WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2020
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dellafayefox wrote: »Covid 2020 self Haircut #6
Nice job! I’m scared to do my own and the 3 times my DH did it for me it came out awful! So let it grow until I can get to a hairdressers.
Finally caught up! DH is making keto stuffed peppers for lunch! Yummy!!
RV Rita
I asked my husband to trim my hair ONE time- told him to just take an inch or so off the bottom- measured it when he was done- close to 5" off. never ever letting him touch my hair again.
Debbie
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Barbie: Nice haircut! You look wonderful.
SueBDew: I am so glad you have a good doctor and good advice. Staying active and enjoying each day is the best advice I’ve seen anywhere. :flowerforyou:
Pip: I’m happy that you’re having a good time in your new community. :bigsmile:
Karen in VA: I am so happy that your location was not damaged during the storm. Sending good thoughts to your friend, Shona.
Heather: My grandmother was an immigrant from what is now part of Austria. She immigrated as a child with her family to Kansas where they had relatives who sponsored them.
The sourdough art bread loaves are gorgeous. I haven’t made a sourdough loaf in too long. DH can't eat wheat. :ohwell:
Deliafayefox: Your hair cut is lovely!
Rita: I’ve been cutting the hair around my face and letting the rest grow. My last real haircut was in mid-December, before Covid invaded our world. I haven’t gone to the hairdresser since then due to virus worries. :ohwell:
Katla in Beauftiful NW Oregon3 -
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Debbie This is with a mousse to help straighten it and then hairspray to hold it. Without help, it waves and curls crazy. I had to use product and let it dry to cut it otherwise it would have looked like I survived a wild dog attack.
Faye
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trucker743 wrote: »Pip, the furniture sounds like a great deal! Did you have to sign any sort of contract, or just a straight purchase agreement. I have a habit of looking inexpensive furniture in the mouth and making it say “Aaaahhh!”.
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Why is it human nature that when someone says NO you shouldn't eat that, that you crave just that! I really need to finish click list tonight for food.2
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Faye:
👍🏻 Your hair looks good!
Barbie:
💕 the T-shirt. You look amazing.
Heather:
Vicariously enjoying your culinary adventures.
Pip:
YAY TV working! BOO for pod not arriving yet!
Karen:
Prayers for Shona.1 -
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50 here, from Austin, TX - need a lot of work! love hiking but, this heat is keeping me home as i don't wake up early enough to go in the AM. I work too..at home so, looking for good home workouts. I am not flexible, i can't touch my toes! lol! ugh! any ideas? TIA
I use the Leslie Sansone Walk-at-Home videos available on YouTube. Having quit the gym b/c of COVID they have been a lifesaver.
Cheri
in College Station, TX
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The Sourdough Bread Art is wonderful, Heather.
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Good evening... I have a houseful so to speak..
My daughter came and borrowed my Halo Bolt - which is a larger scale wireless charger ,and a couple of led lights... have Taliah overnight as im set with electricity and ac ,have Homer because of the AC ,Tom is having withdrawls without Homer with him at night.. but knows he ia safe and comfy here..
So im glad to have 2 dogs hogging the bed and my granddaughter in the other room..6 -
I am trying to use my Daily Calm app and they end each session with on of these. I thought I would share.
RV Rita calm now. Heard from my mother and grandson who are all safe after the storm and still have electricity in Eastern CT, south central MA, and son in RI all on the edges of the storm.6 -
dellafayefox wrote: »M in Oz Well it is an easy fix compared to other causes of inner ear problems, but as in your case balancing hormones can be difficult. There is no doubt other factors and finding these factors is difficult and expensive and then treating the other factors can present problems. In general vertigo from hormone imbalance can be treated at a higher rate of success than other disorders causing vertigo. BPPV is probably the easiest using the maneuver. For example, a viral cause damaging the inner ear is very hard to control and treat as opposed to hormone imbalance. I didn't mean to downplay hormone caused vertigo because many times it is just a trigger for an underlying cause like endolymphatic Hydops and treating Hydrops can become very involved. I hope I didn't offend you and I should have said: "sometimes an easy fix if no other underlying conditions." VEDA used to have a page written by a Nurse Practioner that was an expert on hormone triggered vertigo. I saw her many times and I think she had a falling out with an expert, a guy, that claimed that hormones had little to no effect on causing vertigo and wrote it all off as Meniere's Disease with little hope just lower sodium and take a valium. I know for a fact that menopause attacks did trigger my Endolymphatic Hydrops and eventually controlling the hydrops took care of the problem I still had the hot flashes and felt like I was burning alive, but no vertigo from it. Have you ever been tested for Endolymphatic Hydrops? Originally doctors said my hot flash vertigo was from MS, but once the MS diagnosis was overturned I was sent to Northwest Neuro-otologist and the rest is history.
Faye
PNW
The "easy fix" would likely be HRT, but unfortunately I have a genetic predisposition to developing clots and have had a bad DVT so HRT would greatly increase my chances of dying. All my Drs have strongly advised not using HRT, not even the oestrogen creams.
I am on a serotonin-based anti-depressant which helps a bit ... otherwise I just have to ride it out.
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I feel your support. Thank you my dear friends.7
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Kate UK ❤️0
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Yvonxx - first off, welcome! Like you, I am terribly inflexible. I always say that I’m the most inflexible person this side of the Atlantic. I have found that I like doing exercise DVD’s. For one thing, I’m not doing the same thing over and over. Personally, I get bored….lol
Michele NC
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I'm going to try posting again and see if I can find this site in the future to be involved. We'll see - I'm really bad with computers/technology. Anyway -- I have tried wt loss in the past and this time around I'm finding that 2 things are helping. 1) a partner - hubby is finally doing this with me and it helps that all his delicious but high cal high carb cooking and baking is no longer staring me in the face. 2) Restarting an exercise I love enough to keep it up. Have failed to maintain any other exercise plan, so I restarted ballet classes. Yeah, I'm a chubby ole 68 yr old grandma...but as long as I enjoy the activity I'm throwing out pride and going with it!8
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Another long day, I don’t know how u shopaholics love to do this, it is awful! Got 2 nightstands at Wayfair, crap stuff is expensive or I am cheap!!7
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Day one done. Had to "add" calories to close. Added zucchini to my parmesan chicken for more veggies. I used diced grilled chicken instead of a fried patty. Noodles are veggie noodles with whole wheat. It was yummy. Lunch was low sodium tuna, tomato, and cucumber with a small bit of mayo. I even walked the driveway for 30 mins. Now to keep it up!
You all are my inspiration! I want to be the crazy lady in her 80s still participating in life!
Hugs!
High fives!
Love!
Kylia in Ohio5 -
Pip- i hear you! I am not a good shopper. My time limit is about 2 hours MAX. I hope you get settled on quickly.
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Faye - I love the smell of wood shavings too. Also, chain saw oil.
I grew up on about 400 acres of forestland in a 100 year old farmhouse that only had wood heat. My Dad and most of my family are carpenters. My Grandfather, Dad and 3 uncles built one of the McCain of McCain foods, brothers houses. Wood and I are great friends.
Barbara - I also have poor posture, it’s from trying to hide them. The nipple thing doesn’t bother me. I had a lump removed in my very early 20’s and that’s how they did it so I didn’t have scarring. My husband even forgets about it because the scars are well hidden.
Allie - Sorry your area got hit. You and your family are safe?
Carol - I’ve wondered about Michele cooking so much ahead of time too. I couldn’t do it, but I bet I would save calories and money by doing so.
I have a lot of vintage jewelry that was my Grandmother’s. I want to make a picture with it for my girls I just keep putting it off because it means I have to tear the jewelry apart.
This reminded me of a funny little story: my grandmother gave me an opal and pearl ring, that was her Aunt’s, when I was still a teenager. I wore it all the time and lost one of the little tiny pearls (about a straight pin head size) I took it to a jeweller to see about fixing it but the cost was too much to get a pearl that was antique enough to match. I decided that I would have earrings and a pendant made out of the stones and would melt the gold into a teardrop pendant. I told my Grandmother my idea and she thought it was a lovely thought and gave me some more gold jewelry to go with it to make my teardrop more substantial. As she was giving me the jewelry she told me where it all came from, who owned it and how she came to have it. So I currently have my Great grandmother’s wedding ring, a couple military rings that belonged to my Grandfather, my Grandmothers original diamond setting and I can’t bring myself to do anything with any of it. Maybe I should take a picture of it all and then get my teardrop made.
Sue - my grandfather retired with 3 other men, the other 3 all passed away within the first year. My Grandfather swore it’s because they didn’t do anything, they had no hobbies or anything to keep them going. I was a teen and this has always stuck with me. My Grandfather lived probably 15 years after retiring. He developed Parkinson’s a couple years before he died.
Pip - I don’t like shopping either, like you everything seems too expensive or I’m cheap. I think it’s too expensive personally.
I have had a pretty great evening. Our daughter that just bought her first house is busy decorating. She is putting pictures on one wall of both her and her husband’s grandparents. I have to dig out a wedding picture of my parents. My husband’s parents were married in May 1965, 5 months after he was born. I always thought they were married at City hall but found out tonight they were married in a church. They didn’t have a photographer though so no photos. I asked my MIL if there were any pictures of them as a couple when they were young and she told me to call my SIL because she had all of her albums. Called my SIL and she had found a picture she didn’t know existed just last week and it is their parents with my husband. We now have a copy of it. My daughter is happy to have all of her Grandparents accounted for.
Tracey in Edmonton
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M in Oz: I hope you feel better day by day. I’m happy that you have aa effective antidepressant to help you heal.
(((Margaret)))
Rori: It is so good to see your smiling face!
Pip: I hope your shopping yields some genuine treasures that you will enjoy along with a little bit of "crap stuff" to fill in until you find something you really like. :ohwell:
Allie: You made an excellent choice when you bought your place and it is paying off with comfort and safety now. Enjoy your time with Taliah & Homer.
Tracy: Congratulations to your daughter for buying her first house. I hope she has fun decorating and creates many happy memories there.
I spent some time picking blueberries today, and watching people moving up and down the river in their boats. We ordered take out from a Thai restaurant a few blocks from our house. The food was a nice change for us. We’ve been doing all of our own cooking for months.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: T’ai Chi, Freddie’s,Altruistic August
Bonus: BiMart, fruit and veggie prep, DVD to Tracie
Get to do: chiropractor, stroll with Tracie, line dance at the port, clean something, practice new dances (Turning Tables, Nothing but You, Shake it like that, Larger than Life, Here I Go Again/Mama Mia, Real Deal, Get it Right); transplant bean, make garlic almonds for Barb and Dan; prep potato area and raised beds for beets, carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes and sow; finish weeding drive, continue weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed; Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine. Reward: inventory seeds, plan fall cool season garden, order replenishments. Sunday board meeting reminder, board meeting prep,
6: Smile and be friendly while physical distancing: again easy peasy, default, except when RBF.
Welcome @GingerGetsHealthy and @yvonxx from Austin!
Barbie
you smiling in your summer reading challenge shirt!
Karen in VA sending waves of comfort, healing and strength to Shona.
Kylia “Why is it human nature that when someone says NO you shouldn't eat that, that you crave just that!” Happened to me today when I picked up my first Atorvastatin rx, and the pharmacist said “hope you don’t have a craving for grapefruit juice.” Pow, instant urge for pink grapefruit juice, ice cold, in quantity, red grapefruit sections, etc, etc, etc.
Heather :love: arugula, the seafood cornucopia not so much
If Joe ate that much cabbage I’d have to call a halt for sure!
Welcome back @Suesh111 at the top right of the page just above where the page numbers and search icon are is an “empty” star. Click it and it will turn yellow. Then when you go to Community, click the gray start at top right and you’ll see this thread and any others you’ve bookmarked. It will take you to the page after the one you posted to so you might have to go back one page to read everything.
After T’ai Chi went to DDS for cleaning. Wouldn’t you know it he found a cavity on my bridge’s anchor tooth. He’ll try to fix at appointment in September but was hinting that we might have to take the bridge off and replace it, with no estimate of $$$. After picking up the doctor recommended psyllium caps got home and just crashed. No energy to play with dogs, clean, food prep or eat. Slept 3 hours. Got up and made dip for Sunday, prepped Joe’s fruit and veggies, cooked up some left over chicken and ate it with the last of the coleslaw. Now I’m yawning again and am headed BACK to bed.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
August: better than July.
daily: steps>5491=2393 vits=6 log=5 CI<CO=4 CI<250<CO=3 Tumble & Shadow 5=2 mfp=1 outside=1 up hill=1
wkly: T’ai Chi or BB&B x3=2 rx=1 dance=1 clean 30 mins=
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Barbara: Rest well. ❤️0
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Sorry to hear of those suffering physically and mentally because of suffering loved ones. We are all linked. Thinking of Margaret, Barbara, Karen, Rori, Sue, and I know I've missed important people. Sorry.
DH has woken up early for the last couple of days with his recurrent anxiety. Not severe, but enough to keep him reading, not sleeping. This morning I was in the bed, so I noticed him and that stopped me sleeping on. Plus my leg was aching for no reason. (The air is very heavy and humid, so that's probably the reason.) He is fine in the day and actually took the car out for a constitutional in the afternoon, but he says he feels a bit 'dazed' in the early mornings.
I'm going to test fir the BBPV again, but I won't do anything unless it's obvious. I've gently suggested he might try cutting down on sugar and alcohol. His diet is impeccable normally, but he has got into the habit of a regular 4 units Pernod a night, plus some comforting toffees late on. He's always had the toffees, but the regular alcohol is since the virus. I am currently having four days AF and actually prefer them. I hope he will make the effort to cut back on that evening hit of sugar and see if it helps.
Don't like this heavy weather. Tomorrow is scheduled record temperatures. I will be indoors with the blinds drawn.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
Tonight - salmon, curried sprouted beans and asparagus.5 -
Howdy folks. It's noticeable warmer this morning and the sun is burning off the morning heat haze. (We're barely a mile from the coast.)
An interesting article on Raptitude today, and his log for the experiment.
https://www.raptitude.com/2020/08/the-myth-of-grit-and-determination/
https://www.raptitude.com/experiment-log-no-29-calorie-tracking/
Heather:
I hope Johnny follows your advice re sugar at night. I'm always restless if I overindulge in the evening.
(((Hugs)))margaretturk wrote: »I feel your support. Thank you my dear friends.50 here, from Austin, TX - need a lot of work! love hiking but, this heat is keeping me home as i don't wake up early enough to go in the AM. I work too..at home so, looking for good home workouts. I am not flexible, i can't touch my toes! lol! ugh! any ideas? TIA
I use the Leslie Sansone Walk-at-Home videos available on YouTube. Having quit the gym b/c of COVID they have been a lifesaver.
Cheri
in College Station, TX
😍YouTube. You can get so many by doing a search for whatever you want to do. I use fitnessblender a lot.
If you click on the Favourites star on the same line as tha page title it will turn yellow ⭐️ and it bookmarks the thread for you.I'm going to try posting again and see if I can find this site in the future to be involved. We'll see - I'm really bad with computers/technology. Anyway -- I have tried wt loss in the past and this time around I'm finding that 2 things are helping. 1) a partner - hubby is finally doing this with me and it helps that all his delicious but high cal high carb cooking and baking is no longer staring me in the face. 2) Restarting an exercise I love enough to keep it up. Have failed to maintain any other exercise plan, so I restarted ballet classes. Yeah, I'm a chubby ole 68 yr old grandma...but as long as I enjoy the activity I'm throwing out pride and going with it!
I will take the opportunity to do some gardening while the weather holds. The poetry sorting can wait.
Felicitations to those in extremis 💕💖💕
céad míle fáilte to new ladies. Come back often and jump in with comments when the spirit moves you.
Pax vobiscum 🕊
☘️ Terri
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