WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2018

July was not that great. I stuck to my plan half the time. I am trying to get serious for the month of August. I am committing making dietary changes and being serious about my fitness.

Checking in! I totally forgot to log in everything yesterday. I just wasn’t feeling good... oh well.

Dana in Arkansas
Driving up the road to our house.

Did Preventions 400 Calorie Fix DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Denise Austin Quick Burn Cardio DVD since we have a Newcomer general meeting.

M – the people across the street from us moved to Australia. Not sure exactly where, maybe Jess knows. I’ll ask her when she gets home. Speaking of Jess, I have a feeling that Colby won’t be coming down to meet her at the airport. I know she will most likely want to go to Reston to visit her friends, but I’m sure she doesn’t want to stay at Colby’s because the guy he’s living with smokes. In a way, it's sad to me if he doesn't come. It's as if he's saying "I won't go out of my way for you, you go out of your way for me". To me, that doesn't make for a good relationship. She doesn’t want Shadow to be there, either, although she hasn’t told Colby yet. I suspect he’s liking not having her (Shadow). To us, it’s no problem. We have 4, what’s one more? We just put her on the same schedule as our cats. I feed her moist food (so I can mix her Cosequin with it) when I feed our cats. Her nails get clipped at the same time as our cats. And so on….. Happy birthday to your hubby! Did he remember it was his birthday or did someone have to remind him. How great that he followed a recipe! My hubby doesn’t like the Microsoft products, either

Went in my pool then took Shadow to the vet. She’s lost a pound. That made Jess happy, she’s been trying to get Shadow to lose weight.

Penny –how very neat to have a bird fly in your room and then fly out. I always find your descriptions of the happenings in your area so very enthralling

KJ – whenever there’s a change in the barometric pressure (like when we go to FL), I ALWAYS can count on getting a headache. Now it’s at the point where I get the headache and it goes away as soon as I get acclimated to the weather. Used to be that it would take me weeks, and by then we were usually at home.

Heather – so happy for you that things are moving along. I have some rollout shelves for the small area between our washer and dryer. Just enough for laundry detergent.

Got good news and bad news about my car. Seems the TCM they installed is bad so they need to get another one. The good news is that it won’t cost us to have them install it.

Made a shrimp orzo salad to take to the bowling party Thurs. I’m not crazy about the party. The lady who is hosting it decided to have it during the day. That’s the day of the Newcomer lunch and I would have liked to go. I think she feels that since we’re retired, we can do it just about any time. I honestly would have preferred it in the evening. Especially since it’s so hot right now. But we’ll manage. It’s really not a big thing, and we should be there since we run the bowling (well, Vince does with some assistance from me). I'm pretty sure that one of the guys still works

Love seeing pics of Kidd Kirby

Cathy – welcome! I’m sure you’ll meet your goals. You’ve come to a good place for motivation and support.

Gwyn….. from Memphis - welcome! I can’t be bothered to remember your whole name (lol) so you need to give us one that you’d like to be called.

Got a friend request from a “smurf8080” but when I looked at their person’s profile it’s listed as being a male. I don’t think we need to be friends. I did respond asking “where do we know each other from?”. This is the only forum that I’m on here at MFP. His response was to send another friend request. If he can’t answer my question in a few days (I’m curious as to what he will answer with), I’m just going to delete the friend request.

Made some cupcakes for when Jess is here. I tried this one new recipe, usually recipes from this one site come out good, but these didn’t, so Vince will get them. Put some icing on some of the worst looking ones, froze the rest. Then made another batch. Will probably make icing Friday so I’ll have it to ice those cupcakes.

It was funny…I iced a cake the other day and used canned icing (that I wanted to use up). Vince said the icing tasted “weird”. I just told him “you’re getting used to the good homemade stuff”.

Jess called tonight. She’s applying for the loan for her next semester and needed to ask Vince some questions. Then she thanked us for paying for her undergrad degree. I guess now she sees people who not only are incurring the debt from this program, but they also have debt from their undergrad schooling. It just made me feel good that she is thankful. Wish Denise would see what she got and what she could have had but decided against it.

I’m grateful for my home, my pool, and especially my wonderful husband. He’s very smart (book smart). He’s always figuring things out. We may not be millionaires, but we aren’t in a position of where we have a hard time affording even the simplest things in life. That’s something that I don’t have to worry about. I know that for some people that’s a big thing. We have decent health insurance (admitted, it was better before Vince retired and it’ll probably decline once we need to go on Medicare) I’m also grateful for all the wonderful ladies on here to whom I can open up to and they don’t judge me.

Michele in NC

Penny Simple pleasures: The little kiss on the cheek my 9 year old granddaughter gives me when we say goodbye. The eagerness with which my 12 year old grandson shows me his latest Matchbox car or Lego creation. The feel of my Coton's fur & his steadfast loyalty. Thunderstorms and the wonderful ozone-y smell of the charged air. The blessed sound of silence when I get in my car after work. The view of the pond from my back deck. The taste of a juicy fresh peach. Standing in the garden eating hot tomatoes from the vine. The deliciousness of a rare good night's sleep. The smell of my peppermint soap. Music. The clean Velux blanket thoughtfully folded on my recliner waiting for me late at night when I get home from a long shift at work, courtesy of my partner. Mourning Doves early in the morning. The heavenly smell of my 2 baby grandchildren after their baths. My funny little Yorkies comically vying for my attention. Pachelbel's Chickens. The ability to read. Carolina shag. Looking at shells. Sea glass. Nebraska sunrises. The prehistoric squawk of the Great Blue Heron who lives around here.

Thank you for asking this question.

I needed to be reminded of these things.

Karen in Virginia

Morning ladies
Well since I spoke with you last I have lost 2 people within 24 he's..my dear DFIL cousin Ed was eating breakfast,started shaking and the ambulance came and he didn't make it to the hospital he was 72...then just looked on Facebook and saw another friend of mine passed away she was 55 yrs old.. haven't gotten the details yet.ughh.