WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2018

Mary still waiting for the snow. It might come tonight. It is windy today and grey.

Kelly so sorry about your friend losing her son.

I am going to start buying some paints so if I feel the project is too ambitious for the session I can finish it at home. I noticed on the paintings I am not as happy with it is because I rushed to finish. The last thing I added I was least happy with in the paintings. I have done five of these so far.

Still working on sleep. If I go too early then I wake up in the middle of the night. Still working at finding that right bedtime.

Margaret

(((Machka))) I hope you get your insect bite situation resolved. It sounds miserable. :flowerforyou:

KJ: Prayers for your friend who has lost her oldest son. Words fail me and my heart is aching for her.

Margaret: Happy Snow Day!!! :bigsmile:

Pip: Fabulous photo of you and Kirby. :flowerforyou:

Heather: Congrats on so many things--your house purchase seems to be progressing well, and your success with going alcohol free is admirable. :bigsmile: I need to go alcohol free, too, so I'm jumping on the bandwagon right now. I want to feel better.

Beans: Welcome to a great group.


I'm serious on the alcohol free comment. I'm going to focus on peppermint tea in the evenings. It is warm, soothing, and delicious without any additions.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon


"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." CS Lewis

Lanette, I usually only work three days a week, every once in awhile I will cover a shift or two if someone is away. We have a very small staff, and right now three of us are part time (one is still in university), so that works out quite well when someone needs time off there is someone to cover. LOL about the storage wars! We do do auctions, but we use an online site, so our manager will open the locker, which involves drilling out the lock, then she takes some photos, how many depends on the size of the locker, she tries to give people a good idea of what's in there. Then it gets a special lock put in and a numbered metal seal is put on there. This is all photographed as well, to make sure that everything is on the up and up. As for what's in the lockers, well, sometimes it's just garbage. However, where we are right now the housing market is just nuts! People will sell their current home and the next one won't be built for sometimes up to six months. There are very few rentals available, so they end up storing all their worldly possessions and moving in with friends or family or their RV til it's ready. Other folks are living in smaller condos so the Christmas decorations and that sort of thing is in storage. Others are decluttering in preparation for selling, the list goes on! I personally know of 3 motorcycles (2 are Moto Guzzi, the other is a Harley) and an electric bike that are being stored. Oh and one guy has his Mercedes in there right now!
Kelly, my heart breaks for your friend. I too am unable to comprehend that level of loss, I hope your littles were able to be of some comfort.

Machka, I hope you have found some relief and that the biter(s) are gone!!! I'm okay sharing my bed with my hubby, but multi legged critters need to go somewhere else! (can't even have the cat on the bed, hubby is allergic)

Heather, congrats on being AF for so long! One day at a time! Won't it be wonderful when you can be in Hove and be able to see those darling children more often! Good luck with the stove, I hope the buyers will want it too. Here, most homes are sold with the appliances and window coverings included. This all gets written into the contract. When we sold, and we knew the place would be demolished because we sold to a developer, the realtor was trying to make us leave everything and I looked at him and said "why?" He spoke to his dad/development partner and came back with "take what you want". Well, brought the fridge with us as it was pretty new, sold my washer and dryer, gave the dishwasher and stove to our older son and his fiancee! Also brought most of the curtains and am using them in our new space.

Beth, I'm with Michele! That apartment sounds wonderful! What are your son's roommates expectations??

Wendy, {{{HUGS}}}, maybe Pip's boot needs to be applied to your hubby! Or that one of yours would probably do the trick too! I enjoy Imagine Dragons music too, they have played here live a few times.

Today has been a good day. Went over to a friends (there are six of us who get together Monday afternoons and do our craft stuff), she had ginger cookies out and I only had one. This is a huge NSV for me! I also bought cookies that hubby likes but I do not. I did buy some arrowroot cookies also, and some pudding cups. I think this will be a better after dinner snack for me, will give me the flavors and textures that I'm looking for and will hopefully keep me from grazing my way thru the evening. Hope everyone has a great day/night!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island

Sue in WA posted "Swim team coach brought it to my son's attention that she thought my 13 yo DGD is cutting. This has turned out to be true. They went to ER for emergency psych evaluation. She was not admitted but will be seeing a counselor once a week with and without parents. This makes me so sad for her and I have no idea how to help her. It has been a teary afternoon."

I am so sorry to hear this Sue, I will remember you all in prayer. I hope I can be some what encouraging to tell you that I have 3 grand-daughters now 21, 19 and 17 and all three went thru some stage of cutting to different degrees and lengths of time. It is heart wrenching and the helplessness it worst or all. All three came thru it and have stopped the self destructive behavior. Its almost like an "every body" does it mind set with these young girls. It breaks my heart for the statement this makes on our children's lack of self-esteem and self love. (((Hugs))) my dear friend.

Janetr OKC

Becca, I looked at the first apartment. It the other was in a big building and I didn't look into it to see if they were featuring an individual one. But the first one had large rooms. I think the price was about the same as you posted last week.

Well I did e glamour shots also, I did it on face book on my iPad and didn't know how to get it here. So I messaged Becca. You know she is always the wise one. So I pulled it up on my phone and took A picture with my iPad under a good light. So I hope this is a good picture, it did really show me all glam end up. So here is me all flamed up.

Joyce, Indiana