WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2021
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Me ...It's funny. I felt so calm during the 8 hours at Emergency the other night. I felt tired but OK during the weekend. Yet today (Monday) I've felt weep-y all day.
M in Oz
Awe, I am sorry you had to deal with the 8 hours at emergency. I know for a fact that when we have a stressful situation that you have to be "present in thought, and body", we go into a tunnel vision, doing what needs to be done. Then afterwards, when we have time to relax and its safe to do so, we feel. Its our emotional safety switch. Like for me singing opera in front of a crowd, easy peasy. But then afterwards, I'm shaky, and my skin is flushed. Its the task of performing, whether it be as a responsible mate, or as a biker, that we focus and do, then when we are done, we feel.💖. Hugs friend
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Allie - Woke up thinking about you. Still thinking of you. Hope things work out well.
CJ - Still with you; we all are.
Kylia - Peace for your Monday.
Rori -
So glad to see you changing what you can in ways that make you happy. I also find gray depressing in large amounts - my bathroom is bright white with gray accents, and my kitchen has deep red and gray accents as well. On a wall, it becomes too much for me.
@Kimbolist - Stay awhile, let us know a little about you. Welcome!
I guess quite a few of us are up early this Monday morning... I was up at 3 a.m. Not the galloping never-getovers, I can always take a nap later...
I looked down at Egg yesterday, who was stretching lazily in a sunbeam on the kitchen floor, and said, "Man, I wish I had my cat's life," and then said "Oh I forgot, I do." Heard Corey laughing from the other room. Such a good guy. I did refrain from laying on the kitchen floor, but crawled up in the bed in the early afternoon and read and took a nap. Nice Sunday.
While I was napping, Corey planted the hops rhizomes - since they store in the freezer, it didn't seem that putting them into the ground just before a freeze would be too much of a problem. We decided on two very different places - five along the front fence and then put up a trellis frame for another five just downhill of his orchard. Should be interesting. If this soil and environment works for them (there are varying opinions as to whether they will) this is a possible cash crop to sell to local brewers. This original planting is to dry, vacuum bag and then freeze some for Corey's own beermaking, but if they make, there should be scads more than he can use. We'll see what happens.
Not big on any ambitions these days, but I would like to finish the Texas star quilt this week.
Did finally figure out something I've been tinkering with for years. Last night, I finally made fried rice that I like. The key is Jasmine rice, which is slightly sticky when first cooked, extremely sticky when cold. It has that lovely, deep, nutty scent and texture that is just right for fried rice. One of the reasons I will seldom eat takeout fried rice is because I truly hate biting into onions, and most places use them. I do love the flavor they give though... so I pureed garlic, onion and fresh ginger in vegetable oil, started with that, heated until I could smell the three. Added a little more oil, leftover chicken, scrambled egg shreds, frozen peas, four cups of cold sticky rice and some soy sauce. Seriously less than ten minutes to put together. Made eight or ten servings, which is way too much, but Corey will get it in his lunch a couple days this week, as he liked it too.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa
I agree that the kind of rice really makes a huge difference- my husband only likes Japanese rice(and lots of it which is not great for a diabetic) so I will sometimes make fried rice with it- it is ok but not great. Too sticky.
One trick I started doing to make it healthier and they really like it- I use 1/2 rice and 1/2 riced cauliflower.
I don't add onion to mine. diced celery is about the only other veggie-son doesn't like peas in it. A little bit of sesame oil really makes it good- LOTS of ginger and garlic for sure.1 -
ICE CREAM- my favorite and second favorite are not there(or third)
1-chocolate peanut butter cup
2-mocha almond fudge
3- Moosetraks
Of the ones listed-
Butterpecan or Pralines and cream
I don't eat icecram much- instant asthma attack if I do so have to have a cup of hot tea with it if I do.
Debbie
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Barbara - It seems we are both making progress.
Unfortunately, DH took so long to research and approve my choice that the 4 in stock on Prime sold out and the price went up by £30 and it's no longer Prime. Grrrrrr! Oh well, the opposite happened with Max's tent. You win some, you lose some.
He agreed to the order so I did it. We are each putting an appropriate amount into the cost. I also ordered inks from a discount ink shop, so not too terrible. The HP ink arrangements are disgraceful. There is no hook in on this Epson machine. That is what I wanted to avoid as the printer is seldom used.
I'm now trying to persuade DH to open a cloud account. He is cursing about not being able to transfer his phone photos onto his laptop. My words fall on deaf ears. He could easily download One Drive onto his phone, but he is resistant. I suggested he email them to himself, but he can't seem to get them off his laptop into his photo file.
Never mind. Then I suggested he edit the photo on his phone and he didn't know what I was talking about. Then he could directly load it onto KDP for his novel cover. He doesn't understand me.
And I thought I was technically challenged!!!
Update- I showed him, with infinite patience, how to edit photos on his phone. He tried the OneDrive idea, but ground to a frustrated halt.
I have Dropbox, but suggesting that would fall on deaf ears.
Anyway, the printer will be here in a few days, plus extra ink. Then we will see.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
CJ - sorry to hear about your kitty sending hugs -
Dinner - If it was to be someone famous I would pick Amelia Earhart - Family it would be my Dad, my grandpa (his dad) they both passed before I was an adult and could have an adult relationship with them. Although my Mom's dad and his mom would be interesting too... My family the grandfathers were immigrants and were firmly of the opinion we are now Americans we don't need to tell about the old country. To the point that my mom's dad's family we are not sure which country they came from, they were German speakers, but it appears to be a dialectic so probably on the boarder area of German and ????
Ice cream - praline, of the choices in the picture, but my favorite is black licorice.
smiles Kim
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Heather the sticker shock I had was I went to buy another bag of potting soil. At the beginning of the season it was $8.00 now it is $11.99. I switched to a brand called eco scrapes that is still $8 a bag and that still seems high to me. It will be interesting to see what they charge for eco scrapes when the next shipment comes into the store. Fortuanately I recyle most of the dirt I use from past years. I compost with this dirt over the winter.I add banana peels, coffee grounds and egg shells and leaves from healthy plnats and flowering plants I buy over the winter. If a plant is diseased and is in a pot I do not save that dirt.
The other sad thing is the potting soil is not as good as it was a few years ago. The company that makes it sold it to another company. Pay more get less.2 -
Machka--So glad to hear what it is not. Please take care of yourself and I pray for better news ahead. Delaid reaction, I have had that before. Take care of yourself.
Our DN had her baby on Friday at 33 weeks. So far both are doing fine and he will be in hospital for at least a month. They live 100 miles away from the hospital and have children at home under 5 so pretty stressful. We did go down yesterday just for support and DBinlaw and I had a few words. This is the one who's wife passed away almost 2 years ago and now he is seeing an old girlfriend which would be no big deal, but she is married and I just lost it. What is wrong with people? Sure glad we live over 100 miles away so don't have to deal with it, only once in awhile.
Heather--we have a lock box in the spare room stacked with boxes that we keep papers like that in and DS knows where it is. Will get a book and put passwords in so will have them, I just forget to update it.
Tracey--I remember having to use them growing up. Such a pain trying to get to the freezer before it spilled all over the floor.
Lisa--my DD and brothers make jerky in the dehydrator all the time, must say it is so good.
Rebecca--I am sorry about your dream. I know sometimes I will have the strangest dream and wake up really feeling off. Most the time I can let it go, others not so easy. Most the time they come at the weridest times as nothing is happening that would bring those things up.
CSSJ09--So sorry for your loss.
cookies and cream
I am really dragging today, I have Bible study tonight so will not be an early night. Also have the chiropractor after work. It is snowing here today and I think that is a lot of why I am hurting all over. Yesterday it was in the 60's, today snow, and tomorrow in the 60's again.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND NE
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DH found a USB stick that you can plug into your phone. Never heard of that. It has good reviews, so he ordered it from Amazon. Hooray!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
get some veggies YES
look at mail from MD NO
15-20 min on recumbant NO
ask S for certificate NO, but i could write a mail to go out tomorrow at 8 am...
i had 2 appointments.
1 ok but O's SIL has just passed (not covid) i should have just cancelled... the poor guy.
and the other who asked me like 5 times in past days to help her with something (listen to her giving a trial talk) just blew me off... no message nothing.
then after writes she was overbusy "sorry"
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Hi Gals,
Debbie – licorice ice cream is available in Santa Cruz at Marianne’s and it is not dyed, so black licorice ice cream is white…
Margaret – I am not sure if you have Kellogg’s potting soil available in your area, but if you do I have had good success with it and have discovered that there is a red striped bag and a blue striped bag one is advertised for trees and shrubs and one for flowers and veggies, but they are identical so which ever is on sale is the one to buy ---
On passwords, I bought an address book – hard cover from the spine looks just like any other book – and have put my passwords in there on the “name line” I put the URL then in the address area the login and password. Some are in by just the company and some in 2 ways. So my cell phone is in the C’s for Cell Phone and in the A’s for AT&T for example. I then have put it in the bookshelf that is not close to the computer. So someone would probably just ignore the bookshelf…
Allie – thinking of you
Smiles, Kim in Northern California
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Worked today so no formal exercise. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Body Pump DVD
Someone on here posted a recipe for a low sodium sauerkraut. It had something like 1 tablespoon of salt in it. Could you please repost it? I made it, liked it, and would like to make it again only I don’t have the recipe and can’t seem to find it. I remember it was pretty easy.
CSSJ – I’m so very sorry. I’m really not looking forward to losing any of our cats
kimbolist – welcome! Your husband can’t be any pickeyer than mine.
Rori – how are YOU? Are you getting any “me time”
Don’t get me near the mint chocolate chip if you value your fingers….lol
Nice day today so I cleaned the grates of my oven. Hey ladies, it’s that time!!! I popped the popcorn for the trees yesterday
The girl who was supposed to work after me came early so I know they’re always concerned about time so I asked them if they’d like me to go home, I don’t have a problem staying. So they told me I could go home. Also, they already blacked out memorial day, fourth of july, and labor day weekends. I told that lady that I was going to ask for memorial day and labor day weekends since I hadn’t seen my grandson in 8 months, these are the only two times when I can see him. I also told her that I’d be asking for Thanksgiving weekend to go see my other daughter, I haven’t seen her since last Christmas. Of course, she wasn’t happy. But that’s too bad. If they want to fire me over this...so be it.
Carol GA – Vince likes WalMart’s chocolate chip ice cream. It really is quite good. So I’m sure the Salted Caramel is, too.
Barbara – the gal who “leads” (loosely) the mahjongg group won’t be there today. Instead, someone else will be there. Why, I don’t know. We already have 4, we really don’t need 5. Well, I’m leaving early. Anyway, I’m thinking that when I get home, I’ll send an email to the 5 people who normally play outlining my suggestion
Just skimming because gotta hurry up, eat dinner, then get to where a gal is going to pick me up for this mahjongg. I hope she doesn’t mind leaving early…..
Vicki – congrats
Better get going on dinner
Michele NC
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Got through surgery with flying colors,a little tired and groin a bit sore..thanks for all the love.14
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Well im tired ! Lets see of I can sleep tonight3
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »DH found a USB stick that you can plug into your phone. Never heard of that. It has good reviews, so he ordered it from Amazon. Hooray!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
My daughter uses those all the time. I need to buy one for myself.
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Machka - I think that’s a very natural reaction. All of the big stresses and emergencies leave me weepy for days when it’s over.
Hugs to you.
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Vicki, I appreciate you! It was definitely a process I needed to feel. Sometimes we need to release emotions and our brain just makes us think of a reason. I guess I needed to know my Owain is alright, and he doesn't need me.👍💖
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Jake's new computer arrived today (three days earlier than they said it would). The delivery person from Fed Ex rang the doorbell and waited for him to come to the door to hand it to him directly. He has been busy ever since, figuring out how it works.Allie,. glad to hear that you got through your surgery successfully and are ready to get some sleep. I pulled a lot of weeds today. Barbie in NW WA 2
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Yea Allie!!!!!
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Allie, glad you're doing well, and thanks for checking in. Dropped back in to check on you. 0
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »cityjaneLondon wrote: »DH found a USB stick that you can plug into your phone. Never heard of that. It has good reviews, so he ordered it from Amazon. Hooray!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
My daughter uses those all the time. I need to buy one for myself.
Tracey
What does the USB stick do? Or what's it for?
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Allie-Yay!
Crazy at work and I mean CRAZY! Phones didn't stop ringing all day. Will be another early morning.
Sleep well!
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Kirbys camp homemade super nachos for dinner. Really good, rivals any restaurant nachos I’ve had. Long day, yogi is ready for bed. A couple of mishaps but poop happens. Long day. I was able to push it where he needed it
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Rebecca: Thinger are more challenging. Be well! I hoppy & have better health rest. 😇0
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https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/WoYglM_9RUmqSCfj0n02dg.7fRwX53mZWRzWP1ghScqk-
Hopefully this is Athena playing with bubbles.
Rebecca3 -
Snowflake1968 wrote: »cityjaneLondon wrote: »DH found a USB stick that you can plug into your phone. Never heard of that. It has good reviews, so he ordered it from Amazon. Hooray!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
My daughter uses those all the time. I need to buy one for myself.
Tracey
What does the USB stick do? Or what's it for?
It’s a USB that fits into an iPhone or iPad charging port. You can transfer your photos and files to it for storage or moving just like any other USB stick. It’s quite convenient according to my daughter.0 -
Kirbys camp homemade super nachos for dinner. Really good, rivals any restaurant nachos I’ve had. Long day, yogi is ready for bed. A couple of mishaps but poop happens. Long day. I was able to push it where he needed it
Those nachos look delicious. Your camp site looks pretty too.
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »Snowflake1968 wrote: »cityjaneLondon wrote: »DH found a USB stick that you can plug into your phone. Never heard of that. It has good reviews, so he ordered it from Amazon. Hooray!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
My daughter uses those all the time. I need to buy one for myself.
Tracey
What does the USB stick do? Or what's it for?
It’s a USB that fits into an iPhone or iPad charging port. You can transfer your photos and files to it for storage or moving just like any other USB stick. It’s quite convenient according to my daughter.
I have an android phone which I can hook up to my work computer or home laptop and transfer photos and files while it charges.
Also the androids allow you to put in an extra mini-drive to store things on which you can take out and slot into a laptop.
I always transfer my photos over to a computer/laptop to work on them, and there I use Paint.net a free program to make adjustments like cropping, adjusting levels, etc.
Regarding Rice - I usually eat brown rice but like jasmine rice too for a change. Not so keen on basmati.
Regarding Ice cream - I picked chocolate from the list but my real favourite would be a chocolate coffee/cappuccino ice cream or Ferrero Rocher
Regarding delayed emotions - you are all right, that's probably what has happened. I also feel very, very tired. I suspect I was much more stressed than I thought I was. I do know when they started doing a series of tests for heart attack, and they were taking that very seriously, I felt this wave of horror which briefly disrupted my calm.
M in Oz4
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