WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2014

Good Morning,

Michele I was sad to see James go. My favorite dance this season was their dance to frozen. I was glad to see Meryl and Mak win. I actually called in and voted for them. They were spectacular.

Have a great day everyone. Have to get ready for work.

Margaret

Hi, Just wanted to say that I watched the finale for DWTS and am truly happy Max and Merle won, they were magical this season. I also love Amy and Derek and after an initial let down would have been happy if they won as well. This season was the best I can remember and I liked more of the celeb's than ever before. I have to say my opinion of third would have been different, but that's just my opinion. Sad to see the season end and wondering if anything will come of Max and Merle now.....
Patty

Good morning everyone!

Last night there was a troubling incident at the oldest granddaughters Girl Scout meeting. They have their meetings at an elementary school where there is a playground on the north side of the building next to the parking lot. Their meeting is over at 8:00, and when I got there at 7:30 they were finished and cleaning up. She asked me if she could go out to the playground and play with the other girls for a little while. So we were starting to go toward the doors to the playground when the leader's daughter came up to us and said, oh no, that is the playground for the little kids. The big kid playground is on the other side. She pointed us toward the doors on the south side of the building. So, DGD and I went out to that playground and she played on the equipment. I thought the other girls would be coming out soon, but they never did. GDG played by herself the whole time. I didn't know what had happened, but thought maybe the other girls parents had come and picked them up already. Then, as we were driving out of the parking lot we saw all the other girls and the leader at the other playground! I was mad as hell! How could they be so mean? Poor Adrienne had tears in her eyes when she told me, that's ok, grandma, that kind of stuff happens a lot. So, I called the leader and asked her why that happened and she told me she didn't know that happened, but the girls told her that we had left. She was just sure they didn't intend to be mean, and that she thought Adrienne was fitting in well. Still, she thought maybe we should look for a different troop. What the heck?!!

Poor Adrienne has a lot of trouble making friends. She does tend to think she knows everything and can be a little bossy, but I thought Girl Scouts would be a good place for her to make friends. So, I'm really unsure what to do next. This was the last meeting before their summer break, but it turns out that they had a two day camp out coming up but nobody told Adrienne or me until I was talking to the leader on the phone last night and she reluctantly told me that Adrienne could come if she wanted to. Now why would I subject her to that for two days if they won't even play with her for 15 minutes.

Ok, end of rant.

I hope you are all having a great Tuesday!

Sylvia

Kim - I'm with you on restaurant food. I can't see any point in going out to have what you could have better and much cheaper at home. We rarely go out to eat and when we do I want to have something I rarely, if ever, cook at home. I don't have a deep fat fryer, so good old British fish and chips is a possibility, or it used to be until I started my "makeover"¡!!!!! These days I either go to a really top end place, about two or three times a year, or somewhere that does shellfish, like oysters, clams or mussels. I rarely cook those now I live in the countryside, but in London I did because we lived in a multicultural area and they love their seafood! I do often cook squid as I can buy that here. When we lived in Whitstable I had oysters every weekend at the harbour, so that kind of spoilt my normal restaurant treat. Now I hardly ever have them so that is something I look out for. If people ask me to go out,, unless I know that the place has something really special to offer, I always say, "Oh, why don't you come to my place!" I much prefer that. I do like a really good pizza though, but I obviously can't have that more than twice a year! By good I mean wood fired oven, very thin crust and it must have anchovies! I once went to a pizza chain with friends and asked for extra anchovies. They said they didn't do anchovies. I nearly fell off my chair! ! ! !
The jist of all this ramble is I hate paying restaurant mark up for inferior food or food I could cook myself. Of course, sometimes you are away from home and you just have to eat something! On June 16th I have an appointment at the hospital knee clinic and I will go into town earlt so I can eat at a seafood chain called Loch Fyne. I will be having oysters followed by mussels. Heaven! My yoga friend could be joining me, but if not I will take a book and just enjoy!

Just finished putting up the runner bean poles and planting the beans. Do you call them string beans? Then we planted two big pots of geraniums, one scarlet and one shocking pink. They are in full view of our living room so super colourful. I picked some broad beans and have blanched them in readiness for a pasta dish of prawns, scallions, garlic, chillies, broad beans and white wine. I buy little tiny bottles of wine when they are on offer so I am not tempted to drink the rest of the bottle. Oh, also parsley and arugula, which we have masses of. We call it rocket. I might be good and have shiritaki noodles instead of tagliatelle.

I've just arranged all the tins and jars we brought back from France on a side unit in the kitchen. It looks very pretty, especially the fish tins packed in Brittany with lovely old fashioned designs and lettering. It gives me enormous pleasure when I look at them, not the least because I am in love with the French language and it is a reminder for me.

Well, now I am going to watch a German film about Hannah Arendt!:laugh:

Bye for now, Heather in flowery and fabulous Hampshire UK

PS Sylvia - just seen your post. My son #1 was not socially adept and I did worry about him. I had to train him how to walk into the playground and smile at people, because otherwise he was bullied. He still struggles with life and I still worry about him. I hope things settle down with your granddaughter. You are doing a wonderful job.

Happy hump day!
Watched DWTS also.Wanted amy and Derk to win,but was glad Max got his 1st award.
Gonna be another hot one-80+.
hugs
jane

I'm keeping you and Bodi in my prayers. Wishing you luck.:flowerforyou:

Happy Wednesday. Well I got my fitbit and have it set up, I think. Interested in seeing what it says I do for steps and sleep. Going to be a beautiful day.
I am upset with my DS as he calls me last evening and says family meeting tomorrow night at 7:30. Would not give me anykind of hint only not bad news. So I am worried. Darn kids anyway. When I tried to get him to tell me he just said let us do this our way.

Jill--I had a terrible time getting my fitbit to snap. DH had to help and even then it did not go easy. I do hope it gets easier.

Carol--glad you are feeling better and sounds like you have alot of reason to be proud of your son.

Michele--I color my hair when I can't stand it anymore. I keep thinking I will let it grow out and when I can not stand it anymore I do it. I buy the nice and easy foam and do it myself. Since my hair is short it is not hard. A lady I work with the other day asked me if she can dye my hair and pick the color. I thought what the heck, so sounds like Friday after work we are going to do that. I just told DH it is only hair and will grow out if we don't like it. I am stepping out of my comfort zone.

Margaret--Thanks for the info on heart attacks.

Kim--I would of had a hard time keeping my mouth shut, but him doing the work would of helped.

The lady that comes every two weeks and cleans for me came yesterday and was all upset. She is losing her house. I know she has been trying so hard to keep it since her husband passed away several years ago. I feel so bad for her and told her she could stay with us until she can find a place. She says she has until Aug 1st. I just pray that something works out for her. Guess no matter what there are people with worse problems then I think I have. She didn't stay as was so upset, so I cleaned house and it felt pretty good. Got some deep cleaning done and feel like I got somethings done with less stress. I have thought several times about letting her go as I can do this myself, but know she depends on the money, It's only $50 twice a month.

Sylvia--the pre-school acouple of my grand kids go to also have the graduation. My DGD graduated this year. They had a cookout and program together it was nice, but cold and they had it outside. I like the save the world by smaller clothes. I know sometime when I am folding my jeans I think that can't be mine they are to small. Just reading about what happened with your DGD makes me so mad. What kind of leader would let that happen?? Is there a council office you could call? This is not what Girl Scouts are about. Hugs to both of you.

Nena--sometimes we have to just enjoy life and ajust things later. I know that I am far from perfect and do the best I can and enjoy things when I can without going overboard. Not sure I explained that right.

Heather--prayers for DH's nephew and the family. Enjoy the time with the DGC. I am afraid the NEWS DS wants to tell everyone this evening is that they are moving and taking my DGD away. I spend alot of time with her and would break my heart. I have to stop thinking about it as all kinds of things runing around my mind about what this could be they want to tell all of us together.

Sue-glad to hear you found a riding buddie.

Barbie--I also read JoAnn Fluke books about the cookie shop and love them.

Carolann--congrates and keep up the good work.

Welcome Debbie and all the new ladies. You have a found a great group for support and friendship. Come often and get to know us and us you.

Has anyone heard from Sandy? Haven't seen her post here in awhile and concerned.

Joyce--hope you get some help with the computer issues. There is so much I do not know and seems I can not learn. But I keep trying. I was proud as I got my fitbit set up and synced to my home computer.

Patty--I do think your class is going to be very good and glad to hear you are having a good sign up so far. I am sure you will have some drop out and at the same time word of mouth will bring in more. When is your first class? My mind can't remember what you said.

Lucy--how scary for you and Milo. I agree that the guy could be an ok guy or areal jerk. I just wounder did he not see Milo and think maybe he should keep his distance instead of walking up to you with your back turned and on the phone.

Robin--great news about Bodi, Hope he keeps doing well and gets to come home very soon.

Well time to get some work done and I work the gift shop this afternoon. I told them I have to leave at 7. I do hope DS has good news, not bad. Trying real hard not to think about it as nothing I can do till this evening. Remember ladies we are in this journey together and we will be better for the changes we make.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE

Here's the joke of the day:

:happy:

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, "There's Jennifer; she's a lawyer,' or “That’s Michael, he's a doctor.'"

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher. She's dead."

:laugh:

Joyce, glad you figured out how to post from your ipad. I love my app for logging. The pie chart is super handy for seeing how well the balance of carbs, fat, and protein, but it will not allow you to participate in the message board. I love the website for that and for showing the days in your streak. The app doesn't show that either. One word of caution: pay attention to your post or autocorrect will make you say some really weird things!

I can do everything on my app but I CAN'T FIND THE MESSAGE BOARDS!! What's the secret?

Well THAT stinks, but at least I'm not nuts.

Been reading about hair color...funny what catches my attention:ohwell:

I have always used a L'Oreal box color to touch up my roots between my trips to the salon for highlights and a "good" root touch up. It's never been a problem. Lately I've been going to an Aveda school. Not really much less than a salon but I like it fine and have never had any problems. Yesterday the "instructor" decided she had to "test" my hair because I use "those store bought colors" to see if their bleach would lift the color. I was very annoyed because it's never been an issue before and wasn't going to be. Plus I didn't have time to waste with her dumb games.

It lifted fine but just to be a "B" she tried to tell me my hair was breaking and couldn't handle the process. My hair is FINE. The strand they cut off was left in a foil of bleach for way too long and of course it was breaking.

Long story long I made a HORRIBLE scene, demanded to see the director and before it was over I had a new instructor, same student (who was a doll) and got my color and highlights.....without one broken strand. My hair feels better than it has in months.

OK, have to get the boy ready for bed...and The Middle. Might be back later with more random thoughts.

xo-Gloria in hot Metro Detroit

Hi girls. Nice day running errands. My blood sugar last night was way high and now I know why…I entered my oriental cabbage salad recipe and omg the carbs in it was ridiculous. I even calculated it with truvia and it had the same carbs as sugar, so I wonder if the data base is right.

Joyce: no help from me…I just put the back on my old Motorola flip phone an turned it on for the first time in about a month!

Michele: I did have to look the word “relax” up in the dictionary!!! I do my own hair, so no clue as to what a salon would charge. I use loreal experte…..it has the color and highlights.

Kim: holy cow what a job!

Patty: glad none of your bouncing kids went airborne!

Cowley: you join by posting! Welcome aboard

Katla; holy cow that’s some egg!

Heather: so sorry about DH’s nephew. That’s quite a load.

Robin: glad to hear the update. At least Bodi boy is improving. Poor Ritter; he misses his buddy! Will you have to learn how to catheterize him if he comes home?

CArolann: good for you to get to the gym!

Debbie: you joined when you posted! Welcome to our group.

Kim: wow those calories are crazy!

Anamika: I think climate change is why we have so many awful weather events here now

Alison hope you are feeling better soon

Sylvia: what kind of girl scout troupe acts like that???

Lucy: oh I am so sorry about Milo and the biting incident. We had a dog once we had to take to “naughty doggy school” because she sent DH to the emergency department twice. She was fine after 2 years of intensive therapy but I always worried she’d bite someone else. Turns out she never did and was a total “love me” dog to everyone! It actually was a good experience because now we can handle special behavior needs dogs and our girls learned how to behave around dogs because they really all can be unpredictable. I hoep it all turns out ok.

Gloria: hooray for a nice new hair coloring! Glad you stood up for yourself

Ladies; I’m off to bed. I have had a headache now for 2 days and it’s getting worse. So sleep tight all! Take care, Meg from beautiful Omaha where our doves finally fledged and now we can put the awnings out!

Did 45 min of yoga this morning (I got to class late) and then an hour of the deep water. Tomorrow I'm planning to do Jari Love's Extremely Ripped 1000 DVD.

drkatiebug - you get a pie chart????? I loved that when I was at Livestrong and sorry that MFP didn't have it. But they do? Where?

barbie - I watched DWTS last night. I DVR'd it. I was disappointed in a way that the first hour was nothing more than a recap of what they did, Twitter questions, etc. I wanted to see the final show, not this. And by the time I realized that the final elimination wasn't going to be on this episode, it was too late to watch the other one. So I'll watch it tonight.

CarolAnn - good for you getting to the gym!

Debbie - welcome. You joined by posting! Come back often

Have senior bowling this afternoon. This season they made Vince a captain (boo). Have my carrots all cut up and ready to take with me along with my Bubba Mug of water. When we change to the other bowling alley, I don't know if I'll need such a large mug. Guess we shall see. Maybe I'll take it with me and just have what I want and bring the rest home to finish

DeeDee - we probably won't be in the pool since we have senior bowling today. One of the things that I like about the other bowling alley is that they only have 3 person teams rather than 4 person teams so you get out early. Maybe we'll get home a little early since it's right before Memorial Day and hopefully people won't be there. Then I can at least go in the pool before dinner. Update: after dinner I did lay out by the pool. I had every intention of going in (to me, the water was warm) but then I realized that I'd forgotten to bring my towel down by the pool. Well, I'll be in it tomorrow, that's for sure

Margaret - that's great that Meryl and Mak won! First time for him! I'm so happy. In a way I do wish Amy and Derek had won, but then again I'd always wonder if some of their votes might not have been sympathy votes. But on the other hand, Amy has overcome so much

katla - Vince ALWAYS tells me "whenever you do something on the computer, save, save, save." Hope you had fun at your lunch and that it was at that Asian place.

Lucy in DE - I bet Milo WAS protecting you. I can totally understand how you feel.

Heather - how wonderful of you to invite people to your house rather than going out. In many ways I'm with you, I hate paying the sky high prices at a restaurant especially when I can have something better (and that I want) at home. Good luck at the knee clinic. Personsally, I'd much rather have shiritaki noodles, but I don't know of any restaurant that serves them

Robin - we worry so much about our furry friend, huh? So glad to hear Bodi is doing a bit better and may be coming home

Vicki - the way your son said "let us do this our way" leads me to think that it's pretty good news. Let us know what it is, ok?

Joyce - I knew you'd find a vacation home!

Meg - feel better soon

Well, had dinner then made another banana chocolate cake, I like how this one turned out better so the other one I'll probably put out for Jessica and Vince to have when she gets here on Fri. then I made fundge for Denise, right now it's in the refrigerator. I'll probably cut it up tomorrow. See, her birthday is coming up, have her cake made and in the freezer, bought her card today (something vince would never think of), he's going to pick up the ipad she wants tomorrow and we need to send that to her. So I know Vince and once he gets on a roll, he wants everything done ASAP. I wasn't going to make the fudge until jtomorrow, but then I thought "if Vince gets on one of his kicks, I'd better be ready, he'll probably want to send the computer asap."

Michele in NC

:bigsmile: Tomorrow, first thing, I will be bringing my car in for a windshield replacement, due to a crack which was likely due to a stone hitting the windshield in the past, which I had not seen before, because it was kinda under the windshield wiper. Wouldn't you know it, I got hit by another ...whatever...stone...on the way home from work today. Oh man, am I happy that happened today and not...tomorrow!!!

Renny
Vancouver Island, BC