WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016

Here's the kids. Clay (L) works at an industrial carpet cleaning company. Lee is a graphic artist and web developer at FSU (with me). Tye (R) is a lab scientist, lately of UGA and now on his way to the USDA to work in food safety. (You're in excellent hands.)

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Good lookin' boys/young men, Noreen!

SERIOUSLY???? I can't say the m word on here? They censored the term for self pleasure. Wow. Time to go all Dr. Seuss and use words that rhyme with what you mean. spasterbate

Noreen ~ Thanks for sharing your pics. Was that you in your wedding dress? Lovely.

Miller ~ Where is your daughter's shop in Marietta. Lovely throw.

Beth ~ So glad your son is feeling better.

Today, I was brought my son's 12 yr old black cat. I don't know how I feel about that. It was either for him to get rid of his giant dog or give me the cat. The cat is presently sitting in the recliner beside me and has wandered all over the computer tables. I just hope he is old enough that he won't ruin our furniture with his claws.

Carol

Just watched the sequel - Washington, California, Arizona and Texas.

Sorry Noreen my Internet won't let me see your kids. I'm sure they are great.

DDIL has said she's fine with us going up on Monday 18th. Hooray! We'll just see the kids and baby for a few hours, but it's worth the journey.

Sorry if I'm not replying properly to you all, but I'm struggling with this Internet nonsense. :sad:

Heather UK

Noreen - Just got to see their faces! Lovely! They remind me of my elder son with their beards.

evening ladies~
well I am home from work and here I sit,Chester is hounding me for treats...
didnt eat to well today.. and am kind of tired...
Now I dont know any of you who do latch hook rugs.. I have 5 full boxes of latch hook yarn, a few rugs that are started and not finished.. Should I put them on Craiglist, Freecycle? I don't want to just throw them out...

Heather ~ In the US, we have been told if you get a foreigner on the line that you can ask to speak to an English speaking person.

nb1959 wrote: »

Day 6. I have decided not to weigh myself. After 30 years of doing so, I conclude that doesn't work; just too frustrating, pound by pound by tedious pound. Instead, I am going to celebrate going down a size with you, my awesome new and numerous new buddies! Size 18 now...Size 16, watch out! Here I come! Sleep well ladies. As Scarlett said, "Tomorrow is another day!"

Good for you! I stare at my scale and yelling in my mind...."numbers shall not define me!!"
Becca

Michele in NC~ It was interesting that my paternal grandmother did that for me. After my mom and dad divorced, every time I saw her all she did was cry. Very devout Catholic woman. So it was touching that she did that for me. My Mom and I sugar starched it so I could frame it. I have yet to do that. Maybe not ready to put it in a frame where I can't touch it. My maternal grandmother gave me a blanket she knitted using all of her left over colors. I remember her knitting it, and I always told her it was wonderful, and then she gives it to me as a wedding gift. Gifts can just be gifts that fill a registry listing from a store, or gifts can be literally pieces of that person, and extension of themselves to you. I was lucky. After 32 yrs I don't have many of my wedding gifts, but I do have that blanket.
Becca
Oregon

nb1959 wrote: »

Here's the kids. Clay (L) works at an industrial carpet cleaning company. Lee is a graphic artist and web developer at FSU (with me). Tye (R) is a lab scientist, lately of UGA and now on his way to the USDA to work in food safety. (You're in excellent hands.)

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I look at them and see a large grocery bill!! Very handsome guys, you did good Mom!!

Hello Marci, Welcome! It's sounds like you got great goals set for this month :-) I have a phrase that really speaks to me presently.

Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's unbecoming everything that isn't you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

Powerful eh? I love that and the mindset that I can be perfectly imperfect. That there is perfection in the realization that my scars, my life's story, gives me strength. I'm like those beautiful Japanese pottery bowls that have been broken but repaired with gold shining in the seams of the cracks connecting it, and making it really strong. Welcome again!
Becca
Oregon

Margaret – I think most of us try to decide what our ‘stressors’ are and try our best to avoid them whenever possible. Admittedly, it is more difficult when that ‘stressor’ is a family member. I get tired of the ‘oh, poor me; you love them more than you’ll ever love us’. Maybe if she had changed that ‘we to me’ I might have been able to agree with her; but, my DOS isn’t like that. But, to tell him, he would only take her side, no matter what … because she will ‘slant the truth or good side’ her way. It hasn’t changed in almost 17 years … little doubt that it will change now; so I don’t make the effort. She can believe what she wants to, and does. Nothing I could ever say would change her. I’ve torn off that last ‘chance’ ticket and put it aside.


Barbiecat – I took my ‘good’ clothes to the “Thrift Store’ in hopes they will seel enough that I took for a good price and I will use to towards something I need (like shorts). None of them could be altered without doing so much to try to make them NOT look altered. Some had already been altered this past summer. The rest I took to Goodwill.

As for me, I travel a little over 2 hours to get to a MD that I like; lost all trust in any MD in that field because of what one in Albany did to me. She’s in the wrong field of medicine. Most mean-spirited B**** I’ve ever met; beforehand or since. I did prove to her that ‘just because I was where I was when we met, did NOT make me stupid’. She thought she had the ‘upper hand’ and I proved her wrong. Apparently, she has not changed; she has bounced all around this area and can’t keep a job. I wonder why? If your DH went to the small town hospital … and a MD saw him who might only be a GP; they’d have to transfer him to a much larger place if he needed help. I think he would do better to find another MD in the practice, even if it is far away. To me, well worth the change. Too many things go on in the local ‘city’ hospital that should not happen.


Carol and Miriam – I think when a man retires for a ‘white-collar’ job; that his ‘ties’ would make great scraps. We have enough ties to tie a ribbon around the house; only need a few of them. But, the second I were to take them; they’d need that exact tie.

Katla – We had to put up a pull-down shade from Lowe’s to go on our back deck so that we could enjoy sitting out in the swing and reading in the late afternoon. Once the sun gets blocked by a tree on the other side of our drive-way it gets better.

Vicki – I don’t blame you for being ‘mad’. I would have been mad, too. More because she called the boss, at home, at night; then the fact that he caved and made you do the same (she’d know that it wasn’t really a ‘good’ thing to do by going over your head; but, I think it was Katla that said I was probably a ‘mean girl’ because of something I posted something that could be taken as being ‘mean’. It helps to have a boss who supports his supervisors. They are trying to see where your line in the sand lies (or so it seems).

Nb1959 – Good looking young men. I know you’re proud of them. Obviously 3 totally different personalities. My sons are polar opposites; but, they get alone very well. DOS is the ‘quiet’ one; but, he is beginning to stand up for himself more; DYS is a ‘go-geter’. If his Plan A doesn’t work he will work all the way to Plan B about his work.

KJL – I did not know we had ‘censorship’ here; they ought to go to some other sites. Some of them are downright raunchy. Leave us 50+ women alone; let us say words that we grew up with all the time. LOL!

I guess I miss the test y'all are talking about; must have been one of those that fell through the cracks. I don't often go to the websites listed her.

Lenora

DH just told me that DDnL#1 is going 'bar-hopping' with one of her 'friends' to celebrate her 'divorce'. I'm not so sure that DOS was particularly happy about it. DGDs are old enough to know what's going on. Mmmmm, wonder which one of them (or who else) might be the D.D. tonight. It's going to be an 'interesting' weekend, for sure. LOL!!!!! I told Louis that 'divorce seems to be catching'. Another one of her friends came very close to getting one; but, 3 small children, no HS education, and hubby making a lot of money that she could spend it as fast as he could make it = jealous hubby who keeps close tabs on her now. Was surprised to see her out here, alone; but, she did not stay long. I think she told him a 'fib' about where she was.

KJLaMore wrote: »

Good lookin' boys/young men, Noreen!

Thank you!