WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2017
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Did 1 hr of a bosu DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Cathe Pure Strength DVD.
Joyce - I would like Maria just to know how much I was hurt. I just don't think that that family thinks. At the reception I do intend to tell his mother that Christmas Eve is very special to me. That because of logistics, Pete and Denise can come to see her the week before Christmas and the week after Christmas. But to be honest, they aren't going to come see me twice. So I'm inviting her to my house for Christmas Eve.
Michele in NC
Shouldn't Pete and Denise decide how they spend their first Christmas? [Ducking]
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon2 -
OregonMother wrote: »Did 1 hr of a bosu DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Cathe Pure Strength DVD.
Joyce - I would like Maria just to know how much I was hurt. I just don't think that that family thinks. At the reception I do intend to tell his mother that Christmas Eve is very special to me. That because of logistics, Pete and Denise can come to see her the week before Christmas and the week after Christmas. But to be honest, they aren't going to come see me twice. So I'm inviting her to my house for Christmas Eve.
Michele in NC
Shouldn't Pete and Denise decide how they spend their first Christmas? [Ducking]
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon
Who knows, after all this wedding stuff, they might be planning a quiet Christmas together in Cape Town, South Africa or something.
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DanaReel180 wrote: »Machka Get to a doctor and have an ultrasound on your gallbladder. Do not wait. If you have an emergency surgery, it will be a SURGERY not a day surgery using laparoscopic methods!
I was driving alone from Austin to Amarillo and then on to Denver. I had a coffee to go and I was about 30 minutes outside of Amarillo. I had a awful attack right between my breasts. I thought it was a heart attack or something. I turned around and went back into town and bought some TUMS antacid tablets and drank some water. It passed! Thank God!
I didn't learn my lesson there. A few weeks later when I was back in Austin, my sister and I had some Starbucks coffee. It happened again! It passed, so this time I made an appointment with my Dr and he sent me to a surgeon after the ultrasound. The surgeon advised me to have surgery ASAP or in a matter of weeks I would be in the emergency room! So I scheduled surgery and 3 days later my gallbladder was out! At first it took my body to adjust. You can't eat anything with fat in it. It will go right thru you! But now, I eat everything I used to with no problem. Good luck Machka!
I have an appointment for first thing tomorrow morning.
Timeline (because I'm on the other side of the world, and I'd like to get it down before I go see the Dr)
Monday - busy work/uni day, not eating my usual food, dehydrated + intense and very sweaty spinning class.
Tuesday morning - episode on bus on the way to work.
Tuesday - sore, like I did a huge upper body workout and very tired.
Wednesday - OK, except for jaw, that was still a bit achy like when you've been to the dentist for a root canal and have had your mouth open for an hour an a half ... and very tired.
Thursday - today ... feeling pretty good again.
Friday - tomorrow ... Dr first thing in am.
And thanks.
Machka in Oz4 -
Maschca, thanks for the utube of the taz. I will send it to my daughter. She loves critters, loves the marsupials, she presently has two wild chipmunks. She was the one I had dreams of the Tazmanian devil while I was pregnant.
Good choir practice.myou could tell her very stern lecture last week of people not listening to their rehearsal tapes paid off. The guys new their music better tonight. We have two scold altos, me and one other. She was sick tonight, had to leave early. I hope she isn't sick on Sunday since the song we are singing. Has a lot of the split alto music. When that happens, the choir director sings that part. But choir practice does sound a bit weird when you know you are the only one singing that part. You don't want to sing to loud just in case you make a mistake plus you don't want anyone to think that you want YOUR voice t be heard over the others but you know that you have to sing it strong enough so that the director knows what all parts sound like.
Everyone take care, love you guys.
Joyce, Indiana2 -
Hello all
Lisa - He has some demons he hasn't dealt with. He finally talked about the sexual abuse from an older neighbour the last time we went for counselling. Basically it was it happened, he's dead now.
Lanette - We are both adult children of alcoholics.
Larry's Dad was addicted to prescription pills from quite a young age.
Great NSV to have those jeans fit loose.
Lenora - I am sorry about your toe. I hope it feels better soon. Darn glass.
Machka - thanks for the photos of the Tasmanian devils. The video of the baby was so cute.
I hope I didn't give anyone here the impression that Larry had been physical with me. I told him that I felt he had been verbally and emotionally abusive and that will need to be addressed. Other than that I was not ready to talk with him yet today. I did make supper but it was M&M Fiesta Bake. Made it and left it on the stove.
As for following the $$ I do know where they go. He doesn't have a separate bank account. I pay all the bills. I see his credit card statements. I prepare his stuff to go to our accountant. I'll be okay. My name is on pretty much everything. I went through financial distress with my first husband so I've always made sure of these matters. I know that if I can't figure this out with Larry that my brothers will be there to see me through. And my wonderful children. I better stop because I feel like I could write for ours. Time to get back to my journal.
I was sick all evening and night. I texted my boss that I wasn't coming in and never received an answer. I find that I don't care so much. I slept off and on until about 2 p.m. this afternoon. I think I ate wrong. Okay, I know I ate wrong and it set off my silent reflux. I need to do some menu planning and then shop. It is looking like I better stay away from any tomato other than fresh.
Waterton - Oh, Waterton. I watched as a rancher I know slightly took the reporter to what was left of his ranch.
Nothing. He did get his 100 horses out though. I heard they moved the bison to Saskatchewan somewhere.
So far the buildings on 5 ranches are gone. Some of the houses were over a 100 yrs. old .
The weather has cooled and they were getting some rain. I pray it is enough to save the townsite and the Prince of Wales. I am wondering where the grizzlies went?
Praying for more rain here for us.
Feeling grateful for all of you lovely ladies.
I am thinking of going to the Senior's Centre tomorrow morning for the writing group that meets every Thursday. I will only be able to go every 2nd weekend but it's a start again.
Goals for this Month
-Move more, eat less
-Laugh with a relative or friend
-Journal
-Do something nice for myself each day.
-Start doing things at NordBridge (Senior's Centre)
-Keep shredding old papers
-Get my passport squared away.
Sharon in Lethbridge where it is still smoky3 -
Good start, Sharon!
Beth - Pants would be great! I have taken to wearing silky leggings, socks and small heeled ankle boots under dresses, skirts. Much more comfortable than panty hose. It has changed my life!
Margaret - I rang them and asked them about the cough. They said the jab was fine as long as I didn't have a temperature.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx1 -
Sharon Sorry to hear of Waterton.
Beth Lots of women wear pants to weddings - and you will be so much happier.
Heather 'Morning!
Karen in Virginia awake with the early birds1 -
Beth if you shop at Macy's, they have these wonderful evening wear dress pants, with a sheer overlay, kinda looks like a skirt, with elastic waist--I love em but have to wear them with heels cause I'm so short 5'4". I think the brand is called "Alex Evenings" I wear a beaded tank and cardigan over it--very "mother of the bride" but I use it for concerts-covers up a lot of sins. Next post I'm gonna try to send a link. Yes ladies, wait for it, a link..
NYKAREN5 -
Beth the wedding will be over by the time I learn how to do a link here soooo, you can see them on the Macy's site type in alex evenings wide leg chiffon pants Also the beaded tank and cardigan are there. I have been wearing pants to weddings for a while my legs look pretty banged up. My bff does as well, she really suffers from varicose veins.
Wednesday's are going to be my intensely jam packed school day, but enthusiastic kids-just go go go. Met with my retired friend who will be part time teaching-she used to be a school nurse--anyway, she is just terrific and slipped me an NSV. We went to dinner after a long day, chatting away--we both had Avocado toast(!) and when the waiter came to take our plates hers was polished clean and mine was only half eaten-I didn't even think about it--just stopped eating cause I was full--no will power just full and my body stopped eating, I noticed and she said-"geez Karen" that's why you're so thin now!! Conversation and enjoying my friend, food was not the entertainment!!
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NYKAREN - Here's the link you were trying to create: Alex Evenings.
Quick and dirty lesson on how to create a link on a computer, skip if you're not interested:
1) In this thread, type in the response box the words you want to use to link (like I just did with "Alex Evenings."
2) Open another tab on a browser and go to the web page you want to link.
3) There is what's called a URL address at the top of the browser that says suchandsuch.thisandso.com/whatever. Select that entire address with your cursor (you can click in the box and hold down the CTRL and press the A at the same time, and it will select it for you, or just double click inside the address box) and once it's all selected, press the CTRL C to copy.
4) Go back to the tab with our thread.
5) Use your cursor to highlight the words you typed in at number 1.
6) There is a little icon at the top of our entry box that looks like a chain link. Click on it, and in the little box that pops up, press CTRL and the letter V at the same time. It will load that link in there for you. Click "OK" and it will close.
Now - here's the key - it will throw the most ungodly text in the thread response box that you ever saw, and at the end of it will be the characters [ / u r l ] (I had to put spaces in between the letters to keep it from thinking it was code). Make sure anything else you type is to the right of that last bracket ] in order to keep your link intact. None of that gobbledy-gook of characters will actually show when you're done, it will just light up the words you selected in blue. You can press the Preview button at the bottom of the screen to check. Clear as mud?
Lisa in West Texas
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Suebdew - My cough does feel like whooping cough, but without the whoops! All my son's family have had the same cough, ( I caught it from Edie), and all have had their whooping cough jabs, so it must be a different bug. I am coughing less today. The nap on the sofa yesterday seemed to be a turning point. I'm still having the odd fit, but it's less severe. Here's hoping! It's only lasted two and a half weeks so far!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx1 -
Since I'm in training mode, anyway:
How to quote with that little gray box - skip over this if you know, or if you just don't care.
1. When you're looking at the post you want to quote, there is, at the bottom of the box, an upside down apostrophe and the word "Quote" in blue. Click on the word "Quote."
2. It will snap you down to the thread reply box, with that entire post copied right into your reply. If you don't need all of it, you can actually delete everything you don't want to reply to... however!
3. To do that, while you're still in the reply box, you will see at the beginning of their post that it copied in a word in brackets [ quote] (Again, when I type it in, I'll add odd spaces, as these codes are commands to the system to do certain things.). At the end of the post is the same word, but with a slash in front of it, [ / quote]. You can delete anything you want to between those two bracketed commands, and it will still put that little gray box around it.
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5. If you accidentally delete even one letter of those two commands, it won't put a box around it.Like this
6. Note: If you type your answer to the person you're quoting between those two commands, it will also put your answer in the box. If instead, you start typing to the right of that last command, [ / quote] put a space after that last bracket ] and it will put your answer below the gray box.
If you've ever wondered why you ended up bolding everything, or italicizing everything when you meant to only do that on a little bit of your text, if you look at your reply box, you'll see the beginning and ending codes for italics [ i] and [ /i] are where your italics begin and end. Everything you type in between the two will be italicized. The same for bold, only it's [ b] and [ /b].Just so you know, what you're learning while doing this is HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language. This is for the curious only - Here's what the code means:
1. The opening bracket [, tells the computer that you're about to give it a command.
2. The word "quote" tells it what you want it to do.
3. The close bracket after "quote" ], says OK, now everything after this is a quote and should be in a gray box.
4. Whatever text comes after that stays in the gray box until it sees the next opening bracket [ which tells the computer you're about to give it another command.
5. The slash / says stop doing what you're doing, and the word "quote" after it tells it what you want it to stop doing. The close bracket ] then tells the computer that those two commands are now complete.
Hope that helps someone out...
Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas
P.S. Oh! and if you have forgotten something or want to change something in your post (like me adding this PS) there is a little gear wheel icon that will appear at the top right hand side of the box if you hover your mouse over that corner. You have exactly one hour to edit a post by clicking on that gear and selecting Edit, and then it's sealed in stone. You MUST also click on the "Save Post" button at bottom right after you're done with your edit.
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Whoopsie, OK, out of training mode...
Sharon - my ex was abused as a pre-teen as well, but I didn't find out until I got a call from my toxic mother-in-law while I was driving over the Red River into Texas, 'cause I had just left him for good. He supposedly repressed the memories, and she reminded him of it when he called her to tell her I left him. He still couldn't tell me, and had her call me. Funny, all that anger I had has now faded... just a ghost of a feeling, no more. That abuser's actions reached out over 40 years later to wreck my marriage--and my ex never got any therapy for it at the time, or as far as I know, since. That Larry has gotten any form of therapy is a really good sign, at least to me. Makes you wonder who they would have been had they not been hurt as youngsters.
Dana - Hi back!
Machka - hope whatever it is, you get a good answer from the doc. You're too busy to be sick!
Heather - glad the cough is lightening. They're so exhausting. The only thing that ever stopped a bad cough for me was cough syrup with codeine before bed, so I could sleep without waking up coughing. Luckily it doesn't happen too often.
Michele in NC - whatever it takes so you can make your peace with it, kiddo. Then just put it all in a bubble and blow it away. When's the actual wedding?
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On a lighter note (bad pun, sorry), it appears the Contrave is actually working, as I move into my second week on it. I have logged every bite and crumb, and stayed under my calorie count since Monday, and lost 7 pounds so far this week. (I'm aware that it's largely water weight, and won't keep losing at this rate). It's just amazing to not have an appetite--but it did really take until I ramped up to the higher dose to shut my appetite down.
The regimen is one pill in the morning the first week, one at morning and night the second week, which I'm in now. Supposed to start Saturday at three pills a day, and then four the following week. Even with the manufacturer's discount, it's $99 for 120 of them, as my insurance won't support them, so I'm glad the blinking thing is working.
Apparently it was the Chantix interaction that made me so ill the first time I tried it. While I do get a mild headache with it, Tylenol takes care of it, and I'm careful to pad it before and after with a bit of food, which has kept the nausea at bay. Every day, I feel the ill effects less, and the appetite suppressed a little more. I actually forgot to eat lunch yesterday, which is like, miraculous. Especially since I work at home, and the refrigerator is only a few steps away.
Note for anyone who's thinking about it--it is a weird feeling, as even with the Tylenol, there's like the threat of a headache hovering behind my eyes, and the same feeling of the threat of nausea kind of hovering, waiting. Almost as if I don't walk the straight and narrow, they'll both come back. It's odd, and very possible it's all in my head, since I had such a bad experience with it the first time I tried it.
Tons of work today, which is also a blessing. Traveling to El Paso and then Las Cruces next week.
Welcome to those who are new! These people have been an incredible blessing for me for nearly three years now, and I don't know what I'd do without 'em!
Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas
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I am very worried that something has happened to our friend, Gloria (Gloworm).2
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Suebdew - My cough does feel like whooping cough, but without the whoops! All my son's family have had the same cough, ( I caught it from Edie), and all have had their whooping cough jabs, so it must be a different bug. I am coughing less today. The nap on the sofa yesterday seemed to be a turning point. I'm still having the odd fit, but it's less severe. Here's hoping! It's only lasted two and a half weeks so far!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
One of my coworkers got croup about 3 years ago. He's in his 50s and had a bit of a laugh (between coughing) that he somehow managed to catch a young childhood malady.
Go to the Dr!
I really wish I had gone earlier with my recent sinus infection ... I could have had about 5 days of my life back.0 -
Morning Ladies
Sitting outside with Buddy and slept until almost 7 this morning.i was awake for about an HR at midnight.
This weekend going to take apart my bed and sleep on the mattress and box spring.get rid of my bureau at the dump,it is falling apart.then seriously go through the rest of my stuff down in the spare room to see what I really need and want and donate the rest..
We are getting the remnants of Irma with a bit of rain today..
Going home and walking the dogs and get there food ready for tonight,and get more clothes for tomorrow.Sean will be going into prison tomorrow am for 10 days and they will keep him in the infermary for 5 days because he is on meds.
Today is my day out with Doris..we always have a wonderful time.I just love her so.4 -
Happy day to you all.
MACHKA Thanks for the video-I have felt so pressured by things that I don't stop for little things and take joy. But I did and babies are just cute.
BARBIECAT That little white pup is precious.
JOYCE Oh, no--a fuss at church! We had something similar last week and I did not know what to make of it. I haven't been a member long. It has sort of been on my mind but I thought it came out well. The bishop wasn't there but he left a message. (I don't know where he was but he is military and I suppose he was at one of the disaster sites as his unit goes when/where needed.) He wrote and the fill-in person read to us--We were not respectful, did not listen/pay attention during services, did not take the messages seriously. I did not disagree to be honest. In any case, his solution was not to have designated speakers but to have a music service where we sang favorite hymns. It was lovely but will it bring us back to better? I know I will try harder not to be late and won't sit on the far side of the church again-more crying babies and can't hear that well. This church is not like what I recalled from years ago-no hand fans! We have air conditioning. Maybe someone here is of an age to recall those funeral home handfans! Folks bring their kids in (good) but then the kids eat and scream or play about and they don't slip out until the baby calms. My kid grabs a hand of bread rather than one piece and I can't get to the basket first to hand him his 1 piece-why don't the 'passers' realize that only adults should take the basket as other kids likely do this too? Everyone has a smart phone and they logon to the hymns and various passages via those. I guess they are all onsite but then who knows. I am not a smart phone user-not smart enough! Anyhow, your post made me think of last Sunday. Mine not to reason why, I just try to sit and listen but I don't get up to speak. Will work on keeping son from bread basket.
Sorry to read of those feeling ill. Something is definitely going around here but then with back to school, it happens. I left my son with baby sitter last week when I worked. He was alone outside and playing when I got there (6:30 pm) as once before and had wet himself. I rarely let him out alone-bug bites fester on him and just well the potential for trouble as he seems to seek it out. This bothers me. The next day she posts on Facebook how sick her child is and so forth. Argh. Well, complaining won't fix that.
Okay, what is this KETO you talk about? I understand low carbohydrates and polyunsaturated fats as well as portion control. I know deficit and the difference between cardio and strength but KETO is a mystery.
Off to drag son out of bed and start his lessons. Please let this day be better than yesterday.
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Facebook messages make me think that Gloria has passed away. I am waiting for someone to answer my message there.0
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Carol What? Oh I hope you are mistaken. I am not on FB w/Gloria.
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Carol - Oh no! I hope you can get some info. So sorry if it's true.
Heather UK xxxxxxx0
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