WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2016

Darn it no I'll keep on trying

Kate

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Morning peeps!

Doctor came in this morning at 6AM to discharge me. As far as energy level, much better. Blood count up after blood transfusion. But slept poorly last night then he comes in at 6. I already have stuff being done but they are very good about being very quiet and try to hang antibiotic without me knowing about it. But this morning was the pits. And this thing in my nose sometimes sits in just the wrong place that my CPAP can't get any air in my nose. So I am going home really tired. I dint like a high heart rate, I can't tolerate it. To me even a rate of 75 - 80 is high. So when I go to bed, the head has to be up real high until my breathing and heart rate settles down. With that I gradually lower the head of the bed until it is close to flat. I have. I have never gotten to flat. But at home I have a flat bed. So I have no idea why it will be like. I know Charlie can take the CPAP and noise machine downstairs where I have a recliner but I want my own bed. The cat wants me in there. It's just feet for thr bathroom. If I am downstairs, I have to walk up 2 flats of stairs. Ok, those are my worries.

Good Morning. I'm new to this group, but not to Nutrisystem. I've been reading and enjoying the posts from the last few days. I'm trying to be more 'involved' here in hopes of it helping to keep me motivated.

And I love my Subaru!

Yay Betty in Happyland!!!!! That is wonderful!! (swings ya around and we dosey-doe...)
Becca
Oregon

Good day, gals!

Enjoying the sunshine today. Hope everyone is having a sunny day in one way or another.....

Betty - Congrats!
Sherry - enjoy that ice cream as long as it is only one serving.

Heather - we don't have kippers in Tennessee. What are they? It sounds like you are well organized with your holiday yummies. I hope the house thing can fall into place for you soon.

Katla - My sister lives in Kansas. I have been seeing her once or twice a year but not at the holidays. She wants to continue to give gifts to my DS, DDIL, DG, DH, and me. So I do the same for my niece and her hubby, their son, my nephew, and brother in law. We are having to be really tight with our finances and with 7 grandchildren Christmas is a challenge. It's really not so much the money but more HAVING to get a gift for sis that bothers me. It used to be a joy to find something for her but now it is a drag and I know she feels the same about gifts for us. It's really odd that I feel this way about her. I have such a generous spirit. Oh, well. Letting it go.

Joyce - I know it will be good to be home. I understand your concerns. Is there anyway someone could help you move the chair upstairs near the bathroom til you are better? Another idea is to invest in the overnight incontinence pads so that if you have to make it upstairs to the bathroom at least you wouldn't have to worry about an accident. I'll be praying for you.

I work 4-9 tonight and need to get busy making bean soup in the crock pot.

Toni in cold and sunny Tennessee

Kate UK

Hi Gals,

Barbie – sending good thoughts!

Sherry – the ceiling fans are really neat!

Katla – I love tye dye! My reusable bags for the grocery are tye dye.

Heather – so glad things are settling out a bit for DH and now that your cards are done, you want to help with mine? LOL

Lisa – glad things are back doing what they are supposed to do, and the warehouse lease falling through is a mixed blessing…

Joyce – pillows Lots of pillows to adjust - there is a pillow chair out there it’s for sitting up in bed just the back and arms of a chair but made out of pillows…

Betty – HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!

Becca – You can do this, losing weight over the holiday is hard, but start now, and like Heather does when going into a holiday and get down a bit so there is a bit to go up and yet still be under…And although you’ll cook for the boys, make sure they take you out dancing or walking or…. To wear off the calories…

December Goals:

Write Christmas letter, and have all cards ready to send by Dec1…this was for nov. but still working on it.
Read and report on a book
Log everyday to the best I can, over if need be.
11,000 + steps everyday
Work on water consumption –
Lunch with Kyle - Done

Smiles.

Kim from N. California

Total non-scale, non-weight victory, healthy only for my peace of mind... I finally wrote the 7th chapter in the sequel to my mystery novel. I feel as if it's the first of many. Looking at the dates, I realized I hadn't touched it since last February! Long past time...

Love y'all... you make me stronger.
Lisa

Heather – Was the real estate agent who sent you the picture of another house that was not as nice as the one you are building, but already modernized … to let you know what could be done to the one you are buying? She should have contacted your real estate agent before doing that. In this area there is a real estate booking book that all agents can see what is one the market and can take anybody through them. If you buy a house listed by another agent, they have to split the fee. It comes out weekly. Our house in Albany never even made it to the book as our agent knew another agent who was looking for a house in our area. She called and she came over and looked at it, “SOLD!” About all she has done, is make it with ‘her touches’ to make it home; and, she re-did the landscape, which sets it apart from our neighbor’s yard. Our yards were the only two in the neighborhood without a fence or trees in an area and the boys would play baseball, basketball, or ‘box’ to settle little arguments amongst themselves. I was glad that my home was one they all felt comfortable coming to. When you close on the house you are buying, hopefully you will be able to go in, and at least paint, before you moved in. It’s a lot easier if you can. We had paneling and trim (very dark) to paint and we also had new carpet to lay. It had been ‘bank owned’. We also added a fireplace, the fireman who built it could not exactly match the brick; but, came very close, and where he pulled out the brick wall, he mixed those bricks with the ‘new’ one. About a year after moving in, insurance paid to have our roof replaced. That was the greatest change, besides the painting and wallpapering we did. We got to change the color which made a huge difference. It also had blue and olive green bathroom fixtures and tiles in the showers. I looked and looked until I found some that only had a little bit of those colors, and that made it ‘look’ like it was ‘meant to be’. The wallpaper throughout the house when we bought it was hideous! Another nice thing in Albany is that most of the houses, other than the ‘newer’ ones have an alley in the back and all driveways were required to come through the back of the house. Easier to get groceries inside to the kitchen.

CJ – Glad that everything is set for a Friday closing. I know that will take a lot off y’all’s shoulders. I love my house; but, if we ever moved, we’d also rent. I love the house because it is out in the country and we have 90 acres. DOS has 3 acres. It was 2 tracts of land; and, it is supposed to be our plan (in our Wills) to leave each boy one tract of land. After they pay off our house, provided it has not already been paid for once one of us dies. Upon our death and after all expenses have been paid, all they’d need to do is get an attorney to draw up the deed to do this. They can decide what they want to do with everything else.

Sherry – Do you know if the dealership will ‘trade in’ your car if you are looking for a ‘cash deal’? Or would you have to sell it yourself? My present car is ‘new’; my previous car was a one-owner car. I called him when I found his name on some old paperwork, he said if his wife had not gotten pregnant right after they bought the car, they would have kept it. They had to trade it in on an SUV to cart around all the necessary things you have to take to “Grandmamma House.” So I was glad of that. I love my ‘new’ one; but, still – at a few times – wish I had kept the old one. It had 2 more years to go to ‘pay if off’. I backed into a pole the day before we were going to Louisiana; and, fearful if they got it open, it would not close and stay closed. I tried out a ‘new’ one, just to do so … could not resist and the payments are not much more than I was paying already. If I had not bought a ‘new’ one, than DH would have been able to get a truck. He wants to buy DYS’s truck when he gets ready to sell/trade it. I told him that DYS would also consider (if he trades) what he will get for the truck AFTER any money he might still owe on the thing. No, it won’t make you more of a ‘hippie’, it will just make you more of a ‘yuppie’. To be a hippie, you’d have to own a late ‘60’s model that looked like you had thrown several colors on it. I know this, from attending ‘art school’. Thankfully, I had a brand new VW, which came from my uncle’s dealership, so I got ‘free service’ on it as well. One Sunday AM, I came down to the garage, got it, and thought, ‘dammit, somebody’s come in here and turned my windshield wipers backwards’. Got out of the car, and the windshield was actually missing. That happens when you part underground with only a ‘few’ lightbulbs hanging down from wires are the lights. I hated going down there to wash clothes, so generally I would just wait and take them home to my Mother’s and Daddy’s house to wash them (or go to a well-lit laundromat). Needless to say, I did not make it to church that day and they came and got it to fix the windshield. People would steal them because, at the time, you had to get your car checked for emissions control, and some people just did not want to fail because their windshield was cracked.

Stupider? Can be correct; but, words that end in ‘er’, such as stupid, stupider, have a ‘more’ stupid in front of it, instead – just sounds more correct. Or ‘most’ stupid … which does not take into effect that you can always do something ‘more’ stupid than the last time when you claim to have done the most stupid thing (ever). I used to argue with my mother about ‘good, better, best’. “Why can you not try harder and do 'better' than 'best'?” She finally gave up and said, ‘because it is NOT like numbers that are infinite! I was old enough to understand that. We grew up learning ‘little sayings’ that let us know ‘why one word or phrase works better than another’ … EXAMPLE that is incorrectly used a lot (especially on FB) is “Done” when it should, in most cases, be “Finished”. I’ve done eating supper. “No, you have ‘finished’ eating supper; you are only ‘done’ if you’re a steak.” When you have grown up with a HS English/Lit/Grammar teacher ‘drilling’ things into your head; you seem to know what sounds ‘more correct’. Or sounds correctly. Words that sound alike have totally different meanings. My Dad told my mother after she had been trying to teach with a neck brace she had to wear 24/7 which held her head up at a 45° angle; that she ‘had’ to stop teaching and come work for him. She did not really want to do so; but, he had told a girl who had come for an interview as a secretary to use the words, ‘cite’, ‘site’, and ‘sight’ in a letter. She got all 3 wrong. He told Mother that he could not have her sending out letters like that and knew that she would make him, at least, sound like he was intelligent. My DDnL#1 pronounced the word “Salmon” as it looked, “SAL MON” … DMGD turned her head and said, ‘it is ‘sa mom’, and the ‘l’ is silent. DDnL#1 really reacted badly; more because she was embarrassed than anything. I wanted to drop into a hole when DMGD said, “Well, I’m just doing what Nana does to me when I say something wrong!” I am ‘guilty’ of that. But, I don’t try to embarrass them in doing so. My Mother used to ‘make us repeat the correct phrase’. It would embarrass us; but, she was of the mind-set that you make ‘corrections’ right then. Besides, how would it reflect on her as a English Grammar teacher, if her own children did not speak proper English. Which is - the hardest language to learn and be fluent in doing so. Punishment was swift, appropriate for the action, and she NEVER said, “Wait until you Daddy gets home.” But, one thing I am guilty of is a ‘run-on sentence’. I can write and read a long paragraph without any punctuation marks. Usually, I do this to a HS classmate who send me ‘political’ materials that only affect him, locally. Not where I live.

Katla – DH and I sit down at the beginning of the year and discuss things we would ‘like’ to have that we’d not normally just go out and buy. When we come to an agreement we buy something that is for birthdays, Valentine’s Day, anniversary, Christmas and any other day that one might expect to receive or give a ‘gift’. I want a ‘door’ for my glassed-in porch and for him to build shelving around in it. I’d love a new sofa and 2 chairs (but, that is probably out of the question). We might not get anything this next year … he had to put $2000 into his work truck which has over 350,000 miles on it. But, he does not want a ‘new’ truck with a payment to make monthly. I’d like to see him ‘slow down’ or ‘retire’ and let DOS take over the business. He’s letting him do more and more; but, he still hasn’t let go of that reign.

TNToni – Most people who have names that might be relatively common will put a location by their name. So far, I have not had any trouble finding my name “Lenora” – just several misspellings. But, I usually know who they are talking to, I don’t think there is even a derivative of my name here.

Talking about foods that are 'different' from what you are used to. I was 'encouraged' to try 'beef tartar'. I found it good, until my boss told me what it was. 'finely ground raw steak'. I like my steaks medium rare; but, I do NOT like them 'mooing' at me. I will only eat National Hebrew hotdogs; after a HS coach told us what hotdogs and Vienna sausages were made of. I used to eat an entire can of Vienna sausages as a child. AWGGHHHH!!!!!


Lenora