WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2022

barbiecat
barbiecat Posts: 17,272 Member
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:) This is how it feels in my neighborhood for the start of January 2022. No matter what the weather in your neighborhood, the start of the new year is a good time to make a new start on the journey to health and fitness.

:) It has been helpful to me to take this journey in the company of others who have similar goals so we can encourage and support each other.

:) Please join me and others on this journey.

:) Be sure to bookmark the page so you can find us again.

:) If you sign your posts with a name or nickname and a location, it will be easier to get to know each other.

:) My one word theme for 2022 is "continue. I have acquired many good habits and attitudes in the last few years and this year I want to emphasize continuing them. I also want to say "continue" to myself when the going gets tough.

<3 Barbie in NW WA
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  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,282 Member
    Thank you Barbie!!
    Happy New Year's!!
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,716 Member
    Thank you Barbie!!
    Happy New Year's!!
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,986 Member
    Thank you Barbie - Happy New Year!
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,166 Member
    Happy New Years to those celebrating already.. xoxo here is hoping 2022 is much better than 2021
  • linder4866
    linder4866 Posts: 11,462 Member
    👍🏻🥳 2022 🥳👍🏻
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,559 Member
    Worked today, then took Jerry home, went to WalMart to get a prescription and buy gas, then Food Lion to get items on sale, then home. (exciting, huh?)

    The foot MD place saga: I got an email saying that I had messages. FINALLY I was able to see them. One looked like a letter saying that I was in their office yesterday. Made no sense at all. I know I was there. The other was some sort of thank you for letting them see me. Huh?

    Maybe someone can help me. There is this guy at work, Jerry. Now I know that he has some sort of emotional issue. He used to go to this place, Connections, that deals mostly with people over 18 who have emotional issues. Anyway, whenever I ask him to do something (not a big thing, just something like getting the lettuce for me out of the refrigerator) he gets so angry. The other day I asked him to get the tomatoes for me, he threw them down on the floor and ½ of them went all over the floor. Another time he was leaving so I said “before you go, would you please get the pickles for me?” He threw down his coat. Most of the times I just ignore his outbursts. Today this one manager told him that he needed to go home because she had asked him to clean the floor of the refrigerator which he didn’t do and she told him that the reason they aren’t getting new trash cans is because he throws them around when he’s asked to clean them (this is part of his job). Is there anything I can say to him to get him to calm down?

    Kylia – wish I could say the same thing about my weight as you do. I guess I’m about the same as last year. Well, at least it isn’t up!

    Lisa – I like your word “recover”. Applies to so very much

    Rori – thinking of you. Stay safe. You may not be close to the fires right now, let’s pray it stays that way.

    The one manager asked me to do extra prep tomorrow. Not like that’s out of the ordinary. But tomorrow is the last Sat. that I’m supposed to work (yea).

    Allie – I’m getting excited for you and Tracey, too.

    M – what is so special about a verification code expiring within 10 minutes? Why is that preferable to having it expire in, say, an hour or two? Newcomers used to expire in 24 hours.

    WooHoo, I just realized that I don’t have to go into work tomorrow until 9 which means that I’ll be able to exercise. Yes!!! The plan is to do a Weight Watchers Time Crunch Training DVD (one of the new ones)

    Happy New Year everyone!

    Michele NC
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,321 Member
    Thank you Barbie for a fresh start.

    Happy New Year Ladies. Hubs and I stayed home and cooked steak and lobster for a couple we’re friends with. It was a nice quiet evening. I think I’ll go relax in the bath now.

    Okie in the TX Hill Country

  • teklawa1
    teklawa1 Posts: 678 Member
    Happy New Year gals. Wonder what the new year will bring.

    Betsy in NW WA
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,282 Member
    Happy New Year!!
    Neighbors have already started setting off the fireworks- first one I heard was at 6:30PM. I am sure they will go until about 2AM or a little later.
    Glad I get to sleep in the next two days(dh is off so he won't be waking me up when he goes to work and gets home from work like he usually does).
    I will be relaxing, watching tv or reading by myself- normal New Year's eve around here. He is usually asleep- I am sure he will be going to sleep soon after going to work at 4 AM this morning
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,986 Member
    Machka - thank you, when I was talking with my boss yesterday she told me to make sure I stay on top of this and demand we get to the bottom of it. I have an ultrasound scheduled for Jan 12th.
    Happy New year!!!!

    Lisa - very similar, we had mice. I remember one time a gopher somehow got in the house it was between the floor upstairs and the ceiling from downstairs. There was a gap in the floorboard and when it stuck its head up Dad shot it with his .22. He didn’t remember that in later years until I told him about it.

    I hope you’re enjoying your visit with your daughter and family.

    Katla - Hummingbirds and snow seems so strange to me to read in the same sentence. I bet it’s a beautiful picture though.

    Rori - how devastating for those families.

    Allie - that lady would be breaking rules here, if you have cold symptoms you are to isolate until a negative test.
    We have a lot of residents that eat heartily.

    Debbie - your DH should learn to share, even walls. That’s a beautiful photo.

    Michele - maybe he is employed there because of a treatment plan or something. I think in your shoes I would leave anything to be said to the manager. You could unknowingly anger him and then you give him a ride home. I would be very careful in your shoes.

    It is a quiet New Years Eve here, it’s just past 10. DH went to bed to watch tv a couple hours ago. I’m watching Nashville’s Big Bash.

    I have given some thought to a word for this year and I haven’t come up with one yet. I’ll keep thinking.

    Tracey in Edmonton currently -31, supposed to be -5 tomorrow. I don’t imagine that will happen. 😂

  • evie1958
    evie1958 Posts: 870 Member
    Barbie thanks for starting us off again!
    Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2022!!
    Evelyn, Vancouver Island
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,166 Member
    Very Happy New Year to one and all,
    Barbie thank you again for bringing us into 2022
    Woke up with some flank pain took some tylenol and will try and go back to sleep.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,716 Member
    edited January 2022
    exermom wrote: »
    There is this guy at work, Jerry. Now I know that he has some sort of emotional issue. He used to go to this place, Connections, that deals mostly with people over 18 who have emotional issues.

    Is there anything I can say to him to get him to calm down?

    You could try doing quite a bit of reading on anger management in mental health and brain issues situations.

    But know that each person is unique. What works for one might not work for another.

    One thing that might possibly help (no guarantees) is to give him choices and don't talk down to him. Perhaps, "Jerry, I could really use some help. I need tomatoes and cheese, would you be able to get me one of those and I'll get the other?"

    If you really want to get to know Jerry and his situation, you might see about accompanying him to Connections or wherever else he goes.

    But until you're armed with some training on anger management in mental health and brain issues, I'd keep my distance. Be pleasant, but stay out of it. Let the managers handle it.

    exermom wrote: »
    M – what is so special about a verification code expiring within 10 minutes? Why is that preferable to having it expire in, say, an hour or two? Newcomers used to expire in 24 hours.

    Michele NC

    Most verification codes expire in about 1 to 5 minutes. 10 minutes is quite long.

    Temporary passwords might last 24 hours, but a 24-hour verification code kind of defeats the purpose of the verification code.

    The thing is, you use a verification code immediately.

    Most of the things I log into at work use 2-step verification now. I enter my user name, and my password, then the verification code shows up to my phone or through email about 10 seconds later, I enter the code and keep working. If I leave the site inactive for about 15 minutes, I go through the whole process again. There would be no point to having a long limitation on a verification code.


    M in Oz
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,716 Member
    auntiebk wrote: »
    Machka did you build the greenhouse? :love: the new year cartoons. Yes if we just start… I’m really liking your Sweatpants and Coffee memes, better than the Actions for Happiness ones. Do they post daily or have a monthly calendar? Put that book on hold at our Library, will pick it up Monday. Thanks!

    Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD


    No, I didn't build it. My husband did. It took him months and months, and there were lots of starts and stops and complete restarts. He got discouraged and frustrated sometimes because he knew that pre-accident, he could have whipped it up in a couple weekends. But he persisted.

    The part of his brain that deals with math and things like maps/orientation/blueprints and things like procedural memory is still fairly intact. He also has reasonable long-term memory. So he knows what a greenhouse should look like. He can draw quite good pictures of what it should look like. He can measure and calculate and do the math. And he can do the building because that's a procedural thing for him. He has been building things for a long time. But there are often disconnects along the way where something in that process goes wrong because his cognition has been affected by the accident.

    Nevertheless, I encouraged him to keep working on it and made many trips to Bunnings to get more materials because I figured that it was beneficial for him to use his brain, even if he made lots of mistakes, rather than just sitting around doing nothing.


    This is the Sweatpants and Coffee website: https://sweatpantsandcoffee.com/ I rarely go there. Instead I follow them on Facebook. Usually, there's a once a week meme on Sunday nights for the coming week. Plus there are usually daily memes of various sorts. Usually something inspirational. Many don't connect with me, some do. I tend to like their once a week memes more than the daily ones. They also post blogs from time to time.

    I like checking out Action for Happiness's calendars and seeing if the new one each month connects with me. Sometimes it does, often it doesn't. This is their website, and I follow them on Facebook too: https://www.actionforhappiness.org/ I see each of the days in the calendar on FB, and some of them make me stop and think. I'm also in an Action for Happiness private group because occasionally someone there has something interesting to say.

    This is their January 2022 calendar if it is of interest.
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    I find both helpful in the interests of creating new, more positive neural pathways. :)


    When I'm on holidays, I don't usually like reading anything other than fiction but I've been so fascinated by that book, I haven't picked up the mystery story I was going to read. It doesn't read like a textbook. But there are lots of references to neurologists and scientists and other work, that a person can do additional research. I'm tempted to research a couple things already, in the sense of looking up the scientist and study referred to and reading more about it.



    M in Oz
  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 2,968 Member
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »
    Lisa - very similar, we had mice. I remember one time a gopher somehow got in the house it was between the floor upstairs and the ceiling from downstairs. There was a gap in the floorboard and when it stuck its head up Dad shot it with his .22. He didn’t remember that in later years until I told him about it.

    Oh my word, Tracey, seriously, you and I had the same childhood. One of the rats that lived in our attic decided it would stroll across the upper window sills of the room each evening, so basically circling half the living room, but well out of reach, and then go back up in the attic. He did that one too many times--and my father was waiting for him with a .410 shotgun. Repairing the hole in the wall was almost as much fun as cleaning up the mess.

    (●'◡'●)
    Lisa

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