WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2021

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  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,978 Member
    bwcetc wrote: »
    exermom wrote: »
    M – during the pandemic there was a hazardous waste disposal collection near here. Previously, we’d gone to it and waited maybe ½ an hour. This year we waited over 3 hours! It was amazing how many people brought TV’s. We said to the guy who was directing traffic “don’t they know that they can take those TV’s to the landfill any time at all?” Great stair climbing. When you mentioned Mt. Kosciuszko, the first thing I thought of was the mustard...lol

    Michele NC who can’t fall asleep

    Not in NY you can't take a TV to the landfill. No electronics of any kind. We have to take to a designated location AND pay a fee if it's not a sponsored collection day.

    Same here. TVs, Microwaves, Printers, etc. All must go to a special place. Our waste transfer station usually has two days per year where they take this stuff. They will take so many paint cans, florescent bulbs, and a few other things for free, but we pay a small fee for the other stuff. They won’t even take any of this stuff on other days. We just have to hold it.
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    In our county the waste facility accepts glass & metal for recycling. Electronic items are also recycled. Plastic bags can be recycled at some stores. We have purchased sturdy & durable plastic bags that are reusable and use them regularly.
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Our deck is made from planks that are a mix of reused plastic and sawdust.
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Ladies - what did you do with your supplies when you made it through the final phase of perimenopause and reached the bliss of menopause?

    A bonfire seems appealing. :smiley:

    Kept a few for guests and donated the rest to a women's shelter.

    -K
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  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,318 Member
    bwcetc wrote: »
    exermom wrote: »
    M – during the pandemic there was a hazardous waste disposal collection near here. Previously, we’d gone to it and waited maybe ½ an hour. This year we waited over 3 hours! It was amazing how many people brought TV’s. We said to the guy who was directing traffic “don’t they know that they can take those TV’s to the landfill any time at all?” Great stair climbing. When you mentioned Mt. Kosciuszko, the first thing I thought of was the mustard...lol

    Michele NC who can’t fall asleep

    Not in NY you can't take a TV to the landfill. No electronics of any kind. We have to take to a designated location AND pay a fee if it's not a sponsored collection day.

    Not in TX either.

    Okie in the TX Hill Country
  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,978 Member
    JournalingMy journaling involves writing down my current weight, comments on how successful I am feeling or confessions as to how I’ve broken my food boundaries and/or not achieved my other personal goals, reflections on my devotion for the day, gratitude lists, prayer requests for family members. When I finish one, I just chunk it in the trash. I don’t want my children or grandchildren reading that stuff. If I die mid-journal, my daughter is supposed to chunk it for me. If she chooses to read it, well, I’ll be dead and I don’t put my concerns for her in writing anyway, so I’m good.

    I am feeling especially blessed and loved by my MFP community today. I had a pretty good streak going, which I lost 4 months ago. Since then, I’ve let it lapse several times. Two different “friends” commented on my current 5 day streak and encouraged me to ask MFP to reset it for me, because my long streak had been an inspiration to them. When I said I didn’t know how, one of them sent me the link. I scrolled back through my feed to the last time I had a huge number, which was 4 months ago, and added 120 days to it. They fixed it for me. I am committed to not letting that happen again.

    I’m doing pretty good about working on my protein, not as good at cutting the carbs or drinking the water. I do drink a lot of water, just not 96 ounces. I’m closer to 70. I also need to work on sleep consistently.

  • Anniesquats100
    Anniesquats100 Posts: 3,299 Member
    I have an 810 day streak but it doesn't mean much. I generally eat the same breakfast so I log that. But as the day goes by, my food choices get worse. I probably log half the cookies I eat at the end of the day. I know better, at least I should measure the damage. But some days I just don't.

    Annie in Delaware
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,731 Member
    edited September 2021
    Not a good calorie day today, because I missed out on my bonus burn. Just squeaking in on maintenance.

    I am definitely conflicted as to how to approach the next episode/volume of my memoirs after this one. I somehow feel the 50s and 60s are ancient history now. Writing about it has taken a lot of the trauma out of it and most people are dead, or too old to care. There is one person I can think of who might be hurt by my current memoir, which ends the day before my 18th birthday.
    The next one is a much more difficult proposition. I will postpone it, or publish some poetry, or an old novel first. I may have to go about it more obliquely. It is a conundrum.

    Never marry a writer, that's my advice.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,050 Member
    <3
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,641 Member
    A little bit about my and my husband's life ...

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    M in Oz
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,079 Member

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  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,536 Member
    The DVD I was going to do today had something on it and so it wouldn’t play in my DVD player. This is the first time that has ever happened to me. Usually, exercise DVD’s don’t get used very much. Anyway, changed to do part of the Turbo Jam DVD then took my walk. The plan for tomorrow is to do another portion of the Turbo Jam DVD.

    Vince ordered the tickets for the TSO concert in December. They’ve gone up (surprise, surprise)

    Stopped at the Asian food store to get the lychee fruit for the halloween party. Then went to the soup kitchen. We do need to go to the pharmacy to get Loki’s med

    Anne DE – hope your ankle feels better fast. Beautiful day here, too

    barbie – you can’t use a substitute for the fat? I many times only use ½ the sugar called for in the recipe. You can use avocado, applesauce, silken tofu to replace the fat.

    We recycle a lot. Aluminum, wax coated containers, tin, newspaper, all plastics, aerosol cans (as long as there aren’t a lot of them), junk mail including envelopes with windows, magazines, cardboard, glass,

    Picked up Loki’s medicine, stopped at PetSmart, then took my evening walk before dinner since it’s getting dark so earl (boo)

    Michele NC
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,295 Member
    Stat for the day-

    Walk w/family- 2hrs 7min 40sec, 27elev, 2.63ap, 80ahr, 133mhr, 5.78mi= 526c
    Strava app = 700c

    Tomorrow I ride
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,295 Member
    Yogi ready for his volunteering duties
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Rebecca i hope you get over the sleepness night and belly ache quickly.

    Machka that is rough about the under the surface suffering with brain injury.

    Michèle you are great in your continuity in workouts.
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    BETH do you have any idea how long you will be in a wheel chair? 18 days is a lot ..in my mind. I was only in a wheelchair one time...coming and going to plane several years ago. I could walk but was too weak to stand more than 10 minutes and handLE bags. I found it interesting socially to see how strangers reacted either compassionately or avoidingly. Even that very short stint made me feel vulnerable...(though i did get expedited through security and thus didnt miss the connection).

    For retrospective compassion regarding your son i hope you can be compassionate with yourself. I thibk Part of being human is realizing we might have done something differently had we known. Its painful but so human and shared by so many of us if not all.

    JOURNALS i think mine were filled with youthful angst questioning some insight, some poetry, some nga nga daily stuff, surely thiugjtsabout a crush or two or three.and many many sketches both from observation and from.imagination. I did not write regulatly but when inspired. Sometimes day after day. Sometimes not for weeks or moren From my teens to sometime in 30s id say.even à bit in 40s but not so much. I had accidentally left it in livingroom once and mom who was not the queen of good boundaries considered that an unconscious invittion to read it she said. She then asked me about a term she didnt understand (which was deeply personal). Another time at around 45 my SO would stay over on weekends and id go to a dance class on Friday evenings on my own. One time i thought he could read it so i brought it with me. He immediately asked why i.was bringing it. I said i want to take notes after class...which can hapoen but wasn't the case.
    I then assumed he had been reading when I was t dance class. I didn't write that much and I was not secret but I prefer to choose what I share. He spoke excellent English but was of another origin in which he took notes ..he kept a sort of diary or notebook of thoughts....
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Bump is diminishing phew. Trying to put in spoiler but it doesnt work on cell phone at present. My apologies !!@ The dermatologist 1st asked if I'd recently had vaccine (no, 3 months ago). Then asked if I ha put something in body, something...I don't think so. Onlynew things Organic coffee and dried mulberries. Later i realized that...running very low on long lasting high power sunscreen i went to the least expensive busy central pharmacy to stock up. At the same time i have been more aware of skin and boiught à couple of recommended non allergenic skin productsn and tried one yesterday. I am thinking i could have had an allergic reaction to a skin product. So relieved its presumably that!

    Positive point of thus scare :
    I was theb extra respectful in applying sunscreen generously this morning. The dr gave a page w instructions: 2 squirts for face. 2 or 3 squirts for neck and part above shirt, 1 squirt for hands. 2 or 3 squirts for forearms if revealed... à heavy coating ...and expensive. The containers are only 80 ml. So i think i would go through at least 2 per month in the fall, probably more (3 or 4?) If applied as recommended.
    But after that false alarm im thinking finding means for this is better than going through the health and aesthetic and piece of mind risk of having another bit of flesh taken out if I can avoid it!
    I am also looking more seriously at healthy eating, which influences overall risk I have a decent base: little meat, mostly organic, lots of soy yogurt and milk, little sugar and almost no alcohol of late. But i could eat more brocoli and kale. I have never made a habit of eating lezfy greens as regularky as i could. I do like chard...and im not against the rest... i often get cheap salmon sushi and maki and vietnamese spring roll as takeaway just near home. Im sure the salmon cant be could quanity....and so on...

    Im gonna aim to eat more from the broccolu family and leafy greens and cut back on take away sushi and maki....
    Maybe go more and more for veggie options when i eat out..

    Oh and stress... need to reduce stress....

    30 min in Park
    Stick to and finsh writing obligations
    Exercise
    CICO attention and tracking.
    Stretching ...i used to do a little yoga 3x a week. At present i do zéro yoga zéro x week

    And weight training...i dont do that at all. I only have 2 tiny dumbbells...i need to look into how to do home weight training and then do some...


    I did cancel dancing yesterday. I didnt feel like hearing loud music and meeting a lot of people after 2.5 days of seminar and a long day at a friends distant houseparty....needed lowkey..

    I have a phone appointment in an hour. Then the day is consecrated to writing...

    I feel quite unsure about the writing but i need to just sink my teeth into it...
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,616 Member
    edited September 2021
    "Get to do"s and "chose well"s
    Chose well: BP, dogs to powerline, recycling, 23 mins T’ai Chi at home.
    Bonus: started minutes
    Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, call pc guy to schedule tuneup, log into derm’s portal and update rx, post minutes and next meeting sign at fire house, dog group, USE those torture bands/do that BB&B video, pack go bag, call S, fire district: finish board meeting minutes, research NFPA, grant NIMS requirements, input 2019 call sheets into NFIRS, work with chief on equipment letter, substance abuse policy, NFIRS mutual aid and other missing details, 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 (Tequila Little Time, Homesick, Nothing but You, A Little Less Broken, Blame it on my beating heart,; Do Your Thing, 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 Te 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).
    September
    11: Make time to do something you really enjoy. Dance, dadgummit!

    :cry: T’ai Chi leader called this morning to advise class reverting to indoors at the center. Regretfully told him I’d miss everybody but am minimizing all indoor activities so won’t see them again until things settle down Covid-wise. Did 23 minutes of T’ai Chi from a voice recording of first teacher in Brookings. Some things have changed and I’ve certainly speeded up since she retired. Was good, but challenging to get back to basics. Dogs didn’t care, one sniffed around the lay down, the other wandered into the brush in search of salal berries.

    Started minutes and was making good progress when Joe invited me to watch some TV with him. At first I was annoyed at the interruption, then scolded myself for resisting such a good opportunity. The board meeting minutes are way less important than quality time with Joe. We had a great afternoon watching an old taped Judy Garland show while he told me about what he’d read in Mel Torme’s biography of her. Then we just had to watch the Wizard of Oz. I always forget how good the first (in sepia) part is. We both saw and heard things this time we’d always missed before. Seeing Toto made us long for a little black dog like Scooter, and Robby before him, and Jocko before them. (Katla I feel for your missing Schooner.) A rich time together.

    Julie what is 5 rhyme dance? I really resonated with the excuses videos. Pre-covid I’d frequently not want to go dancing but always felt better when I made myself go. Now… teaching nephews about Zeus sounds about right. Does the new bump on your face hurt? Here’s an old fashioned thing to try until you can get to the dermatologist. Hard boil an egg. Peel the membrane off the white and stick it on the bump. Overnight it will dry and fall off, sometimes taking some of the infection or whatever with it. Fingers X’d!
    Machka that “how do I explain…” meme, so true! The brain injury illusion, very telling.
    KJ invisible lollipops, who knew? Hope you feel better soon! Zinc or Zicam can help shorten colds. Good luck!
    Vicki lucky grands to have a gran who takes ‘em geocaching, even when it’s hot!
    Annie like you, my food choices deteriorate as the day progresses. But I grit my teeth and log every lick bite and sip. Sometimes it turns out not nearly as bad as I thought. ((hugs)) for what you’re going through with your parents. I didn’t know the aol.com email was going away. That stinks!
    Rebecca Oww!
    Michele our transfer station will accept certain electronics (not tablets nor appliances) and has twice yearly days for household hazardous materials. All metals (except foil), all paper (except any with food residue), glass bottles and jars (not windows, glassware or lightbulbs) but only two kinds of plastics (#1 PETE and #2 HDPE) are allowed. Plastic film goes into the barrels at the grocery store. Recycling is a complicated subject, whether it’s more ecologically sound to transport waste to a facility that can truly change/reuse the material or just transport it to the nearest landfill. I look forward to the day when plastics of all kinds can be converted into clean fuel. I also look forward to the day of solar- and wave-powered desalinization plants. Elon Musk are you listening? ;)
    Katla it was rare that I’d turn on TV news in the morning, too hurried getting ready for work. But on two occasions I was watching when something horrible happened. The Challenger explosion was one. And on 9/11 I turned on the tv just in time to see the second plane hit. :sad: The company I worked for had headquarters in NJ directly across the river from the World Trade Center. Those poor employees saw the whole thing. Terrible.

    Journals: I have never been consistent enough. MFP postings are the closest I’ve ever come ;) Childhood diaries gone, likely in the garage fire.

    Gifts: to me the best gifts to give and receive are experiences. A shared meal. Tickets to a concert or other event. A visit to a museum or amusement park. Unfortunately these “together” experiences have been on hold for the duration… :cry:


    Lighter, lovelies!
    f8qt1s098sxm.gifBarbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
    September: leaner/stronger/kinder than August.
    daily: sit with Joe:9, weigh/wii: 9/0/0; steps>7222=7433 vits=9, log=9, CI<CO=9, CI<250<CO=6, Tumble=10, Shadow=10, mfp=9, outside=12, up hill=10, clean 10=4.
    wkly: Sun: Mon: Tue:LD=, Wed:TC=1, PW=1, Thurs: TC=5mins, Fri:TC=1, Sat:PW=1, rX x4=1.
    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 7/31:140.2 8/31:140.0 9/5:140.2 9/12: 9/19: 9/26: 9/30:
    mnthly: board mtg=1, grant=, plan=, waist=42.0
    bonus: AF:4, play= sew=
    2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,641 Member
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    Distance: 51.30km
    Elevation: 555m
    Moving Time: 3:00:21
    Elapsed Time: 3:33:55
    Speed: Average: 17.1km/h | Max: 47.9km/h
    Calories 1,089

    The bicycle ride started on Saturday at 10:30 am
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    Machka in Oz
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,641 Member
    exermom wrote: »
    M – Great stair climbing. When you mentioned Mt. Kosciuszko, the first thing I thought of was the mustard...lol

    Michele NC who can’t fall asleep

    Mt Kosciuszko is Australia's tallest mountain. :)


    M in Oz

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,641 Member
    bananasandoranges wrote: »
    Australia (Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney and Victoria) 13 h to Melbourne by car and ferry?

    Two weeks these days ... if we were allowed to go!

    14 hours to get to Melbourne.
    14 hours back.
    Plus 2 weeks of quarantine.


    But there isn't that much anyway, and I plan to keep the pads because, as @Katla49 pointed out, pads make good bandages.

    Once, a few years ago, my husband was working on one of our vans and cut his arm quite deeply. I slapped a pad on it, wrapped his arm and took him to ED ... = 5 stitches.


    M in Oz
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,267 Member
    I am going to call my cousin who is my age whose birthday is today and hope to take her out to lunch. She is trying to help her 90+ dad my uncle get back home from transitional care.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,641 Member
    Something that might be useful for reducing stress ...

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