WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2021
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Morning, my little chickadees. DH has gone out for the day birdwatching with one of his pals. It's good to have the whole day to myself, although I do appreciate his company when he is here. I'm taking the opportunity to catch up with you lovely ladies.
KateUK: - 😫 Gall bladder problems. Hope you see consultant soonest.
Tracey: - Well done on the payroll rollout!
Machka: - (((hugs))) Like Barbara, I sympathise so much with you in the dramatic changes in your life in recent years. In answer to your question, as a retired person I also have time to have fun, but it's the simple pleasures that please me most. Writing, reading, walking, dancing, spending time with family, painting, craft, gardening, doing puzzles, watching TV, doing exercise videos ..... I'm pleased to see in a later post that you have taken steps to insert some fun into your life.
KarenVA: - OMG! I've so been there in our earlier days with DH at times, and I'm ashamed to say, on both sided. We have mellowed considerably as the years have passed.
Ginger TX: - I have been following your progress, and I've noticed that your streaks of not bingeing are getting longer. Try not to beat yourself up when you fall of the wagon. It takes time to build up new habits. You have a lot to deal with at the moment.
Flea: - (((Hugs))) As others have said, lean on lots of different people. Each one will give you something different in return. Good to see some progress. Bureaucracy grind exceedingly slow.
Katla: - You have had a great opportunity to make lots of lovely memories with your family to cherish.
Rebecca: - It is indeed a Utopian dream. But not all of us have the same dream. 😂 My dream would need to have forests and mountains. Did I miss your birthday. If so, hope it was a good one.
Many welcomes to our new people. Feel free to jump in when the topic appeals to you. We are a friendly bunch and love new people joining our group.
I'm planning to pockle round the garden before lunch and go for a walk this afternoon. Hope everyone has a lovely day.
☘️ Terri
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Morning ladies
Im awake but feel tired,havent slept well and constantly tired maybe thats why i need the iron... and i messaged my GP and she said if my eyes keep bothering me reduce my driving.. which im not doing alot and if it gets worse go to the ED at Yale where the Dr practices from..
Here us hoping i dont have to do that.4 -
Morning, afternoon and evening, all...
Been busy writing up a half dozen assignments on the freelance writing side. Still three more due by Monday. Will provide some cash for the kitty, so that's good.
Yesterday, I just sat around feeling sorry for myself until after noon, and then got up and did a few things, even actually made dinner for a change. Corey asked for meatloaf - I made it, but it was kinda awful. He ate it - the boy will eat pretty much anything that doesn't eat him first - but I couldn't stomach it. The recipe called for far too much onion, which is not my favorite.
The pity party was mostly because the symptoms are beginning to wear on me physically, but there are signs that this antibiotic is working better, or at least differently, than the previous rounds. Tomorrow is the last dose, and then I'll talk to the gastroenterologist the following week to let him know whether the symptoms are continuing to improve or getting worse again.
Was up every couple hours last night, probably because of those few bites of onion-laden beef, and am waiting for the morning rush to subside before I head down to Wally-World. Have to pick up some cards, in particular, as Corey's niece is getting married July 3, and then three cards for Corey - for Father's Day this Sunday, his birthday on Monday, and our anniversary eight days later (I wouldn't marry him until he turned 40). He's already enjoying his hot tub almost every night, and that was his gift, so no need to pick up a gift for him...
Welcome to those who are new, we're very glad you're here! Drop into any conversation that appeals.
Love,
Lisa in AR4 -
Here’s a photo of one of my huge peony roses. It’s from a bush we transplanted from the garden of DMiL just before she had to move into residential care. It was a while before it settled into our garden, but once it started flowering well, I used to take a bouquet of them to her every June. Sure miss that woman *sigh*
Lisa - (((hugs))) Wishing for a speedy diagnosis. 💕💖💕
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Terri ~ The peony rose is beautiful. I tried to grow one once and it just couldn't be.
Carol in GA1 -
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Gorgeous day today! Just finished dusting the upstairs floors, been trying to take it easy using the vacuum cleaner to give my muscles a rest, it is working!! A feeling a little better everyday. Going to have my second cup of coffee on the porch and watch the hummingbirds. Have a great day everyone!!
Debbie from S. New England USA
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Gonna see how long these roses last!
Had a wonderful dream, caring for Athena, putting on her shoes, and such. 💖. I am boning up all my songs I used to sing for the boys when they were her age. I want to be known as "that singing grandma"!
Hugs!
Rebecca
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Machka: What do I do for fun? I go for walks in the neighborhood. I love to go horseback riding but haven’t had the opportunity in a while. I went to Cannon Beach with my daughter, the grandchildren and my son in law. We had an overnight in the RV. Son in Law and grand kids headed east to rendezvous with his mom in Wyoming. She had a fall and was hospitalized on the road trip to the Oregon coast. Our son in law and the kids went on with the trip to the coast as planned. I’m fairly sure they’re all back together by now.
Our daughter came home with me and I took her to the Portland Airport yesterday. She is likely back at work today.
Barbara: I miss my dog like crazy. I would go puppy hunting if I could, but we have a planned trip to the east coast to support our daughter In law when she has a baby. We haven’t made specific travel plans yet. We’ve been talking about going by passenger train. It seems like a grand adventure. DH does not enjoy flying. We talked about an RV trip earlier, but that is too exhausting, especially in unknown weather situations between Oregon and Virginia. :flowerforyou:
Tracey: You have been working hard. I hope things go smoothly and you are able to get a bit of rest.
Kate UK: I had my gallbladder removed years ago. It was a huge blessing. I had one big gallstone, about the size of a robin’s egg. I had serious pain. I spent one night in the hospital following surgery and then went home. :flowerforyou:
Terri: I had a wonderful time with my daughter and the grandchildren. We spent a day at the beach and a night in a forest RV park. Our son in law and the kids headed for Wyoming in the RV to pick up Grandma Pat after her fall and hospital stay. My daughter and I headed to our home. I took her to the airport for her flight home yesterday.
(((Allie))): Be safe.
Lisa: I use the Quaker Oats recipe for meatloaf and we love it. I usually make three meatloaves at a time. We bake one for dinner and put two of them in the freezer for future dinners.
Debbie from New England: Sorry about the murderous dust bunnies. I hope you’re able to find a new Cleaning Fairy. Right this moment, a man cleaning fairy is cleaning our stairs carpet.
We are having a bright, bright sunshiney day.
Katla in sunshiney NW Oregon
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Ginger--You sure have a lot going on, remember to take some deep breaths and take care of you. I also enjoy seeing your accountability, lets me know I am not a lone.
what do I do for fun-Ride motorcycles with DH, sit and knit or reading. do I have time for fun-not as much as I would like.
Tracey--Prayer sent that the money is where it should be on Friday.
Another HOT day and I am glad I am off after 4pm for the next 3 days. Going to teach Sunday school for the first time this week. 5-12 year olds. Going to be an learning experience for all of us.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND NE 3 -
Learning to thread and put the bobbin in the new Singer I finally unboxed. It is so much more complicated than my Singer I used for almost 50 years. Have up loaded the manual and watched two different Youtube tutorials.
Carol in GA8 -
Well the dogs are fed and have had treats,im sure they will beg for more lol
Picked Dan up and he has my car overnight which is fine..4 -
Worked today so no formal exercise. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Peak 10 More Cardio DVD.
Work: basically, I clean the front end, the registers and so on. For some reason, this lady who hires etc. seems to think that twice a week it would take me 4 hours. I’ve actually gotten it down to 2 hours. Another manager told her “I saw her working, it can be done as long as you keep up with it”. I’ve shown her what I do and asked if there was anything else I should be doing. Honestly, at this point I think she’s getting nit-pickey so I won’t ask her any more. Afterwards, I usually ask the store manager where he’d like me to go. I was told not to ask another employee because they will have me do their job and then stand around and do nothing, which makes sense. The other day, I asked the store manager where he’d like me and he told me to ask the woman who does the hiring, so I did. Everything she asked if I did, I already did. I actually had to suggest to her that I help stock the shelves. That’s what I usually do after the cleaning. I’m thinking that I can even get it down to 1-1/2 hr. Once you get your routine and keep up with it, it really doesn’t take that long. It was a bit disheartening to be told that I’m doing it because no one else wanted to do it. I really enjoyed helping the customer and just being pleasant, I find I’m not enjoying this as much. She’s reduced my days AND hours. There’s this new guy who works on the front end helping customers, etc getting the carts, that sort of thing. He seems to be really nice. I do hope that he stays. The other guy they have, I’m not crazy about. He NEVER says “good morning” or anything to me until I say it to him. He doesn’t say “good morning” to a customer. It’s like he’s just there to do his job and that’s it. If I’m near where the customers come in, I always say “good morning” or “have a nice day”. Well, that’s just me.
Barbie – how wonderful of you being able to teach!
Kate UK – feel better fast. Hope the consultant can help you
Terri – lovely flower and I love the vase.
Debbie – love the dust bunnies killing the cleaning….lol
Went in the pool. The new puzzle for Vince came so I’ll probably get started on that. I’m thinking that after dinner I’ll take a walk around the block and then put my feet in the spa while playing mahjongg. That seems to be my latest thing
Michele NC2 -
Boob smash today.
First 3-D.
Karen in Virginia5 -
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Stats for the day-
Walk w/family- 1hr 42min 2sec, 37elev, 85ahr, 98mhr, 5.38mi= 482c
Strava app = 652c
Zwift home spin bike- 19.24min, 264elev, 133ahr, 157mhr, 132aw, 64arpm, 19-35lvl, 6.06mi= 286c
Zwift app = 147c
Walk to gym- 11.06min, .52mi= 49c
Treadmill jog- 15min, 5.5-5.8sp, 136ahr, 157mhr, 10.87min mi, 1.38mi= 158c
Arm Spin Machine- 20min, 99ahr, 122mhr, 25aw, lvl4, 2.84mi= 151c
Walk to store, nails, store n home- 37.41min, 1.49mi= 191c
Strava app = 181c
Walk to store n bk- 15.07min, .65mi= 85mi
Strava app = 80c
Total cal 14021 -
Moms birthday is on 5th of July, but sis called to tell me they were going to have a party (her not knowing) for her on 26th of this month. I had expressed interest in having a party for Kirby on his bday before she told me about this. She said she would be ok for having anything at her home (she’s got room). It will outside and they are hiring a local band (Mexican music of course). I asked about having Kirby’s celebration on the same day. It will b perfect because he is going for moms party without assuming anything. I am donating $$ to help pay for the party. We will spend the night and take the trailer and spend the night so Kirby can have a good time and so can I. I’m excited for this.12
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Boob smash today.
First 3-D.
Karen in Virginia
I must have always had 3D, because the process has been exactly the same since I started getting them 10+ years ago. It's always been and still is incredibly unpleasant.
Tina3 -
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Evening ladies
I have been fighting a headache all day and tylenol has.not touched it..I am just going to relax and try and get some sleep tonight and hopefully it goes away.5 -
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Pip – how wonderful to have your mom and Kirby’s birthdays together!!!
You know that if a man had to get a squeeze, the machine wouldn’t hurt
Got almost all of the border for Vince's puzzle done. Went out by the pool earlier and played mahjongg. The landscape lights coming on signal to me when it's time to come inside.
Michele NC4 -
Allie: Happy to hear that your dogs are having treats.
Michele: I am amazed at all that you do. WTG!!! :flowerforyou:
Karen: Boob smashes are nobody’s idea of fun. I’m glad it is over and done for today.
Pip: Happy Birthday for mm!!!
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
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June is shaping up to be a busy month
• Pilates - about once a week.
• Audax meetings - that's the long distance cycling club I'm a part of.
• Designing another 50 km route for Audax. This one needs to be in southern Tasmania which is challenging.
• Cycle a 50 km route. Plus shorter rides.
• Run at least one 5 km distance.
• Plant bulbs. I've got to get these things in or it will be spring with no flowers!
• All-day work meeting tomorrow.
• A week off next week - some rest time, I hope! And cycling. I booked this week off to ward off the darkness.
• Back to school! I'm taking a 5 week course called 'Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)' . It's all online and work-at-our-own-pace with no formal assignments, exams, etc.
• Bees! My husband and I are booked for a course to build a Warre Hive at the end of June.
• Plus, of course, my 2021 To Do List: getting organise, simplifying, etc. I've got 4 projects on the go right now and I "switch-task" between them.
That's all in addition to work and caring for my husband.
EDIT: Also ... the stair climbing challenge at work is to reach the height of Mount Ossa, the tallest mountain in Tasmania (1617 metres = 450 floors * 20 stairs/floor).
It is about noon on June 1 and I've done 20 floors so far. I've got a way to go.
Done:- Attended first Pilates class of June.
- Ran Audax Tasmania AGM.
- Planted bulbs. Ran out. That's OK. Stores don't have bulbs anymore.
- Attended the all day meeting at work on Wednesday.
- Started week off!
- Started climbing stairs toward the elevation of Mount Ossa. I've done 90 of the 450 flights.
- Finished with the Audax meetings.
- Started short course.
- Still enjoying time off.
It's been "all go" here this week.- Returned home from holiday.
- Heaps of laundry & unpacking.
- 3 days of work.
- 98 flights of stairs in those 3 days ... I'm getting toward halfway.
- Pilates, again.
- Rental agency organised for someone to come and replace our back door ... it was kind of rotting away. Now we've got a new solid one with no window.
- Filled in forms for the Carer organisation - she emailed them rather than going through it all over the phone
Today, I took my husband for his first Pfizer vaccine.
Then I attended a work meeting via Teams.
Groceries will arrive later this afternoon.
And now I've got a list of things I want to do with my day off including doing Module 2 of my course.
Machka in Oz3 -
was a HOT day here- 99 at 5:30PM, it was 111 up at mom's today. Hoping it cools off a lot before this weekend- we need to get the garden planted.
Went and picked plums off MIL's tree- son was supposed to but he was in bed sleeping all day-think he had a migraine again. Picking them is not a big deal but having to listen to her is what is hard to deal with. That is another reason my son doesn't like going over there to help her.
Constantly standing under the tree while I am on the ladder picking the fruit, fruit falling. surprised she didn't get hit in the head(she gets in the way when he is doing the hedges, decides that is the moment to pull the weeds under the hedge that he is cutting, reaching down and almost getting cut- makes him anxious.
Talking about cutting the tree down because she doesn't like sharing the fruit and that the birds are eating a few- She is CRAZY.
It is cooling down now 79 at 10PM
Need to go pick my raspberries first thing in the morning before it warms up too much- taking them to share with mom(along with some apricots), mom's favorite-
Have a great weekend ladies.
Debbie
Napa Valley,CA3 -
Learning to thread and put the bobbin in the new Singer I finally unboxed. It is so much more complicated than my Singer I used for almost 50 years. Have up loaded the manual and watched two different Youtube tutorials.
Carol in GA
I had to watch a few videos too to learn how to use my new machine. Especially the needle threader. My original one I got as my graduation present from my parents- a Singer- 41yrs ago this week
Enjoy your new machine.
Debbie1 -
summery weather here.1
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Yesterday my brother and his wife were here and we had a wonderful time catching up. The weather wasn't the greatest, but we got a 5k walk in along the seafront. Chat, chat, chat all day.
In the evening we walked to the Persian restaurant. It was as good as ever.
I love it when they have a birthday in there, with the music, the clapping and the fountain candle. We were lucky last night.
Ate too much, drank too much, well over calories, but we had a great time. First night out in 17 months.
Making bagels, scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast in an hour.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx4
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