WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR DECEMBER 2019

Barbie - I know blue tooth earbuds were discussed on here several months ago. At the the time, I didn't pay much attention but now am thinking of getting some. I think you posted a photo or link of the ones you like? Looking for recommendations. Thanks!

Tina - good news about your DH. Enjoy your trip.

Lanette
SW WA State

Heather - Neither my sister nor I would play with dolls growing up, which disappointed the parents enormously. We played with stuffed toys, animals and such. Dolls are hideous even when they don't talk (IMHO).

Rant - Read at your own risk:
Anyway - I've got like three hours left of my workday until I'm done for 16 days, and we are now officially in "time is dragging" mode. Gonna go get stuck into a grant and forget about the clock for awhile.

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Heather: Your DDIL does quite a bit of public speaking. Perhaps she can offer useful advice and coach your DH so that he is able to be comfortable in the situation. :flowerforyou: I didn’t know that Britain was having flooding problems. Sending good wishes for safety for all.

Machka: Love your container garden!!! I have herbs in containers. There are three blueberry bushes in the ground, dormant in winter, and I plant purplepod beans in summer. They turn green during cooking. I love them because their color makes it easy to see and pick them. :devil:

Karen in VA: Your rant is well warranted. When I was being treated for the sinus infection that plagued me most of the fall, the doctor was absolutely supportive but her assistant was not. I requested a medication refill and the assistant told me to use over the counter medicine instead. I immediately requested to speak to the doctor who promptly ordered a prescription refill. Being your own advocate is often vital. :flowerforyou:

Lanette: We are having a wet day so far. The river is within its banks and we are not worried about flooding at this point. The dam keepers on the Columbia River do a good job managing stream flow. Our home was flooded once before we bought it due to a goof-up at Bonneville, but they’ve been very meticulous ever since. That was the winter of 1995/96. We moved here in 1997 after our youngest graduated from high school.

(((RV Rita))): I hope you feel better soon. I’ve had colitis in the distant past. NO FUN at all. Mine was caused by lactose intolerance. A dollop of butter would likely do me in & so would real cream. Thankfully, lactose free milk is readily available, and I actually like margarine. :bigsmile:

(((Tina in CA))): Stress eating is something many of us battle. I hope your stress eases ASAP. :flowerforyou:

Lisa: I am sorry that the VA isn’t doing a better job filling your prescription. :grumble:


Yesterday I bought a new living Christmas Tree, planted in a red plastic bucket. I thought it was smaller than our than our previous tree that also came in a red plastic bucket several years ago. The original kept blowing over in the wind, and we put in in a heavy ceramic pot. Unfortunately, the ceramic pot makes the tree too heavy for me to safely lift on my own these days and I can’t bring it into the house. DH is not able to help. The new one I bought is about the same height as the old one. I thought it was smaller when I saw it at the garden center. I can easily lift in on my own. Now I’m wondering what to do with the extra tree after Christmas. I may donate the original to a park or see whether it can be planted somewhere here in the townhouse community. I donated a too big tree to a park in our old home town. It was a win, win situation back then.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

The county of Sussex has got flooding problems. The motorway to Gatwick Airport is flooded and closed. The train line from Brighton to Gatwick is closed with flooding and landslips.
So many people trying to get away on their holidays. We have have over 20" of rain this month, a lot of it in the last few days.
The flooding may mean that DH 's daughter can't get down to us on Sunday evening if they can't sort it out. More rain is expected. Just in case, I have put her dinner in the freezer. Easy enough to retrieve it if it's ok by then.

I've bought ingredients for the stuffing, which I will assemble tomorrow and freeze. I have parboiled the potatoes and parsnips and they will be frozen when they have cooled.
My son, who has just brought the last if the kid's presents round to be wrapped, says his MIL is fed up with cooking Christmas dinner for 50 years. This year she has bought frozen roast potatoes and parsnips! Heresy! :laugh:

For tonight I have cooked one of our favourites - goat curry with sweetcorn. In the IP. It is smelling heavenly. With broccoli.

Now I've wrapped the presents, including the hideous talking doll, which has been banned to the garage as she won't stop talking, I can RELAX.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Reminds me when we bought a nephew a helmet that had a siren. SIL still reminds us WHAT WERE WE THINKING!!!!!

Add my son to the list of medical protocol that made him miss out on his meds and caused him serious problems.

I have been working with many systems the past 6 months. My observation is there is so much red tape involved in so many aspects of getting care and or service for something that I when I go to the phone now I bring a book. As part of my Christmas letter I shared a cartoon that says.

2 Left Lanes
Closed for
No Reason
Whatsoever

Next 21 Miles

It was accompanied with BUMP BUMP and NOOOOOOO!

Seems to sum it up!

KetoneKaren wrote: »

Lisa & Katla I realize everyone make mistakes. The reluctance to fix the mistake is puzzling. I experienced it & so did Lisa.

Exactly! Although for "puzzling," I would substitute "hair-tearing." There's not even acknowledgment that there WAS a mistake! There is no understanding on their part in any way that their treatment is inhumane and unsympathetic--and AT NO TIME during all that did I get an "I'm sorry you drove an hour and I didn't actually do my job, so it was all for nothing." Or "I'm sorry I misread your labs and said you hadn't been tested for more than a year when you were obviously tested in May." No apologies, no acknowledgment of error. I understand incompetence, I've trained people how not to be incompetent (and incidentally, how to apologize when they are wrong) for a very large part of my working life. What I don't understand is being treated like I'm an inconvenience because I'm asking them to do it right, when my health and well-being depends on their doing it right.

Gah.

Karen in VA: I agree with your comment. Some people will never admit to a mistake. It is a pride issue for them, and saving face is their primary goal. When I make a mistake, I try to fix it myself. When I can’t fix my mistake, I ask for help and/or apologize. Pride keeps some people from either asking for help or apologizing. :ohwell:

Lisa: I hear your frustration. No acknowledgement of making a mistake helps the guilty party pretend that nothing was wrong, and any inconvenience was certainly NOT their fault… There are people like that in every organization. We had the most frustrating experience with a long-ago church member. We left that church as did some others. There are also blamers who habitually blame someone else for their own errors. :grumble:


I’m still decorating for Christmas. Same story, part 2: Our new primary tree is in the garage waiting to be brought in. It is a living Dwarf Alberta Spruce tree like the one in the yard that is now too heavy for me to lift. DH could help lift the original tree in the past but not this year. The heavy pot we put the old tree in a few years ago worked very well to protect that tree from tipping over in the wind. It hasn’t blown over in the past year. The new tree is in a lightweight pot that I can manage and lift by myself. We can only keep it inside for 10 days or so at the most. Today or tomorrow it will come in the house. When it is time to take the new tree back outside, I’ll try to find a spot for it that is more protected from the wind so it can stay in its light weight pot and not blow over.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

PRT- a physical readiness test must be passed by all personnel every so many months to stay in the Navy. If you don’t pass well a week of hell so many tries only to pass. Makes them all nervous! Good news is it goes by Male/Female y age so an older Woman isn’t expected to do as many as a young male who just left high school!

https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/21st_Century_Sailor/physical/Documents/Guide 5-Physical Readiness Test (May 2019).pdf

Here’s all about it Daughter falls into the female then by her age. She’s short so they keep yelling doesn’t count...we’ll she can’t grow longer arms lol so the push-up she’s more likely to have chest (breasts) touch the floor y not go as high up as they think. So she hates that one. She’s excellent at curl ups tho - faster cause not far to go up y Down lol

Amber Tx