WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016
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Awwwww. Puppies are so cute!0 -
Barbie - Sasha, Brandy and Bernie are beautiful!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
Barbie: I love the cantering horse! I need to find the code so that I can use it, myself.
There is an MFP regular named Susannah who just posted a link to an article about using DVD's to exercise. I know that some of you love DVD's and others do not. I thought I'd post the link and find out what you think about it.
Exercise DVDs could be psychologically harmful for users, new research shows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160108083733.htm
Katla
I have checked out some dvds from my library but haven't purchased any yet.0 -
happy anni barbiecat!!!0
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Beth and Mia, I should have mentioned that the man who came in and offered me the molds was a local businessman in town who owns the flooring company which did the floors in our most recent remodel. He wasn't exactly a stranger, and of course, that is no guarantee of safety, but this is such a small town I figured I'd be OK. When I got there I found a full crew of workers starting to remodel the house. Thanks for worrying about me though. I'm not as careful as I should be, that's true.
I went to watch DGD#2 in her spelling bee today. She was eliminated in the second round, but I was still very proud of her for getting up in front of the whole school and trying so hard. So after school we all met grandpa at the ice cream store to celebrate. It was fun.
Tonight hubby and I went over to Joplin to get gas ($1.45 per gallon!!!) and we went to a furniture store to browse. The lady on facebook who was selling a table may have flaked out on me, so we went to look at a store instead. I think I've convinced hubby that it would be nice to have a table that would seat everyone. We saw a couple that were interesting, but I think I'd like to look around some more.
Tomorrow after we swim our laps I'm going to take the kids to the studio for a couple of hours to do craft stuff.
Good night everyone!
Sylvia
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stats for the day:
Jacobs ladder- 10.08min, 601ft, 39ftpmin, 143mhr, = 97c
Nustep machine- 15min, 85stm, 66aw, 115mhr, .70mi = 87c
Stairclimber- 5min, 189aw, 5flpmin, 213ft, 25fl, higher than Taj Mahal, 134mhr = 51c
other - physical therapy- 45min = 97c
total cal 332
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oooh tomorrow is CRAB dinner night at the community center. I am eating that crab, some french bread with butter and some coleslaw! I have PLANNED for it! Hugs all
Becca
Mrs. Crab Eater
in Oregon0 -
Kim – DEAL! Bought 3 new toys for Cracker, canvas but still squeaky. She likes the knotted rope that I got her. She misses her big squeaky reindeer; but, she pulled the squeaker out of it within 2 days. I could not get it back into the fur, so it went into the trashcan (or toy heaven). I don’t do the bread sticks from Olive Garden, either, would rather have more salad.
Janetr – Nah, just got carried away …
Miriam – Our JTP (R.I.P.) loved cat food and we’d sprinkle some on the carport floor for her each time we fed Tux; I think that Cracker has found some, that the dogs next door spill when they get out and come down to terrorize the cat. I think she thinks that we need to give her some as treats. A few minutes ago, she was asleep on her back in a most ‘unlady-like pose’. I wish I could get my cell phone out to take a picture of her. She’s a light sleep; so if I move I wake her up. Our JRT had 2 stones that she would treat as her babies. She’d retrieve them, no sticks though; and, then she’d fuss at them until she could get the turned around so she could get them ‘in her mouth’.
Drkatiebug – need to change the size of the font; even with readers on … I see the same thing. LOL!
Miakoda40 – Have you tried one of those little red laser lights up the wall? A friend of mine had one and we enjoyed watching her jump up the wall, then wonder where it went when we ran it to her and cut it off. I was the only one that got slapped in the face with her tail when I sat down on the sofa and she was sitting up on the back of it.
Terri_mom – There is a radio show here called “John Boy and Billy – The Big Show” (6:00am – 10:00am, 6 days a week. They’ll call up people and play pranks on them. Once they were talking about picking up the phone and the person asked for a particular person, so they said that they had just called a crime scene and asked how he knew him, what their relationship was, was it sexual, and told them that they had the call traced and someone would come pick him up to bring him into the station. It went on and on. Funny. I’d bust a gut trying to do that now. As a teenager, would not hesitate to make prank calls.
Crabiecrab – You can count coffee as water would be counted. Probably could count UN-sweet tea as well.
DSK2019 – Unless you want your email to be full of junk, I would NOT suggest going to this site. I got 20+ a day for several days until I ‘unsubscribed’ to it.
Gotta go ... "Blue Bloods' just came on.
Lenora
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Michele, about your foot, they have a thing you can wear at night to hold your toes towards your knee, works great. also get to the shoe store and get a good pair of walking shoes with a cradle for your heal. (less that $100.) and they will help while your on your feet. don't go bare foot and no no clogs or flip=flops0
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Hi Ladies
Feeling better but not good yet. Alas it's off to work I go tomorrow. On the other hand...yay! I have a job I really like which burns plenty of calories for me each shift! Hooray! (Sucking it up and putting my big girl panties on). Have read up..awesome to hear from everyone especially the newbies. Keep coming back girls it works if you work it!
Barbie. Happy Belated Anniversary! Your pics are beautiful.
Tracie Hi and Welcome!
Kimses and Rori Happy Belated Birthdays! Here's to your best health this year!
Ugg too many coughing fits to continue...posting one of my girls Lulu. We adopted her from Tenessee in 2014. She has no front teeth top or bottom so when she sleeps her tongue sticks out to varying degrees. Tonight just a little bit.
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Miriam: My dog is like yours. He does like certain doggy treats, though. Wilderness Salmon Treats, Milk Bone brushing chews and doggy peanut butter cookies are the ones he likes. He gets one of them several times a week, if he has cleaned up his plate.
Terri in Milwaukee: I need to try the tuck and roll, but during both falls I fell over backwards. Thinking of trying falling backwards from a standing position is pretty scary but maybe I can start from a squatting position and work my way up. :flowerforyou:
Barbie: Happy Anniversary! Sasha and Brandy are cutie pies. Dogs are the best sort of people. :bigsmile:
Michele: DH uses foot orthotics and has really benefitted. His are custom made and he's had them for years. They were pretty expensive at the time but have remained in excellent condition. Scholls has a diagnostic machine and you stand on it barefoot or in your socks. It has a flat surface that measures your foot and analyzes what support you need. I tried it & bought what they recommended to use inside my riding boots. They aren't perfect but they're certainly better than wearing the boots without them. DD also has problems with her feet and I think she got hers there, too. You can move the orthotics from one pair of shoes to another. On another subject, I record most of the shows I like to watch and I fast forward through the commercials, too.
Becca: Crab is healthy and low calorie, but thousand island dressing & Louie dressing are another story. Enjoy your crab dinner. :flowerforyou:
We just watched Star Wars in 3D at our local theater. I enjoyed seeing some of the original actors and props. Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, & Mark Hamill were all there along with the new young heroine and hero. It was fun seeing the Millennium Falcon, R2D2, and C3PO, too.
Tomorrow is my riding lesson. Yay! I am a little nervous about the wrist, but I'm sure I will be fine and have a good time. I will be wearing my wrist brace.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
January Goals :
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back strength.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
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Mindy - Lulu is precious! What breed is she? I was thinking a bloodhound.
Mary from Minnesota0 -
Mary yup! That she is!0
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Michele, my podiatrist ordered my orthotics for my plantar faschitis (SP?) Yes, they are very expensive and insurance doesn't cover any of it. But they sure help a lot.
Lisa, my daughter works in this real neat place. It is a cave and also houses Hybridge spring water as it has a natural spring inside the cave. So there are actually 2 companies there. Hers does digital storage. Theya lso make use of the cave to store RVs, cars, vintage cars, etc. They have a huge room that is dedicated to a dehumidifier. It's kind of eerie. They took us on a tour one time and you will think you are coming to a part of the cave that is empty and you shine your flashlight and there will be an RV! They also have a concert series in there several times a year due to the acoustics.
Getting a bad sinus infection. I am literally eating my Halls drops just for the sore throat. Nothing feels inflamed like it would be strep throat. It's just all post nasal drip. So salt water gargling and Halls.
Pip, I guess I didn't realize you had a cat. Sorry.
Didn't mean to get in trouble talking about politics. I mute it all!
Cold wind here today. Yucky.
Nite, nite, Joyce, Indiana0 -
Speaking of politics, they recently had a debate with the leaders of all the political parties in Sweden. The next day it was broadcast again but with subtitles for those who needed them. Problem was, somebody goofed up and the subtitles weren't for the debate, but for a children's program. So when the leader of the Green party was speaking, it looked as though she was saying:
I have two pairs of boots. One red pair and one yellow pair.
and the leader of the Liberal party said:
I'm going to build the best sandcastle in the galaxy!
I'm off to choir practice all day... Catch you later!
/Penny at the
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Michele - I use very cheap things you can buy on Amazon. Just a wide elastic band with a little rubber thing to go under the arch. Sounds crazy,but they have changed my life! Arch supports. I change them now and then as they compress over time, but they are sooooooo cheap. I also do exercises every day for pf that I found on Google.
Sounds like you've got a rip-off merchant there! :flowerforyou:
DH got home ok, but was very tired. We slept well. I am happy to have kept to my calories both days, with a struggle, but did it. Also had no alcohol Friday. Hooray for me!
Love Heather UK0 -
Penny - I was doing a "Leadership" course once and one of the tasks was to make ten deliberate mistakes. Some people were extremely inventive! One guy was a news and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 3, our most stuffy and posh classical music channel. One morning he started his day's announcement with "Good morning girls and boys . . . . " Nobody ever said anything about it. :laugh:
He was one of the most uptight and conventional people I've ever met, so it was a huge deal for him.
I'm ashamed to say my mistakes were very tame.
Heather UK
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michelle fellow pf sufferer here...dont go spending hundreds! There are plenty of great shoes with a supportive arch and deep heel cup, vionic, clarks etc. I buy athletic insoles and change regularly. No more barefoot for me! Since making these changes including stretches and rolling my feet on frozen water bottle i am pain free. And i would think about switching to a doc that knows how to communicate better!!!
joyce are you drinking enough hot liquids???? Sounds really painful, take care of yourself.
After one more cup of coffee i am headed to gym and then off to tackle the basement hardware mess karen from ny 0 -
Penny, that was hilarious about the closed captioning! Are you sure it was a mistake, or was somebody having a little fun? I think our politics would be so much more bearable with those kinds of subtitles. Instead of "you're a stupid ugly loser!" It would say "I have red and yellow boots". I love it!
Katla, have fun riding!
Lulu!!!!!
I got a bit of devestating news yesterday. Our town's parks and recreation department puts out a calendar every year and they pass them out to every child in school, plus there are stacks available at every library, grocery store and doctors office in town for people to pick up. Well, my grandkids got theirs this week, and they told me that my picture is in it. Yup, they say I'm Miss July, complete with bathing suit. It was taken at the city pool at the end of summer in 2014. I know that because they said it was from the Penny Hunt, where the lifeguards pour buckets of pennies and other change into the bottom of the pool and the kids five for it. I would have been out of the water, because only kids in certain age groups are allowed in, and they take turns with the different age groups. I have not seen the photo yet personally, so maybe it's not as bad as I imagine, but it can't be good. So I'm trying not to freak out about it, but I did lose sleep over it last night. There are only 20,000 people in town to see it. I thought they would have had to get a signed release or something to use a picture like that.
Well, it's time to go swimming. Have a great Saturday!
Sylvia
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Heather, I have wondered if those elastic things work! My middle son was born with club feet and has severe Plantar Fascitis. He has doctor ordered and insurance paid for orthotics, but since he spends so much time in his apartment barefoot, he has severe pain that impacts his ability to walk more than a block or stand for more than about ten minutes. I have thought about getting him those but didn't know if they would help. I have also thought about getting him the supports that pull the toes up while you sleep, but he has such problems with sleep that I hesitate to suggest anything that might make it worse. Thanks for all the information from everyone on this subject! I have extremely HIGH arches so have never had that problem. My foot print looks like a heel, and a pad with five toes, nothing connecting them at all.
Sylvia, get a calendar and look at it before you have a meltdown! The photo won't be nearly as bad as your mind is making it to be!
Love to all of you!
Miriam in small town Iowa.
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Thank you ladies for the warm welcome; and many of you are correct, I have gleaned a lot of information in just skimming through the most recent posts!
I got out in the warmer (32 degree) temps last night and walked a couple miles. Felt really good. Had to wear my headlamp and my Yaktrax as it is dark and slippery in West Michigan right now.
Exermom- Sorry to read about your plantar fasciaitis. That is a painful problem to have. There are exercises that you can do to help it; I have always found that a new pair of shoes (lots of support) will make it easier to get around!0 -
Good morning all!!
Busy day today - day 2 of the ladies Curling Bonspiel. Hopefully my car starts, I did plug in the block heater - here is our local weather forecast......Cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries this morning. Clearing near noon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High minus 23 Celsius. Wind chill minus 34 Celsius.
Tonight Clear. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 30 Celsius . Extreme wind chill minus 41 Celsius. My puppy dog hasn't even come out of his house to say good morning and I don't blame him, he is nice and cosy in there..
Now that I have ranted about the weather (Canadians love to talk about the weather...lol) I made a deal with the skip on our curling team - if we lost our game I would skip the next one. Well... we lost. So I am already doing the math - if I agree to skip our game this morning I will only make 2 strips up and down the ice each end instead of 6 and I won't get my upper body workout because I won't be sweeping... so I am in panic mode!! How on earth am I going to get my 10,000 steps today? I think I may have to convince her that she did a wonderful job and it is just first game, new curling rink, new team jitters... Do you think it will work?
Later everyone, must go pack my healthy snacks to get me through all day at the curling rink where there are a lot of greasy foods...
Lillian in FROZEN West Central Saskatchewan
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Speaking of politics, they recently had a debate with the leaders of all the political parties in Sweden. The next day it was broadcast again but with subtitles for those who needed them. Problem was, somebody goofed up and the subtitles weren't for the debate, but for a children's program. So when the leader of the Green party was speaking, it looked as though she was saying:
I have two pairs of boots. One red pair and one yellow pair.
and the leader of the Liberal party said:
I'm going to build the best sandcastle in the galaxy!
/Penny at thePenny, my husband almost choked from laughing so hard when I read this to him.
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Michele, I wear foot splints like this to bed to deal with the nerve compression in my legs....the woman at the office where I went to get them told me that they were prescribed for plantar fascitis. Medicare approved the cost of them (thank goodness because they were expensive)
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Pip, Bootz looks a lot like my Bernie.....he is darling Mindy, Lulu is darling...she looks very huggable 0
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LuLu looks like a love! Is she some kind of hound?
Wanted to go to 5 yr old's basketball game this morning but overslept as it started at 8 Am and is a 30 minute drive for me. So had my coffee and a bit of leftover chicken instead and will now walk the pom.
(((Sylvia))) I don't think it was fair for them to use a picture of you without your permission. I am never ever happy with any picture of me.
I am having trouble with my achilles tendon as I tend to stretch my feet out when in bed and it is very painfule the next day.
Penny ~ That was too funny! I bet there were some heads rolling for that.
Carol
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Speaking of politics, they recently had a debate with the leaders of all the political parties in Sweden. The next day it was broadcast again but with subtitles for those who needed them. Problem was, somebody goofed up and the subtitles weren't for the debate, but for a children's program. So when the leader of the Green party was speaking, it looked as though she was saying:
I have two pairs of boots. One red pair and one yellow pair.
and the leader of the Liberal party said:
I'm going to build the best sandcastle in the galaxy!
/Penny at thePenny, my husband almost choked from laughing so hard when I read this to him.
Can I vote for the guy with the sandcastle? I wish somebody would do this for our debates!!!
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Sylvia... I figured you knew the man but couldn't resist having some fun ... Reminded me of the old come-on line "do you want to see my etchings?"
Like Kay ... I see porn for Pom ... Bowel for bowl ... Yes, I need glasses! My 18 yo, however, thinks I'm a child ... Tells me I act like a 7 yo! I consider that a compliment.
Sylvia ... You do not look the same as you did in 2014 ... Unless they identified people in the photos, no one may even recognize you! And if they do ... They'll only give you props for being so self-confident! Chin up, girl! You know who you are and what you're accomplishing!
Karen ... The basement ... Which is utter chaos here ... Is in my list this weekend... Blech!
Beth near Buffalo
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