WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016

Mindy - I'm so happy that you had a great day!

Penny – thanks for the suggestion to resize my pic. I tried that but still no success. I can load it to my profile page, but it doesn’t show on the message board. I tried several different pictures, using Paint to resize them. I also tried different browsers. Maybe next weekend I’ll try again on a different computer. It’s driving me crazy because I’m not usually so helpless when it comes to computers. I welcome any other suggestions!

Michelle – funny story about the frosting oozing where the cake was cut! How sweet that your Dad politely ate it. So sorry you lost your Mom at such a young age. Funny what some husbands consider balanced meals! Mine isn’t a huge fan of fast food/burger places, but loves a good steak!

Carol in NC – prayers for fast healing.

Mindy – great start on the cleaning the exercise room! Caught my attention when you mentioned tablecloths – I love them! But now only use them on holidays when we have company. My husband works out of our home/garage and uses half the table for work so I’ve given up making it look pretty.

It’s past my bedtime – so it’s good night for now!

Joyce in SD (still faceless since I can’t get my picture to post)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill

The competition of the colors begins!!!!!

Joyce in SD, I can't get my picture to be right either. It used to be and it looked wonderful since it was the first time I realized I had a jaw bone then one day I got all squashed and I look like this now.

Mindy, good job on what you have done. I just love what looks like to be the square footage you have in that room. So far I have read what every one is doing and say yep I need to do that also. Yep, I say that. But that's all I do. I am the queen of procrastination. Yep, I say I need to do it.

Several of you have mentioned about the free places to give and receive. I don't know if there are more cities that have it but my daughter has one in the Lexington, Ky area called 'all things in common'. You just post what you have and the first person who can arrange to pick it up gets it. She has pretty well outfitted her house with this. Just recently she got a rel nice older twin bed with lots of shelves/storage for her teenage daughter. When they finally got a rental house she did her entire living room, TV, shelving, pictures, retro dresser to put TV on, chairs, etc on this site. We have a very active swap group here in town on face book. They might have a big item to give but to them since they don't need it anymore and what they really need is something that is more of a $10 value, that is what they will ask for. They ask for things like cereal, toilet paper, meat, etc. They have been swapping with each other long enough that they trust each other to swap meat. I think it is a wonderful idea.

Took Michelle to her pain specialist today. She has bone spurs on her cervical spine area and they want to do an ablation. Now I am very familiar what an ablatio of the heart is and my other daughter had a uterine ablation for excessive periods but for the life of me I can't figure out what an ablation for bone spurs is. Anyway they did a numbing injection in her neck today to see if an ablation would be successful. Some one had to drive ehr home. So hse jsut came over to our house for several hours to hang out with us. At first she was fine then she jsut felt like she was really drunk, couldn't hardly walk a straight line, had various numb areas. But as the evening went on, her pain level went down and she texted me and said the left side of her neck is much loser and for the first time in years has some mobility without pain. She has to have another one of these 'test' injections then they will schedule her with the procedure. This girl is like my parents. If you hurt, if you can hardly walk, then to bad. You have a life, a job, money to make and you just get up and do it without complaint. My other daughter, well she is like the rest of us.

The facts of life. My Mom was a prude. 'That' was not talked about. When I first had my first period she told my older sister to take me downstairs in the basement and I could take care of it down there. When my older sister graduated from high school and went to college they gave ehr a book called 'It's time you knew'. My sister knew she needed to pass it down to us right away because we would never get the facts of life any other way. when I went to North Carolina to work at a campground we lived in a dorm. That book went with me and it was surprising what the other girls did not know and that book was well read by all that summer. Now my girls, I knew from the way they talked in middle school that I didn't need to talk to them. I remember my youngest telling me that in 5th grade sex ed they broke the class up into male/female couples and the girls had to but a condom on a banana that the guy was holding. I imagine there was a lot of cold showers that day in the boys locker room.

Got to go check out this web site on yahoo some one mentioned freecycle

Joyce, Indiana

Morning ladies~
yes we have freecycle here and I have gotten a couple of baby things,nd have gotten rid of alot of things..
Facts of life~ I was raised a good catholic girl and my mother never talked about it either... since I had no older sisters, it was what I learned from other girls... I got my period at 14 up at our place in N.H. and I guess my mom took me out and got pads...
but never really filled me in, so I started fooling around at 16.. and at 18 I had a serious boyfriend,and thought I might be pregnant so I had a pregnancy test in my purse, somehow my mom saw it and was devistated....
oh and they had sex ed in school, my parents signed me out,so that I could not take the class...
I did have the talk with my daughter early because I didnt want her not knowing, well she got pregnant at 18 so, I guess that didnt work...
today is a long day at work... 9-6 and they have patients crammed in everywhere...

Barbie ~ Thanks for the info on the graphics. Will see if I can follow your instructions.


It worked!

Annr wrote: »

Kim from N. California- haha.....When I was to get married, my mom set me aside to talk to me heart to heart... She asked me if I had my trousseau (a drawer with lacy things) hahaha. I said that I was ordering some, she looked me straight in the eye and with a serious face said, "Well, they don't stay on for very long". Um great wise words there Mom... heeheee... She was priceless like that... One liners you just can't fake that...
Becca
Oregon

Becca, thank you for the laugh!!! Needed a chuckle!
Betty

Carol, hope you are doing well today.

Love the puppy!

The stray that has been living under my shed has been coming in to the house for brief moments to eat and get warm. Last night he stayed inside until about three a.m. He has already learned how to get let it- my other cats sit on the gas meter under a window to get my attention. Yesterday evening I heard a cat there, but looked around and my three indoor/ outdoor kitties were already inside. It was the stray!

Just reading these messages gives me some motivation. I've been on a holding pattern for sometime now. Recently began eating more healthy, and adding back exercise into my daily routine. The cold weather in my neck of the woods is a real de-motivator. -5 temp this morning took my breath away on my walk into work. I'm going to use the company treadmill for two 15 minute sessions and see if I can keep that up daily for the rest of the month

Morning peepers

Stats for the day:
Lateral machine- 26.15min, 3220str, 52fl, lvl7, latw8, 144mhr, 2.76mi = 231c
Other- physical therapy stretches at gym- 25min, 85mhr, 8 diff stretches 3 sets of 10ea = 42c
Total cal 273

Good morning all!
Had yoga this morning and I loved it and the company, as always. My friend came back for coffee. The only problem is that it only burns off 236 calories, according to MFP, so this afternoon I went on the rower and bike and burnt off 380. A girl's gotta eat! :bigsmile:
I watched a holiday property programme while I was doing it.

Yesterday was my alcohol free day. I must say I didn't miss it, after I had got over that 6pm slump. We have both been very good since the New Year and have been sticking to our 14 units a week limit. I'm pleased as I was beginning to feel it was running away with me. Now I feel I am back in control.

The olive oil present I ordered well before Christmas still hasn't arrived, so I am asking for my money back. Useless lot.

Still haven't rung the mobile phone company, but I now know that I can do it for free from my home phone. I have checked all my bills, dates etc, so I am ready to go. (Can't ring from my mobile as our reception is #×+@ and there is no email facility. Can't even get into my own account as the codes they send me don't work. Utter #÷××÷@+*. )
I promise you all I will do it tomorrow. PROMISE.

Expecting some new in ear headphones today. I use them on the train to drown out talk, so the ear pieces need to fit tightly. These have several different ear buds you can try. Also expecting a new book out on Velasquez, for you art lovers.

I'm in the process of deciding on a new roasting pan and rack. My old one must be 35 years old and looks it. :laugh: I want a high rack so that I can get veg underneath. There are sooooooo many choices at sooooooo many different prices. Tending towards a cheaper one. Then I must throw the old one away. Yes.

Love to all. Heather UK

Type to ya later peeps

Morning all. Just popping in quick to say hi!

Joyce in SD – I think you need to try a higher resolution picture. When I go to your profile page I can see your picture but it’s a bit grainy. Do you have a picture that was taken with a camera/phone that is higher resolution than the one you used? Maybe try that. (Joyce in Indiana – I think yours just needs to be cropped to remove some of the space above your head.)

Had another 7AM meeting for work so I did not get in my morning exercise. I will exercise this evening. I will exercise this evening. I will exercise this evening. Just repeating that out loud so that you will all hold me to it.

Linda in Iowa where is it current 4⁰ F with a -15 wind chill

celtikgirl wrote: »

Good evening! I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to keep up with all the posts and it will take me a year to learn names, locations, etc. I'm Sharon, too, (or is that three or four?) which might be confusing, so feel free to stick with my screen name if it helps. I live in Maryland, north and west of all the big cities and trouble. I've been here for almost 30 years, so I suppose this is home now.

I'm officially jealous of Betty ROC, who lives 300 miles closer to my daughter, the grands, my sister and a few more pieces of the family. If I thought I could find a job up there, I'd trade places with you! I grew up in Rochester and the western suburbs.

I dragged my tail to the gym tonight after work. Endurance might have dropped off since I gave myself a holiday break, but pace is still there (pitiful as it is) so my 5k time is still one hour. Hope to get that down some over the next couple of months.

Sharon, it sounds like you live in a beautiful area. Would love to explore that part of the country some more. Ahh, jobs and Rochester...the reason we do not have a boom town even though we have lots of amenities. If you haven't visited for a while you would still be amazed at the changes downtown, though. It seems half the original office buildings have turned into apartments, part of the Inner Loop is getting filled in, there is a grocery store in the East End. The new thing apparently is photonics so if you know anything about that you just might find something to do. Also, the University of Rochester is now officially the largest employer, not Kodak. And there is always Wegman's!

I think I won't be able to decide on where to live or snowbird for a couple of years -- waiting to see if there will be a chance for grandchildren. If I had any that would change everything for me...I would want to spend as much time as possible with them.

Betty