WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2015

I'm back home. My procedure was a huge waste of time. They found some scar tissue inside the colon and could not get their instruments past it. Also, the small intestine is attached at a strange backward angle and they couldn't make the turn. So, my options are to have full blown surgery, which will only create even more scar tissue, or to just try to live with it. That would mean a very limited diet with only soft foods. So, I feel stuck. I'm too tired to think about it now. The anesthetic hasn't quite worn off. So, I'm going to lie down for a little while.

The funny part is that my son called about 1:00, while I was still in the recovery room, and asked if I was going to pick up the kids from school. I told him several times that this would take all day. He has no short term memory left at all.

More later.

Sylvia

Grits, our doggie door fits thirty pound dogs, so an adult human can't get through it. But other animals can. I think spanking your dog is counter productive. That's not the best way to train a dog. Positive reinforcement works SO much better.

Evening ladies, long long day..will check in tomorrow

Did 1-1/4 hr of Stephanie Vitorrio Body Target DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do exercise in the water.

barbie - loved your pic about worrying. How true!

Joyce - it looks like you really enjoyed Blue Man Group. How great you had such great seats. I remember the year we went to see TSO when Jess was training the service dog, they put us in a box. I must say, it was really nice. The dog slept thru the entire concert....lol I, also, thought about how I donate the cookies to the soup kitchen. You know what they say -- GMTA. Good find on that band for your fitbit

This am after giving Loki his medicine, went to Aldi, brought things home and am now making two of those spinach/feta quiches to take Sat (I'll freeze them). Hopefully, this afternoon we can do wrapping, got everything out in the kitchen ready to do it.

Sylvia - thinking of you

Lisa - glad you got your Internet back. I hate when ours goes out

Betty - I keep reading how this Christmas it's supposed to be unseasonably warm. I'm hoping I got everything needed to do the cooking Christmas Eve

Lenora - feel better fast

pip - you have some wonderful coworkers. They decorate and now this lovely gift.

Elaine - I do hope you feel better fast

Barbara - welcome!

Was waiting for Vince to start wrapping, but it never happened. He said he thought I'd do it. I used to do it all when he was working and it took days. Of course, the kids were smaller so got more presents. Last year (and I think the year before) we did it together and it went so fast. I'm hoping that tomorrow we can do it before I have to go to get my hair done at 3:30. Update: he's going to go shopping around 10, after exercising I'll go to WalMart then home. Maybe I'll start wrapping things that are already in a box. That's the one part of wrapping that I'm not crazy about, finding a box the right size.

If it weren't so close to the holidays and I'm going to get my hair colored, I'm thinking that next time I need to get my hair trimmed, I just may try the gal Vince goes to. I originally went to one gal but she was booked so I booked it with another gal. Today she called to say that she won't be in until the afternoon. I'm sorry, the reason I started going here was because they were right on my way home from the Y and I could get my hair done after exercising. Now with all these schedule changes.......I can probably get my hair done after volunteering at the Green Room if I go to the place Vince goes to. I can just walk there from the Green Room. Vince says he thinks that I'll get along well with the gal since she's into exercising, too. I may give it a try, maybe in Feb. before we go to FL

Sylvia - so sorry to hear about your procedure. What an awful choice you have to make!

Lenora - I agree with Sylvia, positive reinforcement for doggie training. That's how we trained the service dog.

DJ - so glad you friend's surgery went so well.

Michele in NC

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Janetr, love it. That's about how it is in my house. Hope you get the issue with this rash,taken care of.

Sylvia, I feel I had sympathetic diarrhea for colonoscopy tonight. But I guess I had it to late. I don't know what I ate, nothing unusual but my heavens, pooped in my britches 3 times. Luckily I was at home all 3 times!!! TMI?????? I don't think you should say the procedure wasn't worth anything. At least you do know now that you have scar tissue and that your natural anatomy is kind of messed up. Hope you get your rest now so you can continue to be super Grandma.

Barbie, can I change the weird code to something like blue man #1 and then #2? Or does it have to be picture 1? I know on forums on face book and other groups you can 'pin' notes. An explanation of how to put up pictures would be a very helpful 'pin'. I will try doing that, but not tonight.


Heather, glad you are safely in your home and then the wonderful (????) news that you are having a group for Christmas! I don't particularly love the smell of a freshly painted room but i love that it is freshly painted and how ti looks, it takes on a new life.

Lisa, glad you have all your internet up.

Pip, I absolutely love your design. The dog with the halo, is that one that has died? It almost looks like Kirby's bike is pulling your Airstream. Is that intended??? I know he will love it.

Took a long trip to Walmart all by myself to try to finish up my shopping. I put ornaments in all the ladies stockings so I got those. I tried to pick each one for the individual. They were only $1.94 so I liked that. I have always thought that stockings can hold wonderful little gifts that mean a lot. Charlie has never been one to look at the check book or to ask me what I spend or even to notice that a daughter is wearing a new ring. So they have always known not to let him see everything they get in their stocking. I know this isn't honest but he can be so giving at one time and then a pincher another so this is the way I have always given something extra. So after they got to be adults, I always put a $25 gift card to a favorite restaurant in the stocking. Christina loves Steak and Shake and her hubbie doesn't so in order for her to use that it is not only a gift from me it is also a gift of love from her husband. Michelle doesn't go out at all unless she is with us and we always pay. She had several small things on her Amazon wish list that I didn't get her and I don't know if anyone else did either. So I ordered her a $25 gift card from there. I love it that you order the one to be printed off at home. So I am almost all done. I went downstairs to the laundry room tonight and it reminded me that I haven't put the tree up yet. I think if it wasn't for the fact we have the big family Christmas here and I have young grand kids, I wouldn't put one up. We don't have room in our living room where it would be seen from the outside. So it goes in the family room, which is Charlie's man cave and I never see it unless I am doing laundry. He cleans up after himself and vacuums down there so I rarely have a need to go there and see the tree. So it is lit on Christmas day, well Jan 2nd, only.

Nite nite my friends, Joyce, Indiana where it is finally getting to be cool enough to be December.

Morning everyone. Wishing you all a great day.

Will be doing some bulk cooking today - vegetable curry using lots of different vegetables including things I am not keen on ie celery parsnips. I use Mayflower Curry Powder which is tasty and I love it. Will also be trying to eat more vegetables for snacks instead of fruit. Will make a dip using quark mixed with curry powder, black pepper and a little rock salt.

I usually only cook one meal at a time for my husband and myself, I am going to start cooking bulk meals and freeze them. Hopefully this will save time and be able to eat good prepared meals and this will stop snacking on sugary foods.

Have a great day everyone.

So here's the warm food.

First the pork section: spare ribs, bratwurst and burgers, served with cooked prunes and apple slices.


Here's the same stuff along with mashed rutabaga and stewed purple cabbage (the only two things this dinner had in common with what I serve on my own Christmas table).


And last but not least, the crowning glory of any Norwegian Christmas dinner, the one item no red-blooded Norwegian can imaging not eating on Christmas Eve: pinnekjøtt. This traditional dish is made from sides of mutton (sheep or lamb). They are soaked in brine for a couple weeks then hung up to dry for 6-8 weeks. At that stage they keep essentially forever. When Christmas comes, the ribs are soaked in water overnight then steamed until the meat is tender, 3-5 hours. The name pinnekjøtt literally means "stick meat" and that isn't because the bones look like sticks, but because you steam the meat on a nest of peeled birch sticks.


When everyone had eaten themselves full, but before dessert, this is what we had left over on just one of the tables.


And at the end of the evening we were all so exhausted that NOBODY took any food home with them! Luckily some of the leftovers were transported to their workplace for lunch the next day. But I still have plenty left...

The Governor's office has implored people not to go out unnecessarily. All flights in and out of Svalbard are cancelled today, including the extra flight that most families with small children intended to take this afternoon after school ended for the term. The school festivity marking the start of the holiday break has been moved from the church to the school itself so the kids don't have to go outdoors, and busses are being arranged to transport every child to his/her door. Last but not least, the postal service has cancelled delivery of all mail, though we're welcome to stop by the post office in person and ask for our letters.

Now how did it go again, the creed of the US postal service?

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Penny - Wow thank you so much for the pictures and the description of all we were seeing. Stay safe in your home during the storm.

Pip... that is a very nice present for Kirby

Penny - thanks for posting the traditional Norwegian Christmas dinner. My maternal great grandparents came from Norway, so maybe they would have had some of these dishes for their Christmas.

Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan

This morning my entire left hip is on fire. Will be glad to get to the doctor's appointment at 9:30. I'll let you know the out come.

Good thots to all you special ladies.

Janetr OLD