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WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2024
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Today we celebrate left handlers and filet mignon!
RVRita in Roswell5 -
Kirby called, he’s on the tour bus to go see Hoover dam
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I sure hope Kirby has a good time Pip...
Woke up and then went back to sleep..
And still feeling a bit tired..its gorgeous outside but not feeling great enough to go out.. maybe a bit later.
Heather- glad John got his banking figured out.. sometimes technology isn't all its cracked up to be.7 -
Carol in GA
Monique ~ So sorry for the passing of the 4 yr old. Four years of the family living in fear but know that you were there for them all the way.
Pip ~ Hope Kirby enjoys his holiday. Were you not able to go with him?
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It was raining so I didn’t pick up the donations for the canned food drive. I told her that I’d go there tomorrow. I don’t work but I’ll make a special trip. Then I have a procedure at the eye md. She didn’t say so, but everything I read says that for 24 hrs. afterward I should avoid hard exercise. So I peeled and sliced the onions for Thurs. because sometimes the onions can be very hard and I really have to press down on the slicer.
Rosemarie – so glad to hear that you’re better
Betsy – WB. Glad you had such a wonderful trip
pip – woohoo, you go girl!
Lanette – Ever since I turned 65, gravity and Mother Nature are no longer my friend!
Terri – great craft. I like the way you have it set up
kylia – congrats to your sister
Lisa – weird routines, as long as they work for you, are wonderful. Like Ken & Lynette, they’ve been married a long time yet they are constantly (and I do meant constantly) saying “I love you” to each other all the time. Honestly, sometimes it gets embarrassing. But that works for them. Whenever Lynette goes somewhere, she’s ALWAYS texting Ken “on route 40”, “at the store”, “leaving the store”. But this works for them. Good bloodwork
katie – the windshield getting cracked is a PITA. I remember when that happened to my car down in FL. Safelight repaired it for me
Heather – the wound certainly looks like it’s coming along
Monique – BIG HUG
Allie – I don’t blame you one bit for quitting buying. I was always grateful for whatever people got me. Do you think this could be Tracey’s in her own way trying to get you not to spend so much money buying things?
Annie – so sorry about your friend
Annie – when my battery died while we were in FL, Firestone auto parts replaced the battery for me
pip – what an ordeal Kirby has had. It’ll all be worth it
Looks like it stopped raining so I may get to walk to Food Lion yet. I just hope the grass isn’t too wet.
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Vince couldn't hear in one ear and he thought it was an earwax buildup. Turns out he has a viral infection in a nerve. The MD gave him a shot in the ear and it's supposed to go away. Hope so.
The "callous" on the bottom of my foot is still there. Not getting worse but also not getting better. The next time I see the MD I'm going to tell him that I'm getting a bit frustrated. The first MD told me to stretch my calf. Well, I stretched to beat the band, no help. So I went to this MD. Bought the orthotic, I've been wearing it as much as I can. No help. Now there is a podiatrist in Hickory but his office told Vince that they didn't accept Medicare patients for a toenail removal. Another podiatrist isn't Medicare approved. So I'm going to ask this MD what my next step should be. I really think I should see a podiatrist, maybe I'm wrong.
Michele NC
who just got a bunch of Hess trucks that I'm going to give PJ when we see him next week. I personally think he's too young, but Denise doesn't. At least they're out of my house. I'm also going to give them a Little Tykes toy chest. Pete being OCD will probably like the fact that it's enclosed and you can't see the toys.5 -
Pip - The good ones always seem to feel guilty when they treat themselves to anything without us. I hope he has an absolute blast, and that the time with your sis is great.
Michele - I hope the procedure goes well and your recovery is quick and painless.
Heather - Poor John! I know that frustration that goes beyond words to just feel as if it's pouring acid on your nerves. Bless him, I hope it's all sorted now. So pleased you were able to do your first shop on your own. Beyond baby steps and on to big girl ones!
In fact, you were inspirational for me, and I got back on the elliptical for the first time in months, and did 10 minutes. I realized something today which is horribly non-inspirational of me--and my apologies to those who actually enjoy it.
But I hate exercise. There, I said it. I just purely hate it. 😡👿
That said, I love the way I feel when I exercise regularly... like Rebecca's weight-lifting, it makes me feel strong, if not invincible, but I hate exercising. Truthful rant on the subject, but still pretty ranty:Apparently, I hit the wall in terms of exercising at somewhere around 90 days, and I seldom get past that. I start out enthused, or at least wary but willing. The endorphins start rolling and I get better and better at it, and then I talk about it here, and how much I just love the way I feel, and I'm on a roll.
And then it just gets harder and harder to want to do it, and I don't say that here, because who wants to hear that? Then I start skipping days, then weeks, then I look up and it's been weeks since I was truly exercising.
But every time I tried to lie down today, I ended up back in the bathroom. One of the bad afternoons. Not all day by any means, which is soooo much better than it has been in so many months prior, it just kicked in about noon. After five or six visits to the smallest room in the house, I got some notion that, if I could get my body moving, my gut might settle down. So far, that has kinda been true.
Once I was done, I looked at my own records... and I haven't gotten any form of timed exercise in more than a month.
So here's how I'm working on myself. I also hate to do many of the other things I'm doing for my health these days, but I'm doing them. I take the pills I need to take and the injections I need to take, and get tests out the blinking wazoo, and let medical people touch me in ways that make my skin crawl, in order to get my health back.
I need somehow to wrap myself around the thought (and even more importantly HOLD THAT THOUGHT for more than 90 days) that exercise is just one more thing I have to do for my health. And indeed, that NOT exercising is hurting me and is detrimental to my precariously regained gut health. There's lots of data to prove it, for the data queen in me.
I'm working me over. Unfortunately, working myself over for not exercising burns zero calories... 👀🤪🤷🏼♀️ We'll see how I do tomorrow. I can do anything for ten minutes, right? Right.
Project squirrels:When I wasn't in the bathroom, in the early morning, just doing laundry and dishes, etc. - got totally distracted by a thought and started building a stuffed whale out of some lovely fabric. I was so ticked off when I got it almost done and realized that the pattern ended up combining elements of a blue whale, a sperm whale AND an orca in shape, and was totally unacceptable. So annoying.
I would literally have to scrap it and create an original design sticking to one of the iconic shapes to make anything I'd be willing to sell... and considering how long it took to make it, I finally put it to the side about 11, without even getting it's tail put on. So that was a non-productive squirrel if ever was.
And within the next hour I made the first try at a bar-hanging dishtowel, with great success! Nowhere close to perfect on this first try, but a truly easy project that I will be happy to make and sell, and I think will do well. I'm going to make two more for practice and include in my daughter's package with the Halloween bags and my son-in-laws birthday present.
One weirdly shaped whale - too high a forehead for a sperm whale, too pointed a nose for a blue whale, and not enough fin for a killer whale! And one slightly wonky but usable dishtowel. My day in one dual image.
Letting my gut continue to settle, so not doing much right this minute except telling stories to y'all and pushing fluids. I did send an email to my gastro office and they cancelled the colonoscopy with no pushback at all! I may get the riot act when they call about my test results, but they cancelled it.
And I'm self-aware enough to know that I cherry-picked the data that would back my case so I didn't have to do a test that I desperately do not want to do again. I usually try to use my powers for good and not evil, but I may have walked a slightly pathetic line on that one.
That said, it's such a relief. Have to remember to tell Corey he's off the hook for accompanying me.
Later, my babies, sorry to bend your ear quite so much today!
Love,
Lisa in AR
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Ladies, the boys are still here, hoping to finish up by the end of the day. Putting huge logs through the chipper. There's room for 2 trucks side by side back there now. Supervisor said he saw a woodpecker hole in the pole so it might be tagged for replacement soon.
Nearing the finish line -they are approaching the neighbor's fence, so end of the line on my property. One or two more trees to go.
Apparently these lines carry power from substations in one town to another. I'm learning a lot about the county electrical grid.
I got caught up watching "In the Eye of the Storm" on Discovery Plus today. Wow. I'm giving Britbox, Acorn and Masterpiece PBS a break for a while.
Need to get caught up with you all, hopefully tomorrow after the action dies down.
Lanette
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I’ll catch up this evening but I wanted to share with all of you that have been following along on my table journey. I got it out back together today!
It’s like a whole new table, it was a struggle to get the leaves in, the drop leaf ends didn’t sit right, and the middle didn’t come together. I believe when I got it here in 2021 that Lauryn and I put it together wrong. It’s handmade so pieces aren’t interchangeable.
Anyway, here it is!
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The table is beautiful! Want to come visit the TX Hill Country and refinish my kitchen cabinets?
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Tracey - That is just absolutely lovely. Stunning job, dear heart. Well done!1
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Tracey - that's beautiful.1
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Pip - The good ones always seem to feel guilty when they treat themselves to anything without us. I hope he has an absolute blast, and that the time with your sis is great.
Michele - I hope the procedure goes well and your recovery is quick and painless.
Heather - Poor John! I know that frustration that goes beyond words to just feel as if it's pouring acid on your nerves. Bless him, I hope it's all sorted now. So pleased you were able to do your first shop on your own. Beyond baby steps and on to big girl ones!
In fact, you were inspirational for me, and I got back on the elliptical for the first time in months, and did 10 minutes. I realized something today which is horribly non-inspirational of me--and my apologies to those who actually enjoy it.
But I hate exercise. There, I said it. I just purely hate it. 😡👿
That said, I love the way I feel when I exercise regularly... like Rebecca's weight-lifting, it makes me feel strong, if not invincible, but I hate exercising. Truthful rant on the subject, but still pretty ranty:Apparently, I hit the wall in terms of exercising at somewhere around 90 days, and I seldom get past that. I start out enthused, or at least wary but willing. The endorphins start rolling and I get better and better at it, and then I talk about it here, and how much I just love the way I feel, and I'm on a roll.
And then it just gets harder and harder to want to do it, and I don't say that here, because who wants to hear that? Then I start skipping days, then weeks, then I look up and it's been weeks since I was truly exercising.
But every time I tried to lie down today, I ended up back in the bathroom. One of the bad afternoons. Not all day by any means, which is soooo much better than it has been in so many months prior, it just kicked in about noon. After five or six visits to the smallest room in the house, I got some notion that, if I could get my body moving, my gut might settle down. So far, that has kinda been true.
Once I was done, I looked at my own records... and I haven't gotten any form of timed exercise in more than a month.
So here's how I'm working on myself. I also hate to do many of the other things I'm doing for my health these days, but I'm doing them. I take the pills I need to take and the injections I need to take, and get tests out the blinking wazoo, and let medical people touch me in ways that make my skin crawl, in order to get my health back.
I need somehow to wrap myself around the thought (and even more importantly HOLD THAT THOUGHT for more than 90 days) that exercise is just one more thing I have to do for my health. And indeed, that NOT exercising is hurting me and is detrimental to my precariously regained gut health. There's lots of data to prove it, for the data queen in me.
I'm working me over. Unfortunately, working myself over for not exercising burns zero calories... 👀🤪🤷🏼♀️ We'll see how I do tomorrow. I can do anything for ten minutes, right? Right.
Project squirrels:When I wasn't in the bathroom, in the early morning, just doing laundry and dishes, etc. - got totally distracted by a thought and started building a stuffed whale out of some lovely fabric. I was so ticked off when I got it almost done and realized that the pattern ended up combining elements of a blue whale, a sperm whale AND an orca in shape, and was totally unacceptable. So annoying.
I would literally have to scrap it and create an original design sticking to one of the iconic shapes to make anything I'd be willing to sell... and considering how long it took to make it, I finally put it to the side about 11, without even getting it's tail put on. So that was a non-productive squirrel if ever was.
And within the next hour I made the first try at a bar-hanging dishtowel, with great success! Nowhere close to perfect on this first try, but a truly easy project that I will be happy to make and sell, and I think will do well. I'm going to make two more for practice and include in my daughter's package with the Halloween bags and my son-in-laws birthday present.
One weirdly shaped whale - too high a forehead for a sperm whale, too pointed a nose for a blue whale, and not enough fin for a killer whale! And one slightly wonky but usable dishtowel. My day in one dual image.
Letting my gut continue to settle, so not doing much right this minute except telling stories to y'all and pushing fluids. I did send an email to my gastro office and they cancelled the colonoscopy with no pushback at all! I may get the riot act when they call about my test results, but they cancelled it.
And I'm self-aware enough to know that I cherry-picked the data that would back my case so I didn't have to do a test that I desperately do not want to do again. I usually try to use my powers for good and not evil, but I may have walked a slightly pathetic line on that one.
That said, it's such a relief. Have to remember to tell Corey he's off the hook for accompanying me.
Later, my babies, sorry to bend your ear quite so much today!
Love,
Lisa in AR
I have just taken out the choice in my going to the gym with husband. Its what I have to do, so my joints and muscles don't atrophy and if God forbid I fall hard, I can get back up again. I don't really do it for enjoyment. I picked out a bunch of songs on Pandora and have them in one accessible place on there. Listening to music or podcasts, or audio books is a great distraction. We don't choose to brush our teeth every day, this is the same mindset. That's how I am getting thru this anyways.💖🤗
Naming my exercise pants was fun too. On Monday I am Queen of the Jungle pants!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Tracey - wonderful table.
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Stats for the day-
Walk w/kids- 1hr 59min 36sec, 43elev, 3.03ap, 106ahr, 177mhr, 6.18mi= 619c
Strava app = 749c
Zwift home spin bike- strava stats- 1hr 15min 35sec, 371elev, 105aw, gear35, 18.1amph, 98ahr, 120mhr, 22.75mi= 404c
Strava app= 453c
Zwift stats- 1hr 15min 33sec, 371elev, 104aw, 46arpm, 18.11amph, 22.8mi= 454c
Total cal 1023
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Tracey, your table is beautiful. 1
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I am tired now that I am off. When I went to work on Sunday, they told me that I was off due to a low census. They said I could work in the NICU if I wanted to. I told them no, I will go home. I went right to bed and slept. I was and am still tired. I saw the Broadway show on Thursday night but didn't go to bed. I had to leave for the airport at 2:30 am. Then, I had to board the plane at 5:50 am, but I could not sleep. Then I got on a plane in Charlotte and didn't sleep for 30 minutes. Then I went home, unpacked, and napped before going to work that night. I haven't done stuff like that since I was in my 20s.
I walked all over the streets of NYC in my boot and did fine. I didn't even care that I was not too stylish in them. So, currently, I have been sleeping and running errands. I will drop Rose off at day camp to clean, do laundry, exercise, and cook. My husband is in South Dakota for a training meeting. I am down 5 pounds from my New York trip. I need to exercise tomorrow and get my hair done. I will take a break from the pool. People at work asked me if I wanted extra work, and I said no. Sleep is essential to self-
care also.
Tracey, you mentioned that you are trying to change your sleep schedule. Does this mean you got the Job? The table looks like it was professionally done.
Allie, it is hard to make things easy for your daughter by purchasing things she may need. It hurts when it is not appreciated.
Heather- yes, my name is Monique, or you can call me Mo for short. Your sutures are healing well, and the surgeon did a great job.
Lisa, your labs look great, and your BUN is trending in the right direction. You deserve a break from the Colonoscopy. My husband has to have one every year because he continues to get large pre-cancerous polyps. Exercise is easy to postpone, but we will both exercise tomorrow.
Terri- I love your project: I am relearning how to crochet and knit.
Flea- What school is your son applying to, and is it the same school you work at?
Kylia- Those kittens are glued to you. It is like a girl's snuggle fest.
Carol- Thanks for your condolences. It was hard going to work and seeing another baby in her room. The respiratory therapist and I talked about how much we miss her.
Michelle, thanks for the hug. Saying goodbye to those babies is the hardest part of my Job. By the way, you do need to see a podiatrist. It is wild that they do not take Medicare.
Pip, thank you for your support. I hope I can get my exercise in like you do one day.
Ladies, you all have a good night's sleep; we all need it.
Monique will be in Mississippi until I move to Chicago.
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