WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2014

Good morning everyone! :flowerforyou:

Kim: chard is good in a quiche, just like spinach or something like that.

I slept for about nine hours last night; must have needed it.
This morning I was down 0.4 kg (almost a pound), for a total of 10.5 kg (about 23 pounds). Yippie!

Hope everyone has a good day; take care of yourself.

Cynthia

Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Lila Someone on here, maybe Renny or Margaret (can`t remember:blushing: ) said tart cherry juice was good to help you get to sleep! More snow for you:grumble: ….they are saying we could have snow on Tues. Will this winter ever end!!!

Heather Glad you`re planning a trip to see the grands in Apri l!!! Savory palmiers sounds delish!!!

Margaret Sharing coffee:drinker: and water:drinker: !!

Cindy in OK What color are you painting your kitchen:bigsmile: ?

Michele Sure wish I could take Sudafed again!!! Did you take it at night or in the morning, I took mine in the morning and never had a problem falling asleep. Sounds like you had a salad for breakfast:laugh: !

Jb Sounds like a fun event for the adult students, good friends, good music, good wine:bigsmile: !!!

Katla Hope you enjoyed the garden show:flowerforyou: !

Kim in N CAL How lucky your neighbor is a massage therapist!!! I can`t believe your 7am appt. was a no show…that is just rude not to let you know:mad: !!! Sounds like Levi forgave you for not keeping to his schedule! Does he enjoy getting a bath?

Lucy It`s so nice to see your post!!! How odd you got a “congratulations” message for gaining a pound:huh: ! MFP likes to recalculate for every 10 pounds you lose, it takes away some calories…says as we lose we need to cut back even more:sad: ! I`m like you with the weather, I am more than tired of winter!! For a couple of days it`s just beautiful and then we get slammed with cold, rain, snow and ice:explode: ! Happy birthday to your grandson, my oldest granddaughter turned 13 this month too…teenagers:noway: ! Sounds like a great party for your DMIL!!!

Rita Hi! Hope the stress has eased off some:flowerforyou: !

Carol Was a gorgeous day yesterday, and supposed to be today too:glasses: ! Can you believe winter is supposed to rear it`s ugly head again on Tues.? Have a wonderful time in Charlotte! I love the Fresh Market, I`m in our local store at least 3 times a week…everyone knows me there:laugh: !

Gloria Sure is a crappy club to belong to, I`ve been in that club for 12 years now ! Hope you got some of your “things to do” pile done!

Kayzoola I LOLed at your post:laugh: , your fur baby taking care of all the mice in your garage so now she`s cleaning the neighbors by bringing them home to you:laugh: !!!

Vicki Hope you have a splendid day off!!! Your weekend sounds fun!!! Winter hasn`t left us alone here either. Sad about your boss covering for some of the girls, looks like she would want them to do a good job! You know you can vent here anytime you need to, much better to get it out than letting it simmer inside:flowerforyou: !!!

Jane Martin I love opening the windows and the back door when it`s nice, the house always smells so fresh:flowerforyou: !

Sylvia Canoeing sounds like so much fun!!! Congrats on your life vest being a bit too loose:bigsmile: , now go get a smaller one that fits before you go again!!! Love the joke:laugh: !

Alison Take some time to relax girlfriend…you are burning yourself out:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: !!!

Sandy I have a few muscles I didn`t know I had too:embarassed: ….hope you`re less sore today! Hope everything will go okay with meeting your brother:flowerforyou: !

MA I love to hear kids laugh, you`re right it is infectious:laugh: !!

Jane Hadji So sorry Teral wasn`t able to meet you! Hope hubbys back will be feeling better soon:flowerforyou: !

Barbie When is your birthday? I`ve been here long enough I should know:embarassed: . Sounds like you had a wonderful day!

Cynthia Woo hoo!!! Congrats on that almost pound being gone:bigsmile: !!! I don`t think I`ve ever slept for 9 hours:noway: !

LizPlus I love it when I laugh so hard I cry, my grandgirls tend to get me laughing like that too ! I have an ipad and I love it most of the time, however I don`t care much for reading on it…I prefer a book I hold in my hand and turn the page. I`m so bad about going to sleep while I`m trying to read, I can only imagine that I would have dropped the ipad and broken it or dropped it on the dog:noway: :laugh: .

It`s supposed to be a gorgeous day today and the boys have decided to meet today instead of our usual Sunday round table meeting (it`s supposed to rain then). Everyone wants to sit outside today:glasses: ! I cannot believe they are saying maybe snow on Tues., will this winter ever end:grumble: :sad: ???? I took my winter coat to the dry cleaners on Thursday and swore I wasn`t going to wear it again for a long while…

Have a wonderful Saturday ladies!!! Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!!!

Hugs,
DeeDee in gorgeous NC:glasses:

The huge yard at our old place had most kinds of flowers,tons of beautiful trees.
After moving,this is the tree I miss the most.
A miniature flowering dogwood,with both pink & white flowers.

Still don't know how to put the picture on here,but Hope the URL works. Pat in Ohio
The URL is on here as I type,but doesn't show on the post ...woe is me

Good morning ladies, happy Saturday. The painter is coming in this morning to do a couple of finishing touches. We should be through with the kitchen on Tuesday. My new stove arrived yesterday. Next project will be to get the old carpet out of the living room and bedroom and replace it with wood flooring. We had three pugs, now only one left and she is almost 15. :sad: so need new flooring.

Michele, I will let you know how I do with the convection feature on the oven.

DeeDee, the color for the kitchen is Nairobi Dusk, sort of a sunset color, not quite pumpkin, it is Behr paint if you can find it online. Tile is a beige with dark flecks in it. It will be very nice when done.

Sylvia, thank you for the giggle each day.

I have read everyone's posts but am out of time.

Time for yoga, before the painter gets here. Have a wonderful Saturday everyone! :drinker:

Prayers to all.

Cindy in OK

Good morning to all,

Deedee appreciate all your comments helped me get up to date faster.:drinker:

Cindy OK kitchen sounds splendid. Glad progressing nicely.

Liz I sometimes have that problem with my Kindle too. I have learned one side is very sensitive so I find if I prop it on something I have less problems. I love mine because I can make the font bigger. Great for these eyes.

Heather I understand those times when you question relationships with others. This is one of those times for me. I am being careful to be very kind to myself. It is a time I want to spend more time with myself and less with others. Today I plan to take myself to a movie, shopping, and lunch. Don’t get me wrong I love to socialize, but after two challenging classes of students I need some time to myself.

I am agreeing with who ever said it is time to baby myself.

Kim I like that thought too. A business trip with God.

I also like what one of my fitness pal friends, Acogg said. I do the right things for my body. My body will know what to do with it.

Michelle hope you feel better. Your breakfast sounds great for when your sinus act up. When I am coming down with something I make myself a pot of cucumber soup with ginger, garlic, chicken broth, celery and cut out sugar.


Worked three days in a row. First class was great. The next two days were challenging. One of them I will not go back if asked. Now I am trying to catch up with all of you. Have a wonderful day.

Goal:
To do something healthy for me today, so I have a healthier tomorrow.
As I said to Heather plan to make a date with myself today.
2014 word: contentment

Margaret

Hello ladies: After a lovely day earlier this week we are now back in the 20s but no snow. I have been doing fairly well while on the prednisone, up and down the same two pounds but that is okay with a med that makes you gain weight. I have been exercising a lot while on it to combat the sleeplessness it also causes and that has been working pretty well too although I seem to be tired a lot. However yesterday I put on a flannel shirt I bought last fall that was just a bit tight through the hips and thought that it seemed to fit better. Just for fun I did measurements and although I have not lost any weight I am down 1/2 inch in the hips and 1 inch in the thighs!!!!!! Gives me incentive to keep at it.:bigsmile:

MA in UK - Is what you do with your doodles freestyle agility? I just finished reading a book about a woman who did that with her Sheltie and it sounds kind of like what you do.

Michele - Your exercise program rocks. I was reading the other day about how you should not just repeat the same exercise program over and over because your body accommodates to the exercise and then burns less calories doing the same thing. Boy with the variety of things you do you will never have that problem!!!:laugh:

Today is my last day on antibiotics for the pneumonia. So glad to be done with those. Healing angels to all who need them and congratulations to those with victories. Sue in SD

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Katla...Happy Anniversary.

Has anyone painted wooden cabinets that are stained wood? I want to do something with my kitchen, but I don't know what. I guess we could re-stain them too. A friend used chalk paint (I think it's called) on hers and liked the use of it. Also...I don't know what color to use. The kitchen is blue. The counters are a wood look laminate. The appliances are off-white. I'm not good at visualizing what something would look like. Wish I were! There is also a door to the garage in there with a stained wooden frame. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Weather has been nice this week, but today will be cooler.

I have some kind of sinus infection so I am laying low for a couple of days. I even skipped zumba, one of my favorite things.

I will try to post a picture of my new grandson today sometime. We think he's a real cutie, of course.

Eileen near San Diego

Katla - Happy 44th!! :flowerforyou: Seems like a bunch of us were married in 1970.

Well, it's supposed to be warmer today, but we had snow flurries a bit ago - flakes were HUGE. So glad it didn't last. Unfortunately, yet another storm is projected for next week, and some reports say it has the potential to be a blizzard. It was nice seeing a bit of bare ground for a little while anyway.

Jill in western MA

Happy anniversary Katla. WE aren't far behind, will be 42 this year,

I love my tablet, it's an Ipad mini. I have gotten used to the turning pages on the book but I had a nook before I got my Ipad. We don't usually spend a lot on gifts for our girls but our daughter here in town sometimes we buy her a little more since she does so much for us, especially me and she is divorced so only has the one small income. Anyway she said her young, at that time, boxer ate it!:noway: She has a boarder from work and he bout a Sprint phone plan and it offered a Samsung Galaxy for $49. So of course she bought it. She works at Cintas which cleans industrial uniforms and a lot of other stuff. She works in cleaning the dryers and maintaining them. So as she crawls inside these huge things and cleans the lint traps she finds a lot of things. She usually finds about $50 a week. One time she found this really pretty amythyst looking ring and thought it would fit me. She thought it looked like costume jewelry so she gave it to me. Well it has not turned my finger green after about a year and looks just like it did so I guess it isn't costume jewelry. They do have a policy that they find a large bill like $100 or jewelry they have to turn it in. If it isn't claimed then they keep it. She kept an eye on the message boards to see if anyone called to say they lost a ring and they didn't so I guess the ring is permanently mine. I wear it along with my wedding rings on a chain around my neck. She is on a strict budget, taking care of 3 big dogs costs money, and uses her dryer finds as her mad money.

Today isn't as nice as yesterday weatherwise but it is still sunny and 48*. Yesterday it got up to 68*. But tomorrow it's time for the winter coat again.:ohwell:

Talk later, Joyce, Indiana

Katla - Very Happy 44th Anniversary! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker:
I was married to my first husband in 1970. I realised today that it will be 20 years since we separated this year. I googled the 1994 calendar and the date was Oct 29th. I remember it because we separated on a course for couples and felt very happy about it at the time. (I changed my mind later :brokenheart: ) The next morning we went shopping and found the supermarket shut - we had forgotten about the clocks going back in all the excitement. I think I will send him a card im memoriam.:laugh: He now has a 10 and a 12 year old at the age of 66! Lucky him! ! ! ! ! !:bigsmile:

Sylvia - wonderful canoeing sucesses! I used to canoe in France and loved it. Sometimes I was half naked as was normal at that time and in that locale. One time a hail thunderstorm broke out and I ran into a tiny hut to shelter. I only then realised I had only my bikini bottoms on and there were several men in a cramped space with me , , , !:noway: :laugh: I am pleased to say they acted with complete aplomb.

I had made some notes to reply, but I have left them somewhere irretrievable. :noway:

Barbie - so kind of you to attribute the saying I got from you to me. I know you got it from The Happiness Project who said she got it from someone who got it from Voltaire. I don't know about that, but Voltaire is one of my heroes. For anyone who doesn't know him, he was an 18th century French philosopher and author. His most famous work is Candide. When I go to Paris I often walk past the room where he died. There is a plaque. He is said to have recanted his atheism on his death bed and some people think that was a sign of weakness. I prefer to think he was just hedging his bets!:laugh: When he was younger the French state started a lottery to raise funds. He worked out a way to beat the odds! He managed to make a considerable fortune before the state wised up. So folks, DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD! :happy: :happy: :happy:

Bye for now, love Heather in Hampshire UK

Ooooo. I feel so techie...I found this picture of Connor on my dil's facebook and figured out how to get it on here. He is about 1 month in the picture. (He will be 5 weeks tomorrow.)

Eileen near San Diego

Happy anniversary Katla.:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
I too was married in the 70`s divorced in the 80`s.
2nd marriage in 1993.
Enjoy your day.Got the errands done and cooking dinner.
HUGS
jane

No loss this morning but no gain either...I'll take it as a win :laugh:

I got up this morning to go to aquafit. Went out to my car only to find a wonderful white layer of SNOW...ugh :noway: :noway: I hear we are in for more snow on Tuesday. yuck!!!!

It was good to be back into the pool as some of my muscles are still a bit sore.

Gotta run, have a great night

Sandy in ON

Yikes, didn't I say the last time I did it that I'm not going to venture out of the safety and comfort of this little group?

Made the mistake of popping into another thread and offering some support/feedback. People are nuts "out there":noway:

Reconfirmation that menopause sucks the drama out of us:laugh:

Had a very "productive" day around the house. Got a candle order made, a bunch of cleaning done. Think I'll face some thank you notes tomorrow AFTER I EXERCISE. Have to loosen up for day 1 of T25 on Monday.