WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2016

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Thinking of DJ.

WELL, Cordoba is HOT! 33° F That is around 96°F. Too hot for poor little me from England.
Sorry no pics yet as my phone hasn't got a good enough signal.
We arrived at the hotel, far too early, but we're welcomed ok. Tried to book a bus for Friday online, but ended up having to get a taxi to the bus station to book tickets. :sad: Looonnnggg queue,. Then walked back and had a delicious, but ridiculously expensive meal in a place the hotel recommended.
Did a lot of walking around in the extreme heat, Grrrrrrrrrr! Masses of tourist groups. Tatty tourist trap shops spoiling the beautiful historic quarter. Got tetchy with DH. Then eventually went to the Cathedral/Mezquita after the tours had departed. Absolutely fantastic and we'll worth any amount of travelling to get to. It's another thing knocked off my bucket list! The minute I walked in there all my frustration and tiredness dropped away and I was transported.
It's an ancient Mosque which has been taken over as a Christian cathedral, but the architecture is stunning in the extreme. Red and white horseshoe arches as far as the eye can see. Google it if you want a pic.

Then hotel for a nap, much appreciated.

This evening I looked on TripAdvisor and found a restaurant quite near to us. It was great and very reasonably priced. We sat outside on the terrace because it was so warm and watched the joggers running by the river. Skaters, cyclists, walkers, everyone. Beautiful food. 8 small courses. Rosé wine.
Then the itinerant musician turned up, playing some ghastly rubbish. :ohwell: I asked the restaurant to do something about it, but nothing happened so I went down and told him myself. In Spanish I said " Leave us in peace. This noise is horrible. Please. Please." He stopped and the whole clientele of the restaurant were mighty grateful.
Altogether a great evening.
Probably 4 hours solid walking around today. Lots of calories.
We liked the restaurant so much we have booked it again for tomorrow. It does have municipal garbage bins outside, but we didn't mind that too much. It was a really good evening.

Might do the synagogue tomorrow. But no pressure as we've done the most important bit. I will dress for the heat.

Sorry no pics.

Love Heather in Cordoba.

Katla – Get DH to ‘ask’ his MD about the ‘sleep study’ … if he is ‘snoring’ badly; that is usually the cause of it. Year before last, when we went out to visit DYS, DDnL#2, and DSGD … I fell asleep on the recliner; and, DDnL#2 said I stopped breathing for a minute or longer. When I had the sleep study done (I’ve had 2), was told that I stopped breathing 100x or more during the night and I was in constant motion. Now I wear the C-pap, fall asleep in less than 5 minutes, don’t snore, and feel much better in the morning. A lot of health issues come from being ‘sleep deprived’.

My GP ordered it the first time; the 2nd time I was going to a ‘Lung MD’. If I have to have it done in the future, I am going to ask that it be done like it was the first time. The beds were so much more comfortable than at the ‘Lung MD’s office’.

Glo – I agree with you 100% about sleep apnea causing other health issues. Usually, DH wakes me up in the AM to have ‘fresh’ coffee with him. There have been days, usually when I go to bed late, that he just can’t wake me up, so he leaves me in bed. But, my inside timer will wake me up at 8:15AM almost every time.

Allie – Sorry, thought it was you DH. Wonder if they make C-paps for dogs, Cracker snores, but not very loudly.

KJ (Kelly) – We have a new mattress and box springs. I have to step on a stool to get into bed; and DH uses the rungs to the stool from my make-up table to get into it. It is almost impossible to get into it without the stool. I’m thinking we’re going to end up buying a low profile box spring. It’s not quite as high as a kitchen/bathroom counter … but very close. Good place to fold clothes and pack a suitcase. DH had put risers on the bed when we had our old mattress and box springs because we had a 22” skirt on the bed. This spring I changed the coverlet; but, left the skirt on the bed … too much trouble to change and the coverlet had the same colors in the pattern so we did not have to.

DDnL#2 has a high bed, because her Daddy made it; it has drawers all the way around; and gives her a space under the mattress where she can ‘hide’ things when they go out of town, so if they get burgled; chances are, they won’t look there and it has a false top. Now DYS will have one because his FnL is going to build him one. We saw it back in August; about all he needed to do is add pulls to the drawers and stain it.

I have always laid down on mattresses before buying them. Don’t mind if the store has people in it. I’m going to see how comfortable it is before I buy one. Put the waterproof mattress pad under the mattress warmer we have on the bed. So much better than sleeping under an electric blanket; and, surprisingly we don’t feel the wires that run through it.

drkatiebug – Glad you were able to find a shirt online. We have a Serta pillow top. I put the old mattress cover on it (which was thick as it was); but, we had had it so long that we had waddled out our little nest. Seems like I am sleeping on an incline if I attempt to sleep in the middle. I really need to take those (2) off and put the waterproof mattress cover on and then the mattress warmer. We are going to have to end up buying a low profile box spring for it.

Sue in WA – I am doing my ‘happy dance’ … DH has an appointment with ‘new’ Urologist (in the same practice as his former one, who is out on ‘medical leave’ … don’t know what that is all about); so maybe HE will be able to figure out what is going on with DH. I’m planning on going with it because whatever he does ‘might’ affect me in some way as well. I think I already had my own MD appointment that day, so I will be ‘in town’.

jane – These ‘hump days’ are rolling around so quickly, it feels like a washboard and not just a ‘bump in the road’.

KYKAREN – Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. {{{{{hugs}}}}}

Margaret – I love [color-purple]purple, too. [color-black]

DJ – We left Daytona Beach just in time; DS and SO had to drive through a lot of rain/wind to get back to Miami. It was pretty windy by Monday night there, especially after the sun went down. Said she’d have to make a run for gas, water, paper goods, and food that could be eaten ‘if’ the power goes out. She rode through Katrina by going to a friend’s house somewhere north of Miami; she was supposed to have been in Homestead with some others. At the last moment changed her mind. Good thing, since Katrina devastated that area. Said that ‘if’ was ‘awful’ and she will evacuate if Miami is ever going to take another ‘direct’ hit and even come to GA. She said that the last storm that came close made her building sway (she's on the 9th floor of a condo that has 13 stories). Said it is made that way, so it won't blow over. She also has hurricane shudders on her place.

At my weigh-in this AM, had only gained 1/2 of a pound. That was great considering all we ate and drank while on vacation. Nurse/MD said that my walking on the beach was probably what kept me from gaining much. I asked her 'if' it would 'catch up to me'. She told me 'no'; but, I do need to make sure I continue with my walking and tracking. Told me to take my 'folder' to my MD in Macon and see if he might want to change my dosage on my bipolar meds. That might be what makes me a little 'dizzy'. The dizziness hasn't occurred too often; but, when it does, I have to take a pill for the dizziness to go away.

Someone, please post the 'directions' to get the different colors. Does it change back to black on its own, or do you have to code in the black?

Thanks,
Lenora

Sorry ~ Vietnam was one word. I thought it was two.

Hello everyone. My name is Ruby aka BlueWillowMist. I'm 58 and need to lose roughly 125 pounds. So I'm back here on My Fitness Pal after being away for a few years. I am my own worst enemy when it comes to losing weight. I want it gone yesterday. I easily become discouraged if I see no weight loss in a couple of weeks or so. Of course, suffering from depression doesn't help. But I am determined to lose the weight if it takes years, which it will.

Karen in VA - It's so hard to tell at this point if the hurricane will hit that area or if it will be a moderate glancing lashing, tons of rain and windy gusts. Hope all will be safe and dry and this one becomes the tale the family will talk about instead of cry over. Yes, I have been through more than a few of this hummers myself when I lived back in Maryland. We still talk about Hurricane Bonnie and how she forced our 1 week vacation at the Outer Banks (NC) into a 1 day vacation.

Trust DJ knows what needs to be done and if it's not safe she will high tail it out with dogs in tow.

Charleen in Colorado (My hurricane skills are now obsolete in Colorado)

Charleen I bet hurricane skills are like riding a bicycle...a couple of wobbles and you're back on track! We are fortunate that we live far enough inland that we only get the edges of the storms, usually a lot of wind and rain. We lost electricity in Isabel for 11 days in 2003, so now we have a generator. When I was a kid I had tornado skills because we lived in Nebraska. Now I don't have any weather skills except that I do know how to get to work in the snow which requires a blade attachment and counter weights for my John Deere and a car with 4 wheel drive.

DJ Take care!

Karen in Virginia

Joyce- we have two water bed frame with the 12 drawer pedestal underneath them we put our memory foam mattress on top. We bought an older homes and the bedrooms are smaller so the storage of the water bed frame is phenomenal!



Mary from Minnesota

JanetR: Happy Anniversary!

Ruby AKA Blue Willow Mist: Welcome to a great group of supportive women.

Mary: I'm so glad we aren't the only ones who still use our waterbed frame with drawers underneath. :bigsmile:

Add me to the list of people praying for DJ and others in the Myrtle Beach SC area who are in the path of the upcoming storm.


We occasionally go to a restaurant/bar called The Thirsty Lion. We always order a bit of food and our very favorite is Scotch Eggs. I tried to make them at home tonight using a muffin pan. What I produced tasted great but wasn't beautiful to look at. I plan to try again using something other than a muffin pan. If anyone has a good recipe I would love to see it.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

Happy anniversary, Janetr

Praying for those of you in the path of Matthew. My step daughter and family live near Cocoa Beach. We are hoping the predictions are worse than the actual event.

Day 5 done on this renewed path
TN Toni

Yesterday (Mon) did 10 min of an ab DVD, held my plank for 2 min 50sec, then an hour of extremepump. The plan for today is to do the deep water class. The plan for tomorrow is to do Jillian Michael's Hard Body DVD.

Went and picked up some Halloween decorations from the people who are cohosting the social with us, some tables from them. Had Mexican Train last night. You know, I really wouldn't mind not going one month (or two). but I know that Vince likes to go. There were A LOT less people this month.

Penny - Ny-Alesund sounds like such a neat place. Your pics take my breath away. I've learned so much from you

Re - its wonderful that not only are you on vacation (?) but continuing to workout

Pauline - welcome!

Tammy - welcome! We love new members.

Joyce - (((HUGS)))

DJ and everyone else in Matthew's path - thinking of you all

Lenora - so glad you had a good time with your sisters but so sorry about your hubby. What version of MTD do you play? We don't play with chips. We usually play chicken foot. So glad hubby has an appt with another doctor. Hopefully, this doc can get to the bottom of the problem

Chris - good for you throwing away that muffin! I know how hard that is to do, but you did it. Fantastic!

Exercised, then stopped at the Salvation Army, then to Big Lots to get mints for me and another loaf of bread for Vince. Their prices on their Halloween decorations are high! And they aren't even on sale. Then home to make a chicken, vege, cheese casserole for this guy who said he'd be at ceramics tonight. His wife fell, he looked really worn. I also made him some pumpkin spice muffins. I'll use the rest for the Halloween social.

janetr - sounds like you have a great doc there. Keep her. I hope she gets to the bottom of this. Happy Anniversary

Karen in VA - thanks for the update on DJ. I do hope she's safe wherever she winds up. Wish she'd come up by me.

DJ - that Christmas in October sounds like a really nice thing to do. I pray that you stay safe.

Ruby - keep coming back for lots of inspiration. Welcome!

NYKaren - you should celebrate, what an awesome accomplishment. Just don't celebrate too much....lol

Went to ceramics then Lowes Hardware. A friend of ours told us about this spider decoration, the one store near us didn't have it, another store had only the display model and Vince nor the guy working there could get it to work, so we went to another Lowes. Unfortunately, they didn't have any.

Michele in NC

Michele in NC - We play double 15's; some of the rules were a bit confusing to us; we would Google things we did not know, to see if we could make up the rules to follow what we 'thought' should happen. Only the women played it; the guys would play the card game 8-1-8. What our real problem was, was that we could not figure out if the center chip/block was a double 15; if one player did not have a 15 to play off of, were they supposed to draw from the bone yard until they did. We made the rule up that once you had 20 blocks in your tray; another player would draw from the pile until they found one, shuffle them around or give up one of their 15's so you could start to work off it. First 5 times, you had to draw from the bone yard until (or unless) you got one first. Some of the written instructions just did not make a 'lick of sense'.

I'm really happy that DH has an appointment with a 'new' Urologist; and, hopefully, he will figure out what is going on. My sisters were really upset that I could not talk DH into going to the ER. I agree with them, it could get really serious if his bladder got 'too' full. That is one of the questions I want answered by the MD. I told DH that I WAS going to go with him to find out what this MD has to say ... Period, the End!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month - make sure you do your breast self checks; and, call a friend (buddy) and ask her the same question, "have you done your breast self exam this month?"


Lenora

Morning, all... up early this morning... Ended up being an 11-hour day going to press yesterday, but due to a number of things, the paper ended up stretching from 20 pages to 22 to 24, by 10 a.m. We made it to press eight minutes before deadline, but we made it. We always do. So far, anyway.

80-something posts since I last visited, so my mind's awhirl with all your doings, but not retaining much. Second cup of coffee making now, so not operating at full steam, to say the least. Thinking about DJ in the path of the storm, the rest dealing with so much, feel blessed that my worries are temporary... And Penny, the pics were just beautiful.

Katla - was going to drop pics of the breast cancer article here, but they ended up much too large... and the article itself is super long, even in text, almost 1700 words. If you'll e-mail me at editor@fspioneer.com, I'll send the text of the article to you over e-mail.

And, speaking of temporary worries... We have a potential buyer for the warehouse, which is part of what woke me at 2 a.m. It's the local karate instructor, and he's excited about it, but will have to get through a loan process, of course, so we have some time to think, one hopes. If/when it does sell, we have to decide what is next. The amount we'll make from the sale is not enough to get us to our next stage--traveling full-time. And, while it would be enough to buy land outright, land with water and electric and sewer available is much more expensive, and buying an expensive piece would delay our eventual leave date, as well. Living in an RV park long-term is not attractive... the camper is a bit small for staying in one place if there's no outdoor living space... and ditto that one for renting an apartment. Not my idea of living, even for a couple years.

Conundrums-R-Us, at least today. We're going to just have to bite the bullet and jump one way or the other... and my instinct is to say trade the camper up for an RV with enough space to be comfortable, no matter where we park it... and honestly, the truck that will haul the camper easily would be just about as expensive as simply buying the RV that would haul the car easily. My truck will haul the camper, but only with it dry and empty.

Gah. Too much to think about at 3:30 in the morning, and I've got work to do for the November sale of all this stuff I've gathered up of late. Pardon my using y'all for thinking space... but of course, you know,

Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas

good morning ladies~
my day off from work, taking Toms car over to the dealership for an oil change and get nail out of tire.. supposed to meet up with my daughter for tea/ coffee she starts at 11 this morning..
I am watching all the coverage of Matthew and it is scary.. I have family and friends on the east coast of Florida, and my best friend and her hubby live about 5 minutes from the beach in Willmington,N.C. will be praying for them.

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