WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2021
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Michele in NC as our photos with grandkids should be huh?!!😁💖. We could've taken more photos, but our purpose for being there was to capture the memories in our hearts, not really on our camera.🙃👵
Reading my book "Life Interrupted" she is on a discovery journey, visiting all the people who inspired her to get better with leukemia, and a bone marrow transplant. This is what one guy told her:
"When we travel, we actually take three trips. There’s the first trip of preparation and anticipation, packing and daydreaming. There’s the trip you’re actually on. And then, there’s the trip you remember. “The key is to try to keep all three as separate as possible,” he says. “The key is to be present wherever you are right now.”
I suppose you could say life is a trip in essence. Remembering your life past tense, but being present with the life you're leading now.💖
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Katla - Happy Birthday!🧁
Kim - I feel so blessed to be a part of my daughters and their friends lives. I have been invited to sleepovers, bachelorette parties, just missing eat other times, I don’t take a minute for granted. You will miss Dylan, I hope he can visit occasionally.
Rebecca - what a beautiful photo of you and Athena. I’m so happy for you that you were able to go. I really wish it would cost me my first born to send you some stickers, paper, washi tape. You enjoy it so much and it’s just sitting wasting away here.
Machka - I am feeling the same way. Tired and Lazy. I have so much that I could be doing, but I don’t have the energy or motivation to do it. Yet, I sit here all evening 5 nights a week and complain that I’m bored. Truthfully I think I’m lonely.
Carol - Do you see your grandchildren often? I’m sorry you won’t have them for the sleepover. I bet their Mom is really sorry.
Vicki - sometimes deciding it’s not the right fit for either makes things so much less stressful. I’m curious what the job entails that is so difficult to find the right person, besides the hours.
Happy for your niece and the baby being theirs, that must have been incredibly stressful.
Barbie - I so agree with you about music. It soothes my soul. I listen to really old country right up to today’s country. Rock from the 70’s and 80’s, some gospel and a lot that my Dad listened to. It makes me feel closer to him.
I won a Google Nest from work, a few months ago and my grandchildren started asking it to play songs for them. Now I do too. My grandson is 9, he asked it to play Johnny Cash - One piece at a Time and sang every word with Johnny. I was shocked!
Worked late again tonight. I am really trying not to because I am still extremely angry about the lieu time. Unfortunately, if my work doesn’t get done it affects hundreds of others. Staff for their payroll,small businesses we support by using their services, resident families for their financial statements along with several other tasks. I never take a lunch break or other breaks and she just thinks we should be happy and go along. I did talk to my supervisor about how I feel about it tonight. She has offered to fight for me. I told her not right now, as she works longer than me and was told the same thing I was. I don’t want to get something she can’t get too. The worst of it is that there are two staff that get all the lieu time in the world given to them and they don’t ever work a full week.
My cousin hasn’t contacted me again, I see in FB that she has started using her maiden name. I fear that she has left her husband. They have been a couple since she was 14, and married 35 years next week. I hope she gets the help she obviously needs. I miss her and am angry with her at the same time. I guess it’s a grieving process. We have been friends since our teen years, we never lived near one another but still managed to keep a good connection.
Well I guess that’s enough bellyaching tonight. I’m going to have a bath and hope that hubby gets home early again. The smoke from BC and the States is causing air quality issues so they sent him home early last night.
Tracey in Edmonton3 -
A bit If a read but a friend posted this today and it spoke to me.
I think it was Brene Brown who told a story about a village where all the women washed clothes together down by the river. When they all got washing machines, there was a sudden outbreak of depression and no one could figure out why.
It wasn't the washing machines in and of themselves. It was the absence of time spent doing things together. It was the absence of community.
Friends, we’ve gotten so independent.
We’re “fine” we tell ourselves even when in reality we’re depressed, we’re overwhelmed, we’re lonely, and we’re hurting. “We’re fine, we’re just too busy right now” we say when days, weeks, months, and years go by without connecting with friends. I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine. It’s so easy to say even when it’s not true.
We’ve become so isolated and it’s hard to know how to get back. It’s so hard to know how to even begin to build the kind of relationships our hearts need. And I think In our current culture, it’s just not as organic as it once was. It's more work now.
Because you know, we have our own washing machines. We don't depend on each other to do laundry, or cook dinner, or raise babies anymore. We don't really depend on each other for much of anything if we're being honest.
In Brene Brown’s book Braving the Wilderness, she says that being lonely effects the length of our life expectancy similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. I don’t say that to freak anyone out, but to let you know that the longing for connection is LEGIT. I think we’ve treated friendship like a luxury for far too long; friendship isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.
We don't want it. We kind of need it.
Be independent. Be proud of it. But be an independent woman who realizes the value and the importance of opening the door to other good women.
You can do it alone, but you don't have to. Islands are only fun for so long.
There is true magic when women come together and hold hands and share ideas and share stories and struggles and endless bowls of salsa. You use your gifts, and I'll use mine, and then we'll invite that girl over there who brings a completely different set of skills to the table we are building, and we'll watch together as something miraculous unfolds.
~Sacred dreams~
#BetterTogether #MyVillageIsHereForYouToo #DontDoLifeAlone #Tribe5 -
Whidislander wrote: »Reading "Life Interrupted".
A quote that made me ponder.
,"Recovery isn’t a gentle self-care spree that restores you to a pre-illness state. Though the word may suggest otherwise, recovery is not about salvaging the old at all. It’s about accepting that you must forsake a familiar self forever, in favor of one that is being newly born. It is an act of brute, terrifying discovery."
💖 Rebecca
Oh yes!
Thank you, Rebecca
Karen in Virginia
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Katla - Happy Birthday and what a wonderful surprise.
Debbie even more jealous of your rows of planted anything.
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Kiz
North Florida
Kiz- here is a picture from two years ago of mom and dad's garden.
the picture only shows about 1/3 of the front garden and we usually plant the back garden too(same size)
This year, with dad gone, it is smaller(not planting anything in the back and sadly his two long rows of thornless blackberries that should be thriving are barely surviving because mom keeps forgetting to water them) and the front garden is more than two months late getting planted
this is dad with the popcorn- don't think the ones I planted are going to get that big this year-
Debbie5 -
O. M. G. The Neulasta* is finally kicking in. I have no words. Nothing I've ever felt before. Pain, and not exactly pain. But kind of like I am repeatedly being slammed into by a truck, or a very large cow, maybe?
But thank God it is working. My neutrophils this afternoon were crazy low. The PA's advice? "Don't hang around people who are obviously sick!"
*Neulasta: Bone marrow stimulant
It can help the body make white blood cells after receiving cancer medications.
Hanging in there. Had a total breakdown at the beauty salon this evening as she cut my hair. I had both stylists and my son crying. All four of us had a good cry. My son held my hand the whole time she was shaving/cutting. But it is done now. My hair is soooo short. I will post a before and after later. Can't quite manage right now.
Didn't get many steps in today. Crazy busy at work, then doc, then hair, then art commission meeting, then prepping for class tomorrow.
Flea
Willamette Valley, OR11 -
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OregonMother wrote: »O. M. G. The Neulasta* is finally kicking in. I have no words. Nothing I've ever felt before. Pain, and not exactly pain. But kind of like I am repeatedly being slammed into by a truck, or a very large cow, maybe?
But thank God it is working. My neutrophils this afternoon were crazy low. The PA's advice? "Don't hang around people who are obviously sick!"*Neulasta: Bone marrow stimulant
It can help the body make white blood cells after receiving cancer medications.
Hanging in there. Had a total breakdown at the beauty salon this evening as she cut my hair. I had both stylists and my son crying. All four of us had a good cry. My son held my hand the whole time she was shaving/cutting. But it is done now. My hair is soooo short. I will post a before and after later. Can't quite manage right now.
Didn't get many steps in today. Crazy busy at work, then doc, then hair, then art commission meeting, then prepping for class tomorrow.
Flea
Willamette Valley, OR
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"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: BP, dogs to powerline, gas, line dancingStuck line dancing out for the whole two hours despite cranky knees. Pretty pooped so only skimmin’
Bonus: 40+ mins grooming Tumble, another tarp load of salal chopped.
Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, T’ai Chi, Farmers’ market, dog group, make whey lemon pie filling, call R, follow up incorporate Doreen’s and Chief’s response and send out minutes, reconcile Medicare part B statements, figure out how to see what’s using all our mobile data, USE those torture bands/do that BB&B video, call S, fire district: drop off cookies, transcribe district volunteer forms, research NFPA, grant NIMS requirements, ongoing: input 2019 call sheets into NFIRS, work with chief on equipment letter, substance abuse policy, NFIRS mutual aid and other missing details, Monday confer with Susan and Rhonda about interest for serving on next board, likewise Lee skills/tasks, ask for boots donator contact info, appreciation letter or certificate to boots donator, index mutual aid files; watch STAS Day 20, declutter sideboard, learn new dances (Nothing but You, Do Your Thing, A Little Less Broken, Blame it on my beating heart, Homesick; practice dances: One Margarita, I’m so used to being broke, All Night, Pure Movies to Wine, Beer, Whiskey, I ain’t never gonna love nobody but Cornell Crawford (Alley cat),); finish mulching 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 the last of the naked lady bulbs, and soon as it warms up above 50 and dries out below 60% humidity I’ll tape and spray paint those rusted areas of Aunt Elsie’s stove, ask Terry about GB’s FD firetruck tax levy – contacts, media, advocate???, Reward: inventory seeds, plan this fall’s garden, wishlist replenishments (Milena F1 orange peppers and beit alpha cukes next year).
Jump back July:
21-Identify what helped you get through a tough time in your life: that would be Joe.
Tracey your friend’s posting spoke to me too. I’ll google Brene Brown for the washing machine story.
Flea (((hugs)))
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
July: leaner/stronger/kinder than June.2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW
daily: sit with Joe: 20, weigh/wii: 19/0/0; steps>6701=6763, vits=18, log=20, CI<CO=18, CI<250<CO=18, Tumble=14, Shadow=16, mfp=20, outside=23, up hill=19, clean 10=7.
wkly: Sun: Mon: Tue:LD=. Wed:TC=2 PW=1. Thurs: Fri:TC=3. Sat:PW=3. rX x4=3.
wt=1/31:141.3 2/28:142.4 3/31:145.3 4/30:141.5 5/31:142.4 6/30:141.5 7/4: 140.7 7/11: 142.9 grr! 7/18: 141.8 7/25: 7/31:
mnthly: board mtg=1, grant=, 21 plan=, waist=42.0
bonus: AF=13 play= sew=
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Katla, Happy Birthday! Sorry that I kind of missed the actual day (I know it's the 20th, but it's kinda late....)
Flea, no words, just {{{HUGS}}}
Rebecca, so glad you were able to spend some quality time with Athena! Oh, and her parents, lol
Debbie, that garden is overwhelming!
Machka, OMG "the track" lol! Kinda how I feel sometimes too
Tracey, like you I'm not doing things that I should be. I have this week off work and had hoped to be getting stuff finished off and cleared out. Nope, did see a couple of movies today that I enjoyed. The Way We Were was the first, then saw a movie called Clara's Heart. Whoopi Goldberg and a VERY young Neil Patrick Harris. Did get groceries tho...
Allie, congrats on getting the bills paid off! I know how exciting that can be! Sounds like your son is at least trying to get his stuff together, good for you for guiding him onto his own path! I know it's hard to have those tough love talks with the kids, but like you said, he's 37, needs to stand on his own two feet. And kudos to you for mentioning the mental health issues in the family and reminding him that there is help out there.
Lisa, the star quilt is outstanding!
I know there were more posts that I wanted to comment on, but didn't take notes and it's been so long that I can't remember a darn thing!
Official wi day today, down .6 of a pound, I will take it. My eating has been not horrible, but not great either. The exercise part I'm doing okay with tho. Had my second shot on Sunday, celebrated on Monday by biking 20 km. I didn't have any side effects from the vaccine except a very sore arm. I bought a pair of padded biking shorts, definitely made the ride more comfortable! My boss, who has done some serious bike riding, was talking about a company that the owners wife is doing something with, anyway, she brought up the website and was showing me the bike shorts. They look lovely, but they want $200 for one pair of shorts! I didn't pay that much for my bike! lol Maybe someday, but not this day... I found a pair for about $30 on Amazon, much more my price range, and they worked just fine yesterday. I plan on a longer ride tomorrow, we'll see how it goes.
That's it for me for tonite, hugs for those needing them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island
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Tracey - This is for you.
To be serious, boredom usually means something is being repressed and is stirring under the surface. Keeping it under is hard work and exhausts us. Finding out what that is could be the start of a whole new phase of life for you. Good luck my friend! I believe in you. XOXO
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Can't believe it! I've been in agony with my knee the last few weeks and now I'm on my way to see the doc, the pain has nearly gone! Typical isn't it. I have a bit of a walk before I get there so I'm hoping it's a painful walk. (Now there's a thing I didn't expect to say)
I've bitten the bullet and rejoined the 'ladies who lunch' group. I was in two minds because my friend Jean has left, but I thought I need to get out of my comfort zone. The only downside is I'll have to rely on someone giving me a lift to places I'm not able to walk to. It will be okay I can walk to most of the coffee mornings, but sometimes they venture further. Next month I'm going with them on a boat trip but only able to go because someone is kindly giving me a lift.
Better take a slow walk to the doctors.
Take care and love to all
Viv UK 3 -
Good morning!
Flea (((HUGS)))
Machka Those are my tracks!
Tracey Your life so mimics mine! It helps me realize I'm not alone. Hugs!
I am in a pissy mood
Grinding teeth again. Weepy. Moved plants yesterday for concrete project before work yesterday. The contractor dug up plants to make it easier to access area! Then totally ran over another that has been growing for 12 years. They are just plants, I get it, but it was the straw that broke me last night. I should have just gone to bed, but played spider on my phone. No work, no house clean, no exercise. I did pack for meals today and cleaned kitchen after dinner.
Goals for today:
Deep breaths!
Watch tone when responding to people.
Keep eye on eating.
Love the village story! Reminds me of my time in the Philippines. We depended on each other lots!
Thank you ladies for posting here!
❤
Kylia trying to stay on the tracks in Ohio3 -
Morning ladies
Yes Barbie- I do love.music and have 2 Alexa
One in living room one in bedroom, i listen to everything from Carol King,to Frank Sinatra and everything in between2 -
Flea -
So much hope, love and peace winging their way to you... Loved the wig, very kicky.
Evie -
Thanks for the mention of the quilt, and well done on adding biking to your life.
Rebecca -
Loved the picture of you with Athena! I've tried to help my daughter understand, too, that recording your life and living it are two different things. I gave my camera away to my niece because I'd rather be in the moment than trying to take a picture of it.
Blood tests for my adrenals this morning the moment the lab opens at 7 a.m., but at least they're not fasting labs, just blood-sucking. As far as everything else goes, I'm starting to make incremental progress... I am not a patient person, so it's a little hard sometimes to let my body progress at its own pace. I did get on the elliptical yesterday for five whole minutes... and was so stiff this morning I was ready to cry.
I've got a long way to go to get back to where I was. But what other choice is there?
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa4 -
My goals for July are to step up my exercise and try to tone up to get rid of loose skin. I have been overweight most of my life but this time I am in it for the long haul taking it slow and steady. I have lost about 50 pounds but when i look in the mirror i still see the person i was before the weightloss plus i see the loose skin. Also since losing the weight my cholestoral has gone way up and now i am being told i am prediabetic. A little sad for me. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid or reduce loose skin without surgery.6
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Lisa One bite at a time! ((Hugs))
Btw- if anyone here does look at my diary, when I quick add calories it is only to close out day. It doesn't happen often, but some days I am just not that hungry or my choices are just that low in calories. I usually make up that deficit within a couple of days. 😉 last night I kind of wanted something before bed, but nothing sounded good. Had hot tea instead
Work calling my name....ugh.Thankful I have a job!
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Kylia2 -
Good morning all! Happy Wednesday!
Lisa- Your star quilt is so pretty! I think you did a wonderful job (and we are always too hard on ourselves by seeing our mistakes)!
Kiz- I am a childcare provider and have 10 kids in my care currently. My hubby is my assistant (who comes very close to being fired). This week is Farm Week; where we learn about farming and food. We were going to take a field trip to the local farmer's market in the town I live in. BUT four of my kiddos have entered this defiant/independent stage and I can't quite trust that they will listen and behave while we are out. So...we are postponing that trip for a couple of weeks and hopefully they will come around.
Flea- Sending big hugs to you! ((( )))
Rebecca and Tracey- Thank you for sharing the stories about life/community. I have found (just recently) that I am much more centered, if I allow myself time to do something fun (by myself or with other people). Even if it is just chatting over coffee at a shop in my own town. It is like a spiritual boost for my heart.
Machka- lol The tracks! This is how I feel a LOT lately (I am sure you do, too)! There is a portion of the bike path by my house that looks like that track. The incline is big enough (it is where it intersects with a driveway on a hill) that pedestrians and bikers need to make a swoop (either uphill or down hill) to make it past that point. My kiddos LOVE that spot and call it The Tippy Driveway. lol "Here comes The Tippy Driveway! Aaaaaaaaaah!" and they scream the entire time we walk across. They make me smile; but it is my least favorite part of our walk when we go that way, as it takes more strength to keep the stroller on the path.
Well, I am down six kiddos. Five to some sort of summer cold. Fever, cough, runny nose, and fatigue. All kids tested negative for covid and also for strep. Just a cold. The sixth kiddo was involved in a car accident and is home with a concussion (poor thing). Fever, headache, and vomiting. My guess is she will be home the entire week, because I am sure the noise and activity level here would not make her feel better. A very strange week so far.
It has been a fun week as far as our nature discoveries. Last week Monday, we found/collected 21 Monarch eggs. They all hatched and 17 of them have made it to the fat caterpillar stage! Yesterday, eight of them began the climb up the inside of the container they are in and are beginning to hang! We also found a house finch nest in one of my hanging plants! The mama laid five eggs! I had seen the adults flying in and out of the planter for a few days, so I had a feeling they had a nest there. I took the planter down Monday, after the kids were done playing in the kiddie pool, so I could set the planter in the pool to let it soak up some water. I let the kids peek in at the nest then. They are very excited. Plant was rehung about an hour later and mama hopped back in as soon as I walked away. Last night, I borrowed (from my sister in law) one of those bulb watering things that you stick in your potted plants; and I will use that for the time being to water that one. That way I don't disturb mama finch any more.
Well kids will be arriving. I better scoot! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)6 -
Morning, afternoon, evening ...
Machka in Oz3 -
Flea - thoughts and hugs and prayers!1
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Flea - All love. I had to have those injections too. I gave them to myself in the stomach. Oooohhh, the aches!
But then, how lucky we are to have the option!!!
My thought for the day.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Heather -
I set up a ‘professional’ page on Facebook aligned with my normal Facebook page about 10 years ago for my art work. I don’t promote it as I am not looking for sales, but I do know that lots of people use them for sales/promotion purposes.2 -
Flea - 😍 the hair. Very stylish and natural looking.0
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Heather -
If you post your link some of us could join and repost it, or invite our ‘Friends’ to have a look at your page.3 -
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Lisa - It seems like the older we get the longer it takes us to get back to where we started from. ((Hugs)))
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Awwww! Flea! So sorry you have to go through this. You're a trooper. And that is no small feat under the circumstances. (((Hugs)))
Karen in Virginia
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"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: BP,
Bonus: Wal~Mart, Natural Grocers, Toyota and GMC dealers
Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, gas, line dancing, make whey lemon pie filling, call R, follow up minutes question with Doreen, reconcile Medicare part B statements, figure out how to see what’s using all our mobile data, USE those torture bands/do that BB&B video, call S, fire district: drop off cookies, transcribe district volunteer forms, research NFPA, grant NIMS requirements, ongoing: input 2019 call sheets into NFIRS, work with chief on equipment letter, substance abuse policy, NFIRS mutual aid and other missing details, Monday confer with Susan and Rhonda about interest for serving on next board, likewise Lee skills/tasks, ask for boots donator contact info, appreciation letter or certificate to boots donator, index mutual aid files; watch STAS Day 20, declutter sideboard, learn new dances (Nothing but You, Do Your Thing, A Little Less Broken, Blame it on my beating heart, Homesick; practice dances: One Margarita, I’m so used to being broke, All Night, Pure Movies to Wine, Beer, Whiskey, I ain’t never gonna love nobody but Cornell Crawford (Alley cat),); finish mulching 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 the last of the naked lady bulbs, and soon as it warms up above 50 and dries out below 60% humidity I’ll tape and spray paint those rusted areas of Aunt Elsie’s stove, ask Terry about GB’s FD firetruck tax levy – contacts, media, advocate???, Reward: inventory seeds, plan this fall’s garden, wishlist replenishments (Milena F1 orange peppers and beit alpha cukes next year).
Jump back July:
20-When things go wrong, pause and be kind to yourself. And “do unto others” too!
The very happiest of bithdays to you Katla!!! Hooray for Yoga! Doesn’t it feel good to be getting back to our pre-pandemic activities? Sorry your DH was grumpy, Joe was too on Thursday, but bounced back yesterday with smiles and dimples when T arrived.
Carol, what Katla said about Instacart, and as ?Debbie? suggested Is it possible to specify “no substitutions” when ordering? “. . . other grandma who lives very near will be on a mission trip to Tanzania . . .” Wow. At 71 it is contemplating those inevitable changes that are my only major worries/fears. Have to shake myself back into the now, and tell my soul to trust.
Congratulations Heather for persisting with your memoir. Hard choices between marketing and privacy protection. Brava for the FB tippytoe!
Thanks again Kiz. How often do you test? Have to talk myself into $pending $ to make myself bleed…
Rita so glad to see you sharing your beautiful photos again. Brava on the self help. Have you read the book “Boundaries” by Drs Cloud and Townsend? Some surprising (to me) Biblical support for setting healthy boundaries, and letting consequences follow without anger or judgement.
Flea
your pic, your smile, your spirit! Prayers unceasing.
Debbie, wow for the planting and waterline work, the “hello Dad” story. True that.
Sue glad your surgery went well. “My dog is confused because we are not following the usual routine.” Shadow can tell from which pair of shoes I put on whether or not she’s going to go with me. If I put on a pair of shoes she hasn’t seen before, she barks at me as if I were a stranger, until she hears my voice. :laugh:
Pip your surprise strawberry daiquiri reminds me of the battery operated margarita maker we used to take camping… I’ll have to dig it out and see if the batteries can still recharge…
Michele so glad you’re able to connect with the gals via online mahjongg and don’t have to drive at night.
Kim how bittersweet, happy for Dylan and his girlfriend, glad you had that time with him, a little sad at the changing of the “seasons.”
Rebecca the Athena Rose pics, best is the one with Grammie
Julie thoughtful social media advice.
Machka and Julie I’m 4’11” and have just been bouncing up and down the same 5 lbs forever. Alas at 140-145 its 25 lbs above my target range :sick: but thankful its 20 lbs below my lifetime high. ;}
Lovely day with T climbing into possible vehicles. Nothing was quite right, the 4runner surprisingly least satisfactory of all. Older model GMC Yukon and Chevy Tahoe are possibilities. still need to try the 2013 GMC Terrain. Good thing there is no immediate need for a different vehicle, just a notion…
Lighter, lovelies!Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
July: leaner/stronger/kinder than June.2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW
daily: sit with Joe: 19, weigh/wii: 19/0/0; steps>6701=7354, vits=16.5, log=19, CI<CO=17, CI<250<CO=17, Tumble=12, Shadow=15, mfp=18, outside=22, up hill=18, clean 10=7.
wkly: Sun: Mon: Tue:LD=. Wed:TC=2 PW=1. Thurs: Fri:TC=3. Sat:PW=3. rX x4=3.
wt=1/31:141.3 2/28:142.4 3/31:145.3 4/30:141.5 5/31:142.4 6/30:141.5 7/4: 140.7 7/11: 142.9 grr! 7/18: 141.8 7/25: 7/31:
mnthly: board mtg=1, grant=, 21 plan=, waist=42.0
bonus: AF=11 play= sew=
it's all relative!
I spoke with a long time colleague today at end of year lunch. he asked how I was physically and mentally. I said physically I gained weight and mentally ok. he didn't say "no you look the same or great!" he said, "yeah a lot of people did." ha ha ha!2 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Kim Oh, how I wish I could pay someone to do it all for me! I've started a very basic website, I've posted on Facebook to my very, very few 'Friends', and I've just, today, started an ordinary Instagram account. Nothing on it yet! I have no idea how to work it! But,at least I have done something. I have an Amazon Author Page. Every time I contemplate doing something more professional, I balk at it. I must, as Julie said, have another look at my disused LinkedIn account.
I know my DDIL employed professional help with all her social profiles. And she had professional photos taken. At the moment I am taking baby, tiny steps, which are, even so, a stretch for me. But I am deliriously happy to be even trying after years of lying fallow.
As you so well said - a new chapter. I don't believe age has anything to do with it. I am on the path to living my best life and I want to help others to do so too. My word for this year is FRUITFUL and my motto is always, DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD. If not now, when?
Much love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx
linkedin is very much professional not very personal, so might possibly be more comfortable to start.
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