WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016

lhannon062709 wrote: »

Happy April, all, no fooling!

Yes, that is me peeking out from behind it...

Love your quilt! Beautiful work.

Cheri

Michele – You must have a virtual library of exercise DVDs. I think you do a ‘different’ one every day. After I took about 75% of my wardrobe to the consignment shop; I might find I will never buy anything ‘new’ again. I did not have much time to waste, so I did not get to look. Many of the things I took were really nice. Even took the dress I wore to DYS’s wedding back in May – never wore it but once; and, then I started losing weight. I went on a day that they normally don’t take in clothes (Wednesday); but I think when I told them that I lived out of town, they made an exception. The girl looked at me when I brought in about 25 things hanging on a hanger; then 2 bags of shorts and other things. I told her that I had lost 25lbs and decided it was time to get rid of all the things that did not fit me. There was a lady leaving the store that they did not take her clothes and told her to bring them back the next day. I’m hoping that everything I took will be put out to sell. I think I even took a pair of dress slacks to Goodwill because the little thing you hold on to was broken. I always had to put in a really small pin in it to pull it up and down. She told me they’d go through everything to make sure they were not ‘stained, torn, or out-of-season’ and would put them out for 120 days and ‘if’ not sold, they’d donate them to The Salvation Army and I’d get a ticket of donation to take off on my taxes. What’s the beaded banner for?

HAHAHAHA – They just showed a video on The Today Show of Taylor Swift running on a treadmill to music and then suddenly she ‘face-planted’ it and rolled off the back. I’ve done the same thing but I ‘butt-planted’ off it. I felt bad for her; but, it was like 'in a cartoon' moment.

Katla – Growing up they used to have a May Day ceremony that was put on by the All Women’s College in town. They always had a Renaissance Festival at the same time and I can remember them dancing around the flag pole and covering it in ribbon.

Here comes the rain, will probably last until tomorrow evening. Means that DH will be home soon. I hope he brings home some decent movies. Last week he only brought home 2 out of 5 that were worth watching. I don’t do ‘scary’ movies (and he KNOWS it; but, keeps getting them). Occasionally he will bring home a ‘chick flick’.

KJL – I don’t think I could ‘keep kids’. Don’t get me wrong – I loved my 2 sons; was lucky that they had a Mother’s Morning Out where I could leave them at the college in Macon for women who wanted to become teachers. They taught them things and you could either leave them there for 4 hours (morning or afternoon). I’d take them about 10:00am and pick them up about 2:00pm. That way I could do my errands, or go to a MD’s appointment, go grocery shopping, or just come home and ‘chill’ for a while. It was nice. Especially since I was pregnant while we lived there. They did not take children under the age of 2; but, having to only go somewhere with 1 child was easier than with 2.

Joyce – I can remember when my oldest sister had breast cancer and immediate reconstruction, they had 4 tubs running out of her chest and back which he husband had to drain several times a day. I think my middle sister must have had things running out of her; but, she could not have immediate reconstruction due to problems during surgery and she got an infection, too. They had to put in a port so they could give her massive amounts of antibiotics. After being ‘in the hospital’ for another week afterwards. She decided to have the blow-up (I guess they were implants) removed and has not had any reconstruction to date. Last summer she had a facelift. I’m not sure she will have reconstruction at this point. My oldest sister had problems the first time they did her reconstruction through a ‘rotation flap’ which meant that they’d pull muscle tissue up and twist it around to make a breast; they could not close her up; and, she ended up with an ‘implant’ and a hole in her chest large enough to drop a pencil through it (top to bottom). The implant started leaking and before they were scheduled to take it out and replace it, they found cancer in the other breast. This time she just went for the implants; but, she still had to have inserts placed under her chest skin to stretch it for the implants for several weeks (maybe months).

Grandmallie – I’ve had the same thing happen to me. I disable my touchpad on my laptop because I use a mouse. Have to do it manually every time I open up the computer. Sometimes it just ‘goes away’; other times you can go to the bottom (where your ‘task bar’ is located and run you pointer over the MFP icon there and sometimes it will show back up. There’ll be two pages side-by-side and you can find it there. SOMETIMES. I always open up a word processing program which I type my responses into, so if I miss several days, I can still answer those posts on previous days. The icon up in the upper right-hand side will have a ‘blow up’ icon with a 2nd one behind it which shows you have more than one program open at the same time. That helps keep it from going away entirely most of the time.

Lhannon … - My DGD#4 asked me to brush her hair, because she knew I did not get to do that because of having only boys. It was so much fun and she seemed to enjoy it, too. Told me that she did not have a tender head, so I could brush hard. All 4 of my DGDs have very thick, long hair.

My BF told me the other day that she is going to ‘church’ (probably for the first time since becoming an adult). Said she had gotten a flyer put on her car and thought the message of the sermon sounded like it would be good. She could not remember the subject matter. I rode by the church and the Marquette read: “Is Jesus the Only Way into Heaven?” Now, that would be ‘interesting’ to someone who purportedly has ‘no faith’. I’ve talked to her ‘on a few occasions’ but, never push it. I’ve never believed that you can ‘preach’ anybody into ‘salvation’. When they are ‘ready’ they will be ‘open to it’ and not before.

Lenora

Hello, everybody!

Thanks Barbiecat - for starting out April for us!

I can't believe three months of this year is already passed by! I've been so busy.....not hardly any time to post or read. I left the March thread about 2-3 weeks ago. My mom - she is critically ill, in the last part of stage 5 renal failure. It's so hard watching her go down hill. I'm having a hard time letting her go. I've been busy trying to work my job and take care of her. Thank God mom has a large family. I have 2 siblings that are good about helping, but one of them is getting ready to have a stress test this week coming up. Some of the grandkids and greats have stepped up and are helping.

During all of this, I've hardly had time to go to the grocery, much less plan meals and snacks. According to the scales, I am down a couple of pounds. Hmm.....

I'll check back when I get a chance! Hope everyone is well!

Donna in Wild, Wonderful West Virginia

Hi all,
Lisa - delicious grands!
Quick post. Went shopping for lunch stuff this morning as we were running out of food. The Turkish bread shop is deeeeevine! Also bought the best cottage cheese in the whole world. The kids were eating lots of cherry tomatoes and strawberries, so that's good.
After lunch I asked DDIL if I could help with the laundry as it was getting out of hand. I folded up a mountain of clean and dry stuff and put more in the machine. She can't really manage the heavy stuff yet.
The Midwife visited and another person to estimate for removals. I had a nap and played a toddler computer game.
Now just building Lego houses.
We leave after the bath this evening.
Love to all. Heather UK

Captain Broccoli and the pirates.

Marcelyn, we want photos of the flower beds!

oh and my april goals? I have no goals :0/

Thanks to Barbie for the new link!
Well I did manage to weight less than in the beginning of the month till Easter came around. Will try again with new goal of weighing less by the end of the month of April...have been getting more exercise in, which is good.
Welcome new people--this is a great group!
Was hoping to get some gardening in soon but it looks like old man winter might be settling in for his last hurrah for a bit...who invited that guy anyway?
Betty

Whoops! It's April now. Copying the post I made to March.

DJ – You are welcome for the information on a stone. Yes, it is so easy to look thigs up with Google at our fingertips but some days you don’t want to get sucked into that time trap. At least I don’t. All too often when I go to look something up in Google I get distracted by some little item and go look it up as well only to find something else. Suddenly the quick 2 minute search becomes 2 hours of time lost in the ether. I am amused by the facts that get stuck in my brain (like a stone is 14 lbs.) while the important stuff (like when is my wedding anniversary) gets completely lost. Once upon a time a Red Hatter (NOT a member of my chapter) told me rather disdainfully that I had a head full of trivia. When I joined the Red Hats I gleefully took the title of “Tzarina of Trivia” as my Red Hat name.

Carol in NC – Hooray for a clean mammogram!!! I'm so happy for you.

Mia in MI

Hidey Ho Neighbors!! I know we all live worlds apart, and miles and miles separate us, but to me you are all next door.... If you hear me a knocking don't freak!

April Goals

-to log in EVERY day 000000000000000000000000000000
-to exercise 4 times a week aqua-aerobic water exercises.
week 1 0000
week 2 0000
week 3 0000
week 4 0000

-to write in my journal once a week 0000

OK all those zeros are my check off places... lol
Everyone lets really get serious now... OK OK you all know I don't have a serious bone in my body. Well maybe the one on my elbow. Hey I know that's the funny bone, but heck, it HURTS when I bang it!

Becca
Oregon

good news I measured myself the other night, and well my bust and waist stayed the same, but I lost 2 1/2 inches on my hips! Woot!

GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »

I bought a small kettlebell (10lb - thought I'd start off light first). Have also bought a back brace to keep my back straight(er). Might do it today, since it is raining now and expected to go on all during the night.

Lenora Please, please don't do kettlebells swings in a back brace! Kettlebell swings are intended to stress and strengthen your back. Instead, please follow the video instructions for doing deadlifts to build up your back strength until you can start doing swings.

I just checked with my professional trainer, and he is also concerned that you could hurt yourself at worst, and not benefit from the exercise at best. I could not stand it if something happened to you from this.

*worries
Larisa who doesn't want anyone to get hurt