WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2015

Jen - I can't imagine anything harder than losing a child. We're all here whenever you need a shoulder to cry on, to vent about whatever and to share in your achieving goals.

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We are getting what's left of "Jim" now a tropical depression. Been raining for hours. Its going to sit over us all night and weatherman is predicting 5-8" of rain for us. Ugh. I'll need a canoe. To the south of us is flooding already. Guess I might as well buck up. This calls for pulling up the granny panties, cuz the big girls panties just aren't gonna get the job done.

Janetr - Oklahoma City

@Charm4u - that's funny, putting FT Worth first, makes sense to me. I lived in Dallas for just a little while before moving up to OKC.

Welcome aboard, we're glad you joined us.

Joyce- your DGD's are beautiful! Our closet is big had Christmas, wrapping, decorations, boxes for nick nacks, shoes, and of course clothes! I had to try stuff on because I was sorting into garage sale, keep, or throw. With losing weight I had a lot to go through.

DJ- love the Pom poms. I had the shots for my allergies and they worked really well. Funny story!!!

Heather - you have the right idea!

MNMargaret - I agree! I told my DH we sort through everything as we're packing and have another garage sale after we are moved in. Get rid of everything we don't need or use!

Michele - did you really walk backwards?

Katla- I will be 94 some day! Thanks for posting the calculator.

Terri - cute pic of your boys! My DD is the same way. She never wants to listen to me.

Sylvia- LOL

Carol in NC - 101 is way too hot for me. How high is your humidity? Good job on the exercises!

Sassy- welcome back! I missed your humor!

Jan congratulations on the loss!

Lisa - great commitment to your lifestyle! 3 1/2 lbs a week that's remarkable!

Hi everyone! This is from last night but I've been at my DMIL for 2 days. I had to visit she needed a girls night and I needed a break from packing!

Have a great night everyone!

Mary from Minnesota

Yeepers! Another 12 pages. No way I can read them all, let alone respond. <sigh>

Out of court and walked again today. iPhone sez 9704 steps. Also bought a Fitbit. If I hold my boobs while I run in place for 300 steps, will the Fitbit count the steps? I may find out.

It says it's water resistant, but the underside has electrodes in an open pit. Looks like a sweat danger. And I'd wanted to wear it in the shower to count steps there.

Allison - yay for the iPad!
Oh, lordy, sorry to hear about the possible hyperparathyroidism. If Himself cuts up rough, ask if he'd rather have you breaking bones from osteoporosis? Forgetfulness, tiring easily, kidney stones and just generally feeling poorly also can be symptoms.

Lisa - I'm impressed. Only one overage in 78 days! Wow! And that you're cleaning up that egg and moving on. Not to mention 3.5 lbs/week.

JanetR - love the senility prayer. read it to Larry, who laughed.

Carey - the weight chart is from my iPhone.

Sassy, cool pic!

KateKyi - Now I understand. Glad you've climbed out of the pit.
Poetry isn't to everyone's taste, and Gerald Manley Hopkins' verse can be difficult. I've always found his "black sonnets" very helpful. Heres one. Even if one disagrees with his theology, the first quatrain is powerful.


Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my buisèd bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?

Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear,
Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,
Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, cheer.

Cheer whóm though? The héro whose heáven-handling flúng me, fóot tród
Me? Or mé that fóught him? O whích one? is it eách one? That níght, that year
Of now done darkness I wretched lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

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Chris in MA - way to go! For the class, and the awesome sports bra.

Heather UK - I think you're doing the right thing. Whether or not anyone else ever sees it, I think you're doing the right thing for yourself.
Here's another by Gerald Manley Hopkins that really speaks to me - not one of his black sonnets.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.

Í say móre: the just man justices;
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is—
Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

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(back to me)
You are lovely, inside and out.

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Mia in MI - thanks for the info about the bypass and ghrelin.
Congrats on standing firm against temptation!

Carol in NC - <<<hugs>>> Your weight loss and generally better health will make the operation easier for the surgeons, and will make your recovery faster.

Jen, I'm so sorry about your daughter's death.

Sylvia and Michele in NC - I have, somewhere, a manicotti recipe that incorporates tofu. You don't notice the tofu, and the recipe's very tasty. Don't remember how it is on calories.

Gigi - how do you join this group? You just did. Welcome to you and all the other newcomers! (I'm one, too, really.)



JanetM in NO

Whoolly Canoooli.....like 9 pages you'll wrote while I was "off-track being all mindless and singing ITS MY BIRTHDAY and I'LL EAT THAT IF I WANNA".....*sighes* . I'm all done now, but I have alot of crap in my kitchen.... I did put a TURTLE at my TOPS meeting today!! That is what you call a person that neither loses or gains...just stays a turtle goin nowhere.. I was surprised at that feat! I just KNEW I had gained. I almost ate breakfast before the meeting, because...you know what IS the POINT... Glad I wised up and didn't.
AND no I can't just throw all the crap out of my kitchen. My son the grazer likes the crap ie: Doritos, cheap cookies, a whole bag of mega size milk chocolate chips from some factory that made stuff with mega size chips. I will have to make some cookies now.
I rec'd a call from my eldest Navy son on Saturday and we talked for 2-3 hrs. He is a great kid, 25 and livin life. He didn't say one iota about my birthday, but his call was my present. On Monday I rec'd a call from my middle son in the Navy and we talked for a long time too. He is married, with a wife in the Navy, so he is telling me all the things he is cooking. So sweet. My little boy can COOK. He remembered my birthday, his main reason for calling. My my Navy sons... My middle sis called too, and we talked while I was throwing together spaghetti. She said, "Call me when you are done eating". I did, and of course she didn't answer. Our relationship is complicated. You would think if you tell someone to call you, you would be there to answer the phone... She is a drinker, and so my brain goes to her passed out by the phone, just not hearing it. It's hard to not "accept the carrot she dangles in front of me". Like she has done many times, I take the mental carrot, and she leaves me hanging. Enough about my sister.....aaak.
Thanks again for all the b'day wishes, I have never gotten so many this year between you all, and my TOPS friends. ((((hugs))))
Becca by the Beach feeling Blessed.

Hello from soggy Indiana

Allison, I was going to tell you that Walmart has mini iPads for $199 but then I saw you put that hubbie was getting you one. I don't know if this one for $199 is online only or not. Hope they figure out your problem and that your hubbie accepts it. Have fun canning. Just let hubbie know it is part of your cost saving hiving right now.

Lisa, I want to visit Ireland. Can I get a flag just for wishing?????? From the sound of it here tonight, it sounds like we should just do a world tour for the group. Some people might have to join us and leave us some where but that's OK.

Yannie, yes I got up in time. It didn't storm last night but I put a battery in my clock just to be safe. Since I have an electronic chart I should get an email tomorrow telling me the results and letting me view it. One thing I did learn form it is that I'm not as short as I thought I was. I knew I had shrunk some as my jeans legs fit different. I always thought I was 5'5 1/2" and then one day when Dr office was measuring me I was 5"6 1/4"!!!! I didn't know that I could grow while i was in my 40's. But then last year she measured me at 5'4 1/2". Talk about depressing. I completely had to re do my BMI scale. But this woman had me put my feet closer to the wall and stand up really straight and it was 5'5"!! So I will take that.

Jules, my girls, young and old love to go geocaching. They like to go with my youngest daughter because she will make sure she finds a geocache that is in a more adventurous spot. They love climbing the trees, crawling under bushes, etc. Their Dad is like that also. Sometimes I think the wrong girl married my son in law. But noo telling what kind of kids I would have got. When we go to the amusement park Paul (the SIL) and Aunt Michelle go off all day and Christina stays with her Dad. I am going between the two groups.

Janet Myrtle Beach, I have had to just give up on my husband following his doctor's advice in the summer and winter as far as how to take care of himself after his heart attack and stents. It's weird, he will readily tell peoplpe he hasn't seen in a while about his heart attack/stents and ulcerative colitis but he never mentions the Parkinson's. I would think he would leave out the ulcerative colitis since it really stinks and he has some near misses.

Heather, sending big hugs. I do hope you tell your sons about your past experiences before your book goes to copy. But it should be very cathartic to you just to write it down and completely express yourself. Don't be surprised if you write more than you think you had planned on. You are going to help so many people in writing it though. You will help so many people find thier own voice by your courage. good luck, write as slow as you feel comfortable. Let your husband give you plenty of comfort as you write your words down.

Carey, your Tai Chi sounds wonderful.

Saay, Your picture makes me want to just get on a plane and come over there right now!!!

Terri, you will just have to take a picture of one of your sons bowling score cards for us!!

Carol, you know we have a corner to throw all of our pity and worries in. Just throw them in there with the rest of ours. It doesn't matter how big it gets. Like some one else, if we are doing our job, we will help you get through this.

Katla, I would just let it be known that some one would like to be notified if an opening comes up. It's not like you are asking anyone to move or putting the idea in anyone's mind.

Jen, so sorry about your daughter. I hope your family is doing OK through this. I know the loss never gets any less but the days do get brighter.

I haven't heard from Naomi lately. Was she scheduled to go on another one of her trips?

Welcome to Charm4U, Gigi, Jen, Kari, Kathy, Beneita and wenanghem. Beneirta did you knit that sweater you are holding????? Kari, when Iused my FitBit one I put it in my pocket. In the rare times I didn't have a pocket, it went in my bra.

My sister's daughter never did get tall, All her growth in her early years just went to her Boobs. I think she was a 38DD in middle school. And at 5'3", that was one buxomous girl. Raied cats and dogs here today and will continue through until Friday. Wish we could send it out west. and speaking of out west, I will enjoy watching the PGA US Open being in Washington and seeing that beautiful state and weird golf course.

Joyce K, Indiana

well I had a huge post and poof it's gone.. so will check in later