WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2020
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Well Faith is snoozing and im already in bed with the fan on,very stuffy in the room..Alfie is parked on the bed snoozing and has had his treats..im hoping for a better day tomorrow..2
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Candy cigarettes - I remember them when I was about 10 but then they disappeared.
Party lines - we were on a modified one when I was about 13 but a year or two later that was gone.
TV Test patterns are still used.
Metal ice cube trays - an ancient fridge in my first apartment had them.
Other than that, I've only heard of or seen some of the rest in museums or diners done up to be "50s" etc. Some of those things I've never heard of!
M in Oz
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Carol - I have never taken the test, is that what it is called?
I remember 8 of the “older than dirt” list, I was born in 1968. I grew up in an old house with old things.
Terri- Brylcream brings back the strongest scent memory for me. My Dad used it all the time when I was young.
Rebecca - I love the family photos. I need to pull some out of my family and different generations.
Kim - two years ago I decided to display Christmas photos from previous years during the holidays. I have a bunch with different people with Santa and they are prominently displayed on the fridge.
We had our team building day today and I have to say it was much better than I was expecting. I think we did bond and I hope the feeling carries through for the Winter at least. We are expecting a tough one.
Tracey in Edmonton
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I’ll share my favourite Santa pic. It is my Dad and I, he was visiting a little girl next door on Christmas Eve and I was expecting Lauryn. We were comparing bellies. His was a pillow, mine was a 7 month pregnant belly.
Tracey8 -
RIP my buckwheat homemade pad of 20 years. I tried to wash and dry it and it became like mush and smelled bad. I just ordered a flaxseed bag made by a young mother running a successful home business. Some claim flax seeds will hold heat better than buckwheat. We shall see very soon.
Nice evening rain and still warm. Using a rice bag that a friend gave me but it is very heavy and not as conforming to my neck. Should work well enough to get me to beddy-bye and sweet dreams in an hour or so. Hopefully, I can sleep till near 3 AM tomorrow.
Fae missing her buckwheat bag now laid to rest2 -
Didn’t have a whole lot of time yesterday between coming home from work and then leaving to get my hair cut so just did a Leslie Sansone DVD for ½ hr. Today did Jillian Michaels Burn Fat Boost Metabolism DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a DVD for the bosu. Then the soup kitchen and then the Green Room.
After work today got dinner ready then went to Aldi. Vince seems to be getting “into” Christmas decorating. When I got home from work Steve was gone and Vince had started to put up the tree in the living room. Now he has all the trees up
Tracey – what neat ideas to give money!
Yesterday Steve made dinner. I admit, my eating was outrageous, ice cream and cookies for dessert. But back on the program today
KJ – let’s hope for a negative test. You having to shut down will really impact those other kiddos
Katla – I suspect we won’t know the final result of the election for at least a few weeks. I know that there is one state that will just START counting mail in ballots on Friday. Then you *know* that there are going to be law suits.
Flea – good thoughts for you and your pup. It’s so hard to see our furbabies declining
Fae – I find it rude for someone to be on the phone when I’m checking them out. I can see an emergency, but really! I feel like such a fool when I hear someone talking and turn around to talk back to them only to realize that they’re talking on their phone!
Cathy – happy belated birthday
Rebecca – how I wish you could come here for the holidays!
Tracey – Vince one time told me how his group were “team building”. They went to the go kart place!
I usually find that after exercise, I really don’t have much appetite for breakfast for a while.
Katla – so glad you can go back to yoga! I know how much you missed it.
Terri – Love your “younger than springtime”. I have to remember that one
Fae – my condolences
Michele NC
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Tracey, thanks for reminding me that two days of no snacking is better than no days! Day 3 is going well so far too!
Fae, so sorry to hear about the demise of your buckwheat heating bag. I hope the new one provides you with many years of comfort!
Pip, Wow, just wow, that pic of Kirby just after his accident.
Heather, love that photo of you at the outside restaurant. Lovely little town, from what I could see behind you. Too bad about the walking date with the kids being cancelled, but hopefully it won't be for too long.
At work, so can't comment too much, so will just wish everyone well, hugs for those who need them and congrats to those celebrating.
Evelyn, Vancouver Island where it's only 5:30 but very dark already
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It will be interesting how Athena handles Santa this year. She cried last year!
I am glad you ladies enjoyed my old photos.
Hugs, Rebecca
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Hi Gals,
Michele- I follow politics pretty closely and was surprised by your comment that one state was not starting to count absentee/mail in ballots until Friday 11/6. I checked the listing of when states start counting and could not find that, the latest I found was election day 11/3. So the list I referenced may be wrong which state were you referring to?
Heather - there is an Asian market a few towns over... I'll have to check it out.
Kim from N. California
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well, one up side of going on the errands with husband is all the extra walking/steps. So instead of just making my 10,000 each day(walking extra laps at the park if I need to), today with that and the park with my friend, I am now just at 17,000 for today. I wanted to get extra in because I won't be walking at the park the next three days- won't get too many steps in tomorrow but should get quite a few Saturday morning when I help at the food program/food bank with my mom- going to be a long day but rewarding one. I will see my best friend for a very quick visit- she is having another estate sale with stuff from her parents- I may pick up a few more treasures. Then I will drive home, getting home before dark. I don't like driving at night, especially the lights from the other cars on those country roads.
Debbie
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Whidislander wrote: »
Great picture-
One of my good friends in school's last name is Gossett( her family is from Kentucky)0 -
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question- who is Nreedinco
She likes my status and encourages me- Nice to see.
Debbie0 -
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I think it is Barbie who has said that there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong gear? Or something like that -- much more eloquently than I said.
But I thought of that tonight. Oh, my. The rain was torrential. I was soaked to the skin. I kept walking, and thought of what Barbie says and realized that I need to get better gear.
Thanks to all of you for how you inspire me to keep on going -- even in the rain.
Flea
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"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: dogs to powerline,
Bonus: 30 mins vac, watched STAS Day 7 video, 2 loads laundry, transplanted skeleton mix violas, calla bulbs, mystery long grass.
Get to do: submit grant pics and receipts, STAS challenge catchup, call Geico and Progressive adjustor, shop for part D, BiMart, Grocery Outlet, Freddie’s, take pics of car, test Bluetooth speaker so can do BB&B or T’ai Chi from voice recordings, make experimental almond paste, declutter sideboard, practice new dances (Nothing but You, Shake it like that, Larger than Life, Here I Go Again/Mama Mia, Real Deal, Get it Right); prep potato area and raised beds for beets, carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes and sow; weed drive again, finish weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed; invest another 10 minutes in prepping living trust, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine, find and configure a screen time popup, figure out where to plant naked lady bulbs. Next Wednesday minutes to history, Reward: inventory seeds, plan fall cool season garden, order replenishments
New Ways November
6: Giver yourself a boost, try a new way of being physically active: learn one of the new dances.
Misty but nearly 60 degrees so quite pleasant out, until just now when the wind moaned in with heavier rain. Glad I got outside when I did!
Lisa my get to do’s would be less exhausting if I’d actually do some of them Carrying them over day, to day, to day is getting old.
Lanettte “grateful for him …among other things” Amen! Have you considered red wine extract capsules? Hard to find some that are only red wine and not Japanese KnotWeed, but here’s what I take: https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-French-Extract-Non-GMO/dp/B000BD0RR2
Katla all but 9 and 10.
for the loss of your cousin and so many of our young men there/then.
Tracey
the santa bellies pic! What were your team building activities?
Sue in WA two months seems like a long time to wait for your echocardiogram?
Flea I’ll need better gear soon too. My 20+ yr old LLB and more recent vintage Lands End rain jackets both soak through after awhile. Good rain gear is spendy (was it Katla who recommended Columbia?). Think I’ll try the cheapo BiMart jackets and pants the road workers wear. Maybe they’ll have boys’ sizes… :laugh:
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
November: better than October.
daily: sit with Joe: 5, weigh: 5, steps>5491=4789 vits=5 log=5 CI<CO=5 CI<250<CO=4 Tumble & Shadow 5=6 mfp=5 outside=5 up hill=5
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dlfk202000 wrote: »question- who is Nreedinco
She likes my status and encourages me- Nice to see.
Debbie
You can do a search to see what other posts she might have made.2 -
Snowflake1968 wrote: »Tomorrow at work we are having a team building day and will not be doing actual work. It will make for a long day I imagine.
Tracey in Edmonton
I've never enjoyed team building days. I spend so much time rolling my eyes, I've got a headache by the end of the day!
I'm much more in favour of creating an atmosphere where teams develop naturally.
M in Oz
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dlfk202000 wrote: »Snowflake1968 wrote: »Debbie - I am the junk food, take out person more than hubby. He goes along with pretty much whatever I do and very rarely steps into a store to get anything. The most he will do is suggest burgers every couple of weeks, it used to be almost every couple of days, and he'll suggest pizza now every couple of weeks. I've very proud of him. He won't walk with me though, we walk at different paces and really enjoy our alone time when we do it.
My ride will be here momentarily, have a great day everyone
Tracey in Edmonton
My husband, though semi retired is always in the grocery store- He works in one and it seems the only thing we do together is shop. He doesn't like staying home. Drove him crazy when we were on "Shelter at home"- only thing he could do was go to work, and that was with a letter from work to show the police if he got pulled over(son had to have one too, he works at another grocery store). He is out shopping, having lunch with a friend, taking his mom out or doing her errands.
He is asleep now(works graveyard, came in at 7:30- I am off but he woke me up and couldn't really get back to sleep) but when he wakes up, I am sure he will want to go back to his store, pick up his pay check, take it over to the band and then go shopping. Hobby Lobby is one place he was talking about but I am sure there will be at least one grocery store to stop at too-always is, even though we don't NEED anything- freezer is full, pantry is full, fridge is pretty full but not full of what he wants.
Debbie
Has he been checked for compulsive shopping disorder?
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-compulsive-shopping-disorder-2510592
I don't eat when I'm stressed, but I have noticed I shop a bit more.
Thankfully, the shutdown in March came along when my stress level was rising and I found myself out picking up this, that, and the other at lunches. The shutdown broke the shopping pattern.
M in Oz1 -
Good morning. It's time to pound the carpets as it's a wet drizzly morning. Time to test the ingenuity in finding fun ways to spend the day.
💃🏻🕺🏻Rock on! 💃🏻🕺🏻
☘️ Terri1 -
Morning ladies
Got Alfie out to potty ,and Faith is still snoozing...watching the birds0 -
Almost time for the kiddos to arrive; Just wanted to give you all a heads up. The parent that had to take the C-19 test got a positive test result. So baby is home for the time being with her parents. I do not have to close unless the baby develops symptoms and has a positive test result. So...for now, I am open and I feel fine. Business as usual, still taking kids (and mine and Tim's) temps twice daily, still cleaning everything, still masking whenever I close to the kiddos. Even outside, now.8
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Invigorating patio Fae She bikini-clad at 49 F as the rain gently rang on my aluminum patio cover. I was overswept with a feeling of empowerment and danced in the gentle rain on the uncovered part of the patio. Once regaining my better senses, I came inside and finished my workout adding 10 reps to each discipline. I amazed myself at my balance and poise as I finished with a killer 20 rep sashay.
As pleased as I am with my morning performance, I am still grieving the loss of my buckwheat pad. It was all my fault. My laziness regarding cooking had me microwaving mac and cheese that a friend had given me to try. I set it on a plate as directed. Somehow I must have tipped the plate spilling the gooey liquid on the microwave turntable. Without thought, I tossed old Buckie in the microwave and hit 1:45 seconds as I had done for 20 years. Ready for some soothing heat on my neck, I removed the warmed pad just to find it all gooey and smelly. I tried to get it out with a wet rag, but it was saturated very deep. I angrily tossed the mac and cheese in the g can and decided on leftovers that weren't party to Bucky's demise. My attempt to wash Bucky in cool water was semi-successful, but the dryer was the final nail in Bucky's coffin. It turned Bucky into a smelly mush!
I await the arrival of Flaxie. If she serves me as well as Bucky, I will be 90, and perhaps parting ways will be easier at that age.
Fae somewhere under the rainbow and no bluebirds flying
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Oh, someone asked about the loss of my parents. I was 26 when my mom passed in March of 93. She had non-hodgkins lymphoma. AFter seven years and four battles with cancer/tumors popping up in various places, the one that finally got her was wrapped around her spine and the docs didn't find it until it was too late. My father died of a heart dissection. This is when the lining of your heart rips away from the heart wall, usually creating internal bleeding. Stress is a common cause. This happened in November of 93. I feel about the year 1993, the way most people feel about this year. BUT...you can't throw away a whole year. My son Colin was born in December of 1993. Redemption. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly) 7
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Yesterday I cycled 42.9 km. Today it was 33.4 km. I'll have to double check but in total for the week I think it's somewhere between 140 and 150 km.
Tired and slightly stiff but it feels so good to be cycling like that again!
Machka in Oz2 -
Morning, afternoon, and evening, my chickadees,
My energy levels are through the roof this morning, but that would because I have just finished the first cup of coffee I've had in about six weeks, possibly two months. I did start a week ago drinking weak tea and then strong tea, but this is a whole different outlook. Note - still watered down, drinking it as iced coffee. Nonetheless, my eyeballs feel a little fizzy at this point.
Some very good news. We had already planned to drive up and get our son the day before Thanksgiving and bring him down for the long weekend. He lives about an hour away and does not have a car. And now my daughter, son-in-law, and the two youngest kids will be coming down for Thanksgiving and we'll celebrate both Thanksgiving and Christmas over the weekend. Oldest grandson is with the crapweasel sperm donor for Thanksgiving break, unfortunately, but you can't have everything. We had planned to spend Christmas with them here, but the Army won't release my son-in-law over the Christmas/New Year span. Didn't ask why; they wouldn't have been able to tell me anyway due to operational security.
Re: Safety during the pandemic - Our son has stayed isolated since the beginning, does not work (he gets disability), so should not be too much of a safety risk. He does mask up and goes grocery shopping once a week at Walmart, which is within walking distance. And, bluntly, he's a little paranoid about getting sick, so I know he's taking all precautions.
And, due to Army regulations, before they can take leave, my daughter and son-in-law will be tested again for covid. Should they have it, they won't get to come down, of course, but fingers crossed they'll be OK. The Army is quite stringent about protocols for masks, distancing, etc. And, of course, while my husband works outside the house, I've been isolated as well, which is as good as we can get it at this point. So, fingers crossed, we will all be OK. My husband will be taking vacation days before and after the holiday, so will have five straight days off for the first time this year.
I need to mask up and go to Walmart myself this morning before it gets busy. I desperately need socks, I've worn holes in all but three of mine. Plus we need the usual suspects, fruit, veggies, etc.
Off to the races...
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR5 -
Faetta's food and exercise diary was NOT completed for 11/05/2020 and were not comparable to any goals Faetta may or may not have set. Faetta's mental diary was completed for 11/05/2020 stating Faetta doesn't give a flying frigeroonie.2
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