WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017

Allie so sorry about the snow. Glad you are pacing yourself. Been there. We are having more icy conditions this year then the heavy wet snow. Both are awful in there own way. I found when we had that kind of snow is where to you put it and and intersections can get bad too. Our city put poles on the fire hydrants and relies on the homeowner whose property it is to clear it. Safe travels for Tom and for you if you need to drive.

(((Karen)))

Margaret

KarenVA - I found the picture! sad, but she's beautiful and I wanted to see her!

canookie - I broke my tailbone at a 90° angle in, during cheerleading practice in PE. That summer I got pushed into the shallow end and broke it again. Both times I could not stand up. When I got pushed into the pool; thankfully, BF realized my head was under water and I was not getting up, so she came in and got me. All the lifeguards, including us, were horsing around. The tailbone break at cheerleading practice in PE, required my football coach and some of his players to slide a hard back chair under me; turn me back over and load me into the bed of a pick-up truck with all of them holding me so that I did not and could not move on the way to the small community hospital. Then went to Macon to the ER in a hearse. That was the ‘only’ form of emergency transport we had in town at the time. Thankfully, it had a 4” pad on the gurney. I’ll never understand a pad on a gurney in the back of a hearse; and, a hard board you are strapped to in an EMT bus. Sprung it during delivery of my 2 sons; and, I can tell it is going to either rain or get cold several days before it comes.

My sister’s 2nd child only weighed 3lb + ?? ounces. The only reason she was allowed to bring her home with her was because she was not a ‘first time mother’.

Marnie – The one this year in St. Simons, Ga is absolutely gorgeous; I watched a video on them remodeling it; they used a lot of ‘pecky cypress’ wood on a lot of the ceilings; our great room is paneled in the same wood. It is rare and very expensive. Ours is stained brownish; at times I wish we had gone with the gray. We have removed most of the stain on the outside of the house, also cypress, and letting it age to gray naturally. I’m not sure it will change under the porches however. Louis might have to try to get most of the stain out of the wood with a pressure washer with bleach and stain it gray to match.

patceoh – I have migraines as well; but, I cannot watch flashing lights or psychedelic patterns because they can ‘throw me into a seizure’. I get nauseous and smell strange odors that nobody else smells. I make sure I lay down because it generally means I am having an ‘aura’ and I must get still to try to get ahead of a seizure. When I have a migraine, I have to go to bed, after taking Max-Alt and 1 ½ muscle relaxants. Room has to be dark and cold (although I cover up). If I wake up with it, I usually have to go into town and get a shot that will knock me out and starts working about the time I get home. Within 30 minutes.

I used to use an Epipen to self-medicate; but, they are out of sight in price; so I take other Rx’d meds now. I was taken off the Epipen because once I shot myself more to the side of my thigh and into a blood vessel; and, went right to the floor. Supposed to give it straight down into your thigh. Could not move; but, finally was able to pull myself to the phone by the bed, pull it down off the night stand, and called my DOS to come put me back in the bed.

Heather – One of my HS classmates’ sons was oversea somewhere – maybe in China and had to have some sort of emergency surgery. They had to be paid before they would do it. His twin went and wiped out their account, one of the other workers wiped out his, they charged a lot of credit cards, and still had to come up with more money … my HS friend wired the rest; and, then went out there to be with him. He’s a MD, so as soon as he could travel he brought him home. When he went over there; his Dad and Mom got passports so if they had to go over their quickly; they already had passports.

Lanette – Swearing doesn’t both me unless someone uses God’s name in vain. I can tolerate the F-bomb; but, using God’s name in vain is a deadly sin and I don't want to be standing near them if they get 'zapped'. That reminds me of when my Mother and Daddy went to Russia on a tour. Daddy asked a Russian about something; and then did the “OK” sign which is America means, "I understand" - is putting your pointer finger and thumb together in a circle with all the other fingers straight. The tour guide ran over and explained to the Russian that Daddy did not mean anything about it and why. Daddy was just standing there looking at them – talking in Russian. Then the tour guide told my Daddy that ‘sign’ is about like the ‘single-digit-middle-finger salute' in other countries (bird finger, middle finger). My niece who is deaf said they would go to “Fuddruckers’s” and in sign language it is like shooting the finger; but holding your elbow down so you can’t move the arm (even though you are really trying to).

Karen in Virginia – Saying prayers and sending {{{{{HUGS}}}}} for Olivia and her Mother. Keep us posted. Was Olivia a preemie? I know that estrangement from a ‘child’ is very difficult. My DH has not heard word one from his daughter since his Mother passed away 10 years ago this April. Mainly because she got ‘greedy’ and did some things that bordered on Elder Abuse and Fraud; by taking things out of the estate that had been promised to others, and should have been left there so that the Probate of the Will could be done and things divided. We don’t have but about 5 pictures of my DH growing up (and his Mom took lots of them) and the only picture of his Mother that we have is one of her and his Dad and him shortly after he was born; and those taken at our wedding. It’s been hurtful because there is no reason for it; and, there is a grandchild involved. I would have loved to been a fly on the wall to hear what she had to say about our not being in their lives. I'm sure it has come up a lot especially around her mother. But, after 10 years, we are probably as much as ‘dead’ to her as she is to us. We could have taken her to court and made her put it all back into the estate; but, since she didn’t and since DH and DBnL were the Executors of her Will … it has never been through probate.

Olivia looks like a pretty big baby, not a preemie.

Karen – How is Reid doing?

Lisa and others – All this talking about cheese and crackers is making me hungry.

Michele – Love the pelicans. How big of a piece is this?

Tammy – it is not too far back up from the post where you are talking about missing the picture of Olivia – you’ll just have to ‘click’ on it for it to be big enough to see.

Carol – Have you tried ‘highlighting’ them and making them darker? Could have something to do with your settings. I know on my computer when I go to change colors, it gives me different shades of the same color. It might be from ‘how’ someone who sent it to you and how they have their settings. Glad you found a solution.

Lenora

Lenora - I found it! thank you.

Starr68 - wow glad you're feeling so great with it! I have friends who do Isagenics and I've heard of some others, but not that one! yah! Congrats and keep it up! oh and I vent to my husband every night! lol
grandmallie bahahaha " stick a fork in me ..." I'm loving all these sayings I haven't heard. You're clever!
becca - cute guy - he looks sweet! love the hat!
barbie - thank you - makes sense. I see on this challenge they stress - in bold - and multiple times to please not sign up unless you can commit to seeing it through. I plan to finish!

Marni: We have friends who decided to move to Montana from Oregon two or three years ago and they love it. :flowerforyou:

Sharon in Lethbridge: I'm not very likely to hug strangers, either. :noway:

Ravi: Befriending people is a little different than joining this group, which is also a group of friends. Some of us are members here and also individual friends who see each other's posts on the MFP home page. You join this group simply by posting. I hope you'll bookmark us so that you can easily find us whenever you need encouragement.

Allison: Stay safe in the snowstorm. If you have blizzard conditions stay inside your house. (((HUGS)))

Heather: CONGRATULATIONS on getting your insurance forms dealt with! I am so inclined to procrastinate over things like that. You are excellent at taking care of things and a wonderful role model.

Lanette: Jesus is easy to love. His people aren't always easy to love--and that includes me. :ohwell: We drove into Portland for a follow up appointment with the eye doctor. The roads were all pretty good, but we stayed out of lanes closest to hillsides just incase of landslides.

pitegny: Thanks for the quinoa suggestions.

Lisa: I can definitely see you as Tigger. :bigsmile:

Karen in VA: I'm sending prayers for Olivia and the whole family.

Carol in GA: I'm an apple user and Safari is my browser. Under "advanced" I have options to increase the page size. I was able to increase the MFP site to 200% and it made all the words big and bold. See whether your browser will let you increase page sizes. It might be worth a try. (((hugs)))

Rita: Holey Moley! You are getting ready for an adventure. WTG!!! :bigsmile:

Whispers: Welcome to a great group! Begin where you are and go forward. We're very chatty and you might feel like you've been assigned a massive novel if you were to go back to the beginning. Just my 2 cents worth. :flowerforyou:

Yvonne in TX: "The people falling on ice video was hilarious! It wouldn't have been nearly so much fun without all the laughter in the background. Nothing like a good pratfall! It's not so funny when you're the one doing the falling, though." Amen! I have done the falling and ended up with one broken wrist from one black ice caused accident, and the other wrist from the same kind of fall a few years later. Neither incident was funny at all from my point of view. :grumble:

Heather: Hooray for an invitation to visit the Grandchildren. YAY!!! :bigsmile:

Charleen in CO: Congratulations on a true to you slimmer driver's license! Talk about fabulous proof of success. What a victory!!!! Time to celebrate. Do you choose flowers or clothes?

honeybunny: There are two unwritten rules for this group that can be summed up with two words, kindness and courtesy. Welcome to a great group!



DD needed a copy of her birth certificate for a job application. It is in the mail and should be there in a few days. Yay! We had an adventure going to the records office and getting the birth certificate. The process was easy, once we found the place and the people were very nice.

DH is doing so well after his surgery and we now have the next one on the schedule. YAY! It has already been a miraculous change for him. :flowerforyou:


Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

Heather posted a quote similar to this that I wanted to use, but I couldn't recall it quite right. I went online and found this one.

"So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun."

Lunch today! It was so yummy! Look at my food diary for specifics.
Becca

Sarah - I use the normal, classic risotto recipe. I use a small handful of dried porcini to give a full flavour, soaked and chopped, plus fresh mushrooms. And some frozen peas.
Instead of butter for the "finishing" I use Philly Light plus some parmesan. This saves calories. I do have a little jar of truffles and I dot a couple on the top when it is finished. An aquired taste, but we love it. Tonight I served sugar snap peas as a side.
I hate cooking in the evening so I always do as much prep as I can after lunch. I take the risotto to the point where I add the white wine, bubble it and leave the rest of the cooking for later. Actually I use Extra Dry Martini Bianco as I don't want to open a bottle.

Katla - I think of myself as an ACE procrastinator. I leave things to the point when not doing it becomes more painful than doing it. I still haven't reopened the laptop I bought before Christmas and used once.

Just bought myself a dress on line. I've been wanting a red dress for some time and decided to order it. I can always return it free of charge. I like it because it is fit and flare, therefore hopefully comfortable and it has elbow length sleeves for my batwings. Hope it fits. I hope to wear it for a restaurant dinner for my niece's 18th birthday party.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

Heather thank you so much
Sarah

Joyce and Charleen - Not this last time I renewed my license; because I had to provide documentation in order to get it renewed; but, the time before it. I looked nothing like I did on the previous license and had been renewed by mail. Taking the old picture and weight from one I had done 5 years before that. My hair had turned gray, was a lot shorter, I already have issues at some places because I don't use "Nancy" as my signature.

Went to the State Patrol Office with a friend who was getting hers redone because she had remarried. I showed it to the nice young black trooper and asked if I could have a 'new' current picture on it. He told me they only did it if the license was broken. I held it in my hand and popped it in two pieces. He smiled and said, 'you're a quick study' ... sign here. So I then had a picture that actually 'looked' like me. The one I have now, looks like me; but, I must have 'lied' about my weight! LOL!

Lenora