WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017

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Marni – Prayers and {{{{{HUGS}}}}} for your friend’s granddaughter and for a full and speedy recovery.

pitegny – Glad you liked the joke. He was basically daring me to do it; of course, I had to pay regular price for it; but, I had gotten tired of when I had to submit a check and my ID, having the person look at the picture 2 or 3x and look at me. Did not look anything like I did at the time. A 10-year-old photo taken at my heaviest. And I had lied ‘obviously’ about my weight.

Sharon - Your ‘ex’ sounds like a ‘dying’ man asking for forgiveness. What can he do for you? Have a life insurance policy naming you as the beneficiary … that can be his past due child support.

I had to have dialysis when I became “Lithium Toxic” 10 years ago, to try to get the Lithium out of my body quickly. I’m glad they did not have to put me on it for the rest of my life. I was so full of medications, I don’t even remember it.

Sarah – I wonder about the ‘eggs’ and who came first (still). Sarah, I had a friend who was a nurse; kept going back between working at the hospital and working for MDs offices. Said there were pro’s and con’s to both. She’s now retired.

Heather – When I receive a joke that I think is ‘funny’ generally; I will try to share it with everybody. Everybody needs a chuckle. Got sent a video about fishing; but, did not know if or how to post it here. It was hysterical. I might have already deleted however. My husband doubled over in laughter.

My treadmill has arms you can push and pull while walking; but, I get too winded doing it that way.
I know that I have seen people with ‘spray tans’ that have an orange-ish hue; my DDnL#2 says it is because they did no add something that she does that prevents this. I think I would only trust my DDnL#2 to do a spray tan on me … but, I tan very easily so I don’t really need one.

A trip for your friend with cancer can be an uplift after weeks of chemotherapy. I know it has to be hard on her. I don’t think I could get cancer insurance for me, now, since both sisters have had it and thankfully are survivors.

KJ – That’s funny! I think ‘chicken jokes’ have been around since before I was born. My BF and I used to call people and ask ‘if their refrigerator was running’ … they needed to ‘go run after it’; or if they had “Prince Albert in a can”, they needed to let him out. Now most of my jokes are a lot ‘deeper’ and some a whole lot ‘raunchier’.

NYKAREN – I know when our DOGD left for college, for a while she was driving home every weekend; but, that quickly stopped because when she came home, her step-mom thought she needed to be ‘the maid’; she needed to study and thought it would be ‘quieter’ here. But, never so, because they always had spend-the-weekend company and she got run out of her bedroom. And step-mom constantly *kitten* about what they had to pay for her to be ‘in college’. She got huffy with her and told her that HOPE (state-run lottery program) was paying for her college and ‘if’ she could afford to pay for her car, she would. She pays rent, utilities, small loans; because she does not want to have the accrue interest even if she could put them off until she gets out of school. Her Daddy would get into the middle and tell DDnL#1 that he was not going to have her paying for things and getting frustrated and stressed out to the point of losing the HOPE because of not keeping her grades up. She’s been on the Dean’s List all through college. That is really impressive. But, I am glad I am not ‘in college’ now. She talks about staying up until 4:00am to study. She is a biology major.

Lillian – I am glad that I never had a job that I hated. Some quite stressful; but, loved doing what I was doing. They say if you ‘love’ what you are doing, you never ‘work’ a day in your life. For me, that was true.

Lenora

DJ - I missed your post about taking a cruise in April. Where are you headed?

I just put down a deposit to take a land/sea cruise in September. I will fly into Anchorage Alaska and travel to Denali National Park for 3 nights/4 days before heading south again to connect with the ship in Whittier Alaska, then head south for 7 nights, viewing glaciers and such before landing in Vancouver BC.

Charleen in Colorado (Two nights and days of wind has me exhausted - no sleep)

starr68 - I signed up for the Biggest Loser Challenge a couple days ago too! interesting it starts day before Valentine's Day and my hubby and I have a dinner date with two other couples at a little Italian place - hmmmmmm lol This will be my first MFP challenge!

KJ - GREAT funny chicken pic! lol

Sherry - also LOVE the giraffe pic!

It's my middle son's b'day today - happy hour this eve and eating out - prob brewery and eats tomorrow eve after he gets down from skiing, and then possible winter BBQ up at a mountain reservoir we frequent in the winter on Sunday - gonna be a challenging few days food and drink-wise!

DJ- but our lake IS unsalted and shark free!

Karen - (((((HUGS)))) for you and your partner as you go through this. I do hope it all ends well. What a terrible strain for everyone. Thinking of you. :flowerforyou:

Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxx

Hi everyone, I'm just coming off of a ketogenic diet (LCHF less than 20 g of carbs a day) i was on for 3 years without much success. Although I am limiting my carbs to 50 rather than 20, which is much less limiting for me, I'm pretty much making sure I don't go over my calories too. How many of you pay attention to carbs? What's better - to watch the carbs or just eat in moderation (eating good foods) until you've used up your calories for the day?

Happy Friday my Lovelies!

So I'm just back from the pub where my DH took me for a drink. I had a luscious glass of Shiraz - and that's my lot for tonight too!

So glad that it's Friday although I haven't been exactly rushed off my feet today; just some reporting and research. Did my weights/strength training this morning and had a healthy breakfast cooked by DH.

Our darling little dog, Edie, hurt her leg jumping off DH's lap while in his study (as she's done 1000s of times before) and gave a little whelp and limped for 3 minutes. So we took her to the vet's pronto. She's perfectly fine, her limp's gone and has likely just sprained her leg - and then recovered! Whew! That's why the pub was our next stop.



Looking forward to a weekend of more beginner's quilting - which reminds me; Charleen, can you please send a picture of your show quilt? I plan to give quilts as Christmas presents this year so I'm really keen to learn as much as I can.

Sarah - as requested "Smarten up!" You always have our support, as you must surely know?

Lisa - so sorry to hear about your husband's wrist. I hope he improves soon - what a procedure!

Heather - You're such an inspiration sitting with your friend through some of her chemo sessions. And she's a trooper for continuing with her holiday plans. Morrocco is truly amazing - a place where you can truly forget yourself and your problems, so I understand why she'd want to go.

Katla - have you considered doing some of the yoga that's available on YouTube? I swear by Yoga by Adriene who's a yogi based in Texas. She's quite amazing, and the only yoga that I follow.

Have super weekends, my darlings!

Yinka - Worcestershire, UK

Karen Praying for Olivia and that you and your partner will have a safe trip.
My first thought about Katie's (the Mom's) reaction/comments is - she just wants to be clear - not to expect to stay with them and shuttle you to the hospital. They're probably too frazzled to think about someone else's arrangements. It doesn't sound like you planned to do that anyway. HUGS❤
--Ginger in Texas

Wow this is a great message board. Thanks Barbie!

Lisa in West TX, know you are NOT a huggy kinda gal, but sending you the biggest cyber (((hug))) EVER.

Janetr OKC

I am glad to read that Guillian Bairre (sp?) is now very treatable. Back in my early nursing days when I was in ICU training we had a patient and it was very critical. It was also a new diagnosis. So I am so glad this little 6 year old will have a wonderful prognosis.

Many years ago, and I mean many, my cousin's husband had at home dialysis. It was a long process and I am also glad that has improved dramatically through the years.

We had another guy come out and do an estimate for painting. This company also does guttering. So if his estimate is better, we may go with this company or it may let us know that the other painters estimate of $4750 is normal. The only other time we have had our exterior trim done along with doors and painting present gutters was closer to $2000 but he did not prime or power wash and used exterior paint from Walmart. I am wanting a GOOD job this time. I would imagine this other painting was done 5 years ago and it looks like crap now. The man today was suggesting not using a gutter guard and hiring some one twice a year to clean the gutters for us. HMMMM Any thoughts on that?

Praying for both these tiny babys. Caraol, how are you doing?

Joyce, Indiana