WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2020

Maddibeauty wrote: »

Hi ladies. I was working as a head manager in New York and after 53 I felt that my work brings me too much stress and I was always overtired. I didn't have any power to go to the gym, or to prepare myself a healthy food. I decided to change my life into something calmer. I took all my savings and I moved to Portugal in a small city located on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean called Santa Luzia. I feel now much better. I am relaxed and my soul is in peace. I moved here and became NHR Portugal, a company with lawyers helped me with this.

Maddibeauty
What did you manage in New York before saving yourself?

I think you are being modest.

I looked at your website.

If not for my grandchildren, I would seriously consider retiring to Algarve to live the good life…& you would help me do it!

Welcome to our little group!

Karen in Virginia dreaming of Portugal

Hmmmm…not sure why that posted twice. But wanted to add to @Maddibeauty not to post links to her website here because it violates MFP policy about advertising/self-promotion.

ginny I have this image of you tearing up that awful floral upholstered chair —powerful, funny, cathartic way to burn some calories and feed the soul, definitely a NSV!

NYKAREN

Kate UK

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Did a downloadable spinning workout today. The plan for tomorrow is to take the power Hour class.

M – the main reason I don’t weigh food down here is because we don’t have a food scale (at least not an accurate one. I THINK there’s one in the pantry, but it’s old and probably not very accurate. I can’t even get it down).

The ladies here usually go out to lunch at a restaurant on Wednesdays, but today they’re having some sort of tea. I’m really not interested in going, but we are going to go to the pot luck Friday. One of my neighbors came over last night because someone else called her to ask her if I was coming. When she told them I wasn’t the sweet person asked her if I even knew about it. I did, but I thought that was sweet of her to be concerned about me.

Michele
Who is off to exercise now

Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of rowing)
Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
May -18 … 167.6 km (104.1 miles) = 29 hours 08 min
June-18 … 349.9 km (217.4 miles) = 36 hours 58 minutes
July-18 ... 324.2 km (201.5 miles) = 24 hours 26 minutes
Aug-18 ... 210.1 km (130.6 miles) = 25 hours 59 minutes
Sep-18 ... 261.7 km (162.6 miles) = 25 hours 11 minutes
Oct-18 ... 230.8 km (143.4 miles) = 30 hours 15 minutes
Nov-18 ... 216.8 km (134.7 miles) = 30 hours 3 minutes
Dec-18 ... 285.2 km (177.2 miles) = 37 hours 49 minutes

Jan-19 ... 241.6 km (150.1 miles) = 27 hours 2 minutes
Feb-19 ... 175.5 km (109 miles) = 19 hours 8 minutes
Mar-19 ... 170.3 km (105.8 miles) = 28 hours 21 minutes
Apr-19 ... 160.3 km (99.6 miles) = 25 hours 4 minutes
May-19 ... 164.0 km (101.9 miles) = 29 hours 10 minutes
Jun-19 ... 246.2 km (153 miles) = 25 hours 40 minutes
Jul-19 ... 217.3 km (135.0 miles) = 33 hours 45 minutes
Aug-19 ... 162.5 km (100.9 miles) = 28 hours 4 minutes
Sep-19 ... 136.0 km (84.5 miles) = 23 hours 10 minutes
Oct-19 ... 196.5 km (122.1 miles) = 31 hours 27 minutes
Nov-19 ... 155.5 km (96.6 miles) = 25 hours 01 minutes
Dec-19 ... 203.7 km (126.6 miles) = 26 hours 54 minutes
Jan-20 ... 304.4 km (189.2 miles = 32 hours 49 minutes

Feb-19 ... 175.5 km (109 miles) = 19 hours 8 minutes is the number to beat!

Saturday, 1 February 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 12.2 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
Sunday, 2 February 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 16.6 km cycling + 1.6 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
Monday, 3 February 2020 … 1.8 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 28 flights of stairs
Tuesday, 4 February 2020 … 3.2 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 26 flights of stairs + Pilates
Wednesday, 5 February 2020 … 4.6 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 27 flights of stairs
Thursday, 6 February 2020 … 3.6 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 32 flights of stairs
Friday, 7 February 2020 … 2.0 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 30 flights of stairs

Saturday, 8 February 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 20.9 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
Sunday, 9 February 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 13.7 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
Monday, 10 February 2020 … 3.5 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
Tuesday, 11 February 2020 … 3.8 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 19 flights of stairs + Pilates
Wednesday, 12 February 2020 … 2.0 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 36 flights of stairs


2020 Monthly February
Walking Distance (km): 24.5
Walking Time (min): 306.3
Cycling Distance (km): 63.4
Cycling Time (min): 214.0
Flights Stairs Climbed Number: 198.0
Flights Stairs Climbed Time (min): 158.4
Rowing Distance (km): 1.6
Rowing Time (min): 10.0
Other Distance: 30.0
Other Time: 30.0

Totals
Total Distance (km): 119.5
Total Distance (miles): 74.2
Total Time (min): 718.7
Total Time (hr): 11:58:39

Morning, afternoon and evening, all,

Machka, sorry about your tooth! Hope it's easily repairable. Also, one of the funnier takes on a tooth break:
"My tongue has been busy measuring it for drapes and wondering if a new sofa will fit in there."

Allie, many, many hugs. Being miserable in your working situation is horrible like few other things.

Trigger warning for cookie lovers! Am spending the morning in town, as it's all-hands on deck for cookie season delivery preparation. The thousands of cookie boxes get delivered in case lots on Friday, and rooms must be cleared to store thousands of boxes securely. This is for the cookie cupboard, so troops don't have to order all their cookies up front, they can come and get what they need throughout their booth sales, so they always have the full selection of flavors to sell.

Cookie season is always frantic, but over by the end of March. More than a million boxes will be sold by the girls in this council alone--and we are a "small" council. There are 113 councils across the U.S., and more than 200 million boxes are sold each year--for January to March, Girl Scout cookies are the number one cookie brand in the United States! The other 9 months of the year, it's Oreos.

Off to town,
Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR

We went out to buy fish for our Valentine's meal on Friday. I decided to combine it with a 5k as the weather is not going to be good later in the week. Jogged down to the fish market and purchased two beautiful, big, Dover Sole, locally caught. They were pricey, but less than half the cost of a small one in a restaurant.
Then I saw cleaned squid, but before I could buy it they had snatched the box away as it was not super fresh.
DH encouraged me to jog once around the lagoon before setting off down the pebble covered promenade. The tide was right in and waves were breaking over the sea wall, but we avoided them. Went down to the swimming pool before we turned round to come home. According to my rough calculation, that was just a bit more than 5k. I would not have done it all without DH's encouragement. That man is a super coach. The wind was blowing, the sea was spraying and the pebbles were everywhere.

Tonight is French Circle. It's about Hector Malot, who I had never heard of until now. Apparently he is a prolific writer from the the mid 1800s.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

"Todo"s and "done"
Called SIL, gal needed to talk. 2.5 hrs later no cleaning done. Beautiful day, took dogs down the drive and started pruning the bush/trees Joe wants to chainsaw. 2.5 hrs later, barely a dent and now my wrists are sore. Dragged my lazy butt to line dance class anyway, stuck it out for the whole two hours and felt better for it.

NYKaren, :laugh: but please no tattoos! Needles make me queasy :sick: I’m optin for a sticky note on the laptop
Kylia guess there is no perfect carrier, but here Verizon has a better track record than ATT according to the NextDoor neighbors. So sorry your yeast bloom is persisting. Hoping you get relief SOON.
Heather When are you scheduled to cruise? Really hoping no more new cases in your area and you are given the all clear. Love hearing about your roasted veges, singing, dancing and 5K along the lagoon. Brava!
Katla I’d love to have wooden or good quality laminate throughout the whole house, with area rugs in the bathroom for cozy tootsies, and vinyl in the bathrooms. All the floors would need to have some texture as ceramic tile is too slippery for elder dogs, which ours will be one day and likely before I get to remodel. Satellite reception here is not good, too many mountains and trees, oh gee, what a shame!  Very reluctant to pay $$ for a land line, just for emergencies. Will check to see if landline+Consumer Cellular >= Verizon’s reliability, and bite the bullet, after the tax refund comes in.
Michele you’re still going to get your rx, right?
Allie think it must be very hard to learn a new system from videos only with no hands on practice or in person support. I’d freak out too. (new) “computer program is not running” :laugh: Surprise! :laugh:
Carol me 2, and it was a sweater I really really liked.
Tina “. . .on the sheep?” great question.
Lanette interesting answer, thanks! Used to live in sheep country, miss seeing the lambs every Feb/March. Might want to start researching water heater replacement options, just sayin’
Ginny your cathartic chair destruction made me smile. If we ever get to remodel, I’ll feel the same way about the floral printed walls in our kitchen and bathroom. :laugh:
Macha “one eye on Poirot on TV, one eye on my nails which I was doing…” great mental image :laugh: Likewise your tongue “measuring the new annex for drapes…”. Maybe best to get the tooth fixed, don’t want any infections prior to surgery.
Welcome Maddibeauty in Portugal, wow what a transition!
Amber So happy for you that your husband loves you that much. Enjoy your day!
Lisa “or January to March, Girl Scout cookies are the number one cookie brand in the United States” WOW
Annie hope you feel better soon.

Invested 10 mins introducing Shadow to the Gentle Leader. Went well, tho’ the nose ring latch doesn’t lock down. Hopeful a little more play/practice will make it possible to take Shadow to dog group today instead of Tumble. Fingers X’d!

Oops, time to scoot off to BB&B.

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD