WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR FEBRUARY 2018

LisaInNCNow wrote: »

Penny - I just love Google translate, there are always some lovely gotchas... It translated the caption under your picture as "Longyearbyen mixed cakes performed Requiem at the house on Saturday night. " Gave me a wonderful giggle.

Love,
Lisa in NC

Hee-hee! I thought of the possibility that some of our with-it ladies would try Google translate, so I tested it myself. The version I got wasn't quite that far off the name of the choir (mixed choir, not mixed cakes). As a professional word-nerd I do dearly love Google translate and Microsoft's grammar check for all the laughs they provide. "[A]t the house" is a pretty good translation, as the name of the establishment is "The House". Not entirely savory for me, because for a Swedish-speaker, "the house" is usually one of ill repute.

The big annual report I edit goes to layout tomorrow, and after that I have an online PhD course to teach and a PhD thesis to edit. Then around March 1 we head to Stockholm to take care of the grandkids while their parents and the other grandparents go to the wedding of a cousin on the other side of the family tree. The grandkids and their parents will be coming up to our island paradise in northern Norway for Easter.

It's funny how every time I'm there at my island paradise, I think there's no better place on earth, and while I'm here at the north pole, I can't imagine being truly happy anywhere else.

I'm truly lucky!
/Penny, privileged at the

Hello ladies! No time to bug bomb today. During the middle of the night I also applied for a teaching position and was contacted for an interview this morning. However at the ladies luncheon today I found out that the school is an hour away from where we live. So needless to say I will not be applying for that job. There must be something in me that really wants to continue teaching because in the middle of the night I am jobhunting! Tomorrow night we will be attending a Valentine party here at the resort. We absolutely love it here! After the ladies luncheon today one of the other ladies and I took our dogs to the dog park and played for about an hour. Now I am sitting in the car waiting for John to get out of physical therapy. In case I did not mention it while we were playing pickle ball he Fat ell forward into the net and dislocated his arm and ended up with a fractured arm. Which was better than a rotator cuff tear. Which is what they thought it was in the first place. It's amazing that in MRI without insurance was less than $300 when I paid out of pocket 1800 for my MRI with insurance. I'm still thinking of checking out my husbands school district maybe as a substitute.

Have a great day everyone!

Mary from Arizona

Mary, I wanted to say thank you for your example to have been to me. At the beginning of the year I decided to get the kettlebell back out. This is the first time I've actually done it faithfully pretty much every day. Not only have I lost 16 lbs i can see a big difference in my arms, legs and stomach. I put on a pair of jeans this morning to go to the dentist that I haven't worn in over a year, they slid on easily and I was thrilled. I also add 30-40 minutes cardio along with the kettlebell. Thinking about moving up to the heavier kettlebell.

Thank you

Janetr

Good evening my dear sisters. I am dividing time with you and figure skating at the Olympics.

Katla, on my iPad, where I a, typing now I am the weird name. I did t choose it. I have emailed them and asked them to get me back. If I a, on my laptop I a, Jmkmomm or me! Again, I apologize for typos. You guys don't k ow how cold the iPad screen is for frozen fingers. I play one dacebokk game and there is on.y one thing that requires my left hand. Since I am left handed, I used to play it with my left hand but I have trained my right hand to do it. I don't do it as fast but that OK.

Some one asks if my doctor knows about it. Yes he does. I had a stroke at the end of December and it affected the part of my brain that controls your sensory such as touch. So at first it was my lips and fingers on my left side. They were numb. It eventually throughout the night the left side of my nose and left cheek were all numb. So after about a week, all of those areas became flaming hot. My doctor said that it was due to the nerves regenerating. So even though it was pretty painful, it was good to see my nerves were regenerating. So from flaming hot, it changed to frozen. I'm not sure which is worse. At least for the frozen part, I can wrap my finger up. But everything you touch is cold, really cold. Just think of your silverware or glass, a mug. Even paper is cold, a magazine. The remote control, the phone. I love it when Mozart lies in my lap on the left side. My right hand is letting him. If he lays in the right side of my lap, my left side is letting him and that is jut to weird.

Some one asked about my cats names. We didn't choose their names. We got both of them through a rescue group here and they named them. We have had Melody for I think 3 years. Ne day I told Charlie we needed a kitten and I started looking on the rescue sight and I saw this little tabby climbing on the piece of fabric in his cage. His litter mate was just laying there. I knew I had to have him. When I inquire, they said his name was Mozart and that did it for us. He was meant for our family. I don't know if I have a recent picture of them here on my IPad or not. If not I will have to get one! I have wished many days I had called Mozart George for Curiouse George or even Mr Tail. His tail defines him. When he is waking, his tail is about as high as my hips.

I have mentioned my nephew who was an alcoholic many times. He is just the greatest guy. Today is his sons 21st birthday. Well Alan had chest pain and went to the ER. One of our hospitals here is a heart hospital and that is where he went. Well his EKG was normal and they said he. Use have pulled a muscle. So,laters in the day the pain was worse and he went back to the ER. I can jut imagine what his insurance bill is going to be. I dot mean the bill. I mean the explanation of benefits. I guess this time he got a different doctor. We'll they sent him to the cath lab, which in my mind is the gold standRd of care for chest pain. He had one artery that was completely blocked and another one that was 90% blocked. So he now has two stents. When I was talking to my sister, I was saying who is next. My Dad was Diabetic 2 and had 2 open heart surgeries, do after the second one. I have one stent, my sister and both brothers and all three of the femal cousins are very obese. Th three cousins being my two girls and my sisters daughter. Of my two brothers, one is very obese. You will appreciate this Becca. The others brother was full time Navy and he is in pretty good shape. They lived in Navy housing and he rode his bike to work all the time. He even continued that in his non Nacy job.

I will always remember this nephews sons birthday. I was in the hospital being diagnosed with MS when their baby was born. He was what my Mom called a blue baby and was in the NICU for several days. When I was discharged, I went from one hospital directly to another to be with them.

Allie, I just wish the entire sisterhood here could be there in person and stand beside you in court. We would be a force not to be reconded with. Tom's attorney would stand up and take notice.

I found a picture of my two cats. Please ignore the pillow with the pillow are half off. Well that wasn't the
Picture I was thinking I was clicking on but it's OK

Well my book is ong enough to tnight. Nighty night Joyce, Indiana.