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WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2024
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wedding #1- my now former father in law- a Baptist minister married us. Hubby didn't have any friends out here so his brother was his best man and three of my cousins stood up with him.
wedding #2-dh says he covered every ethnic group and I covered every size group.
My best friend was maid/matron of honor at both weddings. Niece in the first was also in my second, as was my younger sister and one other friend.
Both weddings at the church I grew up in.
Both weddings the food was all made by friends and family- my aunt made my first wedding cake and my best friends mom(mom was like my second mom) made my second one. Friend's dad cut out the lace and sewed it on my veil.
Debbie6 -
We all know what to do. The problem is assuring that we do it consistently. Beyond knowing what to do is knowing how to stick to the plan. I've read some great books about habits that have made a huge difference. In one of the books there is a whole section about "habit loopholes" like "just this once" or "it's a party, I have to have the treat", or "it will hurt someone's feelings if I don't eat what they made" . It takes practice and resolve to say no when someone suggests or urges a deviation from the plan you're following.
I got rid of most of the pictures from my first wedding (I sent them to my ex-husband's daughter). I found two picturesthat I'd kept.
Here is a picture of Jake and me and our wedding.
My first wedding dress was designed and made by a friend. My mother and I went to San Francisco to buy the lace. The wedding was a big church wedding with a reception following at the church with cake and coffee, then another reception the next day at an art gallery with fancy finger food and wine. The marriage lasted less than five years.
My dress when I married Jake was bought at Nordstrom in San Francisco on a shopping trip with my best friend. The wedding was at a friend's house with only family. So far the marriage has lasted over 35 years.
Barbie in NW WA
Barbie- by any chance, did you buy your lace at Gunne Sax outlet in SF? That is where the lace for my second dress came from
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dlfk202000 wrote: »wedding #1- my now former father in law- a Baptist minister married us. Hubby didn't have any friends out here so his brother was his best man and three of my cousins stood up with him.
wedding #2-dh says he covered every ethnic group and I covered every size group.
My best friend was maid/matron of honor at both weddings. Niece in the first was also in my second, as was my younger sister and one other friend.
Both weddings at the church I grew up in.
Debbie
You had big wedding parties!!
I had 3 bridesmaids and best men at my first wedding ... and kind of wished I had only 1.
I had 0 bridesmaids and best men at my second wedding ... and that was perfect!
Machka in Oz2 -
So ..... I saw the family had landed ok. I got a message from my son to say he would pick up Max's uniform around 10.30 pm. I said we would still be up.
It got past the time. I told John to go to bed and I would wait up. Then John gt a call from my son to say the car had broken down 9 miles out of Brighton, with my son asking him if he could come and pick up DDILand the kids. In the dark. On a lay-by. On a road John doesn't know. John hasn't driven at night in years, and the last time he did, he didn't know how to put the lights on and we were stopped by the police for driving on sidelights. So I took the phone and said no.
He can order a taxi for the kids and he has already ordered a tow. Poor John looked so confused and wanted to help, but I knew he felt it was beyond his capacity.
I feel bad about it, but you can't do what you can't do.
I told my son we would be up early, so he can come round for the uniform tomorrow morning.
What an end to the holiday!!
Hoping I'll sleep tonight!
Love Heather UK xxxxxx5 -
Beth-excellent new regarding your mom.
Carol-I don't know enough about hearing aides to know if some facilities sell one type or multiple. Good luck with your appointment! It seems there are several very decent brands out there but it almost seems like brands of clothes-one type fits one person better than another.
Barbie-hope Doctor's get back in touch quickly. It is good they are checking everything out, but waiting is stressful.
Wedding dresses-I wore a simple red dress, long gone.I wanted something I would wear afterwards. 30 when married. Went to Courthouse with my mom for witness and one of our friends to stand as best man. Had a lunch afterwards and a reception at mom's house with family (cook out type event) a few days later. Picture of mom, John and me.
Annie-glad you got your music figured out!
Tracey-I love your dad stories-I think I would have liked him very much!
Lanette-I would consider pursuing MRI. I asked for it because I have been doing things that have helped pain and have it narrowed down to 2 areas so I took her up on her offer. Which doc you choose is up to you!
Got implant finished today! Gum a bit sore from screwing and placement but otherwise happy with finished product.
Off to get some final movement in-going to iron-get extra activity in carrying ironed item from living room to closet!
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
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Hello, kids,
Just a quick dropby - did read everyone's, but remembered only a few...
Carol - That actually was my natural color, mine was very deep brown, nearly black. Fascinating that so many of us were dark-haired!
Heather - Good for you saving John from himself... Your son was probably just exhausted and not thinking. As you said, what a way to end a vacation!
Beth - So, so pleased your mother is in the right place for her and is thriving.
Barbara AHMOD - Hoping everything went well with your procedure.
Ginny - Glad yours went well!
Barbie - Thank you for sharing your pics, I've never seen those before!
Tracey - I remember the picture of you sitting in the grass, and with Roger, but not the one of you and your Dad - you look so lovely and happy.
Rebecca - I remember yours, as well. We are all so young... Congratulations on 40 years!
That's it, my brain just quit on me. Headache has got me thinking in circles, kind of the way I spent my day. It will pass. Just finally remembered to take my noon medications, hopefully will get things to settle down a bit. Corey's grilling a pork chop for him and shrimp for me, one of my favorite meals.
Later, my babies,
Love,
Lisa in AR
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Had a lovely evening yesterday, went for a hot air balloon ride. When the burner was not on it was very quiet and peaceful. I did not find it at all scary. Floated over the Snohomish river and Lord's Hill.
I still have my wedding dress. My mom made it and the bride's maids dresses. The dress is packed in a trunk in my bedroom. Amazing how young we all looked back then.
Beth - glad you found a good place for your mom.
Sending good thoughts for everyone doing medical prcedures.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA5 -
Did an incline interval workout yesterday (Wed) and then the water class. I talked to the gal who teaches the spinning classes and she says that she doesn’t have the music very loud and doesn’t yell things like “woo hoo”. So maybe I’ll try entering her class but doing my thing. Maybe I’ll try it next week
Monique – yea for smaller clothes! Hope you get a good deal for the car repair. That extended warranty should help
Tracey – Vince enjoys decorating and so many people say how much they like it. Well, the way I look at it is that it could be worse.
M – these aren’t lies. There is a certain belt (I forget the name of it) that his year model didn’t have a splash guard on. Over the years, the water has gotten to it enough that the belt needs to be replaced. And it being a 17 year old vehicle, parts aren’t exactly easy to come by. Especially since this part is discontinued. But Lynette did say that she can put 2 in the front, 3 in the back, and someone would have to sit in the cargo compartment.
Really cleaned out the bathroom where the kitties were when we first got them. The bathtub! Not to mention the floor! Made meatloaf muffins and now have chocolate brand muffins in the oven
Barbara – I don’t think there are any more Radio Shacks. Haven’t heard that name in a long time
A few years ago Loki peed on one of the doors. At the time I told Vince that he needed to repair it. Well….here we are a few years later and it’s gotten worse (natch). Now I’m after him to get it repaired before it gets any worse. I was even going to do it, but he insists that he do it. I’ve already mentioned it to him 3 or 4 times today. Each time there’s a reason why he hasn’t gotten to it “I have plantar fasciotus (or however it’s spelled), Update: I got him to take the door off the hinges, so that’s a start.
The guys from Exodus Works said they’d be here between 9 and 12 to transplant the bushes. They came at 8:30! I got home from work & didn’t find the $$ we’d set aside for a tip for them so I checked and, sure enough, the bushes were in. It must have been at least an hour. Nice shocker
Heather – you go girl!
Lanette – all the kitties love to be held and cuddled. They like to be with people. And purr….. my goodness, I was surprised the vet could hear the heartbeat when they went there yesterday. I’m using the gel drops usually right before I go in the pool since I usually keep my eyes closed anyway and right before bed. Lately I haven’t had that “eyelash in the eye” feeling. I’m wondering now if it has to do with the weather. Do my eyes get dryer in the heat??? I really felt it when we had 90 degree weather. Now it’s in the 80’s and I haven’t felt it. I’m going to ask the eye MD next week when I go to see her. I still have my wedding dress. I’m sure it doesn’t fit me, I was 110 back then. I just can’t think of something to do with it. I know that the local community theater has some so they don’t need a donation of one. How cool you got married in your grandmother’s parlor! Sounds really special. There’s no way I can be buried in that dress. I’m much (what’s the nice word) bigger now. oh, yes, I’ve seen those games for cats. My kitties really like when I play mahjongg. They like to see the tiles flying...lol Sometimes they even try to catch them!
Carol – I heard all about that shooting. So very sad I never heard of renting a wedding dress! Neat idea. What a lovely wedding photo
Allie – good thoughts for Tracy and Kyle. She is probably ready to get it all over with.
Along the gym line: Do you know that I’ve never played pickleball??? Well, that isn’t entirely true, I did play a little down at the condo. Hand eye coordination is NOT my thing at all. However, since then it seems that I usually have something to do when the game is being played.
Annie – thanks for reminding me that I need to charge my headphones. I wish they had an indicator on them that told you how much battery charge you have. I just don’t want to run out
Beth – how heartwarming to hear that your mom is doing so so well.
Barbie – I do hope Jake qualifies for the treatment
Ginny – so glad your implant is finished and you’re happy with the result
Had these pictures from Vince’s family. Been waiting for months for Vince to go thru them so I finally did. Then he did. Finally talked him into sending a lot of them to his cousin in MO, she may know some of them. Went thru some that he kept. Contrary to his opinion, we really don’t need 4 pictures of the same people, so I’m going to throw some of them out without telling him.
Michele NC4 -
Here’s my wedding picture. We celebrated 49 years last week. I still have my dress, which my mother made out of unbleached muslin. The waist might fit my thigh today. I can’t believe I thought I was fat.
More info on yesterday’s school shooter.Up until this year he attended the middle school in my town. He was investigated by the FBI while there for terroristic threats regarding shooting up the school. He and his father were questioned and released. His father stated that there was no way he had access to any guns in the house. Then he gives him a gun as a gift! The father has now also been charged. The fact that the two teachers who were killed were math teachers. This just keeps getter closer and closer. Our community is shaken to the core.14 -
Oh Michelle. Don't throw out your husband's family pictures. Mt heart sank when I read that.
Got jabbed this evening. Resting now, but I am going to take pictures of my wedding dresses later.
So sad about the shooting. I am thankful they charged the father.
Flea
Willamette Valley OR6 -
Carol, Lisa and Katie bug, my heart just broke to hear of another school shooting and with a shooter so young..... to hear that the father gifted this troubled youth with a gun is awful. I am glad to hear that the father is being charged something has to get through to folks that guns are not something that someone who is troubled enough to threaten to use it should have ..... Do not take that to think I am against gun ownership - I am not, but I worry about folks committing suicide, killing family, school and workplace violence.
Kim in N. California7 -
Beth - I’ve looked at them too and refused to pay for it. We know what we need to do, it’s just so hard to get doing it.
I had a maid of honour and a bridesmaid and Rodger had a best man and groomsman. We were married in my bridesmaids backyard. We had 12 guests, most of them coworkers. Rodger’s dad didn’t come because he couldn’t afford for my SIL or him and chose her. I regret the wedding but not the marriage. I wish we had waited and gotten married in NB.
Ginny - Thank you, he was a special man. I miss him terribly still.
I almost dug my iron out today to iron the pants I wanted to wear to work. I then remembered that I had seen a meme or something shared recently stating that you can throw a couple ice cubes in the dryer with your article of clothing and on about 10 minutes they would be wrinkle free. It worked!
I don’t think it would if you wanted an actual pressed look though. These were just a pair of cotton capris.
Lisa - I share that picture of Dad and I around Father’s Day usually, I don’t think I did this year. There is one at Christmas I share, I am expecting Lauryn (she’s a February baby) and Dad is dressed up as Santa with a pillow belly. We are comparing bellies. It’s one of my favourites of us. For about four or five years he dressed up for the neighbour’s granddaughter. Her mom was a teenager and Dad declared himself a grandfather I think.
One year he was Santa with Lauryn and my Godchildren too.
Rita - What a shame for someone to do that to that lady. It seems to be a big job now for you, I would think about a house too.
Heather - I bet Evie will treasure that quilt when you tell her of the work you put into it.
Happy to hear your son and family arrived home safe. What a way to ruin a vacation drive home though.
Lanette - I have been putting my blood test off because I’m concerned my A1C might be up. I have started reigning myself in.
Barbie - you look so much like your mom in the second wedding photo.
Sue - I absolutely want to ride in a hot air balloon, was it everything you imagined?
Carol - There was a business in the late 80’s and early 90’s in the town I was from called Fancy Frocks. They had all wedding attire for rent, they had probably 12-15 different styles of bridesmaid dresses that you could rent for $50 or so. Much cheaper than having to buy a dress for one day.
I wore those dresses 4 times, 4 different styles. I should find those pictures, I did a scrapbook of all the weddings I was a part of.
The styles sure were something!
Katie - tragic.
I can’t believe I’m almost at the end of my third week. Time sure does fly.
Tracey in Edmonton7 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Carol - That actually was my natural color, mine was very deep brown, nearly black. Fascinating that so many of us were dark-haired!
Love,
Lisa in AR
The most common hair colours on earth are black or brown, so unless you had started dying your hair by your wedding, it would likely be dark.
My natural is a medium-dark ash brown. But I had started dying by my first wedding.
However, the last time I dyed my hair was about a year ago, so I'm letting my medium-dark ash brown & grey come out! Mainly, I haven't had the time and also need to get myself organised in the new house, but I also wanted to have a look at what natural looked like.
According to this: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/traits/haircolor/# , "It is estimated that more than 90 percent of people in the world have brown or black hair."
Hair colour by country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hair-color-by-country
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Had these pictures from Vince’s family. Been waiting for months for Vince to go thru them so I finally did. Then he did. Finally talked him into sending a lot of them to his cousin in MO, she may know some of them. Went thru some that he kept. Contrary to his opinion, we really don’t need 4 pictures of the same people, so I’m going to throw some of them out without telling him.
Michele NC
I would never throw out my husband's photos. At the very least, scan them first.
My husband and I respect each other's stuff ... we don't throw out anything that belongs to the other. We only declutter our own stuff. Or joint expired items in the fridge.
Machka in Oz
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »I almost dug my iron out today to iron the pants I wanted to wear to work. I then remembered that I had seen a meme or something shared recently stating that you can throw a couple ice cubes in the dryer with your article of clothing and on about 10 minutes they would be wrinkle free. It worked!
I don’t think it would if you wanted an actual pressed look though. These were just a pair of cotton capris.
Tracey in Edmonton
I don't have a dryer, so if I want to de-wrinkle something, I run it through the rinse and spin option in my washer, then very carefully hang it on the line outside or rack inside. In the careful hanging process, I stretch the wrinkles out of it.
Machka in Oz
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My wedding dresses. I don't have a picture of me wearing my mom's dress for my first wedding. But there's a picture of her wearing it and then pictures of it. It's in my closet. And it is "tea length." Then one of my second with hubby, but not full length. Not sure why it's sideways.
Flea
Willamette Valley OR9 -
Just got my Strava stats for August and I noticed that my elevation gain / climbing had improved from July. I'm not sure how that happened, but I'll take it!
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In the process of moving in. The boss has taken over one of the largest pieces of furniture.
Really enjoying watching the Paralympics.
Machka in Oz
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