WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2018

Dr's App. this AM so I can get all my meds refilled. Dread going because she always comments about my weight and wine consumption. It is 17* here so glad I have my ugly down coat to wear.

Heather ~ Hugs!

Spiders ~ Don't like them.

Alison ~ I don't think it's right for your landlord to not be in compliance with the fire marshal's orders about the stairs. It's not right that he says he won't fix things that are broken. We are constantly having to spend money on repairs to our rental property.

Love to all who are hurting!

Carol in GA

Hugs to you too, Allie. Stay strong!

Pholcus phalangioides (spiders - Daddy Long Legs). Well, when you said that, I am not nearly as scared of them as I am the brown, jumpy spiders that have two beige lines on it body (brown) ... that is in the family of 'brown recluse spiders) but not the ones who are dangerous. I knocked one off my arm after it had bitten me and had to take it with me to the MD who said it wasn't the 'bad' recluse ... just in the family). The bite hurt like a Sum-O-Beach. Left a pretty bad bite area. Red and swollen and hot. But, we'd have a colony of them on the roof of our dog pen in Albany ... I'd freak out when I saw them. 100s of them in a pack, so that they made an area about the size of both fists put together. I'd just stay away from that side of the pen as best as I could. I've heard they were poisonous; but about the only area they would ever be able to reach would be that area between where your fingers area attached to her hand to be able to bite you.

No, Allie, I don't think bad of you for adopting a dog and going to work. Lots of people 'crate' their dogs while working. But, being able to come check on his during the day is good. Oh, I get it now, Tom wants you to pay for things that need to get down around the previous marital home so he can sell it. Even then, you should not be 'expected' to pay the total amount. It should be in a % based on what he makes compared to what you make. Don't expect him to reimburse you 'if' you pay it. Don't put yourself in a 'financial' bind. He makes more than you and can better afford to pay his share to get things done. You don't live there any more. Try to think about 'if' you had passed away ... he would be expected to pay the full 100%o of the repairs. One reason I have wanted to tell DOS that 'he needs to find a job - before something happens that makes his Dad unable to work'. It is a good job and being self-employed has its perks as well as its down-side.

Today, my list means I will try to finish up with the purging of the 2nd bedroom. I'll hit the desk today. I will wait until next week, when Louis is gone, to vacuum it. Yesterday, I cleaned the light fixture and cleaned the grout, as best I could, and that finished up the bath completely. Talked to oldest sister who got me started. She is planning on coming down as soon as she can. I might leave the utility room, computer area, and kitchen until she is here. But, I will start on the utility room just to get some of it 'out of the way'.

Listening to a set of 5 discs so that I will be prepared for a long, extensive couseling session that she said she would like for me to go through ... really helped her (and Tommy) because she had gone through it before Tommy had his stroke and both of them after he had his stroke. Tommy is truly a 'walking miracle'. After 3 major surgeries the only residual damage is some weakness in this arm. He always was alert when they brought him back to the room, recognizing Suzanne and the girls. Even answering questions when they were whispering. All this and he wears 2 hearing aides ... and still has to sometime ask, 'what did you say'?

It is still cold ... Louis came in yesterday and looked like he was 'frozen'. I was cold last evening and he was going to build a fire. The room temperature was 69 degrees and I was pretty miserable. But, it did warm up once he built the fire.

I'm feeling so much better after 2 weeks of recuperating. I am looking forward to a week on my own. Don't get me wrong, I have really enjoyed being home and having Louis do just about everything for me. Jenn liked the 2 candle holders I gave her that were my Mothers. I know she enjoys having things that belong to people that she is kin to. I was going to put a picture and bowl I had made in ceramics in a garage sale and she told me, 'no I want that, you made it'.

I need to call a friend that I think collects on of the patterns of glassware that I think I got some from my Mother to see if she is interested in maybe buying them. I'd probably give them to her; but, I would like to get a little money for them. I might even ask sister if she'd take them back home and send them to the auction place. We don't have anything like that in Podunk. I plan to do the same with a dozen very heave beer mugs that hang under my kitchen cabinets. I'd like to go to a hotel supply company and find some that are much heavier. I want to get a dozen so I can hang them there and so they would be easy to get to.

Today, I have to get the sheets folded and put away in the locker. I know I only need to keep 2 sets of sheets for the beds ... one on, one off. I gave Trey a mattress pad that took up one side of it, and when I put it in it I think it was straining to close. I hate having to figure out how to fold the fitted sheets. Wish I had a place that I could lay them out flat, that has been the only way I have been able to get them flat and folded. Just not enough floor space anywhere in the house. Not anywhere, even trying to do it on the bed hasn't been very successful. I know sister would take them away and put them in the 'Goodwill' box. I know she would be right. But, I keep thinking about throwing out my face regiment. LOL! I should just 'let it go' ... I thought it took too long to do it anyway.

First thing I am going to do today is take a nice, long, hot shower, even if I have to take another after my cleaning up routine.

Diningroom cabinet ... oh, how hard that will be to 'let go' of some of the things in it. I need to go through that while I have 'time to think about it'. I need to try to get everything in it, rather than sitting on top of a couple of pieces of furniture. I will leave my whiskey decanters out. I just need to rearrange the china, putting the heavy pieces on the bottom shelf. I am surprised that the shelf they are on has been able to hold up.

I finally finished the coloring piece of paper that Lynn brought me while I was in the hospital. Found the aqua pencil. It was right on the kitchen counter where I had laid it down after sharpening it. Almost in plain view. I swear, there is a Gremling that takes things when I am looking for them, hides them, and then puts them back after I have just given up on trying to find them. Yesterday, I found a set of dog nail clippers, and I don't even think they were the pair that we actually found. Both have pink handles; but, the one we found looked smaller.

There is so much to dust in the den area and diningroom area and I will have to get my ladder to do it. Even then, some will be too far away to reach because on furniture in front of the wall where they hang. Louis can do that when he gets home from Louisiana next weekend.

Well, got to go take my shower.

Lenora

Machka I couldn't help myself. I had to google Australian Spiders:




Karen in Virginia

exermom wrote: »

M - Wendy has another good idea of things you can take to eat to school with you, hard boiled eggs!

Good idea, and I do like hard boiled eggs, but unfortunately they don't like me. I can eat the occasional one, but two in a week would give me a bad night of gall bladder pain.


I saw PB & J suggested too ... I haven't eaten peanut butter in about 25 years. Back then, I discovered that peanuts and peas did not sit well with me at all. And then just a few years ago, tree nuts joined the list.

There is a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard which my husband uses, and sometime I wish I could too. But I know I'd be in agony. About 3 years ago, he was eating peanuts and they smelled so good that I had some. Big mistake!

I can handle a very small amount like maybe 6 or 8 peanuts (like what you might find in a granola bar), but even that is just borderline OK.

And milk is another bad one for me. I can do hard cheeses, but not soft unless it is something like paneer or cottage cheese. I can do yogurt and hard ice cream, but butter and soft ice cream are questionable. And milk itself ... I can do a bowl of cereal with a little bit of milk 2 or 3 days in a row, but that's it. I cannot eat chocolate pudding - the kind you make with the pudding mix and lots of milk, and I can't drink a glass of milk.


It would make life so much simpler in many ways if I could eat those things, and I try now and then ... but nope.


Machka in Oz

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