WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2015

Miriam Ouch!

Scopian when you visit the doctor ask about Iodine. Just like Vit D many of us are low in Iodine. They use Bromine in pools now instead of Chlorine and that affects the Iodine in your Thyroid. The new car smell is also because of Bromine. My DSIL who works around pools and swim everyday has thyroid problems. I mentioned this to her. I don't know if she discussed it with her doctor or not.

Becca love the felt advent calendar. I have one my mom got me at a church Bazaar. Love it.

Sylvia what fun pictures.

MNMargaret

Mary from Minnesota

Beth - Madly getting ready for the glass sale. It is next week. Dec. 1.

Mia in MI

Just got home from Zuma with DGD#1. We has so much fun! She wants to go back tomorrow. That's not going to hsppen, but we will go back next week for sure.

mollywhippet wrote: »

I just picked up the grandkids from school and when the DGS got out of the van I asked "Ian! Did you draw on your pants?" He said, "No, I just dropped a marker. " I said "But there are TWO STARS on your pants!" To which he replied "I dropped it TWICE !" I laughed so hard I nearly wet my pants.

That's a good one MollyWhippet. You should submit that to one of the magazine's like Reader's Digest or Women's Day. You might get paid for it.

Mary - I am!! I talked to a friend and was telling her about “planting” my fitbit and she offered me $25 cash towards a new fitbit for Christmas!!! Yeah my fitbit fund has begun!

DJ – thanks for the translation!

Pip – so glad to see stats again, I know you are getting back to your routine. Really glad you got PT at the same time… Kirby is looking really good, is he regaing the use of his right hand/ arm?

Loved the outhouse pictures!

My 17 year old nephew leaves tomorrow to drive to a friends’ house to spend the holiday it is about a 4.5 hour drive, much farther than he has ever done on his own. He has a good head on his shoulders but
I would probably not let him go by himself. However he has such a mixed bag of parenting from the adults in his world that this is certainly not the worse choice those adults have made. He and I have talked about staying awake, rest stops, music and NOT using his phone with the car in gear. I’m sure he’ll be fine, but will be happy with the text that says that he arrived.

November Goals -
Attend yoga each wednesday evening
Walk everyday –would like to see 160 miles
continue counseling and hold my weight where it is as I deal with my current set of emotional issues
weekly fun things
W1 – football – we won! Working on craft show crafts
W2-
W3-
W4
Kim from N. California

Was is Joyce or Sylvia who gave me the heads up about Walmart and the fitbit? Well who ever, I just started looking online, and found some good deals on ebay... I may buy now and "refund" myself when I get the christmas money. My last one was used when I bought it and it worked great, I don't care about the "box" or if it is used... there are both used and new flex-s out there for the $40-$60 range...

smiles kim

Carol, that is quite an extensive recipe for dressing. We just buy the Stove Top stuffing. Can we still be friends even if we use that???? Sounds good though. I remember 'back in the days' when Mom would make her home made dressing. She made home made corn bread, I do remember sage but nothing else. My youngest makes the turkey and dressing every year. I wish I had known that with a $25 purchase at Schnucks grocery store you could get the turkey for 25 cents a pound. She paid $16 for a 17 pound turkey.

Kim, I think that info about the Fit bit at Walmart was from me. I kind of recanted it yesterday but I got an add in my email today that explained when the online shopping could begin. So I will try then. But if I fail I know that I will get her one anyway. So are you guys saying that a Fit Bit will not sync with a Samsung tablet??? Then I am in trouble. That's what she has.

Miriam, your foot still looks terrible. How often are you being seen? You look like you got some scratches also. I can't imagine what it looked like 4 days ago. Gone are your days of being a cat referee.

Sylva, loved your outhouse pictures. So are all these things taken down after the event? I loved the scale in one and you had to record your weight!!!

I was beginning to think I was invisible today. I was calling everyone to confirm what they are bringing to dinner Thursday. No one answered until about 8 tonight and I have confirmations from all of them. When I told my sister that I had pecans and mini marshmallows for her fruit salad because I had made my watergate salad for church my BIL wanted me to make it again. He is a diabetic and has worked so hard to loose weight. He has yo-yoed so many times than any of us. But he has now lost 100 pounds and is looking real good. We haven't had any big family meals in a long time now so he hasn't had to be tempted. But even with diabetes for 10 years on a big family meal he eats with no regard at all to his diabetes. Or what anyone else might want to have on their plate. So since watergate salad is a thing of cool whip, pistachio pudding mix, pineapples and pecans, there is nothing real nutritious in it. But it sure tastes good. But he is real picky and would want me to take out a portion for him that has no pecans in it. Now that would be a way to control how much salad he gets. I could take out a diabetic portion!!!!! Oh, I am evil.

Well the GI office didn't have the results of Charlie's stool test back today so we have no idea if he is negative or positive. But they did say that the big Cortisone dose they put him on would make his diarrhea worse if he was still positive. He hasn't had any change so I am having good thoughts. Yes, I hear you DJ, I should just throw it away. But right now it is going in one ear and going out the other. My dear stubborn husband, when he got out of rehab and had hardly any appetite for anything, he remembered when he was young that he loved tomato juice. So I got his some. But when he drinks it, he will have severe diarrhea, not his usual bad but severe. And it's everytime he drinks it. Now is the man smart enough not to drink it anymore???? No. When it is empty he just buys another big jug. But tonight he did get to check out how absorbent his diaper is. He has been wearing it now for several days and never had it on when he has diarrhea. So we didn't know how well it worked. well I guess we should have had him wear it right after he drank tomato juice. But the diaper does hold it! Small things makes us senior citizens happy.

Good night my dear sisters through this journey.

Joyce, Indiana

Hello to all of my friends in this Sisterhood of Phat to Fit - my darling little Great nephew Alexander is having open heart surgery again tomorrow. Prayers and healing thoughts are requested for both him and his family. love you all