WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2014

Hello Ladies :flowerforyou: :drinker:

Well here it is August already!
Trying to get catch up with all the posts.
First off a BIG thank you to barbie for creating this .**hugs**

second to the lovely ladies that have stayed with me through
my good and bad times -Jan,Liz and Linda.

My goals this month:To be kinder to myself.

more later.
Molly in sunny WV

Hello ladies!

One of my August goals is done, I changed my strength training workout. One of my MFP friends mentioned eccentric workouts. I asked Hubby if he knew what they are and he's been doing them! I have started, when you lift weights you have a 6 second rep, 2 lifting and 4 bring the weight back down. Very challenging!

Michele, you do so many kinds of workouts, have you tried this?

Sylvia, congratulations on another pound loss. Now I hear Queen singing in my head!

Meg, enjoy every chance you can to relax. Congratulations on your new grandchild on the way!

Barbie, great stepping!

Welcome new ladies and hugs to those who need them.

Cindy in OK

Waaaarrrrgh! :sad:

Had an antsy moment with one of my old friends just now!:ohwell: I rang her about the Wales trip next May and there were all kinds of excuses about why they couldn't come to visit us at the cottage we are renting. They have dogs, it is too far to come for the day, etc etc. The bottom line and the unspoken agenda is that her husband, who would be driving, can't imagine coming for lunch and not drinking. Anyway, I got a bit cross as DH regularly drives nearly two hours each way to the football. In the dark, in the winter. Also they have 8 months to arrange a dog sitter for the day. Never mind. We are going to go anyway and I have just paid the deposit. I thought they might like a day out in a beautiful place - silly me. These are people who travel all over the world. My friend only drives locally.
My other friend in Wales, who will be closer, looks more promising for a meet up, but I think again, the drinking thing is a barrier. She said they might stay over somewhere. They are almost alcoholics.
We don't really feel like leaving our expensive, beautiful cottage to go and see them. Or DH doesn't as he hardly knows the women and the men not at all.
Oh well. We're all getting older I guess. But I bet the drinking and driving has a lot to do with it.:ohwell:

Sorry for the rant.:embarassed: I know we will love the place. In the middle of a natural environment with wildlife, wild ponies and views across the fields and the sea. A patio to eat on.
It was the home of Evans the polar explorer who died with Scott on the Antarctic Expedition.

Meg - I've made the mint syrup. All bottled and labelled and in the fridge waiting for the limes and the white rum. When does your plane get in? :laugh: Who else is coming?

Heather in Hampshire UK

Bumpin to mark my place

Heather: I hope you get the rain you need and it isn’t a deluge. We seem to be seeing a lot of unusual and extreme weather worldwide.:grumble: I’d like your daiquiri recipe. I want to know how to make mint syrup. Is there a website with a recipe? I also want to come with Meg, (if only I could.) I’m sorry that your friend is making excuses. If people want to drink they need to plan to spend the night or hire a taxi. Are those alternatives possible?:huh:

Pat in OH: Longevity is something to think about. My dad died in his early seventies with heart problems aggravated by chain smoking. My mom died at 81 from emphysema due to chain smoking. I’ve never smoked and my heart is just fine, so I have no idea how long I’ll live. We could get really old which is okay if we’re coherent and having a good time in life. My mom's nephew is now in his nineties and so is his wife.:flowerforyou:

Sylvia: Today’s “joke” is a very accurate description of a whole lot of time we spend, though I haven’t had any trouble with my periods.com :laugh:

Juanita in Sudbury: Welcome back! It is nice to see you here. I’m happy that you had such a good time camping.:flowerforyou:

Meg: Thanks for bringing up rabies! Yikes! Maybe I can find a way to use the fact to help create change. I really think the homeowners association needs to step up and sanction her.:grumble: :explode:

Rita from CT: I hope your doctor appointment goes well and you have a winner this time. I’m glad the time with your visit to your DD & DSIL’s for DGS’s birthday was happy. Tell me more about your new bed. We’ve been shopping but have not found anything we like.:flowerforyou:

Diane: I’m happy that you’re back. I used photos that I already have stored on my computer. If you don’t have any photos of yourself it would be a nice idea to take one soon so that you have a before and after showing all your success.:flowerforyou:



Rereading my earlier rant about the neighbor who feeds raccoons, I forgot to mention the cat issue. Each home is allowed two pets, maximum. She has 6 cats that roam free, hunt wildlife, and have catfights along with the raccoons. They share feed bowls with the raccoons, too.:grumble:

I went to someone new and got my hair cut today. I need to wash it and see how it dries to know whether it is okay. I liked the stylist very much.:happy:

I’m starting to make plans to go spend time with DD and DGD. DD needs my support as she is having health and stress problems with her pregnancy. I may have mentioned that this will be her last week of work. I’m probably going to leave my husband in his sister’s care. Now that I have a plan in mind, I’m feeling better about things.:flowerforyou:

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison



August Goals:
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!

Tonight I made a 5-gallon bucket of cherry tomatoes and a bunch of peppers into some pretty yummy no-salt salsa. I'm going to have to learn how to do canning, as I don't think it will last in the frig too long. I'm having so much fun with this stuff that I think somebody should go into business making salsa, BBQ sauce, spaghetti sauce etc, all with no salt added. I wonder how hard that would be to start. Hmmm... Probably pretty difficult and expensive to start up.

I took the kids to buy school supplies. It was really fun! But I was amazed at how much it cost. It was over $100 for all three kids' school supply lists. And that was without any clothes or any extras. Just the bare necessities, and off-brands when possible. Why a kindergartner needs six glue sticks and two pairs of scissors and two kinds of crayons, I don't understand.

One on my sales reps told me she is sending me a drafting job and she needs it overnight. It's almost 8:30 PM and it still has not arrived. No surprise. I'm not holding my breath, and I'm not going to stay up late waiting for it. I've ridden her little merry go round before.

Good night!

Sylvia

Did 20 minutes of yoga today, held my plank for 2 minutes 30 seconds and then took the extremepump class for an hour. Came home, went in the pool, went to mahjongg tonight. Tomorrow the plan is to do some walking on the treadmill at a good speed (probably about 4.5mph)

We want to use up the rock that we have, so tomorrow the plan is to go to the Y, then take some things to the soup kitchen, then come home and hopefully finish riverrocking, if not get very close to finished.

I'm planning to have an "event" (for lack of a better word) for the Newcomers in March. Vince and I went to see a magician last Friday, we thought he was very entertaining, maybe more of a storyteller than a magician. I went to this place here, the Crowne Plaza, to see about booking a room there. There is a $3500 fee, out of that is the cost of the food and anything else you need to rent from them (like we will need to rent a wireless mic), and the difference you have to pay for the room rental. If you exceed the $3500, then the room is free. I spoke with the president of Newcomers today and she is going to be going to another place here that does catering, I've never been there. She's going to report back to me how the food was, the presentation, did they have enough staff, etc. etc. Then I'll investigate fees. I suspect it's not going to be as much as the Crowne Plaza since the first year the Y had their annual meeting at the Crownen Plaza but for the last two years (when this other place has been opened) they've had their meeting here.

We just realized that we won't be going to Mexican Train tomorrow night because Vince will be on a clear liquid diet.

Say, there's a tree that I can't wait to get rid of. what do people do to get rid of the stump? I'm really not a fan of calling in a landscaper to grind it down as that might cost a lot. I read where you should drill a few holes in the stump and put muriatic acid on it. It'll take a few months, but that helps to decompose the stump. Has anyone done this? We did something like it back when we lived in Stroudsburg, and Vince said that he was disappointed, I think he was expecting that in a few weeks it would be disintegrated.

Meg - I only buy large quantities of food if I'm having to prepare a large dish (like for a social). I also like to get the cheese sticks and minibabybels there since you get more in the bag. Otherwise, the main reason we have the membership is that we figure it would pay for itself in the gas discount. I don't like to buy large quantities of food, I'd rather buy a smaller quantitity more often. At least I know it's fresh.

Cndy in OK - I've done something like the eccentric workout using weights for biceps also overhead tricep extension. You could probably also do that with lateral raises. Now you have me thinking about how you would do it for the legs. Maybe lying on your side and lifting your legs 2/4. Sounds like something you do in pilates. I have done something like that for my abs.

Diane - welcome!

katla - I would be upset with your neighbor, too. Glad you like your new stylist. I'm thinking about going to the place Jessica got her hair cut to see what their prices on coloring hair are. To me, the place I usually go to is getting too expensive. I don't feel like I get anything special.

In a bit of a rush tonight. Know that I read all the posts, probably didn't respond to as many as I should have. But bear with me,

Michele in NC

Diane, for the longest time I had a picture of my cat as my profile picture. I finally put one of me when I was more satisfied with the way I looked.

Can't remember who has the new baby in the family, just born but congrats.

Meg, I feel for you and your daughter's situation. Pregnancy should be such a happy time, especially for a Mom and her daughter. But I understand how you feel. As a nurse and knowing how lax a hospital can be in just s regular isolation unit I am a little nervous about the ebola patients coming over here. But the more I hear about the isolation units on steroids the more I feel better and safer about it. And the man is getting better. I heard tonight on our local news that one of our local cities is being used in supplying some of the material used in some of the medicine. So we are proud of that.

Tomorrow is my echocardiogram. As a nurse, I love to see those. I love to see the heart pumping and see the blood going through the vavles and everything. I really don't expect anything to be found and I haven't had any episodes of high heart rate since I have had my monitor put on. It may end up a pretty expensive test.

I have a game I play on face book and I have been saving up virtual gold for about 2 years in hopes of being able to try for top placement and this is going to be the month. I have even found I can play the game while riding my bike!!! I hope I don't ignore my family here though.

I don't know if some of you remember last year when my mother in law died that I had said that after she died and funeral was over and I had given her clothes to her daughter that I was going to try to distance myself from her so that she could just forget I existed. She has a very malignant, parasitic type personality and can bleed a person dry emotionally and financially if you let her. She just uses people and takes no responsibility for her own actions. I still have her a a face book friend just so I can keep up with pictures of the family. Facebook today told me that today is her birthday. A part of me wants to just say a quick happy birthday to her but yet the biggest part of me says not to even go there. It has been almost a year now since we talked. So far I have restrained myself from saying anything. But from those of you who know me by now it is not in my nature to be this way.

Joyce, Indiana

Good Morning, It is the first of the month and crazy time here at work so I haven't had time to read or post. I hope everyone is doing well. I work both jobs today and then need to mow my yard, I swear it grows so dang fast.
I have signed up for some on-line college classes. The classes are free if you want to take them without getting credits for them. The one I am doing now is called "Learning How to Learn" It is a kind of refresher for people who have been out of school for a while. This class is a month long and you have assignments every week and quizes as well. It started August 1st and I have done the first week assignments and taken the quiz, I got a 12.5 out of 13. The next class is a 7 week class on nutrition and healthy eating and I can't wait to start it. It doesn't start until Sept 15th. Some of the classes offered are "go at your own pace" and some you follow guidelines and timelines for. I am super pumped about the nutrition class.
I am also signed up to take the Livestrong class through the Y, it is a full two day training class on how to work with people who have cancer and want to work out. I'm excited about this training session also but have heard it might be cancelled for lack of people signing up.
OK,, talked to much already and need to get to work.
Miss reading the posts, I hope everyone is doing well, prayers for those struggling and welcome to the new people.
Have an awesome healthy day,
Patty, Cincinnati OH

I woke up this morning to discover there is no water counter on my phone app. Has anyone else had this problem? I use an iPhone. I did send MFP an email message but haven't had a reply yet.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

I did get a reply and found water under the blue plus sign. I'd still rather have the previous version back. They ought to give a person the choice of whether to "upgrade" or not.

Katla, still grumpy about the phone app changes.

Tonight I made a 5-gallon bucket of cherry tomatoes and a bunch of peppers into some pretty yummy no-salt salsa. I'm going to have to learn how to do canning, as I don't think it will last in the frig too long. I'm having so much fun with this stuff that I think somebody should go into business making salsa, BBQ sauce, spaghetti sauce etc, all with no salt added. I wonder how hard that would be to start. Hmmm... Probably pretty difficult and expensive to start up.

Sylvia

I found a great no sodium taco seasoning recipe on line. Perhaps you'll be able to find salsa recipes, too.

Good morning, everyone! Thanks to Kim(?) who inquired about me. It's wonderful to be missed and feel cared for!

I am still here. I've had a busy couple of weeks combined with feeling a little down. My house has been on the market for a little over a week and there have been no nibbles. I wasn't expecting to sell it within a week, but I did hope that someone would at least look at it! I'm getting more and more worried about being able to afford something I want for a new home. The places that I *think* I would like to live are in a really weird location for taxes; they are in the next county over for county taxes (at an exorbitant rate) but in the same city that I live in now (rates not so high but still have to be paid). I was truly hoping that, since they were several miles out of the city, that there would be no city taxes. :ohwell: I get so depressed thinking about living paycheck to paycheck forever.

In other news, my daughter will close on her condo on August 27. The giving up part of me says to just buy one where she did because they're cheap, but I know I would be unhappy there. They are so very small! I have to keep reminding myself that, once I get moved, I can look for another job that would potentially pay more! Please help me keep that in mind!!

In the meantime, I am trying to enjoy my time alone this week because next week will bring a flurry of packing and last minute purchases, culminating in moving the boy child into his dorm on the 16th. I truly wish that it could be just the two of us getting him moved, but he doesn't feel like he can exclude his dad. His dad will whine about everything and I am mentally and physically stronger so I will be doing more of the heavy lifting and running up and down steps when needed and calming our son if he gets panicky. Also, we have exactly 15 minutes to unload the cars so there is no time for his attempts to be center of attention. I would rather rent a truck or cargo van than to deal with the ex! :grumble: Thanks for listening to that rant...

So many of you have big things going on in your lives! I've kept up with the reading even though I've not posted much. Prayers have been whispered and virtual high fives given as I've read.

Oh! One happy thing is going on this month! The pastor at my main job is on sabbatical for the month so I have the office to myself! Awesome!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

So, I have made a difficult decision and am working up the gumption to follow through. My handyman shares an apartment with his daughter and two granddaughters. The mother is negligent (sleeps a lot during the day while the 7-year-old watches the 1-year-old, doesn't get the 7-year-old to school, etc.) in addition to her drinking, drug, and sex habits. She brings home strange men and then leaves the little girls with the men while she goes out to her part time job OR to go have sex with someone else in the other side of the duplex. I'm pretty certain the 7-year-old has been sexually abused within the past couple of months and I know that the 1-year-old was left alone in the house. To demonstrate how negligent she is, the older child has lice. A friend found the lice on Friday, promptly went out and bought the lice kit, spray, etc. (out of her own pocket), but it was Sunday night before the mother got around to treating the child. Not because she didn't have time, but because she didn't want to; she argued with her dad (Grandpa) about it because she wanted him to do it. I know there are drugs in the house, the house is disgustingly filthy, etc. I talked to a social worker at another elementary school yesterday and she gave me the number to call DSS. I hate to make the call, but I can't knowingly let these children continue to be in this environment without intervention. I also am pretty sure that they will figure out who made the report. :frown:

Thanks for listening to that one, too!

I supposed I ought to do some work. Hope everyone has a great day!

Carol in NC

Good morning ladies. Hope you are having a good day. I am not sure what happened yesterday, but I was in a funk. I did almost nothing all day, but eat. I was surprised when I weighed in this morning I am down .5. Did spend time in prayer last evening and feeling better today. So not giving up. It is to be HOT again today with a chance of rain. Rain would be nice.

Welcome Gail & Wind--Hope you come often this is a great group for support.:flowerforyou:

Welcome back Anne!:flowerforyou:

Kim--Glad you are not beating yourself up. Today is a new day and a new start.

Meg--Glad you had a fun birthday for DH. Hope the talk with DD's BF goes well. Sounds like he has alot of growing up to do. Sounds like DD is trying to share the baby experince with you.

Michele--DH has a Sam's card, but we do not buy our gas there as we shop HyVee and with the points we can get a good discount most the time. I have noticed the last several times we have went to Sam's there is no one at the door to check your card. Guess doesn't matter as you can not check out without it.

Sylvia--Now I have that song running around my head. Do think if I was not at work I could dance to that.:laugh:

Rita--Pray the new doctor can get the answers you need and you feel better soon.:flowerforyou:

Renny--congrates on the loss!:flowerforyou: :drinker:

Patty--sounds like the classes are going to give you alot of information.

Welcome Cathi--Are you doing voluteer work at these camp grounds? Acouple years ago a couple came to our church in the park and they said they travel around in their camper and work at different camp grounds as voluteers doing whatever work needs done. They sign up for how long each year they want to do it and then the company tells them where they need to go on how they signed up. DH and I think it is something we might be interested in when we retire as there is alot of the USA I have not been to.

Katla--I know how you feel. I do not do good with change.

Carol--I know it will not be easy, but do it for the children. Sounds like they have no one else. Prayers for their protection.

Well ladies I pray all have a good day and remember we are not in this alone.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE

Carol, what a horrible situation! No matter what, you have got to report it to the authorities. I know it's awkward if they know who reported them, but for the sake of the kids it has to be done. I once saw a man severely beating his child in the parking lot of Wal-Mart in Wichita. It was in the days before cell phones. I pulled up behind his car and wrote down the license number. His wife saw me do it and they started chasing me through the city. They even bumped into the back of my car three times! It was really scary. Finally, I pulled into a convenience store where a police car was parked and the idiots stayed outside and waited for me to come out. Well, I told the cop and that was that. He was arrested. I didn't see what happened to the kids. After I wrote my statement, the cop said that the guy didn't have any insurance for what he did to my car either. I lived in fear that they would track me down for a little while, but I never heard anything more about it. I just hope the kids got the help they needed out of the whole mess.

I think all my exercise while on vacation is finally catching up with me. Down another little bit this morning.

Here is the joke for the day:

:happy:

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast to her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"

Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said,

"Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

:laugh:

Have a great day!

Sylvia