WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2019

Lisa I think cicada's are interesting bugs. They only come out every 17 years. We had more of them in Missouri than up here in Minnesota. After they molt you find something that looks like a transparent bumblebee. You don't get to see the bug you presented very often. Thanks for sharing!

Margaret

Hi Gals,

Shingles – thanks for the reminder! My insurance won’t even talk about it until you are 60 and I forgot to ask…. I’ll email my provider and see what the co-pay is.. I looked into it when I turned 50 and it was about $600 without insurance, that’s more than I have in savings…so I passed. My insurance has a deductible of $7,000 per year (for those out of the USA that means the first $7000 I have to pay before insurance kicks in) but there are a few things that they label “preventive” so the insurance is activated even if I don’t reach the deductible (which I have never met). It feels very random on what is preventive and what is not… so flu shot yes; TB test no, pap and mammogram yes, colonoscopy no…. I’ve learned never assume, ask in email and if the answer is the one I want; HOLD on to the email. LOL

Bananas (Julie?) - I know you live in France are you from the US? England? Australia? New Zealand? Your written English is flawless so I am guessing you are a native English speaker. That being said would it be worth checking in to transferring to your native country for a year to finish your education and then going back? I am sure this is a case of me not understanding, but I can not imagine the level of frustration and stress you must be under.

Janetr - So cute to hear the house must be sparkling for your daughter to come home, my mom tells the story of me coming home from college for the first time (about 6 weeks after I left – just for the weekend) My mom moved beds cleaned windows, molding, had the carpets shampooed until my father finally said “ it’s your teen age daughter ! NOT the Queen of England!!!

Heather – what a great joy to get that package. I love the idea, and might write it into my requests for when I am gone.

Lisa, and Katla – I too have never seen a cicada and while never wish to see one in my home they are interesting… I think if I just glanced I would think it was a cockroach…. Which are ucky!

Margaret – I have heard the 17 year thing about cicada before so is it that every year a few come out but each individual cicada hibernates for 17 years? Or someone who is 16 years old could see the first one they had ever seen in their 17th year? Do the hibernating cicada count the years? Or is it something about temperature, dampness etc… and it just averages out to 17 years… OK reading back on this list of questions, I am asking you to do a research project - LOL… I can google it.

Kim from N. California

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Karen in VA: I am so sorry about your family’s loss. I hope your partner’s son is doing okay with the situation. :flowerforyou:


I’ve been following the weather news and noticed that there seems to be a storm building in the Gulf. I hope that all of our friends in that area are okay. My son’s good friend moved to Louisiana with his family several years ago. That makes it seem more personal to me. I hope they and others are not harmed by the storm that seems to be building in the Gulf.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

I'm not sure if it's a good thing for me to join anything. Still, here I am.

I turned 50 in January. I felt good about it. Then I stared to notice it was harder to get out of bed. It was harder to walk, in fact, it was challenging to do anything. Sure, there are other issues. But most glaringly is being significantly over-weight. I have to believe that losing weight (80-100 pounds) will help me feel far less ancient.

So far, I have lost 15 pounds without much difficultly. I've been on myfitnesspal for less than a month and in May I did the whole 30 and loved it. I have come to realize that I cannot eat how I did in my 30s. Oh to have learned that in my 40s. So I have changed my eating habits to lean proteins and fresh fruits and veg. The exercise is slow going. I used to exercise faithfully but have been ill the past several years. For now, at least, I do yoga and meditate and occasionally and with great regret, I do an aerobics class.

I hope that within the next few years, I will be able to say; "I am more fit and capable now than I was in my 40s."

I live south of LaLa Land with my cat Floki.

thank you for the thread and the posts!

Jo from CA

KJ- that is a gorgeous turtle looks like a lawn statue instead of a real living creature! I’d love a ceramic one!
Amber Tx

Did Jari Love’s Slim and Lean DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do the All My Best DVD, which is a new one for me so we shall see how it goes.

Bananas – I’ve been reading with great interest your “saga” about the education field in France and what’s happening now. My son teaches English on the Island of Reunion. I wonder if this is the same way over there?

Heather – what a lovely thing for Ros’s friend to do for everyone

Welcome everyone new!

KJ – Personally, I’d want a turtle that has character, is different (colorful) but I suspect Pete wants a boring old green turtle. That’s the most common. But I was thinking of making the scales on his shell two different shades of green. Jess is in Virginia so I think I’ll place the order for the bisq turtle and have her pick it up. I think if I give him choices in colors, he’ll just get overwhelmed. If I were to show him pictures of different turtles, there are certain things that I just don’t have access to (for example, an air brush) and he’d be disappointed if the turtle doesn’t look exactly like the picture. In ceramics you have to accept that things aren’t going to be exactly like the picture. That took me a while to accept. Also, I will probably ask the gal at ceramics to make the red on the side for a red-eared slider. At least that’ll be SOME color. I wanted to give it red toenails, just to give it color. He said he wanted color. But then he said he wanted it the color of a turtle.


Had a bad storm earlier today. We lost power, but only for a few hours. It was funny, I walked into the closet and out of habit I went to turn on the light….lol Fortunately, the storm didn’t last long at all.

Went to lunch with the Newcomers. Went mainly because I suggested this place. It seems that people really liked it. Had a grilled chicken wrap with broccoli instead of fries. I had to return it twice to get exactly what I wanted, but I suspect some of that was because we were such a large group and the chef wanted to get the food out all at the same time.

Sue in WA – I always prefer the water instructor to be in the water. One of our instructors is in the water regardless of how many people are in the class. The other instructor almost never goes in the water and when she does, she’s just in the shallow end (the class is in the deep end) and she’s just in to get cooled off and then she’s out of the water.



JR - Loved the cartoons

Michele in NC

I love summer crickets the noise is a sound that reminds me of summer nights on vacation at my grandma's in Riverside (southern california) - Riverside is a pretty name, but not a pretty town LOL however grandmas was the best.

thanks for the info Karen!

Hi ladies!

I had fillings done today. As I've mentioned, I have a lot of anxiety at the dentist (and most doctor's appts), so they were able to do "oral sedation". Basically, I went in, drank down some medicated mixture and took a gravol, sat for an hour until I was good and sedated (while they took my blood pressure and pulse/O2 a few times), and then they did the fillings in about 2.5 hours while I was all gaga. It went really well. I am still pretty dopey and it's about 10 hours later. That was much better than previous dental appointments! And I had a really great nap when I got home.

Everything else is going ok. I lost some more weight and that feels great.

Vince (my partner) is doing better with his ankle sprain. He goes into physio tomorrow, hopefully will get his next set of exercises. He's not very patient with physio. Last time he went twice. He's pretty sure he's only going twice again! We did buy some crutches online, so at least he'll have them for next time.


Oh, we had a mourning dove that only has one foot. I spent a lot of time watching him/her. It uses it's wings sometimes like crutches. I hope it does ok. It's shown up almost every day for about a week and spends a lot of time on our deck. We have a lot of mourning doves around, so I assume it has a mate.

Well, I am super sleepy so I guess I'll go to bed again.

-Shannon in rural Ontario, Canada

Felicia - Looked it up. Great fun! Thanks. I think, over here, that spelling, while important, is not quite such an obsession. (See George Bernard Shaw on the subject ) Though I am appalled by the low level of grammar at the BBC. My DH and I sit there nit picking every night. A sure sign we are getting old. :laugh: I'm still a stickler for 'fewer' and 'less'. Plus many, many other things that annoy us intensely. Our biggest hatred is 'iconic'. It is used everywhere and, usually, wrongly.

Heather UK xxxxxxx