Senior Golden Sneakers
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oystereyes wrote: »Fat Tuesday! "Let the good times roll". I am off to the eye doctor today. I have controlled macro degeneration and need monthly injections into the eyeball. Sounds much worse than it really is. Would love to go one of the marti Grau parades. But that doesn't happen here on the Oregon coast. Life is starting to green up and we have daffodils everywhere. I would love to be able to send a bit a sun and warm weather to you all there in the frozen north. I guess we all carry springtime in our heart, where it really matters. PatsyPhoebe sorry to hear Jim is sick again. I finally got over my sinus infection after almost 4 weeks.
my great grandson turn 1 month old today and weigh in at 11.6 pounds So cute.
marie.fancyladyJeri wrote: »Hello All,
Just came up from riding my exercise bike. Whew. I needed to get in the offsetting calories to keep me in good standing. It is so motivating for me to record my calories and exercises. Helps me a lot.
Sandy and Shirley -- your trips will be here very soon.
Ed and I are trying plan a trip in April to celebrate our 40th anniversary. Not sure where we want to go. Thinking if Hawaii. Any recommendations?
Phoebe - sorry to hear Jim is sick again. Bad year this.
Phyllis - glad to hear all is well and you are enjoying retirement.
Look at the clock. Time to go relax.
See you all tomorrow.
JerifancyladyJeri wrote: »Hello All,
Just came up from riding my exercise bike. Whew. I needed to get in the offsetting calories to keep me in good standing. It is so motivating for me to record my calories and exercises. Helps me a lot.
Sandy and Shirley -- your trips will be here very soon.
Ed and I are trying plan a trip in April to celebrate our 40th anniversary. Not sure where we want to go. Thinking if Hawaii. Any recommendations?
Phoebe - sorry to hear Jim is sick again. Bad year this.
Phyllis - glad to hear all is well and you are enjoying retirement.
Look at the clock. Time to go relax.
See you all tomorrow.
Jeri
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Good Morning from COLD Cairo. A few days ago it was in the 40's and I called my son in Seattle and he said it was the same temp there. It has been an extremely COLD winter for us. We usually get a couple weeks of cool weather but this year it is freezing. FOR US IT FEELS LIKE FREEEZING because we have NO indoor heating. I have learned lately to layer up with about 3 layers of clothes and then I sit on the couch in front of a little space heater wrapped in a blanket. I coo look like a little old lady!!! FOR SURE.
But it is supposed to get warmer in a few days and if that really happens we are going to spend a week end at our beach resort house on the Red Sea.
I didn't sleep well at all last night because I was so cold in the bed. Tonight I will wear more layers to bed. The nightgown just was not enough!.
Sorry about complaining about the cold weather. Other than that life is pretty darn good. My daughter is due to deliver her 2nd little girl on or close to the 12th of March. I have my ticket booked to fly over to Abu Dhabi to be with her for a month. I leave on the 10th of March. We are all so excited to see this little girl. My second grand child!! My son's life is also expecting now too so I'll have three grand kids by the end of the year!!!
I have been sewing baby DOLL clothes for the little grand daughter's doll. I made her several outfits and also some little diapers so she can play with her baby doll along side of her mom with the real baby.
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12:31 AM and just finished reading your posts! I never go to bed without my MFP family! I wish I could recount my last few days, but I have been on the move between visitors from bitter Boston with its huge banks of snow, and visits to doctors with no real answers to my unasked questions. Nice seeing Phyllis back since retirement, and hard to believe George has been with Jackie a whole year now! Everyone sounds productive and good. Eye injections give me goosebumps, and I hope you all stay well. Eyes closing, but want to mention I hope to hear success from Bob's temptation while on vacation! I won't worry about Sandy's vacation since I think Robby - sitting will keep her thin! Jeri, Anne, Lin, Marie, Phoebe, Shirley, Patsy and Barbie, I send hugs to all of you, too, and glad I amused you with our overweight entertainer! We can all use a "belly-laugh" daily!!!
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Good morning everybody, and a good morning it is! The sun is shining and the mounds of snow are glittering. It never stopped snowing yesterday and when my youngest came to take me for groceries he couldn't get down the drive for the snow. It was quite hard walking through it BUT the snow fairies, or I should say, my snow clear boys, came during the night and I slept through the blower machinery noises to find a lovely clear drive this morning. Up to this year I shovelled it myself, and it is well worth the cost I can tell you. 9 clears I've recorded since Christmas. I get to have the new blind put up in my bathroom today, hopefully. I've only felt "exposed" since the new house, and a bedroom window, was put up on the waste ground next door to me. So tonight no bathing in the semi light from the hallway. Tonight I bathe in glorious well lit abandonment, hopefully. Angela Lansbury (murder she wrote) is in Toronto for a stage production of Blithe Spirit. She was interviewed on TV and at 89!! Is one beautiful elderly lady. Apparently she is very good and very funny as the dotty medium in the seance scenes. Well things to do. Weekly call from the UK at 9 to catch up on the latest there. So enjoy today, ANNE0
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Happy Sunday!! Going to an earlier Mass this morning as we are meeting at noon for yet another birthday celebration for Bryanna. Her dad wants to take her to Outback so another restaurant meal. I of course gained 2 pounds from yesterday's meal so who knows what today's will add. I am hoping it is all salt gain and by Tuesday it will be gone. Tonight is the Academy Awards which is one of my favorite award shows and I do love Patrick Neil Harris. Not sure I will be able to stay awake for the whole show, tomorrow is a "work" day.
Enjoy your Sunday and make good choices.
Sandy
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No Lin Alice is not coming today for you sent a blast of winter down here. We are expecting a winter mixed later today and tomorrow.All your fault. for leaving the gate open.Just kidding think this one is from Colorado the next one is from up north.
making Jerry some chicken and dumplings and I will have me a gluten free pizza out of a gluten free English muffin. By following the gluten free plan it has really help my guts.So I am coping Gluten free with 1=1=1plan. . Not too bad just have to watch the Flour everything else is just about the same , Just portion size.
My gosh sounds like you are cooking
for a army.
marie0 -
Well good morning my dear sneakers! Sunday is a great day to see sunshine. It is quite cool but a nice fire in the wood stove will warm up the house and my creaky bones as well. I will wait a bit before I take on some exercise. I will be watching the academy awards tonight also Sandy. I have seen several of the movies that are up for awards. Not all by any means. I do believe that movies arè the literature of today. And it makes sense that it would be. This is an age of technology and media communication. I do love real books however.
Today I have to do something about our doggie girls toenails. It is always a drama and trauma to clip nails. You would think I was Cutting off their entire leg!
Enjoy the day, I am going to cook up something like Lin puts together. A lovely veggie "something" for a Sunday dinner. Marie's chicken and dumplings sound toooooo wonderful.
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What a day.... rain, rain and more rain which resulted in a soaking during the morning walk. The usual trail I take was like a river bed and in spite of waterproofs I was bedraggled in no time so as soon as we got home I put George under a warm shower. At least he'll be clean for the groomer tomorrow!
Anne ~ Karma is something I believe in good or bad and your boys looking after you now is your good karma for what you did for them but I bet you would never have guessed it would involve a soak in the bath without worrying about being overlooked! LOL The best place to be what with all that snow piled up outside. I might have this wrong but wasn't Angela Lansbury in the original Blythe Spirit? What a career the lovely lady has had and still working at 89!
Wonderful to see Buzz is still popping in... I was missing you.
Patsy ~ Like you I feel a book is not a book unless there are real pages to turn. I've never been brave enough to attempt clipping George's nails, he wiggles enough when I'm trying to brush him.
Marie ~ Chicken and dumplings sounds gorgeous, real comfort food. I'm trying to be good in the coming week but still, a girl can dream!!
Phyllis ~ Sounds as if you need to be knitting yourself some bed socks and bobble hat. LOL
Sandy ~ Hopefully you are enjoying your family gathering and lunch without worrying about weight gain. It'll soon come off again.
Close to my bedtime so I'll finish before I lose my post.
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JACKIE, I'm not sure if Angela Lansbury was in the original Blithe Spirit. She did say on the interview that she had played it so often it just came naturally. So could be, but somehow Margaret Rutherford also rings a bell. Now there was another marvellous lady! Wasn't she in the old original film version? I seem to remember her riding a bike, cloak flapping, on her way to the seance. Well, the blind is up, and very nice it looks too. God bless my youngest. I shall luxuriate in my bath tonight, bubbles and all, just like the old movie glamour girls (yeah Anne, dream on) and I shall think of your Karma comments, so true! No more lurking in the gloaming, I will be able to see my toes!
PATSY and JACKIE, just try clipping 17 year old Tabitha Daisy's claws, now THERES a challenge! Not often attempted, and never alone!
BUZZ, how do you keep up so late! I shall probably doze off in the aforementioned bath!
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Anne ~ I was thinking she played Rex Harrison's character's late wife the blythe spirit so looked it up but it was another Noel Coward play The Picture of Dorian Gray she was in.... quite a different kettle of fish!! You were right, the medium was Margaret Rutherford, an actress I adored even as a child because she always made me laugh out loud!
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I loved Margaret Rutherford!! And speaking of Angela Lansbury in The Picture of Dorian Gray, I happened to run across that movie a week or so ago. She was just lovely!!
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Hi Everyone,
I am happy to say that I had an old time favorite for lunch today. Fresh spinach boiled a bit and then fresh lemon juice on top and a dab of butter. It was a great lunch.BRought back childhood memories. Then I used the rest of the spinach to make stuffed Cannelloni's for dinner. They are in the oven baking right now. I pretty much threw all the left over veggies in my frig into the stuffing and there you have it. NO meat at all. I hope they turn out good.
It is a bit warmer today but still kind of cloudy and over cast. I ma praying for sun and good weather soon so we can go visit our beach house again. Haven't been since December and I bet it is missing me!! I bet it needed a broom too and a good dusting through out!
Jackie I did knit myself some slippers in December and WEAR them about every day and night. But so far no hat. Just wrap a scarf around my neck and I am good to go.
Between washing fresh strawberries and shelling fresh peas, I have been watching old re runs on FOX TV station. I watched one called Crossing Over and another called The Loss of the Teardrop earring. Retirement sure is a grand lazy time for me. I need to get out more like all of you and do some more walking. I need to get a DOG!!!
Happy day to all. Phyllis0 -
Hello Sneakers from Jamaica!
A beautiful day high of 87F, Anne, and all with the snow don't want to hear that.
No challenges on food, desserts are really small if you want any, so doing pretty good.
It's a water day I think it will be hot today.
Thinking of doing liquid yoga, Yoga on a paddle board, that will be a challenge. Not in deep
water just shallow. Balancing will be a challenge. $20 for 60 mins thinking of Wednesday.
Will let you know how it goes.
Shirley
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SHIRLEY, good to hear from you. I will not mention the S word! Who knows it may be GONE on your return. Anyway, have a wonderful, warm holiday, enjoy every minute, from the S goose ANNE up north.0
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Well Anne I will used the S word. Sleet that is. our roads are cover in it.
Cold , very cold too. and will stick around a while . out town is not equip to handle winter weahter.
I have decided to have a meatless Monday lots of beans
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Oh my Marie----I heard about your weather on the news this morning. I know you'll be staying home because boy, that is not normal for Texas! Best wishes and happy Meatless Monday.
Shirley, what a nice break you're having...........that stuff (there I substituted for that other word) will likely be around unless your vacation is quite long.
Hi Anne - glad you got the new window covering. Anxiety gone!
Jackie - I'm not sure I'd like rain lots better than our weather but at least it's not as cold.
Phyllis - good to see you again and hope you make it through the cold snap and then off to the beach. Lovely.
Back to work. Walking, walking, walking. Had computer problems this morning which ate time out of my morning.
Later.
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Happy Monday!! Robby's grandpa (Rob's father my first husband) came to visit him here this morning. We are still good friends, we just don't love each other. He is a big man, around 6'4" weighing in around 370. He had lost about 50 pounds but when his mother (Donna) died he gained all his weight back from stress eating. He is going to try to loss again because he has lots of health problems including diabetes. He is crazy about Robby especially since he is going to carry out his last name, there were no boys to do this until Robby came along.
Talk about stress eating, mine was not from stress but from restaurant food and I am up a couple of pounds again. I rode the bike for an hour and a half last night watching the Oscars but was disappointed in Neil Patrick Harris who I do love. I think Ellen is the best host of awards show and they should stick with her. (just my opinion)
I could not fall asleep last night and I am really tired. Robby only took a half hour nap this morning so now that he is down again I am going to try to take a nap on the couch.
Have a great day, it is minus 5 degrees here. 5 more sleeps before I feel warm again.
Sandy
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Oh my goodness! Everyone seems to be going to exotic places to vacation. That sounds lovely. Wishing the travelers a happy and safe trip. Come back to us rested and filed with tales of adventure! Sunny cold day today. We had a high wind warming that thankfully didn't materialize. Oh by the way, I tried baked sweet potato fries. They were delicious and easy to fix. Hubby loved them. It is a nice lower calorie thing to have with a veggie soup or chicken bean chili. I lifted weights while watching the academy awards. I have started splitting my exercise sessions AM and PM. It does sort of mess up my day but I can actually sneak in longer sessions that way. I end up with a daily 2 hour exercise benefit. But I am easily led astray! Patsy0
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Sandy - Regarding your ex, stress eating sure packs on the pounds very quickly. Sorry that happened to him but most of us seem to either be susceptible to it or afflicted with it! Also sorry you didn't get much sleep. I'm not an Academy Awards person since I don't have a chance to see most of the movies now. I had fun flipping about on Downton Abbey and other shows. Grantchester was quite engaging last night. I also listen to podcasts when I don't see anything on TV that interests me.
Patsy - what a wonderful way to handle your exercise---two sessions! Wahoo! Good for you. I hope that continues to work for you.
Wahoo~~I've finished the prep work for my tax appointment. Hallelujah--! An entire month ahead of time. Even have the photocopies made and remembered this year to split donations between cash and non-cash, and estimate medical mileage. I wonder what I've forgotten to do this time?
Lin
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Iy !!! Will I ever catch up? Still reading daily posts, butseem to lose myself doing research on compression pumps for my legs, which run a fortune bought new, and insurance won't cover them for me, so I'm trying to buy used pumps and it's scary on eBay!!!
Saw an entertaining movie here yesterday in our auditorium - 2014 - called "St Vincent", with Bill Murray (superb acting job of being a dislikable seedy guy) and a great cast of others I didn't know. I came away thinking I may never be judgmental again! We laughed and cried and thoroughly enjoyed it! I, too , preferred Downton Abbey, though as usual dozed off at the crucial moment, so I'll watch the hour before next week to catch up on the going's on! Luckily, I bought the series and can watch at my leisure in the future. I see very few current films as we seldom go to movies, and I know few of today's stars! I do love Juliana Moore, though, and Alzheimers is on my mind now! Gotta run down to dinner, so I'll say hi and bye for now. Forget my weight!!!
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has Anne disappear again? Lin seen anything of her0
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I did talk share a post with her this morning but no word since .miss that girl when she is not around. I see That I never added her as a friend. But have now.
Marie0 -
No, I haven't heard anything from Anne since this morning.
Lin0 -
We are home, yay! Both sick, tried to get to sleep but couldn't, so I read the posts. More from me later. Lin, I catch up on Grantchester first thing, lol. Hes got Robert Redford beat, lol.
be safe and warm and well
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Good morning everybody, although it's not exactly good. A gloomy overcast sort of day. Hi MARIE thanks for the friend request. I had a very busy day yesterday. I even went out, but after slithering, sliding to the first block on the ice, decided a broken leg or worse wasn't worth it.
Sorry to hear you and your beloved are sick PHOEBE, Tis the season I guess.
More on the blinds in the bathroom saga, I love them AND the look of them, AND the privacy, BUT one big drawback, with the harsh light overhead, I've discovered wrinkles I didn't know I had! Bits of me could do with an iron that's for sure. The next project will be a more kind light bulb, for as they say - ignorance IS bliss. Can you still buy pink light bulbs?
Hello LIN and JACKIE, Margaret Rutherford WAS something special wasn't she. Character actress, long, long marriage, nice comfy face and living proof that you don't have to look like Rita Hayworth to be a successful and loved actress. The Portrait of Dorian Grey, I got to thinking about some of those old black and white movies, The Third Man etc. and for me, in the past, and going to the movies, far more enjoyable than today's high volume, clever effects stuff. Showing my age I guess!
JERI, BUZZ, PATSY, SANDY, SHIRLEY, PHYLLIS, BOB with the suntan, and all the pets, well everybody, enjoy your day. ANNE.0 -
On my way to the grocery store...........
Phoebe, I am so sorry you and DH are sick. I am glad you are not driving. Just heard threat of ice for Atlanta?
Anne - I adore the old B&W movies and actively search them out to watch them every week. I have purchased quite a number of them on DVD as well. Adore them.........
Later.
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phoebe so glad you are home. But sorry you and jim are sick.. honey doing Ok.? Bad big truck day in Dallas yesterday. and this morning too. Take care sweetie.
Marie0 -
LIN so with you. I mean, does anybody really CARE what happens to a bunch of drones on a galaxy far far away! LOL. Now, when poor old Dirk was going to get the guillotine chop in a Tale of Two Cities, 17 yr old (or thereabouts) ANNE was upset all the way home!0
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Julie Welcome to the Golden Sneakers I had to give up driving about ? seems like ages ago.
I do not like having to get Jerry my husband to take me places. I like to browse too much. But he does not complain.
you need to filled me in I do not remember sending you a line. My memory is not what it used to be.
We do have a very nice group Of Seniors here.
Lets us know if you need any help. in getting around here
Marie0
