WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2013

I've not been doing as well as I was.. too much stress.. but 'tomorrow is (indeed) another day' and I will try to get back on track.! Sleep well...

Thanks for all the "pretty horse and daughter" comments. While I was sitting at my desk today I looked over at a photo that's been on my desk for years. It dawned on me that the stick horse my daughter had when very young, looks a lot like the one we bought for her this year. Doesn't it?

Good morning ladies! And I hope that really is a good morning for you all.

Thanks to you I did "move" yesterday and squeezed in my workout. Accepted an ab&squat challenge today...I love the accountability factor of this site!

I also shop at Aldi and yes, they close early here too. Will be going there this am and hope to do some yard work before it rains (very overcast and cold so far). My son had his appendix removed last week and isn't up to mowing just yet so for today my name is Matthew!

Have a great day everyone.

Hiya all.
Have to go this pm to have my lymphodema massage. I really like the therapist so it is not a chore. My arm is sooo much better since I have been using the dumbbells. Today I had a delivery of my 5kg ones. When the guy handed them over he said, "They're heavy, be careful." Yes they are! He looked astonished when I said I would be lifting them :laugh:
I think I will have to start slowly!
Horrible rain and cold in the south of England. I have got my veg in, but summer plants are still waiting patiently for a transplant. I usually do one bright red pot and one luminous pink pot of geraniums along with a red dahlia. At the moment we still have beautiful tulips and pansies in the pots so it will be a while.
DH' s brother is coming over from Australia this weekend and will be visiting us, along with DSIL next Monday and staying the night. I have started thinking about the food. Something delicious and slimming with an option of extra carbs for those who want? Maybe do a bit of shopping tomorrow. I want to combine a food shopping trip to my favourite store with a first visit to a running centre nearby where they do gait measurements. Not that I will be running, with my knee, but I might break into a fast walk :laugh: I live in trainers so it's worth getting good ones. Hope DH might treat me to some.
I still haven't broken through the 11 stone mark, but I can sense it's close! One fine day I will step on those scales and be in Tenderland! Its 22 years since I was there.
Love to all and hope you are having better weather than we are :flowerforyou:

Good morning to all. I am checking in early today because I have so much to do. Yesterday was a great day; I planted my garden and lots of flowers, walked a mile, got over 8,000 steps (6,000 is my daily goal), and sent a book chapter off! My fitness pal and I had a phone conversation about our goals and what we are doing for the next 3 weeks since neither of us will be in. I’ll use my home scale just for trending ; it has a marker on it I set and will compare, but won’t take the weight from that since it’s so much different from the “official” scale at work. I am happy to report that despite all the bad eating I have done for the last week, the scale is unchanged today. So I managed to maintain despite over eating.

We have 13 industrial dryers in the basement and I think the carpet is totally dry now. The pipe got replaced yesterday so now we have water again. I decided to save all these broken pipes, so like a good hoarder, I’ll have a pipe collection for no real reason! Our original builder is going to do the restoration for us.

DrKatie: It’s hard to respond to all of us especially because we are so chatty!

Lila: vacation time is so precious, don’t give it up!

DebA sounds like you had fun for mother’s day!


Michele: I might break one of my mother’s day gifts if I use it….I got a really cool gardening chair complete with a basket of tools! IT is really cool, but I’m over the weight limit! So I’m hoping by the end of the summer I can use it!

Connie: boy that garden does look like good exercise!

Dovergopp: so sorry about mom! Can you ask the nursing home to put her in a low bed? They are about 6” off the floor and have mats to put around them, so if she falls out, she won’t hurt herself.

Barbara: good to see you again! Good choice on the yogurt. I would have gone for the beer, cheese, and crackers.

Linda: you’ll still be sundance in my heart! Good for you to drink the protein drinks and not be so reliant on others!

Grandmallie: fighting over chicken parmesan???? Send it to me!!!!

Beachlover: welcome to the group!

Cityjane: how sweet that you will be having a grandbaby girl! That sounds very special to you after your loss.

DeeDee: I simply cannot get over how un-stressed I am about the flood! I guess maybe it’s because the one we had 2 years ago was so much worse, and we had just finished the basement. This time it’s like ‘been there, done that, I can manage it.” And the wine LOL

Lin: speaking of wine; last night we just finished out last bottle of Tassel Ridge Wine. Have you been there It’s a little east of you.

Gail: I bet you look sassy too!

M3x43: glad you had a great mothers day!

Susan: have a great walk and cograts on the 6 years!

Pattyfitz: welcome to the group!

Brooke: oh no! Not that much flooding! Our basement is dry from the outside; this is a water pipe that keeps breaking and our basement is where we entertain! Maybe this will be the end of the flooding; we are going to double-insulate that area of the ceiling and the pipe is slanted so when we drain it in the fall, all the water will actually drain out.

BJ: congrats on the pending grandbabies! Keep plugging away at that degree!

Yanniejannie: I agree that the sandwich thing sure does feel like a vise!

Katla: I always take DH to a park and grill out for him on his birthday

Sue in SD: has spring gotten there yet?

Lucy: we have a rabbit fence around our garden for that very reason. They seem to eat one thing down to the nub, then go for something else. If you put up a rabbit fence, be sure to bury it several inches into the ground because they can dig underneath it. On a related note; I got a squirrel proof platform bird feeder for my birthday and guess what? Every squirrel in the neighborhood adores it. My DD#1 has taken to calling me the squirrel police because I am always running out there shooing them away. They are ballsy little critters….they don’t even move til I get right on them and then they sort of saunter off staring at me the whole time.

Jane: great advice to Linda! I may even try it LOL

Wessecg: your pictures are lovely as usual! I so enjoy looking at the area where you live ad imagining riding through it

Jmkmomm: hope things get better for sister!

Kathy: good for you to get some exercise in despite not being motivated. Its those changes that will lead to success!

Well we are quite the chatty bunch, aren’t we? I need to get my day going; the servepro guy is coming out to check the carpets at 11, keep your fingers crossed! Take care everyone, Meg from beautiful Omaha

Jmkmomm: I understand what you’re saying about your sister. I grew up with a mom like that. She really didn’t have problems that I could see except for depression and self-induced emphysema from chain smoking since her teen years. Depression is a tough one for anybody. It responded nicely to medication the last few months of her life. Her doctor had tried to put her on it a few years before she passed away but she didn’t like it because, “it makes me to d*mned happy.” :noway: God rest her, I hope she’s happy now and liking it.

Yanniejannie: Thanks for the gift ideas.

Barbie: I tend to think of you as the Energizer Bunny. I’m glad to hear that you got some rest to restore yourself.:flowerforyou:

Cheryl: The resemblance between the stick horse face and the real horse’s face is amazing. No wonder you fell for the big guy.:flowerforyou:

cityjane: I hope you enjoy your BIL’s visit. When I think of slimming meals, I think of salads and lean protein like chicken or fish. :flowerforyou:

Meg: It is good to know that you’re basement is drying. Those industrial dryers don’t mess around.


Yoga today! Yay! I need to stretch out. I got new yoga pants over the weekend. :bigsmile: These are just below knee length. The others were getting looser and longer, and I was beginning to worry about tripping over the bottoms of the pant legs. :noway: We have a contractor coming this afternoon to discuss a number of home improvement projects that DH and/or I have in mind. Some have been on our wish list for years and others are new. This man has done work for us before and we like him. I wonder how many of the things on the list we’ll be able to do.

Katla in NW Oregon

Wow, another new thread yet again when I hardly could keep up with the last!

On the shoe shopping, I try to go out now that the weather is better with NO SOCKS on under my Vans or sandals--all in an effort to not be tempted to buy shoes (I'll seldom ask for one of those ped things).

On the spinach and feta: The Greeks have a dish, spanikopita (spelling is probably wrong) that is a spinach and feta between filo dough--it is heaven in your mouth. And there's usually enough of it for four meals.

Lucy, don't forget to put the greens from your garden to good use! carrot tops, beet tops, turnip tops, the green tops of most anything are excellent in a) a green smoothie; or b) sauteed. I wish I didn't kill everything (except humans) that I come in contact with.

Brooke, I am disappointed for you about the job. When disappointment strikes is when I truly believe it's for a good reason--and that something better is to come along; that this was wrong for some reason.

I still have A LOT MORE READING to do here.

My Mother's Day (the whole weekend) with my teen was wonderful, but somehow she ended up with purple hair. (It's replacing the neon pink she had the past few weeks, and yes, we did it on purpose.) For some reason, it's as much a gift to me on Mother's Day to see her so happy about her new hair and she really did have to work for it--she had to sit 4.5 hours in the salon for it. I thought by the end, she was going to cry, lol.

Tonight, both my daughter and I begin a 3x's a week, 4-week bootcamp! I'm thrilled she's so eager to do this, and I can squeeze it in for the next four weeks, although I have to increase my running by an additional day too. I'm back to painting (now that BSR training and race is done), but June begins the half marathon training. I'm afraid learning Russian may have to wait until I'm like 70 years old.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't look for the fountain of youth (exercise takes care of that), I'd look for the give-me-more-hours-in-a-day fountain.

Happy Spring lovely ladies!

oh! PS...this Sunday, I get to meet at the Phillies game one of my favorites here! I think one of my other favorites should buy tickets too (since they suck and seats are available) so we can all dine and whine together.

jmkmomm: I am going to celebrate your happy dance with you, I too have budge a bit off my plateau seemed like it would never

happen. Congradulations and enjoy that dance, I also feel we have similar husbands mine dosn't due cards and flowers

or remembers special dates just not who he is but love him to pieces and he is my best friend !!!

Well wishes too all you ladies none of you should have weight problems you never stand still lol

Lucy. - I find little and often works for me. Nothing stays in my head for long, I have to keep repeating it, especially at my age. I have a phrase book and a grammar book on my Kindle and just keep having a peek. I'm sure the people on my train to London think I am a mad woman muttering to myself. The BBC has stuff on the internet also which I have used, especially with the German. The Spanish I stuck with for five years of evening classes and ended up going to Mexico for a month on a Gulbenkian scholarship and Peru for another month to meet up with my son on his gap year.

Yeh to green things! ! I love spinach and any kind of green top. Tonight I have just finished eating Chicken Sag. - we Brits love our curries! Some people think curry is our national dish! I just whizz up loads of spinach from the garden in the processor and add it to a chicken stew with curry spices. Delicious! Also in pasta dishes with feta and olives and anything else you fancy. Bit high in salt that one, but delish. I have yet to try it in a smoothie, but it sounds great! Green leaves must be one of my favourite things along with avocados. :bigsmile:

A truly lovely day here......warm, breezy, no humidity. When I fed the birds this am I immediately had a brown thresher, followed by a cardinal, followed by blue jays......all nicely taking turns......doesn't get any better!!!! My dad kept three feeders going all yr. round. I saw my first hummer a few days ago......VERY late this year, but their sugar water is fresh too.

A little sore in the legs today from yoga last night. Took myself off to a recommended stylist and had my hair cut professionally for the first time in over 10yrs. and I love it. I'd been just taking the pony and trimming over the sink; I'm not much of a make-up and fancy hairdo person. I have a bag of hair about 16 in. long to donate, the woman said that Locks of Love or some other group would want it, but it's salt and pepper and I don't think they want any with gray; at least they didn't when I asked years ago. It'll be interesting to see if I weigh less tomorrow!

Tomorrow.........making the trek to pick up dd from college, will stay out there a couple days as she wants to do some tick collecting on the grounds of the college to start one of her senior papers. She's doing a study on what kinds of ticks are most prevalent on campus and which variety carries which disease and has to collect them at differing stages of development. One of my friends had a bout of Lyme and thinks this is great; me, I'm not so sure. But her advisor is happy with the idea........just let me out of the tick collecting.

Kathzoo......water zumba sounds fun!!

wessecg.........loved the comparison pony/horse pics; they DO look alike

Dee Dee............your flower colours sound beautiful

Meg.............great step #'s; ...........glad you got a dry basement and are getting the problem solved

Katla.........another idea........how would he like a massage; or you could even book a couples massage; go together

jodios........glad you got your dd home safe

Joyce..........YAY!!!! on the plateau breaking; yes, my dh is not demonstrative either and very much a stay at home after work, but I do my own thing and it seems to work

Alisonlane61......(.runner girl, Philly!!!) I also LOVE Greek food

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have a recipe for Greek lemon chicken soup that my dh loves.

Have a good evening, everyone!!

yanniejannie
mid-Atlantic