WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016

Welcome, Russianalmond! I think if none of the six pounds lost the first week came back the second, you can count that a success. Six is a lot for one week. Keep on keeping on and you will see consistent success over time.

I am mad at DH. Usually so easy going, he snapped at me this morning. Like the country song, I'm going to have to be mad for a while.

Our garage door broke. The cable is hanging loose. The woman at Overhead Door said it was probably a broken spring. I closed it on my way to the gym. It was still down when I got back and would not open. I parked outside, assuming the power was off, but I could hear the garage door humming as I got out of the car. It never occurred to me to get back in the car and push the remote. I was hurrying to get in the house to push the button beside the back door. Apparently, DH had to get up from his coffee drinking/paper reading to push the button. He could have opened the door for me while he was up but instead he started yelling at me for breaking the garage door as soon as I got in the house.

I get that he is upset that the door is broken and who knows how much it is going to cost to fix. But, seriously, how is it remotely my fault? I called a repairman. He'll be here tomorrow afternoon to fix it. We have plenty of money in our emergency fund. There is no need for a hissy fit! This is inconvenient, for sure, but no disaster.

The good news is that the lawn mower is in the garage, so the grass cutting will have to wait until tomorrow. Shucky darn!

Onederland is still elusive, but less than a lb away. This week for sure.

Prayers and good wishes for all who are dealing with ailing family members.

17761776 ~ I know that you are upset about your mom's health and hope you will stay strong. My mom is on my mind constantly.

Wonderful weather here today but high pollen counts keep me in.

Kim ~ Thanks for sharing your hiking photo. I know you feel like you have achieved a lot climbing that mountain/hill.

Heather ~ Love Bea's cute chin and wonderful dark hair.

Marcylyn ~ So glad you are on high ground. Good of you to help those who are going through the floods.

Noreen ~ Are you in the middle of a forest? House on stilts to stay safe from the creatures. How about snakes?

Carol

Sue - I guess most of us have done the secret eating thing. You will find lots of help on here. We have broad shoulders and compassionate minds. :bigsmile:
I've had my hair cut. :drinker: Love my hairdresser. She feels like an older granddaughter.

Best wishes for all the flooded people. Miserable business. :flowerforyou:

Drkatie - something bothering him? Men are a mystery.

Love Heather UK

Did about 1-1/4 hr of a HIIT DVD today. It wasn't as intense as I'd expected. The plan for tomorrow is to do a step DVD.

Just got back from volunteering at the Green Room. Will probably go work outside in a few.

Gayle - I'm so sorry for all that's been doing on in your lifePenny - how sad about your friend. What kind of cancer is it?

everyone - be sure to check out my homepage. I posted something about how you can earn money for your charity

Lisa - I'm sure you'll make the right decision about the job.

DJ - it just gets frustrating. When I started this "no driving" thing, Vince kept going on and on and on about how he was going to show me how to combine trips. Well, I've kind of decided that I'm going to tell him how these are things that I normally do. Hopefully, he'll realize that I do this on a regular basis (try to combine trips). Like just now I made a hair appt but the first time the gal has open is 2:30. That's the day I'm at the Green Room. Personally, I would have tried for another day when I'm at the Green Room. So now I'm volunteering, we have to come home, then go back. But oh well...he's going to do the driving

Welcome everyone new! You're doing awesome!

katie - I agree, sounds like a broken spring. If you go into the garage, you will probably be able to see it.

Michele in NC

I had a pleasant surprise last night when I got my mail. I use a credit card for gas and trips that is linked to reward gift cards at a certain woman's clothing store. The store had gone out of business, filing bankruptcy a year or so ago. I just kept using the card, figuring it was too much hassle to change it for a new one. In the mail I got a letter saying now that the store is back in business, I had $380 in reward due me! In the past, I always stretched the gift card money by using the outlet store, but since they are newly back in business, I have to find things in the regular catalog. It is pricey clothing, but I think I am going to purchase two pairs of jeans in MY NEW SMALLER SIZE 18, and two blouses and a tank top. But I always wait a couple of days before placing my order to mull it over.

janetr7476 wrote: »

Annr wrote: »

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Where are you??? Im missing your smile.

Janetr okc

aw Im here, just bein' quiet, and absorbing all of your auras'. :-)
Becca

I have been writing a novel.....something silly but here is the beginning....

I sit on the hard sand, and it's cold and unforgiving. It has rained earlier in the morning, coastal fog hugging the horizon, slowing wrapping the skies in a gray billowing quilt. Oregon is known for its' damp weather, but we try not to make it a big deal. I bundle my sweatshirt around me, shuddering. I recall the past year. "So much damn stuff", I curse aloud to no one but my own ears, and some seagulls overhead making lazy eights in the sky. Why did he have to take in everything he saw? "He" meaning my recent ex-husband, Leroy. He took in, but never gave back anything, that was his problem. The fact that he was a full blown, all-exhausting hoarder, made it a great excuse. Our split-level, artisan inspired, love nest slowly had imploded. With this disease, the house stopped being a home, and spent its unending hours devouring our relationship in its wake of useless crap.

As I pick up the gritty sand, letting the cold particles pass through my fingers, I am reminded by his glassy-eyed stare, as I had packed. "I can't live like this anymore Leroy", I had said, so exhausted the world spun as I tried to focus on his expressions. The fact that his face was framed by an assemblage of odds and ends, literally filth, didn't help my temperament. His world had become stacks of things he treasured, objects and items that reminded him of events and places. Things he would never read, places he would never go, and so this had become his existence. Items still in their original boxes had made inner walls inside our quaint "House of Cards". He had routinely drilled into my sub-conscience mind, the routes I had to take to maneuver through his self-made world. Sadly, I had always forgotten. It wasn't like I tried to forget. I did have the reoccurring dreams. In them I was in hell, but it was my own home, and I could never escape. I would never divulge to him this dream, because my hell was his heaven. I had driven straight from the home to a lawyers office and filed for divorce that same day. Change comes hard to hoarders, and I was not sticking around for the messy aftermath.

(well...its kind of rambling, but its a nice foundation).

Becca
writer wantabe in
Oregon

pipcd34 wrote: »

annr don't inhale too deep, u might gag

lol TRUE....I have a piece of mint gum in my mouth too!!!!!
((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs Pipster))))))))))

Becca
taking shallow breaths like a dog on a sunporch in
Oregon

Becca ~ Me thinks we have another writer among us!

DH is going off with college pals for the next couple of days to celebrate/pay tribute to one of the guys who died this winter of Alzheimers (sp?). This is the first time he has ever done this and I'm not too happy about it but won't let that be known. My college girl friends have taken weekend trips and I have never gone. Guess I like staying in my own little house.

Carol

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Kim from N. Carolina and Pollance – I’m on less than 1000 calories a day; MD ordered and MD supervised. I was told today, since I have upped my exercise to up my protein by making one of the meal menus given to me when I started for one meal. I had to be under 1000 calories to ‘lose weight’. Mainly because of all the medication I take that have the side effect of 'weight gain'. The range that a lot of us see; 1000 – 1200 or 1100 – 1300, is usually the caloric intake you want to ‘maintain’. I’ve been dough-popped with my comments before; but, I could not do it with cooking meals alone. I had to get a bit drastic. I have not been hungry and I don’t ‘eat by my calories I earn by exercising’. That’s where I am in my journey; and, I would not be doing it without a MD’s input. Too many other health issues to deal with. Hopefully, this will lower my cholesterol; because I cannot take any cholesterol-lowing medications.

My DYS and his bride went to Hawaii for their honeymoon; on one of the northern islands; they saw Pearl Harbour from the airplane. They took a smaller plane to the island that was not commercial like the big island. They went on a fishing trip one day; went on a zip line excursion; and they have bought her daughter a zip line. They got it finished and she was going to try it out yesterday. I can’t wait to hear how it went. They had a great time; but, they said the water was cold (in early May). I’d love to see all the flowers and jungles; but, I think I would prefer the Caribbean.

Lawn mower is in the shop; tractor w/mower is also needing to be worked on; so my paths have grown over and the only place to walk out here is up and down the dirt road. I won’t do that alone.

Marcelynh – We are all so ‘praying’ for all y’all in Houston and the surrounding area. We called DYS and DDnL#2 in Vidalia, LA to see if they have gotten any of the rain (yet). Apparently, it is slow moving so they have not gotten any yet. They might be moving furniture out of their house and storing it somewhere ‘out of the flood areas’. His bosses were dealing with flooding up around Monroe, LA. a few weeks back; so they are watching the Mississippi and the rains. Their lake house sits a bit higher than their house in town which is only a little bit off the ground. There is a certain level at which they move their furniture if the Mississippi gets that high. It rises and drops many times during the rainy season and all the snow melt coming down from the north. Just ‘praying’ they don’t have any damage. The only time that I’ve seen flooding that bad; was after we came home from Miami (had an extra week of vacation because of it); when they opened one of the bridges to cross the Flint River; we could go about 100 miles out-of-the-way and get home. Boss would check our house; but, only the end of the road (on this 2 block street) flooded. When we came over Lake Blackshear; the water was right up under the roadway; a week later, the dam broke and all the water was out of the ‘lake’. DH and DSs said that would be a good time to go mark fishing holes. I thought … gee, and we ski and boat over that? Once they got the dam fixed it did not take long for it to fill up. Supposedly, it was the ‘best’ fishing they had had in several years. People living on the creeks were being picked out of trees during the middle of the night. Nobody expected it; and, people were using their personal boats to help save people and whatever else they could. It has looked ‘horrible’ on TV and it will be ‘horrible’ for months.

CJ – I let my sons walk through the house and tell me the things they would like to have; those things I put on a list and attached it to our Wills. I want them to get what they want; the rest, if none of the DGDs want it, they can sell it, give it away, or burn it … I won’t be around to care. We divided up my Mother’s household goods when she was going to live in an A.L.F., that way she got to see who got what. We did it on a rotating basis; after we got what we wanted we went down a generation and did a rotating ‘pick’ for each of them. 3 sisters, 6 grandchildren. The only one that had a house with ceilings tall enough to be Mother’s pier-glass mirror (and stand). It would have fit in my house; but, our house is decorated more like a ‘hunting cabin’ and it needed to be in a more ‘formal’ house. I think everybody was happy; and, after the fact … we did do some exchanging with one another.

Nb1959 – The video about the alligator growling – I sounded like that before being diagnosed with ‘sleep apnea’ and got a C-pap to sleep with. WOW! I never knew what it felt like to get ‘good sleep’.

Lisa – When I lived in Atlanta (going to art school) there was a place called the “Wrecking Bar”; they’d go in and dismantle old homes of anything that could possibly sell. I enjoyed going there looking for ‘neat’ stuff to draw. I don’t know if it is still ‘in business’ or not. Like the “Salvage Dawgs” on the DIY station.

Well, today was 'weigh-in day'. I did not go 'down' any; but, I did not go 'up' either. All numbers were exactly the same. Still happy about it.

Cracker could not get in her 'spa day' on Saturday because she had a puncture hole in one of her pads; so we had to 'doctor' on it and I am taking her in tomorrow with the hope that they'll be able to do it. I'm going to continue with the shampoo they use on dogs to 'de-skunk' them. She seems to like her new haircut as well. If that dog could talk, she'd do it ... she is so 'funny'. I waste my cell phone battery keeping it on, trying to catch her sleeping on her back. She and the cat have finally decided that neither one of them are going anywhere. So, they are kind to one another.

Lenora

Sue Welcome. I have always been a lone wolf myself but I find that just one group keeps me on track and motivated. If only to have someone to come and cry with. My sister lives in Hillsboro, WI and my brother-in-law just recently got a job near Madison. A bit of a commute for him but he was just happy to get a job. Seems that being 63 with a head of white hair became quite a disadvantage when up against a lot of 40 somethings with families. He understood but it was still difficult. He's always been employed so being laid off was a new experience for him.

I finished helping my friend with her house and then took my grandson to the museum to see the dinosaurs. Still water high in many areas. The creek by my house crested at 90 ft. and is expected to stay that high for another day. Flood stage starts at 81 ft.

Hello ladies.

Went back to gym today it felt good. Could not do my entire workout because of shoulder tattoos still healing. I alway feel like I lose my hope love and faith during hard times, but now that they are permanent artwork on my body they will always be with me. Only faith has to be finished. Every tattoo I have gotten has been for a specific reason.

So many new names and posts.

Sue from Wisconsin where do you live? I live in Wisconsin also. Southeastern corner.

Sylvia I am so happy you have progressed in such a small amount of time. You are amazing. So happy for you.

Marcelyn so happy you did not get any water that created a huge amount of damage. I remember being younger living on the Mississippi River and when it flooded it was a nightmare.

Keep fighting the good fight ladies.

Anne from Wisconsin

Millerxll wrote: »

Got some sobering news at the doctor's office yesterday--my kidney function is even lower than before and I'm feeling anxious. That was with the GP; seeing the Nephrologist on the 22 and hope the GP's lab work was wrong. So, I'll sit down at the loom and try not to dwell on it right now. I've started a set of dishtowels called English Garden, done is 100% cotton threads, two to a heddle instead of just one.
Patsy in North Georgia at the foot of Lookout Mountain

Patsy, I hope your health will be fine!
So, you are threading two through each heddle? How many shafts do do have and what kind of loom? Also what pattern? I don't know English Garden.

I have an 8 shaft Baby Wolf that has been collecting dust since I started working full time several years ago...Took lessons for about five years and really should dust the poor thing off.

Betty

Patsy, I'm so sorry that the doctor had bad news for you. Please take care of yourself as best you can. Allison (Grandmallie) has kidney disease, too, I believe. You and Betty are making my eyes glaze over with all this weaving talk. Don't make me start talking Calculus or something. LOL! Y'all should know any talk of anything remotely related to sewing makes me twitch.

For those of you from Wisconsin, I miss your state. When the in-laws were alive, we'd drive through every year on our way to Northern Minnesota where they lived. There's a little town of maybe 300 people off Hwy 53 between Eau Claire and Superior close to Bear Lake that has my last name, although as far as I know, none of our relatives live there.

Kay, in Northeast Georgia.