WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2012

Thanks Lin...

Now to the positive...today is a wonderful NSV for me.....last August I pulled out a new outfit I bought for an event a year or so earlier ( could not go due to illness)...and so this formal skirt and top were sitting there, and gee, it was my 25th wedding anniversary....I could get the top on...but no way could I get that long black skirt, never worn, onto my 'given up on' waist and hips....:blushing:

But today, I am wearing the skirt and top to a formal Christmas event. :bigsmile: ...and it will remind me not to just try food to taste it! It will all be a buffet crap anyway...which I rarely like. So here is to eating safely, fitted out in my former skirt of shame! Now reclaimed! :drinker:

Best to all today...:flowerforyou:

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I confess I gave up on keeping up with the November thread, y'all are chatty here! I will try harder in December.

I've been sick a few days and haven't exercised and have discovered I really miss being able to eat those extra calories! So it's good motivation. Hoping to be well enough to do something tomorrow.

Hugs to all.

:flowerforyou: Thanks JB. Let us all make today a good day. I am happy to report I lost another lb. My ticker won't show any loss yet because I had gained beyond my original high. But, I am encouraged.

Yesterday I had some dark chili and cinnamon chocolate. Had never heard of the combination before. Sure tingled the throat! It cost me 88 calories and would never eat it again, because certainly not a temptation. If you do eat chocolate, make it dark.

:drinker: Remember I used to post a weekly challenge for having Fruit and Veggie Saturdays (or whatever day people wanted to take the challenge)? I might start that up again. What do you think? Starting January?

Rebel

Sounds great! I will be willing to join!

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Wow you miss one day and this thread explodes!!! Hi my favorite on line buddies! It’s a cool and dreary day here; we did get some rain last night but we put our rain gauge in the garage for the winter since it’s glass. I’m guessing somewhere between ½ and ¾ inches. We badly needed it; we are almost 9 ½ inches below normal here.

The shooting in Conneticut was horrible...all this sensless violence. I am at a loss for words. DD#1 was in high school when they had a shooting. The principal was wounded and a vice principal was killed. The kid went about 4 blocks away and shot himself to death in his car. I remember getting that phone call and rushing over to the church right next to the school where we were directed to meet. It was winter time and we had to stand in the parking lot of the church for several hours before our kids started being let out of the building. The church people all came in and started feeding us salads (???) and hot coffee to keep us warm, but would only let a few people in the church at a time. DD#1 didn't have a cell phone, but the news was that no students were hurt, so I wasn't too worried, more upset than anything else, but I'll tell you what, until I had her by my side, I wasn't really convinced that she was safe.

DD#1 and DH went up a bit north of town. One of DH’s coworkers was selling her car. It’s a 93 Honda of some kind with about 196,000 miles for $3500. It’s a good deal, but DD#1 didn’t have enough money so DD#2 offered to lend her some and wrote up a contract. She also didn’t have the money for the license, title, etc, so that’s in the loan too. We found out the DD#1 wasn’t doing the things we told her she had to do in order to continue driving my old car and gave her 2 weeks to get one of her own, so that worked out really well. We also told her she has to get a full time job. Last week she only worked 6 hours. That is simply not enough for a car, school, etc. Now she will have her own insurance (it was only $30/month on ours) which will be more expensive too. So she has to either get full time hours at her current job or find another one. Now my old beast can rest a bit; it needs a new clutch and some other work and we don’t have to rush to get that done. Only thing she doesn’t like about the car is that it is another stick shift! LOL She hates shifting!

Well I have been looking back and see I haven’t posted since Wednesday? Can’t believe it! So I will just have to start from here and go forward.

Janehadji: welcome back and hope your trip was a lot of fun!

Welcome to all the newbies and come back often.

Blessings to all the rest of you and your families and four-legged pals.

Happy sat.
Dreary,rainy day.Exercise in the house.
baking cookies for one of the pastors at the church.
Hope everyone has a good day!!
HUGS
jane

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Went to the cookie walk early this morning and got loads of them. When I came home I immediately put them in containers for others. Two containers are left here at the house - DH will deliver one Monday and the other one I'll take to my neighbor tomorrow. I kept just 2 sugar cutouts for myself that were just yummy - and that is the end of that!

Ended up having to work today, as well. The boss says that he would horse trade with me for other time off ... uh, yeah, right., counting on that.... NOT!

Now I need to focus on finishing up the things I have to ship. Off to do the laundry now --

Gail