WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016

Happy Friday ! ! !

Becca – I can hear the excitement in you while reading your post. I am so excited for you ! ! !

Allison – I took a closer look at my kitchen floor, and the tile color is much lighter than yours, but I was unable to get a good picture with just the morning light. I love the color combinations you chose.

Barbie – Happy Anniversary ! Sounds like a lovely day ! ! !

Sylvia – I have limited knowledge of piercings, but I’d bet your granddaughter’s ear can heal closed, then be re-pierced. So sorry she (you all) had to go through that.

Heather – You naughty girl, thanks for the laugh. Sometimes we just need to break out of the ordinary !

Lenora – I LOVE vivid dreams. It makes for a fun few days, as you remember bits and pieces, and hopefully it makes you smile. How lucky that you had both dream and real family as part of the same dream ! // (and anyone else about the “unavailable, etc. calls) – I am a medical receptionist at a small clinic. I have to answer every call. My peeve about this is when they want to “sell” something to one of the Doctors, ask for him by name (but don't use the term "doctor" - like I'm supposed to think they are friends), then when I say “he’s seeing patients, what message can I give him” they say “I’ll call back later”. Well, that will be my answer later; in fact that will ALWAYS be my answer, whether it is the truth or not. Having someone else in your office call from a different number will not make a difference. I find humor in these calls, because otherwise I would go buggy every day.

Kimses – Don’t give up ! Take your measurements, or put on some clothes that used to fit you snug, and see if they fit better. “Do as I say not as I do” but don’t be a slave to the scale ! ! ! The fact that you can finish the work-out and have less pain speaks SO much to your increased health and fitness. Keep this going, you can do it !

Cheri – Enjoy your time in Chicago visiting with your kids ! ! ! I think the Junior Gold National Bowling Tournament is in Cleveland in July 2017. If DS wins a spot, we will be there !

Miriam – I was born in Des Plaines IL, we moved to Palatine when I was in third grade, then I moved to Winona MN for College. Small world ! // Your statement about your dog thinking she is a cat cracks me up, because we used to have a cat that would bark like a dog if he wasn’t done playing with the mouse or bat or squirrel or whatever that he brought home.

Celtik – Nice loss. Keep working hard at it. You are worth it ! ! !

Katla – tuck and roll ! No, I don’t know anything about martial arts, but I fell a lot as a kid (keep in mind I climbed everything I could). My first break was May 2014: I fell off a chair at work (yes, I was climbing on a chair to look out the window, don’t laugh too hard). I believe anything active that we can do to protect ourselves is a good idea. Let me know how it goes !

Drkatiebut – Too funny, you dirty bird! Thanks for the laugh ! ! !

A little less than 2 hours and this work week is done for me. It has been a long one, mostly because some people were sick, some were crabby, and some were down-right toxic. I just hide in my cage and try to keep the positive thoughts flowing as much as possible. DH is taking DS to pre-bowl tonight, so he can play basketball tomorrow morning, then H.S. bowling tomorrow afternoon. Then he has the MetroMilwaukee Bowling tournament on Sunday. Last year he got first place in doubles, second place in singles and all-events, so there is a title to protect.

Today I made my final payment on my car, so it is officially mine (not the banks). Hooray ! ! ! Now I start saving money for when we move to a smaller place - probably a 2 bedroom condo, since DH hates to maintain anything.

Hugs for Everyone ! ! !

Terri in Milwaukee (who got another sticker for yesterday)

Hi Esther from the Middle of Michigan here
Love everyone's goal's. I am new to this site, the Dr. said it would be a good site to work with my Fit Bit One.
My long term goals are 40lbs by July 7 when I see him again. He has a challenge for me so it's important to me.
I have been moving more after the bit by walking the dog and moving the holiday stuff in and out of the house.
Been getting real cold outside this first part of the year, but I have been making a real effort to keep moving. We have a treadmill so I am going to have to start back on it when I am unable to be out side for my 30 minutes per day. I need to do 30 minutes of cardio 3 time per week to make sure I have a deficit of 750 calories a week.
I see the 8 glasses of water and that's on my fit too. I drink coffee and thinking I need to not count that as water.
Every day I have to have a Boost energy drink due to some surgery I had, and they said I would heal better and increase my energy, so every morning I have that with two fiber tabs.
Well hope all has a wonderful week and get to get outside and enjoy the weather.
God it Good to Esther

tired.... at junk tonight... and ready for bed....
check you out in the morning

Barbie - Sasha and Brandy are gorgeous. Bernie too. I Have to admit I'm a cat lover, but only dogs now as Jack is NOT a cat lover.

Janetr okc

Barbie, I adore standard poodles- had one growing up. Scarlett was so patient and sweet.

Yesterday I did an SBF Total Body DVD. It wasn't very intense at all, very mild. Then we had a Newcomer general meeting. Then I went to a friend's house. She fell and is going to need knee replacement surgery. I'd made these crab tarts to take to Rummikub Tuesday and I know that her husband (now I know that she too) likes crab so even tho the calorie count on them is pretty good, I gave the rest to her. I also gave her a pumpkin gingerbread cake that I had in the freezer. By the time we got home (I know that she needs someone to talk to), got dinner ready then time for ceramics. After ceramics went to Lowe's Food to get some items, they have some sort of beer bar so Vince said that if we need to go there, he's willing to go as long as we go before 8 (when they close)

Today I will stop at the food kitchen to give them some of the cake that I made for the wedding. I can only eat so much cake. Then I volunteer at the Green room. Then I'll try someone different to get my hair styled and then I'll go get my passport renewed. Afterwards I'll stop at the Y to give this gal some of the gingerbread cookies that lady we saw yesterday gave me. I really don't need the cookies and I know that she likes gingerbread. Then I'll go to Aldi, stop to return something to Target, then get a crockpot for Denise at Kohl's. It's on sale for $19.99, plus I can get an add'l 15% off, plus I have a coupon for $10 off

Oh, remember when I went to the foot MD about the pain in my heel? Well, after x-rays he feels it's probably plantar faciatis. OK. Then they have this thing the patient portal. I looked at mine and there was this drug listed that I had no idea about. So I sent an email to the office asking about it. What did they do? They sent me a link back to the patient portal. Dhhhhh...that's where I first saw it. So I called the office to ask what this was. They said they'd have someone get back to me. From what I could read on the Internet, it's for arthritis, which I don't have. Some nurse got back to me said the MD prescribes it for all his patients (it would have been nice if he'd told me he was prescribing it), that it's an anti-inflammatory. I told her my concern that it might mask any discomfort and as a result I might do more exercising and make it worse. I will probably take it, but I'll only take it for a few days and see what happens. I'm not in excruciating pain at all.

Traci - what a survivor you are! Impressive! I'm mainly teaching myself crochet with a book. Susan Bates' book I've found to be better than Leisure Living, to me SB is more specific, and I need to go to the absolute basics.

Chris in MA - WOW is all I can say about those pic. Sure looks like more than a 7lb loss to me. Vince has a facebook account, but I think it's been YEARS since he's logged in. I wonder why he even has it. I log into mine every few days but rarely post anything

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Just been very busy. Volunteered at the Green Room Thurs, then went and got my hair styled then went to get my pic taken to renew my passport. I have never in my life had such a bad pic, and the guy said "well, I think I take a good picture". Good? No way.

Friday (today) I did an hour of exercise in the water, then Vince and I went and got new phones, came home and marinated the pork chops then made brownies for this brownie thing I'm going to make for Sun. A friend is coming over at 7 and we're going to watch the last episode of season 6 of Downton Abbey. I'm DYING to find out what happens to Edith.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to be a Eucharistic Minister at the church and also collect the donations for the soup kitchen. Unfortunately, they aren't open on Mon so it won't be until Tues that I'll be able to get it out of my trunk.

I'm so upset. I have a lot of bags (cloth) for reusing when I go to the store. Somewhere I lost a lot of them, and most of the ones that I really, really liked.

The office of the foot MD called to tell me that the cost for my orthotics would be $370. What orthotics?????? I'm not at all happy with this doc who prescribes meds and doesn't tell me he is and now I don't kinow what the story is about these orthotics.

Have over 200 posts to catch up on, so please pardon me for skimming. Hope I don't miss anything too important.

terri - that's wonderful about dd

Carol/peach - thinking of your sis's daughter. Update: So glad to hear that they're doing fine. Keep getting that Royal Cain food. It's a Mars product and you're helping (in a small way) to pay Vince's pension....lol

DJ - yes, logging ahead counts as logging. I've done it many many times. Stumbled on that accidentally, but so glad that I did. I does make that "xxx logged in xxx days" bogus. Good for you moving more than you thought you would!

kimses - good luck with the interview. Hope you get it!

Welcome everyone new!

mindy - hope you're better by now

Pole Penny - Love the name of your team

Joyce - only good thoughts for Charlie.

Alison - glad your bro is getting the help he needs. Good job on getting that alarm clock at the price you did. Great looking kitchen

katla - what great news from the orthopaedist! Interesting article on exercises DVD's. As you know, I do a lot of them, and that article is right in that so many of them (really, almost all) have these young, good looking gals in them. I just keep telling myself "I'm not 30 any more"

Made pork chops for later in the week, started making the brownies. Someone at senior bowling gave me the recipe. I wasn't all that crazy about them, but then again, I'm not that much into sweets. Basically, it's brownies with cream cheese frosting and on top of that are rice krispies with chocolate. We shall see how they turn out. Right now I'm just chilling the brownies/frosting. I'll make the topping tomorrow. I'm making a meat loaf right now.

Michele in NC

Barbie thanks for the website. Also your furry friends are beautiful!

Donna in WV