WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2022
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I am caught up with reading. Still busy with my father but trying to get caught up on some of the stuff i’ve been neglecting. The Army chaplain is coming to see my father tomorrow to present him with a flag. That should be interesting. We are all going to try to be there for that. I got our taxes done. It was pretty simple since we no longer have enough deductions for itemizing. We will get a substantial refund because of the way Georgia does income tax.5
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Just a quick drive-by. Still working on my office/craft/dining area. The ability to keep a thought in my head for more than a few minutes is definitely compromised with the medication I'm taking, which is frustrating. Think of it as walking into a room and forgetting why you're there... but it happens with every room all day long. Supposedly, once I get a certain level of pain medication absorbed, this will pass. It may take a couple more weeks, though. Once again, trying to learn to be patient, when patience is not my strong suit.
Re: the tornados in Arkansas: My husband was actually going to head for Springdale, where the tornado hit because he's got a piece of heavy equipment broken down up there. The rain stopped him from going because it was coming down in buckets. He would have been right in the tornado's path. Glad he didn't go!
Onward and upward, my chickens!
Love,
Lisa in AR6 -
Last day of the month. I'll post the new thread and a link to it later today. 4 -
Good morning all!! For those of you who were tired last nite, I was exhausted, so in the jammies i went! At work now, have a great day!1
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Worked today. Jerry actually did the pickles for me!
Loki is supposed to go for an ultrasound tomorrow.
Finished the jigsaw puzzle. Now I have to put the modpodge on it. Jessica wants me to display it, but to be honest, I don’t know where to
Rori – have a great time in San Diego. How long will you be gone?
Lisa – Egg is just helping you do your ab exercises! Didn’t you know????
Betsy – what a wonderful conversation you had with Mark. He has his problems, that’s for sure. You did a great job of not making them yours.
Kama – welcome! Another kitty lover. We had 4, lost 2 to cancer (d*** cancer cells!), now have one that has dementia and the other one has a seizure disorder and an anxiety disorder.
Lynette asked me to make her father gluten free snacks. I said “OK”. Then I was at the Green Room and realized that she probably meant forever. So I looked online to see places where you can buy gluten free cookies, donuts, etc. Actually, Amazon has some. I don’t mind doing it once or twice, but not all the time! She was going to buy the mix – I’m certainly not. So I guess we shall see what the future holds
Tina – I’m sorry for your loss. He was so young!
The Humane Society here has a thrift shop. Actually, it’s pretty upscale. Anyway, I took some of the dry cat food we had left over from when we had to put Clyde to sleep
After the Green Room went to get my oil changed in the car. While they were doing that I went to Aldi. Anyway, I had a coupon for $20 and figured with tax and all, it probably came to around $25. I happened to look at the screen and saw that they were charging $35 to my account. So I told the guy that I had a coupon and , get this, he told me that they can’t accept the coupon since the price of oil went up. Thanks for telling me! I realize prices are going up, but if you aren’t going to accept the coupon, you shouldn’t have sent it out or at the very least told me before you started doing the work. In the end, he did accept the coupon, but I couldn’t believe that he said that he was told he didn’t have to accept it.
Tracey – what a discount!!!!!
Went to the dollar store. Bought poster board to put under the puzzle while I put the modpodge on it, a graduation card for Jess and more of the mats we use outside the litter box.
Well, off to get ready for bed. Take care everyone.
Michele NC
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Good evening all:
Betsy-good job with phone call. I would imagine Mark will drift away.
Karen-I have looked at a couple of those sort of retirement places. My main problem is deciding on an area for one-here, Arizona, Columbus? Oh well, it will become apparent to me at some time.
Julie-hope all is going well.
Katia-hard to know what thoughts to share without really understanding what you are going through. It is obvious from what you have said that your husband has some definite health issues and has somewhat limited mobility. If you can get some assistance to help care for him and keep him at home, that sounds like the sensible thing to do.
Rita-blah days can be ok. I thinks sometimes we set expectations that things should always be exciting.
Kama-welcome to the group. I have two cats.
Carla-thanks! Keurig was actually bought 7 years ago (husband died in 2015). I have since gone back to regular coffee maker-because that's what I wanted!
Off to take care of dishes and pack my lunch for tomorrow. Have two more staff meetings tomorrow and then I am done with those until June!
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Pip,
How are you doing?KetoneKaren wrote: »Pip,
How are you doing?
Chugging along, thx for asking. Still not 100%, out camping, going home today.5 -
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Katla--Sounds like DD is helping getting things in place for you and DH. Glad she is there and you are getting what you need lined up.
Sue--I am only planting 2 cherry tomatoe plants this year also. Last year our DS and wife brought me a tire they painted purple and planted a cherry tomatoe plant inside. It worked great. So going to do that this year, just going to plant 2. Good for you setting boundies with your sister and her DH.
Tracey--Sounds like a great discount to me.
Katiebug--Great new about your taxes. We had to pay in and just glad it is done for this year. Hope it goes well with the flag to your dad. I do have a question, why are they giving him the flag now? I guess I thought they gave them to the family at the funeral. That is what they did with my DFIL.
Lisa--So glad DH got stopped from going into the tornados.
Last day of the month and woke up to snow and ice this morning, but already warming up to 50's so will be gone by the time I get off work.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND, NE 4 -
We had a flurry of snow today! Cold wind.
I phoned my brother, but it doesn't look too good for an April meeting. DH has cricket, they have trips planned. Easter. He has got over covid, but is lacking energy.
I've been indulging myself in plenty of porn recently. No, not that kind - property porn.
I found two French series on Netflix, called l'Agence, in French. 'The Parisian Agency'. It purports to be a family business, dealing with the most fabulous Paris apartments, and a few houses in other areas. Ouaou! (Wow) as they say in France.
Anyway, I've been enjoying myself in private. :laugh: So much so that I neglected my writing this morning.
Love to all in the real world.
Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Machka — DH has 2 identification bracelets and a neck pendant. He has also had a productive meeting with his doctor, and another visit is in the future. He has also had several appointments at home with an RN to set up people who are home health care workers to check on him and help as needed.
The stairs are a challenge & DH does not feel safe going up and down. A dear friend from school days has mobility problems and has needed help with stairs for many years. My friend has a mobility chair that will take her up and down their stairs. We will contact the company that sold us his mobility scooter to see about a chair lift. We are planning and hoping to purchase the stair lifting chair.
Heather & Ginny— Our adult children are doing what they can. Our daughter is amazing and very skilled. They are working with home health workers and visiting nurses with medical training.
We are lucky to have our daughter here for awhile. She is brilliant.4 -
Had a meeting with my counselor today. It went well and she is discharging me for now. I am feeling good about it. Have plans to send my DSis an Easter card but will tell her that I will not accept anything other than a handwritten missive from her. I want absolutely no contact with my bully of a BIL.
Cool and cloudy here. Bought a raised garden bed so DD can plant potatoes and she wants to try carrots. I limit my gardening efforts to cherry tomatoes and snow peas. I tried green beans but the slugs ate them all right down to the ground. We built a bigger fence around our little bush cherry. The first year the deer nearly killed it and we put a cage around it but this year it was starting to outgrow the cage so now it has a new bigger fence to protect it.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA
Just saw this ant thought about you-
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Katla - I think it is a wonderful idea! Your daughter is an absolute gem.
Changes are always hard, but the only certain thing in life is, nothing stays the same. We are all getting older. I have a cleaner. We get people to do things for us that once we could have done in a flash. I was happy to have my son show DH how to do the Firestick. I could do it, but it makes life easier.
My thoughts are with you. You are so lucky to have caring children in your life. It will make them happy to be confident you have some help, as they live a long way away. My son can dash over anytime, but they can't. Think of it as a present to them.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx and a great spot about the shoes! My old slippers have worn flat.
One thing I told my dad often and he finally started doing was:
Pay someone to do the things that have to be done(yes, he could still do them, physically, just took a lot of energy) so he would have the time and energy to do the things he liked to do.
He loved to garden but using the rototiller at over 80yrs old took a toll on him and he didn't have the energy to work in the green house or build his bird houses.
It took a while, a bit stubborn, but after thinking about it did let others do the hard work.
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We all have huge adjustments to make we get older. I need at some point, to have that discussion with our children. I am still fit and healthy, and work hard at it. That will not last forever. I intend not to go into a home. I would much rather end my life while I am still compos mentis.. No one wants to hear that. DH is very upset by my intentions.
I will put it all in writing - at length. I have no desire to live on in a half life. Whether anyone will listen is a moot point. I belong to 'My Life, My Decision'..
Still hopeful, Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
Katla, hugs friend! Change is sometimes scary, but its necessary to move forward. Our lives are always influx, changing, acclimating, adjusting to the needs we have to have. Take each change in, as sips of water, to know its better to sip, than gulp when you don't know the glass is coming. You got this!
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
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Homes-When the mister and I were house shopping 10+ years ago, we looked at a lot of homes. Many were multiple story. I told him that if our plan was to grow old in this house, it needed to be one story. I didn't want to be messing around with stairs as I age. About 5 years ago he told me he was very happy I convinced him to buy a one story.
It seems we are waking up with a new ailment nearly every few months. Just as one of mine is better, something else appears. I just got my knee and hip to feel better and now my feet hurt every morning as if I'd been on them for 8 hours. I hope it's just because I haven't been wearing actual shoes much, but I fear it's something worse. All of this is keeping me from getting near my fitness goals and it's frustrating. Does this ever end or is this just how it goes as we age? You all can consider that a rhetorical question if you like.
By the way, I'm 52. I've never been too much overweight, but I've had to work hard at that. I got up to about 140 in my early 30s and wasn't happy with myself. I started getting into a workout routine. Tried gyms and hate them, so I went back into home workouts (I had started with Denise Austin when I was in my early 20s, but then life "got in the way" of my exercise). I am able to stick with them, though I really hate exercise. However, I like the way I look and feel when I am more fit, so I do it.
A few years ago, I lost 17 pounds and it put me smack in the middle of my healthy BMI range. I have mostly kept it off, but over the past couple of years, with my hurt knee and hip, I have gained a few back...just enough to make my clothes uncomfortable. And now, I cannot seem to lose an ounce (roughly 28 grams).
So, with that, I'll go do my workouts for the day. I think it's shoulder and HIIT day.
Tina in gloomy CA4 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »We all have huge adjustments to make we get older. I need at some point, to have that discussion with our children. I am still fit and healthy, and work hard at it. That will not last forever. I intend not to go into a home. I would much rather end my life while I am still compos mentis.. No one wants to hear that. DH is very upset by my intentions.
I will put it all in writing - at length. I have no desire to live on in a half life. Whether anyone will listen is a moot point. I belong to 'My Life, My Decision'..
Still hopeful, Heather UK xxxxxxxx
I have tried to have end of life conversations with the mister many times and have mentioned repeatedly that he needs to get his "estate" in order in case something happens. He just basically refuses to admit that he will die some day. When our friend passed the other day, he finally started coming to terms with the fact that he needs to get his plans in order. I'm sure it'll be years before he does anything, but at least he's finally admitting it to himself.
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I have a good hair day ladies!!! I also took a long shower, first scrubbing with washcloth and my coconut soap that makes wonderful creamy lather! Then I used my coconut sugar scrub and concentrated on the rough spots. After getting out, it was coconut oil from forehead to the freckle on my big toe. Then I lay on my bed on a towel, like a goddess and wait for my body to absorb it, giving myself a massage in the process. My pores are happy! This activity was after a really rotten sleeping night. I don't know what it was, but my brain was going a mile a minute, and I couldn't fall asleep! I was up about 7 times before 1 am, then awake from 1 to 3 am. Almost got up to take a bath or something! I cat napped from 3 to 4:55 am then got a wee bit panicky about it all, but finally at 6am I slept until 8:55. Little naps throughout the night does not produce restorative sleep that's for certain.
Today I will eat good, maybe a fish taco with some of the homemade coleslaw I made.
Oh day 3 of no Facebook. I was able to go through my pile of magazines and calendars and cut up for homemade envelopes. I even cut out the back pages where the calendar shows all the month's photos. Then I glue those photos on the front of plain envelopes. Nothing is wasted.👍. I thank all of you that sent me calendars this year!💖😁. I have figured out my love for pen pal writing stems from my love of cutting things out, gluing, organizing paper. I had over 40 envelopes drying around the house yesterday.
Hugs ladies! See you next month!
Rebecca
Whidbey
WA
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Ah, Rebecca, You look lovely, and I think Athena gets her smile from you. Both of you can light up a room with your smile. My daughter is also done with Facebook, which allows me to be off of it - I was only on it for pics of the grandkids, and now she sends them to me by text.
End-of-life stuff: Hard to breach that particular wall with husbands. I've got to get our wills rewritten, and Corey's fine with me doing it all for us both so that all he has to do is sign something in front of a notary. After each other, everything will be split 50-50 between our son and daughter. I need to ask him if he wants a Living Will and a DNR.
We don't have any heirlooms per se, and what few family treasures we have, like the pistol the kid's great-grandfather carried in World War II aren't worth tons of money. We're fine if the kids fight it out after we're dead.
I do have the Big Book of Death with all the things like passwords and utility information and credit card information. I need to get it revised and updated, and it's first on the list for updating after the office/craft/dining room is finished.
I'm thinking I'm going to call it the OCD room, which is so apt it's disturbing.
Anyway...
Back to my doings.
Love y'all,
Lisa in Arkansas
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REBECCA!!! You just MADE MY DAY! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
(you know what I mean) And what a COOL map.
Ginny, so glad you got what you wanted... then and now!
Barbie, love that sign.
God was watching out for hubby, Lisa!!!
Carla, just chillin' (literally... it's so cold here) in MN0 -
Well my college buddy is coming. We are going out to dinner then he is spending the night on his way back up to Pennsylvania. I made a pot roast so my parents can have that. So I thought it was horse back riding at 3:30, then change at 4:30, serve parents at 5:30, then I go out at 6:30. Kinda tight for me, timewise. But I forgot my horseback riding is cancelled this week. So now I have more time but my mental schedule is off. And my guest is coming at 5:00. So still juggling my parents' dinner and mine. I guess if I'm going out this is what it will be like for this phase. I need dressy clothes and heels that I can cook in!
At least my dressy black pants still fit. We all know that struggle.
We are expecting very warm weather with thunderstorms.
It should be a lovely evening once we get going. I'm just having my social anxiety.
Annie in Delaware5 -
minicooper452 wrote: »REBECCA!!! You just MADE MY DAY! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
(you know what I mean) And what a COOL map.
Ginny, so glad you got what you wanted... then and now!
Barbie, love that sign.
God was watching out for hubby, Lisa!!!
Carla, just chillin' (literally... it's so cold here) in MN
Hugs friend! Interestingly enough that map has seen 5 moves since my husband made it up. After he retired in 1998 we bought it, and he organized the pins and flags. Even using his paints to paint the heads of the push pins! He was retired so it kept him out of trouble. He had his log book for his full 20 years, with each port he visited, so along with the port names there is a number of how many times his ships visited them. It was awesome when our middle child and youngest child went into the Navy. We got the customary recruiter home visit, and their looks around our home were priceless. They came all ready to "sell it" only to find that we're neck deep in the Navy. They were both so NERVOUS having my husband a retired Chief, plus also he was a recruiter for a time, sitting in for their spiel. Like a fish in a shark tank! Lol!
Have a great day!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Thanks Lisa, I think I look like her too. My kid photos show a resemblance.💖. My mother was always telling us girls, "Sparkle your eyes, and tuck your butt"!!! So I would walk like a zombie and blink weirdly, and she would roll her eyes. I couldn't help it. But I do try to " smile with my eyeballs".
Hugs!
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
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Rebecca: WOWSER!!! Athena is you to a T!!!
Heather: DH is quite amenable to discussing what lies ahead. We organised our POAs years ago.
Lisa: We have a big fireproof
💀Safe of Death💀 where we keep all our documents and financial stuff 😝
This afternoon we went to an Easter Film and Tea party. I made the Easter Bonnet I’m wearing in my propic yesterday.
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Yes Rebecca you and Athena,are twins to a T..
There is a caregiver that took amazing care of one of the ladies here,I mean above and beyond.. that lady had no family left so the lawyer for her finally got her into a nursing home,where she should have been a couple of years ago...but she is enjoying it and it is a nice place and she is enjoying the activities..
Well I spoke with Linda today.. and I told her I want to hire her to help me go through my place and get it cleaned and cleared.. i just don't have the stamina,and its so daunting.. i think if i can clear out alot of the stuff thats in here ,I'll feel a whole lot better..
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Somebody told me that the first step in clearing out your possessions is to stop buying things. I just posted the new thread for April. Here is the link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10860722/women-ages-50-for-april-2022#latest4 -
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