WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2019

Did Amy Dixon’s Breathless Body DVD today. The plan for tomorrow is to do Stephanie Vitorino’s DVD

I did find out last night that I can quilt without the frame. To me, by doing this I feel I have greater control over the needle, so I don’t hate quilting quite as much. Without the frame, it seems that the stitches give the item you’re quilting more depth. Still, that’s not my favorite thing to do. I just don’t find it relaxing.

Newcomer board meeting today. This is the absolute last one. Yippee! Tonight, ceramics. I’m thinking that after the board meeting we should go to WalMart, Vince has a prescription he needs by tomorrow and I have one that I need by Sunday.

M – I’ve heard of lowering your head because of bp. They did that to Vince once. So many times I see on TV that they lower the body. Many times I lower my head when I take yoga. I’m nowhere near old, at least I don’t feel it (most days). That instructor must be young. Have you ever had an Envy apple? They are SOOO sweet.

Phew! Been really busy and haven’t been in here for a while.

Thurs I did a strength training DVD, then went to the dentist and got my permanent crown put on, then the Green Room, then got recertified in CPR, then bowling at night. Fri went to the deep water class. The plan for tomorrow (Sat) is to do an advanced pilates DVD

Fri here, Vince and I need to go to WalMart to pick up some prescriptions and a few other things. There appears to be a problem with the Newcomer mail list. It looks from all my investigation the problem is that Brian is the owner and he died. The president is going to send a copy of his death certificate to me and hopefully google will make me the owner.

After the board meeting, the gal who is going to take over membership (thank you for telling me that someone else was!) came over to my house. Now she’s the gal who worked for IBM. Well, I showed her what I do and she was impressed with the website, said she was going to look into getting an organization to run it. I agreed with her in that what do we do if the guy who is the present webmaster dies? If we were with an organization, if one employee is no longer there, they have someone else who can it up for us. But if something happens to him, we’re up a creek. She said she was going to investigate it.

The new president evidently looked at microphones and decided which one she likes so they’re getting it. Even tho Vince asked questions about them that she couldn’t answer. His questions would lead anyone to realize that maybe he knows what he’s talking about and they should use his knowledge. But, nope, she decided what she wanted. Is this an indication of “my way or the highway”. I don’t know. It’s a good thing that Vince isn’t on the board because I know him and if he doesn’t agree with something, he speaks his mind. So glad we’re out. Anyway, I told this gal (membership) that until she gets everything straightened out with the website, I will continue to do what I’ve always done.

Katla – I just like the way hand stitching a quilt looks versus machine quilting. But I think I may have to have someone machine quilt the other lap quilt for me. See, the top piece of material was quilted already. I x-stitched but the only thing I can think of that will look fairly decent is if it was quilted on top of the other quilting. At least that’s my thought, I’m going to run it by someone else. Update: spoke to the other lady. She suggested invisible thread. I never even knew there was such a thing!

Adra was at the CPR class yesterday. I think she’s getting too deep into Newcomers. While we were waiting, she was telling me all about how she sent this and that to Brenda for the newsletter. I could tell that the lady who was running the CPR was bored like “I really don’t care about this”. There’s a time for everything. Well, I just ignored it. I didn’t mention anything about a problem with the mail list because I knew that she’d just freak out. There’s nothing that can be done right now. Today I’m supposed to Skype with the guy who set up the mail list originally and hopefully he can help me become an owner. Carol also said that she’d send me a copy of Brian’s death certificate

Kim – thanks for telling me that you can sub plain yogurt for half and half. I have some h&h that I need to use up. From now on I’ll use plain yogurt and won’t have some to have to use up

Rebecca – if you really want that house, I hope you get it

M – Jess was saying that most of her classes are also online. She prefers to go to the class since you can ask questions right then and there. But they are online also.

I think I finally talked Vince into having a pool party this summer for the neighborhood. He originally wanted to invite only those on my street. He feels very uncomfortable inviting and having people bring children. But I felt bad when others had neighbors over but didn’t invite us.

The weather is predicted to get warmer for the rest of this week. I’m hoping that we can get the pool started opening. We just won’t talk about the fact that it’s supposed to get cold next week.

Barbie – I know how much you love teaching, so it’s no wonder you accepted the request to substitute

Dana – 67 lbs!!! I would never want to get that low. I’m with you, I love my food too much, especially my veges and fruit. I usually go over on my carbs, but I know that’s because I eat so much fruit

Barbara – your cart reminds me of our gorilla cart, only ours isn’t all metal but a heavy duty plastic.

Remember that pair of Lee jeans I got for $18? Well, I usually take a 10 in Lee, and this pair is only an 8 but it’s too big. I’m going to try to get them taken in. Not sure if it can be.

Wed. picked up my other gnome and bugs Bunny from ceramics

Sharon near Seattle – thanks for keeping us informed about yourself. You take care and we’ll be here after April 15.

Michele in NC who thinks she’d better post this before you think I’ve fallen off the face of the earth

Happy Friday. That’s a day most of us like......with wk end to enjoy. Been getting some Spring cleaning done....also
Need to sort & send clothes to resale shop.We took a load of chairs,kitchen stuff,books & a few linens to their store
this wk.Don’t know where it all comes from.

Wanted to share a pic of flowers DD brought me yesterday. The pitcher is my fav.......& belongs to her. Makes me smile to look at them. Haven’t read much,see you all next month. Pat in Oh.

One of my March goals ... well every month actually ... is to try a new recipe. Received my #misfitsmarket vegetable box yesterday and it included organic carrots with their tops. Tonight we had Cashew Carrot Top Pesto and Roasted Carrots. Probably one of the best things I have ever eaten!
Beth

Ok one pic is the Olympic mountains we can see. The other is some old lady in pigtails! Haahaa! I declared it Pigtails Day!

💗Rebecca

Hi everyone!

This is my first time posting to any community or thread. I have always been the one to “go it alone”, and I find I have lost my drive going it alone as of late.... So, my quote I use is “Today is a new day” so here I am doing something “new” for me.... looking to find friends and support for the battle of the bulge....

I live in Oregon with my husband of 20+ years who loves to feed me... and our 4 toy poodles (spoiled kids)... I realize when reading a lot of posts and threads that I don’t have a ton of weight to lose, so I often feel out of place, but I do need/want to drop 35 pounds. Well, now 30. I started on March 18th at 152.8 pounds and want to be back to my 118 pounds from 5 years ago... as of this morning I am at 145.

I have severe fibromyalgia and it causes me a lot of problems and pain and although I try to push through, most times it pushes me right back. Especially this time of year when the weather is a yo-yo!

Would love to be on this journey with some others where we can chat, rant, whine and cheer one another whether losing 1 pound or 100 or simply making lifestyle changes to our diets - we all have a similar goal and that is to make a positive change in ourselves!

The word for March = Empowered

😊
Luana
Living in the Willamette Valley in wet Oregon