WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2015

Good evening everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend.

We had the much anticipated pool party today, for which I spent about a hundred dollars, and exactly ONE kid from his class showed up. Luckily, the one who showed up was his very best friend, so he still had a lot of fun. His sisters and step brother all came too, and our little group had the pool all to ourselves. Even though it was an open swim day it was still empty. There was a lifeguard, too, so I didn't bother to go in the water. The evil ex wife did show up too, with her new boyfriend, and my hubby stopped by. So, all in all, it was a pretty nice afternoon.

My hips are finally feeling better, so I'm going to try working out tomorrow morning. But no Zumba . That might be pushing it. I'll take DGD though, so she can do it.

No luck yet on catching mice. Spot is still hunting them though, so I think they are still around. We will see if they steal cheese as easily as they stole peanut butter.

I'm going to bed early. Sweet dreams everyone!

Sylvia

We met longtime friends for lunch at a fish place in Portland. We haven't seen them for more than a year, and it was wonderful to share a meal and catch up on happenings. The husband has had four heart attacks since we last saw him & has had 9 stents put in. He's lost enough weight to be in the healthy zone, and looks like he is doing better. His wife is doing well despite having MS and worries about her husband. We spent several hours eating lunch and gabbing, and will try to get together again in March.

My current photo is our aluminum tree with the color wheel showing red. My parents used it in the 1960's when I was in junior high. DD says she had it for a while and used it several years back. That was a surprise to me.

PS: The glass balls on the tree now are the ones they used in the 1960s.

Katla ... I'm going to have to get to a bigger device... I can't see your tree on my phone!

Sylvia ... Glad your grandson Still had fun. I once gave invitations out for my son's birthday party (December 20th birthday) ... No one rsvp'd and when I called back one woman answered in a snobby voice "I don't know what but I'm sure we have something planned for that day."

Nice to see you're giving your little friends variety in their diet!

Beth

DJ: This is the first time we've ever used the tree that I can recall. DD says she has used it in the past but I didn't see it and don't remember her using it. I have my mom's glass Christmas balls that she used on that tree and they are now decorating it again after a long rest. Could I be a packrat? :huh: I am feeling a bit sentimental.

No time to read back thru right now but see that I have missed quite a bit in the last few days.

We are really enjoying our visit with my MIL and my husband's siblings. Such a blessing to be reconciled with his sister and brother after 8 years of bitterness. We had a wonderful Hanukkah celebration tonight.

The weather has been damp and rainy here in South Florida but much better than our current freezing conditions in NE Ohio! 2 more days and then will head home.

Best wishes to those celebrating Hanukkah!
Prayers for those in need and praise for those with successes!

Cheri in damp So Florida

It was a beautiful day today. Temperature when I went to church this morning was mid 40's but real sunny. I have a sweater coat and I was wearing a deep blue sweater so the grey sweater coat looked nice with it. My heavy winter coat is a regular woman's coat but my other coats are generic, both bought in the men's section. I don't like to wear them for church. One is a jacket from the Smoky Mountains and it's kind of OK but my heavier one is straight from Walmart's men's section. I thought we were very diversified in our music today. I don't know what a newcomer would have thought of it if they were wanting a traditional Baptist church, not the contemporary church. Our first congregational song was a praise and worship song with a guitar. and then our offertory was a combination of piano and trumpet and then we had a duet with guitar again. I love Christmas carols!!!

After reading about all the cross stitch lately I had been thinking about maybe starting it up again. But then you all are talking about your vision and you can't do it. Bummer, maybe I can't. If i did I would get one of the kits that have everything but the hoop. That way I wouldn't have to invest in all the thread, pattern books and such.

Meg, my niece is married to a guy who has been blind since birth. Oh does he love his TV. I imagine he has all the Mash episodes memorized. He loves to have people talk to him about what things feel like since he can't see them. He is very good under the hood of a car, he will change thier spark plugs, etc. I wish he would consider a seeing eye dog and be more mobile but they say their apartment is to small for a dog. But if he had a dog, he could go out and get a better paying job. Right now he works on scheduling semi truck routes. He doesn't get very many to schedule so doesn't get much of a paycheck.

Betty, I have psoriasis and the 'heavy' treatment I did was pretty much like what Barbie said. But most of my psoriasis is around my waist and under my breasts and when you are heavy it is pretty difficult for the light treatment to get to those areas. Plus the intense light was pretty hot and that didn't do well with my MS so it was less heat for a longer time. I quit because of the expense and not really working.

Mindy, I have done some pretty funny typo errors also. My daughters love to make fun of me also. The other day I was invited to join a group on face book so I could get some playing partners for a game I play. i have no idea how my auto correct got these but these are just two things I wrote that made my daughter about pee in her pants. I was trying to write Friend request sent but on one it came out 'Hygiene request sent' and the other came out 'Grief request sent'.

Karen I understand what you are saying with the recording. Last winter when my youngest grand daughter had her first ballet recital, I spent so much time trying to record her that I didn't really get to completely enjoy the whole recital. I am just glad that my son in law is a videographer by trade and has the expensive stuff to do it.

tonight my youngest came over and gave us our Christmas present. The Blue Man group is coming to town. She knows how much I love them. I'm not sure Charlie has ever seen a whole show. well I have never seen a whole show either but he has just caught glimpses of them appearing on TV. Michelle has been to their show with her ex. So she bought tickets for the 3 of us to go. I really appreciate her thinking of us, well me, but it is on a wEdnesday night. The last choir practice before our Christmas cantata. Plus this Wednesday night our choir director is out of town and there will be no practice. So last wEdnesday night was my last practice. Uh ho! Plus Wednesday night is Charlie's big Karaoke night, the evening and night time is his worst time as far as diarrhea. I just hope he is OK to do it. I have heard the music they play and it isn't our cup of tea but when you put it with the whole show and what the Blue Men do with the music it makes the show. We have balcony seats so I hope we can see them pretty good. Maybe I can go out and buy binoculars. I know she doesn't have this kind of money so this gift is truly given out of love.

When Michelle and I bought our phones 2 months ago I would get all sorts of junk emails. Some of them were disgusting, some just a bother to have to delete. I hate it that too get rid of them, you had to click on 'unsubscribe'. Unsubscribe?????? I never subscribed in the first place. Why should I have to go through the bother of unsubscribing. I thought they were all over then today I got one about erectile dysfunction and how to make it go away just by eating this particular sandwich!!!

OK, my rants are over for the day. have to go to grocery store. Please don't throw anything at me but one party I am going to Tuesday I am fixing chocolate cream cheese Monkey bread. I have made Monkey bread before but not the chocolate cream cheese. You take cubes of cream cheese, put it into flattened pieces of the biscuit dough, lace 3 chocolate chips in with the cream cheese and wrap it into a ball. That makes the ball and the rest of the recipe is just like Monkey bread. Oh, you also use walnuts.

Nite nite my sweet friends, Joyce, Indiana

Hi! My name is Tamara and I am looking to add some weight loss buddies for help and support. I am not sure how to do that, so any help would be appreciated! I have been doing LCHF since April, I am 51 years old. I have lost 35 lbs. but most importantly my health has GREATLY improved. My A1C has gone from 10.5 in March to 6.4 in November. My thyroid is back to normal and I feel soooo good now!! My weight loss has slowed and I sure could use some people to talk with and hopefully I can help others too!

Alison ... Hope you feel better soon.

FrankTamara ... I assume you're the Tamara part of your name ... Welcome

Busy day today. And have to watch my choices today after eating crab dip yesterday ...

Beth

Good morning, ladies. My weekly weigh in this morning showed almost a 3.5 lb. Loss. I'm very pleased. Of course this was my first week of water aerobics since the end of September due to left knee replacement. Also had not tracked at all the week of Thanksgiving and ate all the goodies my DMIL baked. So, I know this will not happen every week but it gave me a big boost. I really am just on maintenance at this point, but need to lose 5 lbs to get back where I want to be. That would be where I have been the last year at the bariatric surgeons weigh ins.

I baked a batch of spritz cookies yesterday and put them directly in the freezer. I plan on doing a couple of other cookies and start on chili, pulled pork and a few other things to freeze and take in the RV for the AZ trip. Not sure yet how many will be here for Christmas dinner. At least 11 up to 22 or so.

Gotta get ready for water aerobics. Have a great day all.

Janetr OKC

Happy Monday, ladies!!! I have some news to share that I hope will make you happy and provide some motivation for the newbies---just got back from the six month checkup at the doctor's office and we looked at my numbers. Today was the first day he said he was no longer recommending statins! Apparently I have increased the HDL and lowered the LDL just enough that I am no longer in the high risk zone. This was my main health goal of the year-- to lose enough weight and exercise enough that he would tell me I did not need those meds, so I am doing the happy dance. The icing on the cake was when he said I should be proud of myself for everything I did to improve my health this year.
Still hoping I can lose an equal amount next year so I need to up the exercise and start losing again instead of maintaining.
Thanks to all of you for being on this thread and helping to keep me motivated by all your stories and support. I wish I could hug all of you today! I hope I have provided some help to someone else at least once.

Betty

Katla49 wrote: »

We met longtime friends for lunch at a fish place in Portland. We haven't seen them for more than a year, and it was wonderful to share a meal and catch up on happenings. The husband has had four heart attacks since we last saw him & has had 9 stents put in. He's lost enough weight to be in the healthy zone, and looks like he is doing better. His wife is doing well despite having MS and worries about her husband. We spent several hours eating lunch and gabbing, and will try to get together again in March.

My current photo is our aluminum tree with the color wheel showing red. My parents used it in the 1960's when I was in junior high. DD says she had it for a while and used it several years back. That was a surprise to me.

PS: The glass balls on the tree now are the ones they used in the 1960s.

morning peeps and new peeps =

wowzers! that tree brings me back, we had one when we lived in the projects while on welfare!.. I used to sit and watch that thing for hours, I thought that was the coolest ever, better than the green fake or real trees! I remember, looking at our clothes closets and admiring something of one of my sisters and she would then wrap it and put it under the tree and I would get that for a gift. lololol. we had a parrot and I remember buying it some sunflower seeds and wrapping that for him and putting that under the tree. simple life when all of us used to talk to each other.

my speaker saved the day at spin class this morning. our instr. didn't show up (very unlike her) and a guy volunteered to get in front of the class and I used my speaker and music for him to teach to, it was a success!

type to ya later.

janetr - congratulations on your weight loss!

Betty - you deserve to do that happy dance! Awesome job!

Today is my rest day from SL5X5, so I did my kettle bell swing, single arm, 10 pound weight. Today I am going to go shopping to see if I can find a heavier weight kettle bell. Our remodel is on hold for the week because of choir concert, musical concert, basketball, taking care of DM IL and I have to take my DD into her surgery appointment Thursday morning. This is a very busy time of year! Have a great day everyone!



Mary from Minnesota

Betty ... Congratulations!

Lenora ... Oyster stew was a tradition in my husband's family. I make it for him only in the months that have an "r" in them ...

Barbie ... Happy Hanukah! It seems food is a part of all celebrations. Enjoy your potato latkes! It's not the occasional treat that gives us problems ...

This day is not going well so far .... Younger son dealing with migraine. But husband and I took off work today and we're going to change our poor start to a great finish. We're on a mission to help out a needy family. Love, love, love playing Santa, but Not sure we can pull this onevoff financially (I'm the budget watcher and hubby is the generous one). I'm just going to surrender my worry and let hubby's faith lead the way!

Beth