WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2014

I am trying to keep up, dear ladies.
Meg, my heart and worry is with you. I have no solutions to offer, other than please do not poke out your eyes.

I saw my grandbabies this week. Not long enough of course, but they have no choice but to endure my hugs and kisses.

it's late and it is past my bedtime.
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Renny

Good morning from sunny Hampshire!:flowerforyou:

Anne - I was a successful writer, only in children's books. I also had a play on BBC radio and short stories and poems published. I also had a small theatre company and wrote and directed my own experimental plays. For some reason my novels got stuck. I had agents who believed in me and famous commissioning editors who were keen to publish me, but I alwsys came unstuck at the last hurdle. Once it was only a financial problem at a prestigious publishing house that pipped me at the post. Of course I got very discouraged at so many near misses. :brokenheart: It was the cause of much of my depression.
I think, with the wisdom of hindsight, that the books were very reflective of the disturbed state of my mind at the time. They were also very exposing and I am not sure I had the inner resources to push them. For whatever reason their time has passed and they are very much historical documents thst I would like to see in print so they don't die with me. Amazon kindle can do that for me and you can also print on demand for family and friends to have on their shelves .:blushing:
I was friends with Debbie for quite a while and close in the way that mums with young children can be. I knew her all through changes of husband, boyfriends and while her mother went to jail for helping at an old lady's suicide. Her best book is Tulip Fever, about Holland in the 17th century and she decorated her beautiful house in the old Dutch style, just like a film set. I also love Close To Home, which so accurately represents the life of young mothers in North London in the 70s.
Her daughter Lottie Moggach, who I knew as a screaming, unruly toddler, published her first novel last yesr to great acclaim.

Going to catch up with admin today and read the newspaper.

Lots of love, Heather UK

GO SYLVIA! ! ! ! ! :drinker: :flowerforyou: :drinker:

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Lesley: What is a “bore” for a garden?:huh: :flowerforyou:

Barbie: I hope you enjoy dancing at the fair. Have fun learning to use your smart phones!:bigsmile:

Heather: Good luck with your Amazon publishing adventure. I haven’t been very keen on ebooks, because reading the phone screen for any length of time hurt my eyes. DH finally got me to try light type in a black background and it is much more comfortable for me. Some of the best books ever written were written for children. Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series is a favorite of mine. :flowerforyou:

Sylvia: Congratulations on making it to the 180’s!:flowerforyou:

Juanita in Sudbury: Thanks for telling us about Yummly. :flowerforyou:



Nothing is set in stone where my daughter’s health and the upcoming birth of her son is concerned, but we seem to have settled on a plan and I can start looking for airline tickets.

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!

:happy: Hi Ia Sue

I am new ro the site I am 57 and I habe put on mega weight on since herniating a disk and could not move for almost 3 months, Been told Pilates is good to strengthen backs any one any comments on this Please Sx

Woo hoo, Sylvia. That's wonderful. You are an inspiration.

Heather, you've done so many interesting things and know so many interesting people. Thanks for telling us about it in your posts so we can do a little vicarious living.

Ready for the day (it's 9 am in California). Barbie, this is probably time for a mid-day siesta (if you take such a thing), lol. DGD has promised an hour of housecleaning. I'm excited! She's only 10 but she's a great little organizer and cleaner. She can use the extra money that I'll pay her too. She's all about shopping for back-to-school clothes.

My, she's picky though. We went to TJ Maxx last night. There were exactly 2 shirts that she was willing to try on. Part of the difficulty is that clothes need to meet Waldorf (the school she goes to) standards. That means no graphics and no logos bigger than your finger. She cracks me up in general though. Everything has to look and be "just so." She's 10 going on 16.

We tried the compressed air on Izzy (my little dog) when she was jumping up against express orders. It worked. Poor dog. :laugh:

I had the difficult :ohwell: problem last night of not having eaten enough calories or gotten in enough nutrients :noway: . I had a piece of steak thawed in the fridge. Izzy would normally have been the beneficiary as I'm cutting down on saturated fats. Oh well. Poor Izzy again, lol. I enjoyed every (guilty) bite.

Mimi

BTW, speaking of DGD being 10 (just) going on 16...she's actually very age-appropriate in most areas. She bought a Samsung tablet the other day for her birthday, with birthday money and money she'd saved up over the last year. She decided to return it and use the money to build a tree fort. Way to go!!!

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CynthiaT60'
Get your mom a pair of crocs or flip-flops with a cushy sole to wear in the shower. A bit bothersome to step out of and wash the toes, but they will stand up to water use. In the military hospitals, the soldiers use flip-flops for shower shoes. :happy:

Hello my friends. What a frustrating Saturday. I’m trying to make ONE little edit on a pdf file for the book and can’t do it. I have downloaded all sorts of their free products and they don’t work and you can’t buy it on line except per month. If I buy the program outright the publisher will reimburse me but not for a month-to-month purchase that I probably won’t need again for months! So now DH is headed to Best Buy to buy it outright.

I did okay last night with pizza. We had a pizza cut into squares instead of wedges and I had 4 squares, so I think that’s about 2 slices. I had salad and ½ plain vanilla ice cream. Not bad. We watched Robin Hood Men in Tights…I had never seen the whole thing before. It was pretty funny.

Heather your bbq sounds like it will be wonderful! I hope the weather holds out for you

Vicki: I did see the news about the Kearney hospital. What a mess! It could have been much worse though. Yes, other grandmother is planning to help the kids financially which is not going to be encouraging them to become self-sufficient.

Sylvia; I don’t have osteoporosis either but have shrunk due to the discs in my spine compressing as I age. So it can happen without the bone disease. Good thing you don’t have that! My mom must have had bones of steel because she (and dad) fell constantly—including down stairs-- and she never broke a thing. Glad the kids got a good start to the school year. I never understood the thing with dogs and bikes either! Great joke!

Kim: your stuffed zuc recipe sounds good; I may have to try that!

Katla: I tend to be an over-worrier myself! I hate those companies that take advantage of having access to debit your account by adding on services. That has happened several times. Now I make my automatic payments strictly through the bank.

Carol: I hope you have fun at your dinner!

Tere: my dh and I were married later too. I had baggage from a violent first time around and his baggage was that at 45, he had never been married! Our greatest challenge was him and me realizing that he was so used to just doing what he wanted that he didn’t think about me! I had to learn to understand that habit while he learned to break it!

Mimi: your suggestion is a good one and one that I had thought of. I have already given DD her one warning that if I even have a suspicion that the child is not being cared for properly I will call CPS. I can’t be the grandma who cares for the kid day in and day out, but I can spot signs of neglect with the best of them.

Sue: wow what a welcome home! No wonder you are tired! Get some extra rest!

Anne: why are you not allowed to have cats? Can you call the police about dogs off the leash? We have leash laws here and the humane society will intervene pretty quickly for running dog complaints. We have had a couple of horrific child –dog run ins where the child has been severely mauled by dogs running loose.

Michele: your D must stand for “pretty D***ed good! LOL. Actually I have never met the other grandmother nor do I even know her name. I agree with the selfishness part…and it goes around to all three of them. I assume I will get to meet her sometime! It’s very strange; the kids have never had us over and she has never attempted to make contact with us. So who knows. But I agree that if she is too involved they will be in a crisis when she dies.

Barbie thank you once again for continuing the thread!

Renny: thank you for the kind words. So many people have asked me not to poke my eyes out that I will agree. I do reserve the right to fall on a spear though!

Cynthia: The other grandmother actually lives about 50 miles away in another town. The other grandfather is not in the picture. We hope the dad does grow up some; he at least seems to have some common sense. My almost-22 year old daughter just changed her name again, like you do in grade school. I almost deleted her email yesterday because I didn’t recognize the sender! That’s her maturity level. Maybe mom can wear shower shoes or the kind of shoes you wear while swimming? I have some from Lands End that are very comfortable. The wrist strap with the fit bit is pretty comfy too. I don’t even notice I have it on.

Sylvia: CONGRATS!!!!!

Juanita: I have been on that site and it’s pretty good!

Mimi: my daughters were horrible about being picky! They were so bad once a saleslady said she could no longer work with us! They were so bad people stopped what they were doing to actually laugh at them. I finally had enough…I know part of the problem was the styles were so different from what they saw in Russia. So I put up with it longer than I would normally have. But one day I just walked out of the store. Startled, they ran after me. I said “no more shopping. You’ll get what I buy you from Good will and that’s it.” So I stuck with that for a while and they learned their lesson! When we started shopping again, my rules were 1) you try on anything I suggest you try on and 2) you have to have a concrete reason for not liking something. Well low and behold, they learned that some things look much better on you than on a hanger. They also had to start helping me by being specific “I don’t like plaid” v. “That’s just ugly.” I kept picking stuff they didn’t’ like because I had no idea what they did and didn’t like and they wouldn’t tell me. Now things are much better when we shop.

OK I need to get busy. It’s cool and dreary here today with rain in the forecast for the entire week. My cold seems better. I need more water though. I nearly totally stop drinking when I am sick; seems to make me feel worse. Oh (and ugh!) the baby’s name will be Nikita even though she is a girl.

Take care, Meg from Omaha trying to think nice grandma thoughts.

Hello all: I got up this morning and went horseback riding in the indoor arena as it was threatening rain. My poor horse looked a little surprised when I brought out the saddle as she has not been ridden for about four weeks but we had a good ride. Some poor guy is camping out at the stable as his truck broke down while he was hauling his horse out to the Black Hills. He was hoping the truck would be fixed today. Hope he and his horse get on their way soon but at least they are well taken care of.

I already have over 8000 steps today!!! I will catch up with my DD yet.

Sylvia - Yeah for you getting into the 180s!!!

Kim - Would have loved to have met up with you but we were on a very tight schedule that weekend with my mom's 90th birthday party in Discovery Bay. We went to the church and then back to a potluck immediately after.

Words to remember - Don't let go of hope. Hope gives you strength to keep going, even when you fell like giving up. Sue in SD

Barbie – I have been working on making the decision to get a smart phone too!!

Cynthia – shower shoes, or flip flops… I have great open rubber and Velcro sandals for beach walking with lots of padding – you could sit and wash your feet then put these on and be really comfy!

Heather – would you be comfortable sharing the name of a kid’s book you wrote, it would be fun to read it.

Sylvia - Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :bigsmile: :flowerforyou: :bigsmile:


August goals :
Stretch 5 minutes a day xxxx
Walk 45 minutes a day 13 times
Do Heather’s abc balance 1 time a week 2 weeks done

Kim from N. California

afternoon ladies,
long long day..and ate way to much, ate bad bad stuff.. but tasted real real good...my DFIL had a nice time but didnt get him back until about 5:45 so he was exsuasted...he got to see his sister, and brother, and sister in law, but of course he couldnt remember who anyone else was...
I am going to speak with the nurses early next week and see what plan of action to take with my DFIL, I want to get him into a facility that can deal with the dementia ,there is one across the river from us about 10 minutes away, so I am going to go check that out...I will speak to my SIL also since they are the POA,but if we are going to move him, it has to be before he really gets going and out of it. want to settle him in to somewhere were he can adjust well, and have people to talk to..
well I will have to brush up on the eating tomorrow.. I ate sugar stuff, I ate a roll with butter, chicken parm, pasta salad.. but drank a boat load of water...Oh well tomorrow is another day...

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Deb A in CNY