WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2016

Katla - The photo with DH, that I love, is of Edie, the soon to be 3 yr old. Her party is next Sunday, though her birthday is the 23rd. She loves to play "going to sleep" and then wakes us up and makes us breakfast. We are soon put back to sleep though. Her favourite game. We are staying on after the party at a small hotel in central Brighton and treating ourselves to a "posh" meal round the corner on the sea front. Within staggering distance! The other grandparents will be occupying DS's spare room as they are babysitting in the nanny's absence. DH has cricket and I have yoga so we couldn't stay for long enough. :ohwell: My ex and family will be at the party.

We (I) have decided not to take ourselves off to Lyon, France, for our anniversary in November. I think it will be too cold, dark and potentially windy. Another season, I think. Instead I have booked one night in Cambridge, where we want to go to the Fitzwilliam Museum and revisit Kings College Chapel. (Google) I have punted on the river in my twenties! Because it is a special occasion I have booked the best room with a balcony over the park, top floor. Very central, so we will have to use the Park and Ride bus. Now to research a good restaurant for the Saturday night.

Back to routine with my calories and exercise. Phew!

Love Heather UK

PS - I visited Ground Zero in New York last year. I remember so vividly when I first heard about it. I was sitting in the British Museum and overheard some people talking about it in the coffee shop. I ran out and bought a newspaper. I fully expected London to be attacked in the same way. I went on to work and my HOD was talking about Al Queida. I had never heard of them. ....... When we were in NYC we could feel the awfulness of that terrible, unbelievable shock. We went to the old church where they have memorials to the firefighters . I did cry.

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Just back from Michael's party~ a true send off, we had a spot of rain earlier in the afternoon and moved to beautiful clear skies and a breeze and mid 70's a ton of people showed up which I new there would be .. tons of food, lots to drink ,but I brought my water bottle and stuck with that..I am going to wait a few weeks till things die down, and reality sets in and bring Laurie a few meals and some cookies and just spend some time with her...

Spikeyhair – Or is it Tracey? What I am talking about is basically a round trampoline that is probably no larger than 5’ in diameter from outside pole to outside pole, the canvas is probably 4’ in diameter. You can have it flat or have it slightly angled; buy raising 3 or 4 of the legs. Flat, you could jump on it like jogging without the pounding on your knees; we used them in cheer practice slanted to learn how to do flips. I had one in HS – but, that was over 45 years ago. Probably not something you could easily find now-a-days. I have a bad back and don’t think that just ‘jumping’ would help my back any. I would need some softness to land.

Purl/WA – You can type a long, newsy post; but several things you need to know beforehand. If you start posting you CANNOT go back a page to read posts and have it still be there (unless you actually post/save it); then you do have a hour to ‘edit’ it; but, then some might not see it because of the number of people on this thread, so many are posting at the same time. About the ‘only’ way you can post a long newsy post is to open up a Word Processing program on your computer and then ‘minimizing’ both MFP community and the WPP so they will be side-by-side. Then if you want to, you can maximize either, to read, or to answer. This is the only way that I, personally, have found to be able to start from your last post up to the present time. One thing the site will do, is go back to your last posted response. Some use an emoticon, or some symbol to mark that last time on the site of just reading (if they don’t post anything). Using the emoticons at the top of the posting area. I hope that helps. Some have special emoticons on their computers; mine won't let them through because of the 'security' I have on mine. Unfortunately, it is a way to put your computer at risk of getting a virus, Trojan, or other issues on you computer. I choose not to get one; but, I think they are so cute!

Pip – Loved the water scene sight; would be wonderful to have a lot like that on a lake.

Michelle in NC – Is Play It Again Sports a ‘store’ or is it ‘online’? What are you stringing all that popcorn for? Seems you’ve been at this for several weeks or so and I guess I missed the connection to anything.

Joyce – My GYN gave me Antivert (buy the generic brand) for my dizziness (most of seems to be when I get up, or move suddenly. I use it as needed; but, I am still on HCG for my BP (which has stayed pretty normal recently) … but, last weigh-in day it was something like 115/50 and I felt like $#*T … nurse got me in to see him earlier than my 1:00pm appointment. By the time I saw him it had risen to 137/80. He did an EKG on me, nothing spectacular shows up on them (at least not to worry about). This last time, he said that he would make an appointment with my Neurologist to check out the tremors I have had and that are getting worse with time. Some of the medications I take have ‘tremors’ as a side effect. Can’t win for losing it seems, and can't go off any of those particular meds, even though I have lost 43lbs. Don’t want to take any more medications other than the ones I am on, at this point. I probably take more ‘vitamins and supplements’ per day than the medicine I take.

Fills up both AM and PM pill containers. I do have an extra-large one around here somewhere that my DDnL#1 found and bought for me. I haven’t had a EEG since the first time I went to the practice; my old Neurologist moved to Atlanta, so I am see the ‘new’ one in the practice which is only ‘part-time’. He is a little 'weird' but, GYN laughed and said, they all are. When he talks, his eyes flutter and occasionally his eyes will roll back in his head. I kid you not, maybe he has some sort of neurological issue himself. If I have not been called about when it will be, I will need to call Nancy back to find out what she has found out, and to make sure that it is not set during a time that we are doing to be ‘out of town’; I think I gave her those dates.

Janet7476 – Interesting pictures.

KarenE – DH doesn’t waste time doing for his customers; but, like the cobbler’s wife and children he doesn’t really feel like painting when he gets home or on weekends; but, he will finish what he starts - if he paints a room, he is going to finish it and put things back in place. A lot of the time he is bring home cabinet doors, shutters, and outdoor furniture to paint. What he painted yesterday AM before we could take Cracker to the vet, he said was just junk; but, the owners wanted to have it painted. It was gray when he brought it home. I had asked him why one of the chairs was missing its arm; and one of the others need to have its arm put back on. He said you can’t weld ‘aluminum’ … which is what this furniture was made of; and, they were put together with bolts and nuts. He bought me a set of wrought iron outdoor furniture, and I had cushions made for it. He painted it and it is out on the glassed-in porch (which seems we have been working on, now, for a couple of years. The main thing missing is an actual door. He’s covered the screened door with plastic; but, it won’t keep the heat out or the cool in. So when I open the French doors from our MBR, he wants to know if I am trying to cool outside. NAH! I just am reminding him that he really needs to ask the carpenter about this “free” door that he will be putting up. After almost 3 years of not getting pictures that one of his uncle had left when he passed, I called the cousin and asked if they were still available (if none of the others named in his Will had wanted them). He apologized for not sending them earlier and would get his wife, who is no longer working outside the home, to pack them up and send them. Got them 2 days later. Had thought they were movie marquees (that might have been worth a lot of money). I had forgotten what they were scenes of. Atlanta (obviously, done in '56 or '57 by the car that appears in one of them). Actually, they are watercolors of various sights in Atlanta, which I still love. I just need to clean them off. Taking them out of their frames. Washing 40+ years of nicotine off and washing the glass. I will probably take them to my friend, who owns a framing place and have her put the Kraft paper backs on them. She can do it quite easily and maybe won’t charge me an arm-and-a-leg to do so. She’s done this for me before on some of my paintings. But, when I draw something, she always does the matting and framing. She has the needed equipment to cut mats, although I did learn how to do it in school. I just hate doing it by hand.

The 9 ½ year age difference is quite different now than it was when we first married; but, both sets of our parents were exactly 9 ½ years apart as we are, and that has worked for us, as it apparently worked for our parents.

Charleen - The tree skirt is beautiful! My Mother made a table cloth with the 12-days of Christmas in cross-stitch. For the life of me, I don’t see how she did so and have it turn out as beautifully as it did. I put it on a table that I have in our great room that will fold up to make a round table. I dare not put it on the octagon-shaped table between our chairs unless I was able to have a piece of glass cut to go over it. Don’t want anything spilt on it.

I remember where I was when the Space Shuttle blew up, the bombing of the Murrah Federal Courthouse in OKC, and 911; all 3x I was alone and burst into tears each time. All very sad because of family members were watching in person, and, parents lost babies, and others lost siblings, parents, and other family members and friends in 911. I have only once been some place a bomb threat was called in. It was when my step-daughter with her infant child and I were eating in a restaurant. But, we were told to stay put until the Fire Department arrived. Not us, we had just sat down and we got up and left. I've never heard of people sitting some place after a bomb threat has been called it, NAHDA, not me, I am leaving ASAP. They could have arrested us for leaving ... but, I wasn't going to be blown up. I also remember the school shootings, the Paris and Orlando shooting. All of them in recent years, and other tragedies, in other lands. It is sad that our world has become so evil. But, that seems to be common in a lot of places. I worked with a woman who was in the Death Camps during The Holocaust when Eisenhower's troops came upon them. He made them take all kinds of pictures, so that the world could see and hopefully nothing like that would ever happen again. Hard to realize that 2 of my grandchildren were born after 911. My oldest one was just 5 years old when it happened.

Lenora

Annr wrote: »

(((((( Pip & Kirby))))) awesome pictures. Can you feel we are all riding with you two???? Proud of you both!!!!!

Great pictures everyone. I love to see all your travels, and such.. You are all family we wished we had, (and are!). Can I just invite you over for coffee??? lol. I like how everyone offers advice, yet not in a dictating way. I like how we support each other, and I like how there is not a judging slant to anything each of you say. It's quite refreshing you know? We are from different backgrounds, different time zones, yet we seem to all fit, like the pictures of the quilts that are made on here. It's just beautiful. ((((((group hugs)))))))

Life has a way of pointing you in the right direction if you are patient.

Everyone have a great day! Look for blessings around you, in your loved ones eyes, in nature, within yourself..just look.
Becca
in sunny clear skies Oregon

Wow becca you are one wise woman!!! Keep up the great work with meal planning, you sound like you are on a good track. NYKAREN

Lovely day today. Met up with my Dog Display Team for a walk on Cannock Chase. It's great to see all the dogs enjoying being together for fun and not to 'work'.

Then Barney and I went to see my dad, who is 87 and suffering from 3 types of cancer, although all under control at the moment. Dad enjoys hearing about what Barney is doing at Uni (He's doing a masters degree now) and with his basketball.

Then this evening we went out to our favourite indian restaurant to celebrate OH new job, Barney's 2nd year of masters - he's going back in a few minutes - and me starting my Lay Readers' Training next weekend. Too many calories, but I did plug an extra few 'in the pot' by doing the long walking earlier! Eating back the calories for a special occasion has got to be ok. Must be good next week now!

So inspired by the Paralympics. What incredible people. So humbling. Dave (OH) was an official at the Special Olympics at the Alexandra Stadium in Birmingham today. He said all athletes were given a participation medal and the atmosphere among the disabled young people was wonderful so inclusive and supportive. Watching the tv will have a different emphasis now. Some of these youngsters may be eligible for Tokyo in 4 years if they continue to train and improve.

Barney's set to return to Wales so goodnight everyone! Hope your next week is great.

Maryann in UK

GodMomKim wrote: »

Cheri – my book club read My Grandmother Told me to Tell You She's Sorry, as did a friends book club, did you like it? My club did not and my friend’s club loved it..
Kim from N. California

This book was not one of my favorites however after the discussion I liked it a bit more. I am too much of a realist to believe that a 7 year old could be out and about and involved in all that the author wrote. I found the grandmother's stories to be confusing too. But one thing I enjoy about book clubs is that it gets me to read all genres of books I would never think to read on my own.

Cheri
a bookworm for life

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Sooooo....... Here's the rest of the story.

I was supposed to have surgery tomorrow for my torn rotator cuff. Instead I am getting the results of a CT scan. About ten days ago I went in for pre-surgery tests and my chest x-ray came back with "shadows". Well my mind went a thousand places it shouldn't. I had to postpone the surgery and get a CT scan with contrast done. Had that done on Friday. It is just kind of crazy. I am at almost 0% risk of lung cancer but my mind went there right away. Having a parent die of cancer kind of gets to you I think. Anyway, if I read the internet it tells me that I likely have a small benign "growth" but I'll find out for sure tomorrow I imagine, or at least get some direction to someone who can tell me something. Right now I'm flying blind and it's not a good thing. I will admit I felt better after getting the CT scan. The 10 days waiting after being told nothing more than "shadows" over the phone.

Hopefully it will be a "check back in six months" and surgery will progress as planned.

Marcelyn
in Houston

Did an hour of Kathy Kaehler's Get Fit DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do another segment of the Tone Trouble Zones DVD (why do I do that? You don't get fit in 10 minutes), hold my plank, then take the extremepump class.

Made a key lime cake to send to Pete for his birthday. OK, he's not exactly my pick, but he's Denise's pick and I need to respect that. I figure I'll freeze the cake and ice it next weekend then send it to him. Finished stringing the popcorn then made a birthday cake for the hubby of the gal whose house we have mahjongg at on Mondays. His birthday is Fri but I'll take it there tomorrow night

Kate in UK - have a great trip! Great pics.

DJ - I saw a little water leaking out of the toilet downstairs about a day or two ago. Vince fixed it tonight. You know why? That bathroom is downstairs and he uses it when he's downstairs watching TV. It not working means that he has to come ALL THE WAY upstairs to go to the bathroom. So it got fixed asap.

katla - I'm glad FIL didn't see 9/11. He had top security clearance -- never knew all that he did do. I know that he did work for the military (he designed the runway lights originally for the military but now are used for commercial flights that guide the airplane onto the runway.) It would have totally killed him to see it. I remember when he and MIL took a tour, at one point he had to have the plane take a different course because he couldn't fly over a certain point.

Judi from VT - welcome!

Lenora - you can find mini-trampolines! Like I said, I just got mine at Play it Again Sports (a chain store). I don't know about one where you can lower one of the legs. I've honestly never tried that with mine. I THINK there are different settings for the legs, but I'm not sure. As for the popcorn -- when I had my first Christmas tree many many moons ago I was so broke that I couldn't afford to buy garland. So I got a 49cent (that's what it was back then) bag of popcorn and strung that for the tree. After it was up, I thought it looked so neat that I've been stringing popcorn ever since. Actually, Jessica took some of my leftover strung popcorn last year and used it on her tree. So I did string a little bit more this year. But after today, I declare it DONE for this year.

Marcelyn - sending lots and lots of good thoughts for you as you go thru this

Michele in NC

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Joyce – I really think we have some sort of 9/11 everyday; just not all in one place. A lot of it isn’t known about because it affects one section of the country and not widely reported on unless it occurs in a big city or involves a lot of death and destruction. Such as, who would have known that an earthquake and aftershocks had occurred in OK and surrounding area, if it had not been posted here. But, we are a lot different in a lot of ways because of 9/11, some of it not that good either.

Bad thing is that a lot of our memorials get spray painted or destroyed by people. Like that rock that was sitting on top of a very narrow neck (in Oregon) … somebody decided it was a ‘danger’. Well, it wasn’t a ‘danger’ to anybody who could respect the fence and signs put up. ISSI seems pretty hell bent to destroy a lot of antiquities … so far, they have not destroyed The Great Pyramids … maybe because they are ‘grave sites’ and they are afraid to do so.

Maryann in UK – Eating back calories is certainly ‘ok’ for special occasions or when you are ‘on vacation’. But, still important to try to track CI/CO. Just to see what you might have done that put you over you CI. I know I ‘blew’ it week-before-last when we were ‘on vacation’. Only gained back 3lbs, so that still meant that I stayed under 160lbs. But, disappointed because I was getting so close to my goal. I’m finding that it seems to be ‘harder’ to lose those last few pounds and get to ‘normal’ BMI.

Kim from N. California – Definitely ‘better’ people!

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon – Carpe Diem!

Cheri – Murder Mysteries are my ‘favorite’ genre of books, and I am also a bookworm for the ‘rest of my life’. Only started reading for pleasure a year ago, this past June. Now I always have a book that I am reading.

Marcelyn in Houston – I feel for you, sweetie, with the CT Scans. Nothing worse than the waiting. Both my older sisters are survivors of breast cancer. Mother had ovarian cancer; and I am pretty sure before it was all over (prior to her death) she also developed breast cancer since it had spread to her brain. My GYN used to tell me that only 1:4 women developed breast cancer. I’m beginning to think – that in my family I am the 1:4 that won’t (or hasn't) get(gotten) it. I pray about it – hard – when I do my monthly breast exams. If I feel something and my DH can ‘also’ feel it … I call and will be seen within one day. Depending on what time of day I call. Waiting just lets your mind run wild. {{{{{hugs}}}}} and prayers for you and for a 'good report'.

Lenora

Hi Kylie! What kind of boutique? That word always sounds so yummy!

Kj- Cheri and Kim- a 'bookie' here too all my life. Insisted on learning to read at 3 or 4 because big brother could. Much of the evenings in our home involved everyone with their nose buried in a book to be passed to the next person. DH bought me kindle (to date my most cherished gift of all time) a few years ago after I took 4 books to the beach on vacation and ran out of anything to read. Heaven to me is sun sand and a good book. My great grandmother was a teacher and a reader and we were read to from infancy and her home was an endless free library for us until she passed when I was 25. My cousins and I would swap trade and recommend all our lives. Historical is my one of my favorites both fiction and non fiction... I took a hiatus from books for awhile because I am an addict and nothing else happened in my life if there was a book to read! But I now use it more as a reward relaxation device.

Michele- you brought back one more of the memories I have of that awful day.... DF is a pilot (Captain) for United Airlines. Living in Florida at the time. Jammed phone lines, not knowing, waiting and worrying about him and his wife all day. Finally got a call late that night that he had been on lay over here in pa and had gone to play golf with a couple other of our friends when he was red alerted back home. 2 pilots lost were friends of his... Irony was my DSS moving to NYC on 9/11/05. His Dad had to take a deep breath that day.
And about that baking.... Key lime cake? I think I am dying.....sounds Devine!

Lenora- trampolines? I would surely break my neck!

Maecelyn- Hugs! Positive thoughts......

Michele- is your Vince related to my Frankie?