WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2017

feeeline: "I'm interested in anyone's thoughts on this. With our aging bodies... there are times we're working on our health using the tools at our disposal and it's a double edge sword."

Our aging bodies are certainly a focus of our lives, but working on better health is important. As to double-edged sword- I've learned a lot since I started here. The good news is that I have a lot more control over my health & my weight than I had in the past. Time is one thing I consider a frienemy-- I'm aging on the clock/calendar, but since I'm living smarter I'm also getting healthier and more youthful.

Mary & Cheri: You & your sibs are handsome groups. I envy people with siblings. :flowerforyou:

Cheri: Your daughter has an amazing resemblance to you. The twin shirts help that perception.


Tomorrow DH has an eye appointment and we are hoping he will get a prescription for new glasses. He'd like to have had them last week, but there will be something of a wait. I'm not sure how long.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

Hello all: Welcome to all the newcomers! I was on prednisone for about 4 years but have been off for almost a year now except for two small bursts. I found that it caused carb cravings and for me sleeplessness and stomach problems. I was on PPI and ambien for the side effects. I am very glad to be off of it for now but pulmonologist says this is a remission and when the sarcoidosis returns he will put me on methotrexate. Not looking forward to that. In the meantime doing all I can to enjoy life and very slowly losing some weight.

Enjoying all the sibling pictures. Keep them coming.

Everyone take care, Sue in rainy WA

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Loving those family pics!
Sarah

Yikes, got a call about 90 minutes ago. Our door and all windows have come in and Window World wants to install tomorrow. We signed the contract 2/6 and knew we had to have things away form windows and all window treatments down. But you never know when they are going to come so you put it off. So we got 3 blinds down, most of the furniture away from the windows. Luckily they do one window at a time, one window out one window in policy and they are going to start on the patio door so that gives us time to get the others done while they are doing the door. But just doing what we have done shows me the dust/

Very interesting high school in Columbus,Oh.We need more just like it.

http://www.10tv.com/article/local-high-school-has-100-acceptance-rate-colleges-and-universities

Love, love, love the sibling photos!



Karen in Virginia

Karen In Virginia - I knew I recognized you on the Just For Today thread from somewhere. I should've realized it was from here. I only follow 3 discussions. (See how quick I am?! haha!)

Margaret: Beautiful flowers! Are those from Como Park in the Twin Cities? If so, I haven't been there in about a hundred years! That was my favorite place to go as a child. I need to take a weekend trip up there this summer and check it out. So cool to hear about a place that held such wonderfully happy memories for me as a child.

Lanette: Thanks for the kind words about my boss/friend. I saw she posted a picture of herself in her new retirement home on the lake today and she sure looks happy. Takes the sting out of having to say goodbye to her a bit, knowing she looks so great! Love the jokes too by the way. Kids are so genuine and the things that come out of their mouths are so funny!

Rori: Love the wild horse picture. Oh my gosh, I would be in heaven if I lived somewhere I could see that! Just awesome. The horse in your picture looks like my first horse, Lightening. I learned some big lessons from that horse...one of them being when you are a novice rider, you don't buy a horse named Lightening... LOL!

I'm heading to bed early tonight. Was up a lot last night. I tend to obsess about work at night and I wake up feeling like I was jogging all night rather than sleeping. Well, at least what I THINK it must feel like to jog all night. Lord knows I haven't actually jogged in longer than I can remember!

I love all the sibling pictures! It's so cool to see pictures from back in the 60's. I was born in 1960 and life was so different back then. I wish my grandkids could experience life as we did as kids back then. Seemed like life was a whole lot simpler back then...

Hope you all have a wonderful evening and a great day tomorrow! I have my own goal this month to try to log on here every day and read as many posts as I can. Only took me an hour tonight to get caught up! Chatty Cathy's we are on here! Love it.

Hugs to all,
Tracie in chilly Green Bay

Accountability Post
Tuesday's Progress (4/11)
1. Carbs 50-75g (limit 25g/meal)
(B20, L3, D51, MS 15= 89g)
2. Fiber 30g (28g)
✔3. Track/complete entry daily
4. Vegetables - big salad daily
5. Exercise - log 30 Fitbit minutes, 2 miles, 5000 steps. And the elliptical 5 days a week.
6. No eating after 9pm.
7. In bed by midnight.
8. Declutter: Electronics, Craft Supplies, Pantry, ✔Fridge, Cooking and Baking, Dishes and Serving, ✔Linen Closet, Laundry Closet, ✔Medicine Cabinets, ✔Personal Care.
✔9. Digital Detox. Track daily timeouts. (Time-out: 3 hrs)

Almost forgot to post yesterday's accountability. This has not been my best week... Onward.

--Ginger in Texas

Joyce – We had windows put in by Window World. We were very satisfied. We had windows made to go into the places where screens were; none the same size; so they had to measure them and go back and cut them to fit. While putting one in, they cracked it; and, it got replaced within a week.

Our house stays dusty because we live on a ‘dirt road’. I something ‘try’ really hard NOT to look up too often! I dust the fan blades about every 2 weeks. Just noticed that I need to get up and pull down my toppers – heck I don’t know what they are actually called. That 12-14” curtain that is up just to cover the top of the windows.

patcheoh – Sounds like what we call “Charter Schools” around here. The parents are required to be ‘involved’ with the school – coming to PTA meetings, involved in fund-raisers, helping with the things their children do, football, basketball, softball, baseball, cheerleading, soccer, everything; if you don’t put your hours in, your child probably won’t get back in. Doesn’t matter how much money you make or not – not a ‘private school’; but, really rigorous testing to make sure the students are getting the ‘college preparatory education’. I grew up in a small town in the middle of the State of Georgia and although we had only about 500 students 8th grade through 12th; we were considered a ‘college preparatory HS’; but, also very strong in the ‘technical’ preparatory, with FFA/FHA, strong football, basketball, and band. Most parents were pretty involved. Money-wise or other contributions and a lot of ‘support’. We participated in region, district, and state competitions in ‘drama’, ‘choir’, ‘band’, and we had a lot of ‘clubs’, including foreign languages (French and Latin). I did not much care for the counselor who take foreign languages because she made me the one-girl welcoming committee for all the ‘new’ students. UGH! Had to make friends with them and try to get them involved and finding friends who lived near them or rode the same bus. Bus service throughout the entire county, so no reason for someone to NOT attend. Very prepared for going off to college, just about anywhere we wanted to go. We had to have a ‘certain’ number of credits in subject like Math, English, History, Biology and also had to have a certain number of ½ credits by the end of our 5 years. They actually did not start counting until you were in 9th grade unless you were in AP classes. Thankfully, I was ‘in math’ and when I was ‘supposed’ to take TRIG in 11th grade and we had an ‘unemployed-engineer-turned-teacher’ Knee-Jerk; I got up the first day of class and walked out (with a lot of pomp and circumstance). Got his attention and he asked me where I thought I was going … ‘to take typing; something that I KNOW I will always be able to get a job with’. He was a horrible teacher and the smart kids were teaching other smart kids how to work the problems. All he ever did was ‘take roll’, give assignments that if you did not finish them, they were homework; and sit at his desk with his back turned to the class and feet up on the chalkboard eraser tray and read the ‘want ads’. I don’t think he stayed but that one year. He was a 'cute' little pompous @$$. I don't think even the 'other' teachers had much to do with him.

Our DYS’s step-daughter attends a Charter School in Louisiana and won a grant for the school because she came in the top 3% of all students that were given a test in the state. They had 10 students that were in the top 10% in the state.

DJ – I have found that for all the clothes I took to a ‘gently used’ store for resale; never got more than $20; figured I’d be better to give them to Goodwill or to a church and take the $250 donation to charity on my income tax return.

I think I have a ‘dying’ mouse; probably from falling off the arm of my chair. Sometimes I put it up there and it just slides off. It makes me want to throw it across the room. Next time I will buy a mouse with a tail!

Rori – Y’all make for a ‘good looking pair of siblings’. He looks familiar for some reason; what is that ‘logo’ on his shirt? You are a very attractive woman, too.

Tracie in chilly Green Bay – I was born in 1951; in a small town, and I really think my childhood was pretty happy for the most part. Two older sisters; one of them and Carol (Peach1948) were in the same class. So Carol and I are from the same hometown; but, live in opposite directions in the state; probably about the same distance from ‘hometown’ now.

Michele - DDnL#2 bought a cake, I think from Wal-Mart. It was the moistest cake I think I have ever had from a store bakery. I’m sure that it was made just for her. But, I am not much of a cake or sweet eater. DH is a BIG sweet eater. So he gets the big chunk to bring home. Louis will make brownies; but puts our own pecans in them. Just likes the plain old brownies, not too wild about the ones with other things, no caramel and stuff like that. No ‘extra’ chocolate syrup.

In Georgia we no longer have to have our cars inspected and make sure we have a working ‘catalytic converter’; but, if your car is smoking like a smoke stack, the police will pull you over and probably give you some sort of ticket.

ecs1516 – Where in Georgia do you live? General or specific. What do you prefer to be called so we can ‘get to know you better’. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Lenora