WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2017

Marcelyn - what a doll baby and what an ordeal for mom. . So glad she is here and they are both are doing well.

When's the next one due?

Janetr okc

Marcelyn ... congratulations! Nellie is precious!

Sarah ... I am using my phone to catch up ... so it's not showing photos great ... until I got to the third pic, I didn't think you had pants on! LOL! Great job btw, I have never been able to balance and use weights.

KarenNY ... my boy flies in this weekend for his spring break too ... it will be a short week especially with his dad's surgery ... I'll be glad for his company. Didn't have him home on the September one.

Day three of keeping it together eating-wise. Looking for that tea Kelly. Sugar cravings are getting intense ... my cauliflower tasted sweet tonight!

Beth near Buffalo

Sarah in Ontario - nice work out pictures. Keep it up.
Marcelyn- lovely picture of Nellie Marie. Congratulations.

Rita:


Katla and Sue: Great photo. What fun to meet AND share your mutual passion for horses.

Marcelyn: Congratulations. Nellie Marie is a beauty.

Jolene: Feeling for you. I don’t have nearly the same stress and drama, but can relate to being a pawn in a staffing shell game. The expected announcement about me being shifted to another team didn’t happen. Grrrrrr. Back to waiting and acting like nothing has changed, when in reality, it has in my mind, and I really want to put my energies where they can be better used.

Sue and Kate: I send you both healing energy.

Sarah: Great job!

Stay well friends. We can do this.
Rori
Colorado Foothills

March Resolutions
Water with lemon daily
Practice eating more slowly
Be lighter
Lower grocery bill by $150 this month
Call one long distance friend per week
Practice Reiki daily
Word for 2017: Attune

Good evening Ladies!

About ready to turn in, early for me but I was awoken at 4:30 am by my coworker with a text that certainly could have waited a couple of hours.
UGH! I gave it my best effort but I asked my supervisor to move me, I find this person very difficult to share a cubicle with. She complains and curses a blue streak all day long and I finally got to the breaking point last week. She is a very unhappy person. Apparently my timing was excellent because I was told that they were planning to move people around this week.

Sue, I sincerely hope you will be feeling better soon. I think Sylvia, a former member of our group had the same problem.
Healing thoughts and prayers to all who may be suffering physically or mentally.

Congratulations to all the new grandmothers! Keep those beautiful baby pictures coming so we can watch them grow like Heather's precious Bea.

Say a prayer, cross your fingers, toes and eyes, that something I am working on will come to fruition. I won't say anything now, I don't want to jinx it but it would make my life so much better.

Nightly night.

Chris in MA

Chris - I remember Sylvia but didn't know she had the same medical issues. Hope she is well.
Marcelyn -grand baby Nellie Marie is adorable. Glad her mommy is doing well.
I was able to have clear liquids tonite. It did make my stomach feel too full but maybe I ate it too fast. Hope that is the problem.
SueBDew

Becca – I wore my hair really short and ‘spikey’ for many years; got tired of not being able to do anything with it differently; so I grew it out long (past my shoulders). It is so ‘fine’ that I would have had to have a lot of it to look good long. Wore it in a Farrah Fawcett cut in HS – colorwise and cut. I think the color helped make it look thicker. I'm finding that my gray hair helps with making it look thicker because it is so much coarser. I went to Louisiana after I had been losing weight and wanted a new haircut, something ‘different’. My DDnL#2 is a cosmetologist; so we went to the salon and she had washed my hair and we were sitting there discussing what I wanted it to do or be like. Her friend at the next station was chomping at the bit and asked us if we minded her doing to cut. She and Tami go to hair shows, sometimes together or not; and, they teach each other what they have learned. I’m not so sure that Tami was comfortable doing it since I am her M-n-L. She was cutting it and telling Tami why and I almost went to sleep. I love it when someone doing my hair, ‘attacks’ it. I want my head ‘scrubbed’ not washed with open palms. It is now about chin length and a little shorter in the back. I’m not as good at blow dryer my hair. It’s harder to do it without being ‘over’ it. Sometimes I would like to take it off and put it on a mannequin head, fix it, and then put it on; but, have it attached to my head. LOL!!!!!! One of the hairdressers I went to when my hair was cut short; washed my hair with open palms. I'd wash it the next day; because it never felt clean (head). She was the 'only' hairdresser I have been to that washed my hair that way.

Katla – Will keep you and DH in my prayers. Louis has to go for a ‘pre-op’ this next week; another procedure that will mean a few days or long with a catheter. This is going to be ‘fun’ … NOT! But, it is a necessary evil. I don’t think they even knew that it would be a side effect of the seed process for prostate cancer. But, his PSA has been at zero ever since. He really likes his ‘new’ Urologist, so that helps.

Marcelynh – She is such a cutie! I know your daughter is happy to be 'holding' her instead of 'carrying' her. Well, at least grandson will be ‘entertained’. My oldest one got really ‘quiet’ after I ‘knew’ he was awake in his crib; but, did not go up immediately. OMG! He took his diaper off and coated the entire Jenny Lynn bed with poop! When I walked in, he had just turned his back to the door and I got to him before he did a wall painting. We took the mattress out, carefully, collapsed it and took it outside to hose it off. When youngest son was born, he would rock so hard that we’d have to tighten the screws in it daily. He did not stay in it very long. He’d climb out and hang from the rails and finally drop to the floor. He was less than a year old. He never stopped! Continuous movement.

Joyce – I had so much on my pea-picking brain yesterday that I could NOT fall asleep. I got up, took a long shower, went back to bed, eyes popped open; so I got up, close the door and tried to read. Louis got up and asked what I was doing. So this AM he let me sleep in. I don’t even know what time I woke up. Just happy that he had put the coffee in a cup to keep it warm/hot. I think tomorrow I am going to see if I can find a solid top to go on it. The coffee was still hot enough to drink without reheating it; but, I like it ‘piping hot’.

Chris in MA – My first job after we got married was as an insurance adjuster. I had a co-worker, who sat next to me who kept a bottle of Vodka in her desk drawer and would open the drawer up like she was looking for something and take a swig or two. She’d shuffle work around on her table and it would end up back on the filing cabinet/mail table that I had to go through every day. The other 2 ladies in my unit told me to ‘keep my desk locked’ when I left it. Management ‘knew’ something was a bit off; and, they were keeping a watch on her. She was an older lady. She finally got to the point that it was pretty obvious that something wasn’t right; be she’d take a swig or two and then go to the break room for coffee and something to eat and to the restroom to rinse out her mouth. I think she finally was given the option to 'retire' and save her retirement pension; or be 'out of a job'. She took the early retirement.

Does anybody know where or what Sylvia is up to? Miss her. I know what you mean about crossing fingers, toes, and eyes so that something that is being worked on comes to fruition. I’m in the same boat.

Lenora

Day 7 of not shampooing my hair, just rinsing it. One thing I have researched is that doing this makes you look at everything else you are doing. My scalp is a part of the biggest organ we have, our skin. I will be going thru a transition, where my oil production is overproducing, but will adjust in time. The important thing they say is to massage your scalp in the shower just like you are shampooing. Stimulating your pores. They say to hydrate, exercise, and the transition s won't bre so "scuzzy". They meaning the people on YouTube that have gone thru the process. I'm excited about this journey. I feel powerful because I am not putting money into the beauty business.

I feel the same way about this as I do with the breakfast cereal movement. A thing we eat because society told you to. A meal created to fund the cereal czar's of the world. O czar is maybe a wee bit overboard, but you can understand my frustration.
Becca
Mental in Oregon

Rori: I'm so sorry you're caught in a staffing shell game. I hope you end up happy with the outcome. The process of getting there sounds unpleasant. (((HUGS)))

Pip: I love your doggy pictures. Keep 'em coming!

Chris, Lenora and Sue: The last I remember hearing from Sylvia she was busy with her artist's co-op & didn't have time for us. That was quite a while ago. I hope she is still well and happy.

Lenora: Sending good thoughts for Louis. :flowerforyou:


Tomorrow we are headed for the surgery center location. We have reservations at the hotel where we've stayed before and are looking forward to the second eye surgery. From here, things should improve for DH. He'll need new glasses and he'll be able to see!!! :bigsmile:

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

Kate UK

Morning ladies,

Marcelyn Aw little Nelly is so precious, congrats!
Chris just sent a prayer to you

Didn't have a great weigh in so kind of peeved, it's like the weight just fights to stick around despite my hard work.

Have a great day! Sarah, Ontario

Morning ladies,
Slept from 7 last night until 5:45 this morning, and boy did I need it.. yesterday was rough.. I dont mind working up front ,but when Mary lets me answer all the phones, do the scanning, great patients and then have everyone that works there ask me did you order this ,can you get that , I was about ready to scream...Mary to busy texting her husband , watching April the giraffe on her phone and sometimes working,but leaving the bulk to me..
the way my bed is situated I can look out the window and watch the planes fly by on the flight path we are on. we are smack in the middle of the state, so see alot flying to Boston and Europe and dreaming of taking a vacation some day..
My uncle is hanging on, like I told you ,and my aunts son is having brain surgery so she went to be with him.. I am hoping to fly out to Minnesota for services if they have them.. he is a decorated Korean war vet that fought at the Chosin Resevoir ..
Sorry I haven't been as chatty and able to hang with you all lately.. sorta in a funk..