WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2018

Lisa I find people baffling too. In 2013 I left a job. Frankly, I was thrown under a bus and the workplace was AWFUL so I gave my two week notice. For the next two weeks, people were like : She has already quit, why does she bother coming in... and being genuinely surprised when I set up transitions meetings with the people who would be taking on aspects of my job or projects.

I can not imagine acting in any other manner, I had already felt bad because I gave the minimum ‘accepted’ notice of two weeks. (As all previous jobs I had held for any length of time got months or more notice of when I’d be moving on).

For your Drama queen to add mischief to the list!?! I settled for changing my network password to an innocent looking word that referenced a computer game tyrant (GLadOS) but knew no one would ever even see it let alone ‘get’ the joke. Wow, she was something else- I’m glad you and your co-workers were not left with Mahem to clean up!

Rye

Karen in VA: We have long time friends who live in Florida. I talked to them yesterday and they were doing just fine. I hope it is still true. they don't live close to either coast.

Lanette: We have the same opinion of Puget Island. It is too low for safety in high water times. We know that it has been flooded in the past, but so has our own home. There was water in the ground floor of all of these homes while the project was still under construction. My next-door neighbor lived here back then, and they stayed in the upstairs of their home. So far, we have been much luckier. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that our luck holds out for the long run. The reason these places flooded in the first place was a mistake up river at Bonneville Dam. They let too much water out at the wrong time so that it coincided with high tide here. The river occasionally runs backwards during high tides and the folks operating the dam didn’t account for the tides when they released the water. :ohwell:

Heather: Sending good thoughts for an official closing.

Lisa: Have you tried Lactaid? I see Karen asked the same question. It helps me digest milk sugars. I seldom need it at home because I can control the ingredients in our food, but when we eat at a restaurant I always take some because I don’t know what is in the food. I keep tablets in my purse and in our vehicles as well as in my medicine cabinet. I haven’t heard of papaya enzymes before. :flowerforyou:

Pip: So sorry you lost Lenny all those years ago. He looks like a nice guy. You were lucky to find Kirby afterwards.

Allie: Good luck with the job application. I think you would be brilliant in that position.


I went to the Equestrian meeting yesterday and was given a job that I am totally unqualified for. I am an assistant to someone else, and she put me in charge of finding guest speakers. I don’t see any winning possibilities for me and I’m pretty upset about it. I don’t know horse people outside of the ones that are members. My (so called) friends in the organization laughed. :grumble:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Very true katla

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

Rebecca- Love that apology meme



Margaret - That was incredibly rude of the people to expect all of that childcare from your friend. My daughter and her fiance that are getting married next summer have been trying to decide if they should hire a sitter for their reception/dance for people that want to use it. 90% of the guests at their wedding will be visiting here and will have to bring their children. Children are invited to the wedding, reception and dance, but they thought it might be nice for those parents that wanted to enjoy part of it without children. I don't know if they have reached a final decision on that or not yet.

Good call for sitters. The problem for the wedding my friend went to was there was no good place to watch the kids at the wedding venue, and they had to take them to the venue which was an hour away so the wedding party could get ready. . Her husband is the type that will say bring it on we can handle it. Are you sure you don't have more children you want us to watch? He has always been like this,

Hi Gals,

Lisa – hope the road trip was excellent, the medical stop boring, and that all rights its self at work with the awful employee gone.

Ali – part of taking care of you is avoiding creepy guys! Yuck!

Heather – sending good thoughts that the pieces all come together! Quick!!!

Pip – In some ways I bet it seems like a long time, but in other ways losing Lenny seems like yesterday. Sending a hug.

Eating yesterday was completely nuts! If it was edible I ate it – no idea why, I was just super hungry, I was 200 calories over by lunch, and did not stop eating….Today is back to being reasonable – thank goodness! For me I still fight with hunger pains especially around lunch, it is because of my most morning schedule which is 5am up – dog walk 1.5-2 miles, small breakfast about 6:15 out the door about 7am – 20-30 minutes drive time to which ever garden client is scheduled for that day, then 3-4 hours of gardening, and a 20-30 minute drive home. Then lunch and starting of 6-8 hours of embroidery often with a dinner break in my embroidery hours. I really need to bring my lunch, but no where is there any way to heat anything up, or any place to eat, so really I need a lunch in my hand to eat while I drive. That is totally not ideal. But better than stopping for crap. I have tucked in my car a baggie of coffee flavored hard candies, they work out to 17 calories each and usually one is all I need to get me past anywhere that is tempting me.

Smiles

Kim from N. California

Machka, I have had a fitbit for a few years now, supposed to have a sleep tracking app on it, but really all it does is track when you are not moving. I can lay there quite still for a considerable length of time, trying to will myself to sleep, so while it said I got "x" hours of sleep, what I really was doing was laying still for "x" hours.... Not really very satisfying for me. I suspect, and this is only my opinion-I'm far from being an expert, but you have been under a great deal of stress since hubby's accident. Even tho he is getting better, there is still the various agencies to deal with (can't imagine THAT nightmare!) as well as his health and your busy, busy schedule. I'm glad you decided to take this term off (I hope I'm remembering that correctly) and I'm assuming that's helping ease the stress a bit, but still you have a VERY full plate, one that would make a lot of us mere mortals curl up and cry! I can certainly understand your unhappiness at waking up tired every morning, that certainly doesn't make your work load easier. I wish I had some wise words for you, but all I have is have you considered a sleeping tablet? Or even something like valerian or melatonin? I tried melatonin, didn't do a thing for me, but helped a co-worker considerably. My problem isn't, and never has been, falling asleep. Staying asleep is my issue, I currently take 25mg of amytripline every night. It is non addictive, I can still fall asleep without it, but as I said before, falling asleep is not the problem. I would wake up after a few hours and my brain would start working, very frustrating. I still wake up in the night needing to use the toilet, but then am able to drift back to sleep usually quite quickly. The only reason I am still tired the next day is if I stay up too late, which unfortunately happens way too often! lol
Lisa in AK, my sympathies on the dodgy tummy, I have a slight lactose intolerance as well. I well remember a night that involved mushrooms stuffed with cream cheese and seafood, so yummy, but YIKES! I did pay for those! Hope your biopsy goes well and that the results are what you are hoping for. Unfortunate about your former co-worker. I guess we all need those people in our lives every once in awhile. Glad she only perpetrated mischief in the computer system! How wonderful that your son is going with you, so nice to have company on the trip and yes, I have to admit, some of the best conversations I've had with my kids have been on road trips!
Heather, I am so glad that we did not have to deal with that horribly long chain that you are dealing with in relation to selling/buying! I agree, that mortgage company definitely needs a bomb put up them! Pics of the grandkids and hubby yesterday were lovely!
Allie, sorry to hear that your dear FIL is on the downhill slope. I'm sure that your loving attention is the bright spot of his day, even tho he may not show it sometimes. Good luck with creepy guy! Just remember, if he gets frisky, you can take him down! (hopefully it won't come to that tho....) Good for you for applying for the job of assistant rec person, I think you'd be great!! Hmm, just read your next post about creepy guy, yeah, he'd have to back off if he wanted me over there ever again! Did you say anything to him? Perhaps he's unaware that he's making you uncomfortable. Good luck with the birdfeeder and the bylaws.
Barbie, so happy to hear that your back is coming along. Also happy to hear that you are being very smart and not pushing it to heal faster. We all know how that usually works out!
Terry, so wonderful to hear from you, sorry to hear that you are having so many issues right now.....

Yesterday was a good day til after dinner, then I'm not sure what happened, I was like the incredible eating woman! Really should have gone and brushed my teeth, but I didn't so have had to deal with the consequences. (the scale was not pretty this morning!) There is some water retention happening, but still.... Have higher hopes for today! So far it's good and will have to get to bed earlier today as I work tomorrow so will need to get up earlier as I do want to get to the gym in the morning. I have been trying to get some paperwork and that kind of stuff caught up on. Submitted about $1500 worth of claims to my extended benefits provider, hopefully everything will be approved and I'll get a nice fat check!
Hugs to those who need them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island

GodMomKim wrote: »

Oh *kitten*!!! I just found out my Paypal account is hacked.

Oh no!