WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2016

Dr Katie ~ That orange coconut cake sounds delicious.

Last night I made the chocolate dump cake. Only, the recipe I found didn't call for cooking the pudding. It called for 1 box cake mix, 1 lg box instant pudding, 1-1/2 c. milk. Supposed to sprinkle chocolate chips on top but I put them in the batter. It was too soggy and way too sweet. Goes to prove that I am a savory gal and not keen on sweets. Anyhow, it got me over wanting some and I'm glad of that.

I think my baking element in my oven is going out. It took over 30 minutes for the oven to get up to 350 degrees. One more thing to fix.

Carol

csofled wrote: »

I/we have lived Connecticut 3X, Wisconsin, Ohio 3X, Indiana, New York, Florida, Virginia and Maryland so I know some of the many shades of WINTER!

Cheri
Fairlawn, oHIo on her way to living in state #9

Oh wow, you sound like us. I've lived in Colorado 2x, New Mexico 2x, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, and Texas 3x and that doesn't count the five states we did summers when my husband was in the construction division since they weren't permanent. I also have seen many shades of winter. I am just glad we didn't buy that snowblower when they went on sale in Iowa and learned we were moving to Houston a month later! For some reason I don't think a snowblower would move at a garage sale in Houston. lol

Marcelyn in Houston
Thinking the 93 on the thermometer is wrong.. it feels like 193!

Dottie, you shouldn't consider yourself a failure, you sought out help, you knew you needed to change habits, you didn't stay in your bad habits. That is not a failure. I am in your place. It took me a little over 2 years to lose 60 pounds and about 6 moths for me to gain 30 of them back. So I am on that agonizing long road back. And yes I have done it many times but in my 60's it is so much harder. But as I see from so many of these wonderful ladies, it is very possible.

I can't remember who asked if Charlie saw the doctor. Yes he did. He has the car keys back, yeahhhhhhh, since the hole in his belly isn't healed up yet we do have another appointment.

I have had 2 doctor's offices call today changing appointment times, Weird.

Joyce, Indiana

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Well good news, the dermatologist did a full body check and there are only two spots she said for me to keep an eye on. I told her I didn't want to be a stupid nudist and not keep up on my skin, still appreciating my activity, but being smart about it. She laughed when I took off the gown and said...just do your thing.

I played the piano afterwards at the medical Pavilion so it made my drive all worth it. Three people said thanks, and one kid said, "hey you are pretty good there".

Tonight I am making chicken fried rice for son, and I bought him a chocolate eclair, and my husband a chocolate cream pie. I shall have fun watching them. I didn't see any of the sweets that caught my eye anyway.

Becca
Oregon

Rita – In what do you have your Masters? What would you want to get for the 2nd one? Wouldn’t you have to have a Doctorate to teach in college or not? My DOGD has decided that she might want to go for a teaching degree in Biology. A good part of her reasoning is that in Georgia if you sign a contract for 5 years of teaching they'll pay for 2 years of college. Smart girl. She's already upset that she had $30K in debt and still has until December '17 until she graduates. She was 'thrilled' that she got enough money from her FASFA and Pell Grants, along with HOPE that she has money to go ahead and pay her rent 2 months in advance. That way, her money from her job can go to buying 'healthy' food to cook for her boyfriend and herself. She wanted to be a vet; but, I think she has decided she really did not want to go to school that much longer, nor have the debt associated with it. She’s going to take some sort of course at school that will allow her to change over. She’d like to teach middle school kids; says she knows she can make it fun and they are at the age that they will listen more and can understand what and why something is getting done. Doesn’t want to teach elementary or high school students. Congrats on have 5 charms.

Cheri in oHIo – Wet … we sort of need a little rain; supposed to be getting it this weekend. We are in a spot, where we can watch the rain clouds coming; and, then suddenly the clouds will break and go to the north and/or south of us. We’re wondering if this land was once used to film the parting of the Red Sea. But, when it does rain, it RAINS!!!!! County has ‘finally’ gotten our dirt road ditched, widened, and sort of ‘crowned’ properly. Widening it and ditching it so that two vehicles can pass one another without having to find a spot to pull over and stop. Last Saturday, we were expecting to have a double tandem pick-up truck load of dirt brought to us. They did not make it and DH wants to be here when they do. Then after that he is planning on getting some gravel to lay down on our driveway. This should be ‘fun’.

Charleen2 – I will let my cat, Tux, come visit for a couple of weeks. He is a real 'hunter'; but, you have to be prepared for him ‘showing you’ that he is ‘doing his job’. The other morning I opened up the back door; and, right on the mat was a dead mouse. Funny thing about it was, there was grass all around it was if he was ‘staging’ it to look like it was laying on a bed of lettuce. One day went out there and just the ‘head’ of a bunny. Made me think of the horse’s head in the Godfather movie.

Becca – I know I used to wake up so tired that it was hard to get started. Of course, at the time I did not know I had ‘sleep apnea’. I only ‘knew’ that I snored in any position. My kids would laugh so hard that it would wake me up. Sometimes I even ‘snored’ myself awake. Having bad migraine headaches, too. So my GP ordered that I have a ‘sleep study’ done; 2 night test. First night you just go to sleep attached to a handful of wires like an EEG; then next night (or time) you go in and they fit you into a mask with oxygen and you fall asleep with the same wires attached to you. I did not realize that I woke up so much, moved so much, snored so much, and worse … stopped breathing so much and for a lot longer than I should normally do. A couple of years ago, when my DDnL#2 was still our son’s fiancée – I went to sleep in the chair and she was in there with me. She said that I stopped breathing for a little more than a minute. That scared her to death. She woke me up. Then I went to the bedroom and put my C-pap mask on and went to sleep - dead to the world. I sleep so soundly now that I can sleep through a thunder and lightning storm. But, I told DH that the next time we had one and I am asleep I wanted him to ‘wake me up’. I love those types of storms. The kids had come down because of tornado warnings.

Re in TX – I got stopped on the same section of road by the same ‘female’ cop two weeks in a row. Boss could ‘make’ the first one go away; but, not the 2nd one. Oh well; I got better about going the speed limit. It’s just a really ‘wide’ road for a 2 lane road, so tempting … we have a 25mph portion of road in downtown Bronwood (population) probably less than 1000. One sign is so rusted that you can barely ‘read’ it; the one going the other way is ALWAYS blocked by parked cars at the garage in town. Sometimes the State Trooper will be parked right before the speed limit increases by 10mph. But, usually he is just sitting there – probably taking a break; but, I have seen him pull people over.

My DH has about 5 blueberry (right now, still bushes) … he bird-, deer-, proofed it so well, that I could barely get my hands in to pick them. Two of them are LOADED! I should have picked some yesterday; but, was not really in the mood to go out in the blistering heat; today, a lot of them were shriveled up. Oh, well … still had enough to make about 2 cups of them.

Last year, for the first time … the deer ate our grapes (Muscatine’s and Scuppernongs). Every single one of them. We ‘might’ have gotten a couple of handfuls. Thankfully, I still had some juice from the previous year (for jelly). Have not made it yet. This year I am going to put them in ½ pint sized jars (better for gifts, etc.). DDnL#1’s mother is making some plum jelly from the wild plums that DH and DOS picked last weekend.

DJ – My protein bars give me just enough ‘sweet’ and ‘chocolate’ to satisfy whatever sweetness I want. My mother did not make desserts (she was heavy); her mother made them every day (she was skinny as a rail). Mother, in college, in the 30s had a nice ‘full-figure’ (which was the thing back then). She was 5’3” and weighed maybe 145lbs at the heaviest. I’m thankful every day that I got ‘her’ skin (meaning my mother’s).

Freidasmith – When you say ‘hot’ … I think about Robin Williams in “Good Morning Vietnam”. That’s hot. I think South Georgia can be ‘that’ hot.

My DDnL#1 brought us over some 'butternut spaghetti and venison meat sauce'. WOW!!!!! I wasn't sure that I would like it, or if DH would. We both enjoyed every bite of it and it does not have many calories in it either. We're planning on going to a 'new' Mexican Restaurant tomorrow night in Americus ... so I will have to watch my calories tomorrow so that I can have what I want for supper. They are without children all this week so they are going, too. I think we're going fairly early to beat the crowd. I thought she was just going to bring over a 'bite'; but, she had the spaghetti started and showed DH how to make it by dragging the fork through it; and, then the sauce was in the other half of the squash. When she said she had bought 2 because they were small ... I was surprised when she brought one over to us. She's got a 'job' interview next Wednesday and is hoping to maybe have a 2nd one at another place (here). Both, she'll have 'health insurance' ... and since DOGD is in 'school' full time ... she'll be covered until she is either 25, drops out of school (that's not going to happen), or gets married. Her boyfriends (she's been dating for 4 years) graduates this December.

I like 'hot and spicy' food better than 'sweets'. I put Frank's Hot Sauce on just about everything. Learned that from my DFnL. Had to do something to make him 'like' me ... DMnL cooked rice for every meal (or used left-over rice) to stretch eggs in the mornings.

DH is getting better about eating what I am eating; he has his 'big' meal in the middle of the day so he isn't starving when he gets home.

Well, ladies ... chat with you later! CHOW!
Lenora

Pip You've been #1 with us all along!

Karen in Virginia

Pip- fantastic! I always knew you were number one!

stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 9.28min, 16.1amph, 138mhr, 2.5mi = 78c
SPIN- 42min, 94ar, 51aw, 6-8g, 122mhr, 8.6mi = 266c
ride gym 2 wk- 57.07min, 11.6amph, 152mhr, 11mi = 456c
riding round the parking lot- 17.42min, 9amph, 111mhr, 2.6mi = 83c
ride dome 2 hm- 19.34min, 7.9amph, 145mhr, 2.5mi = 181c
total cal 1064

The posting ghost has snatched it away again. Mmmmm - silence!

IT POSTED YEAH!
GLo on the North Shore of Ma

Michelle, you will enjoy the last episode of Person of interest. There were so many things about that show that I just couldn't understand, mentally and physically. Reeves spoke so softly it was hard to hear him sometimes. I guess in New York City it is common to see everyone go around talking to themselves into their blue tooth phones. We don't see it as much here in our smaller city. And I like that.

Did I mention I had another ostomy bag fail with Charlie today. Ii was changing his dressing at 6 and I have begun checking every time I change it. Sure enough. His poor skin. But I think he dislikes the idea of changing it it himself that even though I am doing a bad job of it, he would rather it be a bad job by me than him doing it at all. So I will call the ostomy nurse tomorrow for help. Plus this is making us run out of the free sample bags real quick.

Joyce, Indiana

My thoughts are occupied with the UK today.

I doubt most of our friends across the pond even slept last night.

A gentle good morning to all of you.

Sending you perfectly brewed tea and a receptive listening ear.

I know we don't talk politics on this forum so any of you who wish to talk about it may PM me (and I am certain many others) to speak your minds.

I am very interested in knowing the effect the results of this referendum will have on all of you.

Karen in Virginia

Think it was Marcelyn said all us Texans and soon to be Texans could meet up in College Station with Cheri-soon-to-be-in-Texas-but still in Ohio now... Sure, why not? It's only a six and a half hour drive. Love Texas.