WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2018
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I have a question - what do you consider comfort food? Two questions I guess. For me comfort food is the meal I want when I’m feeling ill. Foods that bring my taste buds back to childhood and my mom’s cooking. To DH comfort food is what he considers the foods he reaches for when he is stressed or otherwise emotionally eating.
My I’m sick comfort food is beef (roast best, steak whatever) peas and jello. My emotional eating food is crunchy snacks - potato chips, pretzels, crackers etc.
What foods comfort you? (Illness recovery or emotionally)0 -
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Rye! ... you look amazing! When sick I go for the things my mom made ... broth based soups, toast, eggs. Stress eating has me reaching for junk food like chips or chocolate or peanut butter by the spoonful!5
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To me, comfort foods are things like gumbo, spicy 15-bean soup, chili and rice, stuff you would eat during the winter. Makes me warm on the inside while sitting in front of the fireplace with a roaring fire burning.
Foods that I eat 'emotionally' eating are things like chips, popcorn, cheese, crunching and spicy, I guess, more than anything.
Pip - I would have never guessed you had a cat along with the crew of doggies. What is his/her name? Our cat, Mr. Tux, will come to the door and look inside and act very 'put out' when Cracker gets to come in and he doesn't. He will 'occasionally' sneak inside if we leave the door open; but, always runs to hide under Will's bed. To get him outside, all I have to do is close the door. I can see him under the bed, even though he flattens his ears back when I look for him. Then he will come out and make a walk around the entire perimeter of each room and then goes outside on his own.
Burning the last of the wood that Louis had set aside for me. He'll be home tomorrow and then I won't have to worry about getting the wood to the house.
Hope all y'all are having a good weekend. Continue doing so ...
Lenora6 -
I forgot to mention last night that our power was out again that morning. Out for 4 hours. Came back on and off several times until it blew out our modem.
Happy Anniversary Barbie and Jake. Glad he is home safe from his medical procedure.
Feeling kind of sickly tonight. Stood out in the cold for the burial service and got chilled. Think I will go to bed.
Suebdew in TX
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Rye - Wow what a hottie. Only in my dreams
. You should be very proud of yourself.
Janetr OKC2 -
Made the banana chocolate chip muffins, have the chocolate pie in the refrigerator -- still have to put the pudding top on, now I'm making the HG donuts for Vince. Not sure if he'll be able to taste the pumpkin in them or not. You certainly don't think I'm going to tell him its in there, do you. Update: So far, so good, he hasn't said a word and I sure haven't even asked about it.
Allie - I guess now Tom can ask himself "was that affair worth it?" You know the saying "you play, you pay"
Heather - lovely pic of your son and his gf. Stunning cushions and tea bowls
Kate - how are you going to take the tumeric? Mix it in something. What?
drkatiebug - I wish you could come here, you and Vince would certainly have a run-off about organization! He can be so OCD about things being just so, I just let it roll off my shoulders a lot of times. He needs to have things done in a certain order. To me-- what's the big deal (about some things). I'd love for you to get together with him.
My comfort food when I'm stressed is carbs in like cookies or cake. Then I feel bad and wish I'd had a piece of fruit. Or else junk food
Michele in NC
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I have a question - what do you consider comfort food? Two questions I guess. For me comfort food is the meal I want when I’m feeling ill. Foods that bring my taste buds back to childhood and my mom’s cooking. To DH comfort food is what he considers the foods he reaches for when he is stressed or otherwise emotionally eating.
My I’m sick comfort food is beef (roast best, steak whatever) peas and jello. My emotional eating food is crunchy snacks - potato chips, pretzels, crackers etc.
What foods comfort you? (Illness recovery or emotionally)
My emotional comfort food is Mexican food ... or more recently, Indian has been added to that.
And for me, "comfort food" is what I eat after successfully completing a difficult semester at uni, or a particularly long, hard bicycle ride, or as celebration for getting a new job or something.
My sick comfort food is chicken noodle soup.
When I'm really stressed, I don't want to eat. In fact, it can get a little worrying at times ... there have been a few times when I've been stressed that I've suddenly plunged into the underweight category of the BMI scale because I've just stopped eating.
Machka in Oz1 -
Today I ran the Cadbury 10K!!
It's quite the event ... the marathon runners are set off at 6 am, and the half-marathon follow them at 6:30 am. There's a little break to allow some of those runners to come in, then the 5K runners were set off at 8:45 and me and my fellow 10K runners at 9:45.
I got there (taxi + shuttle bus) at about 8:20, just in time for the first marathon runner to come across the finish line at 8:24.
And moments later, I came across my work partner! He and I have known each other for 4.5 years, but have only become work partners in the last few months so although I knew that he and his wife ran, I didn't realise how involved they were. She ran the 10K too (much faster than me), and he was there doing photography for the club they are members of and also the Cadbury organisers. So it was nice to have someone there I knew. Another coworker was running the half, but I think she was finished by the time I got there ... she had a fast run.
Then the 10Ks were off! It was a good run. I kept to my slow pace and felt really comfortable. Except for one thing which I'll mention in a minute. I even had enough at the end to give an extra push for the last couple hundred metres.
There were a number of people around who were friendly, and we kept leap-frogging each other. And one other participant in the 10K was a lady who is hoping for an Olympic spot ... I was barely past the 1K point, when she was coming the other way, heading for the finish line!! Does she ever look fit and muscular!
As for the one thing I struggled with ... and I struggle with this on all my runs over 8 km (all 3 of them) ... my left foot goes numb. Like totally asleep as if I'm sitting on my leg. Really weird. I wear my shoes slightly loose, and even stopped at one point to loosen my shoe even more, but I had a numb left foot most of the way.
Despite that, I finished in 1:16:45 ... toward the back of the pack, but not dead last.
I was handed my bag with my medal, a bottle of water, and chocolate ... it is the Cadbury Run after all at the finish line, and then my work partner took me over to the booth his club had set up because they had chocolate cake!!
Machka in Oz8 -
Rye You look fantastic!
About eliminating stuff, getting rid of stuff, decluttering, I have a problem with that myself. I have had some success but I have a LOT more to go.
I have a few inspirations -
A) A cousin's wife who would stand at the door as the Amvets truck drove off with her stuff, clapping her hands in glee.
B My friend Jeanette, who, when confronted with an array of doilies, embroidered items, lovely linens, etc., looked at them for a few minutes, picked out the 2 or 3 items she loved the most, and let the rest go.
C) My mother, who said "I've already enjoyed that furniture. I don't need it anymore" when downsizing and selling her beautiful dining room furniture.
D) And my friend Bonnie, who lived to the ripe old age of 97. Every time she downsized, she said, "Keep the best of the best and let the rest go".
I keep all this in my mind and it does help me be more ruthless when getting rid of stuff. It especially helps when I have similar things together (like linens or towels or shoes) and I can pick the ones I like the best & let the rest go.
Karen in Virginia3 -
Rye, you look wonderful. You are an inspiration and I hope I can look that good one day.
Heather, I want those bowls. I love both the color and pattern.
Comfort food like when I’m sick is Lipton noodle soup with saltines with butter. For emotional eating I go for Cheetos with ranch dip (but only if DH isn’t around as he hates to see me eating that junk. I could eat a whole bag in a day.
DD decided to go to a hotel for a night. Her dad gave her money for Christmas and she just wanted to get away by herself for a night. Work has been super stressful for her and I think her boyfriend is breaking up with her again. He won’t talk to her and said he would talk with her next week. This is like the fourth time they have broken up but they just keep getting back together again. He is older than her and went through a bad divorce. He is still in love with his ex. No chance of them getting back together as she is now with a woman. So he won’t commit to my daughter. I told her he needs to get some help. I just wish she would just move on with her life and find someone who would appreciate her. But all I can do is let her figure it out and be there when it falls apart.
Well time for the nightly reading. It’s dropped to 6 tonight which is a big drop from 60 yesterday so we have had the wood stove going all day. It’s nice and toasty and I’m ready to snuggle in bed with my book.
Terry in VT4 -
Stats for today:
*16,000 steps
*185 minutes walking Sasha and Bessie
*155 minutes riding the exercise bike
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I can't remember who asked, but yes, the outdoor spigot froze & ruptured - we do have one that is vulnerable, & always shut that one off for the winter, but not this one. So yes, I was in the crawl space at 3 a.m. shutting off the valve to the spigot. LOL! Oh the joys of home ownership!
Karen in Virginia5 -
Machka, well done on your run! Sounds like it was a lot of fun even though your foot went numb.
Rye, you are a hot chicky. Glad to finally have a picture in my mind now when I read your posts.
Beth, my laundry room and linen closet both need major reorganizing. Why don't you fly over here to NZ and help me out?
Well, it's been crazy here and still is as I have got my daughter and her husband and two kids staying with us as they have moved all their furniture out of their house and are cleaning it before moving three hours away, so there is noise and mess galore. Grandson is cranky with an ear ache. I went to take a little break and have a lie down this afternoon and pulled back the sheets to find a whitetail spider sharing our bed! My husband had shown me bite marks on his torso earlier today and asked me what I thought they were and I said they looked like spider bites to me! I also was woken up several times last night with the feeling that something was crawling on me.
I am quite phobic about spiders and at least twice a year I have nightmares about black spiders falling off the ceiling into my sheets. I wake up screaming and rip all the bedding off before my husband can calm me down. Hope I don't have my nightmares after finding a spider in my bed. He is dead now. Mostly I try to catch spiders and take them outside but one that is hiding in my sheets must die immediately.
Took queens out today and hubby made four new hives with my little girls...I've got 8 more making for next week. The hives are starting to get into the queen making mood. I will take the 8 out on Wednesday and put more cells in.
Took the dogs for a walk in a forest on the other side of town where I rarely go and went on a trail that I used to walk on a few years ago. Discovered it was blocked by fallen trees and no longer in use...but before I turned around I rescued a little bird that had gotten its wing tangled in a sticky vine. It was fluttering desperately and couldn't free itself. Had been there for awhile I could tell. I set it free and thought that God must have directed me to that trail today just for that reason...I had No Intention of driving there today, but somehow that's where I ended up!
Wendy 8 -
NYKaren, wish my home was large enough to have an exercise bike so that I could use it while watching tv. That would be perfect.
That was one of the things we were looking for when we were looking for a place to live about 3.5 years ago. We had a little list of features we wanted: 3 bedrooms so that one could be an office, an area for us to set up our trainers and weights, a large area for our bicycles and sports equipment. It took a little bit of looking because houses in Australia don't normally have basements ... but fortunately houses in Tasmania sometimes do have something sort of like a basement.
My husband spend a couple months fixing up the area so that I can go down and ride my trainer while watching TV ... which is just what I'm planning to do in a little bit. I need to spin a bit and stretch things out.
Machka in Oz2 -
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Machka - I am drooling just thinking of your apple cherry crumble.
Kate UK - Your friend is so lucky to have you. Yes, we all need to be proactive for our physical, emotional and intellectual health. Here's to being the best we can.
Allie- I wish I could wave a wand and rid you of your financial fears. Tom needs to pay you.
Michele - It wasn't an extra shift. I'm just not doing well with the 6a.m. start. There are 6 of us in the management team. They are all younger than me. One day I won't be doing this.
Rita - Families can be difficult. Glad you are taking care of YOU!
Rye - Looking Good!
Comfort food - If I'm sick it is always home made chicken noodle soup, saltines with butter and tea with milk and sugar.
Emotional? Diving straight into a vat of chocolate every time and maybe a glass of wine.
Slept in until 9 a.m. and started my day slowly. First stretches then coffee and duolingo Spanish.
Did a few household chores and then went out with Jheri. Waited in car while she did a consultation with her new commission client. She says it is going to be very difficult as the woman has a very neutral decor and really doesn't want much colour. Jheri is all about colour but says this will be good to get her out of her comfort zone and stretch her as an artist.
We went to a scrapbooking place then on to Michael's ( the reason I was along). We put the 55% coupons to use and got her 2 sets of alcohol ink. I'm sure she was creating after she dropped me off.
We were invited to my sister's for supper. We always know what we are getting. Les cooks roast, potatoes and peas. In my honour they added carrots tonight. Lol. We had a discussion about exercise, walking, etc. My sister seemed more interested than she has ever been.
Harmony has had a fever and they finally took her to a clinic. Just as Grandma suspected it was an ear infection. Hoping the antibiotic works magic and she is good for her birthday party. Waiting on updates.
Larry invited me to go look at this old car he might by for parts. He wants company and is bribing me with the possibility of a visit with my best friend from childhood who lives in Pincher Creek. I would love it as long as we are home in time for the party. Jo and I always pick up as if we just saw each other yesterday. She and her parents were very important to me. Once they discovered I had to have great French marks for University we never spoke English in their house again. Her Mom helped a 17 year old me plan my parent's 25th anniversary. Joe and Flo were such wonderful people. They also introduced me to wine with dinner. Aaaah......memories.
-Sharon in Lethbridge where it was a wonderful day.6 -
MICHELLE will probably take turmeric as a capsule need to do a bit of research
RYE you look great
I need to get back to sorting photos, I decided that if they are on phone tablet or computer they are not seen and also even though backed up to external hard drive, they can easily be lost. I tend to print out a selection from holidays, parties etc and put them in albums. I know this is adding to the clutter in my 'office' but I get such pleasure looking at my Mums old albums that I want my kids and grands to have the same.
Must do some exercise at home today as I don't do the gym at weekends, gym was busy on Friday, suppose lots of people make New Year resolutions to get fitter. Probably will gradually get back to the stalwarts.
Kate UK 5 -
Good morning!6
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Machka - You did so well. Especially as it was only the third time you've run that distance. Well done! :drinker: I looked up some info on times etc and yours would be considered a reasonable time.
Considering all the rest of your life it is a real achievement. Sorry about the numb foot. Have you Googled it?
By the way, the 10k world record for a woman is 29.17.
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Karen - Love your mentors. I'm like you in the way my brain works. Love a good example to follow.
I'm completely neurotic about "saving" stuff. I have a USB stick that I carry around with me all the time in my purse in case the house burns down. I also save everything to Dropbox. (Cloud) My files on there are a shambles, but at least it's all on there. My writing goes on my stick. Then I email it to myself. Then I put it on Dropbox, then I print it. My nightmare is losing my real photographs in a fire. I am the repository of all the family photos.
I found some photos of my son as a baby and young child in the same box as the photo of our family. I got them out to show his girlfriend, along with the babyhood album. She seemed delighted to see them and, while he pretended to be horrified, he snapped them all and put one on his Facebook profile. He was a beautiful toddler with shoulder length blond ringlets. I kept his first haircut and was able to show them his shiny blonde curls. Gorgeous. You have all seen the photos of him now. :laugh:
Much love, Heather UK xxxxxxx6
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