WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2018

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm a night owl, so I'll be up to see the bright, new 2019. I'm not much for watching the programs--too many sad memories of being alone on party night. Why did it ever matter so much not to be kissed at midnight?

Katla49 wrote: »

Machka: Happy New Year! We’ll be celebrating tomorrow. I hope your New Year will be peaceful and bring little or no stress.

Thank you!!

And Happy New Year to you all!!

Lagopus wrote: »

Here's a close-up of our other light feature, a glass vase of little LED lights. That one is always there, but it's only lit from October to March. In the light half of the year I look at this and other light fixtures (and candles and flashlights and reflector vests) and find them so irrelevant I wonder why they even exist.

When I lived in Manitoba, I had a fake ficus tree (that was so real looking people wanted to water it for me!!). I put white lights, similar to yours, in it and left them there year round. Like you, for about 6 months of the year when it was darkest, I'd turn them on each evening.

I really like the glass vase idea, and I think I might do something like that during my next winter down here. It doesn't get very cold here but it does get dark. Last winter, I bought a bunch of plug in night lights that come on in various parts of the house when there are no lights on. But I might do some other light features.


M in Oz

bwcetc wrote: »

Michele .. I used to have my dental procedures without novocaine as well thinking I had a high threshold for pain. That is until a dumb donkey behind of an oral surgeon decided to give me a root canal (on what turned out to be a live root) without any novocaine. It left me so scarred that I've turned into a huge baby at the dentist!

I have always had to have about double the amount of local anaesthetic than what the dentists expect I'll need. Sometimes triple. I also need it in places they don't expect. I'm not sure why, except that about 10 years ago, they discovered that the roots of my teeth are so long they imbed themselves in my jaw bones, so maybe the tooth nerves are affecting other nerves.

I've only had one dentist actually numb all the right nerves so that my first root canal was a relatively painless process. He was an amazing dentist.

Other than that, I've never had a painless procedure. After they've given me so many needles my eyeballs are numb, I just give up complaining and get the procedure done with the pain.

Then recently, I discovered that I'm allergic to the adrenaline they include with the local anaesthetic which means that the anaesthetic is about half as effective, so I now need 3 or 4 times the amount.

When they removed my tooth last year, they had given me as much anaesthetic as they could possibly give me, but somehow had missed the key nerve so it was like having the tooth removed without anything. I've never screamed and gone into a panic attack in the middle of a procedure before. The dentist had to stop the procedure and send the dental assistant out of the room because she broke down in sympathy!


So .... this current dentist told me that she'd start the root canal, and if she discovered that the tooth wasn't worth saving, she'd just whip it out. "No you won't!!" I thought "If you discover the tooth isn't worth saving, I'll be getting it removed under a general". I'm tired of painful dental procedures.


M in Oz

Happy New Year!

Bonnie - Sounds like you had a wonderful year! That is a lot of blessings.

Tracey - Ouch! Once you have a bad posture habit, it's hard to correct. I used to sit at my desk with my left foot drawn up under my right knee. I knew it was bad for me but I only stopped when I had a motorcycle accident and smashed my left knee so I couldn't do it. And even though it's been nearly three years, I still catch myself wanting to sit that way.

Okie - I've never heard of beer cheese but that sounds pretty amazing.

Cari - Wow, 800-1,000 is REALLY low! I'm 5'4" and I've got about 50 pounds to lose, but I don't think I could handle that without being miserable and grumpy all the time. I'm all about whatever works, though, and that's obviously working for you. I don't care about getting skinny, but I don't want my weight to interfere with my ability to do things and that is where I'm headed if I don't take off the extra pounds.

Beth - So sorry to hear you won't be able to be with your Dad on his birthday. You are right, though - at 90 years old nobody needs to be exposed to a respiratory bug!


We burned our bayberry candle, and I put the Hoppin' John in the slow cooker last night so we woke up to today's dinner already done. I'm not looking forward to logging it, though. I can put all the ingredients in as a recipe, but I'll have to guesstimate serving size. It's a lot of servings - we'll be eating our luck for awhile.

Yesterday I took a long walk with Luna and then started adjusting some things to accommodate my trial period with Noom. I changed my MFP weight loss target from 1 to 2 pounds per week to align the calorie goal closer with the Noom goal. Then I reviewed all of my upcoming Home Chef shipments and substituted meals with lower calorie counts where I could. I love the convenience of having a couple of meals a week ready to make and the meals are generally healthy, but I do think their calorie counts are a little high so I'm researching other meal prep services. Blue Apron just came out with a Weight Watchers collection, so that might be one to look at. One of these days I might get organized enough to pre-prep my own meals ahead of time, but it hasn't happened yet.

We had a low-key New Year's Eve. I thought about opening a beer to toast the new year with, but neither of us particularly wanted to drink. Instead we went outside when the clock counted down, smooched, and listened to the (illegal in our neighborhood) fireworks and then I went to bed with a book. Very laid back.

Now I need to go chivvy my man out of his bathrobe and into some clothes so we can start work on the foundation for my greenhouse. I'd like to get the plants in there while it's still cold enough to need it!

Wishing you all luck to your houses and gold in your pockets.

-Yvonne in TX