Senior Golden Sneakers - December 2010

Hello everyone!

Last night was awesome, all the ladies did a SUPER JOB with the gifts, dinner was delicious. I was able to guest my Secret Pal, for my gift I got a Name Angel and a beatiful shirt from Chicos. When we got done and open the front door to go to our cars, we found a winter wonder land, more snow.:noway: :noway: :noway: about 4 more inches, so I got home at Midnight.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Sandy - I got my nail hardener on Ebay - thanks for given the information to the rest of the ladies, Good job winning at Bingo

Marie - get going with the nail hardener really works, the best part, it is so easy to use.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

So far I'm keeping on track for vacation, losing but I haven't changed the ticket until I keep it off for a few more days.:glasses:

Have a great afternoon.:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Gigi

Dropped by photobucket and pick this up. Have a wondeerful day!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where were everybody yesterday? Gigi show up and Me .Hope you are all ok and just busy getting ready for Christmas Here is a little guy to help you along!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Happy Holidays

I was out shopping yesterday. A little more of the same today. I'll buy a large quantity of diapers to send for my grandson in Bethel, Alaska. It is much cheaper to buy them here and mail them than to buy them there. Last time I sent 324. Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday. God Bless.

:drinker: :bigsmile: :flowerforyou: This has been a busy week for me.......Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are always busy because of line dancing in the morning and then Tuesday was turkey cooking and entertaining day so I haven't been posting much.

:smooched: The turkey is finally finished we had a great dinner party on Tuesday and leftovers on Wednesday and Thursday. I made soup out of the carcass with carrots, onions, and celery and for dinner yesterday I made matzo balls for the soup. In the morning the girls came to groom the dogs and were here until mid afternoon. Right after they left, Jake and I went to get our hair cut....we go to a great place with the barber on one side and the hairdresser on the other....I have to make an appointment, but the barber likes to deal with people on a walk-in basis. The dogs look great and we look pretty good, too.

:bigsmile: After all the fancy food this week, we're happy to do a cleanse day today. Jake watched Larry King's interview with Al Pacino and decided that we should have an Al Pacino film festival. Right now we're watching "Insomnia" and later we'll probably watch one or more of the Godfather movies.

:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: I took the dogs to the dog park about 10AM when it was raining (actually it looked like snow). I put off drinking a lot of water until after I've gone to the dog park, so I wanted to go early. The ducks from the duck pond were resting in the grass near the dog yard and there were some small birds in the trees so Brandy and Sasha had a great time chasing and barking. The wind was blowing pretty hard and I was wearing a lot of warm clothes and had the hood of my jacket over the top of the two wool hats I was wearing. There were some other people and dogs there so we weren't the only crazy ones. :laugh: We stayed about 20 minutes and the dogs were glad to come home. With their new haircuts they were probably cold.

:flowerforyou: Gigi, all your retirement festivities sound great.......retirement is such a bitter/sweet time but as a person who has been retired for six years, I can say that it's a great way to live.

:flowerforyou: Marie, your trip to warm south Texas sounds great and your baking sounds very ambitious.

:flowerforyou: Sandy, congratulations on your BINGO win......I hope you use your winnings for something special for yourself.

:flowerforyou: Irene, you are a wise and thoughtful grandma, sending diapers.....all the toys in the world are useless if you don't have basics like food and diapers.:bigsmile:

:flowerforyou: I'm doing laundry today but have been slowed down by Haifa deciding to sleep in laundry basket :laugh: :laugh:

Hi everyone! Sorry for not being around. I haven't been on the computer much as I have been sick. I thought it was just a cold and stupid me didn't mention it to the Dr. when I was there Thursday. Now it seems to be bronchitis (always my weak spot). I believe that I have coughed up a lung (at least). I am a little concerned about my upcoming test when I already feel yucky before I start my 4 litre beverage!! I hope to see my doc on Monday if I am still coughing, etc. and ask him what he thinks about the test.

Neil wisely stayed at his house this weekend so that he wouldn't pick up my germs. He did go shopping with his buddy today so that was a nice outing for him. They also went out for lunch which was nice.

I haven't got any of my baking done and it isn't looking great. Maybe that will turn out to be a good thing. I don't need leftover sweets here when I start my low cholesterol diet after the holidays.

I hope you are all enjoying the busyness of the season. Take care and keep smiling. Gayla

Hi Ladies and gents:flowerforyou:
I am like gayla hve had bronchitis and sinus infection for over a week. I am better. I have my Christmas Cards all done and presents all wrapped. I hope you feel better soon, Gayla...and I hope I remember your name right?:laugh: Please excuse me if I didn't...it's almost 11 pm here...so I am getting tired and need to be in the bed. I am getting out tomorrow and going to eat with friends at a place called Montana Grill.
Marie..70 degrees sounds unreal...we've had cold temps all week..a near miss on an ice storm. It was icy but turned to rain because the temps were up to 36 for a while...it's messy looking here with piles of snow in places. It's 31 now..we had sun today.

IRene-Sending diapers is a great idea..I didn't realize that things were that much more expensive in Alaska. It probably costs to ship everything up there.

Sandy hope you continue to improve.

Buzz..so sorry about the eyes and hope it's not a serious problem for you.

Must get off here and rest mine for a while.

Hope everyone has a happy Holiday season and a Merry Christmas.

I check in on you every day...but sometimes I don't have time to post..just read. I enjoy all Marie's little pics.

Have a good Sunday.....

Happy Sunday!!

Yesterday was a great day to get things going in every direction, got up early and did all the Xmas cards, that is always a big job even so I enjoy write something to everyone, is a big job. Then to make sure everything that I was planning to take to the trip is ready to go, almost packed I need to get thing done this weekend because next week at work will be more then I can share. Today is laundry day and tomorrow our daugther that is in San Francisco arrives, she in Chicago now spending some quality time with her freinds I do not remember if I told you all about my plan for a Family Picture will be very casual we're wearing white and bare footed, will be taking at the beach, hope I can learn to post pictures when I get back and share my family with this family,:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Irene - what a wonderful idea about sending diapers.

Marie - Can't tell you enough how much I enjoy all the morning pictures, have a wonderful trip, enjoy your family and the Holidays.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Barbie - Your dinner sounded delicious, I'm so proud of you and Jake.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Gayla - Sorry you're not feeling well, its so hard to be sick during the Holidays, hope by now you're better, our prayers are always with Neil and your family, God Bless you all a give you and your family a blessed and healthy holidays.:smooched: :smooched: :smooched:

Sandy - So glad you're feeling better and won at Bingo, WAY TO GO GIRL!!!

Buzz - looking forward to hear about your appoitment on Monday, keep the faith and you will be ok:happy: :happy: :happy:

Have a great Sunday and keep warm, is very hard in this part of the country.

Gigi

Yeah fpr the Cowboys

Hi everyone! We had a little more snow today so it is looking very white. I am still not feeling great. Dave says it is time to see the Dr. I do plan on calling tomorrow. I really am tired of coughing and I really need to get a bit of shopping done, gifts and grocery. I will take my list and do what I can tomorrow. If I am tired I will stop.

You all seem busy and looking forward to family and friends. Stay well and keep smiling. Gayla

Connie, looking back a week, I see you HAVE been taking off weight! It's not easy when you are being the "Caretaker". You are always in our minds and hearts, dear Connie!

PS The picture in my ticker is the ice storm we had last Jan. That is my drive-way and my Dwarf Cherry tree in the middle of my sidewalk. That pic was taken off my front porch.

:flowerforyou: I just checked our birthday thread and there aren't any birthdays in our group in either December or January...thanks, Sandy, for reminding us that there is a birthday thread

:flowerforyou: Sandy, it sounds like you have an easier than usual preparation for Christmas....with all the things you do for your family and your current back pain, you deserve to have an easier time with others doing the preparation this time

:flowerforyou: Gayla, I hope you are feeling better......I had bronchitis a lot when I was working and it knocked me flat for days...maybe you don't need to do all that baking......nobody's waistline or cholesterol needs all that stuff

:flowerforyou: Buzz, I am so sorry about your eyes.....i hope the doctor has a solution when you go on Monday...there is no way to keep the matzo balls from being fattening......I make enough for each of us to have 3 matzo balls each and serve them in the soup with a measured portion of turkey and lots of carrots, celery and onions and the meal comes to just under 700 calories.....I try to eat very carefully the rest of the day and add in some exercise.......it is a huge treat for us but happens only a few times a year.......thanks for sharing how you made cranberry sauce.....mine is simple (berries and a small amount of sugar)

:flowerforyou: Lynn, I hope you are on your way to recovery...thanks for telling us where you live.....it makes it so much more personal knowing about your geography

:flowerforyou: Barb, you are amazing :bigsmile: no matter how busy you are you still manage to find bargains and exactly what you are looking for.....we are having the same nasty wind......Sasha hates it and the cats keep going out and staying for about 5 minutes and then begging to come back in which gets the dogs to barking so I'll know to open the door......i guess I get some exercise from that :laugh:

:flowerforyou: Gigi, I can't imagine the confusion of doing holiday preparation and preparing for a trip all at the same time but you are remarkable so I know you'll do well......I look forward to seeing the family photo on the beach.

:flowerforyou: Irene, thanks for sharing about the challenges of living in rural Alaska.....how great that you will have your daughters with you for the holidays.

:flowerforyou: Marie, I love your pictures, especially the snowman you posted on the birthday thread

:bigsmile: :bigsmile: I took the dogs to the dog park in the wind this morning....they didn't want to stay as long as usual.....my errands today were to go to WalMart and PETCO to buy pet food.......I successfully avoided buying any of the holiday stuff and bargains that were everywhere.....now, even if we get snowed in (which is unlikely) we can feed the pets for a month :laugh: I did a little bit of work in the yard but even though I was bundled up, my hands got too cold after 30 minutes.

:drinker: I went to an ornament exchange party yesterday.....there were about 25 women......I didn't participate in the exchange because I didn't want an ornament so I brought knitted bells that I make during the year (they're my easy project that I can knit in the dark----at the movies, in the car)

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and passed bells out to all the attendees....the food was wonderful. I stayed away from the sweets but ate nuts and stuffed celery and salad and trail mix and had to ride the exercise bike and jog in front of the TV all evening to make up for the indulgences.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Busy, busy day again. My granddaughter spent the night last night and got up this morning to go to Cheryl's and bake cookies all day.
I went to the dreaded mall to see if I could find a white sweater to go with the white faux fur vest I bought yesterday. You would not believe how hard it is to find a white white sweater, everything is off white and I wanted white. I did find one, but not sure I really like it now that I am home, so I may go back tomorrow after I get my hair done. We are going to see Wicked tomorrow night, but leaving early so we can go to dinner first. No card game tomorrow, but bingo Wednesday and meeting on Thursday. Keeping busy actually helps with the pain, I really think I am going to start exercising again, I think I will feel better all the way around.

Connie, I feel so sorry for you, I know you love your husband and I know how hard it must be to take care of him when he doesn't want to take care of himself. I will keep you both in my prayers and hope for nothing but the best. I am so sorry this has put such a damper on your Christmas and your company. Some things can't be helped but I hope in the end that all works out for both of you.
You are a special person and deserve some good days. God Bless you.

Barbie, thanks for the kind words I needed them today. I had a misunderstanding with my DIL last night and I felt so bad. She just doesn't have a sense of humor and misunderstood everything I said. All because a friend of mine asked me to ask her if she wanted to sell her daughter little kitchen set. She said no that she would never sell it because she would keep it for her (5) year old daughter children. I jokingly said what if she has no children and she said what does that mean? I said she may not want any children and might just want to be a professional. She said why would you say that? I said it was a joke and she said not funny.
I told her to lighten up, her daughter is only 5. She said with all that we went through to get Marisa why would I joke about something like that. (Marisa is adopted). I was only being funny, but evidently only in my eyes. I can never win. I apologized and today did whatever was needed to keep her happy. Even my husband said why is it we are always apologizing to our children like we are the kids and they are the adults. Thanks for letting me vent about that. :laugh:

Marie, you are always in good spirits and keep the rest of us smiling. I love all your pictures and love how you take care of us.

Lynn, good hearing from you and hope you are all well for Christmas.

Gayla, I am so sorry you are feeling so miserable especially for the holidays. I hope they postpone your test, nothing would be worse than drinking that nasty stuff and coughing at the same time. I am glad Neil's friend took him shopping and he got out without having to bother you. I wish you a speedy recovery and a better week.

Bears are winning over the Vikings which makes me happy but not my son in law who works for the Vikings.

Have a good evening.

Hi Everyone!
I went shopping with the two oldest grandchildren..two boys. A 13 year old and a 6 year old. That was interesting I can tell you. My DH(Grandad) starts out thinking he is going to be so stern and he's a big push over. They always come up with a way to win his heart. :happy:

Gayla..I hope the meds help. They have me and still are. The zithromicin (z-pack) that I took works up to 10 days after you take the last pill. My sister had to go to Quck Care today. They gave her Cithromicin...it's new and is like erythromicin but it's a lot easier on your stomach. I hope I understood that the spelling began with a c. It'a new anyway. She was given nose sprays and cough meds and the bill just for the meds was over a hundred dollars.. It's expensive to be sick.

Marie..the cherry tree that I have has some small cherries on them but they aren't edible. It's more ornamental than anything. It is called a weeping cherry. You can grow cherries and plums here but I don't have a tree. I'm like you, I buy them at the grocery. My cousin is married to a guy from Wahsington state...now that state can grow wonderful cherries. Some of them that come into our grocery are from there. She brought me some, one time, we she visited out there...they were to "die for.." I love them.

Connie -I hope you don't lose your hope. May peace be in your heart, that is what I will pray. May you have some comfort.

I read, a while back, some stories about World War II on here. Several people in my family served but I will tell about two of them. My uncle (mom's brother) served in the Navy. They were lost in the Pacific for several months and were down to living on raw potatos when they were found. They had to stay quiet because of enemy ships. My grandparents didn't hear anything for several months. They were very worried. He did make it home. He had a family of four girls and died with a brain tumor when he was fifty.
The other uncle was in the Army. He wanted to be in the Air Force but was color blind. He was a medic but he served directly under a Colonel. He drove him around and was exposed to a lot of atrocities. He saw and helped with survivors of the Holocaust. It really bothers me that in recent years people are trying to pretend or say that didn't happen. I worry what will be done to the written history of all the happenings of that war in the future when eye witnesses are all gone. I pray to my God that isn't allowed to be forgotten. Anyway ..that Uncle was buried the 8th of December, last year ('09), a day after Pearl Harbor and was buried in the Veterans Cemetery at Fort Knox. Last saturday, they had a ceremony where they laid green wreaths with red bows on all the graves in that cemetery. If you could see the cemetery, you would understand what an enormous task this is. My Aunt said it was a very touching thing and such a simple elegant picture. My Uncle served as a Civil Sevant, until his retirement, under a Colonel at Fort Knox. He had his pilots license, train engineers license..and he was allowed into the vault at Ft Knox.

Another story..when I went to Gatlinburg back in the summer, there was a man who sat down by me. He had retired to Pigeon Forge, Tn..which is there close to Gatlinburg. He said that he was a salesman that traveled through there and loved the Great Smoky Mountains. He lived in Maryland before. He told me about serving in the war and some of the battles. He told me they slept on the ground on top of snow with no blankets and just the clothes on their back. One night he found an abandoned ambulance. He crawled in out of the cold. When awoke the next morning..he had slept all night beside a dead man and didn't know it. He said he never had a cold. He said people today, didn't know how good they have it.
My nephew-in-law is in Afghanistan. I guess I am thinking tonight of all the men who fought so that I can have a good place to lay my head, good things to eat, and the freedom to worship my God and have a Merry Christmas..or that you can have a Happy Holiday or whatever it is that makes you happy.
I pray that God will watch over our soldiers, our great country and keep our leaders. I pray that our Country will stay where people can have the freedom we all enjoy. That would be the best thing I could get for Christmas this year.

May God Bless each one of you this Season.