WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017

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Thank you all for sharing your trials and successes with losing weight!

@janetr7476 I am a donut scarfer.. the less time it takes to eat .. the less damage it does. Not.

@cityjaneLondon It difficult and irritating trying to figure this all out. Your insights have struck a cord with me. I am upping my cals, logging every bite and exercise. CICO has worked for me in the past, Bravo to you!

Michele – No I haven’t seen the play “Southern Fried Funeral”; we don’t have any ‘cultural’ amenities anywhere in this area. Albany is the largest city; with Americus, and Columbus being the other two. Tallahassee, FL is about 90 miles for us to get to the State Line, and a good 20 more to get to Tallahassee. Sounds like it would be ‘funny’. Maybe I will Google it.

I feel like Windows World is giving me the shaft and ignoring my requests to come fix the windows they put up with ‘raw’ wood. Louis was supposed to get the materials from them so he could stain and paint all 4 sides. Did that happen? NO! He stained the outside; and it looked good; then a couple of months ago, he started on the inside and realized that the ‘raw’ wood right up next to the window was showing as ‘raw’ wood. The same pieces on the inside had started warping (mainly because we did not have any way to block off the ‘screen door’ and it would get ‘hot’ out there, so earlier this month, end of last month I called and one of the installers was going to be working in the area and he said he would come by and take pictures of them and send them to Jamey. He called on Thursday and said he did not make it because the weather had pushed him back a day and he would not be back up until the next week, so we planned on him coming on Wednesday to take pictures. Never showed up, never called. So I called them the following Monday. Told me that he had called me (but, he never left a message) and every call that comes into this house is saved by the phone, so he did not tell me the truth. He finally came and looked at what I was unhappy about and agreed that they should have been stained and painted before being put into place. Never heard from him again, pissed me off sufficiently enough to call the ‘owner’ on his cell phone who ‘promised’ he would come out the following week. He was leaving that next day and would not be back in town until the following week. By Wednesday, I called again and he said he would be up here and look at it. I explained how Louis was upset by it (as a painter). He never like paintinig ‘new’ houses because he’d have to go back to do touch-up after the carpenters put in all the trim, fill in the holes and paint (or repaint). Then he called me back and said they would bring up the pieces so that Louis could paint and stain them, then I could call back and they would schedule it to be changed out. Number one we paid roughly $2000 for these windows and the installation looked like a 9-year-old with a hand saw had put them up. There is ‘better’ trim they could have used other than what appears like ‘tomato stakes’. I’ve called them again, secretary came back on and told me she could not get anyone on the installer’s line. She then said that normally the household stains and paints them before they are installed. Well, that would have meant they should have brought them up earlier and given us a couple of days before they installed them, which they didn’t. Called the secretary and told her that Jamey had ‘promised’ they’d bring up enough of the pieces so that Louis could paint then or stain them on all 4 sides. We haven’t seen them, we haven’t been called to tell us when they will be here. She told me that she would be seeing Jamey later today and would give him the message. They will rue the day they decided NOT to make this customer ‘happy’. Louis stained the outside so it would be protected. Not until he started painting the inside did he realize the raw wood on the inside of the window showed, from inside and outside. He has gotten Madison’s boyfriend’s Dad to come over and measure the door to be a 9-pane door (like the other one on the house. Actually we have 3 doors and all are different. I don’t know what time he was supposed to get it; but, it is 2:30pm at the moment. I’ll give him until 4:00 before I call back. I am getting sooooo pissed about this. IF he tells me that they aren’t going to do anything about it, I will be calling EVERY “Better Business Bureau” from here to Tifton and around both areas and filing a complaint. Otherwise I love the windows. They are doing what they are intended on doing. I guess. Until we get it totally closed in and figure out how we are going to heat and cool the area, might not know if they are the reflective glass which they are supposed to be (double-paned, with the reflective glass on the outside to bounce off the heat from the sun. Joyce, didn’t you say you had Window World put in your new windows? I know you put in ‘regular’ windows and not just glass panes. Did you have any problem with appointments not being kept? I know from the area code on the cellphone number I have that he is probably coming out of Macon as the largest and nearest town with that particular area code.

VENT, VENT, VENT!!!!!

Taylor had her custody changed to her Daddy and signed the paperwork on her 14th birthday. She is now 21 and has little to nothing to do with her mother (egg donor, incubator, whatever); both her sisters on that side of the family live with their respective Daddies. She’s done NOTHING they Judge ordered her to do when DFACS took the youngest one away from her because of the living conditions … Taylor later admitted that she turned her mother in. Now, supposedly, she is living less than 5 miles away from us and has not made any contact with Taylor, which is fine … but, she is surprised that she hasn’t called. Taylor certainly won’t call her. Joe, the youngest girl’s Daddy will NOT allow her to come down here, understandable. Neither of the other girls have gotten to the point that Taylor is; but, they are younger and more impressionable. I would think by this time (3 years, that DFACS has probably terminated her parental rights anyway).

I don’t eat back my exercise calories; but, know they are there when I do go over, so it doesn’t upset me (as much).

Lenora

Back home, just waiting for the bus

Hello ladies: It was supposed to rain today but the sun is shining, yeah! Horses are out in the pasture and our neighbor came over with his equipment and cleared the bank out by the road for us. He did however get his tractor stuck in the mud. There is a ditch right next to the road and then the land goes steeply up for about 8-10 feet. The equipment we have is too light to work well there and the brush gets so high it is hard to see oncoming traffic when going out the driveway. Now it is cut down.

Katla - My green beans just started coming up and last night something ate off the tops. Slugs I think. Got to get my epsom salts out again. Glad you had a good trail ride.

TNToni - Sending good thoughts your way. That situation has to be very hard to deal with.

Sharon - I have not done a float yet but my DD has and she loves it. There is a new place here and we are planning to try it sometime soon.

Pip - Glad you are home safe. Lovely family pictures. Has Yogi met his fiance?

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

Cheri in swampy TX, smiles and hugs ya! Hey the only way we shall get s handle on this journey is to band together! There is a phrase that helps me.

Once I figure out what's eating me, I won't eat so much!

Its kind of a callous statement, but emotions are woven into our lives so tightly, that when I start making bad choices in food, 99% of the time its when I am preoccupied with an issue.
Becca

Hey Ladies!

I've missed you! I've been sick, DH was sick, DS had heart surgery, and DFIL passed away! This has been quite a year. I managed to pick-up 6 pounds but rededicated myself to myself on yesterday. So I'm hoping to be active back in the group starting right now!

Tere in RVA

Hello Tere! Sorry you have had so much trouble. Hope better things are coming your way!