WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY2015

Greetings! I couldn’t get on last night due to storms and power outages. Today was my renewal class for pediatric advanced life support; I don’t use it anymore since I don’t work the ER, but I don’t want to let it go, so I keep renewing!

Some good news…finally. I lost 2.2 pounds this week. I’m still above my lowest, so my ticker isn’t changing, but that is really encouraging to me. Now I have to figure out how NOT to sabotage myself!
I also have walked in the morning three days in a row now. Today I didn’t walk before work, but got there an hour before my class (I thought it was earlier) so walked the building for 10 minutes.

Carol…oh right. Now I remember; rotator cuff. I have heard that is much worse than the total replacement. Good luck with therapy. Now me…I hate showering in the morning for 2 reasons….that puts me back to sleep and 2, I hate sleeping on dirty sheets which I feel I get dirty LOL.

Barbie: good job on the weight lifting. It is so hard to establish a new habit.

Yvonne: it will be great when you have more time to join in!

DJ: well the first three nights DH took his new med, he was only up 3 times each night. Last night was 5, but we had the storms and the dog is terrified and rattles around. I ended up sleeping on the floor with him for a while then finally took him downstairs and put him on the couch with me.

Mia: hilarious!

Pip: omg take care of yourself. Why did you pass out? Ok blah blah blah LOL

Janetr: congrats! I can hardly get 8000 in, I can’t imagine being able to do 10,000

JanetM: congrats to you too!

Joyce: all that insurance stuff is a mess, ins’t it? Sounds like Charley is doing better

ChrisMA: happy birthday!!!

Heather: darling little super heroes!

Carol peach: I’m not from Georgia but I say “fixin’” too!

LisaH: where in west TX are you? I have relatives all over the state

DJ: I’m with you on the scale

Katla: standard queen? What the heck? Double king? Single twin? What’s with these weird labels?

Grit: my grandmother used to say Mod Dren. She also washed and “wrenched” her clothes!

Vicki: hope you feel better and you didn’t get too much bad weather last night

Margaret: what beautiful pictures. Such an heirloom

Carol: is this a teenaged daughter? Sounds like one of mine!

Yanniejannie: you’re right about it being polite to ask, but be sure to read your consent forms. Many of them say you will have students because it’s a teaching –affiliated hospital or facility. But after one try or whatever, you can ask them to have someone else try. My DD tried to refuse a medical student during child birth…nope she signed the consent and had agreed. The student was very nice, stayed in the background, didn’t really do the stuff she was supposed to do and then thanked her. DD said next time she’d allow the student to work. DEAR GOD no next time, please LOL. Horrible about the dog fight.

Terri: well I’m g lad you are home safe and sound and made it through the storms

Becca: congrats!!!

Annr: wow that picture would inspire me! yOu look great and will again

Drkatie: congrats on the loss

Katieky: omg those were funny abbreviations!

Grit again: I open a word doc and answer one person at a time.

OK ladies; I need to get my second walk in or I won’t meet my step goal. DH and I recorded the show about Pluto last night, so there will be some TV watching after dinner. Take care, Meg

Have a great thurs.
hugs jane

With the right temperature and humidity level and an awesome audiobook to listen to I just kept walking resulting in this record distance for today!

Cheri

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With the right temperature and humidity level and an awesome audiobook to listen to I just kept walking resulting in this record distance for today!

Cheri

Well done

Rosie

I know that I haven't been on here in quite a while. A friend of mine needed me to drive her to Charlotte for cataract surgery on Tuesday. Didn't get home until almost 3:30, then went to play Rummikub at night.

I wasn't able to exercise in the a.m. since I needed to leave early to pick her up. She needed to be in Charlotte by 9:30, then her surgery was at 11. It didn't take long at all. But then Wednesday we had to go back for her followup. By the time we got back, needed to stop at ACMoore and then Aldi. I tell you, I REALLY had to talk myself into doing a walking DVD in the afternoon on Tues. I was coming up wth every excuse not to exercise. I did do the walking, but it's just me. If I don't exercise first thing in the a.m., it's just so hard for me.

Fortunately, I was able to exercise Wednesday morning since I didn't need to leave until 9:45 to pick her up since her appt was at 11:30. I did an hour on the rebounder. But then by the time we came home, got dinner ready, then went to ceramics. On the way home, stopped at Lowe's Foods to get items on sale and things I can only get there. (Like my tofu and cottage cheese)

Today I did an hour of a Body attack DVD. I didn't realize that it was mostly cardio, but that's ok.

The plan for tomorrow is to go to the pool and I'll probably just do my own thing.

Welcome everyone new and everyone returning.

Almost 200 posts to get caught up on, so I'll be skimming

JanetMMc - yea for those pants and you look great with your hair cut. You look so much younger

Alison - thanks for reminding me to call the MD about this plantar wart. I go see him next Thurs. Wish Tom had shared his underlying condition with you

Becca - love your pics. Your hubby has great legs

Penny - isn't a vegetarian who eats fish called a pescatarian?

Lisa - hope you get the consulting job. They'd be lucky to have you. Glad you got that consulting job

pip - I'm so so sorry about your fall. So glad you're getting checked out. Now listen here, girl. You'd BETTER be fine. We need you, not to mention Kirby

katla - the a/c is working fine, It was some small part that burned out. My grammar pet peeve is when people say things like "Mary and me" at the start of a sentence when it should be "Mary and I" Sometimes they use "I" instead of "me" at the end of a sentence. That just annoys me to no end

Carey - I got this piece of core board for the "table". It says it has styrofoam inside it. I'm going to take it to the pool in a few just to be sure that the water doesn't soak into it. Vince seems to think that it will. If I need to, I have an extra piece of styrofoam that I can glue to the bottom.

DJ - I finished the turtle last night. The reason I didn't take a pic is because I used this paint called "envision". Basically, it gets darker in the crevices. But when you put the paint on, it doesn't look anything at all like that. I started on the ladybug yesterday, got the first coat of paint on the body, the face and the black spots. Vince was disappointed that it was a "psychadelic" ladybug. Gotta have SOMETHING normal.

Congrats to all the losers

Lenora - love your attitude of hitting the ball out of the ballpark

Carol in GA - good luck on ebay.

Chris - happy belated birthday. Hope you had a great dinner. How sweet of your SGD. What birthday presents you got, first from SGD then the skirt (that was too big)

MNMargaret - what a lovely doiley! That's interesting about not picking up the turtle. I usually park far away from other cars when I'm in a parking lot. But not so much so that I can get extra steps in. The reason is that a few years ago I got all the dings and nicks taken out of my car from having been in parking lots and been hit by carts, etc. It cost me $2,000. So my feeling is "for $2,000, I'll walk a little extra". Also, usually out in no-mans-land there is usually a parking space.

Vicki - that chart in the hallway must have really hurt. Wonder what the reasoning was to do something like that so that everyone can see. You are such a good friend to let your friend spend the night

Lenora - what I do is keep a document open, type my reply in it, then just go on to the next post and do the same thing. Then I copy and paste the entire document.

Mia - how wonderful that you're smaller than the clothes being offered you! WTG Girl!

Michele in NC

Not much napping here today. I walked three miles early. Then swim lessons, then drafting all day. This is the busy season for my drafting. Tonight is to all practice but hubby has offered to take him and let me stay home. It's awfully hot outside. I don't do well with heat and sunshine.

Tomorrow the evil ex wife is picking up the kids at the tball game in the evening. I hate the thought of coming face to face with her, after I found the horrible lies she posted about me on the Internet. I'm afraid what I might say. But I will try to remember to be nice for the kids sake.

My weight is up about 5 pounds from my low, so I'm not sure what's going on. My legs and feet are pretty swollen today, so I'm hoping it's just water. I'll take an extra water pill tomorrow if I still have sausage toes.

Good night everyone!

Sylvia

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doc called, x ray showed shoulder is fractured in a couple of spots. gonna refer me to an another doc 2c if ok to heal on it's own or surgery to fix. gotta go now, will type later

Yeah!!!!! Just got my wiggle dress delivered!!!! My husband gave it to me and said....have fun, see you in 10 minutes!! So it has an inner "shell" but I think I burned 200 calories just wiggling into the thing! There is a side invisible zipper, but being that its on the side, my husband has to do it... I was scared I was going to get some material caught in it...and with it being form fitting I had to hold the sides of the zipper while he zipped! Been awhile since I had clothing that needs a joint effort to build it on your body! Can't wait to get some shoes and practice just being in the thing! I does feel good on though.. Pictures will be coming when I am brave enough!

Becca on the Beach (in Oregon) in a wiggle dress.......

Thanks for all y'all's suggestions about saving a post and copying one to another.

@terri_mom - My new DnL and 'new' granddaughter LOVE my son so unconditionally. I told my DYS that 'when the right woman came along, he'd know it - it would hit him like a ton of bricks' ... and it did. Mallory made the sweetest Father's Day card for DYS - Six reasons why I love my Step-Dad. Made it into a book form and I know he will cherish it forever.

I'll be so happy when this 'hacking cough' goes away. MD called in a different Rx (used it before and it works); but, so far tonight it isn't doing much good. I've sucked on so many Hall's Lemon Honey drops I ought to stop coughing. I tried the whikey, honey, and lemon juice and that worked for about 15 minutes.

I'm sure that Mallory will have picked out some name to call me. I just told her mother that it could not be Grandmotoher, Grandmama, Granny or anything that made me feel 'old'. I was a young grandmother.

Barbie - I love the lavendar

Mia