WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2025

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  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,388 Member

    🤗🤗🤗 and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.

    🙋‍♀️ céad míle fáilte to our newbies

    ☘️ Terri
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,133 Member
    Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

    Some of our snow melted today and it is supposed to slowly warm up next week. Yay!

    Lanette - I noticed I made a mistake on the explanation of the mouth appliance. It should be mm not cm. Good grief.

    Everyone in the path of winter storms stay safe, Sue in WA
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,543 Member
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  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,085 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,865 Member
    margaretturk wrote: »
    Happy Valentine's Day <3<3<3

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    <3
    Margaret

    I have a bowl and plate like the blue-ish ones! :)
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,651 Member
    edited 2:45AM
    Happy Valentine’s Day to one and all. Yesterday was cozy, relaxing in the hot tub and by the woodstove, lovely. Glued labels to popsicle sticks for the germination experiment, removing one thing from the desktop. ;}
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    germination project
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    Found this activity strangely satisfying. Could I have found my craft? Naaaah :noway:
    Rosemarie, Vicki, Kim, Evelyn, Rori, so good to see you pop in!
    Tracey my friend T texted me a meme about indecision and squirrels. . . :devil: Cement floors are the worst!
    Lisa Brava for the decision not to do the same thing over again and expect different results. Fingers X’d. If the ankle turns out not to be the source of knee pain, another likely culprit is the hip… I’m right there with Egg, she has my RBF ;) Safe travels and have fun!
    Cindy in FL, I weigh every morning, but try to pay attention only to the weekly average after Saturday’s weigh in. When I started on MFP I weighed 165. Doesn’t sound bad, does it? But since I’m a bird-boned 4’10” is was! Logging food was a real eye-opener. Gradually took off 20 lbs to 145 where I stuck (for a decade! :rage:). Paying better attention to food quality and moving more, took off another 15 to where I am now (130-135). 15-20 lbs less would be easier on my knees if not healthier for me ;) Remember the scale shows a number that can vary for reasons beyond your control. Your self-knowledge is key. If you need successes to stick with what works, try to make attainable, NSV goals. How many different vegetables and fruits did you eat today? How many minutes of weight bearing activity? Find activities you enjoy, if you are, like me, allergic to “exercise”. And keep coming back here for the wisdom, support and encouragement of these wonderfully wise women.
    Welcome @RebeccaMartin2018 Rebecca from TX!
    Machka praying you get some rain soon.
    Heather I’m stunned by Edie’s insight. Would you remind me how old she is? What you said about best friend’s grief. ((hugs)) for your son.
    Carol prayer said for your son. March 18 seems like a long time to wait for that surgery.
    Margaret “The side effect of feeling so good and other signs of health outweighs any desire to go back to old habits.” Congratulations! Thanks for the carnations, do they smell as sweet as they look?
    Beth great post-op results. Whew!
    Rita ((hugs held extra extra long))
    Flea thankful your stubborn guy made it home safely. Maybe next time he’ll make a wiser choice. Humpf.
    Ginny, what a cutie!
    Valentine story. When Joe and I first got together, I was so excited to finally have a sweetheart that I went way overboard. Baked him a chocolate cake. Made him a mushy card. WROTE HIM A POEM. I’ve never seen anyone so uncomfortable in my life. I was so embarrassed. Never did that again. Live and learn.
    Later, lighter, lovelies!
    Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
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    February focus: OMG room
    2025: Chose NOW: to move more than yesterday, fuel better than yesterday, open heart and mind before mouth.
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,369 Member
    :) My first husband painted the bathroom for me as a Valentines gift. The year I started MFP Jake bought me dumbbells and ankle weights. Those gifts were better than flowers, chocolate, or mushy cards.

    🐾At noon I noticed that the tags were missing from Annie's collar. After a thorough search I called the vet to see if I could get a new rabies tag and went online to order a new microchip tag. At 5PM I found them in a blanket that I thought I'd shaken thoroughly. Life is full of opportunities for spiritual growth 💕🌻

    🍗While I am eating all food in the freezer and cupboards that were Jake's choice. I'm trying to remember what I used to eat

    🐾🌞🐕😀Barbie in NW WA
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,865 Member
    edited 3:15AM
    Now, I've lost 3.9 kg (8.6 lbs) since Christmas. :)


    Hi ... I'm Machka

    Machka has been my nickname since about 2002. It's a Serbo-Croatian word for cat, specifically female cat. Machak is the word for male cat.

    I'm 57 years old and just a bit under 5'6" ... and these days, I'm overweight.

    But I was slim and fairly fit up till my mid 40s when I started gaining. I've always been active ... walking, hiking, running, cross-country skiing, weightlifting, cycling ...

    Lots and lots of cycling. :smiley: I was cycling fairly long distances on my own, recreationally, then I got into racing for 3 years ... and then I ventured into the world of ultra-distance cycling and loved it!

    I've done audax/randonneuring type of cycling since 2001. Audax/randonneuring cycling consists of non-competitive long-distance bicycle rides from 50 to 1200 km. The challenge of Audax is not in racing, but in pushing your own boundaries and experiencing great personal achievements. https://audax.org.au/ It's an international thing with the headquarters in France. There are Audax/randonneuring organisations in numerous countries around the world.

    I peaked in the early to mid 2000s when I completed four 1200 km events plus all the qualifying events.

    And I met my husband on one of those events, the Paris-Brest-Paris in France in 2003.

    We married in 2008 in Jasper Canada after cycling a century (100 miles).


    Then he returned to Australia (he's Australian) and I finished the degree I was working on. Shortly before I finished the degree, one of Australia's largest bushfires came through Victoria and wiped out a lot of the area where he lived and worked, including the place he had set up for us. When I got there in June 2009, we moved into a small, very rustic shack with no power, no running water ... completely off the grid at the back of the orchard property where he worked. Somehow the fire had missed taking it. My first year in Australia was back to pioneer days!

    We both ended up getting jobs in bushfire recovery for a while and as things we wrapping up, we decided to take a break. We popped everything into storage and hit the road with our bicycles ... visiting parts of Asia, Europe, North America and Western Australia.

    Eventually we ended up in Tasmania where my husband became General Manager of a cherry orchard and I worked for the government while attending university to get my Master's degree.

    Just before I turned 48, I was not pleased with what I saw when I looked in the mirror. I felt dumpy and old. So I started exercising more and a couple months later in Feb 2015, I joined MFP where I went on a mission to lose weight. I dropped 25 kg (55 lbs) in that year and both my husband and I became much more active. We even started cycling some of the longer distances Audax Australia had to offer.

    Me, in 2016
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    Then in March 2018, my husband had a workplace accident which resulted in a severe traumatic brain injury. He was in hospital a total of 100 days. Of those, he was in a coma for 3 weeks and Post Traumatic Amnesia for a total of 7 weeks.

    He will never fully recover. In addition to the cognitive & memory issues, he suffers from extreme fatigue, loss of taste & smell, double vision, vestibular issues, and increased sensation of pain in most parts of his body. Similar to when a person suffers a stroke, he has weakness and loss of sensation in his limbs, but in his case, it's cross body - left leg and right arm. A year after the accident, he developed Epilepsy directly related to the brain injury. A couple years later, he had a mild heart attack indirectly related to the brain injury.

    Our world was turned upside down. In addition to the recovery process, we had to deal with workers compensation who just wanted to get him back to work and legal issues. Fortunately all that ended about 18 months ago.

    I did finish my degree and have advanced in my positions at work (I'm a Data Analyst now), but I've also become a carer which is not my natural inclination.


    Almost a year ago, we bought a house that is better suited to my husband - we were in a house on quite a steep slope and he was having falls. Our new house is flat and on a fairly flat block. The house is also in a location where cycling and walking is a lot more pleasant. But our move took a long time with renos to the house, and the move itself. I'm still unpacking!

    I have been extremely busy for the past 7 years, and my weight was the last thing on my list ... and of course, it went up!


    But happily, since Christmas I have been cycling and walking a lot more ... and watching what I eat. And I have been having good results. :)

    My diet leans toward being vegetarian and I've been doing intermittent fasting since before it was a thing because I don't like eating breakfast! :smiley:


    Machka in Oz
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,133 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,914 Member
    Barbara - Edie is 11. I love to listen to her talking. She is endlessly interested in the vagaries of the human mind. At the moment she is going through a typical girl thing of one of her friends not talking to her. Luckily her mum is able to offer advice. I wonder if we'll hear about it when she comes over today. <3<3<3

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,865 Member
    Our Valentine's Day yesterday

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  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,085 Member
    Just barely awake, and I have Egg on my lap, but thought I'd tell you about my Valentine's gift from my husband. I bought him a card, which embarrasses him, but he knew it was coming. Sweet, slightly mushy.

    He brought me his paycheck, which he does every Friday (they haven't progressed to direct deposit--lots of temporary migrant workers every summer). On the back of the envelope, he had written "Happy Valentine's Day! Love you!" It made me laugh, as he knew it would. Smart boy.

    He said he was looking at some salted caramels, which he knows I love, but remembered that I had told him a few days back how much better I was feeling not having any sugar for a couple weeks, so he decided to just give me money. Even smarter boy. Means he thought about me.

    Later, happy Saturday!
    Love,
    Lisa in AR

  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 1,745 Member
    Terri ~ Love your cards and the flower arrangement! The cards are such a sweet idea!

    Ginny ~ What a cute grandchild!

    Carol in GA
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,250 Member
    Morning ladies
    I fell asleep early ,before 4 and slept until midnight then slept on and off the rest of night.
    Yucky weather coming in..
    Will get some laundry in today..
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,914 Member
    I bought some new sunglasses which arrived today. V pleased with them. I have always wanted mirrored glasses and thought these would be a bit of fun. :p They are comfortable to wear.
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    I will try them on for Edie.
    My friend G has just left her v v expensive Dior ones in a taxi in Madeira. :o:# I hope she can get them back.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,871 Member
    Ginny ... your grandchild is a cutie!

    Lisa ... I was fairly confident that the pathology results would be consistent with the earlier biopsy ... but you're right, it is always a relief to have a firm answer.

    As for my hearing, I am still improving! Some of the improvements are small, like being able to turn down the volume of the processor where before it was at full volume in most situations. But there are other improvements like using a regular phone without caption service. Never, ever did I think I would get that back! And hearing the caller speak numbers no less! I'm also working on hearing music better. The idea is to find an instrument and a song that you know well and break it down into small parts to let the brain use memory along with the processor to relearn the true sounds. So-so results there. It all sounds very digital to me. I was told that most people reach maximum benefit around 2 years and it's only been a little over 9 months so we'll see. Side note: apparently the operating room staff during my recent surgery were obsessed with the cochlear implant and how it worked. My surgeon said she had to get them all back on task! :D

    Valentine's Day ... I gave my son and husband a little chocolate treat from our favorite candy place and I baked some heart-shaped sugar cookies. I didn't receive any purchased gifts ... but my husband went outside and cleaned the snow off my car so I could visit my mom. That was better than candy. My mom's facility was having a Valentine's Day party and my mom has yet to participate in any of the activities, so I took her. It was cute. Punch and they had a chocolate fountain where the staff did all of the dipping. Mary Kay donated hand cream in pretty little packages for the women. A local church gave the residents cards and candy. Only a fraction of the facility's residents attended and there were a lot of other family members there too. Later in the evening, one of the staff sent me a photo of my mom and I she had taken ... much better than the failed selfie I took of the two of us!

    Expecting a lot of snow and ice this weekend. I'll be staying put.
    Beth near Buffalo

  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,353 Member
    Barbara Love the smell of mums. I also like how long they last. We are going to have another arctic blast this week and the flowers and I still have the lights on my Christmas tree will help me through it. I will take my tree down next weekend and my outside lights. My neighbor also has their outdoor Christmas lights too! They do brighten up the cold winter here.
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,543 Member
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  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,604 Member
    Went to the Y only to find out that they don’t open on Sat. until 8 so came home and did a walking DVD. Tomorrow I’ll probably do some yoga here.

    Allie – you’re doing awesome on your weight loss

    Rori and Allie – have you tried those handwarmers? https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Warmers-Rechargeable-Electric-Dual-Sided/dp/B0CDPMVBSS/ref=sr_1_27?crid=2TEOGKKVUQ6QZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6rkcZeYH4jYS These aren’t the exact ones I have, but they’re close.

    Barbie – glad you found those tags

    valentines day – I said to vince “happy valentines day”, he said to me “happy valentines day”. That was IT. But I did get to go to the Y (like I do every day), WalMart (pretty regular), and Brevard Charities (normal). That was my day. Cloudy.

    Drizzly here. I may change from shorts to pants because it’s supposed to get cooler in the evening. As a matter of fact, I’m taking a coverup with me to Daytona. Supposed to rain tomorrow so who knows? Interesting since they usually have good weather for the Daytona. Oh well….

    Michele from NC now in (today) drizzly, cool FL
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,781 Member
    Good morning ladies!

    Hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day. <3

    Yesterday I was busy dealing with more snow/slush which thankfully is melting and should be gone by the end of the day today. The slush is frozen in places and super slick, I just found that out when I went to check on the hens. :s

    I decided to take a run at my 2024 taxes, entered all the info into the TaxAct software and was surprised at what they came up with - income was overstated by a lot, withholding understated by a lot. I went back and double checked my entries, nothing jumped out. It's just a few 1099's, social security and standard deduction so nothing extraordinary. :o I'll put it on the back burner for a bit, do another review when I'm fresh and maybe check out H & R block next week, it might be better for me to talk to an actual human about taxes this time. :p

    Then I discovered that due to W11 and upgrades to W10, the scanning utility on my Canon copier/printer/scanner is nowhere to be found. :# Aggravating. Blasted technology. I might be able to get it to work from the Chromebook, but I ran out of patience to go exploring that far.

    Here's a bit about that cognitive function test for anyone curious. What I found out.
    There are 2 sections to the test. The first section reminded me of those brain exercises found on the AARP website and other websites with matching shapes, memory tasks, etc. The second section is answering lifestyle questions about things such as exercise, diet, social activity and so forth.

    Two things kicked out for me. One was I need more "active mind" - mental stimulation including real life social contact, and that's probably right. The other was "gut health". I eat a high fiber diet, no/little sugar, and probiotic foods such as sauerkraut, kimchee and yogurt, so this could have been based on how I answered some of the questions that were unclear.

    But overall, the subjective questions reminded me to remain aware of how important exercise, diet and mental stimulation are in keeping me sharp as I age.

    Make it a super weekend!

    Lanette B)
    SW WA State
  • teklawa1
    teklawa1 Posts: 690 Member
    <3 Good morning gals,

    Finally caught up with reading. Every morning I’d read current posts and then read prior postings. Well today I’m feeling good to be onto the daily writings. I won’t address personally because I’d be writing all day. I enjoy being a part of all of your lives.

    As for me, I am in a good space. My sister had new cancer in her abdomen that was treated with targeted radiation and scans last week appear to show the radiation was successful. She has quality of life and is a 5+ year survivor of stage 4 non small cell lung cancer. Next month will be 3 years since my DH death. I’m okay and I miss him but I really like my life. I’ve changed…. I am happy in my skin. I’m a bit more social and it feels good. I swim every morning at the Y and walk lots everyday with my dog,Ella. Even yesterday I went to a Valentines party and had a good time. It makes me laugh because I’ve always been shy. I was the only one in jeans and a t shirt. Ha

    Betsy in NW WA



  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,250 Member
    Good morning all
    Today is 25 yrs since my mom passed away..boy do I miss her...
    One load of laundry done.

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