a chance to do” and ending with “decisions I made today that were positive.”
Welcome @taylordebraa8007 Debra in CA, Amber’s friend.
Karen in VA since we’re in coastal Oregon, I order seeds from Nichols Garden, Territorial or PeacefulValley/Grow Organic, but they don’t carry Katrina. See Johnny’s has F1 Katrina @ 10 seeds for $8.50, gulp, and not even organic. Our transplanted F1 Mercury Beit Alpha cukes ($2.95/30 seeds) produced all the way thru September in our cool, foggy flower bed.
Pip something is very wrong. How could you possibly suck at riding hills? Bullwinkle and Rocky (or Floyd?)
Sue in WA Hooray for the roofer, electrician and registering your cabin for rent with the Traveling Nurses Association.
Okie what do you do for your jobs 1 and 2?
Ginny in OH, impressive purge and flights of stairs! Really impressive tile backsplash job!
Kim your thoughts on time are sparking some reflection. Since I’ve been retired, freed from the external structure of work, I’ve been less mindful of how I use my time. If it weren’t for setting up external structures (church, firehall, line dance, dog group and BB&B) I’d laze away the rest of my days. Hmm. Food for thought. Thanks for your succinct IRS info to NYKaren. Is even paid church work subject to income tax?
Beth hope starting (and documenting) back at square 1 finds the sweet spot for you.
Cheri thank you for your catfisher warnings and wise words.
Lisa “sneaking up on myself.”
Mary fm AZ/MN the V-day pic.
Viv thank you for the “make those happy memories” reminder. Will take that to heart today, especially with Joe.
Welcome Jane from England!
Allie “son sleeping on the couch” is he going to look after your condo while you’re in Peru? Safe travels, hope the trip is all you want and more.
KJ I want your dream room too!
Michele How horrific to have the car land upside down in flames right in front of you. So relieved his serious injuries are not life threatening.
Tracey Loved your running away story, envy you your grandparents (mine all died before I could know them), laughed out loud at your “thought I should mention that part” confession. I resembled that remark!
Husbands and health rant:Joe reminded me of his eye Dr appt tomorrow, wanted to be sure I’d be home with the dogs. We haven’t left Shadow alone since we got her, and he’s concerned she’d be destructive. Yet he would oppose leaving her in her crate. I suggested he postpone the eye test as he’d be prepping for his colonoscopy and shouldn’t be that far from a toilet. There followed four or five loving conversations. He doesn’t want me driving him there and back, but wants to drive himself in the van. He can “rest” in the van’s bed afterward until he’s recovered. He rejected me driving him, with, or without the dogs. I pointed out the instructions that say you must have a driver. He read the instructions carefully, finding an “out” in the stop taking aspirins 7 days before. The warning about possible tears in colon requiring hospitalization and surgery set his resistance in concrete. I maintained soft answers for the first four, but got defensive/aggressive in the last, reminding him that his father had a “bag”. He said he, not me, should have the right to determine his health care. Instead of agreeing, I snottily asked him who he thought would be changing his bags. :ohno: me and my mean, nasty temper. Where we stand now: Joe doesn’t want the colonoscopy under any circumstances. He wants the poo test I kiboshed earlier this year, knowing he was past due for the colonoscopy. I have agreed to: 1-ask the surgery nurse if a postponement due his taking aspirin within the past 7 days and currently having the sniffles is appropriate. 2-ask the Dr. to re-order the poo test and 3-ask the Dr. to speak with Joe about the colonoscopy, whether or not it is necessary. Whether or not Joe will agree to listen to the Dr. is out of my hands, hard as that is to accept. 4- When the scheduler called back, I cancelled his appointment.
Barbie “When I concentrate on the problem, the problem increases...when I concentrate on the solution, the solution increases.” Will try to shift my focus from the “problem” of Joe’s resistance, to the “solution” of maintaining his health. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Off to prep some veggies and brown rice. :}
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMODFebruary: better than January.
daily: steps=783 vits=13 log=17 CI<CO=12 CI<250<CO=9 Tumble 5/10=11 mfp=17 outside=11 clean 10 mins=9 up hill=16
wkly: BB&B x3=6, rx=2 dance=4 pack walk=3
mnthly: board mtg= grant= review 20for20=1
That was a young Bullwinkle on the left and rocky on the right.
Hey, I can’t b awesome at work everything1 -
Barbara - I am a semi-retired accountant. Job 1 is a small company that I was working 3 days a week for, then 2, now 1. We'll see. Things don't look good, but the owner is determined to keep it going as long as she can. Job 2 is a builder who does major remodels ($500K and up) and new homes. He only has 2-3 projects going at a time normally so not very busy for me. I laughed and told him I wouldn't be able to afford him to redo my bathroom and kitchen. My size job he wouldn't even quote on . I worked for his Uncles for 20+ years when I lived in Houston.
Okie in the TX Hill Country5 -
Well hubby turned down the new meal trays. His reason he wants only chicken or egg dishes. He won (It was too silly of an argument on whether chicken y dumplings counted as a chicken soup or not? He was very sure he was right that it’s not) .
So making him a few 245cal plain chicken ,green beans,dashes of pepper ,Idaho garlic flavored bag potatoes . Cause well chicken y dumplings 🥟 doesn’t have chicken???? Lol 😂 I now see where JRs picky eating comes from. Points finger at hubby.
Hard making these without knowing the other person’s food moods,but will keep making them. So far the others were successful he ate them all up me too.
Amber Tx4 -
At the hotel having a glass of wine
. Trudy brought stuff to make dinner and we will relax and each take a bath.. she has a bathtub at her condo,but I dont ,so I will savor the tub when I can6 -
Allie ~ Safe and Happy Travels to you and Trudy!
Amber ~ It sounds like your hubby is choosing a healthy dinner if it is chicken, broccoli, etc.
Taxes ~ My DH sends them to the accountant. He has a BA degree and I can't understand why he doesn't tackle them himself since he is no longer in the antique business. Of course, if I had to do them it would be a disaster. Anything concerning numbers is over my head.
I have not exercised in 3 days...back aching and knees. The best way for me to exercise is to go to a big box store and walk every aisle. Got my car back from repairs today so may get to go walk tomorrow if all goes well. (We had to get a new starter in this 13 yr old car that has really never had any problem before.)
Carol in GA4 -
Carol I have college education and could probably learn to do the taxes on my own but I like having them done for me in the same way that my husband is capable of washing the car but chooses to go to the car wash.5
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Barbara - I won the burping competition.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx8 -
So eldest Navy son got a text from his youngest Navy brother. Younger brother was texting weird and asking for money. So we think youngest sons Facebook page has been hacked. Aack. My eldest listened to his instincts and didn't send any. I sent an email to youngest sons Master Chief, so hopefully it will be resolved!
💖Rebecca7
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