WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2013

jodios - that's wonderful that the realtor already has two showings of the condo. You must have it priced to sell, so I'm sure it'll go fast. We have a beer chicken stand, too, but I didn't realize you could cook it in the oven, too. I'm guessing you need to put some sort of dish under it to catch the drippings. What temp do you use? About 450? For about 1 to 1.5 hours?

Phyllis - enjoy that massage. How great that you can get it!

monet - thanks for the added info about Caring Bridge. It's been a long time since I was on there, but I remember that when she couldn't let each and every person know what's going on, she would just post it there and we all got the updates. I'd totally forgotten that I was able to leave messages for her and then she could view them when she was feeling up to it. I'm so sorry about your brother

Sally - sometimes I get so frustrated with the doctors. They want to do every test in the book. But I know that they're CYA. But some of those tests ... There are times when I can tell the MD what is wrong, but he still needs to order tests just to find out that I was right all along. It can be so frustrating.

Did an hour of yoga today. Tomorrow I'll do some training games on the Wii.

Linda in Northern Ontario - I got a zumba for the Wii for Christmas. Have only used it once (to find out if there was any problem) because I was babying my achilles. When Jessica comes down, we'll do it together and she can show me how the program works.

After yoga today I stopped at the Salvation Army. Not really sure why I did that, that store is so small and they rarely have something decent. Then stopped at Big Lots to find out they sold the clock Vince liked, then went next door to Burke's Outlet and got some towels for the bathroom and the kitchen that were on sale. Then drove to the Harris Teeter to get a gift certificate for Jessica (we'll be seeing her Mon and her b-day is Sat. so I'm planning to give her the card. Good thing I keep track of these things <getting cards, gifts, etc>, then came home and made some of jb's low fat corn muffins but made them in a mini-muffin tin. I ran the recipe thru my Mastercook for 6 muffins. So about 4 mini muffins will equal one muffin. Now I'm baking some more chocolate bran muffins, on the computer. It's so warm but very breezy here.

Tonight we're supposed to meet a few couples for dinner at Panera's (still need to check the website as to what to have) and then one man belongs to the Rotary Club and they are having a fundraiser. He had to buy tickets so he invited us. We gave him a donation anyway.

Jackie - have a great time. Bet you'll get some great pics

Cheryl - continued prayers.

Went to this Rotarian Idol. Basically, it's a fundraiser for the Rotarian Club. A friend asked us to go, he had to buy some tickets so he gave us two. Well...we gave him a donation since this is a fundraiser for them. Had dinner at Panera Bread. Had 1/2 of the thai chicken salad, no dressing, and no wontons, I think it also comes with something else that I didn't have. It was romaine lettuce, edamame, grilled chicken and what looked like bits of sweet potato but I don't think that's what it was. Right now my stomach feels "bloated" so I'm going to have some yogurt and then go to bed.

Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele in NC

Cheryl...continued prayers for BIL nephew... kids..make us crazy but love them no matter what...and always pray for them

Jen

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Grandchildren are such a gift!. Especially the toddlers. Mine are 6 and 11 but just as precious to me. In two weeks we all go on vacation together!!!!!!!! 3 days of both my daughters, on SIL and 2 grand kids. Can't wait. I know that sometimes I get a little spoiled because of my MS but sometimes I enjoy it and sometimes I have to tell them to back off. But the little ones can spoil me all they want. I will rent a mobility scooter for vacation and the youngest lies to ride on it with me. She is a little wiggle butt but that's OK. Maybe it can wiggle some of my belly off!

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Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Jodios Enjoy the time with your kids!!! The roasted asparagus sounds delish I`m going to give it a try!

Phyllis Enjoy that massage! The field trip sounds like lots of fun!

Monet13 Sorry to hear about your brother. My best friends’ husband just had a stem cell transplant last summer, he said the hardest part was being in isolation for so long. Good luck to your brother! Congrats on the 3.5 pounds gone!!!!

Amanda Hope you get your energy level back up!

Sally You know you can rant all you to need to here! Hope you enjoyed your dinner out!

Jo Hope the match was exciting!

LindaC Hope you saw a loss on the wii today!

Jackie Looking forward to seeing those great pics!!!

Carol I seem to always run out of time to post too , weekdays or weekends, the time just seems to fly by anymore!

Katla Congrats on the NSV!!! I’m glad your knees are getting better!

Robin Sending lots of good wishes for you to feel better:flowerforyou: , and for things at work to even out!

Bunny Welcome! Come in often and chat!

Glenda The film festival sounds like lots of fun, enjoy!

JaneH Maybe I try capturing those gremlins and putting themin my Vitamix:laugh: !

Joyce Maybe you had too much sodium, my scale is really mean when I have too much! Drink lots of water!

Bj Is the weather better today???

JaneM You`re always doing things for others, what a great person you are:flowerforyou: !

Meg Hope you`re having fun with the girls!

Grandmallie Glad you still get to go on your cruise!

Cheryl Continuing prayers for Jackson!

Well I am out of time again. Have a wonderful St. Patricks Day!
Drink your water and log your food!!!

Hugs,
DeeDee in NC

There this is all of saturday I did.

Jodios
Must be nice to have to gain weight. Never had that problem lol.
Healthy eating and exercise go hand in hand.

Phyllis
That's a lot of steps before 10. Massage sounds great.

Monet
Congrats on the loss enjoy the walking

Amanda
Sometimes life gets in the way.

Deedee
Change that signature grumpy last but a min. not a week.

Sally
Rant away if it makes you feel better.
Hope you enjoyed your dinner with friend.
I seldom eat out because I don't order wsisely.

Allison
Hope you enjoyed your party.
And didn't miss the dust bunnies to much lol.

Cooky
.2 is more than likely gone this morning.Green tea nice choice for today.

Katla
Great on the drop on the scale. Yep we all turn Irish today.

Robin
Good luck with your complaint. Hope they listen.

Glenda
Hope you enjoyed the festival.
Dinner's and dives wouldn't be the place to go when dieting.
Or for healthy eating lol.
I'm also looking for spring.

Jane
I believe a laptop on the couch would give me unwanted pain.
My shoulder already bothers me if i'm at puter to long without breaking.

Joyce
Maybe metformin would help. Just a suggestion.

Bj
From all I hear about the fit bit don't know if I want to spend $100. just to get what my pedometer gives me now.
Count some leave some. It's as if my step isn't heavy enough and it misses a lot.

Jane
You sure are a caring person.

Meg
Enjoy your Adoption celebration. Those words alone say how loving you are.

Cheryl
Prayers go out to Jackson.

Michele
I have Dance 2 for the wii it's fun when you have some dancing with you you can set it for two people.
Hope you got up feeling better this morning. And that it was only supper that bothered the belly.

Renny
What would life be without grandbabies. Boring.

Barbie
You still managed lots of steps even if you had a long meeting.

Marcia
Welcome You will get back with it but not to fast watch that knee.

Well It's sunday and happy ST. Particks day to all.:bigsmile:

Darn it's hard this healthy eating with diabetise. If I eat before I go to bed. I have better fasting readings but the wii don't like me.
So what does one do. If I don't eat after six readings are higher. so it's dammed if you do and dammed if you don't . Going to talk to dietician about it tomorrow. See which is the most important right now.

Started today real good no bread. spinach with 1 scrambled egg and 1/2 ounce of cheese. Apple time soon. And lunch is planned and already in the daily tracker.

So on to a good day and hope you all do the same.
See you lighter.
Linda in Northern Ontario.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’d forgotten all about it, but seem to have put on green this morning anyway, so I’m set to celebrate! Perhaps fortunately, that’s probably about as far as my celebrating is going to go.

I checked out two workout videos from the library yesterday, thinking that I’d try a couple to see if I like them before buying. The spring weather is giving me renewed motivation to get the scale moving, and the Fitbit is nagging at me to get my body moving. I won’t exercise in front of hubby (too many comments about what I’m doing wrong), so I’ll try one if he goes somewhere today.

BJ – Maybe we have different Fitbits or wear them in different places? I bought the Zip, as I didn’t care about monitoring my sleep and wasn’t sure the plastic bracelet would look too professional with my clothes. I’m wearing it clipped to the center bottom of my bra, so that it’s more against my chest instead of pointing out a little. I tried the marching in place again yesterday, and it worked.

Grandmallie – I’m sure that your cruise will be fine! What are the odds of yet another ship having problems, after all? I’m sorry you have to miss your DGD’s birthday party. I love gadgets, so the hula hoop sounds fun! My daughter keeps telling me to stop spending money and just start moving, but I’d rather add fun to my exercise.

Cheryl – I’m sorry there isn’t more positive news on Jackson yet, he’s been in my thoughts and prayers. We’ll keep hoping. These kids deserve to have a life!

Renny – Sorry about your ankle, but glad you had an amazing day with your grandchild!

Barbie – I’m simply awestruck by the number of steps you get in each day!

Jane in Colorado

The Field Trip was AMAZING! I have been on many many field trips in my days of teaching and I have to say this one was the BEST EVER!. We were out in the country side of Egypt and this farmer had build tons of climbing contractions out of re-cycled fabrics or something but some were very steep and others were slanted or flat on top and the kids and I got to climb around on them for fun at the beginning of the trip. Then they let the kids learn about irrigation by actually pumping an old fashioned water pump, watching a donkey walk in circles connected to a huge wheel that pumped water and sent it flowing down the rows of plants, they got to dig with shovels and plant basil and mint plants, they road on a donkey cart, got to cut alfalfa and corn and then feed it to cows, goats, donkeys and horses and even got to watch a man make a table out of the reeds from a date palm tree. Oh and they got to actually mix up a batch of pocket bread and then each got to form a round flat piece of pocket bread and watched ti bake in an outdoor oven. It was so "hands on" and outdoors.

NONE of us wanted to come back to school. they all learned so much, I've decided that actually letting them discover by doing teaches the kids so much more than reading about it in books or even watching it on DVDS! Well I knew that but I got to see it in action today. Sorry to go on and on but it was so FUN.:laugh:

I want to go back there with the faculty and just have a day of relaxing in the country side. Cairo is so BUSY, horns honking, dogs barking, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE that it was just so nice to be out in NATURE away from all the hustle and bustle for a few hours. ACTUALLY I'D LIKE TO TAKE ALL OF YOU OUT THERE AND SHOW YOU THE QUIET SIDE OF CAIRO!!! WHEN CAN YOU ALL COME???:laugh: PHYLLIS

Hello friends! Wishing you the best..........




Lin in Central Iowa