WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2018

(((Becca))) Thinking of you both and hope all goes exceedingly well.

Sue in WA: I hope your DH tolerates his knee manipulation well and it doesn't cause him too much pain. On another topic, I knew that the scotch broom was brought in but didn't know the highway department was responsible. They've been working at getting rid of it for years and there is getting to be less. Thank goodness. I'm allergic to the blooms and it made me miserable every spring for years. I consider it a noxious weed and I think many others think so, too. :devil:

Machka: Happy Birthday in Canada and in Australia. I wish you happiness in both countries and everywhere else you choose to go. :bigsmile:

Barbie: I hope Jake's surgery is successful and improves his quality of life.


I've had some calls from DD lately and she is hoping to move back to Oregon one of these days. I share that wish I hope it comes true. Keeping my fingers crossed that it eventually happens.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon


"So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun."

Still reading. Now on pg 25. Will I catch up with you ladies?

Mar 1 - 6.2 km (77 min) walking + 18 flights of stairs (14 min)
Mar 2 - 6.9 km (86 min) walking + 14 flights of stairs (11 min)
Mar 3 - 41.42 km (130 min) cycling
Mar 4 - 37.74 km (119 min) cycling
Mar 5 - 9 km (112 min) walking
Mar 6 - 7.2 km (90 min) walking + 14 flights of stairs (11 min)
Mar 7 - 8.9 km (111 min) walking + 12 flights of stairs (9 min)
Mar 8 - 5.9 km (73 min) walking + 14 flights of stairs (11 min)


2018 Monthly -- March
Walking Distance (km): 44.1
Walking Time (min): 551.3
Cycling Distance (km): 79.2
Cycling Time (min): 250.0
Stairs Climbed Number: 72.0
Stairs Climbed Time (min): 57.6

Totals
Total Distance (km): 123.3
Total Distance (miles): 76.6
Total Time (min): 858.8
Total Time (hr): 14:18:50


I've also stuck to my calorie limit for 10 days.

I'm not going to track for the next few days, but I'll be back at it on Tuesday.


Machka in Oz

Will catch up when I can ..no power we got walloped .and want to conserve my phone..

Snowed in.....safe and warm, we've got electricity and heat, others in my community are not so lucky. Gonna spend the day cleaning and maybe a youtube exercise video.

Strength and peace to those facing challenges today. NYKAREN

Happy Thursday ladies,

Lanette, hope the PT job works out for you. I know what you mean about missing out on grandkids. I only have the one DD who is 35 this year and no man or kids in sight.

Yvonne, my name is not Teresa so it’s hard to say what my name means. I do know that my mother got the name from the film and tv actress Terry Moore (born 1929). She claimed to be Howard Hughes’ secret legal wife.

Becca, good for you on losing the 3lbs and getting the 3 beads. That bracelet is really coming together. Sounds like you have a plan for when you are dealing with your DH surgery next week. Good for you. Come here as often as you can so we can help you through this stressful time. ((Hugs))

Janet, handsome GS.

Heather, I can only imagine how hard it is to open yourself to others through your book. So glad to hear your DH had positive feedback.

Lisa, sorry to hear that you are having trouble living in the moment. Fear of the unknown is always one of my strongest fears. I always think of this saying “If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you’re Pi$$ing on the present.”

Laura and Machka, hope your special day is wonderful

Barbie, sending good thoughts for Jake’s surgery. ((Hugs))

Joyce, I was hoping that you would have some finger relief but it doesn’t sound like that is happening. But you seem to be keeping your spirits up which is amazing. Hang in there girl.

Karen, wish I had a green thumb but my dad’s green thumb went o my sister. Deep breaths. Micro-actions work for me too.

Allie, sorry your power went out. That’s the pits. Stay warm. You must have gotten the snow we were supposed to get. We only got about 4”.

NYKaren, wish I was snowed in. But here I am at work. DH and I were hoping for a day at home.

Take care ladies, Terry in VT

We are so fortunate to have not lost power or had trees damage due to this second storm in a week. Some of my colleagues are on day 5 of no electricity in their homes One decorative tree is leaning over our driveway but I don't think it will be a giant problem, fingers crossed. The snow was incredibly heavy, we were so smart to go out last night at 8 p.m. to shovel, it is twice as heavy and icy this morning. DH trudged off to work as I rolled over under the cozy covers, he was green with envy

So now I am tackling tasks, one little step at a time. I'm making broth, cut up some chicken for dinner and set aside lasagna in the freezer. Just have to continue my deep cleaning chores so I don't feel like a lazy slug all day (I'm interspersing my tasks with being a lazy slug )

NYKAREN

Happy International Women's Day!

Today the world celebrates us! "Women’s Day celebrates women’s history, highlighting key events, milestones and achievements, and aims to further promote and raise awareness of women’s rights and to achieve equal opportunity status in all walks of life." And some history: "The first few Women’s Days were celebrated in a quite different fashion than they are nowadays, with hundreds of demonstrations taking place in Europe. During these demonstrations, women demanded they finally be given both the right to vote and to hold public office. Employment sex discrimination was also an important issue. In 1917, the Women’s Day demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia, helped initiate the February Revolution, when women marched through the city demanding an end to World War I. This shocked even Leon Trotsky, who, much like other Russian leaders of the day, did not expect the Women’s Day protests to cause that much of a stir. Until 1977, Women’s Day was celebrated mainly in socialist countries. It was only after the United Nations General Assembly’s decision to proclaim March 8th International Women’s Day that the holiday gained worldwide popularity."

Terry - Your cousin and his wife are in my heart. It must be awful to watch a partner going through that and to be so helpless to "fix it." And I hope your kitty gets better quickly with the new meds.

Rita - Before I moved to New Mexico my year-round allergies were absolutely horrible. They were bad the first year or two after we moved, and I had new issues with asthma as I acclimated to the aridity and altitude. After that they went away entirely and have stayed away until the last year or two. Now I just have some mild seasonal allergies. Guess you have to stay there awhile for that magic to work - sorry you are still having trouble!

Evelyn - I also like to have something sweet after dinner. I like the original no-sugar-added Popsicle fudsicles and pudding cups too. Nothing articially sweetened - I don't eat any fake sugar - but both treats have sugar and calorie levels that I can fit into my daily meal plan.

Katla - My mom was also Camille, which is why I've always been Yvonne.

Becca - Great idea to stock up on healthy snacks ahead of time so you'll have good choices available when you're "wandering" around the hospital. That's a wonderful way to take care of YOU while you're taking care of him too. So glad you have each other.

Rye - Spinach is so versatile! I made a spinach frittata the other night when I hadn't done a meal plan yet. I put it on pasta. I use it in place of lettuce on sandwiches. I put it in smoothies. Popeye was onto something!

Janet - Goodness, what shape is he aiming for?! Your grandson looks pretty fit already!

Heather - How wonderful that your husband turned out to be a good first reader! I can understand how vulnerable it would feel to share your work like that.

Pip - You could knit a puppy with all that golden hair!

Sue - Augh, why are so many men such bad patients?!


We have tickets to see A Wrinkle in Time tomorrow at noon, and then I'll be picking up a passenger and heading for Bryan/College Station. This weekend-long reunion of old friends has turned into an annual thing. (We also get together the weekend before Thanksgiving, and have been doing that for 30 some-odd years.) So fortunate to have a group of dear friends who've managed to stay together since our college days despite our differences. My passenger is one of the second generation of that group.

My hotel is in downtown Bryan, which is very walkeable. That'll be to my advantage in off-setting the extra calories related to the weekend festivities! We're kind of pondering buying a house there - to rent for now and then live in when Philip is ready to retire - so it'll give me a chance to wander the area and explore.

All of you in the north, stay warm!

-Yvonne in TX

Went to my annual vascular and bloods clinic this morning. The nurse kept on saying how amazing I was and how I didn't look anything like my age! :laugh: I always get really nervous and my blood pressure is in the high range of normal, but my heart was also beating fast and it's normally really slow. We ended up talking about AF beers! She likes them as well. I do take 10 mgs of Amlodipine, and nothing I do seems to lower my clinic BP. My weight hadn't changed since last year. Good.

This afternoon I made the meatballs and froze them for my stepdaughter and started the mushroom risotto for dinner tonight.

Then I did 30 mins on the recumbent bike and sorted out a cupboard in the exercise room which has piles of sheets and towels in it that we haven't touched since we've been here, 7 years. Got some good ones for the charity shop and the rest are going to the dump. They are ones left over from DH's house before we got together. Why did we keep them? Too good to throw away, but we are not taking them with us. :noway:

I'm going to ring a couple of removal companies tomorrow and get them to come round for estimates. We still haven't heard if our vendors have found something. :sad:

Much love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxx

Power back on...checked on some of the neighbors before it did come.e back on.. going to take a nap.