WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2023
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Machka and Allie, what you posted on dementia and traumatic brain injury really hit home. My sister with the radiation to the brain tumors is dealing with cognitive issues. It's so frustrating for her because her husband and kids want her to be "normal", like she used to be. She is so smart and so capable but the radiation left scars and the processing of daily life things is a chore. Some things are impossible now. She feels the anger and frustration that radiates from her husband and kids. They think she isn't trying hard enough. She used to be able to put 10lbs of sh** in a 5lb bag and never will be able to do that again. I've never connected TBI with what Cheri is dealing with.... it's like a light bulb turned on for me. I'll have to do more reading.
Betsy in NW WA
The brain tumors themselves would cause TBI symptoms and the radiation would just add to it.
Sounds like her family is very uninformed and insensitive.
M in Oz
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Budgeting is something I do sporadically. The last time I did a detailed budget was when I was still with my ex-husband. But I've done up general overview budgets a few times since. I know what things we pay regularly.
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Update on Swiffer: Evidently the top has to be REAL secure and this one is slightly loose. A tiny drop comes out. Looks like I’ll need to buy a new bottle. But in the meantime I’ll get a sprayer at the dollar store. No sense letting all this solution go to waste.
Debbie – I’d like to go shopping with you!
Sent Bryan an email asking how they all were doing. Now we shall see how long it takes him to respond to me, if at all.
Lisa – Sam’s dishwashing detergent was rated one of the highest by Consumers Reports. Love your plans for the new room
Allie – the “Living with Dementia” post is so appropriate and very true.
Loving all the pictures, colors, grands, all of them
Miracles of miracles – Bryan responded. Now was it to my email? I don’t know. But I do have a few more pictures. Doubt this will continue.
We spoke to our financial advisor and he suggested we set up a testamentary trust. To be honest, I’d never heard of this type of trust before. He said that it’s recommended you update your will every 5 years, and so it’s about time for us. At that time we’ll probably include the trust for PJ. We’re thinking that Denise and he will be the trustees. Honestly, we don’t trust Denise to be the sole trustee. I think she’ll need guidance regarding taxes etc. and the other legal things that need to be done.
Kylia – I do hope you find those keys. I was never able to touch my toes
Lisa – your house looks so inviting
Vince has his crib (I told you about it). The historical society is interested and I’d like to donate it. I think he’s a bit hesitant but Jess and Denise (especially) won’t use it. I’d like someone who will appreciate it have it. He said that his left hand is hurting now, he must have hurt it (pulled a ligament maybe?) when he was working on the Swiffer so I’m going to try getting the parts up the stairs to at least put into the Outlook. Maybe if I’m real real lucky, we can donate it today. Update: I got lucky, even tho he found every excuse in the book to put it off.
I called Replacemtns to see if they were interested in purchasing any of the silverplate that I have. I didn’t realize that they sell it also until I went there. We shall see. If they don’t take it, I’ll probably donate it to the Humane Society. We certainly don’t need 3 silverware sets! Now one set is a good set, I think it’s solid gold. The other set has our initial on it, Jess might want it. But we don’t need more than that.
Walked down to the dollar store and got that spray bottle. Also, a birthday and Christmas card for the lady who took care of my father. Need to get that in the mail.
Ceramics tonight. They’re having a “party” to celebrate all the birthdays this month. From what I saw people signed up to bring, looked pretty bad to me. I’m taking mixed nuts. Actually, I brought them there last night since we wouldn’t be getting there until late tonight.
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Tracey, good to hear that your cousin's son got his needed surgery. Looks like he has a long road to recovery. I'm sure your cousin appreciates your help during this stressful time.
Betsy, sad that your sister is going through this and also sad that her husband and kids are not supportive. I know when I was going through cancer diagnosis and treatment, my husband was so supportive going with me to every single treatment and meeting....and there were many. It is extremely important that people around her are supportive.
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One of my favourite activities.
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While I was waiting on the Home Depot folks, I was able to get my painting easel set up and get everything sorted out into easy reach... So now, I can put up a tutorial on the TV, as you can see here, and start painting again.
Craft Stuff:There are always pauses, for whatever reason, usually for something to dry when I'm painting, or a change in direction when I'm playing with clay, or just a mental break when I'm sewing or quilting, so now I'll easily be able to move from one to the next without effort. Painting is pretty much always a pain to set up, so if I don't have it where I can reach it, I just won't do it.
Well, actually, that's true for any craft I do. By having everything set up where I can reach it, for the first time in my life, I can also let my normal level of ADD run riot and make whatever I want whenever I want, or three things at once, like I'm doing now. I do have to wash my hands in between!
One of the things I need to make for myself out of clay is a palette cover to keep my paints from drying out! Acrylics dry quite quickly, so when the instructor uses a blow dryer to dry her paintings between moving from one layer to the next, I just cover up my paint palette, let my in-progress work air dry and take a break.
For anyone who is thinking about painting, the most effective, cheapest palettes are honestly sheets of freezer paper that you can buy by the roll. I cut them into squares, lay my paints out on them, and when I'm done, I just pitch the paper. Because they have one plastic side, they don't let ink or paint go through them. They would probably work well for your coloring pens Machka and Allie, to prevent them bleeding through to the next page.
You can also use freezer paper to print photos (or anything) onto fabric with an inkjet printer. Just cut the fabric the same size as your printer paper, do the same with the freezer paper, and iron the shiny side of the freezer paper to the back of the (hopefully white) cotton fabric. It will serve as the carrier to get the fabric through the printer without jamming. Supposedly. Works most of the time.
Anyway, I also LOVE doing online painting tutorials because I can hit pause when she's moving too fast and rerun her lesson back as far as I need to in order to catch something I missed. Her name's Cinnamon Cooney (I know) and she's on YouTube as The Art Sherpa. She's very good, and does tons of different tutorials for free.
Okay, I've rattled on enough. The lumber has arrived, and the rain looks a lot closer than two hours away... We ordered pressure-treated lumber, as it will take a while to get it roofed and walled in, so it will be fine in the rain, thank goodness. Back to my paint daubery!
Love, y'all,
Later,
Lisa
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Tracey ~ Glad your cousin's son is getting the health repairs he needs but sad that he and his family will be suffering due to wage loss during the recovery.
Michelle ~ Wonderful that you heard back from Bryan!
Lisa ~ Looks like your crafting is coming along. Like the colors surrounding the leaf on your easel.
Budgeting: We lived hand-to-mouth for so many years. I'll never forget having to charge groceries a few times because we had no money. Now, I am so happy now that we have everything paid for and are able to save for future needs. We do not use credit cards and pay cash for everything. Must say though, that I still watch every penny I spend and so does DH for the most part.
Carol in GA
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Stats for the day-
Walk w/family- 2hrs 28min 37sec, 54elev, 3.07ap, 84ahr, 102mhr, 7.70mi= 746c
Strava app= 943c
Zwift home bike trainer- strava stats- 33.37min, 197elev, 106aw, 17.9amph, 101ahr, 116mhr, 40 & 45gear, 10.05mi= 195c
Strava app= 205c
Zwift stats- 33.37min, 199elev, 106aw, 44arpm, 18.03amph, 10.1mi= 206c
Total cal 941
On walk, went to Costco and pet smart to get Lucy a new harness.
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Poor Athena got a piece of metal stuck in her baby toe. It was from some new mesh son had cut to fit the top of their new lizard enclosure. A piece had flown off he didn't realize. Son told his wife to ice it until he could drive back from class. Evidently Athena only wanted her Daddy to take it out.😥. He did, and though I have asked how she's doing today on our group Messenger site, no one is answering. I guess she's ok. Poor sweetheart..💖😥
Rebecca
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Lisa - what a nice set-up for your painting. Love the photo of your beautiful house, that stonework is so neat. Is there/was there an attached garage on the right side?
Michele - hope Vince's hand feels better. Glad his crib went to its new home. And also happy to hear you heard from Bryan. Did he have any news about the new little one? You know him better than me but I'm crossing fingers he keeps up the communication; I know you've been disappointed before. I think it's a good start.
Kim - I forgot to mention - I bet that jacket with flowers will be beautiful. Can't wait to see it!
Annie - hope you get over the effects of the triple whammy quickly. Now you got them all over with and don't have to worry about going in some other time when it's not real convenient.
Carol - I feel so blessed and I know you do too having a job with a pension. I kind of "gutted it out" the final few years but I'm glad I did. It's nice to have some overage at the end of some months to stick into savings.
More on budget: When my cleaner was here this morning, we talked a few minutes about budgets and she said they are stopping their Satellite TV and Netflix. Very expensive now and they don't watch them that much. Sounds like a many of us are taking the time to re-evaluate these expenses. My cleaner is a want/need combo. She gets done in 2 hours what would take me days and when she leaves, the house is fresh and clean - better than a vacation. Plus she's my backup for caring for Rosie and the hens if I'm away from the house for a long period of time since she just lives a few miles down the road. Peace of mind.
I remembered I have a year's subscription to Curiosity Stream. It cost me $16 per year- I think they were running a special. This afternoon I've been watching (and napping thru, lol) documentaries on natural and man-made disasters. Little bits of world history. And the best part = no commercials at all. Interesting break from murder mysteries. I might drop Britbox for a few months.
Lanette
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My brother is going to surprise Doris and meet us for chinese tomorrow for lunchtime..5
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Keys found! I left them in the Bronco on Saturday. The pinstriper brought them back to me today. Got 3rd license set up on computer at work. Got the 13k dollar parts order put away. Waited on a lot of customers. Parts orders submitted. Got "go to my PC" working again. So productive day even if not as planned.
Really need to work, but tired. Thinking I will head to bed shortly.
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Lanette - No enclosed garage, but that's a double-car carport with the light on (20' x 24') backed by a small toolroom and the mudroom that we converted from two tiny, unusable storage rooms and now opens off the kitchen. The rails at the front were covered by morning glory vines all summer. Thanks for the compliment on the house... And just for you:
Allie - Sounds like a lovely surprise for Doris and a nice lunch for you.
Kylia - So glad your keys were recovered!
Later, my babies...
Lisa in aR
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Talked to a friend today who was diagnosed a year ago with two types of cancer. I decided before I talked to her I would try to get her to tell me other things other than her cancer treatment. Living with someone who has cancer and now other health complications I know how too much medical talk can be a downer. I did let her tell me some of it because talking about it helps her remember what she needs to do to help her treatment Then I would try to get her to tell me about some of her travels and how fun it was that the hummingbirds visited her planters this year.
All the doctors tell her to drink more water. I need to do this too. She said it is hard for her to drink much water at a time. I suggested she just take a few sips throughout the day. She does have trouble thinking very clearly and being dehydrated makes it worse. I came up with a catch phrase drink so you can think.
I found this helped me. As I did a list of chores on this rainy day. I would take a small drink after each chore. I repeated drink so I can think mantra.
Three years ago today...today we had rain...<img src="https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/122322185_1340330169640124_3675146091014478372_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7f8c78&_nc_ohc=IPKH1uTMslwAX_osaN4&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=00_AfDNMqGholU_ZhklqEo6M5PERTbRlij1cAXVMzoQMCueNQ&oe=65600138" alt="No photo description available."/>
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We officially adopted Annie today
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Nice set up, Lisa. I've never used an easel, but then, I mainly do watercolour on paper. I have been thinking of acrylics on canvas, but haven't got around to it. We haven't had a session since we got back, mainly because I'm in rest mode because of the UTI. I hope to soon try painting one of my holiday photos.
I haven't had a writing session either. I'm in suspension. I'm telling myself that's OK. It's all part of a natural wave of energy. I'm enjoying just being.
The book is almost finished. The time will come.
Barbie - Congratulations! Lovely to see the three of you.
Because of our flu jabs and my UTI, we didn't volunteer to have the girls earlier this week for half-term. DDIL has made other arrangements. So when we volunteered for later in the week, yesterday, they were booked up! Now they are coming over on Saturday, which is not ideal, as it is John's sport-watching afternoon, but he is happy to sacrifice it. I'm quite glad I have a few more days to recover.
Tonight is French Circle. It's pouring out there at the moment. John's sister is on holiday in Brittany, France, at the moment, with her daughter, and it has rained A LOT. The North and Scotland have had terrible flooding, with 4 people killed. Here it's been intermittent, but I think the next few days will be worse. If it's still pouring tonight, I may skip it. TV good tonight.
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Today’s gratitude: Joe’s going uncomplainingly to DDS tor periodic maintenance, and maybe a haircut. During the pandemic when his hair got really Biblical, I cut it twice. First time went amazingly well, second, not so much ;}10/24: Move: 2 sets PT w/2 sets D, chair yoga, dogs to powerline, Jeopardy walking. Steps:7902Biopsy came in basal cell. Could be way worse. Told Joe that between consultations, extractions, Mohs surgery, and possible implants I might as well move to Medford for the winter. :{
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=-5 , CI<CO net=277 vits=1
Live: Joe, readings, BP, AD, AF, ptT, ptS, activate MC, text with Ru, filing. Wt:
Barbie Annie’s expression, her eyes and ears, could she have some Weimaraner?
Lanette thanks for the Mike the Physio bands video link. I have a set of bands in ziplock bags to prevent tangling… time to dig them out from my travel bag.
Only through pg 51 but rainsound is putting me to sleep.
Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
October: Move more: chair yoga, line dance, dailyish PT, play with dogs.
Fuel better: less sugar, dailyish vitamins.
Live NOW: dailyish time with Joe, readings. Open heart and mind before mouth.
2023: Be of good cheer.
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Dishes put away, meds sorted for DH, laundry sorted and started, bed stripped, mild morning. Good start for productive day.
Barbie Congratulations! Great picture.
Lisa I love your place. It is amazing how far you have brought it. We are still trying to get garage addition built.....I told DH that we could do insulation and drywall...he said no. When we wanted the room addition the contractor did blueprints, permits, materials, and workers. For the garage it looks like we will have to get blueprints, one company will do the structure, another the gutters and doors, another for electrical, and we may still end up doing drywall I think that shows the state of the trades workforce. We have been 8 months trying to get this done. Our room addition from beginning to end was only 6 months 10 years ago.
Kylia still stretching and "watering" in Ohio3 -
Barbie - Congratulations! Jake truly looks over the moon about it. I agree with Barbara, when she looked directly into the camera, I saw Weimeraner too - it's the light eyes, direct gaze and solemn expression I think.
Photo of a Weimeraner together with Annie
Barbara AHMOD - I'm so sorry that the biopsy showed basal cell, but grateful that you've caught it early. Sounds like a few miles to go for the next foreseeable future. Rainy here, too... hurts the arthritis, but soothes the soul. I have a kitty stalking toward me right now wanting to warm my lap, and I think I'll let her.
Kylia - Thank you! Lots of work on both our parts, and very much a labor of love. When we look back at the pictures from five years ago, we've changed this place a lot more than we remember! One of the reasons we moved to the country was for exactly the reasons you're talking about. When we want to build, we build. No need for permits, blueprints, etc. We had to get in a licensed electrician when that was a little wonky, but that's just common sense. We also brought in a roofing contractor to replace the roof, but that was done under insurance. The rest, we do as and when and how we choose. The time issue seems all of a piece with the earlier conversations about getting service done for vehicles. Companies are having a hard time getting workers all over the nation, and it's been the case for a long time.
Heather - Enjoy your suspension time. We don't always have to "do." Sometimes, we can just "be," and that's a healthy thing, I think. Thank you for the comment - I do like the setup in terms of being able to get to everything I want whenever I want, but I think this kind of chaos would be hard for a lot of folks. Especially when there's no door to shut on my craft room. We walk through it between the clay table and the paint and sewing area dozens of times a day to get from the kitchen to the living room. I think that would be really hard for you, as well as all our minimalists on this thread. I'm comfortable with a certain level of chaos, and certainly a maximalist where crafts are concerned, I'll admit. I do need to find a way to stop and walk away from it though! My brain woke me up at midnight, urgently wanting me to order quinacridone magenta for the current painting. Took an hour and a half of wake time to get it to understand that I could mix up a color that will pass as magenta from the paints I have. Grrf...
Oh, and a further edit to add that this person talks about easels for those who watercolor, as well as work-arounds. I find my posture stays much better, and my neck and back hurt less after a painting session, when I'm using an easel.
Ah. Egg's on my lap, giving me the stink-eye for all the typing, so I'll do a little reading for a bit.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in the cool, rainy, pre-dawn River Valley of Arkansas
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Good morning ladies!
My head is much clearer today. First challenge is the electric bill. We have to go to the office this time.
Congratulations Barbie!
Barbara, hope that can be easily taken care of. Good luck.
Annie in Delaware
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Barbara and Lisa You could be right about Annie having Weimaraner in her background. Without spending for a DNA test, we won't know. Bessie, our other rescue dog resembles many breeds depending on how you look at her.
We have had two smallish remodeling events at our house. The results make us happy every day, but the process was uncomfortable. intrusive, and expensive. Of course, now that I think about it, the same could be said for getting a puppy.
Barbara, sorry to hear about all your medical stuff and the travel needed to deal with it. We have a similar downside to our life in a beautiful rural paradise.
Minimalism isn't as much about having fewer things as it is about being intentional about what you have. Crafts are so satisfying in so many ways. All the health and longevity things I read and listen to make reference to having a purpose or intention or ikigai in ones life--a reason to get up each day. Crafts fill that space. My knitting takes up space in the living room and in two cupboards.
A few days before we got Annie, I listened to a podcast about making the morning routine more effective and two people mentioned wearing the clothing for the morning to bed to be ready for the day (one was a woman who wore her exercise clothes so she'd be ready to exercise, and the other said "don't judge me", but I have my kids sleep in the clothes they'll wear for the next day so we avoid the getting dressed hassle). Right now, it is important to get Annie out the door to do "business" in the middle of the night and first thing in the morning, that I've been sleeping in my dog walking clothes except for shoes and it's made everything easier.
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Kylia - so glad you found your keys. Should make for a better day today.
Barbara - sounds like you and Medford got a thing goin' on. Hope the roads are clear for your upcoming journeys for medical stuff.
Pip - how nice your pup and kitchen appliances are color-coordinated.
Lisa - love that chicken sign. I remember when you and Corey were getting that house and property and how you talked about all of the possibilities with it. So happy it's working out.
Barbie - what a neat family picture. A much better fit than your previous foster - the smile on Jake's face says it all.
Steps - yesterday I only managed one 10 minute walk down our road after breakfast, the rest of the day was too windy and rainy, so the remainder of my walking was trips to the chicken coop and getting the house picked up for my cleaner.
Still, I somehow managed over 7500 steps. This morning I was tossing Rosie's toys down the long hallway of my rambler and wondered how many steps it is from one end of the house to the other, from kitchen to back bedroom with a swing through the living room. One round trip is 100 steps. And I'm able to go at a pretty good clip. Dry, warm walking. After I have breakfast this morning I'm going to time it for 10 minutes and see how many steps I rack up.
Funny, I always thought I'd have to do a walking video to get a decent walk inside the house with the weather turning nasty some days. Not so. Plus other benefits - less wear and tear on my walking shoes. Saving the expense of a treadmill. Exercising Rosie a bit at the same time. No getting to the end of the road and realizing I need to use the bathroom sooner than later, lol.
I'm up to 1500 steps already just doing "test runs"
Make it a wonderful day. ladies.
Lanette
SW WA State
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This is Bessie's adoption picture after she flew from Houston to Seattle in January 2017
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