WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016

Did an hour of Gay Gasper's DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to take the deep water class.

After exercising, we're supposed to stop at the lady's house who is making Jess' dress, then I want to stop at the Salvation Army just to see if they have any brown shorts that I can take to the condo, then we'll go to WalMart to finish picking up Vince's prescription.

Remember how I was saying how Vince was so into the "now mom will learn about consolidating trips" and how I was saying "this is what I usually do". Well, Bryan got a credit card in the mail (it had to be replaced). He said that it wasn't real urgent to send it to him. Vince wanted to go to the post office today. I said to him "why don't you want until Thursday, I'm at the Green Room then and you can just go to the post office after you drop me off"?

Laney - welcome! Glad you're here.

Connie - I like to do planks for my core. Just be sure that you not only work your abs but also your back (opposing muscle to the abs)

katla and pip - thanks for telling me about the cables. I think we might have some in the garage.

Heather - do you know that I never thought of using the shirataki noodles in soup? Why, I have no idea. But I am going to try it

Noreem - hi there! Yes, this place is like a kitchen table with everyone sitting around gabbing about everything. Boy, you sure have a menagerie of animals there!

Carol/Peach - you're doing amazing on your plank. I remember Mary telling me to add one second to my plank time because I was having trouble getting from 2 min 45 seconds to 2 min 50 seconds. It worked!!!!

Yvonne - I'm Polish so I am quite interested in what a "Polka Worship Service" is. Please do tell when you can

drkatiebug - I don't think I would like my weight progress posted. Something about missing me (no mention of TOPS) might be nice. But not much else. A prayer list for leg cramps???? That's rediculous

Mexican Train tonight. I just had the wafflefry bacon cheesburger bites that I made and there was some strawberries. Unfortunately, I think they put sugar on them. But then again, I probably only had 1/4 cup, but I logged it as 1 cup accounting for the possible sugar.

Traci - welcome! You joined by posting! Don't worry, I've been here for years and I still don't know everyone. People come and go as their schedules allow.

Michele in NC

Sylvia: Late to post this, but have nonetheless kept you in my thoughts and prayers ever since reading about your health issues. It's just taken me a few days to get current with this thread/

Welcome to all the new ladies. Keep checking back. This group is awesome.

I've been working on home improvement plans for the Honolulu condo. My DB's girlfriend may be interested in buying it, which gives me great hope. She is going to come see it while I'm there in May. Then, completely out of nowhere, we lost power in 3 rooms of our Colorado home. As long as we have an electrician scheduled, I am going to get an estimate on other work. I love making home improvements, and if budget wasn't a factor, I'd have lots of projects in motion.

Well, I'd love to write more, but I have to crank out a few more steps before bedtime so I can hit 10,000 on fitbit. Funny how this little thing is spurring more activity out of this highly sedentary old broad.

Stay well friends. We can do this.

Rori
Colorado Foothills

welcome to traci

And I just emailed Mindy - as I was missing her, and she asked me to say hi, she has the flu, as been out of work for a week and the dr. says 3 more days.... I told her we all want her to get better soon!

Kim, in N. CA

Long day, keep falling asleep trying to read all of the posts. Will catch up tomorrow.
Sweet Dreams everyone!
Connie
Oregon

I just Googled Polka worship and the particular article I read was this group that went around Minnesota and sang religious music with a polka twist to it. They have some of their own songs and then have traditional music that they put a polka twist in.

I also like the frozen meals and I am one of those people who my doctor has told me that I ideally should keep my sodium intake around 2500 mg so I am safe in eating those. But I just don't like spending that much money. If I were living alone I probably would do that for lunch and supper. I get the brand Bumble bee meat salad snack packs for $1 at Walmart. It's a small tin of tuna, chicken and ham salad, 5 ritz like crackers and a plastic flat spoon. Comes in a small box and when I am finished I put the package that the crackers were in and put it in the meat salad tin and throw it all away. I then have some pre-packaged carrots and an apple. Small nutritious and very portable meal and as a bonus it's an easy clean up.

My sister called me this evening all excited. She had seen her oncologist today. For new members she was newly diagnosed with malignant melanoma 7 years after surviving breast cancer. She said she got her staging and said it was stage 3. So I said 'that is the good news'. Stage 1-4 and she is stage 3. Thens he said they have an infusion and if not taking it has 50/50% and if she does take it is 65/15% chance. So I asked her how she felt about it and she said she really didn't know how she was feeling right now. She still has her drain in under her arm, she is now about 3 or 4 weeks post surgery. She said it is draining a lot on her clothes. I think it is clogged up. That stiff that comes out of the lymph node biopsies can get yucky and it has just eventually clogged up. So I am not understanding why she was so excited and optimistic if she really doesn't know if she is going to take this.

OH, Charlie got word that he does not have another colon infection!!!! So he will continue with his high dose steroid and be seen in a month and hopefully will get scheduled for another colonoscopy. They are talking about increasing the amount of Remicade in his infusion to see if it will speed up getting him into remission or at least slowing his diarrhea down.

My kids will be leaving tomorrow morning. I will miss them but I will also enjoy having my house back. The first 2 nights they were here, everyone was jammed into our small living room. Ever since then, the DGD have stayed down in the family room watching Netflix, so I haven't had much interaction with them.

Joyce, INdiana

In the leafless maple outside my window, a blackbird is singing its heart out. Sound so beautiful it hurts.
Happy me!
/Penny

Just checking in, nothing much happening, but wanted to post so you all dont forget about me
Welcome all new folks
Karen from ny

Hi all I'm new to this group! My March goals went very well. April is going a bit slower.

Here are my goals for April:

• Walk at least 4x/week
• Get my neck operated on so my pinched nerves stop causing me pain and making me fatigued
• Start physical therapy
• Continue looking for work
• Drink more water
• Eat 3 healthy meals every day
• Continuing getting 8 hours sleep/day
• Getting out in the sun more (New England is getting winter weather(!?!) right now which is not helping me get outdoors)
• Plan my dinners better - cook!
• Log every day

Can't start doing weights until the PT tells me. And I can't wait! Will be doing some singing, too. Happy April everyone! Here's to a successful one for all of us!

Today the idea I am going to take from The Dance of Anger is using "I" statements. Using an I statement in a clear firm voice is my goal to work towards what I need in the situation. I might need to use the broken record technique. That is when you repeat what you need again in a clear firm voice. I had an example but I pushed the wrong button and don't have time to repeat it because I need to get ready for work. I do need to prepare myself for push back and need to compromise depending on the situation.

Hope every one has a great day!

Margaret