WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2014

Good morning Ladies,

I am taking a rest day today. Later Hubby and I will go to church and then to dinner. Our church has services on Saturday and Sunday so we can go either day. We have been talking about getting another dog and have taken the first step by contacting the Maltese rescue group. I will keep you posted. I will post a photo of the three pugs we had on my profile page. We just have one old girl left now, she's the one in the middle. I don't think she will care if she has another little brother.

I've skimmed the posts but didn't make notes today. Welcome all new ladies and hugs to all!

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Cindy in OK

Happy sat.
Very humid-feels like 92.
Gonna work on some cards and stay in doors.
HUGS
jane

Hello all: Got over 6000 steps in so far today and eating lightly this morning and afternoon because today is our 45th wedding anniversary and we are going out with friends tonight to celebrate. I am sure I will be over for calories today but hopefully not too much.

We are getting rain today although not as much as Meg.

Vicki - Sorry motorcycle will not be fixed but have fun anyway.

Michele - Glad DH is doing well with his eyes. My hubby sees eye doctor on Tuesday and they are talking about surgery. He has glaucoma due to diabetes.

Healing angels to those who need them and congratulations to those with victories. Sue in SD

Don't let bad moments overwhelm you; be patient and they will pass.

Hello, everybody slim, fit and healthy or on their way to it

I was struggling with insomnia again which turns me into a miserable person.

I tried to read the posts..

Just a few thoughts to things which stuck to my fading memory


Kitty

I was going to ask you where the hell you are sailing in Phoenix, but you solved the mystery. Are you planning to sail to South Africa? I used to sail years ago, but did not have much opportunity lately. It is certainly good exercise and if there will be another life for me I will make sailing a big part of it. A female friend of mine has a boat this size in LA and she lived on it for some time. And happy Birthday to you. May the next year bring you all you wish for.

On a not so happy note. My mother suffered from dementia in her final years. It was not easy at all. And your father may underestimate what he is facing. I am scared to death that I am heading the same way and unfortunately they still have not figured out what causes it and how to prevent it, let alone cure it. It looks like we women are the ones who mostly get it. Scary, scary, scary.


Sylvia


It must be over ten years ago that I started picking up plastic bottles along the road side while biking.

Where I grew up nobody littered. I cannot stand it. Now I make sculptures out of discarded plastic bottles. I went to some of the schools nearby and tried to convince the art teachers to get their kids to do the same and at the same time teach them not to throw their plastic bottles into the streets. Because this is where I find a lot of the bottles. But I was met by complete disinterest.

Later I extended my trash gathering to glass bottles. Plenty of those too. I build glass walls with them and use them in my mosaics.

Heather


I realized that I had read “Tulip Fever” a few years ago. It stayed with me because of the historical fact that tulip bulbs became so valuable and were traded like diamonds.
Now I am looking forward to read one of your books.

Katia


I love Oregon. But I have only been a visitor to Oregon. I have never lived there. So I do not know if I would be happier to live there than in the oven I live in now. Of course in winter I complain about the cold and the wind here. In a way California had a pretty ideal climate. I guess this is why so many people live there.

I think you mentioned that the skin gets better if you do not yoyo anymore. That is what I thought too, the only problem is that I seem to succumb to comfort eating when I am down. I have to find a way not to do that again.

Monika

I have not welcomed you yet here. I am so glad to see a Landsmaennin posting. It looks like we are both world travelers. Only a few months ago I found Remifemin a pill for menopause relief. Now I should be way past menopause but I still had hot flashes and other symptoms and was never able to find something which helped me. The Remifemin took care of the hot flashes. They sell it at Amazon cheapest.




About Woody Allen

Some of you wrote that they would never watch a Woody Allen movie. I guess, this is because of his preference for younger women. Well, he is certainly not alone.
Of course as an old woman myself, I am frustrated by the fact that no man my age is even remotely interested in me.

But to be fair, I have to say that I was never attracted to old men either. Not when I was young nor later. I guess you have to grow old together to tolerate each other with all your age-related short comings.

And we women worship young women too. Why else would we buy all that stuff which is sold to us by
teenage models like make up, clothes, accessories, actually nearly everything is sold by very young women to us. I also find it highly ironic that so many fashion designers are gay. So we are trying to look like an underdeveloped teenager dressed by a homosexual?

The only ads I ever see where they use older women are really depressing. it always has to do with life insurance for funerals, leaking problems, or some other rather unpleasant occurrences related to old age.

Many of us try so desperately to stay young , while we seem to accept readily that men our age can have a considerable beer belly, gray hair, are out of shape physically and eat themselves happily into a heart attack or drink until their liver bursts..
If there would be such a bombardment of ads telling men that practically no part of their body is acceptable as there are for women, they would be miserable too.

Stepping down from my soapbox for today and wishing you all a great weekend


Anne, in the not so hot Mojave desert

Did an hour of Jari Love's Extremely Ripped 1000 DVD. Tomorrow I'm planning to ride on our recumbant bike

Joyce - I understand how sometimes you need to skim the posts, sometimes I have to also. I was just surprised that NO ONE mentioned it. Anyway, he had an attack of tachacardia. This time it lasted VERY long. He has had them about maybe once/year lasting for about 5 minutes (I seem to remember one episode lasting 45 minutes, but never longer than that). This time it lasted 3 HOURS. They finally gave him denizene (?sp). I never knew that there was a drug that would bring the heartrate down! It was amazing to watch how his rate went from the high 140's to the low 80's. Honestly, this was scary. You could see at times that the heart was trying to convert but it couldn't. Every once in a while his heartrate would go down into the 80's but then it would go back up to the 140's.

Went to the farmer's market then came home, had breakfast, made some sweet potato muffins and now I'm trying out this recipe for "double chocolate bread pudding". I hope Vince likes it, he likes anything chocolate. After making that I went out in the pool, then stopped at the Humane Society then church then home for dinner then sat out by the pool.

Diane in TX - happy birthday to your dh (even if he has problems with directions!). Never heard of Zumba gold. I'm going to check it out. I don't like all the twisting on the knee, either. Yes, it WAS pretty scary about Vince. His heartrate elevated that much for three straight hours! I get my heartrate up to that level when I'm exercising, but I certainly don't maintain it for three hours! When they gave him the drug, you should have seen all the people who were in the room! Doctors, nurses, I couldn't see his face there were so many people. He did read on the internet that, yes, it can only be given in the hospital because if something goes wrong you absolutely need the right equipment there. The doc warned him before they injected the drug that it would feel like his heart stopped. Well, the fact is...it DOES stop. Just for a second, tho. Now he wants to look it up to see why his heart wouldn't convert. He is doing better now. He was so glad that it didn't interfer with his second eye surgery. He was afraid that if they kept him in the hospital, that he would have to postpone the surgery. When we got home, he was just tired. That's normal. Never heard of uncolor. There's a Sally's Beauty Supply Place by me, I'll have to ask them about it

Lesley - one of the things that bothered me about training people was the fact that I'd tell them how to do something, explain that they can and would get hurt if they continued the way they were and as soon as I'd turn my back, they went right back to the way they did it incorrectly.

katla - even if you aren't able to check in regularly, you absolutely must post when the baby is born. Everyone else, if you see it, please be sure to post here that the baby was born. Sometimes I might not log in for a time and before I know I can't see that post. Safe travels!

Cynthia - trust me, I know that you can eat frozen cookies. Frozen chocolate chip...now that's good. I've made these seven layer bars that are good frozen, too. Am I bad or what?

Sylvia - what a great unexpected surprise getting that doggie door

DeeDee - I hope I get a renewal for my license. Seems for some reason Vince didn't, don't know why

MA - good for you joining the gym!

Vicki - I wanted to see "Gods not Dead" but I know Vince wouldn't and I couldn't think of anyone else who would go with me.

Christine - good choices at the fair

Jan - sending good vibes your way that you feel better soon. Yes, Vince has had tachacardia before. He has Wolfe-Parkinson-White syndrome. He went for an ablation in 2009 (I think that's when it was) but every time they touched his heart, he went into a-fib. Finally, the doc just called off the procedure.

Cindy in OK - I'll be leaving in a little bit to go to the Humane Society and then to church. Thanks for reminding me that I needed to fill out my donation envelope. See, a friend gave me these really nice cloth pics of dogs. Her mother passed away so she asked me to donate them to the Humane Society. A new dog -- how exciting!

Patsy - good luck on your run/walk! When is it?

Sue in SD - happy anniversary!

katla - so sorry to hear about dh's sister. Prayers being sent for her. So does this mean that son and DIL definitely got the house? Wonderful! Hope your coworker joins us.

After dinner went and sat by the pool. It was so warm I put my feet in the spa. The pool temp is 87!

Michele in NC

Anne, that is very interesting that you have made use of recycling the water and glass bottles. Do you use colored glass bottles like in beer bottles? It's terrible the school wasn't interested in taking that on as a project

Renny, your little grand child sounds adorable. What a wonderful memory to be able to store in your memory bank. I hope that Meg can have moments like that

Michelle, thanks for retelling us about Vince. I apologize about not getting it earlier. But WOW, what an experience for the both of you. From what I can remember back in my cardiac training days WPW is nothing to take nonchantantly. I is a serious matter. I don't know if they have better control over it now or not. I just remember that it is not common at all. I don't remember any kind of ablation but at that time I had my training they weren't doing ablations at all. I have never heard of that drug either. I am glad it is to be used in the hospital only. Your experience reminds me of when Charlie had his heart attack last year. Lots of people in that small ER room and then they practically ran him to the cath lab. Him and I were both very scared. One thing it did do was to help us be closer. The look on his face as they were having him sign all the paper work for the Cath I could tell he was terrified. He couldn't take his eyes off me. But I couldn't do a thing for him.

Sylvia, wonderful deal with that doggie door!

Speaking of hubbie, I picked up bunch of reorders at Sams pharmacy tonight. One of his medicines has always been $45 and it was $111. That's a big jump. I figured it was probably his Effient and he was now in the donut hole on his Medicare D. Maybe this will encourage him to stick to his diet a little more. He has a lot of money to spend in this donut hole before he gets to the next phase, the catastrophic period. With my MS medicine, I am in and out of the donut hole in March. I know that there is drug company assistance programs for the Effient, and my MS meds but you can't be on Medicare. at least not on the Effient. We make to much money a month for me to qualify for any assistance. Plus we paid off out mortgage about 10 years ago and have very little debt, just car payment.

My daughter found a FitBit at the dog park. She would have to buy the accessory kit in order to use it since she doesn't have a charger or the weird sounding thing that slips my mind right now you have in the USB port of your computer for it to sync. Well, she doesn't even have a computer, she just has a Samsung tablet she uses as a computer. She left a note at the dog park and when she goes there once a week she makes sure she takes it with her. She knows how important it is to me and how much they cost. It is quite dead now since she has had it for 3 weeks. I told her she could charge it at my house but she didn't want to.

It is HOT here. Right now it is 80* at almost 11 PM but he had a high of 107 heat index. Tomorrow will be the same. Last night we had a beautiful electrical storm. No rain just the lightning. Yeah, I'm weird, I love Mother Natures beauty like that.

Joyce, Indiana

Sunday and we went for a drive out. Raining so NO doggy walk, shame. Calories are OK at 2024 for my re-freed day, that is OK.
Felling better although coughed all night, grr. Back to training tomorrow again, I missed it, yup after 1 week of rest I missed training.
I just do NOT understand some women in gyms. You tell them how to do something properly and the way they do it will hurt themselves. Ah weel over it and train ONLY at home these days.
We are lucky that we have rain water here, but I still put it through Brita jug and keep in fridge
Lesley in Tasmania

morning ladies,
sorry i didnt check in last night, when we got home from pizza ,I said the heck with it and went to Walmart and grocery shopped,got home and put it away, then ran up to a friends house, My best girlfriend growing up was at her DB and SIL house, with her hubby, daughter and grandson,they live in North Carolina and were up for a wedding, so I got to spend about 1/2 hr with them..
between,her,our friend Lori,and her daughter Lindsey, we have lost 137 lbs all together.. which is awesome:bigsmile:
Found out from my friend Lori that they have a water arobic;s class twice a week from 7-8 pm at the middle school in the next town over and it is is only 50.00 for 6 months, it started july 1st, but am going to call monday and see if I can still join.. that would be alot better on my heel, and its cheap!!!1
got up early and started baking up a storm...
made the DH Bob Evan's Cherry nut bread, carrot cake, and found a no bake lemon meringue pie mix for my DFIL, I made those in muffin pans so that they are individual and he can have a small something every once in awhile..
DH is out washing the cars, and then we will go see DFIL,
my dad is still miffed at me about calling him out on his driving, so I will let that slide for a little bit, but hopefully making him think...
well I am off to get some more stuff done,will check in later:drinker: :flowerforyou: .

Good morning everyone.

Michele, I'm so sorry to hear about Vince's scary episode. Yes, I totally missed it before.

I'm busy getting ready for the granddaughter's birthday party this afternoon. It's just family plus one little friend of hers from Girl Scouts. I wrapped her new little tablet and a bright red case I got to put it in. My son charged it up and installed the extra memory card and loaded a bunch of games and some books to read, plus a parental control app. He said it is surprisingly nice for the price and he thinks she will love it.

So now I'm baking the cake. I could only find one round pan, so I'm doing one layer at a time. She wanted chocolate with fudge filling, which is pretty easy. I'm going to ice it in chocolate icing and put rainbow sprinkles on it. Hubby picked out the candles. That was his big contribution to the project. By the way, when did cake mixes get so small? One mix just barely filled a 9" pan. Everything is shrinking these days except the prices. I haven't even made a cake in years. The last one I made was for my son's first wedding, and that was 10 years ago.

Yesterday I took the other two shopping. It was hard to get them focused on a gift for their sister and not for them. The grandson was just sure his sister would love a Spider-man puzzle.

It was over a hundred degrees yesterday, and very high humidity. By the time I had taken them home and then went to two stores to do all my grocery shopping, I wasn't feeling too well. The sun was so bright, and there didn't seem to be enough air! As soon as I got home hubby said it was time to walk the dogs. I told him I was dying from the heat, but he blew that off, so I grabbed a water bottle and off we went. We got almost all the way home and I had to ask him to go get the car. I couldn't breathe at all, and my chest was in a vise. So he dashed off with both dogs and I tried to focus on just staying upright. Things were going gray fast. But he hurried back with the car and my rescue inhaler and my nitro pills. So I took the nitro and the chest pain eased up pretty quickly. Once I got inside where it was cool and used my inhaler a couple of times I was feeling much better. He said, "Why didn't you tell me you were feeling bad?" Men never listen.

We had three brown bananas so I made some low fat banana blueberry mini muffins this morning. They are ok, but I think I prefer just the blueberry version with zucchini. I put them in the freezer to take for lunches.

Well, the dishwasher and dryer just stopped, so I need to get busy. I hope you are all having a great day!

Sylvia

Good afternoon!:flowerforyou:

Renny - hope your DSIL is ok. We are all one slip away from disaster.:ohwell:
I agree, grandchildren are magic. I get to see mine on Tuesday up in London. I miss the baby so much as they change so fast. At 11 months her babyhood is nearly over. Today I ordered some utterly gorgeous corduroy pinafore dresses with coordinating bodies and tights for her first birthday in a month's time. I found a 15% off voucher on line. They have so many toys in the house I don't feel bad about not giving her a toy.

Sylvia - scary moment! Hot weather can be difficult for breathing.:flowerforyou: Hope the cake turns out supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! :flowerforyou: :happy:

I have been relaxing today. Easy prawn and pasta dinner tonight. Left overs for lunch.
This morning I had another play with my Word 2013. I got a cover page and a few more intro pages set up and set up the first chapter. I have never worked in an office so I am not very experienced in all this, but time flew by.:bigsmile: I managed to save it this time.:laugh:
Read the paper and watered the plants. That's it! Bliss!:laugh:
Now I've got to put dinner together.:ohwell:

Love from horizontal Heather in flowery Hampshire UK

Hi everyone!

Just popping in to wish everyone a wonderful Sunday. This has been a busy day. It looks like we will have a new furry addition to our family this week. I will let you know as soon as we have everything done and are settled.

Hugs,

Cindy in Ok

Happy Sunday. Well weigh in this morning was not good. I am up 1.8 but working on letting it rule my day. Last evening I spent getting things ready to leave for vacation in the morning. When I get off work this evening I will finish packing and we will get the car ready. I am trying really hard not to get stressed out about it. Once we get going I will be fine. But will not have computer acess until we get home on Labor day evening. I am going to try and track my food on DH's phone. Will see how that works out.

Ma--congrates on finding your fitbit. I love mine and going to be lost this week without it, but not sure I will be able to charge it so playing it safe and leaving it home.UPDATE I just realized I only charge it once a week so will do that tonight and that should last till we get home. I think I read somewhere that they will hold the info for 7 days so should be alright for the most part.

Jane--thanks for the info and I am working on getting signed up.

Heather--love the new picture. Sure looks like everyone was having fun.

Sue--Happy Anniversary, 45 years that is something to be proud of.

Renny--sorry to hear about DH's sister. Prayers sent to all of you. Also I agree, as I enjoy reading about each of the ladies here. I learn so many ways to deal with issues and I feel like I am with family that truely cares about me and not judge me. So chatt all you want.

Michele--glad to hear DH is doing better. I bet that with his heart was scary.

Kim--so glad you had no damage.

Sylvia--how scary, glad you are ok. This heat is terrible and a part of me is glad we are taking the car with AC.

Margaret--that sounds very interesting, if you find out how to make it yourself let me know. Can you buy it at the store if so the name brand is what?

DH told me at lunch we are doing that ice challange tonight. My DS named me and his siser him. So thinks we should do it and then take the dogs for their walk and dry off. Have to admit he is hardly ever dull. We ladies take care and I will miss you this week and hope you all have many Blessings.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE

Anne~ bless you... that is alot of biking...
my darn fit bit isnt really charging well, so I am guessing on exerising..
tried to much of my baking today:embarassed: and now paying for it...I did mow the lawn and hubby did the hedges then we drove down to the shore.. i walked the boardwalk for a little bit, then came home and made the DH ribs and scallpoed potatoes..
I am pooped so will go to bed soon and get up with the birds... or even before them:laugh:
will check in with everyone in the morning:drinker: :flowerforyou:

Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia. You know better than take a walk in this awful heat. Glad your husband could get home and get the car. You need to take it easy this evening though. I haven't encountered any cake mixes that are smaller. My oven is uneven, which I guess my floor is uneven and that I don't like, sounds expensive. But for the longest time I have only made cakes in my 8x10 pan. It all tastes the same and the family doesn't mind. It would really look weird and not fit well together is I used the round pans. Now the Jiffy mixes are small cakes.

Allison, glad you had such a good time with your old friends and could all lose that amount of weight. I'm sure they were just as proud of you as you were or them.

Having an extra trio practice tonight.

When we went to our local amusement park I wore bermuda shorts and t-shirt as a swim suit cover p. But I wanted something different for when we go to Florida. I have been seeing these women women wearing these strapless maxi dresses and they look so comfortable. I don't swim at all, I just walk in the ocean, enjoy the waves and play with my wonderful grand kids. So if it got wet it would be fine. We have a washing machine and drier in our rental and can wash it. Plus the light material will dry quickly if I don't wash it daily. Well the ones I am finding in the store are this clingy knit fabric and they just didn't look right. Of course nothing looked good with my heart monitor showing. I finally found a knee length that I liked and bought it. In the past I have used my ugly water shoes when I am on the beach just because the sand can be hot. So Old Navy had some flip flops that had a back to them and won't slip off as I am walking in the water. The dress and the shoes were on clearance. The dress was $15. I looked at Pennys and theirs were up to $70!

I was going to CJ Banks to look for their fall clothes. In their email ad they have the most beautiful berry colored jacket and sweater. I have never worn that color but it sure looks nice. I also was going to stop at one of the Jewelry stores on the mall and have them re-size my rings. But when I parked the car I remembered hat I hadn't cracked the windows a little bit.. So I tried turning the car back on and it wouldn't start at all. Knowing I had my trio practice tonight and I didn't know if Charlie could get it started and get it home, I left after Old Navy.Oh well, another day for CJ Banks.

Going to Jasons deli tonight for supper. I get my big salad bar. I have started putting broccoli and spinach leaves and not jsut the spring mix. I also use mushrooms and zuchinni to it. So it's packed with veggies.

Joyce, Indiana