WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY2015

Just finished my c2c afghan and I love it! Going to try and crochet a border around the edge. It has heft to it and my husband says it looks and feels wonderful. I definitely will be making this pattern again and again...using the UTube video I referenced before was the key to figuring out how to make this rectangular and not square.

The afghan is beautiful.
Janetr OKC

Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .

Good Evening Ladies,

Heather, I’m so glad you had such a wonderful meal. And what a great idea to donate to the charity since the meal was free.

Penny, great NSV running in such a faster time!! Way to go. Good luck with the monster cat. Lol

Barbie, yes I cut my own hair. I wear it short and it used to drive me crazy to pay outrageous prices for someone to cut it in 5 minutes. So I bought some electric clippers and I cut DH’s and my hair. At least if I don’t like it I can complain right to the source. Plus it needs cutting every 2 or 3 weeks sometimes.

LPN, welcome. We always have room for one more. Your credentials sound good except we may be at our quota of nerds??? Let us check. (Just kidding) This is a great place for support and information. Come often and join right in. We do like you to sign each post with the name you want to be called and a location.

Jane, glad the surgery went well. (((Hugs)))

Betty, a big CONGRATS on that weight loss. You keep up whatever you are doing!!! Wooo Hoooo

Vicki, Lee is lucky to have you. It’s ashamed the next grief class at the funeral home doesn’t start for so long.

Meg, if you can’t find the color you want in quartz, have you looked at Stylestone? It is made from 90% quartz but comes in tones of colors. We got it in our kitchen and I love it.

Becca, wow have you been doing a great job. Way to go on the weight loss. I know you are happy about that!!!!

NMMargaret, glad you had a good time with your teacher friends. I have seen the small room size heat pumps that can heat and cool. The people I knew that had them seemed happy with them.

Janetr, it sounds like you have all the rewards you need, as it should be. We are just so used to rewarding everything with food and that is a great habit to break.

Mia, I hope you have a wonderful trip.

Barbie, I know the lavender plants will be wonderful beside your garage. Good for you.

DrKatie, I understand about being set in your ways and not needing your DS to move back in. No matter how much we love them, it is very disruptive. I hope it’s for a short time. Do you have time to help look for a place for him??

The afgan is beautiful!!!

Last night I could not go to sleep. I had iced my shoulder before I went to bed but it still kept me awake hurting. At 1 am I got the heating pad and tried that for a while. I think I finally went to sleep around 2:00 so I’m off to bed early tonight. It doesn’t seem to be bothering me as much right now so hopefully I can sleep. I laughed on our way to dinner last night that even though it was a dinner, we were still having a "Day Date", since it would still be daylight when we got home. We do have a day date tomorrow, going to Costco and then to lunch. I've become such a homebody is many ways so it's fun to plan our outings together. I hope you all have a good night and a wonderful day tomorrow.

Words I live by:
Savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.
and
Opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC

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Took kids to science city in Kansas City. Just got home. Too tired to read posts tonight. Will check in tomorrow.

Good night everyone.

Finally a good day today!! A lot of running around but that's okay, didn't overeat. And got a good walk in. DGD here for a bit and she will be back tomorrow while her dad cuts hay.

Night everyone..... tomorrow we will see how many peas an almost 2 year old can shell. She loves peas!!

Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan

Allison, YEAH, you got the membership and going to get some pampering!!!

MNMargaret, got a 2nd bid today and it was almost exactly what the first one was. Still have two more to go. We aren't having the whole house painted. We have a all brick house so this is all the trim, front door, garage and back doors, guttering, soffits, pillars, trim around large front door, whatever that aluminum is above the brick at the ends of a house. Charlie says he is just going to call a handyman who does some odd jobs for us to just do some touch up. Well if that's what we pay for, that's what it will look like. He is always saying that all the men in his family die before they reach 70. His Dad died a few months after he was 70. He is 67 now so he says I can do all this work after he dies 'cause he's not paying for it. Oh, we also have to buy a new garage front and back door. The garage door is just plain broke and the back door was made very cheaply and the outer layer is coming off. Funny how men are about not needing AC in their house until they are in it full time. I know we couldn't be without our AC. Well with my MS I have a doctor's order that I have to have it. Our electric company has it on record to try to get our street up first if we have a power outage.

Lillian, why didn't you tell us your birthday was yesterday. Happy belated birthday to you. That sounds so cute to think of your 2 year old DGD shelling peas.

Carol, yes, there is a lot of business and money going out. Kind of scary. My daughter knows how I am about taking care of DGDs. So when they are here, sometimes they go out for a 10PM movie with Michelle and boyfriend. The kids are sound asleep by then. And our daughters get some time to be with each other and I'm sure talk about their poor aging parents!!!

DJ, it's Charlie to have to tell about not eating leftovers. WE got the medium pizza, He ate 1/2, I ate 1/4 and we brought home 1/4. Well as soon as we got home, he warmed up the other 1/4 and ate it. Then he got up in the night 6 times with diarrhea. That had been improving. He celebrated the other day that he had a semi-formed BM!!!! It was the first one since last November.


Terri, how do you use frozen bananas in oatmeal? I love oatmeal and I love bananas. But i like eating my fruit to take a long time and it sure doesn't take a long time to eat a banana

Heather, would they have treated you like that if they didn't know who you were and why you were there? Good idea to donate the cost of your meal to a charity. You are such a generous person.

Betty, congrats on the 2 pounds. Yeah, sometimes those tears just have to escape. But it isn't healthy keeping them in. I am a firm believer that ALL emotions are a gift from God but it is up to us as to how we use that gift. But if we don't use them the right way we are denying ourselves a gift and blessing from God.

Meg, that ACLS test is one thing I do not miss about not being able to work. It was such a shock to us the first time we had to take it.

Janetr, Indiana just keeps a bunch of pics for our driver's license and we can renew our license online and they just send it in the mail. But this year I wanted the new me on that license! Was so glad I did.

csofled, beautiful afghan, looks so comfy. Please remind me again what your name is!!!!

Well, we don't just have the tree and bushes taken out on Tuesday. On Monday Charlie gets his first Remicade treatment! After he hung up when they called him this afternoon he sounded so defeated. I think just gettig the treatment makes this whole process real to him. It sure would be better if we knew what the bottom line is on how much it will cost. But he is in the gap now as far as his Medicare D so his co-pay will be more until he gets out of the gap. And I hope it won't take long. I know when I as a good girl and taking my MS medicine, I would go into the gap in March and was out of the gap by the end of March. So then every medicine I took was dirt cheap. Well I don't know if you want to consider Avonex at $165 dirt cheap but when full cost is well over $1000 I will pay $165 any day. They did tell us that we might need to wait until about the 3rd treatment before we can expect any results. It is usually an every 8 week treatment but when you start it, it's treatment, then two more every 2 weeks and then every 8 weeks. I think all that money is weighing very heavy on him. But that's natural. And he doesn't have a good way of venting it except to get very mad.

Mia, leavin on a jet plane, don't know when she's comin back again. Have fun.

Joyce, Indiana

Lillian - Happy Birthday! I hope you had a great day!!!

Joyce- I hope all goes well with Charlie's treatment.

Mary from Minnesota

Almost made it through but not quite. The DGSs went to long board clinic this evening. DGS # 1 got back in time to eat from his other Grandma's . Nice woman but it is always a hassle co-ordinating with her and neither DS or DSIL want him spending overly much time there.
I'm finding the boys exhausting when they are together. Hopefully I can catch up tomorrow.

Alison - Hope you enjoy the zumba!

Joyce - I didn't give the whole amount, but it was nice to make a contribution to sponsor the charity bike ride. Odyssey is a charity that supported me after my breast cancer. They take survivors on an adventure course for 5 days to get their confidence back. I was terrified some of the time, but it was certainly amazing and memorable and the friend who came to stay recently was someone I met on the course.

Mary - Sounds like you are having a great time. Looooove the hotel room!

I'm doing my "cheese exercises", imagining I'm eating lots of cheese 3 times a day. The idea is to get you habituated to the craved substance so you don't crave it so much. Worth a try. I'm enjoying it anyway. :laugh:
Other exercises I do regularly are face exercises, pelvic floor exercises, foot arch exercises, knee exercises, ankle exercises. . . . . . . . Phew! :laugh: Most of them I can do watching the tv. The face ones I do while on my machines.

Janetr - There are a few of us on here who are amazed and delighted at the difference losing weight has made to our lives. Holding on to that feeling long term is essential if we are to keep it off. A daily gratitude review is an excellent idea. My DH is really good at reminding me how far I've come when I moan about "having" to exercise. The transformation truly is life changing as you have found.
Staying fit at nearly 66 is, for me, astonishing. Even daily things like walking round the shops is a joy when you don't have backache and have to lean on the trolley to get round. It was funny yesterday being told by the younger man in the shop that I was in "good shape". On the inevitable days when I feel a bit blah I try to remember how far I've come and how badly I was crippled by my weight.
I read the book Winning After Losing by Stacey Halprin after the recommendation on the thread. A useful reminder at how very, very easy it is to put it all back on again and how we have to work on OURSELVES to be that new slim person. Enjoying life is key, as is nourishing healthy relationships and developing strong boundaries. Some of the women on here are working on these things with great determination and bravery.

Losing weight and getting fit is as much in the head as anything else. I am so proud of myself that I am now back to my writing and exhibiting the kind of self discipline I never thought I had in me. A long standing phobia has disappeared. I have a different opinion of myself. Who would have thought all that could come from losing weight! When I do have weak moment or a mini binge it's usually because I have temporarily lost my self respect. Building good daily habits is a help with that. Slowly I began to grow into the kind of person I always wanted to be. I am an unfinished project, but I am no longer a mess. :laugh:

OK, got a bit of shopping to do this afternoon. Will cook Hairy Bikers this evening. :laugh: 400 cals of deliciousness. By the end of today I will have evened up yesterday's indulgence. :bigsmile:

Annr/Becca - congratulations on the great weight loss. You'll soon be too small for your gorgeous dress!

Lots of love Heather UK