WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2016

Kate

OK ladies, I am going to have to put this kipper thing straight! They do not come in cans! (I had pilchards in cans as a child)They are dry cured, split and smoked. The best ones are delicious and considered quite a delicacy. The only problem is they stink your house out after you've heated them up!



The ones I used in the paté had the bones taken out. If you ever come to Scotland you could have porridge, followed by kippers for breakfast! Yum!

In Britain we all pay a licence of £135 per year or thereabouts for the BBC. I get everything else free on Free view and have a stick for Internet connection. I choose to get two foregn language DVDs a month from Amazon for £4 as I hardly have time to watch those! I record films free from the TV on a recorder. Your packages all sound horribly expensive! We have a very cheap phone and modem deal because we complained dirdct to the CEO earlier this year about a recurring fault on the line.

Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxx

morning ladies~
it is chilly down here in Florida today.. but from what I hear frigid in Connecticut so I will grin and bare it. I got almost 14,000 steps yesterday. will try and work myself up to even more today..as you can see there is alot more to do down here and better weather to do it in..
Tom working with a neighbor down here to put in an outlet on front of carport so that he can plug in another security camera.. why all of a sudden he is getting so geaked out on camera's down here is beyond me..
I am on my second cup of tea.. and will go out for a walk in a few minutes..

Thanks for setting the record straight, Heather.

In my opinion, kippers are an acquired taste, like Marmite and peanut butter and cod liver oil. I grew up on peanut butter and acquired a taste for Marmite when I lived in London at age 11. Kippers never grew on me, though. My issue with them isn't so much that they stink up the house, as that they keep coming back all day in the form of burps.

Cod liver oil does the same thing, but the brand I buy has a delicate lemony flavor so I don't mind the burps. After moving to Norway, I've even grown to like it. For the first few years after we moved, my husband prevented me from even trying by saying - at random moments on weekend mornings - "When I burp, it tastes like cod liver oil." :noway:

He's supposed to be coming home to Longyearbyen today. His flight was delayed out of Tromsø for a couple hours because of fog in Longyearbyen. The plane has taken off now, but just before departure he texted "They're going to give it a go." Highly encouraging...

/Penny at the North Pole, where the lights of the airport are currently visible

Good morning ladies.

Not writing much. Haven't felt well for a while. But not giving up. Still depressed, in pain, general malaise from UTI, worries, and on it goes.......

Rita from frigid CT

Hi friends. I had a very long day yesterday (11 hours) with the final exam, and today is another long and busy one. So this is just a quick check in. We have graduation later today so lots to get done before then. Take care and stay warm. Meg

Allie: I wonder whether drawing a line in the sand is going to be helpful. Do you have access to any sort of counseling? Perhaps you should go on your own for a while and see whether guidance from a professional can help you come up with a good plan to deal with this. (((HUGS)))

KATLA ~ Very wise advice.

Allie - ((((HUGS))))

I've just finished the Eggplant rollatinis from skinnytaste.com. They are in the freezer and looking faaaaabulous! I think DH and DSIL could have a little tiny lamb chop with them. DH cooked the pears in spiced rum and apple juice for the Boxing Day dessert. They are cooling off and looking amaaaaaazing! That is everything ready except easy sauces and the Raspberry and chocolate chip ice cream for New Year. That is supposed to be diabetic friendly. Mainly raspberries and yoghurt.
I had a lot of eggplant left over so that is baked and in the freezer.
Just got my son and stepdaughter to think about now. :sad: The pistachios are sitting on the counter top looking at me.

I've got zucchini noodles all prepped for tonight's sauce of leek and ham. Leeks done.

I did 550 words of my memoir this morning.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

Lagopus wrote: »

Thanks for setting the record straight, Heather.

In my opinion, kippers are an acquired taste, like Marmite and peanut butter and cod liver oil. I grew up on peanut butter and acquired a taste for Marmite when I lived in London at age 11. Kippers never grew on me, though. My issue with them isn't so much that they stink up the house, as that they keep coming back all day in the form of burps.

Cod liver oil does the same thing, but the brand I buy has a delicate lemony flavor so I don't mind the burps. After moving to Norway, I've even grown to like it. For the first few years after we moved, my husband prevented me from even trying by saying - at random moments on weekend mornings - "When I burp, it tastes like cod liver oil." :noway:

He's supposed to be coming home to Longyearbyen today. His flight was delayed out of Tromsø for a couple hours because of fog in Longyearbyen. The plane has taken off now, but just before departure he texted "They're going to give it a go." Highly encouraging...

/Penny at the North Pole, where the lights of the airport are currently visible

First of all, yuckyyuckyyucky to the cod liver oil.

Now to your husband, "They're going to give it a go", eh? Highly encouraging, indeed, or perhaps amusing if one is into morbid humor. He must be quite the challenge, LOL! Sounds like he's the master of deadpan humor.

Karen in Virginia still chuckling

Two beautiful snow bound ladies! You both look happy and lovely.

Today was a "reunion" breakfast with my buddies from my old Y that closed. So good to see them. We're a mix of guys and gals that hung out over coffee after we'd work out. Some were missing because they are snowbirds who spend the winter in Florida.

Allie - your thoughts are good.They need to be shared. Be sure you use "I" statements. Don't put him on the defensive with "you" messages. I would consider doing this when you get home from your vacation. Kind of a logical breaking point after you've had fun with your friends.

Rita - sending you a hug and a smile.

Mary - I am jealous that you and Margaret got to play on the snow TOGETHER! Wonderful picture!

Toni in very cold middle Tennessee

GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »

NYKAREN – K.I.S.S. for me means Keep It Simple Sister (not ‘stupid’) … although some I do mean ‘stupid’ for some people. LOL!


Allie – Maybe it is so he (or a neighbor) can check out your FL place since there are so many burglaries in a lot of places. Especially, if they drive or walk by and don’t see a car there for part of the year. Maybe one of your neighbors would be willing to park one of their cars in different positions/locations to try to ward any potential break-ins from occurring.

Your speech sounds good … but, rather say ‘you’ … not, generally, ‘husband’. Your check into your bank account, with you paying some of the bills. This is only ‘fair’ to you especially if there is ever a chance that (God forbid) he passes away before you do. You need to know ‘how to go about paying the bills’ if that happens. He should not keep you ‘protected’ by ‘keeping you in the dark’ (and that is what he is doing, especially if you only get $20 a week). You should be able to buy something for yourself, if you budget your money and pay your share of bills. If he makes more than you … he should keep the ‘larger’ bills such as any ‘mortgage’ (maybe) utility bill. His bills he has incurred, you pay the ones you have incurred. I think you are being totally reasonable to try to talk to him about paying bills and depositing your check into your own account. Make an arrangement that maybe they be ‘joint’ accounts; but, you never write a check on his account; he never writes one on your account. Maybe at 2 different banks. That’s how my DH and I do our checkbooks and it works for us. His SSI check is directly deposited into his account; my SSD and Retirement checks are directly deposited into my account. It is NOT difficult to have that changed, all you have to do is go to the bank and ask that your check be deposited into your account (at any bank you choose). When DH’s bank decided to change the account numbers on his/our joint account (his) he had to go to the bank and have his SSI and any PAD (Pre-Authorized Deductions) change over.

They had an overlap so that is his SSI check got deposited into his first account number, it would actually be transferred to his ‘new’ numbered account. They paid for him to get ‘new’ checks printed. Which was good, as he had just ordered business checks (and they usually costs about $300) because of the number he gets (and deposit slips). If you don’t have your own account, then he also would need to show you ‘how to balance’ your account. I think men who ‘control’ the money don’t think about what would happen to the wife if he should predecease their wives. Carol might be right that he won’t like it; but, you can go to the bank and ask them ‘if’ they can do it without him having to sign off on it. I know I had to go sign a new signatory card. If he doesn’t ‘like’ it; then, he can just ‘get over it’.


Penny – When I was younger, a friend and I would eat ‘sardines’ on crackers. I’m not sure I can do that now. I won’t eat anchovies on pizzas either. I know they add salt; but, still don’t like the taste. Tried them on a salad and ended up putting them on the side of my plate. I don’t want anything that is going to make me burp; my medications do that for me. But, I guess a ‘burp’ is better than a ‘fart’.


Barbie – What book is everybody talking about [that you or Lisa have published]?



Rita – UTIs can make you feel like royal $#^T. I hope you don’t have repeated ones. I had 4 in 2 months’ time; the last time they catheterized me. But, I told his nurse, that I did not want a pelvic or rectal exam; because I would be ‘mortified’ … if I could not ‘hold’ myself. I had taken way too many laxatives – and they had really worked (I was trying to see if they would relieve things, because I was not only hurting/burning from the UTI; I was also constipated. Nurse said she’d give him a ‘head’s up’. I told her – it would be a ‘bottom’s up’. When he came in, he told me that his nurse had told me to not let him do the exams. For all it had done, I probably could have had a colonoscopy that day.


Pip – That has to be a ‘painting’ of one of your dogs. Beautiful. I was commissioned to paint one of my neighbor’s dog that had died from cancer, diabetes, and other health issues. They had spent a small fortune on the dog and had even travelled to Birmingham, AL for treatments. She had her own sofa in their den, she slept between them in bed, and when she passed away, he had someone build a coffin (small) with all the satin cover inside. He might have bought a child’s coffin for all I know. He had his preacher come out and say a short eulogy for the dog. That takes loving a pet, a bit far. He bragged about it, too.

Lenora

No painting, just an app to make it look like one

We yesterdays' volunteering went well. I sang Happy Birthday to the MC of the luncheons, and then the sweet lady that told me it was his birthday said, "Now sing another Happy Birthday song, all high like you do". I asked her, " Um you mean my opera like songs?" I said, "Well none of them are Happy Birthday, just in Italian". I did sing behind him while he was eating, (I was instructed by the sweet lady to do so), and gave a solid B performance... Since I do it a cappella, then if I start a little higher than normal, my ending high notes are somewhat screechy.... I think I stopped and said, "oh geez" and gave it another go.... I said to people that my notes come up from my toes and I can't get them thru my teeth sometimes... I don't warm up, (which I shall do in the future), so its like starting an old car and doing a drag race.

I came home from that, ate my fish cake that they were serving, a couple of bites of a really sweet square of cake, and promptly went to sleep. All that socializing just did me in:-)

Today we get to visit a food bank, so I hope there are some items that we need. When my eldest son comes on the 23rd, we sadly will have him pay for a lot of the fixings for his favorite meals. He loves Japanese food, and the rice I buy is about $15 for a bag. But if you want great sticky white rice, then you pay for it! My teenager loves fried rice so when he goes into the Navy that is one item I won't buy as often. Actually I think we shall see quite a difference in our grocery bills each month, but I would pay that money and much more instead of feeling that void that my heart will have...

Today is bright blue skies, frosty fields, and iced over mud puddles, but no snow. I think we are the warmest place in the state...
Becca
Oregon